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- Hi guys, Martin here and today we are going

to be talking about demystifying funnels.

If you're in business,

you probably either already know about or use funnels,

and what we kinda want to do today is

just make a real simplified and to-the-point video

to try to tell you how you can avoid

some major pitfalls in designing a funnel.

Now, funnels are very, very effective,

they can make a huge amount of income for your business

and if you have a funnel that's designed well

you can use it over and over again.

And that of course, is a really great asset

for any business to have.

So today I wanna kinda go through

step-by-step on how we design funnels

and give you a few hints and tips along the way,

that you can hopefully relate to your business,

and get cracking on making your own funnels.

So the way that we make funnels here

at Local Web Solutions is kind of a process,

but what we kinda want to do first is really

find out what the desired outcome is.

And the way that we make sure that

we nail every single element of that

is we flip the funnel upside down.

So usually funnels work from the top, down,

kind of process, but the way that we actually

build our funnels is we flip it upside down

and work from the desired outcome

all the way down to the actual creative

and the copy or the advertising to promote that funnel.

So, most people we see, will do the opposite,

they'll work on the creative and the copy first,

and try and target the right people first,

but all that matters at the end of the day

is what you want the outcome to be.

So, let's discuss a few of the most popular

or most effectively used funnels in Facebook.

First of all we've got a discount funnel,

discount funnels are wildly effective

for e-commerce or if you're selling

a specific course or product

that you want to get numbers on.

Really great way of getting numbers through the door.

Value video is one that a lot of coaches use,

a lot of agencies use, so if you're in that field,

value videos are very, very effective.

Report, a report funnel, ebook funnel,

case study funnel, you can almost use this

in any business type and this

is probably the most popular.

You'll probably see a lot yourself on your newsfeed,

you'll see, you know,

download our free ebook or get a free report.

That is basically the beginning of a report funnel.

Now, the last one is the hardest one to master,

is a live event funnel.

Now, the reason that live event funnels are so hard,

is because you can get someone

all the way down to the end of that funnel

but then actually making them appear

at the live event is often a really hard process.

So, with all these funnels are ones that

can used in nearly all businesses

in some way, shape or form.

But you've gotta make sure you're selecting the right one.

So have a think about your business,

what your desired outcome is,

what is it that you want?

Do you want numbers?

Do you just want numbers so you can

re-market, cross-sell, up-sell?

Do you want to have one-on-one sessions

or gain really big trust and value

from your potential clients?

Do you want to add people to a list

or be able to, once again, re-market to people

but kind of be still perceived as an expert.

Or is the goal for you to be that

key person of influence,

stand up at an event,

give out a seminar or something like a webinar,

something like that, then you know,

these are kind of the right funnels for you.

So have a think about that and have a think

about your desired outcome first.

Alright, so we've picked our funnel.

Next up is the landing page,

now this is super crucial because this

is the kind of last step behind somebody

becoming an actual sign-up or a conversion and them not.

So, let's really make sure we put a lot of effort into this.

There's many ways to create a landing page,

there's many factors that certain landing pages need

but as a general, these are the kind of things

that are really needed or required

to create a highly converting landing page.

So, we've started off with the obvious, a headline.

You've only got a few seconds to engage

someone on the landing page so make sure

that this headline is good.

Make sure that it's really speaking

the language of your customer

and make sure that it is really

hitting those parts in their brain that makes them go

"Oh, that resonates with me and that's really relevant",

if you can do that in a headline,

then the rest will be child's play.

So, good persuasive copy is of course very important,

My hints to do persuasive copy is

pretend that you're in the head of your customer

and talk to them as if you are that inner voice.

You know, give them conversational copy,

go through their decision making process

and really understand your customer

and what they need fixed.

Remember that, all that you're doing here

in this entire process is taking someone

from the state they're currently in

all the way through to their desired state.

That's what these funnels are for,

that's what your products are for,

that's what your services are for,

never forget that, always relate that in your copy.

Now, really good ways to write great copy

of course as I just mentioned,

all the conversational stuff,

make sure that you talk,

sales 101 here, features and benefits.

You know, what features do you have

and how does it benefit your client.

