Good Day Google+ - Our Almost Christmas Edition (Ep. 13)

In this holiday‑themed episode of the live Google+ Hangout series, host Dennis “Chef” Littley chats with a rotating panel of guests—including longtime friends Randy and Annabelle Hilarski, tech‑enthusiast Riki (Alex) Gonzalez, and community member Logan Lynn Roberts. The conversation weaves through personal branding goals (Chef’s ambition to become a household name and appear on The Ellen Show), the expat experience of living in Panama, insights on Google+ demographics and how Hangouts foster community, emerging tech such as Google Glass in classrooms, a real‑time‑bidding ad‑exchange opportunity, the logistics of remote real‑estate showings, travel anecdotes, and a festive “Christmas Giveaway Show” slated for the following Monday with a slate of prizes ranging from Chromebooks to books and memberships. The episode closes with holiday well‑wishes and an invitation for viewers to tune in to the upcoming giveaway event.
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And we are live! Hey there, how's everyone doing today? It's a good day, Google Plus, and we've actually got a great day again because I've got some wonderful guests for you today. It's our almost Christmas party, you know, something like that, and you know, we're getting close to the holiday season, so I thought I'd throw that in. And we have a little holiday cheer in our show as well today, but it's also more of a social media extravaganza today. You know, my shows run different. You never know who's going to be on or how the combination of guests are going to hit. So today I happen to have a lot of social media rock stars on with me, and if you have questions about that or anything they talk about or just anything in general with anything they do or shows you've seen them on, please feel free to ask them. Ask them in the comments section and I will highlight them and we'll get to them and we'll do our best to answer everyone's question. But we're here to have a good time today. That's what Good Day Google+ is all about. So I'll start introducing my guests and then we'll go from there and see what happens. So I'm just going to start on my side and we will start with Alexandra. Alexandra, and is that Riki Gonzalez? Is that correct?
It's Riki Gonzalez. Generally I just tell everybody to call me Alex, it works out better.
Okay, Alex is good. And tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do on and off Google+.
Well, on Google+ I'm known most for working for SEOwise. Technically called a brand strategist. I basically am the voice of the brand. I run the brand, but I also do my own personal profile on the side. Off of Google+, I am both a graduate student and a teacher, so that is part of the reason that I'm wearing these. I'm going to be bringing them into my classroom next term, so that'll be interesting.
What do you teach?
I teach everybody's favorite course, Intro to Human Communication, which is basically public speaking. Everybody has to take it.
They're going to be on Hangouts now, so they need to have that, right?
Exactly, exactly. If I can get them all to sign their waivers, yes, they will be— you will be seeing them on live Hangouts.
I'm glad you brought your Glass with you today too. That's great. I do have to eventually get a pair of those. I might be dangerous with them though.
It would look good on you, Chef.
Oh yeah, you know, I wonder if we can get them fitted with like regular glasses too. That would be a help, you know.
They are, I've seen they're working on the prescription.
Wow, wow, that would be great. And I saw a pup back there behind you a little while ago. Who's your little doggie friend there?
Well, I have two. One of them is outside because he's kind of a nutter, but it's Sandy. She's my golden retriever. She's about 6. So she's, she's the calm one. So she's allowed in the room.
Okay. Well, I love dogs. So it's never a problem on my show. I might even start howling with them if they start, so you never know. Haven't howled in a long time. My chef days, I hate to bring that up. But every now and then I would howl and I am of Mexican descent. And most of my staff was Mexican. And I remember the first time I howled in front of them, one of them turned around and went, Coyote. Then I enjoyed doing it more from that point on, but every now and then the waitresses got used to it.
They'd hear it and they'd go, "That's just the chef, don't worry." Well, chef, I think we heard a rumor that you were howling or something on Mia's show just a little bit ago.
It was more like howling, I think, than singing, and I expressed my sincere apologies to Ted Nugent before I started the song too. So if the Motor City Madman would ever like to come on my show and sing it correctly, Hopefully he'd be more than welcome. And I put on a cowboy hat. I didn't want to go with his typical loincloth because I just don't have the body for it anymore.
Oh my goodness.
Not a picture you want in your mind. I understand. Sorry to do that to you.
Merry Christmas.
All right, Logan, it's your turn. Let's start with a segue. Tell us a little bit about what you do.
I'm Logan Lynn Roberts. I live here in Philadelphia. I'm a realtor, a little bit less so these days. I do a lot of social media consulting. More recently I've been getting into some marketing, some affiliate marketing, working with some different brands. For the most part I've always just kind of connected people and brought people together. That's kind of what I'm working on now while it's winter and the holidays and and real estate slow and getting back into it. My background is in PR as well. That's what I'm doing here in Philly. Just enjoying Google+, engaging as much as I can. I hit 5,000 followers this week. I was very excited. My first circle share. It was very exciting. It was very exciting.
That's a big point. I remember. It really is.
I really hadn't done anything at all before, you know, really, you know, everybody has a strategy or something and I really hadn't done anything so it was my first CircleShare and just, you know, I mean, it got pretty exciting.
Absolutely, absolutely. And how are you loving Philadelphia?
I love Philadelphia, Chef. I can't believe I never knew you while you were here, right?
I know, I know, there's so many people all of a sudden have popped up on Google+ that are circling me now or making friends with me. Yeah, but yeah, I do miss Philly for the food, for the bread, for, you know, for certain things.
And, you know, here is amazing, isn't it?
Oh, you know, I'd like to call out my favorite restaurant. Oh my God, my mind just went blank. Where? It's— oh geez, I'll have to come back to it. He has two restaurants actually. Let me think of it for a minute.
Go ahead, come back.
When you get old, you know, you forget things. There's so much stuff up here. I had it on my ready to say it, and then as soon as I went to say it, it went away. Yeah, Philly is such a great eating town, and one of my favorite ones with the food is, you know, you may not think of it as, is Mama Maria's too over on Passyunk if you just want to have a lot of fun.
So, you know, Passyunk Square is really, I mean, it's really grown up. Yeah, I love it over there. They have that Stateside, is a fantastic restaurant. I don't know if you ever got there before you left, but the Cantina has been there for a while, and home prices are rising over there. A lot of people are moving. South Philly is pretty hot. It's a great town.
Speaking of pretty hot though, how cold is it there? I heard you are getting some good weather.
Chef, it's always sunny here. You know that.
Yeah, I watched that show. I tried and I kept looking at it going, "Ah, that's not Philadelphia." No, the show is terrible. The show is terrible.
