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[Podcast] Empowering Products: Increase Results and Revenue with Digital Downloads (Monica Froese)
Posted by The Leadpages Team | Aug 10, 2022 Sep 06, 2022
The path of entrepreneurship is rarely a straight line. Wherever you find yourself in your own business journey, you've likely made adjustments along the way. Today's episode features a member of The Lead Generation whose "failure is not an option" approach has led to great success for both her family and the parents she serves.
Monica Froese is the founder of RedefiningMom.com and the host of the Empowered Business Podcast. In this episode, Monica shares her journey from the corporate world to mom to entrepreneur, her realization around the best way to serve her audience, and how you can grow your business through digital products and courses.
Stop waiting for people in positions of power to make all the changes. You can take responsibility for making big impacts, too.
Simple products can have big results. Don't rush to create a huge course when a single solution digital product can be a big hit for your audience.
Cash flow is key. Improve your finances by focusing on cash flow and ways to improve it in the near future.
Re-alignment is in your control. When you feel out of balance, recommit to the thing(s) that fuels your mission.
Layer value across multiple products. It's impossible to create a "kitchen sink" program, so consider creating courses and digital products of various weights.
Be intentional at all phases of your business. Use specialized tools, strategic partnerships, and program elements to design the business that works for you and your customers.
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Get to Know Monica Froese
Bob Sparkins: Monica, thank you so much for joining me for this episode of The Lead Generation. It's great to connect with you today.
Monica Froese: Yeah. Happy to be here.
Bob: I would love to know, number one, where are you connecting from today? And my favorite first question is how are the lives of the people that you serve transformed by your business activities?
Monica: All right. Well, I'm from Buffalo, New York, born and raised. I always say… People are like, "Do you like it there?" I'm like, "Yeah, go Bills." Big Bills fan. I'm very loyal to my hometown, but I do travel a lot so that's what makes it easier to live here with the snow, I like to say. Well, my business has transformed quite a bit over the years, but where we land right now and what our main focus is on is helping women achieve financial independence. That can be… How I teach right now is to do that through creating a revenue stream of digital products, although we're reviving our original website, which is Redefining Mom, which will expand that out because, really, financial independence can come in many different forms, not just having an online business or revenue stream online. That's just one way. Right now, that's our main focus.
Bob: Awesome. We're going to talk about a lot of both Redefining Mom and your Empowered Business. First, though, I'm a big fan of having Josh Allen on my fantasy team whenever I can, so-
Monica: I'm sure you are.
Bob: Go Bills. And, of course, as I live in Minneapolis I can understand the weather, although you do actually get more snow typically than we do, but I digress.
Monica: We're the snow capital of the country. People find that weird that I like being here, and I've never skied either, but yeah.
A Business Born from a Traumatic Birthing Experience
Bob: As we discuss your journey, one of the things that I loved reading about on the case study that we did on the Leadpages blog is a bit about how you went from where you were to where you're going. For those that are listening, please do check out the show notes. We have a more expanded version of Monica's story, but I want to get a couple highlights into this episode before we talk about some of the nitty-gritty entrepreneurial tips. Your entrepreneurial life took a bit of a turn around the pregnancy of your daughter. Tell us first, though, before that all happened, what was your career looking like? Because you weren't originally an entrepreneur.
Monica: I wasn't. I definitely always had the entrepreneurial spirit. I always say I was never meant to be controlled by anyone, but I was a good Catholic school girl who fell in line and followed all the rules. I knew how to follow the rules even if I didn't like following the rules, is what I like to say. My dad told me when I was a kid, "Don't be an accountant," but then I ended up getting my MBA in finance. I spent 11 years in tech, and tech is a very male-dominated industry. I loved what I did in tech. I didn't like the politics of tech. I think I was good at what I did. I ran really large marketing campaigns for brands like Microsoft and HP, so I always had a very good pulse on return on investment and understanding the money and how to build a business because it was essentially having your own little business inside of a business, is what I did running those campaigns. I did that for 11 years. I had my daughter seven years into my career, so I stayed in corporate for four years after but it was a very difficult ride. It's when I realized that being a working mom is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be.
Bob: Yeah. I can imagine but I can't imagine, obviously, because I don't have the opportunity to have children physically, but I do have two kids and understand that a little bit. But I would love for you to share just a little bit about the challenges that you did face after the birth of your daughter. I know that you had and share and discuss frequently postpartum challenges that you faced and how it shifted for you. What was it like? What did you face?
Monica: This is why Redefining Mom was born, and actually I always say the name… At the time, I had no intention behind the name but it actually turned out to be a really great name to trademark because I can redefine myself all the time if I want. At the time, I started… Like I said, I've always had a mouth and always said it like it was, so naturally after I had my daughter and I realized all of the stuff that I never really thought about before, like the lack of maternity leave… I almost died giving birth. I was in labor for 72 hours and I had very bad postpartum PTSD due to birth trauma. Anywhere else in the world, by the way, they would call that violence against the mother but here we call it birth trauma, almost putting the onus on the fact that they almost killed me on the table back on me when it wasn't my fault.
Processing that with being in corporate and my career taking off at the same time, it was a lot and I was in a very dark place so I took to the internet and I thought, "Well, I'm just going to talk about this on my blog," which I treated more like an open diary because that's what blogs were in the first half of the early 2000s when I… It was an open diary, essentially, and that's how I treated it, but unbeknownst to me my story resonated with a lot of people and it got me invited to the White House. I met President Obama and he challenged me to do something bigger. He actually called me a spitfire and said, "What are you going to do about it?" And I looked at him and said, "What do you mean, what am I going to do about it? What are you going to do about it?" I'm like, "You're the leader of the free world."
He's, "No, how are you going to make an impact on this?" The more I thought about it, I just… I was like, "I can't make an impact from the seat in corporate." I think you can do a lot of change inside of an organization, you can be a change leader inside of an organization. That wasn't my calling. I think I was always meant to do something bigger, and that's when Redefining Mom took a life of its own and it became an actual business. I quit eight months after that and that's also when I found digital products, though I didn't realize they were digital products at the time because no one really called them that. That was in 2016. Really, it's just been a windy journey since then of a lot of reinvention along the way, redefining, which is, like I said, a great trademark, and then I ended up getting into…
Because I have such a strong business background with my MBA and everything and really enjoy numbers, that's how I got into teaching women how to do what I do because the whole basis of Redefining Mom was, hey, I had a very strong conservative influence in my life that was telling me being a stay-at-home mom was the only way to be. I'm like, "But I want to work. I'm good at what I do and I truly believe that you don't have to choose one over the other." That's really where it got started. Having an online business gives me the type of freedom I could never have gotten in corporate, and so I became really passionate with helping other moms particularly find that balance that we're told we can't have both, and you can. I think you can.
Bob: Yeah. Well, I, for one, congratulate you on your journey. There's a lot more nitty-gritty stuff that's in this journey that you've had. I do want to mention that you're now the second guest of The Lead Generation who's advised a President, and specifically President Obama, but Ramon Ray back a few episodes earlier in this series was able to do the same with YouTube. But obviously, the maternity leave policies of our country can always improve and I'm glad that you had the opportunity at that time of our nation's history. Hopefully, it will continue to improve because we do have a long way to go.
Monica: We do.
Bob: But that could be a completely different podcast episode, right?
Monica: Yes.
"I Don't Do Failure"
Bob: I imagine that… Well, actually I have a question to follow up with you around the journey that you had from starting Redefining Mom and then leaping into that full-time. Was there a… Other than this call to action by President Obama, was there anything that actually let you have enough confidence to take the risk to say, "No more corporate, I'm going to do this full-time."
Monica: Well, funny… I always put on this shirt that I'm wearing, which I'll… For anyone listening to audio, it's, "I don't do failure." Just recently I realized this is my motto, but it has followed me in everything I do which is when I decided I was going to quit my job, I think I made $50 that month in the business. By the way, we relied on my income. It wasn't like I didn't pay bills. I paid bills in the house. I just had a very strong sense of knowing that I was going to make something out of it and I just knew… Failure just wasn't an option for me. I always say we all fail, we learn lessons from failure, but ultimate failure, like it not working, was not going to happen. What ended up happening actually, I watched a webinar with you back in the day.
I was still in corporate when I watched it, actually, because I had two work from home days and I remember on my lunch break I watched your Leadpages webinar because where I struggled was I… Because my background is in marketing in corporate, I knew all the things I had to do. I understood that blogging, if I was going to make money, was actually content marketing, it was meant to attract people to me, but it was what I did with people once they got to me that mattered. So what mattered? Well, I needed to own a relationship with them, email marketing, and I needed to sell them something so I had to figure out what I was going to sell in my business. But where I struggled initially was WordPress and me did not get along so much so that my husband banned me from working on my website after 10:00 PM at night because I would break things and then get very upset.
First hire I ever had still to this day is my friend Grayson. He does my tech because I get super angry when things break. I'm like… It's bad. I'm like, "How am I ever, if I cannot make small changes to my website when I need to make them on the fly…" And I am a very… A typical entrepreneur, like right now… I'm not talking about yesterday, I'm talking about right now. Leadpages at the time, this was before drag and drop, thankfully you have drag and drop now, but the OG software of Leadpages is the first thing I used that I could "get." Here's the other thing too about it, it was like there's no distractions. Here you go to a… I can't stand display ads. It's one of my things that I get on bloggers about because I think it's very limiting. I could go on forever about that, but a blog post has a lot of distractions on a website.