Real simple stuff there guys.

Also you want to add a video if you can.

People love videos,

we get more engagement on videos

than any other form of marketing,

whether it be long copy, short copy, imagery.

So, video, video, video, if you can.

And calls to action of course.

Now, human beings, we're simple creatures,

as smart and advanced as we are,

sometimes we just need to be told to do something.

So just remember that.

Remember that, someone can read this all day,

but if they're not being told to do something,

they might not, it's just the way that we work.

It's the way that our psychology works.

So, if we're saying "This is great, this is awesome,

this can help you, now click here",

that works a lot better.

Lastly, and it's not a crucial element,

but it's a very handy element, is social proof.

Now if you're a business or a coach

and you haven't got previous customers,

it's very hard to throw social proof in there.

Don't fake it, don't do any of that,

just make sure that you build up social proof

and goodwill throughout the process

and when you get it add it to your landing page.

Remember that everything we're building here

is an asset to your business,

which means it can be used over and over again.

So, what we do with our clients

is we'll often build social proof

throughout the process if they have none,

and then add it to the landing pages as we go,

and we all of a sudden see those funnels

convert a lot higher from there.

Alright, so you've got your landing page,

next up is to promote it,

and of course we're talking about the ad.

Now particularly here we're talking about

Facebook ads so keep that in mind,

you know, obviously advertising on other platforms

and formats is completely different

but if you're going through the effort

of making yourself a really good landing page,

this part should be pretty easy.

I can literally talk about this for hours,

and different things that you can do on advertisements,

but I don't want to do that,

instead I just want to keep this

as simple as possible for you

and depending on what your service or product is,

this can be done many different ways.

Remember that anything that you do,

anything that you're doing, not just in business,

but especially in advertising,

you are taking somebody from their current state

through to their desired state.

Now, once you've worked out how to do that,

you will never have to worry

about a client or a sale again.

So remember, that's all we're trying to do here,

what is your customer's current state

and what is their desired state?

Then we use these to convey that message.

So, what's the goal?

Awareness, conversion, engagement, traffic,

you're selling a funnel,

you probably got conversions,

engagement and traffic, really.

You know, many different markets

will give you many different opinions.

As far as I'm concerned,

have a really good think about the end goal

and once you get there you'll

work out the best way to do this.

Let's talk about the nitty gritty though.

Pattern interruption.

Now if you don't know what that is,

that's fine, but just keep in mind

that Facebook is a platform for people to socialize,

to stalk their ex, to look at funny cat videos,

to look at food and that's really about it.

They're not there to purchase,

they're not there to actively buy.

And that's OK.

Because we have this beautiful thing

where human beings love consuming content

and love consuming knowledge.

So, if you're gonna interrupt somebody's time,

make sure it's worthwhile.

Make sure that you're giving them something

that they can actually use.

And of course a lot of people talk about this,

value first, give value and you won't fail, OK?

So, make sure you're interrupting the pattern.

Next thing, we wanna make sure the copy's good, OK?

We wanna make sure we're calling out the audience

and really letting them know that we understand them

and we can help them if they click on this button.

Copy doesn't have to be hard, OK?

If copy starts becoming hard,

you're probably doing it wrong.

Or you don't know your audience well enough.

So make sure that you've got

those two things in place.

Make sure that you've got,

that you know your audience

and make sure that you aren't overdoing it.

Just keep it simple.

Alright, next, are you using image or a video?

I highly recommend video,

I believe video is the be all and end all,

you know, when it comes to advertising

because, first of all, look at your newsfeed right now,

what's on there?

I guarantee the majority is video.

Because that's just what people are used to now.

We've got the technology,

we've got the internet speed.

Video is, there's no excuse for not doing video.

Of course, imagery does still work.

Now, if you're gonna use imagery,

our biggest hint is to just keep it raw and real,

don't use stock images,

we find that in all of our tests,

for nearly all of our clients,

normal images beat stock images all day.

Sometimes a good selfie can help, it's crazy.

But you know, we're on a social platform, so be sociable.

And lastly, video of course,

if you're gonna do it, you don't need much.