The show is not a good representation, but it really is. I mean, okay, so I'll preface that by saying I'm from upstate New York, like, you know, really far upstate. So not western New York like Mr. Holarski, but north, north, past Albany. So when it gets cold there and it snows, the snow stays. And we get it out of the roads quickly and everything, but it stays. Here in Philly, we have no idea how to get it out of the road, but the next day it either rains or the sun comes out and it melts. So that's a good thing.
I was mentioning on Mia's show that we did hit a cold spell here, and it actually was down in the 40s a little bit. It was rough, but I mean, the first day we got it, I think it was 60, and I was telling my friend from Boulder, and she says, "I'm gonna call you a name I don't say in front of my children." But I told her, "But no, no, really, it was cold with the wind chill, it was 55." Right, yeah, yeah, and then she got off the violin, right? Yeah.
I have family in Tampa, I'm gonna be there try to be there as much of January as possible, Chef. So we have to take this off Google+. You know that's Wade Harmon's thing, right? He says, take it to the next level. So we'll have to do that.
And luckily my wife was listening in and she saw my mental lapse, and the restaurant we were talking about was Mark Vetri's Osteria.
Oh, God. Vetri. I've never been to actually Vetri, right? The one that's like, what, $300 a person or something?
Yeah, I have not either.
He has a new place called Alesspina, and it's on North Broad, where Burt Greenfield's doing a bunch of development. And it's like, it's craft beer and then a lot of pork.
And yeah, he loves pork. Last time we were there, they were serving the baby— the head of the pig. Yeah, I was told in no uncertain terms that I was not allowed to order that.
So, head cheese. You know what, I'm— but like I said, I'm from upstate New York. We, you know, we— I mean, my grandmother used to make She used to have head cheese, like it was from a pig that we— I mean, I've been around head cheese. Although, you know what we didn't have that I love here is, you know what I'm thinking of? It's not bacon, it's not sausage.
Pancetta, or what?
No.
What's that stuff? That'll come to me too. It's like a pork product. Scrapple.
Oh, scrapple.
It's only in Pennsylvania. What is scrapple?
We don't know, and you don't want to know. If you enjoy it, just keep eating it.
Yeah, I have no false pretense, but yeah, I mean, it's delicious, but it's only here. Only here.
Absolutely. I know my wife misses that. I was not a Scrapple fan, but she does like Scrapple.
Oh, I love Scrapple.
I'll have to go. Alright, well, let's move right along on that note, and I'm gonna take us to— we're in Panama now, I think, with Randy and Annabelle Hilarski. So thank you so much for coming on today and taking some time to be with us. However you want to run this, whoever wants to go first, but let's, you know, it's your turn to shine.
Yeah, we argued over who was going to go first.
I heard you a little bit.
Yeah, she doesn't want to go first. Okay, so I moved down here 3 years ago. The move is actually complete. My house just sold in Rochester, New York. Closing is on January 28th, so all my connections to the US except for my family are now cut. Thank God. Are you going to be in Rochester in January to close, Randy?
What's that? Are you guys going to be in New York for the closing in January?
No, I signed over everything to my mother. Nice.
She's been handling it.
So I'm not a, you know, I'm an expat for a reason. I don't agree with everything that our country is doing, so I moved out and I have my wonderful wife and we have a nice life down here in Panama.. I consider myself a media preneur and we do some fun stuff, curating people, doing our ad exchange and so many things. And Anna's really stepping up lately with her graphic design. She is really blowing me out of the water with the stuff that she's making. Like you see our overlay, overlay, Anna made that.
Great stuff.
I love it and the palm tree might have to find its way into my new design too. We go in the house here sometimes and my wife says it looks like Florida threw up in our house because everything we're getting furniture-wise is very Floridian. I wanted to get the lamp with the monkeys on it and she says, "Oh no, no, no, no." Your wife is from Philadelphia, right? Yes, she is. She went to Girls High and she is a true Philadelphian and she is having a little trouble with the relocation, although every day she looks out and sees blue skies and when there are clouds they're nice and fluffy. It's just that kind of takes the edge off of it. So hopefully we'll acclimate by summer when it's going to be, you know, a lot hotter. And then, but I always tell her, that's, you know, that's why God invented air conditioning. We just stay in the house.
Yeah.
So, so tell us a little bit more about it, about your ad, AdEdge. What is it now?
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I don't— AdExchange. Yeah, we've been working on it for a year and a half. —people think it's just an ad exchange. They make judgments about it, have no clue what we're doing. We brought together every large ad exchange, including Google, Facebook, everything you could think of under one roof. We're crushing it. RTB, real-time bidding, is going to be the new buzzword here in the next 6 months to a year. Everyone's going to want to be part of it. So we're way ahead of the game. We're the only affiliate network out there that offers it. So we're really excited. We're working with our programmers right now to make it so it's easier and easier to use. Every couple weeks we bring out something to make it easier. And very exciting times for Anna and I and Ralph Kaiser and everyone else that's involved. So if you guys are interested, just contact us, let us know. We're totally open, and we'll tell you everything you need to know. Anna and I are really going to hit the Spanish community. Obviously, my wife's Spanish, or Spanish-speaking. Panamanian, but Spanish-speaking. So we're really going to stick with the Spanish-speaking community.
Well, is this something that food bloggers would use or could use to make money instead of some of these groups that we— that torture us? Everybody can use it.
Yeah, anybody can work with us. Say that you are— you have like 30, 40 food bloggers that you talk to on a constant basis and they're all looking for traffic to their sites. They can run ads, whatever kind of ad you want. The ad could be anything., right? That's the nice thing about it, you're not spamming anybody, you're running an ad. And because you're getting them at wholesale prices, you're not paying the full retail price that you would at some of the other direct ad exchanges, we're not going to name names. So you go out there and you get your stuff everywhere and people, you drive traffic to your site. Whether you're a realtor like Logan or yourself, a food blogger, Mia ran it to get people to her show and I think she spent like $10 and— and had over 180 visitors to her show.
Like a dollar a day, right?
Yeah, a buck a day is what she was spending.
Wow. And it's across all 4 platforms, right?
Yeah, well, we have the basic platform which is for reach, and then we have the premium platform which is picking a perfect profile of a client and going after that profile. You want a specific customer age, geographical, what kind of sites they use, keywords. It's much more than the traditional ad exchanges that you've seen. Google's leaving, Google's also going this way, so it's exciting times. I don't know what to— you guys can read my post, but I don't want to go too much into it because it is kind of technical. But overall, it's just a really fun thing to be a part of, and I thank Ralph Kaiser that he brought me on. He's a very successful man. And he thought of me first. And Anna and I have really become friends with him. And then Mia came on board. Mia was our first real socialite. And she just started talking, and so the team's grown to a little over 25 now. So it's pretty cool.
