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How Marketers are Building Million Dollar eCommerce Businesses with Teespring | AWasia 2016
Hello, everyone! Welcome to The Breakout Stage at AWA 2016. We've got an exciting lineup of speakers here, ranging in all kinds
of interesting topics. Now, we have a Teespring panel on how to put together
a million dollar empire, ecommerce empire. We have two really great affiliates
who've built great businesses with Teespring, and we also have Craig Roberts.
Craig can you come up here? Craig is the commercial manager at Teespring.
He's all about unlocking potential for affiliates and designers
on the Teespring platform, one of the most exciting ecommerce platforms today.
Testing, testing. Yes, it works. Hey, everyone. As Eric said, I represent Teespring.
I've been with them over a year now, almost two years, and basically I'm here
to tell you guys about the opportunity that exists to create
an ecommerce business. Essentially, Teespring makes it super, super easy
for people to kind of come on board in ecommerce in a very easy way.
You don't have to worry about fulfilment, customer service, payment processing,
all that kind of boring stuff. Essentially, what Teespring does is
that we do all that for you. So a little bit about myself,
I manage what you guys would call "affiliate world" but what we call "sellers"
so people that sell on our platform. I'm sort of involved in all wide-ranging aspects of that.
But yeah, let me go back a little bit. So essentially what Teespring is,
is you plug in Teespring. All you need to do is create an idea,
find your niche, and create a product. For example, if you were
in the horse riding niche, you could create a product around horse riding
for a particular audience on Teespring. You would then combine that with targeting,
you know, Facebook is obviously one of the best sort of targeting platforms right now,
you could target that and the outcome is bags and bags of money.
In a nutshell, how much money? Well these are kind of the screenshots of some of what
the sort of top sellers are doing right now on the platform.
So I guess numbers in red speak for themselves. That's the opportunity that exists.
Obviously, not everybody's doing that, but these are kind of what the top tier guys
are doing right now. Ronnie and Albert are going to talk about that a little bit later. So Teespring today, you know, we've been around since 2013.
20 million products shipped, that's globally. That's to 150 countries around the world.
We get orders from US, Europe, Canada, Africa, all over the place.
Basically, people are buying custom merchandise. This is very much a result of
the sort of wide range, scope that Facebook has, and people buying off that. It's all about creating your store and your brand
through Teespring. So you can come on, create your products,
create your sort of niche, and build a bit of an identity around your products
that you're selling on the platform. And basically, that's what we do.
We take building this niche, building this brand, building your business
We make it super, super easy for anyone to do that. So anybody here who's interested,
this is a great place to start. This is an example of one of my favourites.
It's Farm n' Fancy. Believe it or not, there's a lot of people out there
that like ferrets who are also mothers. And this is just a great example of
finding a niche, creating a product for it, and then sort of scaling that out.
So you can buy on Farm n' Fancy's store, all sorts of different
farm-related, animal-related products. And that's essentially it
in a nutshell. But we'll go into a little bit more detail later on. Alright, let's get the brain trust up here. Let's get the panel members.
Have a seat. Come on up, Ronnie and Albert. First, we have Ronnie McKenzie,
bachelor number one. He's an affiliate marketer who launched
a 6-figure tshirt empire after capitalising on a controversial local law.
We have Albert Leonardo here, who spent 12 years as a math and science teacher,
and he capitalised on the ultimate limited-edition opportunity
celebrating Pi Day of The Century. It's exciting. Welcome, everyone.
Everybody, give these guys a warm welcome. So Craig, you talked about your sellers.
What percentage of your sellers are affiliate marketers? Is it all affiliates?
What does that look like? It's kind of changing, you know.
We're sort of three years into this thing now.
When we first started, I would say 90-95% were affiliate marketers, which is huge right?
But now we're kind of seeing a bit of a mixture of YouTubers,
influencers, as we call them. Twitch casters, all sorts of different people
using the platform. But you know, essentially, I think affiliate marketers
are primed to succeed in this business because of the sort of
targeting know-how that they have. Exciting. So Ronnie and Albert. Albert, we'll start with you because you're to my left here. How did you get started on Teespring? So back then, in 2014, I wanted to learn affiliate marketing,
and then I started to look into some courses. In one of the courses,
the author said that if you want quick and easy money, you do Teespring. Everybody want that
quick and easy, of course I want that. Why? Because you say that
on Teespring, they handle the fulfilment, the shipping
the logistics, customer service, for you. So you can just focus on the selling and the design idea.
So I think, alright, if I want to make it quick and
you know in affiliate marketing, you have to learn about building site,
tracking, cloaking, and stuff like that. It's impossible to learn all of that
in such a short time. So I think, if there is one thing that I can learn
to be successful in internet marketing, I decided that will be driving traffic.
That's why I chose Teespring, because I want to focus on learning how to drive targeted traffic.
Because I believe that if you know how to drive targeted traffic,
then you can sell anything. So that's how I got into Teespring.
Nice. How about you Ronnie? I saw a lot of ads sort of popping up in my newsfeed.
And I was quite dubious, initially, about the sort of numbers that were being
claimed that were coming into people's bank accounts, primarily due to affiliates.
And, you know I, used to be targeted with that sort of offer.
I think it's about six months between seeing it for the first time,
and actually getting stuck into it, I just gave it a go, and very quickly learnt
that it was legitimate. So, I stuck around.
So, just to talk about the size of the opportunity, Craig. What's the most
someone has made on Teespring? Can you talk about that a little bit? The biggest sort of affiliate marketers are doing a couple million a year.
I think, to date, the sort of top sellers are doing between $3 and $5 million every year.
So it's a serious opportunity. When you get to that kind of scale,
there's a bit more complexity, you know. A lot of these people have
teams of people, teams of designers, just pushing out ideas,
teams of people launching campaigns, teams of people managing ads. So it becomes
a bit more complex once you scale it out. But some of the guys, Ronnie for example,
Albert, you guys work on your own, and they do decent numbers.
I'll let you guys talk to that. It's such an interesting platform because
it allows you to really monetise sheer creativity, and at the same time,
you're actually selling a real product which is something that's not always the case
in affiliate marketing. So I can imagine it's kind of a rewarding thing
to be able to be shipping real goods out to people and kind of making their day
with these these interesting tshirts. You guys wouldn't be up here
if you haven't done well for yourselves. Albert, you apparently sold 20,000 tshirts
for The Pi Day of The Century. Can you walk us through that?
About how you did this and what kind of money you saw from that campaign. One way to find the idea for the tshirt design is you look for upcoming holidays
or unique celebrations. There's one site that you can go to
which is HolidayInsights.com. There is a list of holidays
and unique celebrations in the States. Back then it was January 2015, last year.
I searched for the March celebrations. There was a National Pi Day.
And I'm not sure because nobody's celebrating Pi Day in my country,
so I did some research. I went to Google Trends. If you go to Google Trends
and you see fluctuation of the traffic, that's what I saw on the Pi Day.
I know that people are celebrating it, so I created the design.
Actually, I asked my designer to do it and I tested it with $12 budget per day
and I directly saw a 500% ROI. So I know that I'm going to kill it with this design.
I told my wife, I'm gonna spend less time with you,
a few days ahead because I want to concentrate
on this campaign. So I scaled it hard, and I sold 20,000 plus tshirts
in one and half months, and it earned me $250,000
in one and a half months for that design. That's incredible.
And again, it's the ultimate limited-edition because it's only happening once in our lifetimes,
once ever? Right, because that's the Pi Day of The Century.
Yeah. Very interesting. You know, I've been targeted by Teespring. So I'm a marketing director at Go2mobi
and I got an ad that was like, it's a marketing director thing.
You wouldn't understand. I was like, "I'm not gonna buy that necessarily." So when you think about your audience,
you think about your markets. When you're targeting,
so who's gonna get a Pi day tshirt? It's probably gonna be a geek. How do you find the markets?
What makes an ideal market? Is it housewives in the Midwest?
Is it grandmothers? Can it be anyone,
depending on how well you market it? Yeah so the easiest way is you go
to the audience insight on Facebook, right, and you search for Pi interest,
so there was Pi interest there, Pi and Pi day, and then I targeted the teacher,
and then science stuff keywords. What was interesting was that
I ran page post engagement ads so because people kept referring to their friends, 95% of my campaign objective
was page post engagement. So that's how I got so many sales,
because people keep referring their friends. It just went viral, more or less? Yeah, viral. That's what it was. Interesting. How about you, Ronnie? What kind of
numbers have you seen from your campaigns? Our best, over a fairly long period of time,
was my partner's shirt. It was a camping niche shirt
and he's probably sold about 15,000 to 20,000 of it, and it was an evergreen product where you don't have to do much to it
other than monitor it, really. The other is like, you'll have the odd unicorn
that is selling like 1,000+ in a very short period of time and if you scale them out fairly hard,
they drop off and don't get the evergreen
sales that, ultimately, we want. But then with your process,
we're just launching all the time. 50-100 shirts a week
and this comes down to a team. Craig was saying before that I work alone. I do, for the most part, but I do
have people working with me so I don't have to manage that whole process.
