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#208 fucking dollars
ashitomarisu · 2 years
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Please excuse me for a moment. I must go...um...scream my lungs out and wake up everyone in my neighborhood (hypothetically speaking).
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Sometimes you can really tell that people here will argue only from their First World POV, specially in regards to piracy.
Let's take books for example:
"You can get them in your library!"
Nope, not how it works here. Either the publisher has to get the rights and make an effort to distribute and the libraries consider it a good enough profit to put it on sale or the author has to do all that work by themselves. Luckily localization has become easier with time but even then that doesn't cover small and indie authors. And this applies to big franchise libraries like Ateneo or Yenny, do you think a local small library can afford all of that?
"You can request that books be added!"
Again, not how it works. If a library considers a book profitable they will sell it. You can ask if they have a book and they'll tell you if they do or don't and if MAYBE they'll have it and in most cases this, again, does not cover indie authors. You could make a movement to ask for copies of a book and or works of an author but that would be a whole lot of work for yourself and many others and they might still not take it.
"You can wait for them to restock"
That's true, I have tried that. It takes between three months and never because they deem it not profitable anymore and not worth selling anymore but they won't tell you if you ask.
"You can ask the author themselves to sell it to you or make some kind of deal"
Okay, let's consider first that this direct approach requieres for someone to be: 1)fluent enough in the author's native language to communicate with them, 2)for the author to have the time to actually negotiate with everyone that asks and 3)That that copy will not be in my own language and again I would need to be fluent in at least one language that isn't mine, specially because I'm assuming you're talking about USA authors and, this might be a shock to you, not everyone speaks English. And second, you might have nothing to offer as a bargain because you're not a reviewer and have no platform to speak of because why would you need to be an influencer to get a fucking book? So you're stuck with paying for the book full cost AND shipping which is fucking expensive. You could argue that the author might be willing to pay for the shipping out of their own pocket but not only does this mean a loss for them sometimes shipping depending on the country can be as expensive as the book itself therefore in this scenario there's no profit for the author, but also in some countries they will tax you for a book when it gets there even without shipping so one way or another you are paying more for it.
"But they could email you a pdf of the book"
Okay, let's consider again that this means still needing to go through all the work AND the copy might not be available in a language I can understand, we finally get to the crux of the topic and the main reason I wanted to make this post. Do you have ANY idea with what kind of economy we're dealing with? I'm not asking you to be an expert, I'm asking you to consider that you live IN THE RICHEST FUCKING COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. I don't care how bad the economy is there right now how bad do you think people in a third world country have it? Argentina's been having an inflation of over 40% for the past 8 years do you even know how many pesos is a dollar? No, you don't, here it is: 1 dollar=208 pesos. This will be absolutely obsolete by next week not yo mention a couple of months or years. And this is one kind of dollar, our economy is in such shambles that we have five different changes for dollars here. Do you think I have the money to buy that many books? Thank God resources like book depository exist where you can easily buy and be confident the book will get there but it's still full price and still only in English, and again still not a library here.
I am sorry for the situation of authors and indie authors in particular I really am, the way things are now they can barely make a scent and it shouldn't be that way. But also, as much as this may be a shock to you, the world does not revolve around the USA and if I want to read the books I want to read I have to either flip a coin with many libraries here and HOPE they have it or I pirate it, because if I can't then I can't read it.
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westparkchurchcoop · 2 years
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Christopher Mastronardi
Sophomoric Dreams
Self published author
Occupy 2011.
In Brooklyns L magazine as november15
2011
Occupy Wallstreet edition of Brooklyns "L"•Magazine
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I am occupy fashion
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Living in my world of hands-off and break even
I would like to have someone manage my fleet and break even. That’s all I want. Money in = Money out.
I want someone to make my game and I want to eventually get my money back on that. Money in = Money out. 
Then I could have creations and assets and still have my money back. 
Reality is that these projects are scary, and I dont want them to fail. 
I know that I should just not do anything. Relax and live my life. But I want t o CREATE. I think source draws me toward this. But I know that I need to fucking relax. Maximum relax. 
I want my car collection. I want my therapy. I want my games created, because the ideas are so much fun and excitement! 
I want to have the LC, the crosscabriolet, the TRD Camry, Mazda 3 Turbo, the miata. I want developers. 
I want it all. I;m gonna have it all. I’ll make it work.
Go for a walk. 
Well above it ll, the poogo is making money bery soon. Imagine. xviz. mingeek. Big huge fucking names like this. The hub. Holy shit. imagine the revenue. I could become a multimillionaire, like tens of millions of dollars. Easy. 
And on top of that, my money is coming in. Already at like 8000 usd this month and its the 22nd. my money just keeps raining in. I feel brilliant and abundant. I feel like Im; doing less than ever and getting paid  more than ever. Its brilliant. Its wonderful. I love it. I’m on track to gigantic wealth. its great. and my fav part is the interest money i get from it. if i had 100k, if be making 2500 a year or 208 a month just from that. Wouldnt that be nice? my fave kind of money. real passive. true passive. 
anyway, big things coming up. i can basically have anything that I want. and I can ultra relax. Thats what I want most. I want great treatments and relaxation. 
That money draws so CLOSE NOW.I can almost feel it. Its so much moey. I dont know if I will live all that different. But I think the possbilities will be fantastic. 
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Game 208 - Destiny Fails Us: A New Life by Strawberry Dagger Studios
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I picked up this game through the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality. I chose to donate 10 dollars, and I found about 153 games in the bundle that I was actually interested in. So, the consideration for this game will be if it was worth the 7 cents (rounded up) that I paid for it and the hours that I played it for. The bundle has since ended, but I still encourage you to make a donation to the organizations listed here.
What did I think it was at first? This seems to be another Ren'Py dating sim!
How was the character creator? You don't get to create your character - you play as Idril, a high school sophomore. She and some of the other characters have very strange names and brightly colored hair - I had a hard time figuring out if the setting was supposed to be Anime Town or Weird Catgirl Future or if Idril and her friends are just weird.
She is an asexual protagonist, which is pretty cool! Her only romance options are heterosexual, though.
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How was the game? So, I first started this out expecting it to be a normal, light-hearted high school simulation - and it does get there eventually!
The main conflict in the game is that you suck at school, and because you suck at school you get into a fight with your mom and she hits you. It definitely went like the game went from 0 to 100 on the drama meter pretty damn quick. Your crush gets stabbed with a fork, there's a lot of really intense things going on, and then you have your goal - go against your mom's wishes, bring your grades up, and take a cutie to the Valentine dance.
The romance options all seem pretty milquetoast, so I went with Idril's original crush and childhood friend Vincent. Honestly, her relationship with him was not the strongest part of the game - though I couldn't see pairing her up with a guy who's in college, people her friends have crushes on or are dating, or the guy who wears star shaped sunglasses.
The game really shone with depicting friendships between you and your classmates, as well as your family relationships. I really enjoyed the interactions Idril had with her family (even though we kind of just sweep the abuse under the rug) and her friends. Other than the one super fucking obnoxious lol randum xD character, I liked seeing Idril's friends carry on their own lives and having the option to be a good friend to them.
The art is OK, and the music is alright. Neither are anything to write home about.
What did I not love? Ok, so most of the game my main complaint was about Idril's dog, which is a little uncanny valley for me as it has the face of a man. Apparently this is a representation of a dog who has passed and who the authors of the game loved very much, but it doesn't change the fact that I found him disturbing as he hovered in the CG environments Idril lives in.
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I think my biggest complaint is that the tone vaciliates between some serious (and heartwarming!) moments and more of the "random" moments. I think the biggest piece of whiplash was when I had a really nice moment with my dad and then walked outside and the character whose literal name is One Hit Wonder Boy had on starry sunglasses and made fun of me trying to be a nice person. Idril's friend Alaska was also really annoying. I couldn't figure out why she was friends with any of the other characters - she's a jerk to everyone.
There are also several plot threads that just seem to vanish. At the end of the game, one of your less-obnoxious friends goes missing - Idril is briefly worried but still goes to the dance and is over the moon to get her smooch on. The friend is never mentioned again, even after the game builds up this plot about teen girls getting murdered. There's no payoff there. Idril can also join an esports team, but it does not matter at all. I get that there's supposed to be a sequel coming, but it makes the game feel really incomplete.
At 2 hours and 7 cents, was it really worth it? I didn't hate this game, but I didn't love it either. If the authors ever release parts 2 and 3, it might be worth coming back to the game to get a sense of the overarching story. This just feels incomplete as-is.
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pyxismedstation4000 · 3 years
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turns out urgent care charged me $208 for them to tell me i needed medical attention and they werent gonna give it to me. what the fuck.
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himboprince · 2 years
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so my remaining ceramics classes for a month is...$75 dollars ($25 per class, 4 classes a month equals $100 but i already paid for my first) and the tools and stuff to practice at home are around...$133... which is a total of $208 which I won’t have after paying for my meds, pet food and rent...ugh...learning things is expensive but i really wanna do this. i start my first class next week but I only paid for the first class...you know what fuck it. It’s black history month and I’m black, disabled, broke and trying to pursue my passion so if you wanna help out: P*ypal c@$happ: $MahouShounenLuka
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lovelyserpentines · 3 years
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if you’re one of those people who claims ej’s not making big gestures/doing anything a friend wouldn’t do as a way to completely disregard the romantic buildup that’s been right in front of you this whole time, let me direct you to one thing: r*cky DOESN’T do ANY of that shit.
➤ 205 ask how she’s feeling? never. it’s all about his problems/not wanting to talk to her.
➤ 206 genuinely choose her first for an exercise? his girlfriend wasn’t there. that’s why he even thought of asking her at all, and she turned away.
➤ 207 keep her company on lookout bc he felt bad she was alone? gina who; he’s having a breakdown in the prop closet.
➤ 208 assure her no one heard her snort even though it was fucking adorable? busy deleting an instagram comment on his girlfriend’s acc. ask her what moving around was like/pay her a genuine compliment back? HE. DOESNT. LISTEN. UNLESS. IT’S. ABOUT. HIM. lay a literal family heirloom of a sweatshirt over her bc she’s sleeping and he’s in love? he’s crying to big red over his new ex-girlfriend.
➤ 209 smile like she’s the fucking sun when she enters the zoom call? he’s mourning a breakup. insist that she’s gina porter and therefore capable of anything? he didn’t call. show up at the airport to drive her home and back the next morning, WITH a “it costs a dollar who cares” granola bar that she l i t e r a l l y forgot to pack earlier in the episode, anticipating her needs and being the right guy for her when she asks for a sign? he. is. in. chicago.
the delusion is inSANE stay out of our fucking tag, keep our names out of your mouths, and move on with your damn lives.
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bapyess1r · 4 years
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Amphetamine
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WARNINGS: SMUTTY AS HELL (even though I really didn’t mean for it to be lmao), cursing, substances
CHAPTER 14
Two months later...
Talia’s POV
I finally finished moving in. Not if my Godfather has anything to say about it. There was a falling out between us. My Godmother assured me that she would still have me watch the kids and visit me across the street. Things happened very quickly, Sam and I progressed very quickly. We had all these things to do and being together made them more enjoyable. Within these past two months, we trained more. I was starting to feel like Black Widow or something. We played with the band more and booked a few gigs at bars. Also, he met my mother finally. She was suspicious of him and his intentions for a bit until she noticed how he behaved around me, and the change in me as well. She said I’d changed for the better and that I seemed tougher. Then he met my father. I was afraid to leave them alone on the balcony together. But they sat out there, enjoying a beer and cigar, grilling as they shared a conversation and I’m sure Sam told several stories of his adventures (the PG versions anyway). I remembered being in the kitchen with my step mother, boring holes into the windows watching them as I cut up vegetables nervously. When they came inside with trays of grilled meat and smiles on their faces, I remembered feeling such a relief. He calls my dad “Chief” now. Cute.
Today we sat on the couch, watching TV as I texted my best friend, Sam on a business call in his study. Something about an update on a previous job. And with my birthday approaching, I I had hoped that maybe he’d tell me I could go with him.
Anna: maybe this time he’ll take you
Me: I really hope so… I’ve been training for MONTHS!
Anna: you’ve been training for months but he’s been doin this shit for YEARS fren.
Although I didn’t want her to be, she was right. These itty bitty months of training were nothing compared to his life. I sighed in frustration. Jump starting this new life thing was harder than I thought. “Sullivan, you son of a bitch!” I could hear Sam shouted with a laugh of relief. The rest of his response was a bit muffled but he sounded excited. I was happy for him. They must’ve found whatever they were looking for. Which meant he was gonna have to leave again very soon. I huffed, the depression already beginning to hit me.
Me: he did warn me he’d be gone a lot…
Anna: he did…
My thoughts were interrupted by a heavy plop on the couch beside me. I looked over at Sam to be met with a goofy but satisfied grin. “Hi.” I said sarcastically.
“Hi.” He said, his smile never wavering. He continued to stare at me like that for a few moments before I spoke again.
“Yes?” I chuckled, waiting for him to tell me what was on his mind.
“Sully found us an in to that Lost Treasure of Lima. We’re gonna go get it.” He grinned. “And you’re coming with.”
A jolt of excitement ran through me. “SHUT UP- REALLY?!” I screamed, making a gesture so big I almost threw my phone. He nodded proudly.
“The only reason I am letting you come along is because I know there won’t be much trouble. And you’ll be safe.” He said brushing a piece of hair behind my ear. My heart was singing! I jumped into his lap and gave him a long, passionate kiss. “Oh…” he smirked, deepening the kiss. I chuckled, breaking the kiss and he stood, pulling me up with him and walking me to his study. “C’mere. I wanna show you something.”
His study compared to the rest of his house was probably the neatest mess I’d seen. Maps were sprawled out on the floor in a corner surrounded by books and files and folders covered his desk. The walls were lined with even more books than the one in the living room. “Jesus…” I murmured as he sat me down in his chair at the desk. The amount of resources he had was ridiculous and vast. Paired with the internet, I’m sure there wasn’t a thing this man didn’t know about. He kissed my cheek as he wheeled me closer and leaned over me with his hands on the desk. He shared his research with me and pointed out places on an older map he “acquired from some idiot”. “So now what- you got a permit to hunt there or something?” I asked. He chuckled at my naivety.
“No sweetheart, we don’t really operate that way…” he smirked. I looked up at him, still not understanding. So he reworded his explanation. “There’s a secluded area on the island with very little security. We…” he winked at me. “...are going to sneak in; Do what we gotta do, steal the gold, and peace out.”
“Pause- we’re stealing this treasure?!” I exclaimed. I was truly baffled. I thought his work was a bit more legal than this. He seemed a bit worried.
“Is that gonna be a problem for you?” He asked me.
“Hell nah. I just…. didn’t think that ‘Collector of Antiquities’ equaled ‘Thief’.” I smirked, picking up a file and flipping through it myself. It was clearly evident I was going to revert back to my teenage days of thieving and sneaking around. He placed a hand on his chest and made a face.
“Ouch, babes.” He said sarcastically. I chuckled, turning my attention back to the picture of the treasure.
“So how exactly are we supposed to sneak out $208 million dollars worth of treasure off of this island without Costa Rican police getting involved?” I shifted in my seat and leaned on the arm of the chair to look at him.
“That’s where my partner comes in.” He grinned.
“Uh huh. And what will your partner do exactly?” I asked. He still wasn’t giving me an answer. He opened his mouth to answer and I waited but nothing came out. “Uh huh. I see.”
“I...... haven’t gotten that far ahead yet.” He bit the inside of his cheek as I stood to face him, leaning on the desk with my arms crossed. He hadn’t moved from his position. He stared down at me hungrily.
“Yeah well when you do, let me know. And let’s hope it doesn’t get me killed.” I booped his nose and placed a peck on his lips. He flared his nostrils and took a deep breath as he looked me up and down.
“I wouldn’t dream of getting you hurt.” He said sincerely. “So this is treasure hunter Talia Aaron, huh? ‘Don’t get me killed?’ ‘Plan better?’” He kissed my cheek rather slowly inching to my ear. I felt a smile creep across my lips but I didn’t budge.
“Yeah! I don’t wanna look stupid and I don’t wanna die. So make sure you have a solid plan before we go sneakin’ around a secured island.” I said, poking his chest to prove my point. A corner of his lips turned up as he moved closer, our noses brushing against each other’s, his lips ghosting over mine as we chased each other’s breath. He ran a large hand over my hip and brushed his thumb over my skin under my sweater.
“This ‘new you’ thing is really starting to grow on me…” He spoke slowly as our lips touched lightly. His hand traveled down my thigh and hook behind my knee to wrap my leg around his waist, making me feel his growing boner. I smirked as I tried and failed to not be affected by his arousal.
“Really now...” I said propping myself up with my hands behind me on the desk.
“Mmm…” He growled, grinding against me lightly. I betrayed myself with a grunt and laughed. “Y’know… this is the only surface I haven’t fucked you on…” He stated, gently moving the files aside behind me to clear a space.
“We should change that.” I nodded, placing a hand on his cheek.
“I agree…” he moaned just before kissing me intensely.
He lifted me onto the desk and I fell back into the bookshelf behind me, causing a couple books to fall over us but we didn’t care. I caressed his face with both hands as his tongue darted between my lips. Then he grabbed my hand and began to kiss each finger delicately before taking off my sweater and making his way up my arm. A nervous wave washed over me as I found myself enjoying it. He pulled me close to his chest and I could feel his warm breath against my ear and his nose brush against the side of my neck as he pressed firm kisses on my pulse point. I closed my eyes with a flutter, hissing at the sudden contact as he gripped my arm and inhaled the coconut scent of my hair, pushing it over my ear and to one side. He ran a hot hand down my cheek and neck, over my chest and down to my waist here he massaged the curve before my hips. I felt a long wet muscle lap at the space behind my ear sensually and a whine found its way from the back of my throat. I was shivering with lust and he wasn’t making it any easier for me. “The only treasure I wanna steal right now is right here….” he breathed, cupping my breasts, putting the tiniest bit of pressure on my nipples. My breathing hitched as he massaged away. He slipped the other strap and pushed my shorts over my legs leaving me in my black laces. I was utterly vulnerable.
“You don’t have to steal it if it’s already yours.” I managed to get out in a hushed and intimate voice, his finger running down the valley between my breasts. He dragged a long tongue across the tops of my breasts and towered over me, casually undressing himself as he stared down at me.
“God, you’re beautiful…” He said kneeling before me, his hand running over my pelvis and down my clothed center. I gasped for air after noticing that I stopped doing so for a few moments. His silver tongue licked at the skin on the inside of my thighs; Each lick moving closer and closer to where I needed him to be. I sat up on my forearms to watch what he was doing until I felt a strong arm push me back. He pushed my lacey panties to the side, teasing me as he ran his thumb over my clit, exciting me with little effort. My breathing grew heavier as he gave me one deep long lick. I squealed at the surprising sensation, my eyes opening wide. He pulled them off completely before he continued brushing his tongue over a sensitive area. I tried to move my legs around but Sam had snaked his tattooed arms under my hips, holding me down in place. I bucked and cried as he enjoyed my overreactions from the simplest act. He growled into as he picked up the pace to something inhuman and my eyes shut so tight that I began to see white behind my lids. It felt as if I were unlocking some secret level of myself that had been kept hidden for a decade. I grabbed a handful of his hair as he sent me close to the edge and he gave a demonic growl that sent an unnatural swarm of butterflies to the pit of my stomach. When he stopped just as I was close, I groaned in a needy fashion. “Tsk, Tsk, Tsk…” he sucked his teeth with a perfect shit eating grin. With a satisfied moan, he brought his lips to my chest. He took a carefully calculated lap at the bud of my nipple, suddenly taking as much of my breast as he could fit between his perfectly shaped lips. He gave a dark chuckle at my reaction. He smirked before giving me a deep, passionate kiss. “You ready for me, Princess?” He asked me, clearly expecting an answer as he grasped his clothed erected muscle.
“Yes, sir….” I nodded feverishly and he hissed at the sound of my voice. My New York accent tended to come out when I spoke slowly.
“I think I like being called ‘Sir’...” he smirked. I watched him as his eyes darted from my eyes to my lips. “You think this….beautiful mouth of yours could do a bit of work for me while I clear those files up?” He said, brushing his thumb across my plump lower lip. It was almost like I didn’t have any control of my body. It wasn’t like I didn’t want this though. He placed a finger beneath my chin and guided my lips to his. I kissed his across his strong jawline and intimately over each tattooed bird on his neck leading to his chest and abs. All the way down to his pelvis and the top of his boxers. I grabbed the hem to pull them down but he grabbed my hand to stop me. “Slowly, Princess…” He told me, pushing my hair off of my face. I did as he asked and kissed a line along the hem of his boxers, slowly pulling them down his long, tanned legs as he started to put the papers in the folders to neatly stack on the corner of the desk. He took a sharp exhale as his hard member sprang from its confines. I grabbed it by the base and took a quick lick of the tip causing him to hiss a bit. I then understood how the reactions could be so amusing. After learning that, I only wanted to please him. To make him as equal of a mess as he had made me. So I continued licking, stroking it as I did. He took deep breaths of relief as I touched him, his eyes rolling into the back of his head. He began to moan. Obviously, I was doing something right. As I chuckled, my voice vibrated against him and he bucked his hips briefly. He smiled in bliss with closed eyes, his long thick dark lashes fluttering as he gripped the edge of the dark oak wood desk. I gagged a bit as his tip touched the back of my throat and he pulled out from me, a string of saliva hanging from him. “Bend over.” He commanded lowly, slapping the desk twice.
“Yes, sir…” I mewed as I stood. I turned around slowly and did exactly as he ordered, giving my ass a little shimmy in the process. He whistled before slapping it harshly, making me gasp.
“I don’t know what’s gotten into you today but my god…” He said as he played with me before gently easing himself into me. I felt a pressure in my pelvis that soon subsided after a bit of movement. He thrusted into me with care, as if I were fragile. The pain eased into pleasure very quickly and I began to want more. I groaned as he ran his hand down my spine. “Tell me what you want.” He growled.
“Faster.” My mouth spoke before I could even think. He picked up the pace to a steady rhythm but a tad more force. I grabbed my chest to settle my heart. I had never been so overwhelmed with such sensation. “Faster.” I spoke again. He pounded into me quickly with a deep growl. I could feel my back arch this time. He grabbed a handful of my hair and pulled tightly. My heart beat hard as it became harder for me to catch my breath. “Faster.” I whimpered. Any harder and I wouldn’t have had a reproductive system anymore. He let out an animalistic grunt as he pulled me up so that my back was arched against him, the back of my head resting on his shoulder as he rammed into me with demonic speed and power. I closed my eyes and I could see the white lights returning, lightly tearing. As I climbed my way to release, I snapped my head back. “Sammy, please..” I struggled to say.
“What was that?” He spoke roughly.
“Sam….please…”
“Please what?”
“Make me cum, baby please… please…” I croaked. With that, Sam’s seemed flashed pure black and he gently bit into my skin causing me pure bliss. I could feel a tear fall from the corners of my eyes as I approached climax. He grunted profanities as he sent the both of us over the edge and I cried out as if no one could hear me. He roared loudly as his grip tightened on my hip and breast.
“There she is…” He said out of breath, wrapping his arms around me, sweat trickling down his forehead as he smiled, pressing gentle kisses into my neck. I was truly glowing. I turned to kiss him and he moaned into my mouth. “God damn, girl!” He chuckled, slapping my ass before pulling out of me. He fell back into his wheeled chair as he pulled up his pants and leaned his head back. “Shit… I gotta quit smokin’.” He laughed as I began to dress myself. I was almost fully dressed when he pulled me into his lap.
“If you quit then I have to quit.” I said pushing my hair behind my ear.
“Mm… we’ll see how that works out for us.” He giggled, patting my bare thighs.