Sounds like a really great idea, great concept. I mean, I definitely want to learn more about this and something— maybe we can even do an event for my food bloggers to get them to understand it, because I know people were playing with the Facebook Now Facebook, like I said in the last show, they're blowing a couple more toes off that foot. They keep shooting themselves in the foot. Shame. Yeah, it is a shame. You think a guy with that much money would just say screw it, I'm just going to torture Google+ and give everything away for free. I'm going to do this and I'm going to do this. That's his legacy and instead he's driving it into the ground.
But that's either here or there.— in silence.
Yeah, but this sounds like a really interesting way to help us achieve more traffic. And even through sponsors, having them, getting money from them to help us drive it, kind of a good way to barter some different business too, I think. Great.
Yeah, and the good thing is that we work with different languages— Spanish, English, Portuguese, I think Japanese also. Japanese, Russian. Russian. Excellent. That's what I'm working with the Spanish community.
That's an excellent way to look at it too because usually we're limited and Google+ has made us global. And that's one of the things that I love about Google+ as much is that we're no longer limited to a small area to draw from, not a small area but a selective area because more and more people are coming on around the world and they're going to keep coming on. Being able to deliver something to them in their own language would be a wonderful thing.
Well, that translate button on Google, the translate button is awesome. I mean, you know, you think that you wouldn't want followers that are in a different language, but also you push one button and I mean, it's— I mean, it could be completely wrong, I guess I wouldn't know, but I mean, people are in full-on conversations. I mean, I have streams, comment streams that are in all different languages.
I wrote an article about this. I wrote an article about it, it was about a month ago. I called Google+ the new Tower of Babel.
Yeah, I saw that one. That's good.
They don't even speak your language. You're speaking to someone in Arabic. They press translate, they're translating from English to Arabic. And by the way, Craig Fifield, what's up, brother?
I love that guy.
Yeah, so everybody loves Craig. Are you part of the Craig army?
Yeah, I am, I am. On your last show, I posted the Craig's with the Sriracha, remember that? Yes. I think he gets mad at me, but I mean, I loved it.
Well, I posted some— I saw and I put it for him, and it was James Fierce, I think, that was also in love with the sriracha. And I'm trying to get rid of this. Never go. And a friend of mine, a blogger friend, had made sriracha salt, you know, for seasoning, and it looked great. I'm thinking, oh, that's right up their alley. Now me, you know, I don't eat too much too spicy anymore. I was never a real big adventurer, but as you get older, things change too. So he just don't eat as spicy as I used to. He loves his sriracha. Yeah. Logan, I wanted to ask you a question too. I saw something this morning, and since you're a realtor, it was about real estate posts and how changing things because of the hummingbird and the way Google is approaching brands versus real people, that there going to be losing how they show up in search. Have you seen anything with that?
I didn't see anything with that. I'm wondering— well, what I did see was— oh God, I'm going to forget his last name— the semantic search guy. It starts with an M. David Amerland. Yeah. So I saw his last post, I guess it was yesterday, and there were 4 words that started with V. But basically the idea was all the different things that it could do in the end update events and things like that. It was like if you had changed the time for an event, Google would go in and change it and all that. I wonder why, I'm just trying to kind of deduct why that would be. Changing, because there's just a lot of stuff that they push out constantly.
I know, I didn't read the whole article, I should have, I was pressed for time, but I saw it and it looked really interesting.
I apologize, I didn't see it.
I forget where I saw it, it had to be on Google+. Because that's the only place I get information anymore.
Sadly, the real estate stuff just doesn't get me as excited as the search and the social media anymore, so I haven't really stayed up other than Philly and development, which there's a lot. Yeah, I don't know. That's interesting.
I'll have to look that up. Luckily, I have friends in all different aspects of Google+, so I get a wide variety. I've had a lot of lawyers following me lately. I was wondering about that.
They're all over social media. Yeah, I just got a new lawyer. They have a lot of published works. They're doing a lot of social media. They have a lot of content already. They're used to creating content.
A friend of mine had mentioned to me, she's an attorney in the Philadelphia area, and she said, oh Dennis, we love to write. I never thought of that.
Yeah, they're always doing it. They have to. They have a bunch of stuff. I don't know, but the thing about Realtors, Definitely Google+ is such an incredible tool because there's so many of us and no one kind of streamlines. Even if you're in a team or you're in an office, everybody's doing their own thing. I really look forward to seeing how realtors will start to use it because they're really kind of— unfortunately, a lot of times we're kind of like the infomercial marketers. It's very outbound and it's very loud. I don't see a lot of them on Google+. I really don't. But once they— but it's an excellent platform. I mean, think about how great, how wonderful Google is for pictures and video. I mean, they take care of it for you. And a lot of times people aren't doing their own professional photos, especially if the market's not that good or the property isn't that expensive. You're not getting a photographer in. You know, you can put 4 photos up just in your cover photo in Google, whereas you just can't do that anywhere else.
Well, these days, even with, with realtors, I would think, or any business group like that, if they wanted to set up their own community, and people wanted to look at a house, they could go to the community to look at it too. I mean, everybody's got a smartphone now. You walk around the house with your smartphone, take a quick video.—
and there's so much they can do. Exactly, I know.
That's actually something when I was testing out Hangouts with my Google Glass, I was testing it out with the person I work with, John Ellis, and he was like, "Oh my God, can you imagine this for real estate?" I was like, "No, because I don't do real estate, but okay." Yeah, it's just video and picture.
I don't see a lot of people people on. So, but yeah, I work for— I don't know if you know— Allen Dom Real Estate, though, and we're not multiple listed, so our system is a little bit different. I don't take a lot of listings, I just kind of basically work with Allen. So it's not, you know, something that really works for me right away, but it definitely works for other people for sure.
While we have you here too, we have a question for you. James Jirley wants to know, are you connected with Pam Voss who runs HOAs and Property to show people around remotely? No, not at all. Well, now you have something you can research.
HOAs and Property, so she's right on site, she must be.
Yeah, I don't know, but it's a nice question. Thanks for that, James. Thanks, James. I'll just call out real quick too, Luke Jaloua, I'm going to butcher your last name, Jaloua. This guy, he's great. Okay, France is here and listening. Thank you so much for being here. And then it is Our Little Blue Planet. I keep going, being that we're down here in Florida and everything and I'm a Disney nut now, every time I go in It's a Small World, I think of Google+ now too.