There's menus, there's sidebars, there's a lot of things to detract attention from an action that you want someone to take. The thing about Leadpages with my marketing brain that just clicked for me was, "Okay, they're going to come to this page and there's nothing else to do but the action that I'm asking them to take, period. That's it."
I'm like, "That's what I need." Plus I could update it on the fly without having to engage Grayson at 11:00 PM. It was just… That's actually when I realized that I was having all this momentum on my site because people were interested just naturally in what I was saying, but then I couldn't talk to them after that. They would read the one article and that was it. It was like, "Well, I need an ongoing communication with these people."
How a Simple Budgeting Spreadsheet Created $400K in Revenue
Monica: It just was a very natural flow that when I decided to quit my corporate job, I went… When people say, "What's the one thing you did?" The one thing I did, I cared about nothing else but growing my email list. For five solid months it was, "How am I going to own this relationship?" Then quickly I learned, "Ooh, now I have to have something to sell. That's the gap we're going to miss here if I plan on replacing my paycheck." That's when I launched my first digital product, which was a spreadsheet, and it was a family budget spreadsheet that solved a need of my readers at the time, which was, "Hey, I want to also quit my job and do this thing, but I need to pay the bills so how do we do this?" I'm like, "Well, you need a budget."
That's actually the very first thing we did as a family, was we sat down and made a budget, which I hate that word by the way because I am a spender. I'd rather make more money to keep spending. I do not like budgeting. But then when I flipped it on its head and I realized, "Well, budgeting is really just a way to understand where your money's going, it doesn't necessarily mean you're taking something away from yourself or cutting something out. You got to understand where your money's going. How else are we going to scale back to the point where we can give myself this leeway for the business to take off?"
That became my first digital product, which has gone on to make a lot of money. It's a $17 product, the sales page is built on Leadpages. It's been maybe just three revisions since 2016 and it's made over $400,000 with very little effort on my part.
Bob: Yeah. That's amazing. I was going to ask you a little bit about that, but I appreciate you already jumping into it because essentially that's a full-time income for a lot of people just from one spreadsheet with some minor revisions, and you're not sitting on the computer waiting for somebody to buy it for you to send it, right?
Monica: Right.
Bob: You have the systems in place to sell it, to deliver it, communicate. You can never work again and that's still bringing in money, probably on a little diminishing return over time but it's still doing well for itself so, (A) congratulations about that.
Home Finance Tip: Map out Your Cash Flow Accurately
Bob: But more importantly, (B) I'd love to know just a tip about budgeting that you help the moms you serve understand about their home finances so that they can get their head around it a little bit better and really take that control and confidently manage their home better.
Monica: Yeah. I would say the basis of… And I actually kept the name simple, the Family Budget Spreadsheet is quite literal. The real impetus behind it is many people don't understand what their cashflow in their family looks like projected out, so if you're trying to make this move where you're going to lose your income over here and your income, if you're moving into doing your own thing, is going to ramp up on the slower side, you need to know highs and lows, "Okay. Optimistically we hope to make this, but what if we make that? How do you project that out and understand where you're going to end up 12 months down the road?" That was the single biggest hangup that my audience was having was, "Okay. I could probably white knuckle it for a month or two, but if I'm not at the same level I was in corporate at the end of that then we're in deep trouble so what does that look like?" The whole basis is projecting out, understanding your family cash flow or… And it has typical budget elements like where the money's going and all that, it's like typical things that you would think of a budget but the projections and the estimations of your cash flow is probably the biggest thing that attracted people to it.
Bob: Yeah. I think it's really important for people to have that sense of destination, Not just circumstance. It sounds like that's what this particular spreadsheet does for your audience, which I think is amazing.
Monica: I still use it to this day. I've used it since my daughter was a year old. She's almost 10 and every month… I pay the bills based on my husband's paycheck schedule. I open it up twice a month and I still do my own projections. I think it's fairly easy to use once you get into it.
One of the things I've discovered in my entrepreneurial journey is I have a knack, and I think this is what makes me a good teacher and how I ended up in the B2B world with helping other women do this, I have a knack for taking concepts that people find overwhelming or daunting, especially around data, numbers, things like that, and making them easy to digest and understand.
Bob: Yeah. Keeping things simple. That's the way to do it. We'll of course have a link to the spreadsheet from Monica in the show notes so make sure that you do take a look at that because the more you have the handle on your finances, the better risks you can take in business which means the faster you can grow, which I think is really important.
Recommit to Your Core Mission
Bob: Now, the journey that you had I'm sure had some ups and downs along the way, as you mentioned. Is there any one particular struggle or challenge that you faced in the preceding seven years that you learned from a lot? Obviously, it didn't stop you from succeeding, wasn't really a failure, but something that you had to overcome and you still learn from to this day?
Monica: Well, yeah. I don't know how to phrase this. Maybe a four-year hiccup that was a really good thing but taught me a lot and wasn't necessarily what I wanted. Summation, when Redefining Mom really took off it was in the Pinterest heyday of free traffic. My marketing brain was like, "Ooh, eventually this gravy train is going to get cut off." When they came out with their advertising system I was like, "I'm going to learn this." All of my blogging friends were like, "Why would you pay for something you can get for free?" I'm like, "It's called targeted marketing and very high-quality leads. If you're very good… If you get good at doing ads, that's what you're getting, is high-quality targeted leads." I knew what was going to be a thing so I got really good at it before pretty much anyone else got really good at it.
It put me in what I call "blue ocean" out there, where it put me on the map. Essentially, it's the thing that people knew me for and it wasn't intentional, it was just something that I got really good at. I had a course around it that was very successful, made a lot of money, but it made me very unhappy. The reason why was because I said Pinterest ended up hijacking Redefining Mom. Now, there are a lot of reasons why building a business around someone else's platform is not a good idea. Every time Pinterest changed something, I had to change something. There was a lot of missteps along the way, but at the end of the day what ended up happening was my mission of wanting to help women got hijacked on this little micro how to teach this specific skill. In early 2020, we built a house and it was this perfect storm where we built on 2019 prices and the market was high for selling and it was just this great thing.
We were so excited, and right after we closed and put a lot of cash into doing things like the landscaping and all this stuff, I looked at my husband and I said, "I'm really unhappy with the business and I'm going to blow up the Pinterest ads course, which was our biggest revenue stream at the time." He looked at me like, "Are you kidding me? Why didn't you tell me this six months ago?" But I'm like, "But it's okay because I don't do failure." That was my attitude. I'm like, "There's no…" And I've not taken a single revenue dip making the change, and it was pretty dramatic. I cut it off completely. I decided in September and I retired it by the end of November, and that's when I launched Empowered Business. Empowered Business was meant to be part of that bigger mission of helping women achieve… Essentially what it all rolls into is financial independence.
Another thing that informed that, I have a podcast episode on it, I think it's episode 22, but in May of '21 I… Was it 2021? Yeah, I guess it was May 2021. This is when it really became very solidified what my mission was. I went to go buy a car.
I've never had good experiences in car dealerships, I will tell you that, but it was a very condescending experience and they just took everything. They asked me if my husband was going to co-sign three times, they intentionally spelled Redefining Mom wrong. It's actually why I changed the name of my LLC because I was so mad because they didn't take me serious in there because it was Redefining Mom LLC now it's Froese Media. But it was a very condescending experience and I thought, "Wait a minute, every woman needs to be able to walk into a car dealership and buy her own car, period. Period." I don't care if you're married, I don't care if you're single, everyone who's an adult needs to have the ability to take care of themselves. That really set me on this mission of how to make that happen.
Bob: Yeah. I'm glad that you're doing what you're doing because we do live in a world where unfortunately that kind of stuff still goes down.
Monica: It does.
Bob: And not very cool.
Avoid Key Mistakes of Digital Course Creation
Bob: All right. I would love to switch gears now and discuss a little bit more around your entrepreneurial zone of genius, which is creating digital courses, something that I'm passionate about and have enjoyed the fruits of over the business life I had before I joined Leadpages. The first thing I'd love to know, Monica, is for you to share if there's a misconception around creating digital courses that you would love to get rid of. If there's one thing that you could get people to stop thinking about what it takes to make a digital course, what would that be?
Monica: Well, okay. I'll say two things. First, I do love digital courses but I think there's… Right now in the current state of the economy, I think there's a lot of power in digital downloads more so than even digital courses, but the thing about digital courses… Because I've created a ton over the years and I've helped a lot of women do the same, probably the biggest misconception is the over-delivery that people put into them. They think they need to over-explain everything and I truly think the core basis… You said it earlier, simpler is better. I'm guilty of that, wanting to feel… I always say it's like putting in the kitchen sink, you want to throw… Because you feel like you have to create the value there, but the real value of a course is getting someone from point A to point B in the most efficient way possible. Usually that means less, not more. That's where I think a lot of people go wrong with online courses out there. I think the successful ones are really good at keeping you on that linear path.
Bob: That's awesome. I think you mentioned a second thing.