I've got designers, videos to launch those ads. Anything to make it as easy as possible. So thousands is what you want, but the bread and butter is a couple
of hundred or even in that 50-100 bracket. If you're selling that a week,
of a shirt, and got a couple of them, you're making pretty decent income. How quickly did you guys
realise that you had to grow it? How big are your teams
and how quickly did you realise that in order to really scale this opportunity, you're gonna need a team
and how did you go about building that team? Is it mostly all virtual assistants
or do you have partners in the space? Talk about your team's a little bit. We're very slow to
realise that we needed a team. Initially, when I started,
I was doing all the designing myself, and Suhail was doing a lot of the launching
and taking care of that. We'd sort of flit in between things.
He would occasionally dabble in design but he quickly realised that he wasn't a
designer and I think maybe 12 months we've been doing it that way
and we did really well out of it but to build out that process,
we knew we needed designers and just get the sheer numbers of campaigns up
to get the level of money that we're after. We had two designers working full-time and they'll take care of posting all that
or uploading all the campaigns at Teespring. They'll post the pages and just set it up
so all you have to do is go in and target it and just make your job easy. So Teespring has been
a foundational member of AWA. It's been at every AWA or AW event,
Affiliate World Europe as well so Craig what's changed in
the Teespring business since we were here a year ago, probably, at Affiliate World Asia? What were some of the developments
that have changed the business? Yeah, good question. I mean, a year is a long time or a short time, right,
depending how you look at it. We're kind of going through a bit of a
transition phase at the moment at Teespring. We were just a fulfilment provider
back in the day, you know do the shipping, the printing, everything else. Teespring's kind of reach that scale. We're becoming more of a marketplace,
so we're seeing a lot of people. it's becoming a destination site essentially,
where people are coming, looking for products, you know. They've bought 20 million plus products before.
Not one person obviously, but people have bought so many products
and have so much engagement with the brand. The people are coming back and they're shopping
and they're looking on the homepage. If you go to Teespring's homepage,
it has changed a lot. It's more of a search functionality now, where people are going and looking for
those things that they're interested in and they like, which essentially means
more free traffic for marketers. So you know, we've created out this marketplace.
We're doing more sort of our own marketing boosting activities as well. So we're actually seeing a lot of people that are just
throwing up designs in the marketplace, very much like what you would do in Amazon or eBay. You just put your designs on there
and let sales trickle in. And guys, I think Albert was telling me earlier
that he gets about 10-20% of your sales just from that traffic,
that organic traffic that's looking for product so that, I think, is the biggest change. We're also starting to introduce new products. We've had things like mugs, tote bags,
and that's gonna kind of ramp up as we go so there's gonna be things like yoga trousers,
yoga pants or leggings as we call them. So yeah, more products,
more organic sort of traffic for marketers. Yeah I mean, it's interesting. Interesting times. Do you guys have any tips for people? You know, people starting out,
they're gonna create a store on Teespring. Is there a way that you can think
to capitalise on this organic traffic better? Is it an SEO-type algorithm?
Is it really just about finding the right niches that people will search for? Is that really how you
get ahead in the organic game? Craig? Yeah I'll be honest, I don't know a lot about
how the mechanisms work with the SEO stuff but I think, definite tag your campaigns so when you're launching
just tag them as whatever they are. If they're sort of math-related
then tag obviously maths or whatever other tags
you think are relevant for that. And the titles and descriptions and things like that. I think we have a team of people
to curate stuff and move it up and down. The more traffic and more interest
the campaign is getting, obviously the more likelihood it has
of getting featured up in the searches. But I think the big one is just
putting more content out there, you know? The more content you're getting out there,
the more value you're providing to the ecosystem,
the more value you will get back essentially. And have any of these changes
that have happened in the past year, the addition of new products,
changed either of your businesses? Albert? Yeah, like I said before,
it attributes like 10 to 20% of the sales coming from the marketplace. But what about the other products?
Have you added any other products online? I did leggings, the pants, hats and mugs. Nice. So with the pants,
are people printing words on these or is it just patterns more or less,
like the crazy leg style? I started with the all-over print.
And it's selling well. What are the pros and cons of selling on Teespring
and ecommerce in general? Ronnie, do you have
any overall thoughts on that? I'm the eternal optimist
so it's just one big pro for me. The con is that I can't
completely outsource everything. There is a bit of time where
I have to spend doing the ads, like just the management of it all. The pros, they're numerous,
like all we've got to focus on is the design and running the traffic
and making sure that it's manageable, sort of thing. You don't have
the headache of fulfillment. Teespring takes care of customer service,
all that sort of stuff. So it's great. It's less headache.
I came from a background where I did everything in a new business,
from the pick and pack to uploading all the campaigns to just the nightmare of calling supplies
and getting that stuff on board. These guys take care of all that. Design and sell, it's easy. Simple. How about you, Albert, any cons? We know it's all pros. Any cons? The cons is maybe the limitation of the product priority at the moment
because of the scalability right? So at the moment they
have t-shirts, pants and stuff right, so the cons is that if you have your own
ecommerce store, then you can sell anything that you can find
on AliExpress or Alibaba, but with Teespring, no. But compared to the cons,
the pro for me is that you know, my night time
is the US day time and vice versa so it's impossible for me
to take care of the customer service and I hate it. So I leave
that to Teespring and I do what I love, which is marketing, Facebook marketing. Talk a little bit about the geos.
What are the hot areas where your business is based, more or less,
when it comes to selling these products, international or is it
localised to where you live? Mine is like 95% based on US so if I have a winning design
I would try to sell it to Europe and usually you will see like
30-50% of increase in sales numbers. Yeah. Primarily the United States.
Everything is launched there first. I figure that with the process,
launching there is because there is such a
huge network of people that are targetable, if it takes off there then
just scale into other countries. It just comes in to the scalability of it all. United States, Australia and New Zealand,
everybody buys in the Western world, particularly if the message is close to the heart
which we're aiming for anyways. Which you're able to then
really target using Facebook. My next question is, what percentage does Facebook make
of your total marketing efforts. Mine is 100%. I don't know about you. Well, 98% because they're taking care
of the marketplace now. We don't do much with that. Yeah, all Facebook. Have you tested any other source?
Mobile DSPs? No, I haven't. Search marketing, nothing like that? No. We do see a lot of other people doing YouTube ads, Instagram,
Twitter, all sorts of stuff. Pinterest was actually, one of our biggest sellers in October
was a guy just using Pinterest ads. Absolutely killed it. So I think these are the kind of platforms
for advertising and driving traffic, they're definitely coming online. I don't think that's being explored enough
in the affiliate side. So yeah, I think there's
still massive, massive opportunity there. What's your favourite feature,
what's your favourite targeting feature on Facebook? Custom audience and lookalike audience. Yeah, lookalikes for sure. They kill it. You've got people in your custom audience
to build something off that so big and in this stage,
it's typically just under 2 million, the audience that you get from that. But the audience may have been 40,000
when you initially started, so it grows pretty quickly So, Ronnie, you alluded to this earlier that, really, at the scale you guys are operating
it's a volume game. You're throwing up, would you say,
hundreds of ideas a week that you're trying to get out there.
Talk a little bit about what your volume is, like how many ideas you're throwing out there,
how much you're throwing on the wall and then what percentage of that
will eventually stick. Well, it's fluctuated.
So it's gone from putting up 50 to 100 to doing, you know, less than that
so you get more quality in the concept and the design. They hit rate? It fluctuates too.
For me it's inconsistent, but again what I say could be completely different
for somebody else that's marketing on there. There's more than one way to skin a cat
so you know, it's a process. So for three weeks it might be that
we're launching 50 to 100. If that doesn't work,
we'll drop it down and focus. We're always iterating on what
we're trying to do to get that consistency. So, talk a little bit about
your general testing process, Albert. Do you really focus in on niches early? Do you really think about about this in terms of
drilling down to the grandmothers who love football or those really specific markets?
Are you trying to cast a broader net and then learn from that and drill down after? yeah I started with a broader sensor,
like math and science, and then try to go deep further. Can you talk a little bit about the most niche?
Like what's the most niche you've ever gone? You cannot do it nowadays, right. You can target the fence of a singer
or, yeah. I think that's it. Any niche stories? Not particularly but you do
get some very interesting, targetable options. You know, roller derby, for example.