“I think we could do it!” I said feeling suddenly positive.
“For how long?” He groaned. I rolled my eyes. For a smart man, he could be so dumb sometimes. Shaking my head, I ran my fingers through his brown locks and kissed his forehead softly.
“Who the hell knows.” I patted his shoulder and stood up to grab our shirts, tossing his thin black tee shirt in his face. “You want lunch?”
“What cha makin’?” He asked me.
“I was gonna grill hot dogs. We can brainstorm and better your plan. Beer and smokes?” I said walking to the fridge and grabbing two beers.
“What happened to quitting?” He chuckled, lighting himself a cigarette as he accepted the beer.
“There’ll be time for that.” I smirked as I reached in the fridge for the hot dogs. I could hear him laughing as he opened the sliding glass doors to his backyard to start up the grill.
“You’re hilarious, sweetheart.” He said, taking a drag.
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3x10 Chapter Forty-Five: The Stranger
The gang takes the SATs, Archie drinks a root beer float, Betty gets robbed out of (presumably) tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars, but still manages to look cute doing it. 
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We first saw this diamond-shaped necklace in 220. 
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Not much to say here. Her sweater is somewhat evocative of the color-block one she wore in 215, at least on the color spectrum. It’s a fuzzy mohair. 
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The kiss-print is almost more something V or Cheryl would wear, which makes seeing Betty in it a little delightful and flirty.  
Betty wore this skirt in 208! Used here (and not with pink, mind you), at most it suggests her friendship with Archie.
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And lest people get antsy about, ahem, shipping: Jughead wore this sweater in 109 (or perhaps one just very like it, the lighting makes things inconclusive), a fairly lovely episode for their relationship. 
Laconic (adj): using or involving the use of a minimum of words; concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious. (Jug could never.) 
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Her flats have ankle straps. 
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First wore these overalls in 211, and again in 214, and 303... In those episodes, she was also...exasperated by the actions of her family members, shall we say. 
Another rainbow stripe. It’s like a cousin of the white & rainbow stripe top she wore last episode. 
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Been a minute since we saw this jacket!
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This sweater is a fucking dream, never have I immediately googled a sweater and attempted to purchase, to no avail. RIP me. 
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Me when I found out this sweater was out of stock everywhere. 
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We first met this sweater in 222—another moment where Archie left a venue in a...dramatic fashion (then he was arrested, now he just bounces from the SATs.) 
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Ah! Her pink suede jacket makes its first appearance since 207 (which, for how much we hyped it, is quite the gap.)
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Let us take a moment to witness the...experience that is Alice Cooper, RIVW on-air personality. It is...so much, all at once, and visually, I fucking love it. 
That’s a lot of fucking milk (notably, Betty first wore this jacket in 207, the episode were we learned just how much Kevin appreciates a glass of milk. We should have known he’d be susceptible to the Farm’s sway...) 
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Ice. Cream. Jacket. 
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Gray envelope purse, denim skirt (Possibly the denim skirt she wore in 202, or maybe the one from 218? It’s unclear) Please tell me more about these high-ankle boots tho.
Summary: Six!
That backpack?: Backpack endures. 
Best outfit: Without a doubt that pink-and-white striped mockneck
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shrimpkardashian · 4 years
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I have a list of ~900 albums from 2019 that I still want to eventually listen to / review [IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT ALERT]
For this project (already 125+ releases deep), which is just impossibly daunting and makes me head hurt. IDK how to streamline this process or is any “critic” out there really listening to “all” the good music? It’s impossible I guess... BUT needless to say, these have made this list from an even larger pool of music that I either listened to briefly and immediately dismissed or (gasp!) never even came across my radar (radar = many many music blogs I follow via RSS). 
Anyway, because I’ll most likely never get to this (whatever this is, an Xgau parody or something)... Here is the list (please ignore some of my notations/typos):
1 matana roberts, coin coin chapter four 2 jeffrey lewis 3 negativland 4 camedor 5 the darkness 6 jai paul [leak] 7 shikoswe 8 anatolian weapons 9 cakedog, doggystyle 10 carly rae jepsen (LP, plus single w Gryffin) 11 parsnip 12 the comet is coming 13 girl in red 14 ezra furman 15 the kvb 16 freddie gibbs & madlib 17 say sue me (single) 18 denzel curry 19 fatamorgana 20 vivian girls 21 wobbly, monitress 22 helado negro 23 anamanaguchi 24 paul demarinis 25 comet gain 26 personal best 27 king princess, LP? big little lies single 28 marble arch 29 mini dresses 30 matt christensen 31 jade bird 32 black mountain 33 body meat 34 pat, Love Will Find A Way Home 35 acid arab 36 the 83rd 37 common holly 38 wicca phase 39 mark ronson 40 spirit in the room, single 41 rebe, “pienso en ti a todas horas” [just a single?] 42 a giant dog, neon bible cover LP 43 hey collosus 44 moon king (meh/ or *) 45 vanity productions 46 velvet negroni 47 g perico 48 budokan boys 49 skryptor 50 oscar scheller 51 the muffs 52 larry gus 53 these new puritans *** 54 angel olsen 55 bleu nuit 56 meatraffle 57 josephine wiggs 58 jennifer vanilla 59 big|brave 60 rico nasty 61 friendship, dreamin' 62 mike, tears of joy 63 bellrope 64 gbv 65 machìna, archipelago 66 toy, songs of consumption 67 ayankoko 68 the intelligence 69 drahla 70 corridor, junior 71 urochromes 72 david hasselhoff 73 aMAZONDOTCOM 74 kehlani 75 ne-hi EP (final) 76 avey tare 77 bonnie "prince" billy 78 battles 79 snapped ankles 80 mannequin pussy 81 toro y moi, soul trash 82 twen 83 self discovery for social survival comp 84 bad heaven ltd 85 eric frye 86 the mattson 2 87 duncan park 88 pure bathing culture 89 arthur russell, iowa dream 90 wild pink 91 flaming lips 92 pan amsterdam 93 flaural 94 knife wife 95 hannah peel & will burns 96 klein 97 meat puppets 98 tnght 99 james ferraro 100 royal trux / ariel pink 101 new rain duets 102 black marble 103 sui zhen 104 liam the younger 105 the mountain goats, welcome to passaic 106 frank hurricane and hurricanes of love 107 sebadoh 108 xylouris white 109 lindstrøm 110 franck vigroux 111 joyero 112 dorian electra  113 ride 114 crumb, jinx 115 nonconnah 116 cup, spinning creature 117 brutus 118 bjarki 119 khotin 120 alexander tucker 121 gunna 122 operator music band 123 tony molina 124 nanami ozone 125 sad planets 126 bemydelay 127 laurie anderson et al, songs from the bardo 128 teebs 129 deerhunter, timebends 130 tr/st (2 LPs) 131 dolores catherino 132 liturgy 133 floating points 134 sasami, LP + xmas EP 135 trikorder23 136 moor mother 137 have a nice life 138 la dispute 139 lingua ignota 140 lina tullgren 141 earl sweatshirt 142 entrail 143 alexander noice 144 shock narcotic 145 rakta 146 munya 147 el drugstore 148 buck gooter 149 caribou, single - more? 150 rosenau & sanborn 151 kevin abstract 152 pile 153 e for echo 154 animal collective, new psycho actives vol. 2 + live album 155 harlem 156 sudan archives 157 lil peep, posthumous ep 158 young guv, i and ii 159 orville peck 160 75 dollar bill 161 institute 162 tove lo 163 the chocolate watchband 164 foie gras, holy hell 165 french vanilla 166 chuck cleaver 167 kollaps 168 spirits having fun 169 game 170 badgirl$ 171 medhane 172 alberich 173 show me the body 174 the night watch, an embarrassment of riches 175 inus, western spaghettification 176 pregoblin, singles? 177 ra ra riot 178 de lorians 179 kool keith 180 kaspia & stride 181 glen hansard 182 dpeee 183 berlin taxi 184 foghorn 185 ionnalee 186 american sharks 187 sitcom, dust single 188 pip blom 189 j balvin & bady 190 fenella 191 tanya tagaq 192 sean o'hagan 193 j robbins 194 peter ivers (comp) 195 neon indian, not sure if single is part of larger proj? 196 triad god 197 yeule 198 roland tings 199 schoolboy q 200 ava luna EP 201 fried eggs 202 drugdealer 203 half japanese 204 todd anderson-kunert 205 emily reo 206 christelle bofale 207 brion starr 208 jan jelinek (reissue) 209 peaer 210 devin townsend 211 vik 212 young m.a 213 default genders 214 night lovell 215 rocketship 216 kim gordon 217 ellen arkbro 218 george clanton and nick hexum [single?] 219 the minus 5 220 penguin cage 221 felicia atkinson 222 take offense 223 moon duo 224 chemical brothers 225 nef the pharaoh 226 daniel norgren 227 unkle 228 pup (?) 229 baroness 230 velvet bethany 231 resavoir 232 gruff rhys 233 lana del ray 234 empath 235 burial and the bug, flame 2 236 russian baths 237 quelle chris 238 corpse flower 239 roy montgomery [reissue] 240 clinic 241 a.g. cook, [single] 242 why? 243 beck 244 francis lung 245 thom yorke 246 warmduscher 247 uv-tv 248 aa bondy 249 max richter, ad astra ost 250 younghusband 251 stereo total 252 julie's haircut 253 aa matheson 254 eartheater 255 kelly moran 256 mana (seven steps behind) 257 c.h.e.w. 258 sarah mary chadwick 259 midsommar ost 260 beabadoobee 261 life, a picture of good health 262 dumb, club nites 263 dame dolla 264 endless boogie 265 burna boy 266 lungbutter 267 wand 268 future punx 269 yves jarvis 270 kim petras [LP, halloween EP] 271 bts world 272 pikelet 273 panda bear, single 274 samiyam 275 red river dialect 276 ryan pollie 277 ryuichi sakamot (reissue) 278 jackie mendoza 279 dark blue 280 jay som 281 stephen mallinder 282 neutrals, kebab disco 283 foodman 284 capitol, dream noise 285 new pornographers 286 mark korven, the lighthouse ost 287 gauche 288 the japanese house 289 cave (re-issue) 290 ybn cordae 291 the vacant lots 292 arwen 293 rhucle 294 lil b, @ least 2 releases? 295 tea service 296 chai 297 black pumas 298 program, show me 299 marika hackman 300 sonny and the sunsets 301 lillie mae 302 mean jeans 303 the stroppies 304 poppies 305 twin shadow 306 vanishing twin *** 307 portrayal of guilt [EP + split single] 308 lucki [2 lps] 309 absolutely free 310 girl band 311 black midi 312 torche 313 perfume (best of) 314 white denim 315 clipping 316 the hu 317 big business 318 metro crowd 319 ex-vöid, 7" 320 broken social scene 321 lil pump 322 uranium club 323 doon kanda 324 hesitation wounds 325 sorry girls 326 bibio 327 red mass 328 the shins, single 329 lil keed 330 yeasayer 331 bts / blackpink KPOP 332 galen tipton, fake meat 333 the world, reddish 334 lanark artefax, ep 335 ladytron 336 g.s., schray 337 just mustard [single, more?] 338 mdou moctar 339 rangers, spirited discussion 340 tyson meade 341 dj nate 342 kelly lee owens 343 bambara 344 kilo kish 345 lusine 346 ralph heidel / homo ludens 347 psychic graveyard 348 homeshake 349 wives, so removed 350 proto idiot 351 let’s eat grandma, ost ep 352 foals 353 caroline shaw & attacca quartet 354 juan waters 355 mount eerie with julie doiron 356 mestozi 357 patio 358 oh baby, the art of sleeping alone 359 earth 360 haybaby 361 anna meredith 362 the caretaker (6) 363 rich brian 364 sunn o))), [two LPs] 365 alessandro cortini 366 ty segall 367 injury reserve 368 elucid 369 budos band 370 tim hecker 371 waqwaq kingdom 372 william doyle *** 373 innercity ensemble 374 filthy friends 375 prurient 376 shlohmo 377 bon iver 378 sean henry 379 yeesh 380 faye webster 381 megan thee stallion 382 squid, town centre 383 simulation (hausau mountain) 384 flying lotus 385 horse jumper of love 386 rap, export 387 lansky jones 388 the gonks 389 cate lebon 390 rome fortune 391 chain cult 392 empty set 393 big thief (2 lp's) 394 laura cannell [and polly wright album ?] or is there just a laura c album too ? }} 395 froth 396 thugwidow 397 organ tapes 398 the new pornographers 399 zonal 400 bbg baby joe 401 whitney 402 guards 403 anemone 404 sheer mag 405 nots 406 fujiya & miyag 407 kool aid, family portrait ep 408 frankie cosmos 409 kaputt 410 quelle chris 411 operators 412 marco benevento 413 elvis depressedly 414 school of language, 45 415 rob burger 416 pozi 417 redd kross 418 randy randall 419 yatta 420 hide, hell is here 421 bobby krlic, midsommar ost 422 planet england 423 kev brown 424 robedoor 425 tropical fuck storm 426 haram, 9/11 ep 427 candy, super-stare single 428 sly and the family drone 429 kevin morby 430 porches, rangerover [single] 431 odae 432 pottery 433 saint pepsi 434 slowthai 435 iggy pop 436 swans 437 iLOVEMAKONNEN 438 mukqs 439 feels 440 luke temple 441 oli xl 442 orphan swords 443 post pink 444 deli girls 445 nilüfer yanya 446 idk, is he real? 447 interpol 448 priests 449 galcher lustwerk 450 smokepurpp, various? 451 kindness 452 ex hex 453 sampa the great 454 methyl ethel 455 ellis, the fuzz ep 456 jeanines s/t 457 water from your eyes 458 twin peaks 459 sam cohen 460 fontaines dc 461 spiral stairs 462 the hecks 463 nicola ratti 464 four tet, various (inc. "wingdings" alter ego side proj) 465 holy ghost 466 half stack 467 cherubs 468 juana molina, forfun EP 469 jpegmafia 470 bedouine 471 fury 472 melvins/flipper 473 the curls 474 izambard 475 heart eyes 476 drinking boys and girls choir 477 big search 478 glenn branca 479 rose elinor dougall 480 bat for lashes 481 young knives, [single, more? 482 hot chip 483 alex lahey 484 hemlock ernst & kenny segal 485 dj seinfeld 486 joni void 487 rema rema 488 spencer tweedy 489 trash kit 490 dry cleaning [2 ep's] 491 mega bog *** 492 saudade 493 monster rally 494 wilco 495 chromatics, LP + EP 496 slayyyter 497 maral 498 blarf 499 pernice brothers 500 la neve 501 marie davidson 502 tredici bacci 503 deathprod 504 lowly 505 russian circles 506 angel witch 507 fires were shot 508 amy o 509 q da fool 510 clams casino 511 automelodi 512 paradox 513 dababy (2) 514 david kilgour 515 missy elliot 516 baby smoove 517 boris 518 thanks for coming 519 yves tumor [single w/] 520 ΜΜΜΔ 521 falcon/falkland 522 noel wells 523 ecstatic vision 524 amyl & the sniffers 525 barrie 526 bianca scout 527 katie dey 528 prince rama 529 control top 530 duster, comp + new LP 531 foxes in fiction 532 slowthai x denzel curry [single] 533 the murlocs 534 plaid 535 ela orleans 536 gobby 537 cfm 538 carla del forna 539 pale spring 540 pixx 541 širom 542 lightning bolt 543 cate lebon & deerhunter 544 channel tres 545 sigrid 546 help, s/t 547 shellac, live 548 crack cloud, pain olympics (ongoing) / s/t (2018) 549 notes underground 550 fat white family *** 551 gloop 552 equiknoxx 553 nakhane 554 czarface meets ghostface 555 the rubinoos 556 shannon lay 557 tim heidecker 558 droneflower 559 john vanderslice 560 your old droog 561 bats, alter nature 562 zvi 563 justus proffit 564 lower dens 565 anna of the north 566 yg 567 holly herndon 568 good fuck 569 clark, single 570 charli xcx 571 the nativist 572 low life 573 jonsi & alex somers 574 kazu 575 günter schickert 576 odonis odonis 577 kelsey lu (+ remix EP) 578 young thug 579 thaiboy digital 580 hatchie 581 hiro kone 582 cocorosie 583 sabiwa 584 oh sees 585 rex orange county 586 311 587 erland cooper 588 jtamul 589 the brilliant tabernacle 590 free love, extreme dance anthems 591 jeff lynne's elo 592 dutch courage 593 booji boys 594 giggs 595 ceschi 596 inter arma 597 psychic sounds ensemble 598 eli kezsler EP 599 thelma 600 haiku salut 601 julia jacklin 602 otoboke beaver 603 colin self 604 mark mulcahy 605 rosalia, single "a pale" more? 606 chris lott 607 royal trux 608 weyes blood 609 mikal cronin 610 hissing tiles 611 grace ives 612 vic bang 613 nick cave 614 sugar world [single] 615 herzog 616 offset 617 mike adams at his honest weight 618 real life buildings 619 aldous harding 620 pye corner audio 621 doja cat 622 bleached 623 book of shame 624 kate davis 625 i was a king 626 pendant, through a coil 627 joseph arthur 628 great grandpa, four of arrows 629 modern nature 630 stef chura 631 spaza, s/t great 632 the alchemist 633 pond 634 aiden baker, etc 635 kirin j. Callinan 636 possible humans 637 greys 638 kizuna ai 639 little simz 640 big bend 641 membranes, what nature gives… 642 young nudy 643 car seat headrest (live) 644 seahawks 645 dumbhop's party 646 julien chang 647 pacific yew 648 pharmakon 649 lomelda 650 versing 651 olden yolk 652 mekons 653 the dream syndicate 654 the gotobeds 655 amy klein 656 bABii 657 bill callahan 658 grlwood 659 van dale 660 ziúr 661 delicate steve 662 debby friday 663 dehd 664 south city hardware 665 kesha 666 (sandy) alex g 667 computer slime 668 fka twigs 669 rob halford, celestial 670 dean hurley 671 school of language 672 nicolas godin 673 blue hawaii 674 leggy 675 ceremony 676 his name is alive 677 third eye blind 678 sadgirl 679 ariana grande 680 skepta 681 dylan moon 682 jay mitta 683 the drums 684 kero kero bonito, ep 685 charly bliss 686 lee renaldo etc 687 rina mushonga 688 ulla straus 689 cherushii & maria minerva 690 slaughter beach, dog 691 maps 692 dj shadow 693 tool LOL 694 diiv 695 pixies 696 cuco 697 black peaches 698 subhumans 699 gurr 700 cashmere cat 701 brockhampton 702 fire-toolz 703 lambchop, LP + EP 704 messthetics 705 neuland 706 westkust 707 haelos 708 sturgill simpson 709 maria usbeck 710 king gizzard (2) 711 earthgang 712 paranoid london 713 fet.nat 714 bethlehem steel 715 neil young with crazy horse 716 tengger 717 guerilla toss 718 spelling 719 lizzo 720 wiki 721 dr00p, mkULTRAHD 722 ghost orchard 723 jane weaver 724 usa/mexico 725 carl stone 726 richard dawson *** 727 rafael toral 728 test dept 729 sacred paws 730 big krit 731 mallrat 732 jenn champion 733 moE/Mette Rasmussen, tolerancia picante 734 facs 735 yung lean, single (blue cup) and ep, more? 736 pissgrave 737 moodyman 738 sing sinck, sing 739 tyler the creator 740 sleater-kinney 741 dean blunt, zushi 742 cursive 743 barker, utlity 744 gemma 745 octavian 746 pronoun 747 girl ray 748 julia shapiro 749 nodding god 750 daniel saylor 751 jakob ogawa 752 richard youngs 753 diät 754 w00dy 755 omar souleyman 756 vōx EP 757 topdown dialectic 758 penelope islea 759 gbv 760 glass beach 761 james hoff, hobo ufo 762 euglossine 763 dream ritual 764 terry allen 765 office culture 766 ghostie, devour 767 beat detectives 768 red channel 769 octo octa 770 julien baker [toyko single] 771 shackleton as "tunes of negation" 772 sons of raphael 773 lena raine 774 fitted, first fits 775 velf 776 cvn 777 black country, new road, [2 singles only?] 778 chief keef 779 andrew bird, LP and EP 780 tamaryn 781 vagabon 782 zelooperz 783 brian jonestown massacre 784 angel dust 785 pere ubu 786 vatican shadow, church... 787 spencer radcliffe 788 mr muthafuckin exquire 789 earth to mickey 790 beak> 791 byron westbrook 792 major murphy 793 nicole yun 794 the divine comedy 795 sote, parallel persiao 796 the radio dept. 797 prince daddy & the hyena 798 mudhoney 799 truth club 800 shura 801 underworld, drift 802 lil texas 803 that dog 804 gary wilson / r. stevie moore 805 divino nino 806 spiral heads 807 claire cronin 808 devendra banhart 809 c.y.m. EP 810 dude york 811 sangri 812 vegyn [2 lp's?] 813 brooke candy 814 caroline polachek 815 hurt valley 816 O.L.I.V.I.A, modo avion 817 ziúr 818 pepper mill rondo, it's christmas time 819 ben vida 820 nick hexum/george clanton 821 meara o'reilly 822 tyler holmes, devil 823 blood incantation 824 guenter schlienz 825 gavilán rayna russom 826 loraine james *** 827 lithics, Wendy Kraemer EP 828 navel, ambient 2, in space 829 the proper ornaments 830 jon hopkins & kelly lee owens, single 831 julianna barwick 832 park hye-jin 833 bea1991 834 men i trust 835 erika de casier 836 ducks unlimited 837 lyzza 838 refused 839 jim o'rourke, to magnetize ... 840 analemma, 2 singles on a comp? 841 zack fox, "the bean kicked in" 842 real life rock n roll band 843 prefab sprout 844 daniel lopatin, uncut gems ost 845 kaytranada 846 the voidz, 2 song single + video? 847 grandaddy, single (add scissors icon) 848 dark thoughts, must be nice 849 loose nukes 850 sam mallet 851 very good, adulthood 852 henge, nothing head 853 kaleidobolt 854 nebula, holy shit 855 terminal cheesecake 856 uzeda 857 wet tuna 858 sean mccann 859 black dresses, love and... (2nd LP) 860 nefew 861 taylor swift ??? 862 lala lala, the lamb 863 jenny lewis 864 33EMYBW 865 blood orange, angel's pulse 866 caterina barbieri *** 867 yusu 868 white reaper 869 rozi plain 870 bamboo, daughters of the sky 871 seragina steer 872 clear channel, hot fruit 873 patience, dizzy spells 874 mope grooves, desire 875 current affairs, object & subject 875 comfort, not passing 876 bill orcutt 877 bonnie baxter 878 carl stone 879 thurston moore 880 alameda 5 881 john zorn 882 the membranes, what nature gives... 883 meemo comma 884 ana roxannne 885 whistling arrow, s/t 886 dis fantasy 887 giant swan, s/t 888 buck young, buck ii 889 abdu ali 890 ifriqiyya électrique 891 $hit and $hine, doing drugs, selling drugs 892 ghold 893 theon cross 894 yao bobby & simon grab 895 solange *sure whatever ok 896 the comet is coming 897 the utopia strong, s/t 898 karenn, grapefruit regret 899 brìghde chaimbeul 900 nav, bad habits 901 chance, big day 902 nostalgia critic's the wall 903 uboa, the origin of my depression 904 hobo johnson 905 ana frango elétrico 906 dorian electra
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led123123 · 4 years
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and she has the same name..
https://youtu.be/DY95-YYMUa8?t=170
https://youtu.be/pr5_6U2Mh2w
my mother is trash..
https://youtu.be/e4MM2lxrnBw?t=268
god.. I have to wait until someone leaves.. because some asshole came in the morning.. 
jesus christ.. and it’s morning.. god.. I have stuff to do in the morning.. god.. 
omg.. it’s gonna be a whole day.. he’s gonna leave tomorrow.. god..
in the morning.. shit.. stupid trash
and he’s gonna leave tomorrow.. god.. he came before I even woke up..
shit.. I need to bite toothbrush in the morning.. I mean.. I like to bite in the morning.. damn..
https://youtu.be/DY95-YYMUa8?t=40
https://www.youtube.com/user/JadeTheLibra/videos
https://youtu.be/H_FF1y70Pjs
https://youtu.be/eeOdi95V3bk?t=44
“pick hero pleas boys.. next door” xD
https://youtu.be/eeOdi95V3bk?t=186
фингер. xD
I’m better at typing each time
https://youtu.be/eeOdi95V3bk?t=812
тебе четыр восемсят рублей на руках.. долбоёб
оскробление
https://www.youtube.com/c/IizumiChyanChannel/videos
wow she has good background picture
https://youtu.be/DY95-YYMUa8?t=67
https://youtu.be/TbMg2LK4eFk?t=3
https://youtu.be/TbMg2LK4eFk?t=540
https://youtu.be/TbMg2LK4eFk?t=693
https://youtu.be/TbMg2LK4eFk?t=709
wow I know how it works.. it’s just like on pipe organs.. 
https://youtu.be/JeB3JnKp8To
multiple sounds on the same key
https://youtu.be/TbMg2LK4eFk?t=737
those are hole marks. which holes are open 
https://youtu.be/48sCx-wBs34?t=130
https://youtu.be/48sCx-wBs34?t=339
this was the dude who did the.. bullet curving test.. lol.. from “wanted” movie
https://youtu.be/5vZ4lCKv1ik?t=56
no that’s not him??
https://youtu.be/f1qvvD8N17c?t=77
I though that people say.. that women are a lot more resistant to feeling any pain.. I though.. I mean.. like.. you know.. they do a lot of stuff.. 
https://youtu.be/f1qvvD8N17c?t=208
but.. bullet vest.. only covers.. like.. few parts.. it doesn’t cover in between these.. pieces.. 
https://youtu.be/f1qvvD8N17c?t=253
xD 
so much money governent pays on one prisoner.. murder is like.. I don’t know.. like.. more than 20 year I don’t know.. maybe lifetime 
https://youtu.be/f1qvvD8N17c?t=283
allowing guns in society is so stupid.. god..
but like.. in america.. where there are.. like.. robbers.. probably.. there’s more danger.. so they allow for guns so people can protect themselves.. I guess.. there’s more.. threat I guess
I mean.. no.. they have so many people working in military.. that’s how they all have guns..
https://youtu.be/q4OQXej-BEQ?t=119
she was wearing braces
https://youtu.be/F0nPRuYx3-M
this color looks so good with her hair color
https://youtu.be/F0nPRuYx3-M?t=153
and she curled it so it has more reflexes
https://youtu.be/UdbtYvxFU2A
hope she never cuts her hair. 
damn this dog.. wanted food.. I don’t know what food to find for him.. like.. dogs.. like.. there is alike.. dog food.. that people buy at store..