Monica: The downloadable templates. Here's the thing, sometimes I refer to them as usability tools, that's what my spreadsheets are. We sell a lot. I don't just sell courses, I have hundreds of digital products. We're working on getting them all up in our shop now because there's just so many at this point, but sometimes the knowledge… Because, okay, actually let me back up and just say what a digital product is because I think sometimes people overthink it. Any digital product, a digital course, a spreadsheet, a template, a printable, whatever it is, it's someone has a problem and you're providing a solution. The digital product is the solution to the problem, period. That's all it is.
Sometimes that solution is a lot easier and a lot less complicated and it doesn't need to go into a course and you don't have to have a course to get this perceived value either. This is a big thing I find in the online space. People think they have to put everything in a course so it's perceived to be more valuable so they can charge more, but there is a lot of power in smaller-priced digital products and selling in volume. Because then you can create momentum with upsells and downsells and cross-selling and if someone… I have a note on my computer that actually says, "If someone purchases Y, they are more likely to purchase X."
That's always to keep in my mind to pay attention to, "When someone buys this, they're more likely to buy that. How do we connect those dots for them through email marketing?"
I just think there's a lot of power in the smaller downloadable. Getting people quick wins, essentially, is how I see them and I think they're easier to bite off when you're getting started. A lot of my students, if they come in wanting to create a course, they get overwhelmed by it very fast. There's so much to learn just doing video and PDF supplements and there's just a lot of moving parts, so just boil down your knowledge to start easy. Sometimes that's just providing something like a template, like the Family Budget Spreadsheet, something you use in your everyday life. I tell my students that all the time, "What is something that makes your life easier? Start there."
Bob: Yeah. That's an amazing pathway towards success and revenue. I know that my own history is riddled with $27 products that boosted my ability to leave the teaching classroom and all that kind of stuff, so I can echo the importance of this concept.
Your First Digital Product Should Solve One Specific Problem
Bob: For those that are—you may have touched on this already, but I'd love to see if you want to expand on it—for those that are brand new to creating a digital product or a digital course, what should they get? Obviously, the simplicity and thinking through what's the easy, efficient deliverable, but is there anything else that they should be thinking about?
Monica: Yes. This is a big one. Okay, the whole concept of not putting the kitchen sink into it… So what happens? This is what happens usually. Someone comes to me brand new and they're like, "I don't know anything enough to create a product on it." I'm like, "No, everyone knows something that is good enough and something they could create a product about it."
We go through this exercise called reverse engineering where I take them through search engines because search engines… You search a problem, solutions come up, their minds get rolling. They're like, "Oh, wait. Yeah. This system I use in the kitchen, I could totally put this." And now they're all excited, they're all jazzed.
They're like, "I could create a hundred digital products." Now they want to put all of these ideas into one digital product.
People don't know you yet, they know nothing about you and so when someone's introduced to you, you have to give them an easy yes. You just do. If you give them too much or you're trying to solve too much, they get overwhelmed and they will click off your site.
I have my motto… What I say repeatedly to new people is, "One problem, one solution. No boiling the ocean, no kitchen sink thrown in. You need to figure out what their first problem is on the topic that you're going to be creating your products on. What is that problem? Solve for that one problem. One solution. Start there."
Bob: That's awesome. One of the things I love to help people with along those lines, too, is your first product is not your last product. That was something that I had to teach myself so that I didn't feel like I had to dump the kitchen sink in because I would have another opportunity in order to fulfill whatever other aspects of a solution could be presented. This one problem, one solution is super perfect and I think it's really something to adopt.
Monica: Yeah. Part of that learning… I always feel like you always want to learn from a teacher who went before you, made the mistakes and then they can… Part of learning from people online, in my opinion, is you're learning from their mistakes. What would they have done differently? When I created the Pinterest ads course, that was a very robust course so essentially in my ascension ladder, I started at the top, created the whole thing. Then one day I was like, "Oh, this is overwhelming to people."
You had to be at a certain level in order to even get to the point where you could really benefit from all of the information I put in there. Then I built my ascension ladder down. Now, I've done this enough times to say, "If you're going to build an ascension ladder, starting from the ground up is way easier than starting at the end and working back."
What happens, too, is people inform you… This is a big thing. When people are new, they forget… As you get momentum and people buy your stuff, people love to tell you their problems. They love it. It's like reviews. I'm always skeptical on reviews because, let's be real, people leave reviews when they're mad. They don't leave reviews when they're happy so they're skewed.
Well, it's the same thing when you have customers. If someone is upset or they have a problem that they're still looking for you to solve, you're going to hear about it. Nobody's shy about telling you that kind of stuff. Through that, when you keep your focus very narrow in that first product, very naturally you're going to hear the same questions coming out and it's going to click with you. You're like, "Oh, so this is the next thing they need from me. Now I'll go create the next product." That's essentially how I create all my products nowadays because my audience is big enough that people just tell me what they want. I don't really have to go validate it very much. People are very happy to tell me what they want me to do.
Supplement Your Products (and Revenue) with Strategic Affiliate Marketing
Bob: Now, you've also done well as an affiliate of other people's products. How do you decide when just to recommend some other person's product that solves that new challenge versus creating something for yourself?
Monica: Well, that's a good one. For me at this point, I'm probably… I guess we'll just take Redefining Mom for example because that's out of the B2B world and it's more consumer-based for moms. Generally, I can see holes. For example, my pregnancy posts do really well in Redefining Mom and I have no funnel behind it. What I need is some sort of maternity leave planner, pregnancy planner, something like that. It doesn't resonate with me. For me, I can't… I don't think I would create a good enough product to really impact and help, and that's what I want to do. Everyone should want to do that in their business. I actually want to make an impact. It's just not about selling something.
In that case, I would outsource it or partner with someone, like an affiliate, who has a better product than I know I could create. If I do my due diligence on what's out there and if someone has something that hits the nail on the head and would serve my audience and did it better than I know I can do it, I'm better off being an affiliate than trying to recreate the wheel on something that I'm not that confident I could do better. It opens you up to adjacent audiences too. That's the other thing, being an affiliate for someone gives you exposure to other people's audiences so it's a kind of win-win in that way when you see it that way.
Grow Faster with a Larger Network
Bob: For sure. We could obviously talk about affiliates for a whole 'nother conversation, but we have just wrapped up, I think, a thought around the people that are pretty new to creating digital products and courses. For those that have been around the block a few times, have a few products under their belt, maybe they're at that level five or six out of 10 that they want to be at, what's their next step to help them scale to a six-figure business and beyond through digital products and courses?
Monica: Well, networking really is the best way to get momentum. Affiliates are one way, doing joint ventures. Anytime you can get in front of someone else's audience, especially nowadays… Back in the day… Back in the day. We're going to go back in the day when Facebook ads actually were pretty predictable and produced predictably. People actually built what I call fake businesses that way. They basically built businesses based on this one funnel idea, running a Facebook ad, made a ton of money and they're like, "Look, I got this business."
Then anytime there was any shift to Facebook, and there was definitely a big shift last year with Facebook and privacy things, you didn't have a business anymore. When you really peel back, the core in any business, in tech, in anything I've ever done in the business world, it always comes down to relationships. That is how you grow. Hands down it's who… It's the rooms you put yourself in, it's the other people's audiences that you network with and get in front of, and so to hit that elusive six-figure mark that people talk about you're likely… It's going to be a slow go to get there without networking, if you'll even get there. It's really the relationships you form.
Bob: Yeah. I think these days if you have really good ads and are willing to lose a lot of money to make a lot of money then that's a path, but absolutely, being able to be on podcasts, be on webinars, be in social lives or whatever, that makes a big difference and it's a very quick accelerator.
Monica: Yeah.
Bob: It's still going to take time but it's… Given the alternative, it's much, much faster.
Digital Course Toolbox
Bob: Now let's talk just for a moment about one of my favorite topics around courses, and any kind of business really, but course creation particularly. I'm sure there's a couple tools that you're using that you couldn't live without when it comes to creating your courses and products. What are a couple of those that you love to teach people about?
Monica: Okay, so I'm obsessed with Loom for video recording. Makes everything easier because they have actually a lot of built-in tools now. They have captions that can auto-generate, you can easily clip your videos, you can download the videos, you can just share the link, you can also embed the videos. Loom is just amazing, and it's easy to use. There's a desktop extension, there's a Chrome extension, so by far for recording and screen sharing Loom is my favorite.
ThriveCart is my favorite funnel builder checkout. It's drag and drop like Leadpages is for creating our sales pages and our opt in pages, which makes life so much easier. For me it's Loom, Leadpages for selling and bringing in new leads, ThriveCart for closing the sale in terms of creating digital products.
Here's the thing, when I said downloadable products like printables, templates: Canva is free. Now, yes, the pro version's… Honestly, I don't even know how much it is anymore but it's not very expensive. You can create so many digital products inside of Canva. It's crazy.
Then my spreadsheets we create using Google Sheets, which, PS, is free for you and the user. It's free. Completely free software. We have at this point probably 20-ish spreadsheets that we sell so you have to have a way to create the actual product itself.
Gosh, oh, an email service provider. You need that. Without that you don't have email marketing, and we use ConvertKit for that. I would say that's our core software that we use.
Thinking Through What Bonuses to Offer Within a Higher Priced Course
