In a dark corner of the basement of Beyer Hall there's a gym strictly
dedicated for members of the Iowa State Weight Club. This is a gym for serious
power lifters and strongman competitors and one of its most dedicated members is
Amy Kurr. "Powerlifting's great it helps you learn to stand up when you fall down. Kurr
is one of the most experienced members of the ISU Weight Club. The senior in
materials engineering has been coming to this gym since before she even started
classes at Iowa State as a freshman and while she loves it now her first visit
here wasn't great. "Everything was intimidating. I was new
freshmen didn't know anyone so I was like nope just kind of ran away." A friend
talked Kurr into trying the gym again but as one of the only female members she
often felt isolated. "I stuck with it I loved lifting so as long as I could find
like-minded people who are there to support me encourage me had the same
goals we're gonna help me it seemed like it go close Kurr was determined to give
other women that kind of place without feeling as intimidated as she was at
first. "I talked to some of my friends who were involved in fitness they're
like yeah it's tough meeting women who like fitness, working out, running,
swimming, anything and I was like maybe we should start up a club for that so we
started up a club for women in fitness we called it ladies in fitness training
LIFT. We wanted to connect women who loved Fitness who wanted to meet other
women the other part was we wanted to inspire these women to chase their
athletic dreams." Meanwhile, Kurr continued to chase hers. She entered and won
several powerlifting competitions setting multiple collegiate records
along the way but she was still looking for new challenges and she found some
while studying abroad. "While I was overseas in Britain I got introduced to
strongman competitions or the strongmen atmosphere and then decided I loved it
wanted to go try out some competitions." "Go Amy@" Kurr has stayed busy in her time
at Iowa State she's a member of women in science and engineering and the Society
of Women Engineers last fall she was selected to be part of the Cardinal
Court but it's her work helping to grow a community for women and fit
that she's most passionate about. "Would love to come back 10, 20 years from now
and just know that something that started as you know nothing too great
whatever turned into something great." Kurt hopes to continue training and competing
in powerlifting and strongman competitions after she graduates this
spring and while she's helped grow the weightlifting community on campus, Kurr
says she's also grown a lot because of that same community. "So I've gained a lot
out of being part of the Weight Club, some of it has just been extreme
personal growth just realizing more about you know who I am what I want
dreams goals has been an incredible journey." For Iowa State News Service I'm
Dave Olson.
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How To Build A Website on Wix Live | Step-By-Step Visual Tutorial - Duration: 37:37.
is it possible to make a website in just an afternoon so right now today we're
gonna build a website so recently I've been asked to recreate this website
which is rainmakers adult worldwide it's a consulting company that brings in
business and hard to reach people and brings them together to add more
perspective to big companies and I'm gonna recreate this whole site in Wix
and I'm gonna make it look stunning and we're gonna do it together now there's
about ten things we're going to cover we're gonna get how to do the logo how
to add the art how to add a call to action how to pop ups SEO a mobile site
a contact section and about section a services section and trust element
sections sound good okay so let's dive right in them and get this
going so first we're going to create a new site we're gonna click on business
and we're gonna go on the Wix editor here now we're gonna create wish could
choose sort of a consulting template which is I quite like this one and one
we're gonna have to download a few of
the few of the well we'll have to get the the specific logos a bit later on
but right now we can sort of we have all the copy and stuff here so let's first
build out the outline of what our website we want it to look like the
wireframe and then we're going to personalize it make it a bit smarter so
the first thing that I feel most people care about is actually the images and
their websites now what we will have here is this sky position but I actually
want to change this whole thing so if you go to change strip Brack background
images we're gonna go free from Wix and we're gonna go
Consulting what does that give us here so sometimes you have to just sort of
play around and really look for things
so here we're gonna have this sort of walking we're gonna make this a bit
smaller by stretching it and we're gonna get so the name of the the company's
rainmakers worldwide so here we're going to sort of get there where we want to
sort of bring them together so
rainmakers we can make the font a little smaller so it fits great here's a little
tip when you change the strip background you can go into settings you can give it
a white opacity and sort of let it come out a bit more
we know the theme is that looks great so now the next thing I want to do is is
change this around
so you can sort of move it as you want
here I want to make this contact us and here we can add sort of a tagline base
on the mission and I know from the company that they're changing for
company so something a little bit like that and here I want to make the design
a green so we can go to customize design feel color and just change that to a
sort of green that fits so let's see that it looks good and we want to get
rid of that border don't we there we go and we can also make the text a bit
bigger so customise design text just so it's a bit easier to read because you
don't want something that's not readable to you so basically and I just want to
change the layout so I'm just going to drag this below and this is also hard to
read so we're going to make this into a different font we're go with Georgia
so already we have something there and I actually want to give this tint instead
of a white let's give it the same sort of let's give it that tint as well so
that it sort of has a green tint that is very subtle but actually blends in quite
nicely so here let's get some pictures from the website so if we go to about us
we have a picture here however it's a web file so I'm gonna have to take a
screenshot of the picture which is not exactly best practice but it's something
you can do to make sure that you have something that works for the client you