They've really made it a smaller world. Luke is an awesome, awesome engager.. He's a big fan of Mia's. I know he's always on that show, and he helped me a lot with my Circle Share this week, so thanks so much. Excellent.
Speaking of Hangouts, we did one last week when we were in Costa Rica at the bed and breakfast. I remember. Yeah, and Anna went through— or actually, no, I went through with my computer because I didn't have a phone with me, but I was going through and showing the whole bed and breakfast while Anna was doing the Hangout. How cool! You know, it's, it's so awesome, this possibility that we have now.
I know, they must have had great internet too. That's awesome. Yeah, really fast.
Yeah, it was about 2 times as fast as our speed that we have here at the house.
Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, you guys have— yeah, it's tough over there.
It's great. So tell us a little bit about life in Panama and just how things are. I'm always interested to see how everyone lives when they're somewhere else.
How are things there? When I first came here, I became partners with some Germans out of, you know, they were ex-bankers, and we were selling metals and storing them in Switzerland and things like that, and I was doing all the marketing for them. They partnered with me to do all their social media, and that's actually how I got into Google+. I saw the possibilities of it, and we jumped on it right away, my partners and I, and really took it to the next level. We did about $700,000 in sales in my first year just off the internet, not just Google+. I don't want to say it's just Google+, okay? But we did a lot of sales in that, and after about, what, about a year and a half, we started another thing called Escape Artist Panama, and you know, I was juggling all these marketing things, and I said, you know what, I can do this on my own. I don't need partners. So I went on my own, and it's been great ever since. Now I don't have to go to an office anymore. Anna and I work from home. Anna was our company secretary and I stole her too.
Smart guy. Lucky guy. Absolutely. So it's been really wonderful.
We were living in the city. We had a beautiful 18th floor brand new condo looking out over the park. Trump Tower was in front of us. You know, I'm not a city guy. I don't like living in the city. My wife is. I'm sorry, but now we're 30 minutes outside the city up in the mountains, and I like this much better. You know, every night we don't even need AC anymore. Just open up the windows, the breeze, and having a fan going is all we need. It's absolutely beautiful.
Sounds horrible. Sounds horrible. Yeah, and the good thing about living in this area is that we eat healthier. Yeah.
We're not within walking distance of 5-star restaurants anymore, okay?
Yeah, or cheesesteaks. No cheesesteaks? No?
Well, the good thing about that, you might lose the 5-star restaurants, but you lose all the fast food too, I'm sure, so you're eating more natural.
Exactly. Yeah, we like investment, you know?
My investment, yeah. I'm coming down.
I keep asking them to adopt me, and they won't, so I don't know. I want to go. You know, guys, what I wanted to ask about, Randy, you were telling me how you had to cross the border or some border to Costa Rica, and there was like a, there was a bridge or something. How did that all go?
So, people, expats in Panama, for people from the US, we get 6-month visas. After 6 months, you have to cross the border, you have to go to Costa Rica or Colombia or back to the US to renew your visa if you want to live here. Well, even though Anna and I have been married almost a year and a half, I still haven't done my residency in Panama paperwork. We will start that soon, I promise, so I can get my Panama passport. But I still have to cross the border, so we went into Costa Rica, and there's two crossings that you can go. You can go the Paso Canoa, which is the one where all the trucks go, the real popular one, all the buses. It's a pain in the ass. I'm just going to say that. The border agents are real jerks. They're not friendly, and they don't like Americans. They treat us like crap. So I said, you know what, let's try something different. Let's go to the Caribbean side. So we went to Guavito, or Paso Saxiola it's called. It's right where Chiquita Banana Plantation is. It's real remote. It's the old bridge that Chiquita Banana used to use to bring their bananas to the port.
Oh my goodness.
So old. So old. Scary. Scary, yeah, exactly.
That's what you were saying. It's like one person at a time, right?
Oh my God, no. Yeah, it was a blast. We still had a total— it was a total blast. And we got to stay at a wonderful B&B on the Caribbean side instead of being on the Pacific side or San Jose, Costa Rica, which is ugly as hell. I don't like that place. Yeah, me either. So it was a wonderful experience crossing the bridge and going into the area. I loved it. Very cool.
Ah, it must be nice. You know, I'm close to paradise here in Florida, but that must really be paradise.
Direct flights to Tampa now.
I'm telling you, I'm telling you, once Once we get settled here, I do want to do a little more traveling again and get out and meet. I would like us— I was talking to someone this morning about we need to have our own conference. We need a G+ conference somewhere. We need to really get people working on that.
Wasn't somebody saying a cruise?
Yeah, they've been talking about a cruise for a while and then another— Las Vegas was like a point for us to go to. Only because I guess it might be less expensive there than some other places. Getting hotels or whatever, I don't know. Depends, depends. I've never been, I've never been to Vegas, so I don't know.
Well, I know I actually sold destination weddings in St. Thomas for about 8 months, like a couple years out of college in between a couple things, and it was the Caribbean, and there's nothing like the Caribbean. Oh yeah. It's incredible. Incredible. Every day you just wake up and, um, yeah, it was beautiful blue water and iguanas, I remember, and wildlife, and it was cool. It was very cool. I thought I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I think I just should have stayed. I think I was on the right path.
Let's see, we have another few comments here. Let me post up here. Billy Funk, awesome panel, thank you so much. I'm glad he's, uh, we're all on the same show. Looking good everyone. So that was very nice, thank you Billy, and thanks for being here today. He's the best. And here's James Dearsley also put up, excuse me for saying, but I'll be running an HOA soon talking about real estate and using G+, probably early January. Well, you might want to join in the film strip, Logan Lynn.
Yeah, I would love to. You know what I would love? I feel like, and maybe it's just because it's what I'm interested in, but I feel like we're all talking about social media. I'm interested to see how it starts to branch. I think that the platform really got started with developers and it stayed in that realm, which I love. I feel like it's going to branch out and I'm interested to see, for sure.
Absolutely, there's so much we can do with it. And here's, uh, Luke also posted, thank you so much for the shout out and compliments, Logan Lynn Roberts. She's honored and gratitude for what you said. I'm sure it's well deserved, Luke.
It was, it really was.
Okay, so what else is going on in the world and in life? Anybody like to—
yeah, I want to know what Alexandra is going to— you know, you say you're a teacher, Alexandra. How are you going to use that in your classroom?