Bob: Awesome. Now, speaking of using Leadpages for your sales pages, I love the pages that you put together to sell your stuff. I could just break them down all day long around the sequence of what you're telling, the stories you're telling, the language, the copy, the images, all that stuff. You just really go to town and I'm very excited to see them and know that you test them, and know that they get really great results. But what I want to ask you about now you alluded to a little bit earlier, and that is this value stacking that people often do. Sometimes they put in too much, sometimes they don't put in enough. When I'm looking at something like your lab, which we'll link to of course in the show notes, you have multiple components.
I'm curious, what do you think are some must-have things for those larger courses where you're trying to get that $500, $1000 price point for the bigger course and experience? What are some of those components that you find people just seem like they can't live without, like they really salivate over when you put these into a course?
Monica: It was actually something that I resisted for a very long time, being stubborn because I can be like that sometimes, and then finally, "Fine, we'll do it." The lab actually really solidified this for me. The lab is broken down into what I call pillars because creating a digital product from scratch is an overwhelming process for a lot of people. You have to figure out your idea, you have to have put together the product, there's a ton of digital assets that go into selling it. You need graphics and it's a lot. It can be very overwhelming, so breaking it down into pillars makes it an easier roadmap for people to follow. We have a roadmap inside there too, but it's okay. Today we're going to create our digital product. That is pillar number one. Now we're going to work on the selling mechanism for it.
Putting them in pillars I have found for teaching has made a very complicated, very big topic less overwhelming because people can focus on just that pillar that they're in. But the real key is… First of all, there's no course out there that can completely solve all of your problems around a topic. That's ridiculous for anyone to say that. Do I know everything about creating digital products? I know a lot. I'm sure that there are… And there are areas that I am not the best at. For example, I do not like talking about getting organic traffic. It's just not my favorite thing in the world, I wouldn't consider myself an expert in that are because it really depends where are you getting the organic traffic from and whatever platform that is, let's just say Instagram, there are Instagram experts you should go learn…
I cannot… That's like me throwing the kitchen sink in. I'm not an Instagram expert so I can't really teach you that, but what I did learn was the compellingness of bonuses… This is how I see bonuses, those sales pages where you read 15 bonuses and this is ridiculous. That's why I was so resistant to it. I'm like, "Is the product the bonus or is… What's going on here?" I was just very… But when it clicked, what a bonus should be is a… As you're selling something, you'll learn that there are going to be common objections and common questions that… What I have found, I get questions and if they frustrate me it's because I know it's a gap that I'm missing. Overcoming those objections by providing a very valuable bonus, it helps with your selling and it also gives… It helps the perceived value as well.
If bonuses are used, please don't throw 15 in. That's ridiculous. I just don't understand that. I think that's bad marketing personally, but if offering a bonus it's not meant to be the core piece of your course, but if it helps them… If they're going through your sales page like, "But what about this? How am I going to… I can't quite connect." For me it was always, "Well, after I create my digital product and I create the selling mechanism behind it, like we create our sales page on Leadpages and we do all this fun stuff, how am I going to get people to buy it?" There's lots of ways we can get people to buy it but we narrowed it down to three organic ways that I, over the years, have been very good at doing.
We called it Organic Traffic 101 and now it's a bonus as part of the lab after doing, I don't know, 20, 25 webinars on this, when that was always a question of, "But how am I going to get people to buy it once I'm done?" Simple, you're going to use Organic Traffic 101 and it's a bonus to the course because it's not the thing. For me, the reason I wanted it to be a bonus is because that was not the main part of what I am teaching you in the Lab, but if it's going to keep you from taking action and actually creating the digital product then fine, I will give you what you need but I don't want you to get distracted because you still need a good digital product first.
Bob: That's really important. I do find just from a psychological perspective if your bonus is something that they didn't find the value from, they don't refund because of that.
Monica: Correct.
Bob: They'll refund if they don't find value in the core course, but if the bonus was not their cup of tea they won't have a problem with it. If it was part of your course and it's one-third of your course, is this one thing that they didn't really enjoy, they're going to be like, "You know what? This didn't work for me. I'm going to refund." I don't know if you found that to be the case but that certainly is what I have seen over the years.
Monica: Yes. I will say for sure, and then also the bonus should not be required for them to be able to see success with the promise. If providing these organic strategies helps them overcome an objection for creating the product… But that's not the promise. I am not… I am very clear, actually. I do not promise you will ever make a sale. I can't promise that. That'd be ridiculous. That's false advertising. I can promise you that if you take my course that I will give you all of the lessons I have learned over the years of creating a good, compelling digital product that people will want to buy, but I never promise you're going to find the people. That's up to you. That's your business, that is your hard work that you have to put in to go find the people. I will help you create a really amazing product.
Create a Landing Page for Specific Podcast Episodes
Bob: Yeah. That's awesome. I have two quick questions remaining, the first of which is about where people can go to find out more about you. But before you tell us that link, I want to mention that one of my favorite ways that I see customers using Leadpages is with a page like what you're going to share, which is a place that… A social profile, link in bio, whatever, podcast episode, you're able to send people to this kind of page that lets people choose their own adventure. It's not a high-converting landing page, that's not its purpose. Its purpose is to say, "Here's where you can find out more." There are some conversion components to it but I love that you have this page so that people can say, "Hey, I heard Monica talking about this or this. I am most interested though, in this other thing." And you have this all on one page. First of all, the link please, and what about this page do you find works really well for your business?
Monica: Yeah. Okay. This actually partially was born out of an idea that you gave me when you were on my podcast, by the way. The link is monicafroese.com/lp. It's a unique link for this. The brilliance of this is it's a lead page but I can update it because I give unique links. It's a pretty link that I give out to the podcast I'm on, but that one page I keep updated with whatever's going on in the business at the moment so it's dynamic, essentially. If you listen to this episode a year after from now, that page will be updated for whatever I'm doing at that moment. It makes it… How many times… I've been on hundreds of podcasts. I've given out links that are now dead, that don't end up getting redirected, that aren't relevant to what I'm doing in the business and so this was just a brilliant way, one centralized hub to send people.
The reason it came up was because I did know… Okay, so I clued in early on in my… Because Instagram is a decent push for us. We use Instagram, that's where we really get to respond to our customers and stuff like that. The link in bio, I never really liked it so I ended up building mine on Leadpages, so it's a lead page. It had all the buttons like a link in bio but it was easy for me to swap out and I could track my metrics then. You said to me when you're on the podcast, you're like, "Your main opt in or whatever it is that is your main thing that you're pushing, do you use an embedded lead box?" I don't call them boxes anymore do we, though? What do we call them nowadays?
Bob: You're an OG so you can still call them Leadbox, but we call them pop-ups.
Monica: I still do. I was like, "Wait a minute. No, I do not. Why don't I do that? That's a genius idea." By the way, my Instagram bio page now converts super well considering that there's other actions on the page. That's not the only action, but when I do Instagram stories leading to, "Hey, just go opt in on my bio," and the form's right there to do so, it converts really well. I was like, "Okay. Now I'm on all these podcasts and there's lots of things I want people to know about me like we have a membership, we have a podcast. I want you to follow me on Instagram. If I'm doing a live training, hey, why don't you come to that?" But I can't give you four calls to action at the end of a podcast, just like you don't want to give four calls to action on a page dedicated to get people to take an action.
I was like, "Well, I'll just create a landing page that's dynamic that I can… And easy to update because Leadpages lets you hide sections and unhide sections and duplicate things so you can do it very easily." I just snap my fingers, which means very fast. It's been great. Now all these podcasts I've been on for the last year-ish, all the people that are listening to those back episodes, when they're going to this page it's always updated whatever is the central call to action in my business. Right now if you go there, it would be a live training we're doing in a month. You could get my Instagram and I will direct you to my podcast because that's where you can really get to know me better, and part of you finding me on this podcast would be, "I want you to get to know me better because we don't really know each other yet, but if you are interested in exploring a relationship with me, where would I want you to go?"
Bob: Yeah. Your podcast is really good, episode 24 particularly. I'm just kidding. That is the one that you and I had the chance to do, and I would encourage people to listen to all the episodes Monica does because they are fantastic and you have some really great guests, but you also do your own shows several times so get a lot of good strategies for growing a business.
Words to Grow By
Bob: As we wrap up, Monica, I would love for you to share if there's a specific mantra or quote that fuels you. "I don't do failure" on your shirt is one of them, obviously. Is there anything else that just clicks in your head whenever you get stuck or you want to take that next action in your business?
Monica: I would say the biggest one is definitely "I don't do failure." We also have shirts that say, "I am empowered." It depends on my mood for which one comes up, and then the other one that I have to say… I have a mug behind me that says it. It says "Mom Guilt" and it's X-ed out. That's a big one because I have a nanny. When I'm sitting at this desk recording this podcast, I have a nanny and that's how I get my work time in. There can be a lot of guilt that goes on about that and I just always use this as a reminder that I'm doing this to show them that really as women, because I have two girls, that we can do anything that we set our minds to and that means also that I don't need to be at their beck and call 24/7, so no mom guilt.
Bob: That's awesome. Thank you so much, Monica, for sharing your story and wisdom, entrepreneurial tips and all the rest in between during this episode. Really appreciate your time and your great wisdom.
Monica: Yeah. Thanks so much for having me.


