gryficowa · 3 months ago
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Boycott!
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Fuck Zionists and liberals, they are equally fucked up, Zionists are sadists and liberals are ignorant
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Not only has the number of people interested in Gaza decreased, but I also have to meet this parasite (because I won't call you people anymore)
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And my Internet randomly stops working…
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Liberals will probably bash me in the comments anyway, because their level is like that of a fourth grader, because how come you hate Harris and Biden? You must be a Russian troll or some shit! (Because it wasn't because I saw children torn apart, people carrying body parts of loved ones in plastic bags and a father who went out to get a birth certificate for his twins, only to come back to find out that his wife and children were murdered by a bomb 100% supplied by the USA…)
Yes, liberals and Zionists piss me off, they're on the same level of being disgusting people
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(Okay, I replaced the USB, but I will have to find a new USB because I use a mobile host)
Now that I have your attention:
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Yes, an additional entry under the collection links, it doesn't appear very often, I'm aware of that
Remember that Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga are silent about Gaza (And also about Sudan and Congo)
Also, fuck Rowling, but she knows a lot (Only the HP fandom will defend her…)
The actors and screenwriter in "Stranger Things" turned out to be Zionists, so if you want to watch the series, I recommend illegally, because legally you will give money to people who are disgusting bigots
(Okay, USB change worked, Internet doesn't crash every second)
But yes, lately it's been getting harder and harder to raise money because fewer and fewer people are interested in Gaza, which is depressing on many levels…
By the way, a liberal chimed in, I'm in the middle of writing a post and yes, what could be worse than rapes and the torn bodies of children? Besides, in Yemen he has the death penalty, so you can send him there, you know, there is a way to get rid of Trump, with Harris and Biden it is not so easy (Although Biden is old… Maybe he will die on the way)
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But Harris? I don't know, some crazy person would have to show up, although I don't support assassination attempts on presidents and such (But yes, she would either have to lose or leave the elections, I have no idea, because she's too young, so the chance of her leaving would be like waiting for the death of Queen Elizabeth… I know she's dead, but with Elizabeth's death, dead memes about her immortality)
I have no idea what to do with Harris, because Trump can be sent to Yemen, and Biden will either die in many years or lose the intellectual capacity to rule the country (No, sorry, both of them probably won't live long, they are men, not Queen Elizabeth)
By the way, Putin doesn't look young either… 71 years old, you know what the average age of men is
Literally, retirees lol
I doubt Biden, Trump, or fucking Putin will live to be a hundred
So this text "Trump is worse" sounds even funnier, because he is 78 years old, and you know that in a year he may suddenly be incapacitated, because old age has that effect (It's already visible in Biden's case, Trump, with all this stress and everything, probably won't live long…)
In addition, if we take into account the diet in the USA and CO2, because Americans must have a million cars, you understand, an additional shortening of life
I have more doubts about Putin, because he doesn't live in the USA… But considering his age, it's only a matter of time before the effects of aging catch up with him
Hey, Benjamin is 74 years old, although this fucker is probably worse than Trump (Sorry, I had to parody liberals), and seriously, it's terrifying when liberals talk about how evil Trump is, but they remain silent about the genocide because of their white American privilege is more important
Okay, attack from liberals and Zionists in 3… 2… 1…
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Coming back to the collections, this is the only way for them to arrive, unfortunately, I can never guarantee that it will happen, and that sucks, because many families live on the edge, because they never know whether they will be the next victims of an Israeli attack… And many collections last for many months and often stop at a certain amount, which means that few collections reach the very end :/
And only being angry can increase the post's reach or tagging to many tags (Because I will not give money to a Zionist company, sorry, but not only do I not have a bank account, I also do not earn money, and I would prefer not to give money to a company that pays Zionists to interacted with people fighting for Palestine)
As I mentioned, I'm worried that fewer and fewer people are talking about Gaza, and this makes it difficult to reach people, even the Palestinians themselves have a big problem with it (That's why they often put tags unrelated to the post, unfortunately, they risk having the post with the collection removed for spam…)
It doesn't help that Tumblr shadowbans tags about Palestine (Fucking Zionist yohoo, but what do you expect from a company that showed off transphobia?)