Just use your smartphone,

use software if you have to,

there's so many ways to do it,

there's no excuse not to do it.

So, yeah, which one are you going to use, image or video?

And then what you wanna do is piece

all this together and we're gonna

start talking about targeting next

and then you'll be able to start

kinda working out how to piece

all these things into your funnel

and really start promoting this.

Alright, the advertisement has been done

and now it's time to work out who

we're gonna be showing this advertisement to.

This is of course called targeting.

Now, as I mentioned at the beginning,

we reverse engineer our funnels for very good reason,

because it actually just makes life so much simpler.

This whole time, you had a goal in mind, right?

You've got a goal of what you're

going to help people with,

how are you gonna give people a benefit, right?

Now, you've written copy around that,

you've written an advertisement around that,

you've laid out a landing page around that,

and now all you need to do is decide

or place that in front of a specific audience

and you're gonna use one of these methods.

Now, once again, the reason that

this is so simple is because you have

never let go of that goal in the first place.

So you can't really steer wrong here,

so long as you know how to do these things.

Now first of all, our probably the most

expensive and difficult method

is cold audience targeting.

And the reason why is because you

basically spend money to find out whether

people are relevant or not.

And the way that we do this,

the way that we hit a really good cold audience,

is by doing some audience insight research.

To do that, basically jump onto your

Facebook business manager,

jump into audience insights and from there

you'll actually be able to see a way

that you can look at different types

of audiences from different pages.

What we like to do,

is we look at the competitors page, right?

And we see all of the audience members

that are on that particular page,

and then we then go through their likes

and their demographics and geographics,

all that kind of stuff.

Now, there's a lot more on that, obviously,

but look into audience insight targeting,

I'm sure that we will release a video on it

in the coming weeks anyway.

But that's one of the most beneficial

and cost-effective ways of really

knowing who you are talking to

when it comes to cold audience.

You wanna also make sure you split tests,

so make sure that you're running ads

to different audiences, so for example,

if you've got an advertisement that you've written,

you might want to send that to

one type of audience, then you might wanna send

the same to a different type of audience,

and see which ones perform better.

There's obviously a lot more to that,

but we wanna try and keep this simple

and of course if you're not sure

what split testing is there's lots

of great resources out there to find out.

And of course we wanna do competitor

research in general so even just

jumping on someone's Facebook page,

it'll give you a lot of information

about what they're doing.

If you want, a really good little hack,

jump onto your competitor's business page

and then on the left hand side

you'll see an option saying 'info and ads',

click that and you'll actually be able to see

all the ads that they're running

and you can actually click on

the little settings button there

and see who they're targeting,

in a nutshell, you can't see the in-depth targeting,

but you can see who they're round about targeting.

It'll often say, you know,

company A is running this ad and they're trying

to target people in Australia

between the ages of blah, blah, blah

and who are interested in blah, blah, blah.

So, really, really good way to find

out who your best cold audience is there

and I hope you've picked up some great hacks there.

Now, next, website traffic.

Why would we target website traffic?

Because they're people who have

already engaged with your site.

In order to do this you need a pixel on your website.

Need help installing a pixel? Let us know.

We can actually do that for you.

So, pixels are super, super, duper crucial

to have on your website for you

to do any advertising anyway

because it does actually collect data

and information about people

who are on your website and allows you

to later re-target them,

which of course is another very

important advertising method.

Re-targeting is probably the most beneficial

way that you can consistently get in front

of people in a low-cost and in a non-intrusive way.

If it's done right, that is.

Now, so website traffic,

is a way that you can target your audience,

which means that, obviously,

you'll be putting yourself in front of people

who already know your brand,

already know who you are.

I would only use this if you have

a pretty good following

and you have really good site traffic.

Last one is my favorite, lookalike audiences.

Now, you're a business,

so you probably have a list of existing

customers or clients,

all that you need to do,

is put in their details, OK?

Into a spreadsheet,

you can do this in the Facebook audience settings,

upload their details,

make sure you have their phone number, OK?

Most people have client's emails

but make sure you have their phone number

'cause what Facebook does is it

actually matches, for example,

if you upload a spreadsheet with 1,000 people on it,

that are your clients,

it will match people on Facebook

who have similar likes, dislikes,

you know, demographics, habits and so forth.