So that's actually a really good question. I still have to work through it with my advisor, who has been awesome in the whole process. We even had to talk to the university lawyers. And it was so funny, because as Chef Dennis probably knows, they only give you 7 days to decide whether or not you're going to accept the invitation to get Google Glass. So I went to my advisor, and I was like, look, we have 7 days to figure out if we can do this. Because if I couldn't bring it into my classroom, there really wasn't a point for me to drop the cash to buy these. Like, they're awesome. I really wanted the toy, I'm not going to lie. But if you're not going to do anything with them, it's kind of pointless. Might as well wait. But what I really want to do is just take my classes and do, once a week, do a 10 to 15 minute Hangout on Air with someone, obviously on Google+, because those are the people that do Hangouts on Air. And I just want to relate how communication has affected them in their lives and in their business. And obviously if they're on Google+, if they can do an HOA, it did something for them. So it's really a way to connect academia with what's out there, because academia up till this point, uh, it's really depressing, they've kind of separated themselves and, um, I think it's really hurt a lot of their grant money, a lot of their funding. So I think to connect academia back with regular people would be awesome.
I can't wait to see it. I want to see what— the future of Hangouts is so bright. And because it's connected to Google+, obviously people are going to be coming over here in droves. And we're already seeing the migration happen. And I think that Glass is just another one of the pieces of the puzzle that's going to talk people into coming to our side.
Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, one of the things that's interesting is in my last classes, I took a poll how many of them actually know what Google+ is and how many of them use it and where they actually are, because college kids and even people my age, I can't find them in Google+. I love the interesting conversation that happens on Google+, but I've had a lot of conversations with Jesse Wadillo about this, that he thinks they're not in Google+ because they don't think it's fun. I'm trying to prove him wrong. They're all in Snapchat for whatever reasons they decide to be there.
What's interesting, I want to interject really quickly because it's right— I was doing research about demographics on Google+ for another Hangout. 50% of everyone that's on is under the age of 24. Really? Which is interesting because where are they? I don't know. Right? Is that crazy? Does that boggle your mind? 50%. 50% are under 24. Yeah, it's really— I don't know where they are either. I don't know where they are either.
I definitely don't see the older crowd here.
Yeah, I don't.
I do. I mean, I feel like everybody's— I'm not older, but like, yeah, I would agree with you, Alex, that yeah, I mean, where are they? I mean, I don't even see communities. But you know, I feel like we don't see them anywhere. I don't see them on Facebook anymore. I don't see them on Twitter anymore. Largest demographic growing on Twitter is between like 45 and 65. I mean, it's interesting. Yeah, they're on totally different— Vine and Snapchat. It's different.
Well, I think once their parents and grandparents started using it, they fled.
Yeah, well, yeah, because you don't want mom to see.
Yeah, which is— and I think a lot of them recognize, they see these social spaces as purely social, and that's the other thing that I want to show them is that, you know, these social spaces, they are social, but they can also be used for business purposes. And that doesn't mean you have to go to a place like LinkedIn that's purely business. You can still be yourself, you can still be a person, and make those business connections that you're looking for. Because I think a lot of college kids are like— it happened to me— they get their undergraduate degree and they're like, alright, who wants to hire me? And it's like, no, it doesn't work like that anymore. Sorry.
So they're not setting up like, you know, I job fairs and stuff to come recruit you anymore. It's not like that. Well, the interesting thing—
they do. I've seen a lot of job fairs at different universities, but the kids don't go. It's like, I don't know. They have this false idea that once they get their degree, they're set. And I think it's partially our fault. But I'm here to be the wake-up call, to be like, no guys, sorry.
Well, yeah, I mean, somebody has to be a plumber too, guys. You know, I mean, everybody has a degree these days. The world can't run. I mean, I think that's the reality, you know. Everybody's on a level playing field. So—
Hard to automate plumbing, right?
Oh my God. I'm thinking of the automation maps that go into, you know, if this happens, it goes this way, and if this happens, it goes this way. That was the mental note. I would—
if it was me, if I had to do it all over again, yes, I would not have joined the military, and I would have gone into a— probably would have gone into a trade when I first graduated high school.
My father did some plumbing, and he tried to teach it to me. He was an electrician and plumber, and he was very good at everything. But when we were doing some plumbing, he said, there's two lessons you have to know about plumbing. The first two important things was, well, Poop runs downhill. And don't bite your fingernails.
Oh, chef! You have some good ones today.
Oh my God. We have a comment here from Tiffany on that note. Let me throw this up. Where are we at here? The issue I've run into in getting people over to G+ from Facebook is Facebook is so integrated into people's lives. You use it to log in everywhere and it's so mainstream that people are very unwilling to make the switch. There's a huge learning curve to G+, too. We hear that all the time. A lot of that's because Google keeps changing things so much.
Tiffany needs to talk to Billy Funk, who was just in here, and Scott Buehler, because they've been bringing people over from Facebook for a couple months now. They have an awesome tool and training platform that they're using for those people. The same fears that you're having. The reality is when you say Facebook is so integrated into people's lives, no it's not. It's on an island. Google+ is what's integrated into your life. What does Facebook have to do with anything really? So yeah, hook up with Billy Funk and Scott Buehler is a cool guy. Have you guys seen him, his posts and stuff? Randy, you must know him, right? Of course. Yeah, he's cool. He's doing his first HOA today, isn't he? He's on David's show right now, yeah. I'm forgetting her first name, but Blaine— Amanda. Yeah, so she's got that G+ to follow. I think it's G+ to follow, because she's going to make a list of people to follow in 2014. So I've been pushing Scott Buehler all day. I think everybody should get on board with that. If you haven't seen his stuff, look at it. He's a cool guy. He's a really cool guy. Really nice person and crazy intelligent, hard worker. So yeah, that's my G+ to fire up.
And on our show, we're doing a special Christmas show on Monday night, and Billy and Scott are giving away 2 Plus Mastermind memberships. Yeah, those aren't cheap. Those are $200, okay, and they're giving away on the show. So we're really excited about that.
Yeah, those people will also be the first ones to have it, and I mean, Scott's going to kind of, you know, really kind of walk you through because Circlescope is still going, you know, undergoing some changes. So they're going to be really involved. It's not like it's, you know, a tool that's going to be pushed out. They're going to be involved with it depending on what those changes are with Circlescope. So yeah. Very cool, exciting. You're giving away a Chromebook too? I want a Chromebook. Do you love the new commercial?
Microsoft has a commercial we saw today and it was like, oh, you can't use Chromebook for going on the internet, you can't use Chromebook for this, you can't use Chromebook— I'm going, what Chromebook are they talking about?