I deleted deviantart (some time ago) because it turned out that it belongs to an Israeli company (This explains a lot why there are so many disgusting Zionists), I have a blog on tumblr because I can't find an alternative, and on this blog my art gets lost, which makes it difficult with colored OCs because it may result in changing complexion, and we all know how people react to it…)
I also noticed that many Zionists use Jewish tags (Which sucks because they promote that every Jew is a Zionist, which is not true), so yes, more and more Zionists will be found there, I don't know what Jews supporting Palestine feel and see Zionist shit, but I know it must be depressing on many levels (You are strong, you have to deal with them anyway, but the fact that you have the courage to fight for Palestine is a sign of strength, the Zionists are weak, you are strong)
I doubt anyone will read it all to the end (Knowing liberals and Zionists, they will start writing insults)
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wardencommanderrodimiss · 2 years ago
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So most of the main casts in the Three Frat Houses Extended Universe are people who are probably more likely to try to work out interpersonal conflicts by talking directly with the people affected and getting advice from other friends/family/colleagues/classmates, rather than taking the conflict to an anonymous jury of the internet to be judged; however, given everything we've established in this setting, there's got to be at least a few absolutely legendary "Am I The Asshole" posts floating around.
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gaiatheorist · 7 years ago
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Food, again.
I’m in one of my precarious states in terms of Mental Health, or Emotional Well-being, or Warm and Fuzzies, or whatever we’re supposed to be calling it this week. I’ve been driving this clapped out bus of a carcass long enough to recognise the warning signs of an impending crash, to be fair, it’s not surprising at all that I’ve ‘lasted’ this long, it’s me, isn’t it? (The counsellor is supposed to be exiting me today, after more-than-double the number of sessions he’s meant to allocate. At the last session, he dropped in “A lot of people wouldn’t have come through what you have.”, and I had to bite back “I’m not ‘through’ it, I’m ‘in’ it.”, and respond “Resilient and tenacious, aren’t I?”, which reminds me of Creepy Carpet Tile Man telling me “You’re like a social experiment, to see how far a person can be pushed, and still remain functional.”.) Without self-diagnosing too much, I’m dealing with a set of external circumstances that aren’t particularly pleasant, and I’m too bastard stubborn to just give up, and live under my duvet. This ‘Nervous Breakdown’ is dragging its arse like a dog with worms.
I can’t ‘fix’ myself any more than I already have, I have plateaued at ‘superficially functional’, a fair approximation of an adult-human, albeit one who has brain injuries. Not that anyone would know, unless I told them. I’m ‘surviving not thriving’, and, while I do still have enthusiasm for some things, they’re quite a narrow range of ‘things’. “Get a hobby”, “Join a group.” “Go out for a walk somewhere nice.”, aye, those suggestions are helpfully trotted out by people who don’t have brain injuries, they don’t mean to be insensitive, they’re just suggesting what they think they’re supposed to. ‘Normal’ situations, to everyone else are profoundly debilitating to me, and explaining that, repeatedly, is exhausting. (Yes, I could get some little cards made up, with “I’m not being ‘off’ with you, I have brain injuries.”, and a list of my common symptoms, but I fear that people would either start asking me even more questions, or, worse still, start talking to me in the loud voice, with the small words. I’m difficult. Appearing ‘normal’, with brain injuries, is difficult.)
I do have brain injuries, and fluctuating Mental Health, what I also have, in a Liam Neeson voice, if you please, is ‘a very particular set of skills.’ Apart from being able to sneak up on people, which is fun, and being able to cross-reference, and apply pre-existing knowledge at a speed that freaks people out, I have an uncanny ability to ‘get underneath things.’ (You at the back, stop laughing, I don’t mean hiding underneath other people’s desks.) I used to flippantly describe that ‘particular skill’ as “I can get where water can’t.”, and, begging for gin on Fakebook aside, it’s the reason I’m not dead. Hyperbole? I don’t think so. The Universal Credit unemployment benefit I’m on, while my PIP disability Tribunal comes through, doesn’t cover my outgoings. It never did, I used my own money to make up the difference at first, and I’m just about to run out of ‘Trust Fund’ payments from my Employment Union, I won’t be coy, it’s a ‘hardship grant’, and, when that runs out, I will start to accumulate significant arrears. (Did you know that utility companies can apply for deductions to be made directly from benefits? I didn’t, until last month, when the water board took a breakdown of my income/outgoings, and noted that, paying my rent, and keeping my phone and internet on, for work-search, and emergencies, what with me being single-and-disabled, left me £40 per month for food. “Instead of £38 per month, you could pay £7.70 per week, would that be OK?” Would £10 per month for food be OK, let me think about that one?) 
I’m effectively ‘shoplifting, but only from large chains’, here. (I’m not ACTUALLY shoplifting, stand down. Some people will be shoplifting, I’ve seen one hell of a spike in ‘security’ vacancies over the last year or so.) Utility companies are corporations, while it’s not ideal for me to go into arrears, they have back-up funding, I don’t. Last month was the first month of arrears, well, technically THIS month is the first month of arrears, when you stop your direct debit, the companies automatically bill you for the payments until the end of the tax-year, asking for money for services you haven’t used yet, which is why I didn’t cancel the utility bills until now. See “Getting where water can’t.”, hopefully I’ll have sorted out the disability benefit before my utility providers can sort the paperwork to take me to County Court, if not, I can evidence to the judge that you can’t pay £749 out, when you only have £662 coming in, and use the StepChange debt advice service templates to offer a ‘temporary payment arrangement’ of £1 per month. Delightful, isn’t it?