There can be roller derby grandmothers and then you can
intersect every which way and there's a few other targets in
that niche that you can get into and probably sell really well. But yeah, Facebook, probably about
6 months ago, might even be 12 months now, they allowed you to start intersecting the audiences
to really break down that subset so instead of just making it broad
with every interest you put on there, you could put other interests,
say roller derby and then grandmother, and know that that audience is
going to like that share. Do you ever find niches that, I had a friend who was
experimenting on teespring and he was finding things that
people were sharing, people were sharing a lot
but they weren't actually buying. Did you ever find that,
that you get people that are just really into a concept but they won't
actually go all the way and make the purchase? How do you avoid that kind of thing happening? I mean, it often happens right? You have to really do
the quality of the research of the design, so if people are not buying,
it means that your design is not that interesting enough for them to put their money out. So you have to try another design. But that's why nowadays I do video content because I'm not sure,
how many of you here do Facebook marketing? Yeah so if you do Facebook,
you know that you can create video content and then you can create
a custom audience out of the video, right? The video viewers. So if you run ads to your post and nobody buys, it's still okay because you are building your assets,
which is your custom audience, and next time, if you want to sell another
designs on the same niche, you can target those audience. You're investing, essentially.
You think about it long-term. Just going on what Albert was saying,
if there's a lot of engagement and there's no sales typically it means your design's slightly off, like the concept,
like the message that you're putting across is that it's resonating,
the design's just not working. You can go back and
get the design, to rework it. I haven't really gone too far into that
but typically that's what it is. They need to connect with it a little bit more. Craig, so when it comes to this opportunity, there's a lot of affiliates in the audience that
might be thinking this is a good one for them. What are some of the top traits
that you think are really essential to make a good business out of Teespring? Yeah so somebody
actually asked me this the other day. If you look at the top 10% of sellers,
what are the common traits, and I would say it's a mixture between
the creative brain and the marketer brain because you have to kind of, the creative side,
come up with something new and fresh that resonates with people, like Albert said,
the Pi day thing, right? That's not something you can find
necessarily from your analytical brain. Maybe, yeah, you can find the
targeting is there and that supports the idea but the idea has to come from
that creative side of your brain. So that's something that
some people struggle with. So perfect seller is half creative,
half analytical thinking. But what a lot of people do if they're not one
or the other is they partner with somebody who is so we see a lot of people who work in pairs. One guy's this creative idea-designer
most of the time, the other guy's the marketer. I think that was with you and Suhail,
right? So that's kind of a good trait. But I think, fundamentally, like every business, it's just kind of that ability to push through, you know, when things don't work.
Like, a guy that I work with very closely, he had 25 failed campaigns,
and they're time-consuming to create designs and ads and everything
for them to fail. He had 25 failures and his 26th campaign?
He made, I think, $40,000 or something. Something like that. One campaign. It's just that persistence,
you have to have that entrepreneurial spirit, and also the belief
that things are gonna work. I mean it's not super easy, but I think for most
affiliate marketers they kind of have that mindset already, And that's why they're the prime people
that could do well in this business. But you have to have that sense of volume,
you have to be able to have that persistence. 10 years ago you're running an ecommerce business.
You have 26 failures. You're probably gonna be bankrupt whereas now, right, you
basically can just keep throwing stuff at the wall until one sticks
and not have a big loss. It's exciting. So long as you're following some kind of rule. It's like trading the stock market
or something like that. You need your stop loss, basically.
You need to get in there and say, "I'm not going any deeper than $20 on this design"
or $40 or whatever that process says. So there's no emotion in it.
You cut it and you move on to that next one. once you get your head around that,
you're set because it takes so much out of it. Fear and greed is what drives the stock market.
It's very similar to Teespring. You're like, "It's almost there.
The engagements are so good." It gets really confusing when you're in there
and you want it to sell. You put your heart and soul into this design but it doesn't matter.
You have to let the audience speak and they will tell you in that $20, that's my rule,
whether or not they want that shirt. How about you, Albert, do you have
any internal protocols like that? Do you have a number you could give
about what you're willing to invest in a given idea? Yeah, I usually look at the number of
engagement, like comments and shares, and I set a limitation of $50 per design to test. So, it's a wild card question here.
We live in an increasingly controversial world where people are divided.
What I'm interested in is have you ever tried t-shirt designs that sort of
walk that line of controversy and benefited from it? What's your approach
when it comes to that kind of thing? So my best success
was with a local law in Australia. that's the only time that I've really found
a trending design, like the Pi day. It's not necessarily controversial but it's
along those lines, like for the elections in the US that's so passionate. If you were smart
or if your account allowed you to, you'd be able to get in there
and capitalise on it. There was a shirt, I can't remember what it was
but it went phenomenally well. Something really basic, really silly. The journalists? Yeah. The journalists one. We see some, like in Europe obviously
with the whole Brexit thing. I'm from London.
We saw some really good shirts. It's like, "I voted yes" "I voted no" kind of thing
and those did phenomenally well because people were quite keen to voice
which side of the fence they were on. So we see quite a lot of stuff like that. Those things always pop up
so if you can get in there early and then create the sort of offering
that people want, then it works. So you spoke a little bit about this,
about investing long-term in these opportunities. So that's the way you think about it. Do you build longer term assets out of your
media buying? Do you grow your Facebook pages? Do you do a lot of remarketing, essentially?
Do you know that when someone's bought a t-shirt, they become
a lot more likely to buy another? Yeah, my way of thinking is that
my facebook page is my asset and then my custom audience. Custom audience is the set of
audience that has ever bought from you or at least they have ever visited your page. So that's why I focus mainly on two or three niches only
because I want to focus on building them so in the long run,
whatever I sell, I would sell to this group of audience first
before testing to the cold audience because this group of audience,
they are warm so they are more highly possible
to buy from you. Yeah, absolutely. So, are you able to
talk about your targeting, like have you ever had a campaign work
that's been broadly targeted or is it just all about the hyper niche targeting? So if you start it,
you start with precise interests and when you start seeing sales
then you know you have the purchase event trigger at the Facebook pixel
and once you have the pixel triggered, you can leverage
on the website conversion objective so that you let the pixel work for you, so that's
when you can target a broader audience. Because you're relying on
built-in Facebook data. Yeah, right. It's interesting and again it goes back
to your account and it's a gut feel that the Facebook accounts,
they react differently so some people have sold incredibly well into the Second Amendment.
I've never been able to move a shirt there and I've tried that across multiple accounts.
It's stuff like that like, I always target broad on an initial launch
and I always target specific and I'll go into that in a little bit more
detail when I go through the slides but I sort of hedge my bets and go both ways, sort of thing. We just have a minute left here but is there
anything you can say about Facebook accounts? I worked for a gaming company
where I did user acquisition and getting accounts that were able to scale
was an issue. Do you have to sort of season
Facebook accounts heavily in order to get them to be able to
deliver high volume? Since I started, I only have one Facebook account. So far, no problem, as long as you
don't sell trademark stuff. It's okay. It's a common idea within the realm
that you do have to season them and that didn't sit well with me but we've had quite a few different
accounts over the years, 10 to 15 or so. But recently I wanted to debunk that myth, and I got in there and the very
first campaign I ran, I ended up scaling. Everything was cold.
I didn't share any pixels, no shared audiences. There was nothing in there
that suggested that I had a leg up on anybody else that was just starting from scratch,
so I was quite happy with that. Yeah. That proves the opportunity is real, right?
People can jump in and test it. I want to thank everyone,
thank the panel here for a great conversation. We've got Ronnie staying on for a more
in-depth dive on some of his work. So again, thanks everybody
and we'll see you again. Alright stay in your seats, people. Okay, so I'll tell you
a little bit about myself first. I started back online in 2010
and I was doing basically a gilt.com style selling where I would
have campaigns last for a few days with countdown timers
and all that sort of stuff. There was a lead into
finding this marketplace with Teespring that, it felt every step that I was taking
was leading to something that allowed me to sell on a platform like Teespring. There's a lot of people
I've been meeting through the crowd. It was social media management
that I was doing, and website design, and just trying to pay the bills.
I was not making any money doing it and when this opportunity presented itself, as I said before,
there was 6 months that I let go past where I just wasn't going to do it
because I thought it was dodgy, which kind of sucks because that was 6 months.
I could have been learning and making a good amount of money. So with that, when I did get started, I launched
about 8 campaigns before I had a success and that success came with
a local law that was passed in Australia. I just came up with a slogan and ran this campaign.
It was so basic. I had a clip art image. I think I did the design
in PowerPoint or something. It wasn't even a design programme.
And I put it on a shirt and decided to go on holidays up the coast
because we hadn't had one up in about 3 years. We were up there. At that point,
I think the tipping point was 25. You had to sell 25 shirts
before you could make money, so you had to invest a lot of money
up front before you actually got paid. So that was a barrier to entry
for me for a while because from Bambino Brands,
which was a business I started in 2010, I managed to get myself
in a lot of debt, over $100k. Might not be that much to some people
but to me at that time I was always putting everything on credit cards.