I don’t know if he would enjoy it.. but like.. there’s.. like.. the dog food is dry.. so like.. it’s not getting spoiled.. and I don’t know when I’m gonna go there next time.. like.. 
I like long hair..
https://youtu.be/UdbtYvxFU2A?t=130
lol. I was watching videos about volcanos recently
https://youtu.be/UdbtYvxFU2A?t=357
sniping is so easy in pubg
https://youtu.be/r52L30De1A8?t=37
omfg. just like a herd of monkeys
https://youtu.be/L1JK_LLM_xw?t=804
battling zombies..
https://youtu.be/TnluzkfPsrg
https://youtu.be/3mnSDifDSxQ
https://youtu.be/3mnSDifDSxQ?t=60
https://youtu.be/3mnSDifDSxQ?t=171
https://youtu.be/3mnSDifDSxQ?t=259
it’s changing color to blue
lol.. imagine being a flat earthist now.. these days..
in internet era where you can just google this video and see all the research about universe
so much research about universe.. imagine still being stuck in flat earth conception era..
when it was discovered so many years ago.. 
and seeing so much research about universe..
imagine watching this video and still being a flat earthist..
https://youtu.be/zAAiFLr4y6w?t=152
chalk rounds
https://youtu.be/zAAiFLr4y6w?t=520
lol this dude is ready for anything
https://youtu.be/zAAiFLr4y6w?t=618
nobody would survive it
https://youtu.be/zAAiFLr4y6w?t=872
they have third person mode camera
grenade launcher.. hm.. interesting idea.. I could just.. disable people.. and then finish them off
https://youtu.be/zAAiFLr4y6w?t=1049
he has keanu reeves voice..
or christian bale
https://youtu.be/zAAiFLr4y6w?t=1060
he kinda is like.. christian bale.. passive agressive.. 
https://youtu.be/TCFRWFh4Uyc?t=44
cosco of the gun world. xD
https://youtu.be/TCFRWFh4Uyc?t=214
stock trigger..
https://youtu.be/Tr32V_gyuBg
https://youtu.be/TCFRWFh4Uyc?t=623
kill everyone. xD
https://youtu.be/tygwJvnz8v8?t=3
https://youtu.be/tygwJvnz8v8?t=147
https://youtu.be/tygwJvnz8v8?t=160
https://youtu.be/tygwJvnz8v8?t=168
https://youtu.be/tygwJvnz8v8?t=173
kill everyone. xD
https://youtu.be/DY95-YYMUa8?t=27
love when one dude from our squad attacks one squad and 2nd one goes on other squad at the same time 1v3
I had a job opportunity.. for 25$.. but.. it was like.. 5 or more hours.. damn.. so I was like.. it’s not worth it.. and it’s already late.. I think it would be like.. 5 or 6 hours..
ludzie to skurwysyny
https://youtu.be/ByJWYiIG7wY?t=10
I know this hoe..
I saw her before.. but.. she also looks like.. 
https://www.youtube.com/user/DoItOnaDime/videos
like her too
https://youtu.be/ByJWYiIG7wY?t=27
and she talks like.. one dude..
https://youtu.be/B5E_mXCnFco?t=3
I don’t know where I know her from.. from somewhere.. 
somebody as always.. 
https://youtu.be/rhFK5_Nx9xY?t=428
this is almost as good speculation as ancient aliens
working my ass off like.. 5 hours to around 3 am.. at night.. on saturday at night for 25 dollars? no thanks.. 
people are such garbage
I asked for 50$.. not gonna work for 25 dollars all night in the satruday evening.. go to hell
even 50$ is low.. 
working at night on saturday evening.. for 25$..
I don’t need any money.. working all night on saturday for 25$?? fuck you..
have better things to do.. my mother would never give me any money.. even if I worked million years.. or even if she wanted me to build pyramid for her.. she wouldn’t give me a penny
fucking trash
pojxbane jak chój..
my father is trash
debil zjxbany
my day is f*cking ruined as shit
https://youtu.be/AwDuNwAuDCA?t=1665
https://youtu.be/AwDuNwAuDCA?t=1857
5000$ a month
https://youtu.be/AwDuNwAuDCA?t=1984
she hires mostly like.. 99% asians.. 
if I was hiring anyone.. I would just hire.. like.. this is stupid to say that not hiring people like.. if she’s asian and she hires asians.. it’s stupid to say.. why would she hire people that she doesn’t trust..
https://youtu.be/AwDuNwAuDCA?t=2129
xD
https://youtu.be/AwDuNwAuDCA?t=2158
piercing..
I think I could be a good addition to the team.. I mean.. valuable commodity.. or whatever they call it
damn this was such a long video
https://www.youtube.com/c/VanessaLau/videos
wow. all her videos are quite long actually
28 minutes.. 29 minutes.. almost half an hour damn.
one hour??
what? one hour?? 
https://youtu.be/KdB2DsOGrXc?t=869
conversion rate? attendance rate??
https://youtu.be/KdB2DsOGrXc?t=877
this saying comes from.. nature.. like.. if an animal gets surrounded.. he can’t defend his back..
https://youtu.be/KdB2DsOGrXc?t=952
https://youtu.be/KdB2DsOGrXc?t=1021
damn this course is.. 1000$.. I wonder how long it lasts
god.. people really pay her 1000$ for course? for real?? that’s so much money.. I wouldn’t have that much money.. why would I buy her courses..
I don’t know how these people have money for that.. they must be really rich..
I don’t know how anyone would have so much money to spend on a “course”..
so it’s.. 1000 courses.. sold..
how these courses look like.. 
https://youtu.be/DY95-YYMUa8?t=5
lol. wingman in replicator.
I wish I could f*cking die..
literally I’m so depressed that I would hang myself.. if there was no people around..
and I had some good rope.. I have internet cable I forgot..
I forgot that I have internet cable
nobody would give a f*ck.. they wouldn’t give a f*ck..
they would just think that I was trash anyway..
https://youtu.be/mIps8IwmERo?t=489
I do more crouching now.. when shooting..
https://youtu.be/mIps8IwmERo?t=569
I can never one clip people.. no way.. they move and.. there’s recoil.. impossible to one clip people
I’m not bad at shooting.. but one clipping is really difficult..
only if I hit many headshots.. 
ye.. if there was.. somewhere to hang the cable.. I would just.. do it.. 
and if there were no people around..
and if there was.. some bar.. to hand the cable..
fucking assholes.. just making me depressed.. mother and this shit..
both..
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NEED THE FBI TO PROTECT ME FROM THE OBSERVATION CLUB, PRESIDENT TRUMP, AND PAUL ALLEN. ESP RAPE AND TORTURE IN A SONG
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Dr. Ronald J Dobson, Head of the Observer Club Of America, of Bell Helicopter Labs, Aspen Nature Park Colorado, uses 24-way camera systems that are installed in people's noses (Just need to look in a few homeless people's noses with a borescope to find one). He probably keeps his collection of child pornography in his basement along with his observation machines. He is raping my brain right now via a chip that was installed at Highline Hospital in Seattle by Dr. Adam F. Brown, Head Observer there. He prescribed me prescription Desoxyn over Observation Machine while I was in the Psych cell there suffering "delusions" of the Observation Club raping away my very satisfactory career working as a Development Engineer for the U.S. Department of Energy, whom Eric tried to hack using my credentials. Ronald is planning on using the 16-Digit Setup Authorization Network to bribe a Judge to rush a Search Warrant for my premises through without any probable cause other than a staged 911 call saying I have "fogged up windows" on my car.  The warrant will allow the police to find drugs they planted everywhere in my room, house, car, everywhere. They rape my brain 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and it has been terribly difficult to find a peaceful solution but I am continuing to search for one. Here is a video that talks about it:
I'm being stalked by the Observation Club Gang of Thugs in America. They have been raping me for almost 15 years via powered antenna alien microchip inserted in my nostril and brain by the prison system (local county jail) for using Desoxyn while under the care of Dr. Adam F. Brown of Highline Hospital, the same man who decided to replace the microchip in my head for Eric while knowing full well it was linked up to my ESP. I have been suffering observation "delusions" for all of those 15 years while Eric has had the pleasure of seeing me in infrared 24-way camera all day long. He never sleeps because he is a CrisperVamp and they have special snake DNA modifications done to them by a company with a Pegasus moniker in Palomino, CA for 10 million dollars a treatment. From DNA Observation you get Observation Schizo Affective Disease and it is a very potent illness leaving you mentally traumatized and crippled without the ability to function in society properly and substantial PTSD from being brutally invaded for almost 15 years. I spent many night crying in bed not knowing who these demons in my head were that were leering and calling me all manner of evil obscenities.
May Jesus Shine his Love into all our Heads and Hearts. With Love Joshua Cassell
youtu.be/m12S1kXUM-k youtu.be/w0x4povmTFg youtu.be/adj2cGEMmEw Joshua Cassell Phone - 214-347-6233 Trump is a CrisperVamp
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I'm being stalked by the Observation Club Gang of Thugs in America. They have been raping me for almost 15 years via powered antenna alien microchip inserted in my nostril and brain by the prison system (local county jail) for using Desoxyn while under the care of Dr. Adam F. Brown of Highline Hospital, the same man who decided to replace the microchip in my head for Eric while knowing full well it was linked up to my ESP. I have been suffering observation "delusions" for all of those 15 years while Eric has had the pleasure of seeing me in infrared 24-way camera all day long. He never sleeps because he is a CrisperVamp and they have special snake DNA modifications done to them by a company with a Pegasus moniker in Palomino, CA for 10 million dollars a treatment. From DNA Observation you get Observation Schizo Affective Disease and it is a very potent illness leaving you mentally traumatized and crippled without the ability to function in society properly and substantial PTSD from being brutally invaded for almost 15 years. I spent many night crying in bed not knowing who these demons in my head were that were leering and calling me all manner of evil obscenities.
Dr. Ronald J Dobson, Head of the Observer Club Of America, of Bell Helicopter Labs, Aspen Nature Park Colorado, uses 24-way camera systems that are installed in people's noses (Just need to look in a few homeless people's noses with a borescope to find one). He probably keeps his collection of child pornography in his basement along with his observation machines. He is raping my brain right now via a chip that was installed at Highline Hospital in Seattle by Dr. Adam F. Brown, Head Observer there. He prescribed me prescription Desoxyn over Observation Machine while I was in the Psych cell there suffering "delusions" of the Observation Club raping away my very satisfactory career working as a Development Engineer for the U.S. Department of Energy, whom Eric tried to hack using my credentials. Ronald is planning on using the 16-Digit Setup Authorization Network to bribe a Federal Judge to rush a Search Warrant for my premises through without any probable cause other than a staged 911 call saying I have "fogged up windows" on my car.  The warrant will allow the police to find drugs they planted everywhere in my room, house, car, everywhere. They rape my brain 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and it has been terribly difficult to find a peaceful solution but I am continuing to search for one. Here are video that talk about it. Poughkeepsie wants to kill me for calling him an Observation Electronics Gypsy.. He probably works for the police. Find out who sent the package Erix p. Look for another package soon:
May Jesus Shine his Love into all our Heads and Hearts With Love
youtu.be/m12S1kXUM-k youtu.be/w0x4povmTFg youtu.be/adj2cGEMmEw youtu.be/OAH8Zim6_TM Joshua Cassell Laboratories Trump Is A CrisperVamp
www.observationclub.tech/palukinforms2.html www.tumblr.com/blog/superfreeentertainment www.observationclub.tech/palukinforms10.html www.observationclub.tech/palukinforms5.html www.observationclub.tech/palukinforms3.html
They rape my brain 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, I am looking for a peaceful solution going forward. / Paul Allen Raped My Brain, because he's a Crisper. Watch out for the Crispers of the OBservation ClUb gAnG Of ThUGs! Joshua Cassell Phone - 214-347-6233
Super Star Powered Antenna Engineer informant Loek J. d'Hont 9588 Arnaz Circle Port Charlotte, FL 33981-4005 941-208-3729
They rape my brain 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, I am looking for a peaceful solution going forward. / Paul Allen Raped My Brain
https://observationdogstarfbiinvestigation.wordpress.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVl0Z3PZl00 Poughkipsie is a crisperVamp, I sing about him being the Gypsy of Observation Electronics? Swastika Holding Poughkipsie is a crisperVamp who hates that I sing about him being the Gypsy of Observation Electronics. That is what I feel from his brain. He wants to kill me for it. He is Paluk's Friend.
It's a gang that specializes in Esp rape and Inducing mental illness in people by hooking Alien microchips to their brains and mindcontrolling and creating Observation porn including kiddie porn. Observation porn addiction is rampant including the making of snuff videos via the 24-way camera system. MindControl, Eric Paluk, GE Talking Tab, Ronald Dobson, Joel Heegel, Tammmy Heegel, Observation Sickness, Highline Hospital, Dr. Adam F. Brown, DOGSTAR microchip, DOGSTAR, Music, crisperVamp, Judge Bribery, Staged 911, Fogged Up Windows, Psychic Soul Injection, President Trump, Observation Club Gang, Powered Antenna, Esp Rape, Snake DNA Therapy, Observation Machine, T's Bar and Grill, Informants, Backwatcher, Loek D'hont Please Help, PaulAllenObserverFromMicrosoft,ALSHARPTONObserverFromNJ, TEDKENNEDEYOBSERVEROFMA, Youtube Account Joshua Cassell Observation Jam Band Channel
Help me Loek!
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RIP(?) Idle Thumbs
And now, a bunch of nerd BS about a podcast.
I went back and did the math the other day and I’ve been listening to Idle Thumbs for about 5 years. (First episode: #84, “Nineties Cockpit Freakout”.) I started listening because I lived in South San Francisco and commuted on BART/Muni to San Francisco proper every day, a trip of about 2 hours one way - I needed something to pass the time and knew that podcasts were big, and someone online suggested it.
I was hooked pretty much immediately. As the label says, it’s “a podcast about video games”, although over time the scope of that has creeped to include board games, movies (okay, mostly Jurassic Park), “live experiences” (e.g. escape rooms), and a ton of other stuff. The hosts have created/been involved in the creation of two of the most-talked-about games of the past several years, Gone Home and Firewatch, been accused by 4Chan of being the conspirators leading a vast feminist cabal dedicated to destroying video games, finally met ‘cast muse Jeff Goldblum in person, and, obviously, rebuilt their recording studio as a tribute to the secure conference room from Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Not too surprisingly after roughly 8 years, the current core crew of the rotating stable of Thumbs have stated that last week’s episode 300(!!!) marked a stepping-down of the weekly production schedule in favor of pursuing a new project, “Important If True”,  a more freewheeling discussion about science, entertainment, and technology. It’s not dead and buried (a new “bagblast” episode devoted to going through the show’s always-stuffed, always-fascinating email inbox, is slated for next week, and future episodes have not been ruled out), but it feels like there’s a smoggy orange Los Angeles sunset gel across the sky, y’know?
I’m usually not the person who writes this kind of thing, having been bred from the kind of New England family that subtly demands any display of emotion deeper than a hug be crushed, Giles Corey-like, into the earth, but the show has been a real source of peace of mind for me over the years - something to laugh about when things seemed grim, and a friend of sorts when real friends were far away. Here are some of my picks for episodes you should listen to - I mostly recommend it if you’re into video games, as that’s what most of the chatter is about, but there may be bits and pieces here you’ll enjoy even if that’s not your thing. Heck, even the episode descriptions themselves can be pretty funny, as they gradually evolve from staid descriptions of the episode contents to something more elaborate and strange.
103: A Person-Shaped Thing Is A Person: The origin(?) of Robot News, a recurring segment about the coming robot apocalypse, where the team extrapolates out the Petman robot to its logical conclusion (i.e.killing people)
107: GIANTBOMB.COM / 110: That Thing That You Needed To Say: I think (or at least I like to think) everyone has a point in life where they realize Corporations Are Not Your Friend. This duology-of-sorts, about E3 2013 and the dueling Microsoft/Sony press conferences, is a solid autopsy of several days of multimillion dollar spin.
159: Wilson’s Ghoulish Countenance: The first episode with games critic Danielle Riendeau as a regular cohost, this marks the beginning of a really great run of episodes. I wouldn’t call it a golden age, because one of the great things about the show is how there’s not really a core group of hosts and each change in the crew steers things in a different direction, but if you don’t want to start from the beginning, this is a good place to jump in.
165: KeLo. Is. Here.: The show is sometimes at its best when something completely non-game-related drives the conversation. Exhibit A is this episode, which is mostly focused around a weird dream cohost Nick Breckon had.
171: The Curious Case of the Rhode Island Reader: Strangely, I remember this being one of my favorite episodes, but I couldn’t tell you why.
172: http://malaise.ennui/: Easily one of the great lost games of this decade is Silent Hills, a sequel to the long-running horror game franchise Silent Hill by film director Guillermo del Toro, game director Hideo Kojima, and The Walking Dead actor Norman Reedus. Hills died on the vine following the collapse of publisher Konami’s video games division, but not before producing a nightmarish demo, P.T., which in turn produced this great episode discussing horror games.
196: Ode On A Grecian Hat Sale: The first(?) in a series of discussions about the weird, seedy underground world of hat trading in popular shooter Team Fortress 2. (See also 208: Buds Are Out, Keys Are In)
200: The Idle Thumbs Super Show: The first show where all cohosts to date (”the sixpack”) are present is both an absolute zoo and an absolute treat.
234: Mister Neighbor: This might be another good jumping-on point. This is technically a few episodes after Danielle left and James “Spaff” Spafford came (back) on, but it’s the first of a more introspective series of episodes, for lack of a better term.
245: Psyching Out That Bear through 248: The Bear’s Black Heart: The “bear saga”, which I can’t say anything about for fear of spoiling the ending, which is the funniest moment of maybe the whole run and had me laughing until I thought I was going to puke.
270: BIG GAME HUCKSTER$$$$: A really sharp, insightful discussion on video games and gambling.
295: Good...Bye through 299: Somebody, Somewhere, Somehow, Something: Yeah, it’s a little precious to pick the last big block of Thumbs episodes as the end of this list, but these are stuffed to the gills with what makes the show great - BSing about game interface minutiae, spinning out vast, elaborate theories about pointless game lore (see the discussion of Mario’s dark destiny in 298), and old friends hanging out. Even 299, where it becomes clear that some kind of end is nigh, is a genuine great episode.
If you made it this far, I’ll plug for some of their other shows: Important If True is hilarious, get in on the ground floor now. Danielle didn’t go far and cohosts spinoff show Idle Weekend, which has a very different pace but is very much worth your time, The Idle Book Club is a thoughtful monthly discussion of a novel that has really helped me get out of my reading comfort zone and try new things (you can start from episode 10 when they essentially rebooted the show), and Twin Peaks Rewatch is a great companion to get prepped for the show’s return in May.
The end! Fuck Nick Breckon Congrats Nick!
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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 207
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Click on the video above to watch Episode 207 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.
Full timestamps with topics and times can be found at the link above.
The latest upcoming free SEO Q&A Hump Day Hangout can be found at http://semanticmastery.com/humpday.  
Announcement
Adam: All right, we are live. Hey, everybody. Welcome to Hump Day Hangouts, Episode 207. We are live from Washington, DC, and hopefully Marco will be joining us, although it sounds like he may be on the way to, very shortly, having another child.
Bradley: I know what reports used to insult the Hangout.
Hernan: Yeah, c'mon.
Adam: So, well, before we get into announcements, we should go around and say “hello” to everybody, and just going to ask you each how the weather is and just let me know.
Hernan, just kidding. How’s it going man?
Hernan: Hey, guys. The weather is getting nicer in Argentina, so I’m told. I’m really excited to be here and I’m super, super happy.
Adam: Awesome. Chris, how you doing?
Chris: Yeah, good. [inaudible 00:00:40] this weekend.
Adam: Yeah?
Chris: And the weather was still nice and cozy and warm here.
Adam: Yeah, man. Awesome.
Bradley, how you doing?
Bradley: I’m happy to be here. We had a really good time at POFU LIVE. It was a lot of fun. We got to meet quite a few people and just had a really good weekend. It was our first one, but first live event [inaudible 00:00:59] really well. Get to hang out with my partners for a while, except Marco, for the rest of the week, which is kind of cool. You’ll only get to do this once a year. So, it’s kind of … It’s good timing for us whenever we get together and get to plan and to scheme out for the next year. So, just glad to be here.
Adam: Definitely, and Jay, a quick shout-out to my wife. Thank you. You can see all the beef jerky here. We got a bouquet of beef jerky just in time for Hump Day [inaudible 00:01:23].
Male: [inaudible 00:01:24]
Bradley: That’s nice.