want to deliver always so here we just took a screenshot of the picture because
getting your assets is sort of the first and foremost most important thing to do
and rainmakers alright so now I've got rainmakers going on here I'm gonna
change the picture change column background and I'm going to change this
to about us and we're going to change the image and here instead of using free
from from Wix we're going to upload our own image and rainmakers
and as you can see we can actually see the face so we need to position it down
so there we have something perfect okay great and now we can change this to copy
for the website looking sort of a copy and paste again because we're using
Georgia let's go back and use Georgia you want to be consistent throughout
everything and we can update those buttons later for now we can make it a
smaller and there we go we have something that looks a bit better so we
have rainmakers which is still slightly hard to read if I do say so myself and
sometimes you know where I spend a lot of time is is simply in the design I'll
spend a lot of time and like so instead of green maybe I want a white and then I
want the text color to be black and then I also want the borders of the borders
but rather the corners to be rounded
and you can see that already it's sort of a very different feel just from that
I think it looks quite good though you have about us here and there's a few
other things we want to put in so we're going to want to have we have the call
to action we have the art we're going to want the logo so we can just type in
rainmakers type in rainmakers there and here then the business is sort of for
now we'll put in London consulting which is sort of the brand description here we
can sort of we can do our services
and we'll do the three services that the company offers I'm going to show you
some cool tips and tricks here we should bring this is our anchor tag which will
bring up here and then you can sort of drag this height which is a little
finicky I've had a lot of people tell me it's really annoying but it only goes as
high as the anchor tag that's the secret once you're editing your website here
we're gonna add another strip and you can see there's different layouts here
the base livers got a classic white strip and we're gonna go click that
button and we're gonna send to back ok great now we're gonna go click Add we're
going to click vector art and here what we want to do actually is find the three
icons that sort of describe our services and the reason for this is that it's
icons are just a really great way to communicate actually so we'll get three
different ones here again in the vector art which is a Wix exclusive really
and then we're gonna sort of type in three
I actually don't quite like that one
anyways a lot of the web design is really sort of an artistic creation
where you want to find a good balance of art and design while still communicating
the main assets of the website and that's what's really important I find ok
so I mean we're building this straight from scratch by the way and after this
will sort of end up with a contact here and that'll be good so now what I want
to do is add three texts and I'm gonna have three paragraphs and basically
we're going to go back to the web site say corporate engagements and it will
copy
we'll copy that and now we sort of have our first paragraph obviously it's quite
a little long I'm gonna make this slightly smaller and really this at this
point we're really getting the design of the web side the feel of it up to
scratch so those will be our three services we're then going to you know
make the strip a bit smaller so one way to do that is just hold it up go all the
way to the bottom and then again this is sort of the one annoying thing is that
it's often annoying to get rid of all this blank space but that's just one of
the things about Wix
cool so now we have that and we're just going to add a little call to action so
that is just a button and let's just add a border to that
and you can imagine it saying book us now but instead we sort of want the
green so you go to borders and we can use that same green and let's and if we
want to make this as well so now we can keep that consistent green and that
consistent brand all the way through which is really really makes a website
pop out okay great so we have the green we have the about us we have the
services and we have the final contact us okay good let's publish that site and
that's the first one we're gonna do a few more things so one I'm going to add
a pop-up that asks people to subscribe so here we're do a lightbox and we're
going to do
so really simple we're gonna say never miss an update get your name on the list
and we're also going to ask for the name and email we're gonna make this slightly
smaller whoops I guess we'll just leave it as the default for now and we can add
sort of a vector art to make it really pop and again we can change the change
it so it stays on brand colors so then it's sort of node fits a bit better than
it did before and we're going to okay that looks good
so here we're gonna change the overlay so it sort of pops up behind that looks
beautiful okay I like that so we change the overlay we set it up we're going to
set up a trigger so it pops up after ten seconds
great and there we go we have the the pop-up that comes up we have we're going
to publish that the next thing I want to do is I want to change the mobile so go
to the top there and go to mobile view
so here we can see what it looks like on mobile
so it comes up right at the top and this is really the size of your phone will be
this big but it'll be similar so now we go back to our homepage and as you can
see it doesn't look great but we can make it look great in just a few seconds
so one we have our button there we're going to move this up we're going to
move this down and we're going to change the font size here so it fits into one
and then we're going to sort of so that sort of explains what we do so now we
have that working we have the about Us which is very clear our three services
looks a little weird if I do say so myself
so we're gonna make this
slightly different so what we're going to do is we're going to put this on the
edge to make it easy for people to distinguish obviously we're going to
have different text here but this is sort of one version where we're able to
get our message across and we're almost done guys yeah look and this is the call
to action which we can make a lot bigger on the mobile version and then we can
just make this smaller perfect now we have the contact section and that looks
great so as you can see we've just finished