So this is an extremely effective way of

finding your audience from people who

already are your customers or clients.

Now, if people really are your customer

or client it's a pretty good indicator

that they're the kind of people you want to target, right?

So, let Facebook do that for you.

We've had 1% lookalike audiences,

it can go up to like 4 or 5% I believe,

but you're just getting too broad there,

you really just wanna keep it simple, to the point.

So, in my opinion,

you need to have at least a thousand people on your list.

A thousand people is really good.

If you've got a thousand people that you

can put into your lookalike audience, you're winning.

So, put them in, make sure to add a phone number,

and then create 1% audience from that

and target your advertisement to them.

I guarantee you this will probably get

the most amazing results for the best price.

However, cold audience is very valuable

because if you gain a following

using a cold audience they're gonna

give you access to all these other

forms of targeting as well.

So we all need to start somewhere,

and of course, the starting point

for nearly all businesses is a cold audience.

So yeah, that's the kind of process to go through that.

Alright, the funnel is built, well done.

But now, what we need to do

is optimize, optimize, optimize.

We can never, ever skip this part.

A funnel will be your biggest asset

if it's optimized right.

And you can never really stop optimizing it,

you'll always find out more info to make it better.

But here's the thing,

don't bother going into building a funnel,

if you're not gonna bother knowing your numbers.

A funnel is a little bit like a mathematical

equation that gives you money.

Now don't worry, it's not like a hard

mathematical equation 'cause otherwise

I wouldn't be able to do it

'cause I'm like, horrible at maths.

However, if you know your numbers

and you know how much it costs to get a client,

then you can optimize from there.

However, you cannot optimize if you don't know

how much it costs for you to get a client

or a conversion or a purchase.

A Facebook funnel is a little bit like a machine, OK?

Imagine it's like a money machine, OK?

In the ideal world, a Facebook funnel

is something that you throw a couple of hundred

dollars into and get more money back.

So, for example,

you might put $200 here but you make $600 here, right?

So you're chucking $200 through the funnel

and by the time it runs through the other

end of the funnel they give you your $600, OK?

That's a profit of what, $400?

Alright? $400.

OK, so, if you don't know this number,

you'll never be able to improve on that number,

so this is the first thing that you need to find out.

Here's one thing I want you to forget about right now,

CPC, OK, is a no-no.

Cost-per-click is a no-no.

Cost per impression,

amounts of impressions,

engagement, scrap it, forget about it, OK?

Here's the thing that you need to worry about.

It's called ROAS.

Return on ad spend, OK?

If your return on ad spend is more

than what you spent to get your clients

then you can always improve on the ad spend, OK?

So this is the only thing that you need to worry

about when it comes to building funnels.

Now, how do work out return on ad spend?

Well, basically you need to know

how many people you need to get through

your funnel in order to make a conversion.

If you know, how much it costs to acquire a client,

and you know how many clients you need

in order to make a return,

you can then worry about fixing up

that number of how much it costs.

You can worry about making that number come down.

The most popular things that we optimize in funnels

are the landing page, right,

followed by the initial advertisement.

Usually if you work out what's going wrong

in those areas and there's great software out there,

there's heaps of cool tools to work out

where people are falling off through the process.

But optimizing is the key to a successful funnel.

If you don't optimize your funnel

you're just gonna have a very basic asset

you're not gonna have a very viable asset

for your business.

The other thing is,

once you've done this once,

you can do it again and again and again,

so this is probably the most crucial part of your funnel,

after you've built it obviously,

don't forget about this part.

Know your numbers,

return on ad spend, return on ad spend,

return on ad spend I cannot say it enough.

Understand how much it costs to make money.

On that note, thank you for sticking

around and watching this video.

If you'd like a consultation with us,

you're more than welcome to contact us as well,

there will be a consultation form link

somewhere in the description of this video.

I hope it's been informative for you,

get onto building your funnels,

don't be afraid, try and keep it simple

and just make sure that you always have

the end goal in mind and make sure you

know exactly what problem your particular

service or product is fixing.