Adam: Thank you. Let’s see. We got a lot of stuff we want to cover today, but I wanted to, as usual, say if you’re just starting out with Semantic Mastery … I know there’s actually a question about this. So, we’re going to get more in depth into this, but if you’re just starting out, the place to start is the Battle Plan, all right?
Hernan: Right out of this.
Adam: We got a physical one which you can get. You can also opt for just the digital version, but I think you should definitely check out the Battle Plan.
This right here is the place you want to start. Even if you’re going to hop into our Mastermind right away, we want everyone to have this. It’s a great blueprint for repeatable results. Then, I just mentioned the Mastermind. That’s where we want people to be. If you’re looking to actually start and to grow your agency, or you want … Sorry, you already have a digital agency and you want to grow that, you want to find ways to grow in scale, then that’s where you want to be.
Chris: Yeah, it’s more than just one page like [crosstalk 00:02:17]-
Adam: Oh, yes. [inaudible 00:02:19].
Chris: [crosstalk 00:02:18]
Adam: It’s many pages.
Chris: It’s more than one page.
Actually, how many pages is there [inaudible 00:02:27]. How many pages of [inaudible 00:02:29].
Adam: Let’s see, I’m getting word that there might be an echo. So, Hernan, could you try muting one of the … yep. [inaudible 00:02:38].
Hernan: [inaudible 00:02:40]
Bradley: It might be mine. It might be mine. Stand by.
Adam: All right. So, we’re going to keep going. If somebody can … I know there’s a delay on there. So, I’m going to keep rolling through, and you guys can let us know.
In case you didn’t hear all of that, basically, we’re happy to be here. Thank you for the beef jerky, Jenny. Grab the Battle Plan. It’s freaking awesome. Then, come join the Mastermind. So, that’s the really condensed version.
Male: [inaudible 00:03:04]
Bradley: Hey, guys, by the way, let us know if the echo has stopped. If not, we can still [crosstalk 00:03:07]-
Adam: Good to go. He just messaged me.
Bradley: [crosstalk 00:03:08] … It’s good to go now?
Adam: Yeah. So, it’s good to go.
Bradley: Okay, cool.
Adam: All right. So, other than that, let me check my announcements real quick. I’m used to doing this with the safety of two monitors here. Oh, so we’ve got the … Hopefully, you saw the email. If you didn’t, we want to tell everyone we’ve got to flash a 24-hour sale going on with syndication networks. We got those up. The ordering process has been improved, and it’s in mdyv.co. I’m going to drop the link along with the coupon code so you can save 30%, but that’s only going to be until … for, basically, the rest of today. Maybe tomorrow morning we might extend it since some people had some issues.
Other than that, we have got Episode 208 that’s coming up next week. For better or worse, we’re not going to be able to be together. That would’ve been really cool because 208 for us represents a four-year anniversary of doing Hump Day Hangout. So, four years of this.
Bradley: Four whole years. That’s crazy, and we only missed one weekend. It was a scheduled week that we took off.
Chris: You should join me in Florida.
Adam: [inaudible 00:04:03]. Yeah, just hope down real quick for Hump Day.
Bradley: Oh, it’s going to be on Halloween.
Hernan: [crosstalk 00:04:06]
Adam: Yes.
Bradley: So, make sure that you come dressed.
Adam: Yeah, please come dressed up, put in some pictures.
Hernan: Do I need to be dress up as well?
Adam: Yes [inaudible 00:04:15].
Bradley: No, you’re ugly enough. It’s cool.
Hernan: All right. Okay, cool.
Bradley: It’s cool.
Adam: But not only that, we’ve got some awesome prizes. I’m going to put the link on the page. We’re having a contest to see who’s going to win it. We’ve got a grand prize that’s got about five or $600 worth of prizes included in it. We’ve got a runner-up prize with several hundred dollars. Then, on top of that, if you just come live, we’re going to have a ton of stuff we’re going to be giving away. So, don’t want to miss that, and it’s more you share, the more chances you have to win, and we just want to get the word out, have a good time. I think we’ll probably go a little bit longer next week, right?
Bradley: Probably.
Male: [crosstalk 00:04:48]
Adam: Okay.
Bradley: Probably.
Adam: Cool. All right. Anything else you guys want to cover?
Chris: Yeah, I’m going to prepare some good questions for next week.
Hernan: [crosstalk 00:04:53]
Adam: Oh.
Bradley: Oh, yeah, and have your POFU coin, right?
Adam: Yeah, for real.
Male: Ooh, yeah.
Bradley: [crosstalk 00:05:00] do that, but with this is a memento that we gave to our … the members that came to POFU LIVE, which is … It’s a coin and it’s kind of just something to think of to always remind you of what’s your position of fuck you is, you’re POFU is. So, it’s always to remind the people that got them to keep something to remind them of what their plan is, what their business plan is, and why you grind so hard, why you put so much work and effort into the business and whatever you’re trying to build.
So, this is the coin that we gave out to every member of the LIVE event, but it doesn’t have to be this particular coin. It could be whatever you want it to be, but I would recommend that you have something like that that you keep as just a memento to remind yourself through periods of stress and discouragement, feeling like you failed at times. Those types of times are when it’s really good to have something to remind yourself why you’re doing what you’re doing, and that was kind of our way to create this little exclusive club of POFU coin holders, but again, it doesn’t have to be specifically that. It could be whatever it is that you want it to be. So, it’s something we would recommend for you guys to do as well.
Hernan: Yeah, and I would like to personally thank everyone that was there on the event. I think it was amazing. I think it was like before and after for Semantic Mastery, I would say. We’re already planning next year’s, so we’ll keep you guys posted about that. This was a great event. We had a bunch of good stuff. We had a bunch of good people coming, and-
Bradley: It was great.
Hernan: Yeah. So, thank you guys for coming. Thank you guys for attending. Thank you for all of you guys that made this all possible. If you’re interested in coming to next year’s event, there’s going to be information out there soon.
Bradley: That’s it.
Adam: Definitely.
Bradley: Greg [inaudible 00:06:46] posting on the page, and he was there. We just want to give him a special shout-out because Greg helps us out with some of our Facebook groups and stuff, and he came to the LIVE event, and he’s just always been a real trooper and somebody that we appreciate very much. So, again, thanks Greg for coming out. We certainly all appreciated getting a chance to meet you and you participating with the event and everything. So, thanks again.
Adam: Thanks, Greg.
Chris: Thank you.
Hernan: Yes.
Chris: It was good meeting you in person.
Bradley: All right. So, can we get into questions?
Hernan: Yeah.
Adam: Yeah, let’s do it.
Bradley: All right, we’ll stand by because I just lost the page.
Chris: So, if you didn’t make it to POFU LIVE this year, you better save up, and book your time and come next year.
Bradley: Yeah.
Adam: Yeah, 100%.
Bradley: All right. Well, let’s get to it, then. Adam Moody has the first question. Well, you could’ve just ask me [crosstalk 00:07:34].
Male: [inaudible 00:07:34]
Adam: I got the inside track, man.
Bradley: All right. So, the first one was question from a viewer.
How Do You Index Syndication Network Posts?
“I’m not seeing my syndication network posts being indexed. How can I get them indexed?”
Well, that’s a good question. Typically, we don’t worry about the Web 2 posts being indexed because whether they get indexed or not, Google will likely crawl them and see them anyways. Sometimes, they will be indexed, but it’s not something I ever sweat or worry about trying to force the indexing of those posts, and the reason why is because if your website that you’re blogging from … So, that’s the one you’re essentially building links to through your syndicated posts. If it’s connected to Search Console, Google Search Console, and you go in and you take a look at the links to my site, you’ll see WordPress.com, and Tumbler, and Blogger, and all the bookmarking sites. You’ll see all the links pointing back to your site. Whether they’re in the index or not, it really makes no difference because Google’s telling you from Search Console that the links are indeed … They are in and they’re aware of them. So, that’s why I never worry about indexing. That’s why we didn’t spend a lot of time covering it.
There were some things that we did in the past that would automate, scraping those URLs from the Web 2 posts, and sending them to an indexer, but unfortunately, the plugins that did that stopped working, stopped being developed. They stopped supporting them, and we never found a really suitable alternative.
Now, that said, there is a training in the update section of Syndication Academy that talks about how you can use an applet to automatically extract the art, the Web 2 post URLs, and feed them into a Google Sheet, and then you can build links to a Google Sheet, which could be used like an indexing tool, and that’s been … That was covered in the Syndication Academy update webinars. Just go back through your webinar, update webinar archives, and you should be able to locate that.
If you’re insistent upon getting them to index … But again, your time, in my opinion, should be spent elsewhere because Google will crawl those sites, and they will recognize those links whether it indexes them or not. That’s all that matters is that Google sees them. Just to prove it, Hernan and we have tested no indexed PBNs in the past. Now, we don’t recommend … PBNs isn’t something we teach. Do they still work? Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it’s not something we teach, but we have even tested no indexed PBNs, and they absolutely work.
As long as Google knows the link’s there, no index just means they don’t put it in their index. It doesn’t mean they’re not aware of the link and they’re not counting the link equity to it.
Hernan: Right. There were no index to follow PBNs. So, as long as you have that tied there no index to follow, some actually, some Web 2.0 websites, and social networks that we post out with Syndication Academy … They will have no index to follow.
Bradley: Medium is one of those unless you have a paid account?
Hernan: Yeah. They have no index to follow. So, you cannot index that, but that doesn’t mean that the links do not count. So, we do that for traffic purposes as well. You will see a lot of people coming through the RSS feed to the website, so that’s cool. But yeah, they definitely count towards the authority of the website.
Bradley: So, make sure we get this clip sent to the guy that asked that in support.
Adam: Yeah, definitely.
Bradley: All right.
Chris: Cool.
How Do You Take Advantage Of Using A 2014 Guest Post To A 2018 Press Release?
Bradley: All right. So, that was a good question. Next is [Greg Pippany 00:10:45]. He says, “Hi. Hopefully, it went great for you guys. I have a press release and guest post from 2014 that are still live and linked to my money site. Would it make sense to link to them with a new press release, and how would I word a sentence to incorporate those links into the press release?”
Yeah, absolutely. You should be building links to that. If they’re live and they’re good links, there’s no reason why you couldn’t. As far as how would you incorporate a sentence or how would you word a sentence to incorporate those links into a press release, well, that depends because I don’t know what the topic of your press release is going to be, but typically you don’t … I mean, don’t overthink it.
Typically, what I do, like for example, one of the things that I love to do now is take the media room URL, which is essentially like the organization page for the organization that I’m publishing a press release about, and I like to link to that company page because it’s like a blog roll, it’s like a media room. That’s what they’re calling it, especially on the Press Advantage platform. They have the media room, which it shows it’s got an NAP, which by the way, Jeremy, the developer at Press Advantage enabled GMB mapping beds now for the organization page directly below the NAP section, which is super powerful.
So, anyways, for each press release that gets published, it gets put right on that page, and it’s also got the eye frame for the website. That’s a super powerful page to link to. So, what I do within press releases themselves is say, “Stay up-to-date with all the whatever company’s news here,” and then I just link directly with the naked URL to the media room, right? That’s really powerful because now we’re building media-style links to a media room unlike a newsroom, but so to speak, for the organization. That’s super powerful.
Hernan: So, there will be … Sorry, Bradley.
Bradley: Go ahead.
Hernan: It will be kind of a hub which you can link to several other properties from that media room.
Bradley: Correct. It’s a hub.
Hernan: Okay.
Bradley: Correct. Yeah.
Hernan: Okay, okay.
Bradley: But my point is don’t overthink it. Just give a quick, simple call-to-action for why they should go click that link on a separate line, right? Just give it its own … just say whatever it is to your guest posts, like “learn more about” or “see how this company was featured on,” and then name the publication, and then put the link to that guest post. You see what I’m saying? You don’t have to overthink it. Just put a simple call-to-action as to why somebody should click on that link, and whether they click or not, you’re going to get the SEO benefit from the link, but you could generate some traffic to that property as well. Okay?
He says, “Any other ideas on how to best take advantage of that 2014 PR and guest post? Thanks.” No, I mean that’s basically it. Just link to it as far as I’m concerned. You might want to IFrame it into a blog post or something, which would be kind of cool if it’s a … IFrames are super powerful. We can’t get into too many tips and tricks here as to why they’re super powerful, but if you’ve got a really good PR, a press release published on a really good PR site, or a guest post on a real high authority site, it would make sense, especially if it’s got a live link back to your money site like you said it does. It would make sense to possibly IFrame that article, that page, excuse me, onto one of your asset pages, right? Then, do some nasty link building stuff with that, too. Okay?
How Do You Boost A Local Towing Site To Generate More Organic Calls?
Handy Expert: He says, “I currently have a towing sign in my local area generating about 70 to 80 qualified calls a month with great organic rankings, but average map rankings. I was still able to close a towing client at $750 a month.
Male: Nice.
Bradley: I got paid. Now, I was planning to supplement my organic calls with some PPC Google Ads to add some gas and fire to get my clients making more money.” That’s a good strategy. He says, “One, how would you recommend I use that budget with Google Ads? I don’t mind making less profit myself in the beginning as I plan to take SEO. I planned the SEO to take over in the later months. Should I run YouTube ads like you’ve discussed in the past, or said I run regular PPC ads since the niche is towing and they typically call the first one they see? Thank you.”
Okay, that’s a great question. So, no. YouTube ads are likely not going to help you at all with towing stuff. It would be okay if you were running YouTube ads to help rank towing videos for search, but those are one of the types of keywords where people are going to directly to Google and search for a solution, like we just-
Adam: I need a tow [crosstalk 00:15:00].
Bradley: We need a tow truck, right? They’re not going to go to YouTube first. So, that’s why I’d say I would recommend just going straight to Google PPC. Yeah, you absolutely can use that to supplement. As far as you said you’re got a close a $750 a month, I don’t know what the towing cost per clicks are. I know that … I was just talking with these guys about it. Google Ads, search ads, are still a great way to generate leads. It’s absolutely a great way. It’s very, very targeted traffic if you know what you’re doing, and with a simple Alpha/Beta campaign structure, which is exactly how I run all my ad campaigns, it’s really simple to hone in on your very best keywords and set up exact match keywords to very, very targeted landing pages and just get incredible results.
You are going to spend some money, and it takes a little bit of time to dial the campaign in. I typically recommend that the first 30 days you’re going to waste some money. Typically, usually between the 31 and 60 days, you’re going to start dialing it in really good. Usually by the end of 60 days, I have a really well optimized campaign that just generates leads consistently.
Remember guys, with PPC, it should be more like a vending machine, not a slot machine. In other words, you should have a known quantity when you put a dollar in, I’m going to get a dollar fifty out, or if I put a dollar in, I’m going to get two dollars out instead of like a slot machine is where you just put money in and pull the handle and hope that you’re going to make some money. That’s how most people treat their PPC campaigns.
Okay. So, he’s showing towing keywords roughly-
Adam: Four to six bucks.
Bradley: Yeah, four to $6.
Hernan: That’s not bad.
Bradley: Yeah, that’s not bad at all. So-
Adam: Just depends what you’re getting on the back end.
Chris: [crosstalk 00:16:30] He gets paid per call?
Adam: No, he’s getting … It doesn’t sound like, but perhaps. Again, that depends. If you’re not getting paid for call, then you might not want to do this, but depending on what you’re looking for, but if you could say, “Hey, I can also offer you additional calls”-
Bradley: Well, I think what he’s saying is that for now, he’s got good organic rankings, he’s getting good calls, but he wants to improve his Maps rankings-
Chris: [inaudible 00:16:51]
Bradley: … and he wants to supplement the calls with PPC while he works on getting the Maps ranking up.
Chris: I would run call-only ads.
Bradley: You could do call-only ads, too. They’re a little bit less expensive than clicks, direct clicks, but not much anymore I’ve found. But yeah, you could also try call-only ads. As far as that, play around with the budgeting. If you’re not … I don’t know how experienced you are with Google Ads, but I would suggest if you’re in a lead gen business, that you start getting some experience in that anyway.
So, maybe take $150 of that budget, which is essentially $5 a day in budget spending, and see what you can do with it. That might not even be enough. You might want to do 250 or $300, and I know that seems like a lot, even half, but just to do that for the first month or two so that you get some data coming in. You’ll learn all that you need to within about 60 days of how to optimize a PPC campaign for a towing company, right?
Hernan: Right.
Adam: Which is cool. He’s got a client paying him for it. I realize maybe he’s going to pay out of his pocket-
Bradley: Yeah, so now-
Adam: … but you’re not paying literally out of your pocket.
Bradley: Yeah. So, essentially your client’s covering your education. Hernan at the event … Somebody asked him, “What’s the best way to learn how to do Facebook ads?” Hernan said, “Spend some money.” In other words, go out and set up a Facebook ads campaign and play around in the platform, and spend some money. That’s what I’m going to tell you about PPC, the same thing. We have a training course called Local Kingpin. I saw another question on the page about it. We’re going to get to it, but it talks about how to do PPC Google Ads for lead generation and how to make it profitable. Again, the best way to learn is … Going through a course might help you to get kind of a jumpstart, but you’re still going to need to learn by spending money, not just playing.
Hernan: Yes, 100%. Also, each industry is different. So, maybe what applies to tow truck might not apply to some other industries. So, I think that’s a great point. The client is paying you to learn, so that’s great. You’re also, potentially, giving the client better results. So, in [inaudible 00:18:45] the PPC campaign. So, that’s even better because the guy will be happier, and you know that a happy client stays for longer. So, that’s pretty cool. That’s why we kind of usually recommend when you’re starting out, you can combine PPC and SEO so that you offset the way with SEO … You offset that with PPC and the guy’s stoked, and off you go.
Bradley: Yep. Okay. Let me go to the next one.
Adam: [inaudible 00:19:13]
Bradley: Premier Travel Services.
Adam: Also, I love these business names. It’s always funny to like “[inaudible 00:19:18] Business Services,” but then sometimes we find out who it is. If you tell us and it gets confusing, but it’s kind of funny. I’m like I always try to match the business to the person.
Is The Semantic Mastery Local Kingpin Training Still Relevant In 2018?
Bradley: Yeah. All right. So, this one says, “I plan to do some PPC training for local clients. Would you say that your Local Kingpin training is still relevant in 2018?” Yes, it absolutely is. The only difference is now is the interface has changed, the [inaudible 00:19:40] interface has changed. The content is absolutely still relevant. That Alpha/Beta campaign structure … nothing has changed, except, like I said, the interface has changed and Google is also implemented a lot of AI now so that they have a lot of different bidding strategies that weren’t available at the time, like enhanced cost-per-click and maximize with conversions.
Chris: Aww.
Hernan: Sorry.
Bradley: There’s all these different campaign stuff that can be added to the campaigns, but I still don’t implement any of those until I’ve set all of my campaigns up manually, and optimized them all manually first. Then, once I get them to where I think they’re optimized very well, then I will play around with some of the Google’s automated bidding strategies to see if it can beat mine. Typically, it will, but I always like to wait until I have the campaign fully optimized the way that I want it before I implement any of those.
So, just as an aside, we are going to up … or I’m going to update that training probably with a webinar at some point because I’m still doing a lot of PPC stuff, and that training needs to be updated slightly just because of the interface. I can talk a little bit more about the automated strategies because I’ve been doing a lot of PPC since that training was originally released. I’ve got some additional techniques and strategies that I would like to share. So, I will be updating that training probably sometime within the next couple of months. By New Year’s, maybe it’ll be ready, but that it is absolutely still relevant.
Scott’s up. What’s up, Scott?
Hernan: What’s up, Scott?
Bradley: He says … I think the last time we did this, Scott was there.
Adam: Yeah, Portland. Yeah.
Bradley: Yeah, Scott was there. That’s right.
Hernan: Oh, yeah, last year’s-
Bradley: In Portland, yeah.
Hernan: In Portland.
Bradley: So, what’s up, Scott? We miss having you here buddy.
Adam: You guys crashed my wedding.
Hernan: Oh, yeah, we did. That was fun.
What Are Your Thoughts On Gary Ilyes’ Statement That Google Does Not Read EXIF Data?
Bradley: Scott says, “From what the frack files, Garry Isles from Google was on a Webinar today and stated that Google does not read the EXIF metadata from images.” Well, yeah, but Google also is really good at misdirection. They like to tell you stuff that is absolutely false, like “Don’t use press releases anymore because press releases are bad for SEL.” Yet, here they are still working like gang busters, you know what I mean? Same thing about [inaudible 00:21:54] posts and stuff like that.
So, anyways, he says, “He did say they are considering reading the EXIF metadata in the future. This doesn’t seem to correlate with page rankings that have images with EXIF data. Do you have any news on this topic? Thanks so much.” Yeah, exactly. If Google says, “Don’t do it because it doesn’t work anyways,” that means do more of it. Does that make sense?
Hernan: Or at least-
Chris: [crosstalk 00:22:13] manipulating the search engine.
Bradley: Yeah, that’s right [inaudible 00:22:15] propaganda.
Hernan: Yeah, or at least test it. Test it. See if it works for you. We don’t recommend you following us to the letter. We don’t recommend you follow anyone to the letter.
Bradley: Or Google to the letter.
Hernan: Or Google to the letter for that matter. Go ahead and test it, and report back. That’s what we always recommend. Test.
Bradley: Yeah, and if you’ve tested and you know that the pages with images that have metadata ranked better than the pages that do not, you’ve already proven that Google was misleading you, or just wasn’t being-
Hernan: Fluffing.
Bradley: … wasn’t giving you the full truth, right?
Hernan: Yeah, and it happens when … It happens to me with Facebook, too, right? Facebook grab the whole … When you’re spending some type of money and we have that in the pipeline, by the way, for Semantic Mastery, they will just call you and try to advise you, but the reality is that those are big companies. They are big companies, and most people are on the front lines communicating with the media, communicating out there. They’re not developing the backend, which are the algorithms, how the stuff actually works. You can see that because there are discrepancies.
So, hey, they will go out and say something. Maybe by the time they go out and say something, something else has already changed. So, have that in mind. They’re a big, big companies composed with lot from a lot of people, and they have different points of views, I would say.
Bradley: Yeah. Not only that, but Scott, even if that were true, which I’m saying it’s not, but even if it were true, just think of if you’re saying he did say they are considering to read the EXIF data, well, that means all of the properties that you’ve optimized when they … if they finally decide to start reading the EXIF data, which they already are, but if they decided just tomorrow like “Okay, today’s the day we’re going to start reading EXIF metadata,” then all the pages you’ve optimized will be way better than everybody else.
Adam: Yeah. Scott already commented. So, he’s saying “I plan on continuing adding the EXIF data [crosstalk 00:24:06]-
Bradley: [crosstalk 00:24:06]
Hernan: Yeah, do that.
What Order Of Semantic Mastery Course Can You Recommend For Someone Doing Local SEO For Clients With Rank And Rent Style?
Bradley: So, B&B Special Events is another one. He says, “As someone who is just joining Semantic Mastery and would like to take all of your courses, in what order do you recommend I take them: Outsource Kingpin, Syndication Academy.” He goes through a litany of our courses. “I do local SEO for local clients, rank and rent style, to give some more context. Love you guys. Thank you for all the help.”
Adam: First of all, and I think Bradley is uniquely positioned to answer this question, but you belong in the Mastermind. There’s no better way to say that. If that’s what you’re doing, and that’s what you want to do, you belong in the Mastermind. You get either a lot of this content for free or severely discounted.
So, with that said, I’ll let Bradley kind of go with it.
Bradley: Well, he says, “I do local SEO for clients and rank and rent style to give you some context.” Then, yeah, there’s no better suggestion than for you to join the Semantic Mastery Mastermind because, as Adam said, both of those courses are, basically, you get those courses. We’re changing slightly how they’re being released and distributed, but you’ll get access to all of those courses and even the ones that have a higher ticket price then where we can just give them to you. You’ll get an insanely stupid discount even more so than our typical 30% discount under the new system that we’re going to be implementing.