Yeah, they say you don't have the internet, it's just a lump of the log or something, I don't know what they say.
I am like, I love— so I actually have a Windows 8 phone. Now this sounds ridiculous because no one has a Windows 8 phone. I think that even came up during the State of Social Media the other day. I think Dustin was like, well, who has one of those? And I actually have one because in real estate I've always used Outlook for my customer relations management because I've just always tagged and I've kept, you know, It's just a great system. It's right on your desktop. There's nothing, there's no app on Google that really is native to Outlook. I actually have the phone. Here's my question, why can't I see my Gmail email on the same page as Google+? Why do I not have any notification of that? Does anybody else ever feel that way? Why do I have to have two? 2 tabs open. What's going on, right? Do you think this, Randy? I see you laughing.
Well, you know, I don't even have a cell phone anymore.
Oh my. Are you serious?
It's been over a year.
Wow. We work from home, why do we need a phone?
See, everybody else is getting rid of their home phones and keeping their cell phones. He's the opposite.
Yeah, no, I'm going to go to IT now.
By the way, I want to say hello to Michael Rouliard. He's our Canadian friend. He's a very, very nice person. Oh, good. Hey, Mike.
Well, if Annabelle likes him, that's for sure. I haven't seen that name either. I've seen Lori was on. That Lori Saliata, she was on last night with— yeah, was it last night? No, it was Wednesday night, Wade Harmon's Dennis Littley's new relationship marketing show. That was the day that Hangouts were going so awry. That's another thing. Come on, Google, really? I know that you can fix this stuff. You're changing the world. What's going on? I couldn't get to your Hangout last week, Chef. I couldn't find the link forever.
They keep changing things and, you know, they're just working the bugs out, you know, and we do have to remember that it's free and that, you know, they're trying and they're playing. You know, I think sometimes they got guys in there and they just tell them to have fun with it and they come up with what really seems like a good idea until they actually implement it and then people start screaming and they go, "Oh my God, alright." Yeah. I think the new format for Hangouts is going to be a really good tool as soon as they work it out a little bit more and get some changes in there.
Do you think it's going to be completely over on YouTube? What do you think, Randy? I was wondering what you thought about that too. Are they going to move it all over?
I think personal is going to be on Google+ and business is going to be on YouTube.
Well, you have the YouTube Live that you can use.
Yeah, YouTube Live is a much more powerful platform according to Ronnie Vincer.. So I think you should go out and see your concerts and all those, you know, the big business stuff is going to be over there. You're going to see the smaller shows like ours, everything that we do is going to be on Google+ Hangouts.
Yeah, Business Hangouts, there's a lot of bugs with that too. A lot of bugs with that too. I don't know, yeah, it feels like they could do better, but I guess you're right, Chef, I shouldn't ask too much.
Well, you know, it is, I think being here since the beginning, I've seen so many changes on Google+ that anymore I just take a deep breath and go, okay, you know, things will work itself out eventually. You know, they are frustrating sometimes, and more the fact that you don't know until you go to use something that it's changed. Like, usually I do Thursday nights before my Friday show, and I'll get all set to go on the show and I'll go, oh my god, yeah, how do you start this now? And I'm pinging Ronnie Bincer like crazy, hoping that he's on. So, you know, I called him—
He's all fired up about it, isn't he?
Oh my God, he is— thank God for Ronnie Benser.
He's been fired up this week.
Oh yeah, he has. Well, they've been doing so many things, like we were going over something last night in his Hangout for his Mastery thing and they changed it back before we could review it for how the comments were, all those group comments that they had for a while. And somebody said, Ronnie, that's not there. And he goes, what?
What? Mess with the wrong guy on that one, huh?
Oh, okay. Well, he had been complaining, he'd been screaming about it, so he said evidently someone heard him. So I'm glad they listened. They do listen. They are very responsive. You just don't always know who you're talking to that has what authority to make some changes. But, you know, I've never seen— I talked to Google reps and they take notes, and I'm like, really? You're listening to me? You know, you're taking notes? So, you know, I'm impressed at that.
But Google's pretty cool. Google.
They really are. I love the first time I asked them about Google and one of them laughed and said— this was in the early days and I was talking to their reps and he says, "Oh Dennis, we don't want to be the biggest social media on the planet. That's not our goal. We want to integrate ourselves into every aspect of your life." They didn't even want to do social.
They screwed it up a couple of times before they got to Google+.
I was in one Hangout and we figured out— I figured out right then, they already knew it. Google+ is only to improve their Google search engine. Totally.
Well, they were losing hits to Facebook. The minute people started searching for things on Facebook, Google said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. They pulled it right back.
Here we go. Larry Fournier is in the house. Thanks for stopping by. Vic Gundotra wisely says that Google+ is changing every day. —every day. Yes, it is. Yep, and we're happy for that.
And let me tell you, since Anna and I have been on it, well, I was on it from like the first month in, and I've been taking it serious since September 2011, and nobody, absolutely nobody can touch Anna and I in Panama. You do a search for Panama, guess what? We're going to show up on the first page.
You're the only person verified in Latin America, aren't you?
Or something, right? That helps, that helps.
Yeah, it's not all that, it's your content too.
Yes, it is. Well, you make it consistent, you make it consistent. Anna and I, we post at least one thing per day each about Panama. So it might not be on my personal profile, it might be in one of my communities, but at least once a day, and we do that consistently every day. With hashtags. With hashtags and all kinds of stuff. You can't touch us. I don't care if it's a media company coming up behind us, they're not going to be able to catch up.
Well, Panama has got to be about the size of New Jersey. You're going to run out of stuff sooner or later, no?
3.5 million, we're 3.5 million people here, that's it.
That's great advice. I think you said that, Randy, maybe in a branding show we were doing with Mia, but I think you said pick 3 things.— that you really have that passion about and you're consistent with posting about and focusing on. I think that that's really, really good advice. I think I just recently turned it off, but for a long time I was getting pinged for all of your stuff, guys, even the community stuff, because I was using it, just watching in terms of strategy. I don't even create content. I curate and do whatever. But I was just kind of watching, you know, you guys, you do, you post in different areas and I was kind of watching what you guys do for, you know, just to advise clients. You guys do a really nice job. What tool were you using? AllMyBlogs. I just got, I was getting, I got everything. I was just getting everything. It depended on where you, I'll have to show you everything I got. I just turned it off recently, I have the emails.