If you have that, you can't fail.

This is Martin from Local Web Solutions, all the best.

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How to build a Connector for Shopify Flow in under 5 minutes || Shopify Plus - Duration: 4:35.

In this video,

we're going to show you how to build a Connector

for Shopify Flow in under five minutes.

Connectors are built using the app extension platform,

which helps you easily extend your app

into different areas in Shopify,

including Flow, an automation platform

for Shopify Plus merchants.

For our connector,

we're going to build both a trigger

and an action for Flow.

Merchants that have our app installed

will then be able to start or end

automated workflows involving our app.

So, some quick requirements before we continue.

Before you start, make sure you've

created a partner account,

built your listed or unlisted app

following the Building a Public Shopify App documentation,

installed Flow and your app on a test store,

created a Rails App,

installed the Shopify App gem

and set it up following the Read Me

from the Shopify App GitHub repo.

For this tutorial,

we're going to use a sample weather notification app

that we built.

In your partner dashboard,

navigate to your app settings,

click on extensions,

and then click on the Shopify Flow tab.

First, we're going to create a trigger

that starts a workflow

when the weather has changed.

I'll add that as the title,

and also add a description.

There are different types

for the kinds of information we can include

with the trigger payload.

I'll add a string field called location

and a number field called temperature.

The string field will show as a text box to the merchant

and the number field will be a number picker.

The fields and data you include

will be available when a merchant builds a workflow

with your trigger.

After saving, copy the payload preview.

This is called a graph queue alimentation,

which is another way of saying an HTTP post request.

Next, we need to build a controller in our Rails App.

We're going to generate one called log.

Next, copy and paste

the graph queue alimentation payload preview

into our HTTP party post request.

This will actually send the trigger to Shopify.

Now we're going to create an action

so that Flow can send requests to our server,

on behalf of the merchant.

An action is Flow sending information to your server

as a post request.

The title and the description

are merchant-facing properties.

We will set them as log weather change,

and save a log of all the weather changes.

We will now set the URL

to point to our local Rails App.

If you followed the tutorial in the prerequisites,

you should have some software

that can tunnel traffic to your local server.

Usually people recommend Ngrok.

You can also create fields for the merchant

to enter values in.

The values will be sent in the post request payload

to the URL you specified.

On the right-hand side,

there is a preview of the payload Flow will send to you.

Above that is a preview

of how the merchant will actually see the action

when building a workflow in Flow.

I'm happy with how this action is looking,

so let's hit Save.

Now that we are done creating our action,

we can go back to the Rails App

and create a route in our controller,

that we generated above,

so that we can receive the HTTP post request from Flow.

We need to verify the HMAC in the header first

to ensure this request came from Flow.

If the verification passes,

we will simply log the HTTP post request body

to standard out.

Testing our connector.

Now let's go to Flow in our test store

and create a workflow.

Just for our tutorial,

I'll select our trigger and action.

But as you can see,

I can create workflows that start or end

with any combinations of triggers and actions

built by Shopify or any other partner.

Click Save, name the workflow,

and then we're gonna hit enable.

Finally, let us go to the trigger route

and send a trigger to Shopify.

We're gonna hit our trigger route, json curl.

And there we have it.

We've received the request from Flow,

just as our actions specified.

Thanks for watching.

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HOW TO BUILD A LOW BUDGET PLANTED TANK - Duration: 17:48.

Welcome to the beautiful world of aquascaping!

Guys, today we have Valentine's Day.

So get out there and buy and Oase BiOrb

for your beloved ones.

That is not a cheap product,

but it's a high quality one

and you can keep all kind of terrestrial plants in it,

like Orchids and stuff, women just love it!

The problem is that it's a little bit too expensive.

This will lead us to the topics of today's video.

And that is: building an aquarium on a budget.

Okay, we're gonna try to build a small aquarium,

with less the price, than this Oase BiOrb.

I'm gonna try to keep the cost under 300 Euros here.

I can already see that you guys are gonna start commenting

and telling us that:

"Yeah, I can probably do this setup

with less than 100 euros,

using some stuff that I collected.