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Q: Android Studio - Kotlin - how to display scrollable text I am new to Android Studio and Kotlin.
I am outputting texts regularly to the display.
Think of an old-fashioned ticker-tape newsfeed, where the latest text is always at the top...
I want to update some field (e.g. TextView) on the display.
However, I want:
(a) the latest text to appear at the top, and
(b) as the number of texts will increase over time, I want the user to be able to scroll down to old texts if they want.
I thought a Scroll View would work for this but I haven't been able to get anything to work as described above.
Can anyone suggest a solution?
Thanks
Garrett

A: When a control such as a TextView contains more text than the visible one, you can make the view scrollable simply by setting the following two properties for it in the xml file relating to the layout
android:maxLines = "AN_INTEGER"
android:scrollbars = "vertical"

Subsequently, inside the code, just call the setMovementMethod method of the view
yourTextView.setMovementMethod(new ScrollingMovementMethod())

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Gospel sensation PBSTAR releases a good and wonderful graceful song he featured a gospel Minstrel INEM SAM titled "THE SAME GOD".
Here it is finally. The long awaited track titled THE SAME God produced by yours truly Blackstar Beat..


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Красный Вал — деревня в Спасском районе Татарстана. Входит в состав Краснослободского сельского поселения.

География
Находится в юго-западной части Татарстана на расстоянии приблизительно 9 км по прямой на восток-юго-восток по прямой от районного центра города Болгар вблизи автомобильной дороги Болгар-Базарные Матаки.

История
Основана в начале XIX века. Первоначальное название Молоствовка было изменено в 1930-е годы.

Население
Постоянных жителей было: в 1815 — 139 (душ мужского пола), в 1859 — 384, в 1897 — 583, в 1908 — 717, в 1920 — 682, в 1926 — 590, в 1938 — 423, в 1949 — 267, в 1970 — 290, в 1979 — 188, в 1989 — 241, в 2002 — 226 (русские 92 %), 209 — в 2010.