So, my point is … just to answer everybody else, okay? The first recommendation is if you already have a business and you’re looking to grow that business and scale it, to increase revenue, that’s what the Mastermind is all about. The Mastermind is not, necessarily, just about SEO stuff. We do talk about advanced SEO training in there when needed: when people bring stuff up, they want us to pursue or to go more in depth, but it’s more about business training because there’s so much more to running a business than just knowing a skill. So, that’s essentially what the Mastermind is all about, in that we are going to be pushing a very specific path, too, of the training in which order you should take it.
That’s something we’ve kind of failed to do in the past because all of our trainings are good. They each teach different things that could all be implemented into your business, but for somebody new coming in and they get hit with a fire hose of information, it’s like, “Okay, where do I start and which in which order, and blah blah blah?” So, we are really … We’re redesigning our Mastermind to kind of lay that path out.
So, I would suggest starting with Local Lease Pro, which we just recently launched. I don’t think we have it available for public sale just yet outside of the original promotion, but we will have that up shortly. Then, from there, it’s up to you, but the next logical step from Local Lease Pro would be Local GMB Pro and Local PR Pro, Local Kingpin, which is setting up the PPC ads for supplemental traffic. That’s also really good if you’re doing client work because you can get clients’ incident results using Google Ads.
Then, from there, Outsource Kingpin. Once you’ve got your services, your products and services in place where you’re able to generate results for clients, or if you’re doing lead gen, you’re able to get results for your lead gen assets. Then, we talk about the next thing is outsource and building your teams so that you can remove yourself from the process and still have your business operate and generate revenue. That’s where outsourcing comes in. So, we would recommend Outsource Kingpin at that time.
So, again, just to kind of boil this down to make it a shorter answer, join the Semantic Mastery Mastermind where this path will be laid out very clearly, and you will get access to the products in that specific order, which will help you to build your business. Each one of those products compounds on the next and helps you at the stage that we recommend, okay?
Chris: Speaking of which, the Local Lease Pro is actually available, but only in the Mastermind right now.
Bradley: Oh, that’s true. That’s true. We don’t even have a public sales page up for it yet.
Adam: Yeah. So, B&B Special Events, one, if you got any questions with people who are serious about joining the Mastermind, if you want, contact support, [email protected]. We’ll hook you up. I’m happy to jump on a short call, or something like that, if you’re serious about, it or you just want to find out, or ever you guys “For real, what do I get?” Things like that. We’re happy to have a quick chat with you.
Bradley: Yep. Cool.
So, that was my … The best answer’s come join the Mastermind, but the next best answer is buy each and every one of our courses individually in the order that we tell you, which is the same order that you’re going to get in the Mastermind, but that adds up to be a hell of a lot more money than it would’ve cost you to just join the Mastermind.
Hernan: Plus the support and the community there.
Bradley: That’s correct.
Hernan: The bi-weekly webinars, the Bradley halls, and some of us go there, but the bi-weekly webinars and the Facebook group, like the community there is amazing. We saw it on POFU LIVE. A lot of people where from our Mastermind. They were part of our Mastermind; the community was there. So, yeah, it was pretty, pretty awesome.
So, not only you get … That’s the big point. Not only you get access to all of that training in a specific order at specific times, but you also get support and follow-up, which is, I think, at least for me … It’s a big deal because some courses you can buy them, you can apply them, and then maybe something comes up, right? Maybe some stuff didn’t work as expected or maybe you’re having different results. So, that’s why it’s always good to have a community of people that you can ask questions to and then you can get support out of.
Bradley: That’s it. Interesting side story real quick. POFU LIVE was awesome because we got to meet some people that have been a member of our Semantic Mastery Mastermind for years.
Adam: I’m giving a shout-out to Richie.
Bradley: Yeah, to Richie, to Greg.
Hernan: [inaudible 00:29:38]
Bradley: I’m sorry. I don’t remember Greg’s last name, but-
Adam: [inaudible 00:29:42]
Bradley: No, the other Greg. Anyways, sorry guys, but we had just an amazing event and had some people that came that had been in the Mastermind for years and kind of lurking in the background who don’t participate in the conversations as such, but they came, which was amazing because it was like people came to the event, and they introduced who they are. I’m going, “Okay, I don’t recognize the name,” and then, “I’ve been in the Mastermind for years.” I’m like “Okay, but I still don’t recognize the name.” “Oh, yeah, because I never comment on anything or ask any questions, but I’m always there absorbing information.”
It was awesome to hear that, and they were like “I’m quiet. I don’t want to get out there and talk and have conversations with people, but I know that it’s like one place that I can always go to get current information that’s not bullshit.” It was great to hear that.
Adam: That’s the best response you give. That was awesome.
Hernan: That’s cool, too. If you don’t feel like commenting, that’s cool, too. I would strongly suggest that you do because you get a lot of stuff. Then, there were some-
Adam: Or at least come meet us live so that we know who you are.
Hernan: Ah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, definitely. There was some business opportunities like actual people making deals on the event and through the [crosstalk 00:30:50]-
Bradley: His name is Gary by the way, not Greg.
Adam: Oh.
Bradley: That’s what I meant to say, Gary, by the way.
Hernan: So, I think that’s pretty powerful, too, because businesses … Our business grew from a Mastermind, you know what I’m saying?
Adam: Yeah.
Bradley: There’s a gnat flying around, and I’m going to get it. I’m not going crazy I swear.
Should You Take Advantage Of Using The Auto Reschedule Post For Near Me Keywords In Citation Builder Pro?
All right. Jay Turner is up. He says, “Maybe I should ask this in the Local GMB Pro Facebook group, but here it goes. Should we Citation Pro, Builder Pro users be taking advantage of the auto?” Okay. So, he’s talking about the auto poster, the GMB auto poster. “Should we be taking advantage of the auto reschedule post option. Seems like re-posting a near me keyword post every day would be worthwhile, or will reposts have very little benefit because they are not original content?”
That’s a great question, Jay. Actually, I just addressed this at POFU LIVE. I’m happy to share that here, though, guys because there is something that you can do to reduce expenses or reduce your overall time required for this because if you’re using the GMB auto poster, our auto poster, there is an option to reschedule a post or republish it.
So, for example, you have to do this. You can’t right now; I don’t think the functionality is available if you do bulk upload via CSV file, but if you do it manually where you schedule each post, you can go in. You can select the time and date for when it publishes, and then there’s another checkbox that says republish post. Then, if you enable that or check that box, it reveals a drop-down that will show you like how many … When would you like to republish? It says one day, every three days, every seven days, and then there’s one for every 30 days.
Excuse me. What I suggest doing is going through and scheduling out 30 posts, one post per day, or whatever your frequency of publishing is for the assets that you’re doing that for. Typically, for most of the stuff I do, I just published one post per day, seven days a week now. Because of the auto poster, it makes it simple. You schedule all those out. So, you schedule out 30 posts for 30 days, and then on each time you schedule a post, you add it to republish 30 days from that day. Does that make sense? So, on day one, you scheduled post one. On day 31, you schedule post one again. Does that make sense?
What’s great about that is you can have it automate it. All you have to do is schedule it one time, and it will automatically post and in the next month, it will just start that cycle over again. Now, I do recommend having probably … We just started this method myself, so I don’t have any data yet to determine whether we should absolutely change the posts or not, but what I would suggest is at least preparing for every 90 days or so swapping out the images and the posts slightly, varying the post text slightly, and then rescheduling.
So again, this is something you can train a VA to do. You can train a VA, set up a training video and process doc, showing them how to go in and schedule 30 posts. You could even train a VA to grab 30 images, or optimize 30 images with EXIF data and all that stuff, optimize them, upload them, schedule them out, and then click the reschedule/republish option, schedule them out for 30 days. Then, have a calendar reminder set up to every 90 days, they go back in, swap 30 images out or 30 posts out, for the next quarter, if that makes sense. That’s something that you can train a VA to do and you wouldn’t have to worry about it anymore and it would get done.
That’s a great question. Absolutely guys, if there’s a way that you can reduce costs for GMB posting … I pay some of my VAs, one in particular who does GMB posts for clients, I pay her per post. So, every post she publishes, she gets a certain amount for them. It’s $3.50 a post. That’s a lot. So, if you can figure out ways to reduce costs, you can do that. Now, for clients, I wouldn’t recommend doing the republishing stuff because you can charge them for unique content for per post, right? But for lead gen assets, I would absolutely recommend that you reduce your costs as possible. That’s a good question Jay.
How Do You Get Faster Results With A Video Carpet Bomb Style Campaign?
Frankie is up. He says, “I have everything set up in terms of purchase, in terms of purchased all the tools and have created my own SAP for how to run my own video carpet bumps style type of campaigns. My question is …” Really caught on. “My question is should I be targeting local cities and do rank and rent, or should I go after affiliate campaigns and target those keywords?”
It’s a really good question. “With this setup, I can publish 1,000 videos easily over a small period of time. Which would you suggest to start getting some results fast? Thanks as always for Hump Day Hangouts.” Well, that’s up to you, Frankie. I would recommend if affiliate marketing is what you’re interested in, then go do affiliate marketing. If local marketing and lead generation is your thing as you have more of an interest in, then do that, but either way, choose one and stick with it until you monetize it.
Because my point is like if you are … I don’t know what your business goals are. I remember you’ve asked some other questions in the past, though, on Hump Day Hangouts, and I think your questions were more targeted about local marketing consulting, like as a video guy. If that’s the case, then I would recommend you avoid the affiliate route for now because all it’s going to do is distract you, and it’s going to slow you down from being able to perfect your specific video marketing method for lead generation or for rank and rent, or whatever it is, however you decide that you’re going to monetize it.
Guys, we as Semantic Mastery as a group has struggled with not being able to focus or chasing too many different opportunities. So, that’s part of … that’s going to be a lot of our messaging going forward is we have decided to really focus in on what our core offer should be and our core service, right? We recommend you guys do the same, and even for our agent, like my own agency that I’m building into the same thing, I’ve reverted all the way back to just doing the kind of the lead gen model where we build the asset first, and then we find the service provider or the client.
Again, you’re going to see a common theme among all of our training going forward, and that is we’re going to tell you find one thing and don’t give up on that one thing until you’ve monetized it. Don’t start any other projects, don’t chase any new opportunities until you’ve mastered that one or at least got the one profitable to where it’s generating revenue and to where you can remove yourself from that process and it continues to generate revenue, right?
So, for example, even if you went after a lead gen … Let’s just say affiliate marketing with these videos, and you got it to where it was profitable, but you were running the campaigns. You were the one doing the research, finding the products that you’re going to promote, generating the key word list, creating the videos, uploading and running the video, probably marketing blitz or whatever tool it is that you’re running that campaign. You could do all that and end up having a profitable affiliate marketing business, and then say, “Okay, well now it’s profitable. Well, let me go ahead and move on to doing local lead gen with these videos as well.”
But unless you have process ties, you’re systematized, that with the affiliate and all the work that you’ve put in to make an affiliate campaign profitable, you shouldn’t even move on to that. In other words, even though if that might have money be producing positive revenue for you, until you removed yourself from the process and it still generates revenue for you, you shouldn’t move on to the next because otherwise you end up bogging yourself down to where, “Okay, now you’re doing all this work and now you got to do all this work to,” and at some point you’re going to reach a point of diminishing return and you’re going to not be able … You’re going to hit a capacity limit where you won’t be able to make any more money. If you would have been able to remove yourself from that first process that you made profitable when you were doing the work yourself, and still keep it profitable, now you’ve got revenue coming in so that you can devote all your time to the next process that you want to perfect.
Hernan: Yep, I do agree. I mean, we all go through this where we as a group … and then we had that exact same issue with the people that came to POFU LIVE event. The fact that they were making money, they were feeling that they were too distracted, and that’s completely fine. You’re definitely not alone in that regard.
Bradley: That’s correct.
Hernan: We’ve been there. Everyone goes through that because the reality is that we’re entrepreneurs. We want to fix stuff, and we see [inaudible 00:39:02] as an opportunity. So, I totally grew with Bradley. Building a successful business … Once the initial rush, or the initial high, wears off, it’s hard because of the fact that you need to keep at it even when you are not as excited with that project anymore, and then everything else seems so exciting to go ahead and tinker with, but I think that the key to success here and the key to actually building businesses that are really profitable is just what Bradley described. Go at it, whatever it takes you, make it profitable, remove yourself from the equation, and then go to the next thing.
Bradley: Go to your next opportunity.
Hernan: Yeah.
Bradley: I mean guys, that’s the only way to do it. Even in my own business, I could have achieved so much more by this point in my marketing career if I would have focused and not chased every opportunity because I could have become super, super good at one thing, and then pulled myself out of the equation, like he said, out of the process, and have built a system that makes everything that I was doing complete. It gets done without me doing it. Then, I could have moved to the next opportunity and I would’ve had a much more successful business by this point had I done that.
We all go through that, and again, that’s why we really want to help other people to avoid that to where they can get their businesses profitable and get more of their time back at the same time and with less trial and error. Does that make sense?
Adam: If you do that, you could apply the eco method and as sooner place in your business, right?
Hernan: [crosstalk 00:40:30]
Adam: Oh, yeah.
Bradley: Yeah.
Adam: That’s an inside [crosstalk 00:40:34]-
Hernan: Yeah. We know that; we’re not going to-
Bradley: So, Frankie, my final answer to you would be either way, whether it’s affiliate marketing that you want to do or local marketing, either way will generate you money once you learn what it takes in that particular model. So, just select one and stick with that one is what I’m saying, okay? I can’t tell you which one’s better than the other. I’m partial to local, but affiliate marketing certainly works. So, it’s entirely up to you.
Hernan: Yeah, that’s it. That’s the good news, like they both work. You want to go with local, but with local you want to go ranking YouTube videos, you can do that. As long as you keep on doing what you’re doing, it will work, but you need to give it the time and the opportunity for it to work.
Adam: Greg said, “What’s up?” Then, after that it said the mics are going crazy. So, Greg just wanted to repeat, [Greg Jayburt 00:41:17], fantastic community manager of ours. If you’re in the groups, you see him. We were super happy to have him at POFU LIVE. So, thanks for being there, man.
Bradley: Yeah. [crosstalk 00:41:24]-
Chris: [crosstalk 00:41:25] good meeting you.
Bradley: We had to reiterate that because echo might’ve ruined it. So, Greg, we apologize, man. It was a good attempt to thank you.
What Are Your Thoughts On Press Cable?
All right, Dan is up. He says, “Any feedback on Press Cable, guys?” Let me start that one over. “Any feedback on Press Cable, guys? I have a few credits left there, but wondered if you know if they delete PRs or not in time. I was going to do a first PR there to save money, and then order the rest through your service. Also, is there any day of the week good to publish a PR, or is there a significant enough advantage for doing PR earlier in the week? I remember something to this effect.”
Okay. Dan, great questions. Number one, is Press Cable still good? Absolutely. Absolutely. Press Cable is still good. I still use Press Cable. I’ve got a subscription to that and I will maintain that as well because it is good.
One of the things I do really like about Press Cable now is one of their distribution sites is Newswire.net. I used to have a bunch of credits for Newswire.net and I used them all, and I canceled my subscription like a dummy many years ago. But Newswire.net is a really good site for press releases, too. I don’t use their distribution service anymore. Like I said, I don’t have credits anymore, but through Press Cable, that is one of their distribution points now. So, that’s one that will show up in Google news and that’s something that you can use. It doesn’t purge, so you can use that as a stack of PR in a PR stack. Okay?
So, yes. It’s still good. As far as do they delete or purge PRs, well, it’s not Press Cable that would delete or purge them. It’s their distribution partners, their sites. It’s up to the distribution sites whether they purge or not, not Press Cable. There’s the same problem with Press Advantage or any other distribution sites out there. Some of the Republic … the media sites or news sites will purge, and there’s nothing you can do about that. The idea is to, especially for a PR stack, is define the PRs that don’t get purged. Like I just said, Newswire.net is one of them. The Press Advantage: Anything published on Press Advantage doesn’t get purged and the Press Advantage company pages are great.
Also, for Press Cable, if they get picked up by Digital Journal, which they used to, but I think Newswire.net replaced Digital Journal, but Digital Journal doesn’t purge either, at least as far as I know because I’ve got some Digital Journal stuff that’s been around for years. So, I would check into that as well.
And Adam, since you’re getting up, would you mind getting me a beer?
Adam: Funny. I’m one step ahead of you.
Bradley: All right. Sweet. Thank you.
Adam: [crosstalk 00:43:49]
Bradley: That’s awesome.
Chris: I’m good.
Hernan: I’m good. Thank you.
Bradley: Okay. So, yeah, Press Cable is absolutely still good, and Dan, yeah. I’ve never recommended in the past keep … If you have a subscription or credits, don’t cancel it because even if you decide that you want to start using presses, press releases from us and MDYB, which is our distribution service is Press Advantage Service, which is fabulous by the way. Even if you decide that you want to use that, I recommend keeping multiple press distribution services available because diversity of links is important, okay? I like to add variety and diversity into mine, too. If you keep hitting the same press release distribution service over and over and over again, there will be a diminishing return for that as well, like to the same target URLs, I mean, if that makes sense.
Adam: Here you go.
Hernan: And then-
Bradley: Thank you. Thank you. Cheers. Cheers.
Adam: Cheers.
Male: [inaudible 00:44:39]
Hernan: Because Greg was saying something like … Let me grab this from him … was something that … Answering to Dan, he was saying, “I would do that in reverse. Spend a little money for a Press Advantage press release from Semantic Mastery, it will not purge, meaning it will be there for years and years from now, and you get a news media room as a pure hub. Then, use the Press Cable to link to it.”
Bradley: To link to that, correct.
I’m telling you the Press Advantage network is amazing. The organization pages are fabulous with now the mapping beds, especially the GMB mapping bed right under the NAP. It’s really a powerful … It’s got the eye frame built into it. It’s fabulous, guys. It really is. It’s an integral part of our process now.
Any Thoughts In Using Square Videos In YouTube And Facebook?
Okay, [Brian Mckay 00:45:23] is up. What’s up Brian? He says, “Anyone have any comments on Square Videos on YouTube versus Facebook? Can you use Square on YouTube videos?” I’m not sure, Brian. Hernan, that’s more of a question for you.
Hernan: Yeah. You can Brian. I would strongly, a 100%, recommend that you start using Square Videos on Facebook right away just because of the fact that Facebook is mostly mobile right now. At least most of the traffic that we get is mostly mobile.
Adam: Today I learned, right?
Hernan: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A 100%. Yeah. [crosstalk 00:45:50]-
Adam: I mean, I know that traffic is, but Square.
Hernan: Yeah, Square versus like landscape videos, the way that YouTube is. Now, you can repurpose Square Videos for YouTube if you add the remaining content to the … You can add parts with content to the sites of the videos. So, you will make it landscape, 69 versus one to one. So, that is something that I would recommend, strongly recommend, for people who are going to Facebook and wanting to repurpose to YouTube. So, you can do that, which is square first, then landscape, or you can do the other way around, which is you get a landscape video, 69, and then you turn that into one one by adding content on the top or the bottom.
So, that is up to you. What I usually do is to grab a YouTube video, cut it, cut it in the middle, like this. So, you cut in the middle-
Bradley: [crosstalk 00:46:39]
Adam: [crosstalk 00:46:40]
Hernan: … so you have a one to one ratio, and you can use that for Facebook. That’s usually what I do because … that’s because I’m lazy.
Bradley: Damn. So, he’s not only drinking beer, he’s drinking scotch, too. Wow.
Hernan: It’s going to get interesting the last-
Bradley: [crosstalk 00:46:50]. The last 10 minutes of this Hangout are going to be nuts.
Hernan: Going to be nuts. So, hang in there.
Bradley: That was a good question, Brian.
Wayne Clayton, the master of memes. Did he post that [crosstalk 00:47:02]? He should’ve.
Adam: We’re not … Yeah, I was about to say we’re not skipping this. Wayne, if you’ve got it, please put it on. [crosstalk 00:47:06].
Bradley: If you got it, you got to post it. Also, the one that you did where you showed the … you put the image on Gemina’s phone, too, because that was amazing and Hernan holding beers. He made these great memes, guys, from POFU. It was awesome. Wayne always does. We missed you, Wayne, at the event. We really did.
Hernan: Yeah, man.
Chris: And I really loved the one where I balance the woman on my [crosstalk 00:47:27]-
Bradley: Yeah, yeah, and Chris-
Hernan: Keep on walking.
Adam: Yeah, Chris gets the cool one with the good looking woman in his hands.
Male: [crosstalk 00:47:32]
Bradley: And I’m in drag.
Chris: [inaudible 00:47:35]
Hernan: If you haven’t seen them by the way, if they’re are not there, they’re in the free Facebook group. So, sematicmastery.com/facebook will take you to the free Facebook group.
Bradley: They were great. They were great. Thank you, Wayne. We knew you … You have entirely too much time on your hand, which is really the problem.
Hernan: Which is … So, good job.
Bradley: Yeah, right. He been listening, apparently. Right.
That’s right. Good man.
How Long Before Google Knows The Loophole in GMB Lead Generation And What Should You Do With It?
Bill says, “With buying verified GMBs becoming more common, I’m wondering how long before you think Google starts closing that loophole and what you think will happen for the many who use that loophole?” That’s a very good question, Bill. I don’t know how long it’s going to be. They will, they’ll close it. So, my point is take advantage of it right now while you can, and build as many fucking assets as you possibly can. What will happen when they close that loophole? I don’t know, but my point is … and that was a question that came up at the POFU LIVE event because what I shared at the POFU LIVE event was how to really scale a GMB lead generation business.
Adam: Yeah, through the Local Lease Pro.
Bradley: Really, really scale it. Yeah. Through, essentially, the Local Lease Pro method, but-
Adam: On steroids.
Bradley: Yeah, on steroids with process development, all that other stuff. It’s still not 100% complete, but it will be very, very soon. That’s so like our … The members of POFU LIVE that are going to participate with me … We’ve got a 90-day goal to build 50 GMB assets in the next 90 days. Then, by then, we’ll have the processes in place to where we double or [inaudible 00:49:05] work. We’ll have the processes and the virtual assistance in place to do the work for us.
So, within the next six months, my goal is to have anywhere between 200 to 250 GMB assets, which is huge. So, take advantage of that because once you have something like that, now think about even if they were to close that loophole. Let’s say that happens, and say, I didn’t even come close to my target goal and I hit 125. Well, I’ve got 100 and some odd GMB assets out there now that I can be using as leverage to contact and prospect for clients or service providers, but I could go back to … if that loophole gets entirely shut down, which it likely will at some point, then we will have already developed an asset that we can use as leverage for going back to the standard client model. Does that make sense?
Male: Yes.
Bradley: And so my point is again, guys, if you’ve been through any of the training … Bill, I don’t know if you’ve been through our training about this or not. That’s why I recommend you find one industry and you really scale building assets in that one very specific industry because now you will have all of this data and you’ll have all of these assets that are valuable to one particular industry. You can craft your sales message, all of your marketing materials, everything to that one very specific industry type or business type, and you’ll be able to scale much quicker that way. If you have to do all of that for each industry that you have, think about the enormity of the amount of work that you have to do.
Chris: [inaudible 00:50:28]
Bradley: All the sales copy and all the VSLs and all the emails are now … I mean, all of that. You have to duplicate everything you do for each new industry. That’s an enormous amount of work, so just stick with one, and become the go-to expert in that one particular industry, okay?
Hernan: You can use something like the Eagle Method for that [inaudible 00:50:47].