All of that is background noise, but it is impacting on my Mental Health, my ‘work coach’ is going to refer me to the DWP ‘Work Psychologist’ at our next session, my money is them telling me I would be in better emotional health if I was working. I know that. This vile predicament I’m in now isn’t a ‘lifestyle choice’, it’s me trying to fight my way through the unfit-for-purpose UK disability benefit system. I’m exceptionally high-functioning on some levels, but not at full-time capacity, I need to work part-time, to compensate for my deficits, but I can’t afford to work part-time on minimum wage. If I’m compelled into full-time work, there is the potential for my known-disability to place myself or others at risk of harm. The bit of DWP that deals with PIP doesn’t communicate with the bit of DWP that deals with UC, my work-coach is really sweet, but, if ‘the system’ kicks in, I could be compelled to apply for jobs that I know I’d be unsafe doing. What a mess. I don’t know how many times I’ll be able to evidence that a job is unsuitable before incurring ‘sanctions.’ (Reason for referral to UC psychologist: UC.)
Background noise aside, I know I’m heading for one of my periodic ‘dips’ in emotional well-being, the symptoms are stacking up. I’m laughing at myself, because my ‘solution’ is very much one of the symptoms as well. To get a little bit personal, without boring you with all of the details, my sleep-pattern is wrecked, I have no energy, very little enthusiasm for most things, lots of “Don’t want to.” days, and a noted increase in urges to self-harm. I’m not standing on the motorway bridge, I never will be, but, yet again, I need to catch myself on this slide before I hit the bottom. (I genuinely CANNOT hit the bottom, as much as that niggly little voice in the back of my head whispers that being sectioned under the Mental Health Act would trigger appropriate support. I don’t believe that it would, I think it would trigger a short stay on D-ward, where I’d be medicated into the same state-of-compliance as the other patients. I’ve visited D-ward a few times, the staff are stretched beyond capacity to cope, I’m not planning to add to their burden.) 
The symptom/solution? A ‘project’. Yes, I know, I bang on all the time about the ex and his ridiculous ‘projects’, I can’t use my shed, because it’s full of his project-crap, and the spare ‘bedroom’ (That you wouldn’t be able to fit a bed in and open the door, I’m probably bedroom taxed on a large cupboard, there.) is also full of crap that he’d bought and then bored of. As is about 3/4 of the loft, oh, and there are two canoes and a ‘spare’ door for his 4wd in the back garden, it’s like living in Steptoe’s yard. My Dad visited me this week, he does ‘projects’ as well, and, while I usually just think ‘knob-head’, and move on, having a different stinky-man sitting in my house, telling me about a greenhouse he was building, and how one of his Facebook posts had “more than 200 likes!” (It was a two-line comment, starting a heated debate about he US president, and it had typos that made me twitchy, I’m not selling myself back to my father as admin, though.) 
Dad banged on for about 300 years about tomatoes. In fairness to him, he doesn’t know I’m allergic to raw tomatoes, and, if I want to keep open the prospect of eventual inheritance, I’m probably going to have to accept occasional carrier-bags of surplus tomatoes. (Nasty side-thought there, not my half-sister on my Dad’s side, and her ponies, and multiple trips overseas, but the fact that my half-sister on my Mum’s side was given their old house when they inherited my Step-father’s maternal home. Oh, and my brother’s extortionate wedding in Greece. I cut off my nose to spite my face in terms of family, I’m gritting my teeth gradually increasing contact, but it looks like I’m smiling.) I will accept the surplus tomatoes, albeit not as enthusiastically as I accepted the birthday gin. What I’m doing here is what I always do, I’m advance-planning for a summer-glut of tomatoes, after almost two years of not having horrible tasteless-mushy ‘Moneymaker’ tomatoes from the Father-in-law occupying fridge space. I’m advance-planning sauces that can be frozen, and chutneys that can be preserved, because eating raw tomatoes makes me really ill. 