Or borrowing stuff from my friends,

or you know, exchanging on forums, etc, etc...

Please... This video is not about money,

this video is about aquariums.

Stop commenting about budgets and you know...

Starting to...

Tell us about your situation, etc, etc.

This is an aquarium channel, keep the peace!

Let's roll the main!

Okay, so how are we gonna start

building an aquarium on a budget?

First of all,

we have to decide on the size of the aquarium.

Which aquarium size would be considered big enough?

Like not a nano tank.

A 60 cm tank would be just really big,

and good enough to be considered

an "aquarium-aquarium" in your living space.

It's quite heavy!

There you go!

60 centimeters, big enough.

But it's too big for our own purpose.

We'd like this size, and we need a pad below it,

to protect it.

You can put this aquarium on anything as I said.

Here!

The JBL AquaPad will be ideal.

So let's take this!

Alright, I'm gonna set this down,

before we continue shopping.

We're in the goodies store at Green Aqua.

All that meets the eye!

Alright, we're standing in the most important corner

in the Green Aqua shop.

The lights and the filters.

Good filtration is imperative for all aquariums.

All you have to do,

is you have to select a filter.

An external filter that is big enough,

to accommodate enough filter media.

For our purpose,

this Eheim Classic 250 - 2213

external filter will be just the best.

We have LED lights, we have really nice lights,

that we cannot afford in this project.

Ultimately, I would go for a compact tube...

Which is this one.

The ODYSSEA light - and this is quite a nice light.

Very cheap, but good quality.

I forgot to tell you,

good quality is very important,

so Green Aqua only has products that are better in price,

but they're not on the low-low level.

So we're not selling any products that we don't believe in.

So things are getting a little bit complicated from here,

I need to check my shopping list!

We're done with selecting the aquarium, the pad,

the light, the filter...

Gravel!

That's the next thing.

You can see that this whole row is full of substrate,

gravel, that you need for aquariums.

So what you need is a base layer fertilizing substrate.

This is a substrate that's rich in nutrients

and the plant roots will just go down there

and reach the nutrients and take the nutrients from there.

So it's very important for plant growth,

to have some base layer fertilizing substrate.

That resides at the bottom-most layer of your aquarium.

What do we have on top of this?

This shouldn't be in connection with the water.

You should put something on the top.

You need some clay-based soil, ideally.

The clay-based soil is something,

that the plants' roots will feel good in.

The problem with our case is that

we want to fit into those 300 euros worth of budget,

so we cannot really choose proper soil here.

We will go for inert soil.

What kind of inert substrate are we choosing here?

I would go for the Crystal quartz from Dennerle,

and I like the black color.

I really like black substrates,

they look seamless and it goes well with

the bright green color of the plants

and it also goes well with the hardscape,

that I'm about to show you.

We've got two more things to take care of today.

The first one is planting.

We need some kind of tools, some tweezers,

to do the planting.

What kind of tweezers do you want to choose?

Ideally, you would want some ADA stuff.

I'm using ADA stuff all the time.

I love those, those are light, easy to grab the plants

You have no idea, how important good tools are,

when you're spending hours on planting and stuff.

But here, I think we're gonna go with Oase,

because that has a better price

and it's also not bad quality tweezers.

So, Oase!

Let's go, find the hardscape!

We're in the aquascaping players' ground!

at the hardscape room of Green Aqua.

What kind of hardscape do I want to select

for this low-tech aquarium?

Obviously, I don't want to go for rocks,

because rocks are really heavy

and they would cost a lot of money.

Let's just stick to wood, because you can get the most volume

and you can build a bigger structure

with just a couple of branches.

So what I did here is that

I selected one kilogram of Iron Wood.

And...

I cable tied them together like that.

These are like three pieces - one, two and three.

Cable ties stretch along the basis of these roots

I covered the cable tie with the fourth root.

So actually you only have problems with

the lower here, but that can be covered by some epiphyte plants.

There is one more thing, that we have to take care of,

before actually starting to work on the aquarium,

and that is the water treatment.

You're gonna probably change the water,

or fill the aquarium up with tap water,

which contains a lot of Chlorine.