I was doing the credit card shuffle. I just needed to pay these bills
and keep the wolf from the door long enough to find an opportunity
where I would pay that off. And luckily it came in the form of Teespring. So that campaign where I saw 25,
went on to sell, it was between 100 and 150. I think we spent about $300
and it was $1500 that was returned to us. And I got proof. I was like,
"Okay, this is worth looking at." And I probably selfishly said,
"Suhail, you go take care of the websites. I will take care of Teespring." So I went about launching
more and more campaigns. Nothing was working. And then luckily when I started,
there were these things called age campaigns. I've never ever seen so much money
pouring into my bank account as that time.
We were sitting in the back room. My business partner owns
a video shop in Nambour and I remember the first we scaled, like
there was 30 years of one design that we had put up and it went ballistic.
Every year was selling. It was incredible. You'd go to sleep at night,
actually you didn't really want to, you just want to be there working,
getting more and more designs up, and you'd wake up in the morning
and you'd sell 800 shirts overnight. And the outlay was minuscule.
It could be hundreds of dollars. So at that time, still in debt,
I found every credit card that I just paid off and we just slam them.
We put them in Facebook. We just wanted to get as much fuel
to this fire as we possibly could. At one point, we had $45,000
out staying with Teespring. For a week, we were very, very nervous. We've never had payments of that
size come back through from them, and luckily, we came in one day
and we looked at our PayPal account and that payout was that 40 odd grand. These payouts were $10,000, $10,000
$10,000, $10,000, $2000. I thought I'd found the answer.
It was incredible, and that went on for about 6 weeks and we made over
$300,000 in that short a period of time. I think about a third of that was the ad spend. We decided to go to Bali. He got married.
We shut everything down. And when we came back, Facebook was
starting to clamp down on the age campaigns. I was always very whitehat about what I was doing,
always wanting to provide value. Facebook was very worried
about people feeling like they were being laser targeted with that sort of information. Just trying to work with Facebook to work out how we could make it
a little bit more of a symbiotic relationship. I still try, to this day, to get back
across that line where we can get these age campaigns running. So anyway, we went to Germany,
got everything translated into German and ran them again. We had another 10 days, over $100,000
and we're doing incredibly well again but Facebook started shutting that down as well. There was a period there, probably 6 to 12 months
where we were doing it pretty tough. We couldn't sell a share to save ourselves
because the most targeting we'd done with that was knocking somebody's age. You know, 1953 shirt. You'd go in there.
Age, whatever it was. Male, female. And that would sell. So there's no research in what we were doing. It was basically making a nice design, "German-engineered, built in 1953,
limited-edition" something like that. So that leads into the fundamentals
of having to do your niche research, which is going into your audience insights
and proving that the niche you want to go into is actually targetable. I spoke to a lot of people over the last couple of years
and they go the wrong way about it. They'll have a niche in mind.
They'll go and get the designs done. It'll look fantastic. They'll load it up.
They'll go into Facebook and they'll try targeting it, and there's nothing available
for them to actually hit, so they've wasted all that energy in that time instead of just doing this
little bit of research to start with. So how we find out about
actually knowing if it's targetable is the audience insights.
Once you know you've got a few interests there you want to target 5 to 10 niches
and get 3 to 5 different designs. This is probably the initial step that you
want to take when you're getting started. You're hedging your bets but you're giving yourself a good chance of actually selling
something in there, and quite a few, if you've done your research properly. So when you go to audience insights,
which is obviously an option in business manager on the left-hand side there,
you'll see where you put in the additional entry. So I've targeted very broadly to start with
and this is just to throw up and get an idea of whether or not it's targetable, for starters. So if you wanted to do something like roller derby,
you'd go in there and type in "roller derby" typically a broad interest is always capitalised and then on the right-hand side,
you go at the top there and hit page likes and then on the left-hand side again,
it throws up by relevance to start with, so you'll see down there,
there's a list of Facebook pages and typically if there are
over a 100,000 in the audience, they'll be targetable when you go in
to actually do it in your business manager. so what you do to actually research is
go into every single one of those. You want to get a good list
of all the different targets you could possibly hit, so targets that will tell you
if there's a buying behavior behind it, so if there's websites,
they tend to be a really good one. It shows that they are incredibly passionate.
They've probably purchased online before so they're not new to buying online,
which is ultimately what we want them to do. Then once you've gone through those 20 pages
you can go to the Affinity and do the same thing. It's not often that the
left-hand side changes that much. You may find another one or two pop up,
but once that happens, you can like the page particularly if you're passionate about it. I don't love sewing but down the bottom here,
once you like the page, and I've liked it there,
I don't like it, just to be clear. I'll un-like it pretty much after I've done this step.
You just go down there and then you start opening up all those pages,
and you start building this huge targetable network of interests
of these people that you want to hit, and through this,
when you look at these pages, you'll see the types of
posts that they're putting up, seeing what they're engaging on, the language,
and just seeing what makes them tick because every niche, whether it be
cycling, bikers, rowers, roller derby, they all have a particular way of speaking,
and if you get down into that, it's going to make it feel like,
when you get that design on the shirt, it's saying something about them.
It's speaking for them. So once you've exhausted that,
and it's not very often that you can, unless it's a really small niche, once you're get in those bigger ones,
like sewing, you could be there for days. You just want to get a good handful
where you target a few 100,000 people so when you launch this ad,
you can launch into it. In saying that though,
you can have a lot of success in just having 10,000-15,000 people,
but it's so highly targeted that when you run this t-shirt to them,
it will sell like hotcakes 'cause chances are, people typically like me
don't want to touch something that low because there's a lot more energy
and doesn't fit in with the overall process. So with your niche research, again
using Google, it's endless to find more targets. Reddit forums or Facebook groups as well,
Pinterest and so on. The design concepts that you're looking for,
particularly when starting, is you want to go basic, unless you have
a good understanding of your niche already. With cycling, for instance,
if you're heavily involved with that there's a really good brand
that gets around called Psychology, and their graphic designing, there's just something about that brand
that speaks so passionately for them. That's when you can start using designs
that are a little bit more in-depth and design-heavy. These shirts have no doubt probably sold,
but the people who are selling them have worked in those niches
for quite a long time to get a good understanding of what they're after. The other thing that I don't like about these shirts,
I'm talking about on a broad kind of scale, is that they're too busy.
Can you read it? You want to be able to read it from a good distance away
because, after all, it is speaking for them and they're wearing this shirt
because they want to be heard and they want you to know
what they're passionate about. What I try to do is
get a handful of design concepts and have them in a folder. When I say design concepts,
it's designs that have sold, not that you just like. It could be both. But just have them ready, so when you
send your design request to your designer they're going to send something back
that's close to what you want. These couple of shirts have
both sold a couple thousand each. "Is my bike okay?" I came up with that saying
in one of our Facebook groups. I ran a competition to find out
what they wanted on a shirt and what I found is that
everybody's crashing their bikes, everybody's spending a lot of money
on their bikes, in some cases a lot more than the car they're driving, and when they come off, "Is my bike okay?" is the first thing
that comes out of their mouth. And the fact that I just turned it upside down,
I'm a pretty funny guy if you talk to me. But yeah, it's a little bit humorous
and humor sells. "Yes, I do have a retirement plan. I planned on skiing." We scaled that out
as far and wide as we possibly could and it made a lot of money, and the design on it
was so very basic, as you can tell. We'd go rowing, roller derby,
and all we're doing is changing out the clip art. It's still speaking so strongly for them. So once you've got your designs all together
we go into the ad setup, and with your process,
which I keep talking about, having a very particular ad set up and structure
is what's going to allow you to think less about the actual process of getting as
many campaigns up as possible. So as Albert was saying when he was up here, there's no one way that's correct,
that's going to sell, and I think if you've had
success in the affiliate world, you'll find that it's true. You'll be successful if you just
follow the fundamentals, basically. So within Facebook,
what we've got and the three main types that everybody uses,
engagements, conversions and traffic. So these have just recently changed their names. It used to be page post engagements,
website conversions and clicks to website. So my preferred method, and I am
playing around with the process at the moment, is website conversion page post.
So that's going into your Facebook page. You're posting a couple of ads up on there, just like you would if you are
updating your status on that page, and then you run traffic to it.