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Burrell One of 10 on Preseason Watch List For The Bowerman
Baton Rouge, La. – LSU sprinter and hurdler Sean 'Squirrel' Burrell is one of ten men named to the Preseason Watch List for The Bowerman for the 2022 season.
Burrell, the U20 world record holder in the 400 meter hurdles, enters year No. 2 in Purple and Gold. He's the ninth man in program history to officially be named to the watch list even though he was recognized as a semifinalist for the 2021 version of The Bowerman.
Burrell became only the third LSU athlete in program history to win a NCAA title in the 400 meter hurdles last June when he circled the 400 meter track, all while clearing 10 hurdles, in a time of 47.85 to claim the win. The time of 47.85 served as the aforementioned U20 world record. No U20 athlete in world history had ever gone faster than 48 seconds prior to Burrell's historic performance at the NCAA Championships. The time of 47.85 ranks as the second fastest in LSU history and the fourth fastest in collegiate history.
Burrell, a native of Zachary, La., has his eyes set on a big 2022; he was named a finalist for Rising Star Award by World Athletics for his performances during the 2021 season. Burrell competed on LSU's 4×400 meter relay for most of the 2021 campaign while also running individual races in the 400 meter dash and 400 meter hurdles.
For more information about The Bowerman, visit ustfccca.org. LSU's eight previous men to be recognized by The Bowerman committee on the watch list are Mondo Duplantis, Walter Henning, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Trindon Holliday, JuVaughn Harrison, Noah Williams, and Terrance Laird. Vernon Norwood was a semifinalist for The Bowerman in 2015. Williams, a native of Rochester, N.Y., is receiving votes for The Bowerman on the 2022 preseason list as well.
LSU has had three winners of The Bowerman – Kimberlyn Duncan (2012), Sha'Carri Richardson (2019), JuVaughn Harrison (2021).
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Heading home from a 7-day cruise to the Caribbean on the Carnival Liberty and thought I would share my travel adventures with you. We boarded the ship at Port Canaveral which is about an hour drive from the Orlando Airport. Breakfast was a cup of noodle soup I brought with me from home. I was definitely looking forward to the lunch buffet.
We went up to the Lido to check out the buffet. There were some plain vegetables on the salad bar along with a variety of cold salads with meat and dairy and a variety of hot dishes. I noticed that many of the dishes were marked as vegetarian which was something I hadn't seen before. Most of them clearly had dairy so definitely not for me. I took some of the salad and plain veggies before moving on.
Besides the main buffet there was a Mongolian grill. Lots of great veggies to add to my salad. I didn't try the grill as they reused the pans which included a peanut sauce as one of the options. It would have been nice if there had been a tofu option along with the meat and seafood. They had lots of steamed broccoli and green beans which I enjoyed all week.
Outside by the pool was the Blue Iguana Cantina which quickly became my favorite. All the beans and tortillas were vegan, but the rice had butter. I had a burrito with beans and veggies adding lots of goodies from the nearby salsa bar. There was fresh pico, cilantro, watermelon and various levels of spicy salsa that went well with the burrito and made an excellent salad dressing.
If you made it to the other end of the buffet and went outside there was a pizza place open 24 hours. One afternoon I went there and asked for a no cheese pizza with mushrooms. Usually they gave out slices, 4 slices in a pizza. Since no one else wanted mine I had the whole pizza. It was a thin crust with tomato sauce and lots of mushrooms. It was delicious and I finished about half of it.
I've got lots more to share about the dining room and special restaurant in my next post.


 Cottage holiday in Hastings with Short Breaks All Year, 2 bedrooms for rent.
SPIDER'S LIGHT Cottage, Hastings, Sussex, TN34 3DE.
Wonderful sea views from most rooms. Wonderful sea views from most rooms. Spider's Light, as seen in Foyle's War, is located in the heart of the old town and nestles in the east cliffs with access to Hastings Country Park, and enjoys stunning views of the beach and English Channel. Rumoured to be named after a fisherman who once dwelt in this pretty, converted, end terrace holiday cottage, Spider used to put a light in his window which would guide the fishermen home, and wives would look out from the window to watch for incoming boats. Hastings still has the largest beach launched fishing fleet in Europe and you can also see the iconic black weather-boarded net huts.
Look the other way and Hastings old town twinkles at night in front of you and behind is East Hill country park with walks from the doorstep. This provides access to 660 acres of woodland, heath and 5 miles of cliff-tops, also accessible via the steepest funicular railway in Britain. In the summer enjoy a glass of wine on the enclosed decked terrace or after a brisk walk along the seafront in winter, nestle down on the comfortable sofa and batten down the hatches! Visit the remains of Hastings Castle, discover Hastings' smuggling past deep in the West Hill at St Clement's Caves and explore the narrow streets and passageways known as twittens in the old town.
Lower ground floor: Dining room/kitchen with patio doors and tiled floor. Steep stairs to ground floor: Living room. Bathroom with shower over bath and toilet. Steep stairs to first floor: 2 bedrooms: 1 double with additional Z-bed (for child), 1 single.
Gas central heating, gas, electricity, bed linen and towels included. Freeview TV. DVD. Gas hob. Electric oven. Microwave. Washer/dryer. Dishwasher. Fridge/freezer. Wi-fi. Decked terrace. Car park 500 yards (at cost). Welcome pack. No smoking.
Considering renting a mansion house or holiday accommodation near the beach? South of England is loved by families on vacation. You will find pet friendly cottages in Surrey, Sussex or Hampshire - some have hot tubs.
Self-catering holiday house in Ringles Cross, near Uckfield with 2 bedrooms, sleeps 4. Enclosed Garden / Patio, Golf nearby, Pub within 1 mile, Short Breaks All Year.
Cottage on the coast in Chichester Marina with 2 bedrooms, sleeps 4. Golf nearby, Pub within 1 mile, Short Breaks All Year.
Coastal holiday in Rye Foreign, Rye with 2 bedrooms, sleeps 4. Golf nearby, Short Breaks All Year.


I am now five and a half months into living with breast cancer. I've finished the first cycle of chemotherapy, which simply means that I've received four infusions of two of the prescribed anti-neoplastic drugs every three weeks. They are given between such long intervals to give the body a chance to recover. It has been exhausting at times; my body has become slightly anemic and my immune system took a hit from the last session back in the middle of August. But all in all I found it quiet manageable.
I allayed intermittent nausea much the same way as any pregnant woman, unlucky enough to experience this unpleasant feeling, by eating smaller quantities of insipid foods (like steamed hake and potatoes and stewed fruit for example) more regularly, lying down when the feeling of vertigo became all too strong, drinking lots of liquids and avoiding the culpable foods, which I learned triggered the nauseous sensations (gazpacho, spicy foods and ice-cream for example).
I celebrated this first milestone with a lovely meal and a glass of red wine (containing resveratrol, which according to the anti-cancer flag-bearers have antioxidant benefits on the body but Wikipedia care to refute https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resveratrol. I no longer dwell on the details and enjoy an odd glass of wine, when my weakened stomach allows it, in the happy knowledge that the relaxing feeling it brings me can only benefit my health).
And so Carlos and I prepared the children for their return to school – the familiar-to-parent rush around for suitable footwear, and the memory of an afternoon spent in El Corte Inglés with my two sisters-in-law and Pepe come rushing back. One adult per child, keeping the girls from mauling the sparkly runners and reminding the absent-minded Pablo how to put on a shoe. In my exhaustion, I couldn't have done it without them. Uniforms, returning wrong sizes (did they really grow that much over the Summer? What were they eating?), books and endless reams of adhesive plastic. (Why in God's name do copybooks need to be covered nowadays?) The memories of my mother painstakingly preserving our books with cardboard and wallpaper and the happy unawareness then as a child of how time-consuming an activity it really is. I send out another wave of gratitude to the universe for tablets, apps and RTE radio to keep me company.
And in the midst of the hustle and bustle, the second cycle of my chemotherapy treatment began. It was delayed by a week due to my weakened immune system so more rest and more pure food was ordered, which was thankfully served up by Mum. This second cycle sees a change in drug – Taxol, which is a substance taken in the hope of preventing a return of breast cancer and comes from one species of the yew tree, a fact that Pablo is very proud of since it was a variety of this very tree that Esther and José planted in their garden in Tiroco to commemorate his birth over eight years ago – and it is administered through my vein port every Tuesday.
The weekly dose suggests an easier recovery but so far I find the secondary effects more difficult to manage. After the usual nausea abates, I'm thrown to the bed for almost three days with flu-like symptoms and tiredness and then I have a day of feeling normal – today – before starting the cycle again tomorrow. Provided it's not delayed by a further weakening of the immune system, this is set to continue until the first week of November.
The journey with cancer is tough. Each little part of it – diagnosis, tests, surgery, treatment, normal daily life that demands that it must continue, adds its own dimension and brings to the foreground its own challenges. But what I am finding hardest is the sheer length of this trip and the physical and emotional stamina that is required to get through.
Cancer and recovering from it is a marathon. I'm not a runner but I've watched my husband train for this challenging event. Chemotherapy is like the months and months of training for the final run, but with fewer and fewer highs. I have to consciously create little buzz moments, like creating tasty nutritionally-dense meals, basking in the warmth of the sunshine raining down on my face when I step out for a refreshing stroll through the park or writing and publishing an honest and meaningful blog post!
But my patience for this state of inaction and what seems like an interminable recovery mode is more frequently tested as the now weekly chemo sessions keep reminding me of the illness as they relentlessly slap me in the face over and over, like the wave that battles to drag you back under, back into the clutches of its powerful force.
The Summer holidays are over, not only are the children back at school, Carlos has returned to work and my colleagues in school are familiarly complaining about the September glut of work. How I long for a glut of anything other than breast cancer! As my cousin said, this cancer recovery is like being stuck in Holland, while everybody else has travelled on to Italy.
I am in some sort of limbo. It is a strange and lonely place to be. Right now, I neither want God's nor man's words. All I want is to shut the door and run with my own spirit, coursing through my entire being. I think I've "hit the wall".
I'll finish with the song and spirit of our summer, "The Call", sung by Regina Spektor at the end of Narnia Prince Caspian.
Congrats Deleanbh, just when I thought you had run out of steam for writing. You have captured so well how you are feeling. As I trudge up and down mountains on The Camino Primitivo, exhilarated to be doing so (at my age!), I think of you daily, and I am really pleased that you are faring so well.
If a Camino is really a reflection of life itself, with all its trials and tribulations, we are each on a path, and I wish you the very best as you continue your testing journey.
¡¡¡Ánimo!!!… And millions of thanks!!!!….And for you too, Noel.