You need to get rid of that, because it will hurt the fish

and it will also hurt the bacteria,

which are working in your filter.

So, we're gonna need some kind of

product for that, and this is the Seachem Prime.

The other thing I want to is that

I wanna show you the Aquarium Starter Rapid from Dennerle.

This product will help you

in cycling you aquarium like that.

Alright, plant selection!

What do we have here?

This is the last step in building this aquarium,

so we wanted to have something, that is

really saving a lot of money for us.

Because all of the other costs were necessary,

to build the aquarium.

What's the problem now?

The problem is that we want to have

as many plants as possible.

Obviously you want to plant as densely as possible.

We don't have money for a lot of plants,

so we try to select epiphyte plants.

We're not gonna plant anything in the foreground,

in the substrate.

So we're gonna have only midground plants

and stem plants in the background

and we also try to select some cheaper plants, so...

no expensive plants for you guys!

This is Vallisneria Asiatica, three bunches.

This is the small Anubias from Green Aqua, ... plant.

These are the Staurogyne,

I've got two boxes of this.

These are the two Crypts,

the wendtii Green and the Brown, next to each other.

And then we've got the Christmas moss,

which is gonna be glued on the wood.

And the last plant here...

On this plate is the Brasiliensis,

that will go in the mid-ground or in the background,

to add some color to the whole scape.

I cannot tell you how relieved I am right now!

Because we're done with the financial considerations.

We can start scaping!

So we have what we have,

we have to use it, let's start building this aquarium,

which is ready, right here.

So you don't even need scissors to open this.

Tropica was kind enough,

to provide us with these self-opening things.

Dennerle Crystal quartz gravel.

Make sure the substrate is higher towards the end.

You want some kind of elevation towards the end,

to give some perspective to your tank.

Before you start planting,

we need to spray the substrate a little bit,

because it's much-much easier to plant in wet substrate.

We're gonna start planting with the Staurogyne repens.

We're gonna put these in the middle.

What you have to know about these plants,

is that they're gonna go higher,

reaching for the light,

when the light intensity is not strong enough.

We're gonna continue with the Crypts,

wendtii Brown, because I want to put that in the middle

on the two focus points of the tank.

I've got one more piece of red Crypt here

and I want to put it towards the middle,

because I want to avoid complete symmetry.

That never looks good.

We're gonna continue with the green Crypts.

Full disclosure:

I hate working with these tweezers

and I hate planting in this substrate.

I'm so used to good quality, very expensive stuff,

that this one is a bit of a struggle,

but it's good for the job.

So I could do the planting easily, no problem at all.

So I'm gonna continue with the Vallisnerias.

The Asiatica, and I'm gonna put them in the background.

I'm just gonna use patches of it,

of the Brasiliensis, here and there.

Finally, we've got the small Anubiases.

I'm just gonna tuck them in.

I've got three of them,

I'm trying to cover the cable ties with them.

And then we've got the mosses,

which will be glued, using any kind of glue.

I will use the Seachem superglue here.

Planting is ready!

So you can see that this filter canister contains

different types of filter media.

Here we have some ceramic rings at the bottom,

sponge above it,

and then we have the biological filter media,

the Eheim Substrate Pro.

And finally fine filter mesh ,

and also, we have some activated carbon layer at the top.

These are ugly green!

Eheim, what are you doing?

Yeah, that's basically it, let's fill it up with water!

Let's connect the filter and let's see the end result!

And let's get the fish in!

See what happened?

I can't believe this...

Oh my... what a noob mistake that was!

Obviously, I thought that this wood is gonna stay down.

The problem is that a couple of weeks ago,

when we made this video there, about the 60P aquarium,

actually it was the 60H aquarium.

That was okay, because I had the wood

tied together with cable ties

and it was a better and huge big structure,

which was leaning against the glass,

and being supported by the glass everywhere.

Also, the substrate was thicker to hold it down.

It was much heavier.

This one is much lighter.

I should've put some rocks on it.

Luckily, I corrected the mistake.

Yes! The aquarium is ready,

filled up with water,

filled the bacteria in it.

24 hour start, Guppies at it!

Little hardy fish.