You come into business manager. At the top there, you'll see
my naming structure as well, and this is something I've figured out
over the last couple of years. This is what I use that's
the best way of tracking for me. So I've got the series number,
the series name, the niche platform, the country I'm targeting,
whether it's a broad or specific ad, or the interest, and then the variable that I'm
putting on the end to track. And then going into conversions,
the good thing about this naming convention is that I can go into business manager, search AAA1, and it brings up
every ad that I've got relating to that campaign. And when I do that, I just run through,
look at the variables, cross-check that with Teespring and ensure that there's campaigns in there that I can either bump the budget on,
I can cut, or just run as is. So from this screen, you've got the
conversions that I'm selecting. You go into putting your pixel on there
which there's a lot of controversy around this again. Add to Cart pixel works well for a lot of
people, and for me it's the purchase pixel. I don't know why I started
working with that. It was a brand new account, like I said to Eric before. I had a lot of success
right from the get-go, with this ad account, so I've stuck with the purchase pixel
and it continues to work very well for me. From there you start your targeting. Above here you would have had
the age, gender, that stuff, and here you go into your targeting.
So I always run two ads when I first launch and this will be a broad ad and a specific ad. In here, I've got pattern, sewing, sewing machines.
So these targets that I'm hitting, they are still broad in that niche
but not so broad that they may have said sewing once on Facebook
and they may fall into that audience. So people will typically
only be talking about a sewing pattern if they've got some interest in sewing themselves,
and sewing machines, same deal. So when you look across all the niches,
you'll find your broad interest by targeting the capitalised options
you have there, and typically you'll get audiences with millions in them,
and I like millions, not just in the audience that you can target. You're hedging your bets
with running these two ads as well because Facebook's getting
very, very smart in its algorithm where you can put something up
that's got 14 million people in the audience and you'll still get conversions coming back
that are profitable for you and allow you to build your custom audiences and then obviously scale out from there. So scale with your budgets, throwing them up,
building your lookalikes off that and so on. With millions, I'm very comfortable
getting the budgets up quite high and letting them run.
It'll just bring in the money. Then you go down to your placements.
Now I always go Facebook news feeds, so that's mobile and desktop.
You can separate them and I'm seeing more and more recently that mobiles are by far and away
leading all the conversions. So that might be changing very soon
as to what I'll be doing in terms of targeting. So then the budget for the day,
I run all these ads for two days each, $10 per day, so I'll go $40 down
on an ad or a campaign before I know whether or not I'm going to cut it. Very, very rarely will I let it go past $40
unless there's something that I'm seeing that is suggesting to me
that there is a good chance that it's going to sell if I
leave it running a little bit longer. But for the most part, sticking by that stop loss is what's going to make you
the money in the long run. You'll see there that the audience,
the potential reach, is 1.6 million so you've got quite a few people in there.
Also I am rather lazy. I don't like doing a lot of work. Everything's based on ROI and the process. I haven't been playing around with the
optimisation, the conversion window, bids amount. People are doing manual bidding at the moment,
and I mean, I'm making good money but there's a lot of people out
there, they're making a heck of a lot more by playing around with that. But I like the freedom.
I get to spend a lot of time with my family. That's what's important to me. So going further into it,
I always run two ads as well. I want to know I can track these things.
It's probably not the best cloaking URL, as people can see
what sort of traffic's on it, but running Google links with the variable on there,
there are better ways of doing it, but again, I haven't delved too much into it.
Simple copy. Luckily for us we are when you've got a really good selling shirt,
copy really doesn't matter too much. You just don't want it to be spammy, like
if you come from the black art world, you might be putting red backgrounds on there,
making it as ugly as possible just to make it stand out from Facebook's blue.
So here I've pre-loaded these, obviously, and then you just upload
and launch it and let it run. So the process, I've got certain launch days,
those ad setups that I was talking about. I manage the campaign every second day.
I don't play around the budgets all too often. If it's dying off, I'll let it go
a couple of days before I decide to bring that back in or turn it off.
On the flip side, if it's starting to sell really well, recently I had a campaign,
I'd spent $5 that day and it had sold 30 units. So that was the best result
I've ever had from such a low budget. And the next day I had $15 on one and it sold 42,
so there's a couple of happy days there. In email days, everything falls into
a particular process, so as you'll see here, I've got a tree, if you like,
of how my campaign launch works. It's basically a recap of everything
I've just said, so take a photo. I've worked on this for the last 2 years
with a business partner to try and get this repeatable. So through here again,
two conversion ads, broad, specific, broad targeting a couple of live interests,
getting a few million in there, even the specific, I like having
a few million in there, but typically over 200,000 is comfortable
for me to run ads into. From there, $10 a day budget,
both ad spend, $20. What do you do from there
if it's got no sales? You absolutely kill it. 1 to 2 sales, you leave it as is.
What I have seen happen in the past is that 1 or 2 days in after this period,
you'll start seeing that starts picking up so then you get to bump that budget
or it might just stay. You're making a little bit money on those 1 to 2 sales off the $20,
and you just let it run until it fizzles out or something happens in
Facebook's algorithm that it finds that subset in the audience that you're
targeted where it just actually takes off. From there, once you've bumped the budget
or left as is on that day too, if it's selling, you want to start retargeting it and making sure you're getting those people
funneling into your website custom audience which allows you to do that retargeting.
And again we have two retargeting ads we typically work on,
which I'll talk about a little bit later on. If we got time. So with a scaling, we've got budgets
which are working the best for me at the moment, along with the lookalike audiences,
your WCA's page, your 1%, 2%, 3% lookalikes, and then you've got 2 to 3%,
3 to 4% and so on. And so when you just go 1%, 2%, 3%, 4%, those audiences will start getting
really, really, really big and really broad, and I haven't had too much success with that
whereas at 2% to 3%, the ones to all that, it's taking that subset
so you're not overlapping audiences. Interests, I haven't had much
luck with that lately, but again that's my ad account
and all add accounts are different so this is just giving you options
of what you can do when you've got a campaign that you can scale
then you got your objectives, and then you're narrowing of
genders, ages, placements, your regions, countries, all that sort of stuff
so when you look at this there are so many different options for scaling.
It's almost endless, like it's variable after variable that you've got through there
that's going to allow you to scale a campaign far and wide, so when you get
a good ad, a good campaign, it's viral, this thing will take off. It'll be like wildfire. You just want to throw
as much fuel into this thing as possible. With the lookalikes, you've got
just off the WCA's and pages there, you've got 20 audiences that you
can run straight up $5 a day budget and when it's really, really good,
it's one of those unicorns that I was talking about, that thing is going to convert
on every ad you put in front of it and that means money in your bank. So like I was saying before, stick to
your proven method and take the thinking out of it. Process is everything.
You just got to cut it when it's not going to work and the reason I keep harping on
about that is because, in the Facebook groups in regards to
running shirts in Teespring, is I've got these metrics. My CPM's are this much,
my click-through rate is this, my page based engagement is 1%.
Why have I got no sales? How much did you spend? $60.
Great. You just lost $60. You've learned something.
You've learned a lot but you've also lost that money that you've been
putting on a shirt that's going to sell. Retargeting, we run 14-day retargeting audiences,
which is really putting the heat on people to buy. "Don't forget to order."
"Last call for orders is a 14-day audience." "Get yours before they're gone."
and that typically converts really well. That's putting the heat
on these people to take that action. Make them look at that countdown timer.
That is helping you sell these shirts. 180-day audience, so 6 months. "Did you forget about me?"
"Did you forget to order?" It's just reminding them. It's typically a
fairly low budget with a high ROI and both of these
you're building lookalikes off anyway, but it's basically just mopping up
those sales on the tail end of a campaign, making sure you're squeezing
everything out of these things as possible. Your budgets, anything under 100 is $3 a day.
Anything 500 to 1000 in the audience, $5 a day. 1000+, $10 a day, and on that, maximising profits. So once you got a campaign
that's going really, really well, you want to put more fuel on that fire,
give them more options, retargeting with different options. Stickers is a good one.
Mugs, caps, leggings. Albert's adding those things to his campaigns successfully. Open stores. So on Teespring,
you need 3 products in that niche before you can open a storefront,
name it, make it all pretty, and then once you open your storefront,
what happens is in Teespring's algorithm, they will start cross-selling for you. "Such-and-such who bought this also bought that." And it's a good way to make profit
on that back side. You can also give them offers like,
"$5 off if you buy now." All those sorts of things. And then emails. You can hit these
people 3 times a week, so that maybe for the same shirt.
There may be 4 different shirts in that niche but it's definitely something, just another avenue
for you to bring in extra revenue. So that pretty much sums up my process
and how I run my business, I guess. So, thank you!


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Fury FC Travel Program Mission
The Fury FC Travel Soccer program was formed to prepare and train area players to play competitive soccer. Our mission is to develop our players to perform well at the high school and collegiate levels.
League PlayPowhatan Fury FC teams play in the Advanced Development Soccer League (ADSL) and Virginia Soccer League (VSL). Each league is a member of the Virginia Youth Soccer Association (VYSA).ADSL provides competition at the U9 through U12 age levels and is comprised of four (4) local soccer clubs: Strikers, Kickers, FC Richmond, and Fury FC. The league is personally overseen by the leadership of all member soccer clubs to provide an avenue of positive development for the area's young soccer talent. The ADSL does not post scores or standings keeping the focus on player development and setting the stage for their future success.