First BMW all-wheel drive was unveiled in 1985 as a second-generation BMW 3 Series. All-wheel drive was offered exclusively in conjunction with a 2.5-litre six-cylinder in-line petrol engine producing 171 horsepower. The permanent all-wheel drive of the BMW 325iX channelled power to the front and rear wheels at a constant 37 : 63 percent split. Visco locks in the transfer case and final drive took their cues from the difference in rotation speed between the front and rear wheels to provide virtually fixed connections if required, and in this way optimise traction and driving stability. From 1988 customers could also order a Touring variant of the BMW 325iX.


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Dr. Mache (MAYsh) Seibel is a leading authority in women's wellness and menopause and author of The Estrogen Window from Rodale Press, April 2016.
I'm excited to share with you some ground breaking information in women's wellness that is hot off the press and that every woman needs to know about so she can stop feeling confused about hormone therapy. This is great news for millions of women.
A reevaluation of the 2002 Women's Health Initiative (WHI) data has revealed that the original studies were interpreted incorrectly. It's been 15 years since that study gave estrogen a bad rap. Now we know that estrogen has an amazing potential to safely help women.
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, taking estrogen alone actually lowers the risk of developing breast cancer.
Armed with the new information we now have, women can become a partner in their healthcare and work with their healthcare providers to get the treatment that is going to help them the most.
A lot of us know menopause as a "musical." Others think of it as hot flashes. When does a woman have to start thinking about menopause?
What are some of the things that women can do if they don't take hormone therapy?
What happens if you don't take time to stay well?
How can a woman become a partner in her own healthcare?
If you would like to open a discussion on how to make hot times into happy times, visit MenopauseQuiz.com and get your personal menopause assessment. It's the easiest way to discover if your estrogen window has opened.


A FORMER JM Kelly worker was busted drug driving while holding a provisional licence.
Tyler James Borresen yesterday pleaded guilty in Rockhampton Magistrates Court to the drug driving charge.
The court heard Borresen was driving along East St when he was busted at 5.50pm on August 4.
He admitted to police he had smoked marijuana the day before.
Borresen told the court he had been applying for a work licence when JM Kelly folded and had a new job lined up, but it fell through.
Borresen was ordered to pay a $500 fine and was disqualified from driving for four months.