the mobile section so we can publish that now the next thing I want to do is
I want to basically at this point get found on SEO
so what we can do is add alt text and stuff but I just want to before we get
into that change the Meta Description actually of the page so if we go to the
site manager we have rainmakers and
so hear this if you go through this process you can type in so what it'll
actually do is the SEO plan will say it'll recommend a blog post for you
I believe so it'll tell you things that you might want to do so yeah okay yeah
so you will if we go here if we click on here click on the three dots page SEO
this is really important rainmakers this is we're gonna put show up
so so here you have the small description
so now we have what we show up on Google
and then you could say rainmakers London
and there we go now we can put that in and save that and now we've just got
sort of the main SEO but what's great about it is that you can get a lot more
tips from that page so we have the art to call the action the pop up the
services the last strip I want to add is because this client has so one thing
knows when you're moving something down you're gonna move everything down so if
you want to move something down you need to highlight you know the whole strip
and then move it down together so here I'm going to add a gallery and
specifically
so that's a showcase trip so vegan so it'll still pop up there okay great so
that's what it looks like on mobile and what this will do is we're gonna get the
logo of a few different things and then we're gonna bring those into Wix so one
let's download that logo Rio Tinto and
Cambridge these are three clients three
three clients my three clients the person who's worked with and then all we
need to do at this point is change images and we're going to add images
we're going to upload our own images and
if you hold down shift you can upload multiple images done and now we're going
to select all of them great ad that's a gallery and it looks like Cambridge
University doesn't quite fit the last thing is you could change the page
background to white
just so it matches everything so unfortunately Cambridge University
that's not a good so we're just gonna take the the crest for now
we're gonna get here we go who's still not quite that great is it
if not we can Deloitte logo for this you can do if manually you can manually redo
it in Photoshop but for now because we want to we basically the first most
important thing is can you get a rough draft and then come back to it later
I've always found that having a rough draft helps a lot to providing you know
at least the consistent momentum of a great website so we have Deloitte
everything and we make this smaller
and we can eventually add more images
and we're going to add one piece of text here
just says client looks great okay
perfect perfect and the last thing we can do is we can change
we can sort of make this a lightish gray lightish green and this is so it sort of
sticks out a bit more and helps bring that greater green consistency that we
know and love okay great so we have our tres elements we have our services our
about again we can whenever you add something new you want to make sure that
it looks good on the mobile site so you have the pictures there you have a
client you have button contact form the last thing we're going to do before
we wrap this up guys and it's been a really I think really powerful tutorial
today is finally we're gonna link all these buttons to the anchor tag so let
me tell you what I mean by that we're going to link to so these things right
here contact that's what we're going to link it to so if you go and link anchor
contact done we're going to change this to
contact us again we're going to link that to anchor contact done perfect here
we go again
contact us anchor contact done and now all that's
going to link directly to there now the last a few just we're just going to hide
a few of these so we have the services we're going to hide that we have the
blog which we'll get into we have the About section so now we're gonna move
about here so that when you click on about it will take you there
let's see how does that look now pretty good pretty good moving forward let's
finish off with the block shall we so that picture actually sort of works for
us and we have different blog posts here if you go to blog you can do a create
post and we can do our first post and we'll just make the defaults a picture
some text and a headline and that'll really be so well doing something really
simple
and then we can add an image free from Wix one of these snazzy pictures
and you can add your name anyways that's it also if you go back in your dashboard
here you also have a few other things like contact CRM so that's your blog now
we just published a post obviously you'll probably want to get rid of the
other post but if you want to see it you we already clicked on publish there
we're gonna click on View site and at this point all we're going to do is this
is what the site looks like so there's a little bit of a bug with this now
working right so what we're going to do is we're gonna make that a static and I
think that's because there's a parallax
so change strip background settings none and that way it stays so now when we
reload it we shouldn't have that problem
perfect whoops it's still reloading the old version there we go the non parallax
version perfect so that's our site and as you can see the About section takes
you to each part and we even get the pop-up that comes up that wants your
name and email address so said it said why so now it automatically subscribes
you and if you want to check out where those goes where that goes if you go
into site my dashboard and wait for that to load you can go into contacts CRM and
you can see that said you subscribed and in your contact list you have one more
person so that's sort of a cool tutorial about how to make your website your
consulting website you know from scratch from the beginning we made the whole
thing mobile version included the last thing is if you want to have a great
domain and you want to remove the ads that we saw on here then I highly
recommend that you click upgrade and get the get one of the plans it's just it's
a great it's easy it's fast Wix test backups for you I highly recommend it if
you're serious about getting a website but watch our other videos on e-commerce
and on 24 mistakes you want to avoid will make your website and yeah
subscribe and comment comment on this video tell me if you liked it or not
tell me we thought was a good tip so that's about it see you in the next one
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How To Build Social Media Presence - Duration: 7:25.