VSL is a state-wide league which includes age groups up to U19, and offers competitive levels ranging from classic to elite. During the spring season, VSL only fields teams up to the U15 age bracket due to older player commitments for spring high school programs. VSL teams compete throughout Central Virginia, Tidewater, and Virginia Beach.
VSL and ADSL matches are usually played on Saturday, and occasionally Sunday. Participating teams play from eight to ten matches per season and typically participate in one or more tournament each season. Teams play matches ranging from 25 to 45 minute halves, depending upon the age group. VSL match scores and official team rankings are maintained by the league, and help determine which bracket (classic, premier or elite) a team will be placed for optimal competition. Tournaments for either league can be held anywhere, depending upon the scope of the event.
Commitment and Expectations
Competitive soccer is a family commitment. Fury teams practice at least twice per week, and sometimes more when initially preparing for the season or a tournament. Practices are 90 to 120 minutes in duration. Fury practices will officially begin on August 12th 2019. Practices will consist of specialized keeper training for all goal keepers, Sports Performance Training for all U12-U19 teams, and team practices 2-3 times per week. Additionally, players will be asked to perform conditioning or individual drills independently between practices and during the off season. Players are expected to attend all practices and keep their coach aware of events which may impact their ability to make practices or games. Playing time and positions are solely determined by the coaches. No player is guaranteed a minimum amount of playing time. Please do not consider travel soccer unless your player and their family are committed to attending practice and games diligently.Professional Performance Sports TrainingFury FC has a great partnership with Moss Sports Performance. Supplemental to weekly practices, travel teams have a performance training session led by Moss trainers to enhance athletic ability, improve performance on the field, and reduce the risk of injury. This unique offering available through Fury FC is focused on fine-tuning the athlete to meet present and future physical demands on and off the field.
Tryouts and Eligibility
Team tryouts are typically held in April or May for the coming Fall/Spring seasonal year. Our coaches evaluate candidates through drills, small-sided games, and scrimmages. Depending upon the number of players identified as having the necessary skill to play competitively, teams are created and posted on this website.
Team roster capacity is dependent upon the number of players required to field a team at each age group (e.g. 8v8, 11v11, etc.) and on league restrictions. Players who are chosen for a team in the Fall remain on that team for the Spring season. There is a second, smaller tryout held in November or December, solely for roster maintenance. For example, if a team needs additional players they may pickup players during this tryout or if enough players are found, a new team may be formed. Players need not be residents of Powhatan to participate in travel soccer. Please note that players are NOT permitted to participate on ANY Fury FC recreational league team while possessing a travel player card, and violations will be brought to the attention of the club's Board of Directors.Tryout Process:Step 1 - Attend the appropriate tryout for your age groupStep 2 - 48 hours after tryouts, results will be posted and players notified if they made the team.Step 3 - If accepted, the player will have 48 hours to accept their position and pay the initial deposit.Step 4 - If player has not accepted their position within 48 hours, then a notice will be sent removing the player from the team.Step 5 - All players are required to attend, size and purchase their uniforms from a local vendor prior to June 1st. Step 6 - Uniforms will be available for pickup approximately by Aug 1st.
Fury travel fees are higher than recreational or player development program fees. However, our fees are substantially lower than many of the Richmond area's larger programs. We field extremely competitive teams who often rank at the top of their divisions. Nearly all of our coaches possess a D license at the state or national level, and we have produced a number of players that have gone on to play at the collegiate level. Other expenses typically include uniforms, equipment, and travel expenses. Here is the breakdown on the fees and expenses:Travel Fury U9-U15 = $995/year (Fall & Spring Season plus 3 Tournaments)Travel Fury U16-U19 = $845/year (Fall Season plus 4 Tournaments)***Paid in Full upon acceptance to the team or 6 month installments (July-Dec) via autopay credit card******A non-refundable deposit of $100 is collected upon acceptance and registration to the team***Mandatory Uniform Kit = ~$350 ***Paid up front***Uniform Kit consist of the following: Backpack, Two (2) game jerseys, Two (2) pairs of shorts, Two (2) pairs of socks, Two (2) practice jerseys, One (1) Sweatshirt, One (1) Rain jacket, and One (1) pair of training pants.
We have increased our fees by $20 for this upcoming season, reflective of the increased state and league fees being imposed in 2019.
As a club, we make conscience decisions to improve our soccer program while keeping fees lower than most of the surrounding clubs. We are comprised of a volunteer organization with exception of the coaching and technical staff.
For questions regarding the Fury FC Travel Program, please contact:
Nicole Barr, Fury FC Travel Program Director
[email protected]
Fury FC
PO Box 125 Powhatan, Virginia 23139
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) -On Thursday, Davidson County Judge Monte Watkins unsealed part of the Vanderbilt football rape case file.
News 2 has received copies of character letters for former Commodore player and convicted rapist Brandon Vandenburg.
In November, Judge Watkins sentenced Vandenburg to 17 years for his role in a 2013 dorm room rape of a female student.
Vandenburg's mother, father and brothers wrote several character letters in his defense.
His brother Matthew Vandenburg said, "It makes me upset that all he has worked for is down the drain and I think about it all the time. The only thing good that came out of this situation is that I know not to drink EVER and to hang out with the right people."
Vandenburg's mother also wrote the judge, saying that she prays for the victim in the case daily.
"I pray for her healing and restoration of her happiness and joy. What I can say is that Brandon had zero intention of any harm coming to this young woman. He is guilty of not intervening and that was and is a terrible immoral decision," she said.
A large group of family friends also wrote letters in defense of a short sentence.
"I can honestly say that I think he is the most polite and kind young man that I have ever met," said one couple who has known the Vandenburg family for over 20 years. "We beg you, You Honor to please give Brandon a second chance in life."
One former coach wrote, "Brandon is, in short, a good person, who yielded to a sophomoric and an undeniable intoxicated and mindless lapse of judgement the night of the incident."
Vandenburg is currently being held at Bledsoe Correctional Complex in Pikeville, Tennessee before being placed at a permanent facility.
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Two double cabins and two heads. The forward vee berth has an infill piece to convert it into a double berth and the spacious en-suite aft cabin is fitted with both a double and a single berth which can be converted to a full width king size double bed. In the saloon the sofa's can also be converted to a further double and single berth providing berths for 7 in total. A walk-in workshop completes the accomodation.
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Church Planting
Bishop Festus Asuamah led a church planting workshop in his diocese of Sunyani, Ghana.
Charles Raven reflects on the consecration of Bishop Jay Behan, the start of the Church of Confessing Anglicans Aotearoa and New Zealand and how courageous Anglicans in New Zealand are taking the...
We enjoyed our most recent Anglican Mission in England conference from 17th-18th September 2019.
Gafcon Ireland reports on the two-day residential which was held for over 50 church leaders who are proclaiming the Gospel, partnering with faithful Anglicans, planting churches and preparing...
Charles Raven, the Network Director reports on how the gospel is bearing fruit through the nine networks that were established at the conference in Jerusalem this year.
These five men are standing in the gap for their country, building Christ's Church in Brazil and developing new strategies for reaching those in need of the transforming love of Jesus Christ.
An interview with Richard Leadbeater at Gafcon 2018 about church planting and pushing forward to grow God's Kingdom.
In church planting movements, how do lay people, who often juggle busy non-church jobs, get involved in spreading the kingdom and joining the ongoing discussion about multiplying Kingdom growth?...
The ACNA's Canon Dan Alger is training, equipping, and encouraging church planters across North America to proclaim Christ in and through mission.
Article explaining the history of Anglicanism in Ireland, the situation today and the story of Gafcon Ireland what it hopes to achieve.
Gafcon has today launched a dedicated YouTube channel. The article gives details about how it may be accessed and recommends videos to watch.
Archbishop Okoh celebrates the recent Anglican Mission in England (AMiE) service. It also reflects on the wider importance of AMiE in a context of theological liberalism.
Some reflections from Gafcon Membership Secretary, Charles Raven following his attendance at the annual Caminemos Juntos conference from 5th - 7th October 2017.
The story of Christ Church Stockport, an AMiE church plant launching in January 2018 in the north of England.
The encouraging story of Trinity Church Scarborough, an AMiE church plant in the north of England, written by AMiE Mission Director, Revd. Lee McMunn.


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When I found a it in a nude 30GG on eBay, I decided that it was worth trying. It took forever to ship, since I bought it from England, so I was very excited when it finally arrived.