I think this is the low-tech tank.

And...

Yeah, we were in budget.

This is how to do a proper starter's tank.

Okay so I'm here at...

Hey, Guppy-Guppy!

I'm here at 2am in the morning at Green Aqua.

And I just got a message from my wife: - "Where are you?"

So I'm here, I just finished this video

about this low-tech tank, and...

"Are you coming home?" - She asks me.

"Are you gonna broadcast live as the plants are growing?"

What??

What can you say to that?

Broadcasting live... Plants growing...

Yeah, that's me.

But... no, that's not me.

Cause I'm rescaping this thing here.

I'm not gonna sleep until this is done!

I'm gonna do it the Green Aqua way!

Just watch it!

Just watch it!

In we go, with the La Plata sand.

In the foreground, I'm just gonna pour it in.

And in we go with the Amazonia.

This is so much better to plant with these tweezers!

I can't stress enough how important the good tools

and good soil are.

It's much, much more joy to plant in them!

Now, that's more like it!

Green Aqua style!

After pulling an all-nighter here,

it's 5:30 in the morning.

I'm willing to make a compromise with you guys.

We can keep the lights,

and we're not gonna add CO2.

So this is gonna basically stay a low-tech tank.

Low-light tank, no CO2 addition.

Alright? What do you say?

What we did, is we added the glass in- and outflows,

we added a lot of plants - all low-tech plants though.

And we added some rocks and sand and soil.

Basically, what my suggestion is,

after... you know, comparing these two versions:

Please...

Plant heavily, spend money on plants,

sped money on soil!

And you're gonna be fine.

You're gonna be just like this.

The hardscape is the same.

Thanks for staying here and watching this transformation

from low-tech tank to another, higher level low-tech tank.

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Don't forget, you've got three more days until Sunday,

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Thanks for all your support until now!

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Flutter for the Impatient - 14 - Build Gmail with Flutter (5) Navigate To Detail Page - Duration: 3:39.

First, add a Stateless widget as the detail page.

Next, add onTap support to the ListView items.

Wrap the item with an InkWell, and handle the onTap.

When the item is tapped, we want to push the detail page to the Navigator.

Give it a try.

We have the detail page, but we still need to go back to the main screen.

This can be done by adding a Scaffold with an AppBar.

The AppBar will provide a back button for us automatically.

Now let's display the message for each sender.

For now, we just display the sender's name and a message generated on the fly.

To do that we need first pass in the ThreadSummary object.

In the onTap, we pass in the current thread obtained here.

Now let's implement the detail page.

Before we continue, let's rename the confusing variable name.

Since it represents the list of senders, it should really be renamed to "senders".

We use the first character of the sender as the avatar.

Let's generate random content for each message.

Hot restart.

Alright, we have the detail page displaying the message per each sender.

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How to Build a Gourmet Food Boat - Duration: 22:24.

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Left Foot Forward crowdfunder: Let's build a better media - Duration: 1:38.

Hi I'm Josiah Mortimer editor of the website Left Foot Forward.

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and the Greens when no one else would

and when all eyes are on Brexit

LFF has shown what hasn't been reported elsewhere.

But now we need to become a people powered publication.

Being an independent media platform isn't easy.

Our media remains dominated by an elite few.

We're fighting that on a shoestring budget,

we don't have glitzy offices,

we just have independent writers who care.

I'll be blunt if we don't raise £10,000

with this crowd funder we won't be able to keep going as a site.

But if we all chip in today,

we can safeguard and build an independent progressive media.

I'm really proud of what we've achieved together in this time

and I'm really excited about what we can do,

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Check out Andrew's huge Pyramid, we challenge you to make a bigger one. - Duration: 2:15.

Okay, Andrew, what are we doing? How big is the pyramid gonna be?

Okay make sure you make it straight. Is that a straight? Oh

Can you hep me? No I am filming. oh, NO!!!

Okay lets up these up and count. okay?

ohhh! No!! that almost locked it over.

Let's fix it Oh

We almost had a big accident, buddy

Those cups almost knocked it all down, right?

All right do it

GOOD JOB! Again again ? I dont think so..