Bradley: That’s twice now. It’s twice now you’ve created that open loop. See. See how it all comes together.
Male: [crosstalk 00:50:53]
Chris: Yeah, I guess I missed out on [crosstalk 00:50:57].
Bradley: Yeah, I know.
Jordan Valor. Jordan, what’s up buddy? We missed you there, too, man.
Adam: Hey, man? Oh, man. Jordan, you remember that place we ate at in Texas? We found Funnel Hacking Live.
Bradley: We found here that rivals it, right?
Adam: [crosstalk 00:51:09]-
Bradley: There’s free tacos.
Adam: But just saying.
Bradley: Yeah, we found a rival street taco provider. So, anyways. Jordan says, “I know you guys are focusing on local, but thank you for the tips us regional and national guys can apply. Things like drive stack syndication networks, recommendations for SEO ultimate bootcamp, et cetera, are super helpful. This stuff works. You just have to contextualize it to a national brand. Keep it coming.”
Jordan, that’s exactly right. I’m glad you said that, man, because if Marco were here, which he’s not because he had some, I don’t know, insignificant thing to attend to, like his wife having a baby-
Adam: Some sort of life event or something like that.
Bradley: Yeah, something, whatever. [inaudible 00:51:44].
Chris: Maybe he had to go to hospital.
Bradley: If Marco were here, he would tell you local is relative to the observer, right? What is local? It’s relative to the observer.
Hernan: That’s [crosstalk 00:51:55].
Bradley: So, local could be hyper-local, like what we’re doing with the Local Lease Pro method, or local could be a specific city or a specific county, or it could be a state or it could be a region, or it could be a country or [inaudible 00:52:09]. So, really it just depends on what your particular business model is. Most of what we teach can be applied to whatever your location area is or location range is. Obviously, there’s some stuff that’s very specific to local, but for the most part, our [inaudible 00:52:24] will still look to that as well.
Hernan: Yeah, definitely.
Adam: Well, as an example just for the general public-
Bradley: Here’s another one.
Adam: … could you apply the Local Lease Pro method to somebody who wants to take over a state?
Bradley: Yes, absolutely you could.
Chris: Hell, yeah.
Bradley: Yeah, yeah.
Adam: Cool.
Bradley: In fact, the Local Lease Pro method is about hyper-local, but scaling it to a national basis. So, my point is like you go hyper-local, but you create a ton of assets that you could literally build on a national basis-
Adam: That’s pretty cool.
Bradley: … depending on how quickly you can do it before they close the loophole [crosstalk 00:52:53].
Hernan: Yeah, and speaking of SEO Ultimate Boot Camp, shout out to Jeffrey for being on the POFU LIVE event. That was awesome.
Adam: Jeffrey Smith, SEO design solutions, SEO Boot Camp-
Hernan: Yeah, Jeffrey Smith.
Adam: He joined us, gave a fucking killer presentation.
Bradley: Yeah. He’s bad ass, man. I really like Jeffery. He’s amazing. We’re so honored to have him.
Adam: Word on the street is that he might be there next year [inaudible 00:53:12], maybe.
Chris: Bradley got ears big like that when [inaudible 00:53:16].
Are There Any SEO Tips Using Video Thumbnails Posted To GMB?
Bradley: All right. So, Jim Greene’s up, and he says, “Random question: are there any SEO tips using video thumbnails posted to GMB?” Yeah, well here’s a better tip, Jim. Don’t just post the video thumbnail, post the video to GMB; upload it directly to GMB. So, instead of posting like a YouTube link in the post and then just using the video thumbnail, what I recommend is literally taking the video file and uploading it as the post itself. What we found recently was GMB posts, just image posts, get a certain amount of engagement depending on, obviously, what the industry is, the level of interest in the specific location that you’re marketing in, and all that. That will determine how many views like an image posts gets, right?
But for example, I’ve got a client that is in the preschool space. Let’s use this as an example. I’ve got a client that’s in the preschool space that we post image posts, GMB image posts, and within a week, they might get 150 to 250 views within seven days on that image post. Well, I just took one of their rep videos. I use David Sprague’s review commercials to generate reputation videos or review commercial videos or whatever for my clients once a month. So, I decided one day … We’re doing the video anyways, and so I said one day, “Hey, let me try this.” Then, I uploaded the actual video file to GMB posts and when I did, like within seven days … Typically, a GM image posts would only have between 150 to 250 views in seven days. It was well over 600 views in seven days. So, I was like, “Oh, man. I’m onto something here.”
Very similar to Facebook, guys. I mean, it makes sense. Facebook, when you post a regular image post in a Facebook group, or excuse me, on a Facebook page, you only get about 5% reach to whatever the number of followers of that page are. So, for example, an image post will only get 5%. Of the thousand members, you’re going to get 50 people that might actually be exposed to that image post, but if you do like a Facebook Live video, then you’ll get 30% reach to the same audience, right? I think Google’s applying the same thing is they’re pushing the videos more because they get more engagement, so you’ll see a bit more views.
So, there you go, Jim. You upload the video instead of just the image, okay?
Hernan: Yep.
Bradley: Frankie says, “Wow, that spoke right to the heart. Thank you, Bradley, and all you guys.” You’re welcome, Frankie.
Hernan: [inaudible 00:55:42] Frankie.
Bradley: That’s awesome. Thank you man.
What Is The Difference Between GMB Pro And GMB Optimization?
Brian says, “What is the difference between GMB Pro and GMB Optimization? Sounds like it should be part of GMP Pro. What is that special about GMB optimizer?” I’m not sure what you mean, Brian. GMB optimization is what we’re going to provide as a done-for-you service in MGYB, which is our store. GMB Pro, Local GMB Pro, is the training for how to do all this stuff that we’re going to do in our done-for-you service. Does that make sense? So, essentially what we provide in the done-for-you service, which is going to be available in MGYB, is what you will learn in Local GMB Pro.
Adam: I’m just wondering is there some other service out there?
Bradley: I don’t know.
Hernan: Probably.
Bradley: [crosstalk 00:56:28]
Adam: Anyway [inaudible 00:56:29] … Who was it that asked that? Was it Brian? So Brian, since we’ve still got a few minutes left, if there’s some other product or something out there, let us know. If you can clarify, maybe we can answer better.
Bradley: Wayne put that meme in there. That’s awesome.
Okay, Greg’s up. He says, “[inaudible 00:56:45] I would do that in reverse, but a little money for Press Advantage press release from SL.”
Male: [inaudible 00:56:50]
Bradley: Okay. Yeah, he already talked about that. Thank you, Greg. That’s good advice by the way. In Wayne’s meme, it’s amazing. Thanks, Wayne.
Okay. Paul says, “They have already started closing the loopholes. Google has started turnover in that department inside the …” Well, that’s possible, Paul. But you know, guys, we’ll find a work-around. Don’t we always?
Hernan: Yeah. [crosstalk 00:57:15].
Chris: As far as I know, it’s still working.
Bradley: Hammer time. Look at that, all those memes. Thanks, Wayne.
Chris: There you go.
Bradley: That’s awesome.
How Do You Change No Follow Links To Do Follow In Press Release?
Brian says, “Anyone tried changing nofollow links to dofollow links and press releases by editing an HTML view?” Brian, it’s funny you mention that because that was a hack that I used to do at Newswire.net because you could publish the … you could save … So, you’d go in and you put all your text and your links into the press release, and then you would save it as a draft, and then you would submit for publishing, which would go to the editors for review. But when you saved for draft or submit for publishing, it would change all of the links to nofollow.
So, what I would do is always go save as drafts, and then before hitting submit for publishing, I would go into the HTML view and edit the nofollow tag out. Then, I would submit for publishing before hitting save for draft again, and it would send it with the nofollow tag removed and they would publish it that way. It was a hack I didn’t tell anybody about because I didn’t want them closing that loophole at Newswire.net. I just spilled the beans now because I don’t know if that’s still available, and I don’t have any credits left.
Male: Go for it.
Bradley: But as far as like Press Advantage, I don’t think that’s possible. I don’t know about Press Cable either because, typically, you … Again, in either Press Advantage or Press Cable, I don’t see an HTML view. There’s not a way for me to edit the text. It’s just the [inaudible 00:58:42] editor. So, they insert the nofollow links. There’s not much you can do about it. But Brian, if you’re on a platform where you do, yeah, try it. See what you can do. See if you can edit it out. That’s a good thing to do.
Adam: Our POFU video’s going to be released, especially, to Mastermind members. That’s-
Male: [inaudible 00:59:02]
Adam: That’s TBD.
Male: [crosstalk 00:59:04]
Hernan: Yeah, that’s TBD. Yeah, we definitely recorded them. So, we have them. We’re going to be adding them. They’re going to be out for attendees.
Bradley: Yes.
Hernan: Not sure what’s going up next.
Bradley: Yeah, because the Mastermind members are going to get the process training for the Local Lease Pro scaling method once the POFU LIVE members and I get through our 90-day challenge. We’re going through a build group together where most of the members are going to be joining me for the next 90 days, and our goal is to hit 50 GMB assets, built and optimized by the end of 90 days. If we can do it, then they’re going to help me to refine the process training and all that, too. Then, that’s when I’m going to release it to you guys.
I know I’ve mentioned that I was going to try to release it between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s likely going to be … Well, 90 days is going to be beyond that, but it’s worth the wait. I’d rather give it to you guys in a more polished form than in its raw form. Obviously, though, Mastermind members, if anybody really wants it in its more raw form, reach out to me and I’ll work something out with you, okay?
Hernan: Cool.
Adam: You heard that, reach out to Bradley directly.
Bradley: What’s that?
Hernan: Yeah.
Bradley: Through support [crosstalk 01:00:05].
Male: [crosstalk 01:00:05]
Bradley: No, Mastermind members can contact me in the group at anytime, at anytime.
Adam: Bradley loves Facebook, so it’s the best place to [inaudible 01:00:14].
Hernan: Yeah, we can. Can we put Bradley’s phone number right here on the event page?
Bradley: Yeah, that’s it. That’s it.
Adam: That was good and it’s not because [crosstalk 01:00:22].
Bradley: [crosstalk 01:00:22]
Adam: During the Hump Day Hangouts, but I remember the very first … just want to share this fun tidbit with people. The very first draft of emails that we had as an autoresponder, like “Thank you for joining Semantic Mastery,” … This is like four years ago now. Hernan included Bradley’s phone number.
Hernan: Oh, I did. Oh, man, sorry. That was there for quite a bit, actually, for maybe a year, something, and you were getting these calls [crosstalk 01:00:45]-
Adam: The crazy part is how many people don’t call today, but anyways, don’t call Bradley.
Chris: You mean the 976 number?
Adam: Yes.
Chris: That’s so funny.
Adam: Hold on. We need to go register it.
Hernan: Sorry man. Sorry.
Bradley: All right guys. Well, I think we’re going to wrap it up. We’ve got lots of beer to drink, and apparently lots of beef jerky to eat.
Adam: Thanks, Jenny.
Bradley: Yeah, thanks, Jenny.
Hernan: Thanks, Jenny.
Chris: Thank you.
Hernan: Thank you guys, and we’ll see you soon.
Bradley: [crosstalk 01:01:03]
All right.
Chris: Cool.
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Announcement
Adam: All right, we are live. Hey, everybody. Welcome to Hump Day Hangouts, Episode 207. We are live from Washington, DC, and hopefully Marco will be joining us, although it sounds like he may be on the way to, very shortly, having another child.
Bradley: I know what reports used to insult the Hangout.
Hernan: Yeah, c'mon.
Adam: So, well, before we get into announcements, we should go around and say “hello” to everybody, and just going to ask you each how the weather is and just let me know.
Hernan, just kidding. How’s it going man?
Hernan: Hey, guys. The weather is getting nicer in Argentina, so I’m told. I’m really excited to be here and I’m super, super happy.
Adam: Awesome. Chris, how you doing?
Chris: Yeah, good. [inaudible 00:00:40] this weekend.
Adam: Yeah?
Chris: And the weather was still nice and cozy and warm here.
Adam: Yeah, man. Awesome.
Bradley, how you doing?
Bradley: I’m happy to be here. We had a really good time at POFU LIVE. It was a lot of fun. We got to meet quite a few people and just had a really good weekend. It was our first one, but first live event [inaudible 00:00:59] really well. Get to hang out with my partners for a while, except Marco, for the rest of the week, which is kind of cool. You’ll only get to do this once a year. So, it’s kind of … It’s good timing for us whenever we get together and get to plan and to scheme out for the next year. So, just glad to be here.
Adam: Definitely, and Jay, a quick shout-out to my wife. Thank you. You can see all the beef jerky here. We got a bouquet of beef jerky just in time for Hump Day [inaudible 00:01:23].
Male: [inaudible 00:01:24]
Bradley: That’s nice.
Adam: Thank you. Let’s see. We got a lot of stuff we want to cover today, but I wanted to, as usual, say if you’re just starting out with Semantic Mastery … I know there’s actually a question about this. So, we’re going to get more in depth into this, but if you’re just starting out, the place to start is the Battle Plan, all right?
Hernan: Right out of this.
Adam: We got a physical one which you can get. You can also opt for just the digital version, but I think you should definitely check out the Battle Plan.
This right here is the place you want to start. Even if you’re going to hop into our Mastermind right away, we want everyone to have this. It’s a great blueprint for repeatable results. Then, I just mentioned the Mastermind. That’s where we want people to be. If you’re looking to actually start and to grow your agency, or you want … Sorry, you already have a digital agency and you want to grow that, you want to find ways to grow in scale, then that’s where you want to be.
Chris: Yeah, it’s more than just one page like [crosstalk 00:02:17]-
Adam: Oh, yes. [inaudible 00:02:19].
Chris: [crosstalk 00:02:18]
Adam: It’s many pages.
Chris: It’s more than one page.
Actually, how many pages is there [inaudible 00:02:27]. How many pages of [inaudible 00:02:29].
Adam: Let’s see, I’m getting word that there might be an echo. So, Hernan, could you try muting one of the … yep. [inaudible 00:02:38].
Hernan: [inaudible 00:02:40]
Bradley: It might be mine. It might be mine. Stand by.
Adam: All right. So, we’re going to keep going. If somebody can … I know there’s a delay on there. So, I’m going to keep rolling through, and you guys can let us know.
In case you didn’t hear all of that, basically, we’re happy to be here. Thank you for the beef jerky, Jenny. Grab the Battle Plan. It’s freaking awesome. Then, come join the Mastermind. So, that’s the really condensed version.
Male: [inaudible 00:03:04]
Bradley: Hey, guys, by the way, let us know if the echo has stopped. If not, we can still [crosstalk 00:03:07]-
Adam: Good to go. He just messaged me.
Bradley: [crosstalk 00:03:08] … It’s good to go now?
Adam: Yeah. So, it’s good to go.
Bradley: Okay, cool.
Adam: All right. So, other than that, let me check my announcements real quick. I’m used to doing this with the safety of two monitors here. Oh, so we’ve got the … Hopefully, you saw the email. If you didn’t, we want to tell everyone we’ve got to flash a 24-hour sale going on with syndication networks. We got those up. The ordering process has been improved, and it’s in mdyv.co. I’m going to drop the link along with the coupon code so you can save 30%, but that’s only going to be until … for, basically, the rest of today. Maybe tomorrow morning we might extend it since some people had some issues.
Other than that, we have got Episode 208 that’s coming up next week. For better or worse, we’re not going to be able to be together. That would’ve been really cool because 208 for us represents a four-year anniversary of doing Hump Day Hangout. So, four years of this.
Bradley: Four whole years. That’s crazy, and we only missed one weekend. It was a scheduled week that we took off.
Chris: You should join me in Florida.
Adam: [inaudible 00:04:03]. Yeah, just hope down real quick for Hump Day.
Bradley: Oh, it’s going to be on Halloween.
Hernan: [crosstalk 00:04:06]
Adam: Yes.
Bradley: So, make sure that you come dressed.
Adam: Yeah, please come dressed up, put in some pictures.
Hernan: Do I need to be dress up as well?
Adam: Yes [inaudible 00:04:15].
Bradley: No, you’re ugly enough. It’s cool.
Hernan: All right. Okay, cool.
Bradley: It’s cool.
Adam: But not only that, we’ve got some awesome prizes. I’m going to put the link on the page. We’re having a contest to see who’s going to win it. We’ve got a grand prize that’s got about five or $600 worth of prizes included in it. We’ve got a runner-up prize with several hundred dollars. Then, on top of that, if you just come live, we’re going to have a ton of stuff we’re going to be giving away. So, don’t want to miss that, and it’s more you share, the more chances you have to win, and we just want to get the word out, have a good time. I think we’ll probably go a little bit longer next week, right?
Bradley: Probably.
Male: [crosstalk 00:04:48]
Adam: Okay.
Bradley: Probably.
Adam: Cool. All right. Anything else you guys want to cover?
Chris: Yeah, I’m going to prepare some good questions for next week.
Hernan: [crosstalk 00:04:53]
Adam: Oh.
Bradley: Oh, yeah, and have your POFU coin, right?
Adam: Yeah, for real.
Male: Ooh, yeah.
Bradley: [crosstalk 00:05:00] do that, but with this is a memento that we gave to our … the members that came to POFU LIVE, which is … It’s a coin and it’s kind of just something to think of to always remind you of what’s your position of fuck you is, you’re POFU is. So, it’s always to remind the people that got them to keep something to remind them of what their plan is, what their business plan is, and why you grind so hard, why you put so much work and effort into the business and whatever you’re trying to build.
So, this is the coin that we gave out to every member of the LIVE event, but it doesn’t have to be this particular coin. It could be whatever you want it to be, but I would recommend that you have something like that that you keep as just a memento to remind yourself through periods of stress and discouragement, feeling like you failed at times. Those types of times are when it’s really good to have something to remind yourself why you’re doing what you’re doing, and that was kind of our way to create this little exclusive club of POFU coin holders, but again, it doesn’t have to be specifically that. It could be whatever it is that you want it to be. So, it’s something we would recommend for you guys to do as well.
Hernan: Yeah, and I would like to personally thank everyone that was there on the event. I think it was amazing. I think it was like before and after for Semantic Mastery, I would say. We’re already planning next year’s, so we’ll keep you guys posted about that. This was a great event. We had a bunch of good stuff. We had a bunch of good people coming, and-
Bradley: It was great.
Hernan: Yeah. So, thank you guys for coming. Thank you guys for attending. Thank you for all of you guys that made this all possible. If you’re interested in coming to next year’s event, there’s going to be information out there soon.
Bradley: That’s it.
Adam: Definitely.
Bradley: Greg [inaudible 00:06:46] posting on the page, and he was there. We just want to give him a special shout-out because Greg helps us out with some of our Facebook groups and stuff, and he came to the LIVE event, and he’s just always been a real trooper and somebody that we appreciate very much. So, again, thanks Greg for coming out. We certainly all appreciated getting a chance to meet you and you participating with the event and everything. So, thanks again.
Adam: Thanks, Greg.
Chris: Thank you.
Hernan: Yes.
Chris: It was good meeting you in person.
Bradley: All right. So, can we get into questions?
Hernan: Yeah.
Adam: Yeah, let’s do it.
Bradley: All right, we’ll stand by because I just lost the page.
Chris: So, if you didn’t make it to POFU LIVE this year, you better save up, and book your time and come next year.
Bradley: Yeah.
Adam: Yeah, 100%.
Bradley: All right. Well, let’s get to it, then. Adam Moody has the first question. Well, you could’ve just ask me [crosstalk 00:07:34].
Male: [inaudible 00:07:34]
Adam: I got the inside track, man.
Bradley: All right. So, the first one was question from a viewer.
How Do You Index Syndication Network Posts?
“I’m not seeing my syndication network posts being indexed. How can I get them indexed?”
Well, that’s a good question. Typically, we don’t worry about the Web 2 posts being indexed because whether they get indexed or not, Google will likely crawl them and see them anyways. Sometimes, they will be indexed, but it’s not something I ever sweat or worry about trying to force the indexing of those posts, and the reason why is because if your website that you’re blogging from … So, that’s the one you’re essentially building links to through your syndicated posts. If it’s connected to Search Console, Google Search Console, and you go in and you take a look at the links to my site, you’ll see WordPress.com, and Tumbler, and Blogger, and all the bookmarking sites. You’ll see all the links pointing back to your site. Whether they’re in the index or not, it really makes no difference because Google’s telling you from Search Console that the links are indeed … They are in and they’re aware of them. So, that’s why I never worry about indexing. That’s why we didn’t spend a lot of time covering it.
There were some things that we did in the past that would automate, scraping those URLs from the Web 2 posts, and sending them to an indexer, but unfortunately, the plugins that did that stopped working, stopped being developed. They stopped supporting them, and we never found a really suitable alternative.
Now, that said, there is a training in the update section of Syndication Academy that talks about how you can use an applet to automatically extract the art, the Web 2 post URLs, and feed them into a Google Sheet, and then you can build links to a Google Sheet, which could be used like an indexing tool, and that’s been … That was covered in the Syndication Academy update webinars. Just go back through your webinar, update webinar archives, and you should be able to locate that.
If you’re insistent upon getting them to index … But again, your time, in my opinion, should be spent elsewhere because Google will crawl those sites, and they will recognize those links whether it indexes them or not. That’s all that matters is that Google sees them. Just to prove it, Hernan and we have tested no indexed PBNs in the past. Now, we don’t recommend … PBNs isn’t something we teach. Do they still work? Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it’s not something we teach, but we have even tested no indexed PBNs, and they absolutely work.
As long as Google knows the link’s there, no index just means they don’t put it in their index. It doesn’t mean they’re not aware of the link and they’re not counting the link equity to it.
Hernan: Right. There were no index to follow PBNs. So, as long as you have that tied there no index to follow, some actually, some Web 2.0 websites, and social networks that we post out with Syndication Academy … They will have no index to follow.
Bradley: Medium is one of those unless you have a paid account?
Hernan: Yeah. They have no index to follow. So, you cannot index that, but that doesn’t mean that the links do not count. So, we do that for traffic purposes as well. You will see a lot of people coming through the RSS feed to the website, so that’s cool. But yeah, they definitely count towards the authority of the website.
Bradley: So, make sure we get this clip sent to the guy that asked that in support.
Adam: Yeah, definitely.
Bradley: All right.
Chris: Cool.
How Do You Take Advantage Of Using A 2014 Guest Post To A 2018 Press Release?
Bradley: All right. So, that was a good question. Next is [Greg Pippany 00:10:45]. He says, “Hi. Hopefully, it went great for you guys. I have a press release and guest post from 2014 that are still live and linked to my money site. Would it make sense to link to them with a new press release, and how would I word a sentence to incorporate those links into the press release?”
Yeah, absolutely. You should be building links to that. If they’re live and they’re good links, there’s no reason why you couldn’t. As far as how would you incorporate a sentence or how would you word a sentence to incorporate those links into a press release, well, that depends because I don’t know what the topic of your press release is going to be, but typically you don’t … I mean, don’t overthink it.
Typically, what I do, like for example, one of the things that I love to do now is take the media room URL, which is essentially like the organization page for the organization that I’m publishing a press release about, and I like to link to that company page because it’s like a blog roll, it’s like a media room. That’s what they’re calling it, especially on the Press Advantage platform. They have the media room, which it shows it’s got an NAP, which by the way, Jeremy, the developer at Press Advantage enabled GMB mapping beds now for the organization page directly below the NAP section, which is super powerful.
So, anyways, for each press release that gets published, it gets put right on that page, and it’s also got the eye frame for the website. That’s a super powerful page to link to. So, what I do within press releases themselves is say, “Stay up-to-date with all the whatever company’s news here,” and then I just link directly with the naked URL to the media room, right? That’s really powerful because now we’re building media-style links to a media room unlike a newsroom, but so to speak, for the organization. That’s super powerful.