Hey, what's up, guys? Welcome back. It's Grant Thompson, Kris Krohn. In this video,
we're going to tell you how to get started building your own social media presence online.
Alright, so you need to build social media presence online and the
first thing that I just want to share is don't get crazy. It's amazing. I mean, you
can get lost and even inauthentic like, okay, I'm going to take this, I'm going to post
on Facebook and then I'm going to open it my Instagram channel then I'm going to
tweet this thing out and then after that I'm going to you know, I'm going to move it
over to what's that LinkedIn thingy over there and if you try to do it all at
once, they can feel like a commitment that is so big that if you're
not really going to be committed and stay with it, I don't know how effective
really social media is if you're like doing it in waves if I'm in, I'm out, I'm
in and out or I started my channel but then I've never really been present. I
mean, bottom line is, at least my experience, is that social media is
impactful if you stick with it. Like Facebook, I'm really loyal to Facebook. I
do a really great job connecting that way, I've got I think twelve different
pages that I manage and that's what work for me. Instagram,
honestly, I keep trying to like get into it I just.. Definitely don't do my
Linkedin, drives some people nuts but I would just start by saying do social
media where you feel like you can be consistent with it because that way it
gives your people the opportunity to predictably be able to connect with you.
- As you guys are getting started, there are four main platforms that you really
need to be concerned about. We have so many different social media platforms
popping up but the major players are going to be YouTube, Facebook, Instagram
and Twitter and they all have their own different advantages. YouTube's kind of
like your own TV channel where you can build channels and put out stuff and it
even seems like lower quality content like just being yourself filming with
your camera in your house does better than highly commercialized
content. Same thing with Twitter, you know, Twitter is looking for you to be super
professional. The most successful posts that I've had on platforms like Twitter
are just like how you're feeling about your day or what your opinions are.
Twitter is a place where people want to know just more about the way that you
think. Instagram I found it's kind of like a lookbook, it's a place to post all
your fancy pictures about yourself, it's basically like look
how awesome I am and all these places with nice cars or whatever the case
may be. It's really just glam photos of you and then Facebook is a
place where you can give a very short digestible content to people with ADD
who just wants to run through all kinds of ideas very quickly. So when you're
studying these platforms, Kris is right, you don't need to be overwhelmed with
having schedules and plans to build everything out but one thing that is a
consideration is if you do get popular on one platform, somebody will take your
name on another so as you're getting started, I would suggest signing up for
all of these platforms, just to lock in that username so that you have it to
come back to later on when you actually are serious about some kind of strategy.