Unfortunately, it fit pretty much exactly like the "mystery" bra. Compare Isabella with the "mystery" bra…
"Mystery" bra:
Though the underwires do not technically dip below the band, the band itself is shaped so that the cups are not in a straight line with the band. Here's a clarifying image:
Fit: New, the band fits about a size small, but the material seems like it would stretch out quickly. The cups are the right volume, but the shape means that there is empty space in the bottom and a good amount of quad-boob at the top. Sigh.
Comfort: The bra seems fairly well made and seemed comfortable when I tried it on. It seems like it might be less breathable than some other bras.
Looks: The fabric is kind of apricot-coloured. The bra is simple and pretty.
Shape: Because the configuration of the underwire/band isn't right for me, the cups sit below my breasts and also pull my breasts down and out- not a pretty sight. The cups are pretty rounded, though, and look like they would give a great shape on someone with less high-set breasts.
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A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy.
A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.
A region of country; a tract; a district.
Keywords: electoral, council, victoria, legislative, districts
The name given, in Victoria, for electorates of the Legislative Council. See electorate.
One of the 22 Legislative Council electorates. (Each province contains four electoral districts).
Keywords: sphere, jurisdiction, sovereign, proper, extent
The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.
a region of the state which possesses sovereign power over a limited number of jurisdictions
the proper sphere or extent of your activities; "it was his province to take care of himself"
Keywords: kingdom, atlantia, local, crown, ceremonial
A local group (usually the first group formed in a Kingdom).
A large branch within and subject to the administration of a kingdom (or principality, if any). Provinces do not have ceremonial representatives appointed by the Crown, and thus lack the ability to create and administer awards. Provinces must have at least 25 subscribing members. Local Groups in Atlantia
Keywords: geographic, landform, republic, characteristic, geologic
in the context used in the report, a geographic area having particular geologic and landform characteristics.
A geographically defined area with a characteristic set of species or characteristic percentage representation by given species.
one of the five political geographic units into which the Republic is divided.
a portion of land or (acres) granted to you by the utopian Lords when you create your free account
A rpg type game in which you play a province and try to take over the rest of the galaxy through space combat
Keywords: biome, native, climate, vegetation, land
Keywords: canonically, superior, constitutes, immediate, union
a union of several houses which, under one superior, constitutes an immediate part of the same institute, and is canonically established by lawful authority
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Thursday, December 07, 2006
Random Notes
2. I am 156 pages into R.R. Bolgar's The Classical Heritage. It is great. I would call it a history of education from late Rome through the Renaissance. Even the chapter on Byzantium was fascinating. Now, history of education and Byzantium are not two topics that make my blood race. Put them together and you've got a soporific cocktail, right? No, Bolgar makes essential identifications; he pulls the empirical facts of history together to find the principles and trends.
This book is not for everyone. It is learned and advanced, written in a dense style with long paragraphs. 25 years ago it would have bored me to tears, but now I've read enough about the history of philosophy to get something out of Bolgar. It is thrilling to see a brilliant mind with a first-rate understanding of the material induce the essential and the important from the facts of history.
3. When I watch the Lakers I see a TV commercial for a WWE (professional wrestling) video game. This might be the only sports related video game that is actually more realistic than the sport. At least the outcome of the video game is in doubt.
4. If you want to hear a good pop song, check out this Christmas video by Heidi Klum on Trey Givens's blog. The melody is catchy and Heidi Klum is easy on the eyes. She is married to someone called Seal. What does Seal have that I don't have? I mean, other than talent, wealth, fame and sex appeal. Those things are so shallow.
Warning: This video is pure, happy pop. It will nauseate hard rockers and send Metallica fans and Gwar fans into convulsions. Fans of Slayer risk an agonizing death, which come to think of it, might turn them on.
7 comments:
- EdMcGon said...
Regarding "The Classical Heritage", I am looking for a book to get my dad for Christmas. He loves history, but he is a staunch conservative (much more than me). Do you think he might like it?
- Friday, December 8, 2006 at 8:54:00 AM PST
- Myrhaf said...
I would not give this book as a gift because I myself would not have liked it years ago. It's about philosophers in the Dark Ages that no one has heard of. You would be safer with Paul Johnson. If he has not read Winston Churchill, that would be a good choice. If your father fought in WWII, a book about his unit or any battles he was in would surely be appreciated. I've also heard that the memoirs of Grant and Sherman are terrific.
- Friday, December 8, 2006 at 9:04:00 AM PST
- Billy Beck said...
You just can't miss with Winston Churchill's six-volume history of World War II. I've seen new boxed paperback editions that are moderately expensive, but if there are any decent used bookstores in your area, they certainly might be worth a try. I put together the whole set in hardcover for about thirty dollars, I think.
"Warning: This video is pure, happy pop. It will nauseate hard rockers..."
Not me. You might be surprised at what I can enjoy. Remember: I was raised on big-band swing, Dixieland and bluegrass/country. I have photographs of me when I still had hair, playing rhythm guitar in my Dad's cowboy band. The second CD I ever owned was Paula Abdul's "Forever Your Girl" (1988), which I still think is a fine record.
I'd give Heidi's video a 7.7 or so, I think. I'm not entirely knocked out with the composition or her vocal track on the thing, but it's not rotten at all. Good for her.
- Friday, December 8, 2006 at 9:55:00 AM PST
- Myrhaf said...
You have wide musical tastes. You mentioned elsewhere that you like Chet Atkins, a brilliant guitarist who is mostly forgotten these days. I'm with you. It really depends on my mood.
- Friday, December 8, 2006 at 1:11:00 PM PST
- Billy Beck said...
Chet is among the earliest musical sounds in my memory. My father was an enthralled fan almost as far back as I can remember: he wore those records out, and then sat around practicing and playing a lot of those licks for the rest of his life.
They're some of the sweetest sounds that ever went to vinyl. If you're a guitar player, sooner or later you just have to give it up for that guy. No way around him.
- Friday, December 8, 2006 at 2:33:00 PM PST
- Myrhaf said...
My father also had Chet Atkins records and I spent a lot of time in the '60s listening to him. With distortion and sustain, anyone can sound good enough, but to play clean, that's another thing entirely.
- Friday, December 8, 2006 at 7:23:00 PM PST
- Billy Beck said...
"My father also had Chet Atkins records and I spent a lot of time in the '60s listening to him."
"Swedish Rhapsody". "Country Gentlemen". "The Bells of St. Mary's". These are essential sounds of my childhood and youth. To listen to him playing "Dixie" and "Yankee Doodle" together at at the same time is astounding. There is no one like him.
"With distortion and sustain, anyone can sound good enough,..."
I wouldn't agree to that, necessarily. Doing that naturally -- at very high volume levels and without electronic artifice -- is a serious exercise in power management. I once worked with a guitar player who played through four 100-watt Marshall amplifiers running out to eight 4x12" speaker cabinets (four full stacks), and the whole rig was turned up to 10. Now & then I would sound-check that rig, and it was almost positively dangerous. Without knowing how to simply touch that guitar, the volume and feedback would quickly become completely overwhelming, and someone who didn't know what they were doing would just have to run for cover. It's a different sort of touch to manage something like that, but it is definitely a touch.
However, there is no question but that Chet was a grand master. What he did was very special, and certainly against the prevailing trends of electric guitar, and I don't know when we'll ever see anything like him a gain.
- Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 5:17:00 AM PST


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Artist: Julie Drew
October 25, 2018 - Jan 2, 2019
Reception: Nov 20, 2018
2 - 6pm
Location: Blue Curve Gallery
Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
10230 111 Ave NW, Edmonton AB
I love flowers and birds there is something that is so joyful of the beauty of flowers and the singing, the soaring and the delight I find in watching birds. When I walk in the great outdoors, it is like a treasure hunt to see what I can find. I am thrilled when I find something that really catches my eye and my heart. I take a photo reference or sketch it right away.
Flowers come in so many shapes and colors. I seek to capture the details and essence of the flowers. Birds have a character all their own. I particularly like the ones I do not see every day, like the egret, eagle and osprey. These birds and flowers speak to me of God's beautiful creation.
Sept 27, 2019 -Jan 2, 2020
Art on the Inside gallery, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
10230 111 Ave, Edmonton (basement level outside the cafeteria)
- Just being present
- With anticipation, expectantly
What are you looking forward to?
- For clarity, direction and inspiration
- For redemption… and transformation
- For Spring, new life, hope
- For rebirth, regeneration, new growth
Is about letting go and trusting the process
but those who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength,
they shall mount up with wings like eagles,
they shall run and not be weary,
they shall walk and not faint. - Isaiah 40:31
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Thursday nights in Devon
Location in Devon Alberta. Address supplied when registered.
Jan 9- Feb 13
6:30 - 8:30 pm
$143.00 + GST + supplies
Whether you are a beginner or advanced in watercolor painting, as this is a small class, Julie will be able to guide you through the process of watercolor painting. New students will learn techniques and start with simpler subjects. Advanced students can work on their own projects with guidance from Julie.