Hernan: So, there will be … Sorry, Bradley.
Bradley: Go ahead.
Hernan: It will be kind of a hub which you can link to several other properties from that media room.
Bradley: Correct. It’s a hub.
Hernan: Okay.
Bradley: Correct. Yeah.
Hernan: Okay, okay.
Bradley: But my point is don’t overthink it. Just give a quick, simple call-to-action for why they should go click that link on a separate line, right? Just give it its own … just say whatever it is to your guest posts, like “learn more about” or “see how this company was featured on,” and then name the publication, and then put the link to that guest post. You see what I’m saying? You don’t have to overthink it. Just put a simple call-to-action as to why somebody should click on that link, and whether they click or not, you’re going to get the SEO benefit from the link, but you could generate some traffic to that property as well. Okay?
He says, “Any other ideas on how to best take advantage of that 2014 PR and guest post? Thanks.” No, I mean that’s basically it. Just link to it as far as I’m concerned. You might want to IFrame it into a blog post or something, which would be kind of cool if it’s a … IFrames are super powerful. We can’t get into too many tips and tricks here as to why they’re super powerful, but if you’ve got a really good PR, a press release published on a really good PR site, or a guest post on a real high authority site, it would make sense, especially if it’s got a live link back to your money site like you said it does. It would make sense to possibly IFrame that article, that page, excuse me, onto one of your asset pages, right? Then, do some nasty link building stuff with that, too. Okay?
How Do You Boost A Local Towing Site To Generate More Organic Calls?
Handy Expert: He says, “I currently have a towing sign in my local area generating about 70 to 80 qualified calls a month with great organic rankings, but average map rankings. I was still able to close a towing client at $750 a month.
Male: Nice.
Bradley: I got paid. Now, I was planning to supplement my organic calls with some PPC Google Ads to add some gas and fire to get my clients making more money.” That’s a good strategy. He says, “One, how would you recommend I use that budget with Google Ads? I don’t mind making less profit myself in the beginning as I plan to take SEO. I planned the SEO to take over in the later months. Should I run YouTube ads like you’ve discussed in the past, or said I run regular PPC ads since the niche is towing and they typically call the first one they see? Thank you.”
Okay, that’s a great question. So, no. YouTube ads are likely not going to help you at all with towing stuff. It would be okay if you were running YouTube ads to help rank towing videos for search, but those are one of the types of keywords where people are going to directly to Google and search for a solution, like we just-
Adam: I need a tow [crosstalk 00:15:00].
Bradley: We need a tow truck, right? They’re not going to go to YouTube first. So, that’s why I’d say I would recommend just going straight to Google PPC. Yeah, you absolutely can use that to supplement. As far as you said you’re got a close a $750 a month, I don’t know what the towing cost per clicks are. I know that … I was just talking with these guys about it. Google Ads, search ads, are still a great way to generate leads. It’s absolutely a great way. It’s very, very targeted traffic if you know what you’re doing, and with a simple Alpha/Beta campaign structure, which is exactly how I run all my ad campaigns, it’s really simple to hone in on your very best keywords and set up exact match keywords to very, very targeted landing pages and just get incredible results.
You are going to spend some money, and it takes a little bit of time to dial the campaign in. I typically recommend that the first 30 days you’re going to waste some money. Typically, usually between the 31 and 60 days, you’re going to start dialing it in really good. Usually by the end of 60 days, I have a really well optimized campaign that just generates leads consistently.
Remember guys, with PPC, it should be more like a vending machine, not a slot machine. In other words, you should have a known quantity when you put a dollar in, I’m going to get a dollar fifty out, or if I put a dollar in, I’m going to get two dollars out instead of like a slot machine is where you just put money in and pull the handle and hope that you’re going to make some money. That’s how most people treat their PPC campaigns.
Okay. So, he’s showing towing keywords roughly-
Adam: Four to six bucks.
Bradley: Yeah, four to $6.
Hernan: That’s not bad.
Bradley: Yeah, that’s not bad at all. So-
Adam: Just depends what you’re getting on the back end.
Chris: [crosstalk 00:16:30] He gets paid per call?
Adam: No, he’s getting … It doesn’t sound like, but perhaps. Again, that depends. If you’re not getting paid for call, then you might not want to do this, but depending on what you’re looking for, but if you could say, “Hey, I can also offer you additional calls”-
Bradley: Well, I think what he’s saying is that for now, he’s got good organic rankings, he’s getting good calls, but he wants to improve his Maps rankings-
Chris: [inaudible 00:16:51]
Bradley: … and he wants to supplement the calls with PPC while he works on getting the Maps ranking up.
Chris: I would run call-only ads.
Bradley: You could do call-only ads, too. They’re a little bit less expensive than clicks, direct clicks, but not much anymore I’ve found. But yeah, you could also try call-only ads. As far as that, play around with the budgeting. If you’re not … I don’t know how experienced you are with Google Ads, but I would suggest if you’re in a lead gen business, that you start getting some experience in that anyway.
So, maybe take $150 of that budget, which is essentially $5 a day in budget spending, and see what you can do with it. That might not even be enough. You might want to do 250 or $300, and I know that seems like a lot, even half, but just to do that for the first month or two so that you get some data coming in. You’ll learn all that you need to within about 60 days of how to optimize a PPC campaign for a towing company, right?
Hernan: Right.
Adam: Which is cool. He’s got a client paying him for it. I realize maybe he’s going to pay out of his pocket-
Bradley: Yeah, so now-
Adam: … but you’re not paying literally out of your pocket.
Bradley: Yeah. So, essentially your client’s covering your education. Hernan at the event … Somebody asked him, “What’s the best way to learn how to do Facebook ads?” Hernan said, “Spend some money.” In other words, go out and set up a Facebook ads campaign and play around in the platform, and spend some money. That’s what I’m going to tell you about PPC, the same thing. We have a training course called Local Kingpin. I saw another question on the page about it. We’re going to get to it, but it talks about how to do PPC Google Ads for lead generation and how to make it profitable. Again, the best way to learn is … Going through a course might help you to get kind of a jumpstart, but you’re still going to need to learn by spending money, not just playing.
Hernan: Yes, 100%. Also, each industry is different. So, maybe what applies to tow truck might not apply to some other industries. So, I think that’s a great point. The client is paying you to learn, so that’s great. You’re also, potentially, giving the client better results. So, in [inaudible 00:18:45] the PPC campaign. So, that’s even better because the guy will be happier, and you know that a happy client stays for longer. So, that’s pretty cool. That’s why we kind of usually recommend when you’re starting out, you can combine PPC and SEO so that you offset the way with SEO … You offset that with PPC and the guy’s stoked, and off you go.
Bradley: Yep. Okay. Let me go to the next one.
Adam: [inaudible 00:19:13]
Bradley: Premier Travel Services.
Adam: Also, I love these business names. It’s always funny to like “[inaudible 00:19:18] Business Services,” but then sometimes we find out who it is. If you tell us and it gets confusing, but it’s kind of funny. I’m like I always try to match the business to the person.
Is The Semantic Mastery Local Kingpin Training Still Relevant In 2018?
Bradley: Yeah. All right. So, this one says, “I plan to do some PPC training for local clients. Would you say that your Local Kingpin training is still relevant in 2018?” Yes, it absolutely is. The only difference is now is the interface has changed, the [inaudible 00:19:40] interface has changed. The content is absolutely still relevant. That Alpha/Beta campaign structure … nothing has changed, except, like I said, the interface has changed and Google is also implemented a lot of AI now so that they have a lot of different bidding strategies that weren’t available at the time, like enhanced cost-per-click and maximize with conversions.
Chris: Aww.
Hernan: Sorry.
Bradley: There’s all these different campaign stuff that can be added to the campaigns, but I still don’t implement any of those until I’ve set all of my campaigns up manually, and optimized them all manually first. Then, once I get them to where I think they’re optimized very well, then I will play around with some of the Google’s automated bidding strategies to see if it can beat mine. Typically, it will, but I always like to wait until I have the campaign fully optimized the way that I want it before I implement any of those.
So, just as an aside, we are going to up … or I’m going to update that training probably with a webinar at some point because I’m still doing a lot of PPC stuff, and that training needs to be updated slightly just because of the interface. I can talk a little bit more about the automated strategies because I’ve been doing a lot of PPC since that training was originally released. I’ve got some additional techniques and strategies that I would like to share. So, I will be updating that training probably sometime within the next couple of months. By New Year’s, maybe it’ll be ready, but that it is absolutely still relevant.
Scott’s up. What’s up, Scott?
Hernan: What’s up, Scott?
Bradley: He says … I think the last time we did this, Scott was there.
Adam: Yeah, Portland. Yeah.
Bradley: Yeah, Scott was there. That’s right.
Hernan: Oh, yeah, last year’s-
Bradley: In Portland, yeah.
Hernan: In Portland.
Bradley: So, what’s up, Scott? We miss having you here buddy.
Adam: You guys crashed my wedding.
Hernan: Oh, yeah, we did. That was fun.
What Are Your Thoughts On Gary Ilyes’ Statement That Google Does Not Read EXIF Data?
Bradley: Scott says, “From what the frack files, Garry Isles from Google was on a Webinar today and stated that Google does not read the EXIF metadata from images.” Well, yeah, but Google also is really good at misdirection. They like to tell you stuff that is absolutely false, like “Don’t use press releases anymore because press releases are bad for SEL.” Yet, here they are still working like gang busters, you know what I mean? Same thing about [inaudible 00:21:54] posts and stuff like that.
So, anyways, he says, “He did say they are considering reading the EXIF metadata in the future. This doesn’t seem to correlate with page rankings that have images with EXIF data. Do you have any news on this topic? Thanks so much.” Yeah, exactly. If Google says, “Don’t do it because it doesn’t work anyways,” that means do more of it. Does that make sense?
Hernan: Or at least-
Chris: [crosstalk 00:22:13] manipulating the search engine.
Bradley: Yeah, that’s right [inaudible 00:22:15] propaganda.
Hernan: Yeah, or at least test it. Test it. See if it works for you. We don’t recommend you following us to the letter. We don’t recommend you follow anyone to the letter.
Bradley: Or Google to the letter.
Hernan: Or Google to the letter for that matter. Go ahead and test it, and report back. That’s what we always recommend. Test.
Bradley: Yeah, and if you’ve tested and you know that the pages with images that have metadata ranked better than the pages that do not, you’ve already proven that Google was misleading you, or just wasn’t being-
Hernan: Fluffing.
Bradley: … wasn’t giving you the full truth, right?
Hernan: Yeah, and it happens when … It happens to me with Facebook, too, right? Facebook grab the whole … When you’re spending some type of money and we have that in the pipeline, by the way, for Semantic Mastery, they will just call you and try to advise you, but the reality is that those are big companies. They are big companies, and most people are on the front lines communicating with the media, communicating out there. They’re not developing the backend, which are the algorithms, how the stuff actually works. You can see that because there are discrepancies.
So, hey, they will go out and say something. Maybe by the time they go out and say something, something else has already changed. So, have that in mind. They’re a big, big companies composed with lot from a lot of people, and they have different points of views, I would say.
Bradley: Yeah. Not only that, but Scott, even if that were true, which I’m saying it’s not, but even if it were true, just think of if you’re saying he did say they are considering to read the EXIF data, well, that means all of the properties that you’ve optimized when they … if they finally decide to start reading the EXIF data, which they already are, but if they decided just tomorrow like “Okay, today’s the day we’re going to start reading EXIF metadata,” then all the pages you’ve optimized will be way better than everybody else.
Adam: Yeah. Scott already commented. So, he’s saying “I plan on continuing adding the EXIF data [crosstalk 00:24:06]-
Bradley: [crosstalk 00:24:06]
Hernan: Yeah, do that.
What Order Of Semantic Mastery Course Can You Recommend For Someone Doing Local SEO For Clients With Rank And Rent Style?
Bradley: So, B&B Special Events is another one. He says, “As someone who is just joining Semantic Mastery and would like to take all of your courses, in what order do you recommend I take them: Outsource Kingpin, Syndication Academy.” He goes through a litany of our courses. ��I do local SEO for local clients, rank and rent style, to give some more context. Love you guys. Thank you for all the help.”
Adam: First of all, and I think Bradley is uniquely positioned to answer this question, but you belong in the Mastermind. There’s no better way to say that. If that’s what you’re doing, and that’s what you want to do, you belong in the Mastermind. You get either a lot of this content for free or severely discounted.
So, with that said, I’ll let Bradley kind of go with it.
Bradley: Well, he says, “I do local SEO for clients and rank and rent style to give you some context.” Then, yeah, there’s no better suggestion than for you to join the Semantic Mastery Mastermind because, as Adam said, both of those courses are, basically, you get those courses. We’re changing slightly how they’re being released and distributed, but you’ll get access to all of those courses and even the ones that have a higher ticket price then where we can just give them to you. You’ll get an insanely stupid discount even more so than our typical 30% discount under the new system that we’re going to be implementing.
So, my point is … just to answer everybody else, okay? The first recommendation is if you already have a business and you’re looking to grow that business and scale it, to increase revenue, that’s what the Mastermind is all about. The Mastermind is not, necessarily, just about SEO stuff. We do talk about advanced SEO training in there when needed: when people bring stuff up, they want us to pursue or to go more in depth, but it’s more about business training because there’s so much more to running a business than just knowing a skill. So, that’s essentially what the Mastermind is all about, in that we are going to be pushing a very specific path, too, of the training in which order you should take it.
That’s something we’ve kind of failed to do in the past because all of our trainings are good. They each teach different things that could all be implemented into your business, but for somebody new coming in and they get hit with a fire hose of information, it’s like, “Okay, where do I start and which in which order, and blah blah blah?” So, we are really … We’re redesigning our Mastermind to kind of lay that path out.
So, I would suggest starting with Local Lease Pro, which we just recently launched. I don’t think we have it available for public sale just yet outside of the original promotion, but we will have that up shortly. Then, from there, it’s up to you, but the next logical step from Local Lease Pro would be Local GMB Pro and Local PR Pro, Local Kingpin, which is setting up the PPC ads for supplemental traffic. That’s also really good if you’re doing client work because you can get clients’ incident results using Google Ads.
Then, from there, Outsource Kingpin. Once you’ve got your services, your products and services in place where you’re able to generate results for clients, or if you’re doing lead gen, you’re able to get results for your lead gen assets. Then, we talk about the next thing is outsource and building your teams so that you can remove yourself from the process and still have your business operate and generate revenue. That’s where outsourcing comes in. So, we would recommend Outsource Kingpin at that time.
So, again, just to kind of boil this down to make it a shorter answer, join the Semantic Mastery Mastermind where this path will be laid out very clearly, and you will get access to the products in that specific order, which will help you to build your business. Each one of those products compounds on the next and helps you at the stage that we recommend, okay?
Chris: Speaking of which, the Local Lease Pro is actually available, but only in the Mastermind right now.
Bradley: Oh, that’s true. That’s true. We don’t even have a public sales page up for it yet.
Adam: Yeah. So, B&B Special Events, one, if you got any questions with people who are serious about joining the Mastermind, if you want, contact support, [email protected]. We’ll hook you up. I’m happy to jump on a short call, or something like that, if you’re serious about, it or you just want to find out, or ever you guys “For real, what do I get?” Things like that. We’re happy to have a quick chat with you.
Bradley: Yep. Cool.
So, that was my … The best answer’s come join the Mastermind, but the next best answer is buy each and every one of our courses individually in the order that we tell you, which is the same order that you’re going to get in the Mastermind, but that adds up to be a hell of a lot more money than it would’ve cost you to just join the Mastermind.
Hernan: Plus the support and the community there.
Bradley: That’s correct.
Hernan: The bi-weekly webinars, the Bradley halls, and some of us go there, but the bi-weekly webinars and the Facebook group, like the community there is amazing. We saw it on POFU LIVE. A lot of people where from our Mastermind. They were part of our Mastermind; the community was there. So, yeah, it was pretty, pretty awesome.
So, not only you get … That’s the big point. Not only you get access to all of that training in a specific order at specific times, but you also get support and follow-up, which is, I think, at least for me … It’s a big deal because some courses you can buy them, you can apply them, and then maybe something comes up, right? Maybe some stuff didn’t work as expected or maybe you’re having different results. So, that’s why it’s always good to have a community of people that you can ask questions to and then you can get support out of.
Bradley: That’s it. Interesting side story real quick. POFU LIVE was awesome because we got to meet some people that have been a member of our Semantic Mastery Mastermind for years.
Adam: I’m giving a shout-out to Richie.
Bradley: Yeah, to Richie, to Greg.
Hernan: [inaudible 00:29:38]
Bradley: I’m sorry. I don’t remember Greg’s last name, but-
Adam: [inaudible 00:29:42]
Bradley: No, the other Greg. Anyways, sorry guys, but we had just an amazing event and had some people that came that had been in the Mastermind for years and kind of lurking in the background who don’t participate in the conversations as such, but they came, which was amazing because it was like people came to the event, and they introduced who they are. I’m going, “Okay, I don’t recognize the name,” and then, “I’ve been in the Mastermind for years.” I’m like “Okay, but I still don’t recognize the name.” “Oh, yeah, because I never comment on anything or ask any questions, but I’m always there absorbing information.”
It was awesome to hear that, and they were like “I’m quiet. I don’t want to get out there and talk and have conversations with people, but I know that it’s like one place that I can always go to get current information that’s not bullshit.” It was great to hear that.
Adam: That’s the best response you give. That was awesome.
Hernan: That’s cool, too. If you don’t feel like commenting, that’s cool, too. I would strongly suggest that you do because you get a lot of stuff. Then, there were some-
Adam: Or at least come meet us live so that we know who you are.
Hernan: Ah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, definitely. There was some business opportunities like actual people making deals on the event and through the [crosstalk 00:30:50]-
Bradley: His name is Gary by the way, not Greg.
Adam: Oh.
Bradley: That’s what I meant to say, Gary, by the way.
Hernan: So, I think that’s pretty powerful, too, because businesses … Our business grew from a Mastermind, you know what I’m saying?
Adam: Yeah.
Bradley: There’s a gnat flying around, and I’m going to get it. I’m not going crazy I swear.
Should You Take Advantage Of Using The Auto Reschedule Post For Near Me Keywords In Citation Builder Pro?
All right. Jay Turner is up. He says, “Maybe I should ask this in the Local GMB Pro Facebook group, but here it goes. Should we Citation Pro, Builder Pro users be taking advantage of the auto?” Okay. So, he’s talking about the auto poster, the GMB auto poster. “Should we be taking advantage of the auto reschedule post option. Seems like re-posting a near me keyword post every day would be worthwhile, or will reposts have very little benefit because they are not original content?”
That’s a great question, Jay. Actually, I just addressed this at POFU LIVE. I’m happy to share that here, though, guys because there is something that you can do to reduce expenses or reduce your overall time required for this because if you’re using the GMB auto poster, our auto poster, there is an option to reschedule a post or republish it.
So, for example, you have to do this. You can’t right now; I don’t think the functionality is available if you do bulk upload via CSV file, but if you do it manually where you schedule each post, you can go in. You can select the time and date for when it publishes, and then there’s another checkbox that says republish post. Then, if you enable that or check that box, it reveals a drop-down that will show you like how many … When would you like to republish? It says one day, every three days, every seven days, and then there’s one for every 30 days.
Excuse me. What I suggest doing is going through and scheduling out 30 posts, one post per day, or whatever your frequency of publishing is for the assets that you’re doing that for. Typically, for most of the stuff I do, I just published one post per day, seven days a week now. Because of the auto poster, it makes it simple. You schedule all those out. So, you schedule out 30 posts for 30 days, and then on each time you schedule a post, you add it to republish 30 days from that day. Does that make sense? So, on day one, you scheduled post one. On day 31, you schedule post one again. Does that make sense?
What’s great about that is you can have it automate it. All you have to do is schedule it one time, and it will automatically post and in the next month, it will just start that cycle over again. Now, I do recommend having probably … We just started this method myself, so I don’t have any data yet to determine whether we should absolutely change the posts or not, but what I would suggest is at least preparing for every 90 days or so swapping out the images and the posts slightly, varying the post text slightly, and then rescheduling.
So again, this is something you can train a VA to do. You can train a VA, set up a training video and process doc, showing them how to go in and schedule 30 posts. You could even train a VA to grab 30 images, or optimize 30 images with EXIF data and all that stuff, optimize them, upload them, schedule them out, and then click the reschedule/republish option, schedule them out for 30 days. Then, have a calendar reminder set up to every 90 days, they go back in, swap 30 images out or 30 posts out, for the next quarter, if that makes sense. That’s something that you can train a VA to do and you wouldn’t have to worry about it anymore and it would get done.
That’s a great question. Absolutely guys, if there’s a way that you can reduce costs for GMB posting … I pay some of my VAs, one in particular who does GMB posts for clients, I pay her per post. So, every post she publishes, she gets a certain amount for them. It’s $3.50 a post. That’s a lot. So, if you can figure out ways to reduce costs, you can do that. Now, for clients, I wouldn’t recommend doing the republishing stuff because you can charge them for unique content for per post, right? But for lead gen assets, I would absolutely recommend that you reduce your costs as possible. That’s a good question Jay.
How Do You Get Faster Results With A Video Carpet Bomb Style Campaign?
Frankie is up. He says, “I have everything set up in terms of purchase, in terms of purchased all the tools and have created my own SAP for how to run my own video carpet bumps style type of campaigns. My question is …” Really caught on. “My question is should I be targeting local cities and do rank and rent, or should I go after affiliate campaigns and target those keywords?”
It’s a really good question. “With this setup, I can publish 1,000 videos easily over a small period of time. Which would you suggest to start getting some results fast? Thanks as always for Hump Day Hangouts.” Well, that’s up to you, Frankie. I would recommend if affiliate marketing is what you’re interested in, then go do affiliate marketing. If local marketing and lead generation is your thing as you have more of an interest in, then do that, but either way, choose one and stick with it until you monetize it.
Because my point is like if you are … I don’t know what your business goals are. I remember you’ve asked some other questions in the past, though, on Hump Day Hangouts, and I think your questions were more targeted about local marketing consulting, like as a video guy. If that’s the case, then I would recommend you avoid the affiliate route for now because all it’s going to do is distract you, and it’s going to slow you down from being able to perfect your specific video marketing method for lead generation or for rank and rent, or whatever it is, however you decide that you’re going to monetize it.
Guys, we as Semantic Mastery as a group has struggled with not being able to focus or chasing too many different opportunities. So, that’s part of … that’s going to be a lot of our messaging going forward is we have decided to really focus in on what our core offer should be and our core service, right? We recommend you guys do the same, and even for our agent, like my own agency that I’m building into the same thing, I’ve reverted all the way back to just doing the kind of the lead gen model where we build the asset first, and then we find the service provider or the client.
Again, you’re going to see a common theme among all of our training going forward, and that is we’re going to tell you find one thing and don’t give up on that one thing until you’ve monetized it. Don’t start any other projects, don’t chase any new opportunities until you’ve mastered that one or at least got the one profitable to where it’s generating revenue and to where you can remove yourself from that process and it continues to generate revenue, right?
So, for example, even if you went after a lead gen … Let’s just say affiliate marketing with these videos, and you got it to where it was profitable, but you were running the campaigns. You were the one doing the research, finding the products that you’re going to promote, generating the key word list, creating the videos, uploading and running the video, probably marketing blitz or whatever tool it is that you’re running that campaign. You could do all that and end up having a profitable affiliate marketing business, and then say, “Okay, well now it’s profitable. Well, let me go ahead and move on to doing local lead gen with these videos as well.”