- Now when you've picked the platform that you really want to run with, what I would
do is I have some kind of strategy for what it looks like for you to, a strategy
that feels organic and natural, maybe you don't need to program in your phone, it's
just something you want to do like right now I don't need anyone to remind me to
connect on Facebook, I find that I do usually two three four or five posts a
week so sometimes they're daily, like I was in Thailand last week, there was a
lot going on so there was a lot of posting and when my life has a lot going
on, I share a lot on weeks that are kind of slower. I'll be a little bit more
contemplative maybe share something I'm doing with the family and you know for
me, every one of these platforms, you have to learn how to do them well, you don't
just want to put your stuff out there, it's like self-made, here we're teaching
you how to do YouTube for example so that you can do it well instead of
crappy. Facebook, I know how to write a post and get massive traction but for me
it takes some time, I've got a people on Facebook generally they want if you want
it to be high interaction, you're doing one of two things,
you're either sharing something or you're saying select A or B and then
everyone wants to contribute on contribute, contribute make choice a or B
for you and I want to give you my opinion or the other thing that will
happen is it's a great place for vulnerability, not the easiest thing for
people to do but people are willing to be raw and open with their feelings and
emotions or what they're going through you're going to get a lot of support
through through Facebook for example so for me I've got a strategy of like hey,
if I was only going to hit up Facebook once or twice a month, that's not really a
strategy, I'm not really going to build an audience, I'm not connecting frequently
enough with them so the strategy has to allow you to connect frequently enough
with the right kind of content that they're interested in because I've
learned on Facebook there's some things I'll chat about, there's crickets, there's
no likes, there's no comments almost, no one
really cares so as you're contemplating like Grant's talking about these four
different, these four different major platforms, make sure that you're using
them appropriately so that you can do also the intended purpose which is I'm
expanding my influence by using the channel the appropriate way. - And I would
also suggest to take baby steps. Once you've initialized your presence and all
these and you've locked in your username, just go through and make them look nice,
put in your your little icon, put in a banner, update the description or the bio
to describe a little about who you are. If you have that then at least you've
got something and when people come and check you out you're going to look like you
know what you're doing and also by doing this it helps you establish who you are,
where you're branding messages and being consistent through all the platforms and
then once you start getting into producing content, it's very easy to take
that content and rework it for the different platforms. For example, if you
make a video on YouTube, we can take one or two seconds of that video and turn it
into an animated gif and post that on Twitter that just loops back and forth
you know, sometimes they love that kind of stuff or we can just make a comment
on Twitter that relates to the video makes people want to go watch it, we can
also take that content and cut it down from ten minutes down to two minutes and
post them to Facebook so it's very easy to watch and very quick and we can also
take a picture from behind the scenes or you know, just us posing with the thing
that we were doing a video with and post that on Instagram so the same content,
from one channel can be used for all the different platforms altogether and
because you're posting all around the same time, it helps build the momentum
between all of them as well. - As a final thought for today, can you just imagine
being born a hundred years ago? Like it would have been like no social media, no
interaction like the only people you know are your neighbors and the people
you go travel to or the people you can penpal and and I'm going to write you a
letter and tell you I shall meet you in two fortnight's, even though I mean, with
such different times, today we live in such a blessed time that means that we
have the ability to connect with anyone anywhere in the world and so it's a huge
responsibility of how you use this, it's never been easier to meet people, connect
with people, get to know people and also establish what that core brand is like
Grant's talking about so take this advice and information that you've been given
today and use it wisely to go ahead and spread and build that amazing presence
for yourself online. - Hey, guys. Kris mentioned a
couple times the word connect and I think that's what building your social
media presence is all about, it's about connecting with people so no matter what
your content is, make sure you take time to engage with the people who are
commenting a liking make them feel like they're part of your club, that's how
you're going to grow. - Awesome. Friends, listen. If you want your next pro tips on how to
build your YouTube channel for example, that's one area in particular that Grant
and I have tons and tons of tons of deep dive training in so if you really want
to dive in and tear open and get an entire system of how to do it like a pro
from A to Z, make sure you go check out the website, we'll share what that looks
like for you.
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How to Build a Raised Bed for Your Garden - Duration: 3:10.
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Good Neighbours Help Build a Great City! Fire Pit Tips - Duration: 1:11.
Using a fire pit is a privilege and residents of Saskatoon should be aware that they will
be required to put out any fire that has a negative impact on their neighbours.
When choosing a location for your fire pit, make sure that it is at least three metres
or nine feet away from any buildings or fences.
Also, pay attention to overhanging branches or eaves troughs and make sure that they won't
be damaged, or catch on fire when you use your fire pit.
Fire pits must be made form non-combustible materials such as concrete, brick, or steel.
The opening must not be larger than 0.61 metres with no dimension greater than 24 inches.
The entire opening must be covered with a heavy gauge metal screen with openings no
larger than 13 millimeters or half an inch.
Only seasoned, cut cord wood, or charcoal briquettes can be burned in a fire pit.
Your fire pit can only be used in reasonably calm weather, so that the wind does not cause
the fire to spread unexpectedly, or to carry the smoke into your neighbours' yard or open
window.
All fires must be supervised at all times.
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