That's interesting because I don't put everything out, I don't ever inform anybody of anything. So you must be—
Yeah, I mean they are sending me, I'll have to send them to you. I mean I don't think I know tool because there wasn't a, we didn't have steady, why can't I ever think of the second word, steady development, is it development? Steady Demand. Steady Demand, I don't know why I keep doing that wrong, which is a fantastic tool. You know what? It's Ben Fisher's birthday.
I just saw that. Happy birthday, Ben.
So I saw it this morning on LinkedIn, and I started to make a GIF, like you can go, you know, I started to make a GIF, and then I got lost on YouTube somewhere, like with birthday candles and a cake, and then I never posted. I just realized it. It's actually his birthday. He's awesome. I don't have a tool. I'll have to show you what I have. I see Anna's, and obviously I don't speak Spanish, so I didn't know what they said, per se. I know that you guys definitely engage with a lot of different groups, which is awesome.
Annabelle was actually interviewed on a Mexican radio station last week because they are seeing her stuff in Mexico, too. Yeah. Um, in Spain also. Yeah, in Spain also. She's huge over in Spain.
Yeah, I'm dominating the Spanish community. Woo-hoo!
It only makes me a little bit sad because everything you do is in Spanish. You know, they're monopolizing all your time. I haven't—
No, but I'm still posting in English. Or what I'm doing, every time that I post, I make it come in English and Spanish. Then I can, um— still keeping in contact and in touch with different people, the English and the Spanish community, which I love it.
I don't know if it has to do with time zones, but I know in the morning, typically, my time anyway, I usually see in Spanish. And then as the day goes on, it's more English, I remember. That sounds good. But no, Anna was on the first. So the first Hangout On Air I ever watched was Mia Voss. And Anna was on. And David Oldenburg. And David left because his show's obviously right after Mia's. And it was just you and Mia. And it was a great Hangout. And I haven't seen you on since, I don't think. And that must have been, I don't know, September? October? Early October?
Yeah, because I'm focusing more on the Spanish community. I mean, I have a Google+ show called "Soy Mimi y Guía con Angie Larsen." which I interview the Spanish community that work in the marketing industry, which I love it. I met so many great people, like good folk, that they're very, very important Spanish community, which I love it. So that's my— what I'm focusing right now. I still love my English speakers.
Oh yeah, no, maximize that, rock that out. I'm just sad because we lose you, so that makes makes me sad. No, it's okay.
I still participate with the English community.
Oh, I know, but you haven't been on another Hangout, right? You haven't.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
She just does her own Hangouts. She does her own where she interviews people, that's all.
Yeah, and you tape, right? You don't do a lot of live. You tape them, right?
I remember that. Yeah, I do them live. I started to make videos for myself. Making marketing tips in Spanish, obviously. And I love it, so people started to like it also. I think it's good to do different stuff. If the Hangout doesn't work, maybe you can create videos, or maybe create great infographics, or maybe take great photos. Do whatever you want. Do whatever is good for you. That's what I'm doing. I'm doing different stuff. You do it all. Yeah. I'm an adventurer, so I like to do a little bit of everything.
Yeah, you do. You do.
And it doesn't cost us any money for graphic design. I got her.
That's a good thing.
Yeah, by the way, if somebody needs an overlay or a photo cover for any of these social media platforms, please contact me or contact my husband. I will help you.
Sounds good. I love that. I'm sure you're going to have some people take it.
And a plug.
Yeah. Gotta love it. Alright, we have a couple comments here too. Here we go. Michael Drulliard, hello Anna and Randy, looking good. Google Hangouts has helped me spread my educational stuff on Panama. Greatest platform ever. I can get that. Jenny Field, thanks for stopping by. Jenny, thanks for inviting us to bring snacks for the plumber reference. Sorry about that, Jenny. Oh, God. Yeah, I know, we won't go into that. Tiffany, thanks for the information. Wants to know if she can get some links to those people you mentioned, Scott and Billy. Billy, you can put links up for them later. And Jean Layton chimed in, Chef Dennis Littley, our new series Blogger's Guide to Using Google Effectively is certainly bringing more people over, and she means from Facebook. We've got the template to move. I feel like I've seen her.
Yeah, I've seen that Blogger's Guide.
Well, I've been blogging. I wrote a series on it, and I, you know, I'll write, and I kept trying to bring them over. And then Jean and I were talking with more people on Facebook, so we decided to do a series. So our first show was last week, very basic, very— we're starting from the ground up and just helping them develop, you know, it was on profiles. It's a half an hour, it's short enough so people who are rushed can watch it.. We're just trying to give them enough information to really keep moving forward on Google+.
What do you mean bring them over though? They're obviously not blogging right on Facebook.
No, but most of their interaction is on Facebook. I've been preaching the gospel of Google for almost 2 years now and some of them are getting tired of listening to me talk to them. I know my wife is definitely getting tired of listening to me talk. She just walks away when I start now. But so Jean was a— was a, you know, she's got a lot of good connections there. People really like her. Jean is a wonderful person. If you guys don't follow her, you need to. She's a neuropathic physician, and she really, really posts some good— and gluten-free, and she posts some really excellent stuff. So she's a good person to follow. So, you know, we're just trying to make them feel more comfortable, you know, because there is a learning curve. They come over and they try to use it like Facebook and they fail.
You know, Chef, one little tip that Anna and I use is we share our posts, our Google+ posts. I'll tweet my posts, I'll scoop my posts on Scoop.it, and I'll also share them on Facebook. So people will click on the post in Facebook and it goes to the Google+ post. So slowly but surely, what's that old saying, you know, you get someone slowly, you don't try to force people to use it, just get them accustomed to it. And sooner or later, all of a sudden one day they're like, Oh, I'm spending more time on Google+.
Yeah, that's happening to me. I've been sharing a lot of my posts from Google+ on Facebook, and so my Facebook friends, they are going to Google+, you know?
So do you— what do you do, a picture and then just a link, Randy? Because it looks like crap if you just put the link in. Or did it change?
It looks fine. I even share GIFs over on Facebook. Yes, they don't work as a GIF.. But you see the image and you click on it and it's a full GIF on the Google+ post.
Huh, see I feel like I was trying to share, and I guess it probably was a while ago, now I just don't even try. But I feel like I tried to do it a while ago and it wasn't working, so maybe that's changed a little bit.
That's awesome, that's good to know. It changed with the update to Facebook, when they updated the image size. Remember it used to just be a thumbnail. When it was a thumbnail it didn't work but I think I read an article, it must have been 3 months ago now that this change happened where they made the images larger.
That could very well be, yeah. They had to because Google has great image, yeah, great graphics.