But unless you have process ties, you’re systematized, that with the affiliate and all the work that you’ve put in to make an affiliate campaign profitable, you shouldn’t even move on to that. In other words, even though if that might have money be producing positive revenue for you, until you removed yourself from the process and it still generates revenue for you, you shouldn’t move on to the next because otherwise you end up bogging yourself down to where, “Okay, now you’re doing all this work and now you got to do all this work to,” and at some point you’re going to reach a point of diminishing return and you’re going to not be able … You’re going to hit a capacity limit where you won’t be able to make any more money. If you would have been able to remove yourself from that first process that you made profitable when you were doing the work yourself, and still keep it profitable, now you’ve got revenue coming in so that you can devote all your time to the next process that you want to perfect.
Hernan: Yep, I do agree. I mean, we all go through this where we as a group … and then we had that exact same issue with the people that came to POFU LIVE event. The fact that they were making money, they were feeling that they were too distracted, and that’s completely fine. You’re definitely not alone in that regard.
Bradley: That’s correct.
Hernan: We’ve been there. Everyone goes through that because the reality is that we’re entrepreneurs. We want to fix stuff, and we see [inaudible 00:39:02] as an opportunity. So, I totally grew with Bradley. Building a successful business … Once the initial rush, or the initial high, wears off, it’s hard because of the fact that you need to keep at it even when you are not as excited with that project anymore, and then everything else seems so exciting to go ahead and tinker with, but I think that the key to success here and the key to actually building businesses that are really profitable is just what Bradley described. Go at it, whatever it takes you, make it profitable, remove yourself from the equation, and then go to the next thing.
Bradley: Go to your next opportunity.
Hernan: Yeah.
Bradley: I mean guys, that’s the only way to do it. Even in my own business, I could have achieved so much more by this point in my marketing career if I would have focused and not chased every opportunity because I could have become super, super good at one thing, and then pulled myself out of the equation, like he said, out of the process, and have built a system that makes everything that I was doing complete. It gets done without me doing it. Then, I could have moved to the next opportunity and I would’ve had a much more successful business by this point had I done that.
We all go through that, and again, that’s why we really want to help other people to avoid that to where they can get their businesses profitable and get more of their time back at the same time and with less trial and error. Does that make sense?
Adam: If you do that, you could apply the eco method and as sooner place in your business, right?
Hernan: [crosstalk 00:40:30]
Adam: Oh, yeah.
Bradley: Yeah.
Adam: That’s an inside [crosstalk 00:40:34]-
Hernan: Yeah. We know that; we’re not going to-
Bradley: So, Frankie, my final answer to you would be either way, whether it’s affiliate marketing that you want to do or local marketing, either way will generate you money once you learn what it takes in that particular model. So, just select one and stick with that one is what I’m saying, okay? I can’t tell you which one’s better than the other. I’m partial to local, but affiliate marketing certainly works. So, it’s entirely up to you.
Hernan: Yeah, that’s it. That’s the good news, like they both work. You want to go with local, but with local you want to go ranking YouTube videos, you can do that. As long as you keep on doing what you’re doing, it will work, but you need to give it the time and the opportunity for it to work.
Adam: Greg said, “What’s up?” Then, after that it said the mics are going crazy. So, Greg just wanted to repeat, [Greg Jayburt 00:41:17], fantastic community manager of ours. If you’re in the groups, you see him. We were super happy to have him at POFU LIVE. So, thanks for being there, man.
Bradley: Yeah. [crosstalk 00:41:24]-
Chris: [crosstalk 00:41:25] good meeting you.
Bradley: We had to reiterate that because echo might’ve ruined it. So, Greg, we apologize, man. It was a good attempt to thank you.
What Are Your Thoughts On Press Cable?
All right, Dan is up. He says, “Any feedback on Press Cable, guys?” Let me start that one over. “Any feedback on Press Cable, guys? I have a few credits left there, but wondered if you know if they delete PRs or not in time. I was going to do a first PR there to save money, and then order the rest through your service. Also, is there any day of the week good to publish a PR, or is there a significant enough advantage for doing PR earlier in the week? I remember something to this effect.”
Okay. Dan, great questions. Number one, is Press Cable still good? Absolutely. Absolutely. Press Cable is still good. I still use Press Cable. I’ve got a subscription to that and I will maintain that as well because it is good.
One of the things I do really like about Press Cable now is one of their distribution sites is Newswire.net. I used to have a bunch of credits for Newswire.net and I used them all, and I canceled my subscription like a dummy many years ago. But Newswire.net is a really good site for press releases, too. I don’t use their distribution service anymore. Like I said, I don’t have credits anymore, but through Press Cable, that is one of their distribution points now. So, that’s one that will show up in Google news and that’s something that you can use. It doesn’t purge, so you can use that as a stack of PR in a PR stack. Okay?
So, yes. It’s still good. As far as do they delete or purge PRs, well, it’s not Press Cable that would delete or purge them. It’s their distribution partners, their sites. It’s up to the distribution sites whether they purge or not, not Press Cable. There’s the same problem with Press Advantage or any other distribution sites out there. Some of the Republic … the media sites or news sites will purge, and there’s nothing you can do about that. The idea is to, especially for a PR stack, is define the PRs that don’t get purged. Like I just said, Newswire.net is one of them. The Press Advantage: Anything published on Press Advantage doesn’t get purged and the Press Advantage company pages are great.
Also, for Press Cable, if they get picked up by Digital Journal, which they used to, but I think Newswire.net replaced Digital Journal, but Digital Journal doesn’t purge either, at least as far as I know because I’ve got some Digital Journal stuff that’s been around for years. So, I would check into that as well.
And Adam, since you’re getting up, would you mind getting me a beer?
Adam: Funny. I’m one step ahead of you.
Bradley: All right. Sweet. Thank you.
Adam: [crosstalk 00:43:49]
Bradley: That’s awesome.
Chris: I’m good.
Hernan: I’m good. Thank you.
Bradley: Okay. So, yeah, Press Cable is absolutely still good, and Dan, yeah. I’ve never recommended in the past keep … If you have a subscription or credits, don’t cancel it because even if you decide that you want to start using presses, press releases from us and MDYB, which is our distribution service is Press Advantage Service, which is fabulous by the way. Even if you decide that you want to use that, I recommend keeping multiple press distribution services available because diversity of links is important, okay? I like to add variety and diversity into mine, too. If you keep hitting the same press release distribution service over and over and over again, there will be a diminishing return for that as well, like to the same target URLs, I mean, if that makes sense.
Adam: Here you go.
Hernan: And then-
Bradley: Thank you. Thank you. Cheers. Cheers.
Adam: Cheers.
Male: [inaudible 00:44:39]
Hernan: Because Greg was saying something like … Let me grab this from him … was something that … Answering to Dan, he was saying, “I would do that in reverse. Spend a little money for a Press Advantage press release from Semantic Mastery, it will not purge, meaning it will be there for years and years from now, and you get a news media room as a pure hub. Then, use the Press Cable to link to it.”
Bradley: To link to that, correct.
I’m telling you the Press Advantage network is amazing. The organization pages are fabulous with now the mapping beds, especially the GMB mapping bed right under the NAP. It’s really a powerful … It’s got the eye frame built into it. It’s fabulous, guys. It really is. It’s an integral part of our process now.
Any Thoughts In Using Square Videos In YouTube And Facebook?
Okay, [Brian Mckay 00:45:23] is up. What’s up Brian? He says, “Anyone have any comments on Square Videos on YouTube versus Facebook? Can you use Square on YouTube videos?” I’m not sure, Brian. Hernan, that’s more of a question for you.
Hernan: Yeah. You can Brian. I would strongly, a 100%, recommend that you start using Square Videos on Facebook right away just because of the fact that Facebook is mostly mobile right now. At least most of the traffic that we get is mostly mobile.
Adam: Today I learned, right?
Hernan: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A 100%. Yeah. [crosstalk 00:45:50]-
Adam: I mean, I know that traffic is, but Square.
Hernan: Yeah, Square versus like landscape videos, the way that YouTube is. Now, you can repurpose Square Videos for YouTube if you add the remaining content to the … You can add parts with content to the sites of the videos. So, you will make it landscape, 69 versus one to one. So, that is something that I would recommend, strongly recommend, for people who are going to Facebook and wanting to repurpose to YouTube. So, you can do that, which is square first, then landscape, or you can do the other way around, which is you get a landscape video, 69, and then you turn that into one one by adding content on the top or the bottom.
So, that is up to you. What I usually do is to grab a YouTube video, cut it, cut it in the middle, like this. So, you cut in the middle-
Bradley: [crosstalk 00:46:39]
Adam: [crosstalk 00:46:40]
Hernan: … so you have a one to one ratio, and you can use that for Facebook. That’s usually what I do because … that’s because I’m lazy.
Bradley: Damn. So, he’s not only drinking beer, he’s drinking scotch, too. Wow.
Hernan: It’s going to get interesting the last-
Bradley: [crosstalk 00:46:50]. The last 10 minutes of this Hangout are going to be nuts.
Hernan: Going to be nuts. So, hang in there.
Bradley: That was a good question, Brian.
Wayne Clayton, the master of memes. Did he post that [crosstalk 00:47:02]? He should’ve.
Adam: We’re not … Yeah, I was about to say we’re not skipping this. Wayne, if you’ve got it, please put it on. [crosstalk 00:47:06].
Bradley: If you got it, you got to post it. Also, the one that you did where you showed the … you put the image on Gemina’s phone, too, because that was amazing and Hernan holding beers. He made these great memes, guys, from POFU. It was awesome. Wayne always does. We missed you, Wayne, at the event. We really did.
Hernan: Yeah, man.
Chris: And I really loved the one where I balance the woman on my [crosstalk 00:47:27]-
Bradley: Yeah, yeah, and Chris-
Hernan: Keep on walking.
Adam: Yeah, Chris gets the cool one with the good looking woman in his hands.
Male: [crosstalk 00:47:32]
Bradley: And I’m in drag.
Chris: [inaudible 00:47:35]
Hernan: If you haven’t seen them by the way, if they’re are not there, they’re in the free Facebook group. So, sematicmastery.com/facebook will take you to the free Facebook group.
Bradley: They were great. They were great. Thank you, Wayne. We knew you … You have entirely too much time on your hand, which is really the problem.
Hernan: Which is … So, good job.
Bradley: Yeah, right. He been listening, apparently. Right.
That’s right. Good man.
How Long Before Google Knows The Loophole in GMB Lead Generation And What Should You Do With It?
Bill says, “With buying verified GMBs becoming more common, I’m wondering how long before you think Google starts closing that loophole and what you think will happen for the many who use that loophole?” That’s a very good question, Bill. I don’t know how long it’s going to be. They will, they’ll close it. So, my point is take advantage of it right now while you can, and build as many fucking assets as you possibly can. What will happen when they close that loophole? I don’t know, but my point is … and that was a question that came up at the POFU LIVE event because what I shared at the POFU LIVE event was how to really scale a GMB lead generation business.
Adam: Yeah, through the Local Lease Pro.
Bradley: Really, really scale it. Yeah. Through, essentially, the Local Lease Pro method, but-
Adam: On steroids.
Bradley: Yeah, on steroids with process development, all that other stuff. It’s still not 100% complete, but it will be very, very soon. That’s so like our … The members of POFU LIVE that are going to participate with me … We’ve got a 90-day goal to build 50 GMB assets in the next 90 days. Then, by then, we’ll have the processes in place to where we double or [inaudible 00:49:05] work. We’ll have the processes and the virtual assistance in place to do the work for us.
So, within the next six months, my goal is to have anywhere between 200 to 250 GMB assets, which is huge. So, take advantage of that because once you have something like that, now think about even if they were to close that loophole. Let’s say that happens, and say, I didn’t even come close to my target goal and I hit 125. Well, I’ve got 100 and some odd GMB assets out there now that I can be using as leverage to contact and prospect for clients or service providers, but I could go back to … if that loophole gets entirely shut down, which it likely will at some point, then we will have already developed an asset that we can use as leverage for going back to the standard client model. Does that make sense?
Male: Yes.
Bradley: And so my point is again, guys, if you’ve been through any of the training … Bill, I don’t know if you’ve been through our training about this or not. That’s why I recommend you find one industry and you really scale building assets in that one very specific industry because now you will have all of this data and you’ll have all of these assets that are valuable to one particular industry. You can craft your sales message, all of your marketing materials, everything to that one very specific industry type or business type, and you’ll be able to scale much quicker that way. If you have to do all of that for each industry that you have, think about the enormity of the amount of work that you have to do.
Chris: [inaudible 00:50:28]
Bradley: All the sales copy and all the VSLs and all the emails are now … I mean, all of that. You have to duplicate everything you do for each new industry. That’s an enormous amount of work, so just stick with one, and become the go-to expert in that one particular industry, okay?
Hernan: You can use something like the Eagle Method for that [inaudible 00:50:47].
Bradley: That’s twice now. It’s twice now you’ve created that open loop. See. See how it all comes together.
Male: [crosstalk 00:50:53]
Chris: Yeah, I guess I missed out on [crosstalk 00:50:57].
Bradley: Yeah, I know.
Jordan Valor. Jordan, what’s up buddy? We missed you there, too, man.
Adam: Hey, man? Oh, man. Jordan, you remember that place we ate at in Texas? We found Funnel Hacking Live.
Bradley: We found here that rivals it, right?
Adam: [crosstalk 00:51:09]-
Bradley: There’s free tacos.
Adam: But just saying.
Bradley: Yeah, we found a rival street taco provider. So, anyways. Jordan says, “I know you guys are focusing on local, but thank you for the tips us regional and national guys can apply. Things like drive stack syndication networks, recommendations for SEO ultimate bootcamp, et cetera, are super helpful. This stuff works. You just have to contextualize it to a national brand. Keep it coming.”
Jordan, that’s exactly right. I’m glad you said that, man, because if Marco were here, which he’s not because he had some, I don’t know, insignificant thing to attend to, like his wife having a baby-
Adam: Some sort of life event or something like that.
Bradley: Yeah, something, whatever. [inaudible 00:51:44].
Chris: Maybe he had to go to hospital.
Bradley: If Marco were here, he would tell you local is relative to the observer, right? What is local? It’s relative to the observer.
Hernan: That’s [crosstalk 00:51:55].
Bradley: So, local could be hyper-local, like what we’re doing with the Local Lease Pro method, or local could be a specific city or a specific county, or it could be a state or it could be a region, or it could be a country or [inaudible 00:52:09]. So, really it just depends on what your particular business model is. Most of what we teach can be applied to whatever your location area is or location range is. Obviously, there’s some stuff that’s very specific to local, but for the most part, our [inaudible 00:52:24] will still look to that as well.
Hernan: Yeah, definitely.
Adam: Well, as an example just for the general public-
Bradley: Here’s another one.
Adam: … could you apply the Local Lease Pro method to somebody who wants to take over a state?
Bradley: Yes, absolutely you could.
Chris: Hell, yeah.
Bradley: Yeah, yeah.
Adam: Cool.
Bradley: In fact, the Local Lease Pro method is about hyper-local, but scaling it to a national basis. So, my point is like you go hyper-local, but you create a ton of assets that you could literally build on a national basis-
Adam: That’s pretty cool.
Bradley: … depending on how quickly you can do it before they close the loophole [crosstalk 00:52:53].
Hernan: Yeah, and speaking of SEO Ultimate Boot Camp, shout out to Jeffrey for being on the POFU LIVE event. That was awesome.
Adam: Jeffrey Smith, SEO design solutions, SEO Boot Camp-
Hernan: Yeah, Jeffrey Smith.
Adam: He joined us, gave a fucking killer presentation.
Bradley: Yeah. He’s bad ass, man. I really like Jeffery. He’s amazing. We’re so honored to have him.
Adam: Word on the street is that he might be there next year [inaudible 00:53:12], maybe.
Chris: Bradley got ears big like that when [inaudible 00:53:16].
Are There Any SEO Tips Using Video Thumbnails Posted To GMB?
Bradley: All right. So, Jim Greene’s up, and he says, “Random question: are there any SEO tips using video thumbnails posted to GMB?” Yeah, well here’s a better tip, Jim. Don’t just post the video thumbnail, post the video to GMB; upload it directly to GMB. So, instead of posting like a YouTube link in the post and then just using the video thumbnail, what I recommend is literally taking the video file and uploading it as the post itself. What we found recently was GMB posts, just image posts, get a certain amount of engagement depending on, obviously, what the industry is, the level of interest in the specific location that you’re marketing in, and all that. That will determine how many views like an image posts gets, right?
But for example, I’ve got a client that is in the preschool space. Let’s use this as an example. I’ve got a client that’s in the preschool space that we post image posts, GMB image posts, and within a week, they might get 150 to 250 views within seven days on that image post. Well, I just took one of their rep videos. I use David Sprague’s review commercials to generate reputation videos or review commercial videos or whatever for my clients once a month. So, I decided one day … We’re doing the video anyways, and so I said one day, “Hey, let me try this.” Then, I uploaded the actual video file to GMB posts and when I did, like within seven days … Typically, a GM image posts would only have between 150 to 250 views in seven days. It was well over 600 views in seven days. So, I was like, “Oh, man. I’m onto something here.”
Very similar to Facebook, guys. I mean, it makes sense. Facebook, when you post a regular image post in a Facebook group, or excuse me, on a Facebook page, you only get about 5% reach to whatever the number of followers of that page are. So, for example, an image post will only get 5%. Of the thousand members, you’re going to get 50 people that might actually be exposed to that image post, but if you do like a Facebook Live video, then you’ll get 30% reach to the same audience, right? I think Google’s applying the same thing is they’re pushing the videos more because they get more engagement, so you’ll see a bit more views.
So, there you go, Jim. You upload the video instead of just the image, okay?
Hernan: Yep.
Bradley: Frankie says, “Wow, that spoke right to the heart. Thank you, Bradley, and all you guys.” You’re welcome, Frankie.
Hernan: [inaudible 00:55:42] Frankie.
Bradley: That���s awesome. Thank you man.
What Is The Difference Between GMB Pro And GMB Optimization?
Brian says, “What is the difference between GMB Pro and GMB Optimization? Sounds like it should be part of GMP Pro. What is that special about GMB optimizer?” I’m not sure what you mean, Brian. GMB optimization is what we’re going to provide as a done-for-you service in MGYB, which is our store. GMB Pro, Local GMB Pro, is the training for how to do all this stuff that we’re going to do in our done-for-you service. Does that make sense? So, essentially what we provide in the done-for-you service, which is going to be available in MGYB, is what you will learn in Local GMB Pro.
Adam: I’m just wondering is there some other service out there?
Bradley: I don’t know.
Hernan: Probably.
Bradley: [crosstalk 00:56:28]
Adam: Anyway [inaudible 00:56:29] … Who was it that asked that? Was it Brian? So Brian, since we’ve still got a few minutes left, if there’s some other product or something out there, let us know. If you can clarify, maybe we can answer better.
Bradley: Wayne put that meme in there. That’s awesome.
Okay, Greg’s up. He says, “[inaudible 00:56:45] I would do that in reverse, but a little money for Press Advantage press release from SL.”
Male: [inaudible 00:56:50]
Bradley: Okay. Yeah, he already talked about that. Thank you, Greg. That’s good advice by the way. In Wayne’s meme, it’s amazing. Thanks, Wayne.
Okay. Paul says, “They have already started closing the loopholes. Google has started turnover in that department inside the …” Well, that’s possible, Paul. But you know, guys, we’ll find a work-around. Don’t we always?
Hernan: Yeah. [crosstalk 00:57:15].
Chris: As far as I know, it’s still working.
Bradley: Hammer time. Look at that, all those memes. Thanks, Wayne.
Chris: There you go.
Bradley: That’s awesome.
How Do You Change No Follow Links To Do Follow In Press Release?
Brian says, “Anyone tried changing nofollow links to dofollow links and press releases by editing an HTML view?” Brian, it’s funny you mention that because that was a hack that I used to do at Newswire.net because you could publish the … you could save … So, you’d go in and you put all your text and your links into the press release, and then you would save it as a draft, and then you would submit for publishing, which would go to the editors for review. But when you saved for draft or submit for publishing, it would change all of the links to nofollow.
So, what I would do is always go save as drafts, and then before hitting submit for publishing, I would go into the HTML view and edit the nofollow tag out. Then, I would submit for publishing before hitting save for draft again, and it would send it with the nofollow tag removed and they would publish it that way. It was a hack I didn’t tell anybody about because I didn’t want them closing that loophole at Newswire.net. I just spilled the beans now because I don’t know if that’s still available, and I don’t have any credits left.
Male: Go for it.
Bradley: But as far as like Press Advantage, I don’t think that’s possible. I don’t know about Press Cable either because, typically, you … Again, in either Press Advantage or Press Cable, I don’t see an HTML view. There’s not a way for me to edit the text. It’s just the [inaudible 00:58:42] editor. So, they insert the nofollow links. There’s not much you can do about it. But Brian, if you’re on a platform where you do, yeah, try it. See what you can do. See if you can edit it out. That’s a good thing to do.
Adam: Our POFU video’s going to be released, especially, to Mastermind members. That’s-
Male: [inaudible 00:59:02]
Adam: That’s TBD.
Male: [crosstalk 00:59:04]
Hernan: Yeah, that’s TBD. Yeah, we definitely recorded them. So, we have them. We’re going to be adding them. They’re going to be out for attendees.
Bradley: Yes.
Hernan: Not sure what’s going up next.
Bradley: Yeah, because the Mastermind members are going to get the process training for the Local Lease Pro scaling method once the POFU LIVE members and I get through our 90-day challenge. We’re going through a build group together where most of the members are going to be joining me for the next 90 days, and our goal is to hit 50 GMB assets, built and optimized by the end of 90 days. If we can do it, then they’re going to help me to refine the process training and all that, too. Then, that’s when I’m going to release it to you guys.
I know I’ve mentioned that I was going to try to release it between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s likely going to be … Well, 90 days is going to be beyond that, but it’s worth the wait. I’d rather give it to you guys in a more polished form than in its raw form. Obviously, though, Mastermind members, if anybody really wants it in its more raw form, reach out to me and I’ll work something out with you, okay?
Hernan: Cool.
Adam: You heard that, reach out to Bradley directly.
Bradley: What’s that?
Hernan: Yeah.
Bradley: Through support [crosstalk 01:00:05].
Male: [crosstalk 01:00:05]
Bradley: No, Mastermind members can contact me in the group at anytime, at anytime.
Adam: Bradley loves Facebook, so it’s the best place to [inaudible 01:00:14].
Hernan: Yeah, we can. Can we put Bradley’s phone number right here on the event page?
Bradley: Yeah, that’s it. That’s it.
Adam: That was good and it’s not because [crosstalk 01:00:22].
Bradley: [crosstalk 01:00:22]
Adam: During the Hump Day Hangouts, but I remember the very first … just want to share this fun tidbit with people. The very first draft of emails that we had as an autoresponder, like “Thank you for joining Semantic Mastery,” … This is like four years ago now. Hernan included Bradley’s phone number.
Hernan: Oh, I did. Oh, man, sorry. That was there for quite a bit, actually, for maybe a year, something, and you were getting these calls [crosstalk 01:00:45]-
Adam: The crazy part is how many people don’t call today, but anyways, don’t call Bradley.
Chris: You mean the 976 number?
Adam: Yes.
Chris: That’s so funny.
Adam: Hold on. We need to go register it.
Hernan: Sorry man. Sorry.
Bradley: All right guys. Well, I think we’re going to wrap it up. We’ve got lots of beer to drink, and apparently lots of beef jerky to eat.
Adam: Thanks, Jenny.
Bradley: Yeah, thanks, Jenny.
Hernan: Thanks, Jenny.
Chris: Thank you.
Hernan: Thank you guys, and we’ll see you soon.
Bradley: [crosstalk 01:01:03]
All right.
Chris: Cool.
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