With the City Arts Centre
Painting: Watercolour 1 & 2 course (8 weeks) course id #661975
Register (Adult Programs > Visual Arts Programs > Adult > course id #661975 in the search Or look for the title..) Or call 311.
Monday afternoon, Jan 13 - Mar 9, 2020
$155.00+ supplies
Whether you have been painting awhile or this is your first class, all are welcome. We will touch on colour theory and the mixing of colors as we utilize a variety of techniques to create paintings of landscapes and other subjects of your own choice. There will be some group exercises to enhance your skills as well as time to work on your own painting projects.
Location: Terwillegar Rec Centre \multipurpose room C
Drawing and Painting with Mixed Media course (8 weeks) course id #661976
Register (Adult Programs > Visual Arts Programs > Adult > course id #661976 in the search Or look for the title..) Or call 311.
Thursday afternoon, Jan 23 - Mar 12, 20201 - 4 PM
Sharpen your drawing skills. Never taken a drawing or painting class? No problem, this class is for all skill levels, taking you to the next step in the process. We will use watercolor pencils and ink to draw and sketch landscapes, animals, and people. We will add watercolors for backgrounds to the paintings. We will work toward the idea of travel sketching as well by taking a couple of plein air sessions during the eight weeks, weather permitting.
Location: Terwillegar Rec Centre \multipurpose room C
Acrylic 1 & 2 course (8 weeks) course id #661963
Register (Adult Programs > Visual Arts Programs > Adult > course id #661963 in the search Or look for the title.) Or call 311.
Wednesday afternoon, Jan 21- Mar 10, 2020
Explore Acrylics and its possibilities through the basics of color mixing, brush work and moving on to techniques to enhance your creative potential. There will be group projects and time to work on your own projects during each class.
Location: City Arts Center 10942 83 Ave
"Papermaking Workshop" coming in February (contact Julie if you are interested)
Workshop on "How to make masking fluid work in Watercolor" coming in the spring
Next "Art and Faith retreat" June 26-28 at King's Fold Early bird registration will open in January 2, 2020.
***REGISTRATION*** Follow the links in the course titles to register on the Paint Spot website.
More information coming on all of these... Mark your calendar.
Saturday, Sept 30, 10 am - 4 pm Plein Air in MillCreek Ravine $60
We have a beautiful ravine close by. Let's take advantage of whatever the weather brings and paint on site. Sketching and painting outdoors is a good way to do eyetraining for painting and drawing. We will talk about composition, what to leave in and what to remove from the scene in front of you. Supply list will be attached soon or sent out after registration. Pack Light as we will need to carry everything a distance to the site.
Any medium welcome.
Saturday, Nov 4 10 am -4 pm Papermaking Workshop $60 plus $20 for supplies
In this workshop you will have the opportunity to make a variety of papers from natural and recycled fibres. We will begin by making 6-8 different paper pulps such as cattail, thistle, poplar fluff, blue jeans and more, out of seeds, cotton fabric, and recycled acid free paper: You will then have the opportunity to create papers from each of the pulp vats using the templates provided: approximately 10 -15+ unique pieces of paper for you to take home after the workshop.
There is no supply list.
Optional: Fabric, Inclusions: thread, sprakles, confetti, pressed leaves and flowers.
4 Thursday evenings Nov 9- Nov 30, 6:30-9 pm Painting on Handmade Paper with Mixed Media $140
We will take the handmade paper made in a previous Papermaking Workshop and use it as a suport for a painting.
We will work on (at least) two pieces.
One using the Handmade paper for it's own painting.
The second painting will use one or a combination of handmade papers mounted on birch panel or canvas.
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CLAIM TO HISTORY: Has explorer found ship sunk in 1679?
By Ed White
July 08, 2004 - The Grand Rapids Press
A Virginia man who for years tried to get permission to search for gold in northern Lake Michigan said he is back with the story of another shipwreck, one that could be among the "most significant archeological finds" in U.S. history.
Steve Libert won't divulge the ship's identity or the exact location in Lake Michigan. But state archeologist John Halsey has an idea, based on the scant details filed in federal court in Grand Rapids.
"There is something sticking out of the bottom that he thinks is the Griffin," said Halsey, who has briefly talked to Libert. "I don't think it's possible to know without more discovery."
Historians consider the Griffin to be the first European trade ship to sail lakes Huron and Michigan. It was built for French explorer Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle in 1679 but disappeared that same year, probably in a storm, loaded with furs and bound for Lake Erie.
"I'm not going to say what it is," said Liber, of Great Lakes Exploration Group, based in Ohio. "If I did, everyone would jump out of the woodwork. ... They'll find the ship and tear it apart."
He may have no choice but to divulge more. Great Lakes Exploration has filed a lawsuit seeking to be declared the exclusive owner of the shipwreck. In the short term, it wants to be named custodian.
A judge, however, rejected that request, for now, saying he needs more information.
Great Lakes Exploration "fails to give any identifying information" about the ship, aside from disclosing latitude and longitude coordinates in a large area, U.S. Chief District Judge Robert Holmes Bell said.
Based on the coordinates, the shipwreck is in northern Lake Michigan, somewhere between Escanaba and the St. Martin Islands, near Wisconsin.
"The vessel was owned by a foreign research expedition operating with the authority of ... a foreign sovereign until it became wrecked, lost and abandoned," Great Lakes Exploration said in court documents.
The group said it has "invested substantial time, money and effort" finding the ship and researching its history.
Libert, an experienced diver, said he removed a tiny piece to determine age.
"It's taken me 30 years to locate this," he said. "I last saw it two weeks ago. We're not 100 percent sure, but, so far, all the scientific data is supporting what we think it is."
Halsey has seen only "grainy" underwater videotape. He said he wants the state's maritime archeologist to go to the site.
"You don't have to have a doctorate degree to know how many vessels were under a foreign sovereign on the Great Lakes," Halsey said. "If it turned out to be the Griffin, it would be the preeminent vessel in the Great Lakes.
"But you don't know what's left; sometimes there are just bits and pieces," he said. "Where exactly it was lost is also a real mystery. Back then, you didn't have a whole lot of people watching for it."
And even if it is the Griffin, Libert's group still would have a difficult time gaining control, Halsey predicted.
Michigan typically has authority over abandoned ships on the bottom of the Great Lakes. But the French government could trump everyone if this is the Griffin, he said.
"Unless the French give their blessing, it can't be salvaged," Halsey said.
La Salle's other ship, La Belle, was discovered in the mid-1990s in Matagorda Bay off the Texas coast. With approval from France, state archaeologists there recovered nearly 1 million artifacts, from human bones to muskets.
This is not Libert's first visit to federal court. He and partners spent years trying to salvage rights to the Captain Lawrence, a ship ravaged by storm off the Upper Peninsula in 1933.
They believed it went down just after the skipper recovered a chest of gold dating back to the War of 1812.
The state, however, said the ship was abandoned by its owner and must remain untouched. Federal courts agreed.


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Will Tomdroid support note search and notebooks?
Asked by Thomas Edwards on 2010-09-16
I use Tomboy notes quite a lot and have over 100 notes assorted into different notebooks. I was wondering if there were any plans to implement the note search and 'notebooks' features that Tomboy has? Thanks.
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PRODUCERS of the 'Jamaica Gold' sugar brand secured J$2.8 billion in financing from three structured notes arranged through Scotia Investments Jamaica Ltd to assist with sugar-cane reaping.
The deal gives a glimpse into the volume of cash required to finance the island's most valuable crop. What's more, these short-term notes were sourced locally rather than the traditional route through an overseas bank, according to Major Hugh Blake deputy general manager at Jamaica Cane Products Sales Ltd (JCPS) an agency that markets local sugar including the Jamaica Gold brand.
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To the Editor:
The Miami County Food Insecurity Committee would like to thank Bob Cole and Michael Hoagland of Bob Cole Rentals for allowing us to use the parking lot of the Stouder Center for a pop up food pantry on 10/26/2019.
Two hundred families were provided with food from the Shared Harvest Food Bank. It requires a lot of space and a lot of volunteers to have a successful pop up pantry and we are grateful for the support of the community! Thank you!
— Aimee Shannon, chair, and Alisha Barton, advisor
Miami County Food Insecurity Committee


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ChufaMix, veggie drinks maker is the first tool to make horchata of tiger nuts and other vegetable milks from any dried fruit, cereal or small seed in just 5 minutes.
Chufamix is captivating vegetarian, environmentally friendly public and allergic to lactose in more than 30 countries where it operates, and has been featured in major ecological fairs in Germany, France, Italy, Australia, England, etc.
ChufaMix is a patented invention and fully manufactured in Valencia. It has 2 year warranty and is free of any toxic plastic as Bisphenol A, PVC, etc.