I'm loving the new things everybody's posting with Christmas time and it has lights on the trees or the snow, the effects. Yeah.
So MySpace-ish. That's why I keep hearing it. It kind of looks like my face.
I tried to make a GIF. Yeah, Billy Funk has tried to teach me how to make a GIF, and I can't do it. I don't have the attention span. Once I get on YouTube, I'm gone. I'm just gone. There's too much going on. I can't pick one, and I can't focus. So it's not going to be my— but I like them. I had a great one yesterday. There was an elephant jumping on a trampoline. And every single time I went by it, when I streamed past it, I would laugh. It's really good.
Speaking of Billy Funk, here we go. I love your posts that are in Spanish, Annabelle. I click on translate and it's like they were in English the entire time.
Yeah, that's great. He says Scott, he said Scott Bueller's doing, doing great on David Oldenburg Show too. So nervous. He was really nervous. He was really nervous. I knew he'd be fine.
I'm glad he stopped by here too.
I'm just glad that people are going to get to know him. Scott Buehler, that is. Absolutely.
We'll have to have him on here as well.
You should, Shawn.
And Billy.
Yeah, you definitely should have Billy Funk on. He's a rep. But Scott Buehler, yeah, he hasn't— he's kind of an unknown. But I'm sure he did a good job over there.
I'm sure. Well, you know, I was like that. You know, the best part of the show for me is bringing my friends together from different areas, and I say that all the time. It's about creating community, about enlarging our network of people, and just getting to know each other as people. You know, sometimes we don't always get the chance to do that when we're just— you know, we get to know each other, but this is really an opportunity when we can talk to each other and feel relaxed and just have a good time. You know, nothing in particular, and just enjoy the time together. And you guys all get to meet each other if you don't know each other already. This is more of a one kind of a group that we have on today, but a lot of times, you know, we have different interest groups on, and it's really fun to see them interact and get excited talking to each other.
But I really do love that about your show, Chef, that it's very relaxed. I like that a lot about your Hangout, you know, and I think that there's I love Mia's show, and I love David Oldenburg's show. And I like these shows that are really shows, and you come on and you announce everybody, and you're kind of formal. But at the same time, I start to watch more and more sort of that casual kind of get-to-know-each-other kind of Hangouts. And I've always appreciated that about your format. And it's cool. It's very cool. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Well, you know, you always learn something. And, you know, I always learn something and that's the best part for me too, is I'm learning. But, you know, there's always information that gets shared, there's always good content that gets shared, and at the same time you're seeing people as they really are and not just, you know, keeping them in one spot. Everybody has so much to offer and they have so much information, so many different interests, and that's what I tell my food bloggers, you know, you do other things beside blog about food. Forget that now. Go somewhere else. Interact with another interest group and believe me, sooner or later they're going to go, "What else do you do? You have a food blog? Oh, everybody eats." So we're win-win no matter what we do. We can be rocket scientists or I was mentioning this morning, I might have gone to Topiary if I had known how much work was going into blogging. So I said, "Oh yeah, little trees, happy little trees." I don't know how you guys do it.
Blogging is a lot of It's a lot of work. It's insane. It really is. I can't ever focus enough to— I can never get it all the way done to post it. It just never really happened for me. The more time I spent on it, the more I would go over it with a fine-tooth comb, and it would just never go anywhere. Yeah, I'm just the opposite. My Fulton says you have to do 21 things after you're done writing it.
Yeah, I just write what I think and sometimes it doesn't come out right and I have to reread it a few times, but it is what it is. Yeah. Well guys, it's been a great show and I'm sure everybody— thanks for taking time out, especially before the holidays, and spending some time with me. And I know you all had a lot of things you had to do, but I really appreciate you coming on today with me and spending some time getting to know each other. If any of you has any last things to say now, time and we're going to—
Alex, anything you'd like to share? I just want to say thanks for having me and I did not know actually any of the people that were on this show before I came on, so this was an awesome experience for me to get to know some new people on Google+.
Alex, yeah, let's do a Hangout. I would, you know, women, you know, we're outnumbered 2 to 1 on here, so I'd love to spend a little bit more time sometime. For sure. Yeah, that would be awesome. I love the stuff you're doing. I took a look at your page. Oh, thanks. Yeah, very cool. Great.
And Logan, thanks for being here too. And it's nice to see you, and I'll see you when you come down to Tampa.
Yeah, yeah, I really, yeah, I really want to do that, Jeff. It'll be fun. I want to meet your wife.
Absolutely. She will be coming with us. I know I talk about her all the time. She's very patient with me, and she's very, very good to me. And She doesn't quite know what I'm doing or why I'm doing it, but she likes it. Like I told her, I tell everybody, when I started this whole thing, I said, I just want to be a household name. That's all. What do you want? I said, I don't want fortune. I'm looking for the— just everybody to know who they are when they say Chef Dennis Littley. And that— and I want— now my next goal is to be on The Ellen Show.
So I know that's a good goal. Yeah.
Yeah. I was talking to somebody yesterday. They said, don't you want to be on Oprah? She scares me. She'd ask questions. She asked hard questions. I want to be on The Ellen Show and play those fun games that she does.
You know what, Chef, everyone thinks very fondly of you here on Google+. We're lucky to have you. So thank you. Thank you very much.
My pleasure. And Randy and Annabelle, I am so excited to have you on with me today, and thank you so much for taking time and bringing Panama to us.
Well, thank you, Chef, and we want to invite everyone out to our show Monday night, 9 PM Eastern. It's the Christmas Giveaway Show, and we've got Google Chromebooks, we got the 7 Pillars book giveaways, we have Plus Mastermind by Scott Buehler and Billy Funk giveaways, we got Steady Demand membership to give away, CraftStar is going to come on and give out— their people on CraftStar are going to have a whole bunch of stuff to give away to people that are watching the show. We have about 150 people already confirmed to come to the show, we have all weekend, we're hoping to hit about 1,000. This is going to be huge. We're really looking forward to it. The wine is going to be flowing. My eggnog is going to be ready to go. Oh, God.
Sounds like it's going to be a killer show, definitely. Everybody tune in for that. You never know what you might come home with, right? Something really awesome. Great stuff. Great stuff. Absolutely. All right, everyone. Thank you again for being here. It was a wonderful time here on Good Day Google+. And as always, it's a great day on Google+ when you get to spend it with your friends. So happy holidays everyone, and I'll see you next week.
Thanks, Chef. Thank you. Bye guys. Bye-bye.