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WSU Alumnus Bill Coleman Creates Unique Mosaic of the City of Worcester Seal
Worcester State University is one of the partners the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education has enlisted to help fulfill the mission of its new $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop MassTeach. This will create a new model for increasing and diversifying the ranks of educators who are prepared to teach science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in high-need school districts.
The five-year grant was awarded through NSF's Robert Noyce Scholarship Track. It is the first of its kind awarded to a state higher education system and will be used to simultaneously address two critical issues: the overall shortage of trained and licensed STEM instructors and the lack of under-represented minorities currently teaching in the commonwealth's K-12 classrooms.
The new program, intended to be both sustainable and scalable, will utilize "A2B" (associate-to-bachelor's) degree pathways that are part of the statewide MassTransfer system. MassTransfer allows students to begin their undergraduate education at one of the state's community colleges and then transfer to any state university at a substantial cost savings and without a loss of credit.
DHE developed the MassTeach program in collaboration with campus administrators, faculty, and staff. The grant's pilot phase with be launched by three regional partnership teams:
Quinsigamond Community College, Worcester State University, and Worcester Public Schools
Berkshire Community College, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and Pittsfield Public Schools
Holyoke Community College, Westfield State University, and Springfield Public Schools
"Worcester State University has been educating teachers for the region's schools since 1874, including Worcester's first two African-American teachers," said WSU President Barry M. Maloney. "We are looking forward to contributing to MassTeach. That work will complement existing programming we offer with Worcester Public Schools and Quinsigamond Community College to make sure those leading our classrooms reflect the diversity we see within those classrooms."
Worcester State's Center for Pre-K-12 Initiatives in Education runs the Call to Teaching initiative in collaboration with QCC and Worcester Public Schools. This initiative seeks to address the shortage of teachers of color in local public schools by recruiting middle and high school students of color to learn the craft of teaching in one of WSU's education programs.
The state's grant-funded program establishes MassTeach Scholars, qualified students who will receive $20,000 scholarships as well as academic advising to keep them on track to transfer, graduate with a STEM degree, and obtain a STEM teaching license.
By drawing from the highly diverse community college population, MassTeach will cultivate a culturally rich pool of potential educators who are often the first in their family to attend college and likely to reside in economically disadvantaged urban districts where the need for qualified and diversified STEM instructors is most acute.
"What's exciting about MassTeach is that it is not a stand-alone initiative that will end once the federal grant is spent," said Massachusetts Commissioner of Higher Education Carlos E. Santiago. "This program is built on the solid foundation of our new transfer system, regarded as one of the most comprehensive and student-friendly systems in the nation. We're very pleased that the NSF has recognized our ability to effectively move STEM teacher candidates from community colleges to state universities to urban districts where their talents can be put to good use."
"As we build upon our already strong teacher workforce, we hope to see more people at the front of the classroom who are reflective of the students in the seats," said Massachusetts Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Jeffrey C. Riley. "I am hopeful that MassTeach will attract strong candidates from diverse backgrounds who otherwise might not have considered teaching."
Currently, 90 percent of Massachusetts teachers are white, compared with an overall student population that is 60 percent white. A wide body of research indicates that students often perform better academically when they are taught by teachers they can identify with. One of the unique aspects of MassTeach is that it will place new teachers in urban communities where they grew up and attended school, allowing grant evaluators to gauge whether educators' local roots serve as a catalyst for their retention in the classroom.
Community colleges will recruit potential candidates for entry into the program beginning in fall 2018. Many of the candidates are expected to come from existing STEM Starter Academy programs, which give high school students a chance to take STEM college classes and learn more about STEM careers.
The goal of MassTeach will be to expand to students at all 15 community colleges and nine state universities in the commonwealth within three years, eventually placing 50 new teachers in STEM classrooms with 50 more teacher candidates in the post-secondary pipeline. Further, it is hoped that MassTeach will serve as a new national model for recruiting, training, and retaining STEM educators.
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Congratulations to Kupe who came in 2nd Overall. And Fin who came in 3rd overall.
Well done to the Best Girl, Jasmine who has received this award for the second year in a row. Zeldon was selected as one of the best players on the day and was just half a point behind Jasmine. Golden Grove School won the event and now have a place in the Chess Power regional event in Term 2.
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Press Release – February 2022 – Paris, France
Ellenex, leading Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) device manufacturer, based in Australia, and covering wide range of industrial applications from farming to oil & gas or smart cities, has joined forces with Actility as a Channel Partner to broaden their offer with ThingPark® solutions.
Ellenex is a pioneer engineering and technology company creating new ground in the industrial internet of things (IIoT) space. This company designs and manufactures low power sensors, operating systems, and software platforms to address challenges on industrial asset monitoring in remote areas. With more than 20 years of experience in design, manufacturing, and integration, Ellenex was one of the first companies to introduce integrated LPWAN sensors and solutions to the market, offering one of the widest ranges of LPWAN measurement systems to monitor industrial assets in water and wastewater, agriculture and farming, smart cities and HVAC, transport and logistics, mining and construction, and oil and gas.
Ellenex believes industrial IoT solutions need to be modular, integrable, and application-centric to make them scalable and profitable for clients. Therefore, modularity and integrability is their philosophy and one of their key differentiators. This company offers over 200 LPWAN products over, which can be found on Actility's ThingPark Market, and forms the widest range of industrial use cases in the market, selling over 60 pre-configured solutions. Ellenex reaches far away from Australia, where it is based, selling their products to over 500 international companies in over 50 countries, where they work with more than 20 different network providers.
This modular and integrable architecture found in their hardware-software framework, allows to offer more complex solutions to monitor pressure and level completed by a wide range of parameter (temperature, water quality, flow, location, load, and strain, among others) and feed the data to any other third-party platform or control / SCADA system. This is attractive for industries with distributed network of assets in remote areas to address their monitoring challenges at a much lower cost compared to other technologies in the market.
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Tag: It
Do We Really Need IT: Chapter Two?
When the most recent adaptation of Stephen King's 1986 novel It opened in theaters in September of 2017, it caused a big stir, and received mostly positive reviews.
While I enjoyed watching It, I couldn't help but feel that there was something about it that wasn't working for me. I was a little surprised at the lack of the adult narrative that's present in both the book and the 1990 miniseries, but assumed that, because of the time constraints of making a movie, they'd trimmed down what they could. It wasn't until the end of the film that I realized that I'd just watched the first part of a two-part film series, and that the adult narrative that I'd been waiting for would be the content for the second film.
Though I enjoyed watching the movie, I feel like this is a story that simply can't function as a two-part film.
Like the book, the "real" story of the 1990 miniseries version is that of the adult versions of the kids who were once terrorized by the creature they call It. The story follows the adults as they start to realize that the creature they thought they'd defeated in their childhoods has returned. Everything we learn about the first adventure of these characters is done through flashbacks.
Frame stories like these aren't a terribly innovative narrative style or anything, but it's certainly effective in this case.
In the '90s version, each of the adults gets a call from the character Mike, who informs them that "It" is back. These phone calls trigger flashbacks to each of the characters' childhood encounters with the monster.
Both adaptations have the children defeating It in a sewer, and thinking that they're finally safe. The miniseries has already indicated that the creature will eventually return, thanks to the ongoing adult narrative. The movie, on the other hand, ends at this plot point with an indication that there will be a part two.
It's important to note that, for audiences who have no exposure to either the original miniseries, or the book, the film's format has the potential to leave them completely confused and irritated.
Most people go to the movie theater in order to lose themselves in a story, and, in the case of a horror movie, get a thrill out of being scared. They don't necessarily want to have to do homework, first.
It shouldn't be a requirement to know the source material when consuming an adaptation.
Therefore, audiences with no context might have thought this was going to be a contained story about a few kids taking on a monster. That's why, at the end, it comes off as one of those annoying horror movies from the late 90s that ends with a title card saying, "The End," only to have it dissolve into a question mark a moment later. This is usually a silly cop-out intended to leave open in people's minds that there could be a sequel, in case the production company decides the first film made enough money to warrant another.
In this case, however, they had always planned that there would be a sequel.
This leaves me questioning why the first film was framed as a standalone movie.
Unlike part one, part two can't function as a standalone movie. The entire plot of the second half of the story is dependent on the fact that these kids made a vow to return and fight against It should he ever resurface.
If Hollywood intends for the sequel to truly follow the book, which it seems like it does at this point, a big theme in the next movie is going to be the effects the adult characters suffer from the trauma they experienced as children.
That means, in order for this film to have any true resonance with the audience, we're going to have to remember a lot of details about the previous movie.
That task is going to be much harder when we'll be dealing with a completely new set of actors, and at least a year or two of distance between the release dates of the movies. (While It is now available for purchase or rental, as of right now it isn't streaming anywhere. That could, of course, change before the sequel comes out.)
Unlike most sequels, where we can recognize that we're seeing the same character from the first film, when It: Chapter Two comes out, we're going to be dependent on dialogue to know who is who.
It's possible that part two will have plenty of flashbacks to the events of part one, but, for people who want to watch the two films back to back, that's going to slow down the second film considerably, because they'll be re-watching scenes. It's also going to take away time from the adult narrative to remind the audience of what happened in the first film.
Perhaps Chapter One could have made this transition to part two easier on the audience by adding in the adult narrative in the first place, but that would have been incredibly difficult to pull off, since it would have made an already long movie even longer. It also would make seeing part two a requirement in order to get a full conclusion to the story. Of course, that can be done, (see films like Back to the Future), but the creators of It: Chapter One chose, for some odd reason, to create part one as if it were a standalone.
Let's say that part two of this film won't be full of flashbacks, and won't address these characters' childhood demons at all. Then, what are we left with? The creators could add in a bunch of original, non-canon material, as Hollywood often does to film adaptations of novels. However, it simply wouldn't make sense for a sequel to completely ignore all the setup it did in the first movie regarding the many characters' various traumas.
IT: Chapter One could have functioned perfectly well as a self-contained story, and it really didn't warrant a sequel in my opinion. Now that the creators have backed themselves into some extremely tough corners, they've got a tough job on their hands.
Regardless of whether my concerns are well-founded or not, I look forward to seeing Chapter Two. It will be interesting to see how the writers handle the various challenges of adapting It into a two-part film.
Author RachelPosted on January 18, 2018 January 18, 2018 Categories Blog, MoviesTags Clown, Horror, horror movie, It, It review, It: Chapter One, narrative analysis, non-linear story, Pennywise, reboot, remake, review, Sequel, Stephen King, Stephen King's ItLeave a comment on Do We Really Need IT: Chapter Two?


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Q: How can I avoid "No test specified" errors in npm? I'm using npm@5.6.0 on Mac High Sierra. I want to run tests that were setup in this Stratum client project. I have run npm install successfully.  But when I try and run individual tests, I get the error:
no test specified

What gives?  I am in the root project directory and the tests are in my "test" folder. Here is what happens:
localhost:stratum-client-master davea$ npm install
up to date in 0.381s
localhost:stratum-client-master davea$ npm test test/callbacks.js

> stratum-client@1.0.1 test /Users/davea/Documents/workspace/stratum-client-master
> echo "Error: no test specified" && exit 1 "test/callbacks.js"

Error: no test specified
sh: line 0: exit: too many arguments
npm ERR! Test failed.  See above for more details.

A: The error can be for "exit 1"
"scripts": {
  "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
},

Change it to this:
"scripts": {
  "test": "echo \"No test specified\""
},

This change works because exit 1 creates an error.

A: Try replacing
"scripts": {
  "test": "mocha"
},

in your package.json.

A: if you are using Jest and enzyme for unit testing and you have a jest.config.json config file, you can update your package.json under scripts to the following:
"scripts":{
  "test": "jest --config=./jest.config.json --coverage",
}

A: The error can be for "exit 1"
"scripts": {
  "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
},

Change it to this:
"scripts": {
  "test": "echo \"No test specified\""
},

This change worked for me because exit 1 created the error.

A: You're outputting exactly what the package.json file was told to output. Take a peek under scripts.
"scripts": {
  "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
  "int-test": "mocha --require babel-core/register --recursive test"
},

Try int-test, the other command in there.
Update: The package link has changed to the following and mocha should be the default test suite. You can run the other script with npm run bump-version; the original script above can be run with npm run int-test.
"scripts": {
  "test": "mocha --recursive test",
  "bump-version": "npm version patch"
},

A: You didn't specify which testing framework you're using such as Jest or Mocha.
In case of Jest, add this in your package.json:
"scripts" : {
    "test" : "jest"
 }

In the case of mocha refer to @Divyeshpal's answer.

A: find and make changes in your package.json
"scripts":{
"test":"mocha"
}

A: add this on your packages.json file:
"scripts":{
    "test": "mocha --ui tdd tests/callbacks.js",
}

then npm test on the console.

A: Replace
echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1
in your
package.json
with
mocha.


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