I subconsciously started preparing for the likely fruit/veg glut from my Dad yesterday, with my first venture into pickling. ‘Back of the salad drawer pickle’, because one of the peppers had a soft spot on it, and I’d already meal-planned how to make one pot of soup last me all week, without sacrificing a pepper. (Must remember to give the kid the better of the two griddle pans I have. griddle-seared peppers are great.) The ‘project’ isn’t pickling, or soup, or pickle-soup. (Terms and conditions apply, we’ll see if I fall far enough into the rabbit hole to start making pickle-soup.)  The ‘project’, inspired by a Twitter conversation at daft o’clock this morning, insomniac Twitter has some fantastic brains in it, and mine, is ‘Nowt thrown out.’ (I’m a Yorkshire lass, I’m allowed to say ‘nowt’ instead of ‘nothing’, for comedic effect.) When I prepare meals for the kid and I, there are always ‘leftovers’. That’s not actually sloppy portion-control, it’s deliberate now, with the combination of a very low income, and a disability. “Cook once, eat twice.” is now the accepted normal in this house, because the additional effort I need to put in to remain safe whilst preparing food is a drain on my already-diminished resources. ‘Leftovers’ mean that there’s always something immediately available, or something that can quickly be re-purposed. That can be as simple as the kid and his friend having leftover (home-made, from scratch, get me) pizza for breakfast the day after I’ve made it, or more involved, like that time the ‘leftover’ pizza sauce appeared in four different meals. (There’s a side-rant bubbling up about a recent internet issue about the packaging-plastic on pre-prepared vegetables, the insinuation being that EVERYONE who buys pre-chopped food must just be lazy. No, some of us are disabled, the bags of pre-chopped vegetables in my freezer are thumb-savers, as well as life-savers sometimes.) 
As I plate up meals for the kid and I, I’m already planning what to do with the remnants. (Admittedly, I don’t think I’ll repeat the ‘Everything left from the fake-away bunged on one tray, with the last of the pizza sauce, and some more cheese’ experiment, that was a Thursday, I don’t usually cook on a Thursday, so I hadn’t ‘planned’ it as such, it was just that there was food ‘left’, and I can’t afford to throw it away.) When the kid isn’t here, I’m even more frugal in my exertions with ‘preparing and cooking’, if anyone from the PIP-end of DWP is reading this. Actually, if anyone from the UC-end of DWP is reading it, that’s probably relevant, too. Hello, DWP, I’ve had the same pot of soup for every meal this week, you can make that work by only eating once a day, my hair is falling out, my fingernails are splitting, my skin is dull and flaky, I’m hardly ‘polished for job interviews’ right now, because I’m probably malnourished. That’s very ‘me’, I have a hell of a lot of food in the house, but I’m rationing it, because I don’t know how long it will have to last. Welcome to 2018, the siege-mentality chapter.
Everyone is ‘feeling the pinch’, and there are no indications that the current trajectory of domestic affairs in the UK will improve any time soon. Food costs are increasing, the cost of everything is increasing, but very few people have an income that is increasing in proportion. There are various incentives on-going in the UK to reduce wastage, but that’s not going to have much of an impact immediately. People in general are used to having a wide range of food readily available, and throwing away far too much of it. (The ex was a swine for it, he’d throw out things that had “Gone bad.” despite not actually having checked whether they were still OK. It became evident, over a period of years, that he had no sense of smell, there’s nothing quite like trying to work, and having someone shove a carton of milk under your nose. I married a gibbon, who once fished a packet of Quorn slices out of the kitchen bin and ate them. Yes, they were sealed, but I’d binned them because they were a month past the use-by date.) That’s what some people won’t understand at first, that ‘best before’ might as well say ‘buy more.’
Retailers might be paying lip-service to the whole ‘reduce, re-use, recycle’ idea, but they’re not going to kill the golden goose of ‘best before’ any time soon. Some people don’t know how to ascertain whether food is spoiled, so that little date on the packaging is taken as the expiry date, then edible food is thrown in the bin, and replaced by more food that might well follow it. There is information out there about ‘best before’ and ‘use by’ dates, but the big supermarkets aren’t really shouting it from the rooftops, the Co-op IS trialling a scheme of a 10p “Don’t be a binner, have it for dinner!” selection of ‘expired’ canned and dried goods, but the scheme is limited to 125 stores in the east of England. The cynic in me wonders how prominently displayed the reduced goods will be, before the Co-op declares the scheme is closing due to poor take-up.
I was browsing ‘recipes for leftovers’ yesterday, no particular reason, as I didn’t have any leftovers to use up. I’m not counting the last portion of soup in the slow cooker as leftovers, that’s meal-planning. The results of my internet search made me angry. Everything makes me angry, and, on reflection, looking at the recipe sections on the websites of major supermarkets was the wrong place to start. (I’d started there because I couldn’t risk the sudden pop-up of video-adverts on independent sites, it’s a brain damage thing.) Supermarkets don’t *really* want you to use up leftovers, what they want people to do is keep buying more than they can use, and throwing it away on the mystical ‘best before’ date, then replacing the thrown-away product with an identical one. Oh, and that thing that’s on 3-for-2, and one of those ‘New!’ things in the display near the checkout. The supermarket recipes-for-leftovers were deliberately complicated, and, in most cases, required ingredients that people might not have ‘in the house.’ Wahey, I have a portion of ‘whatever’ in the freezer, I’ll have a look for ideas of what I could whip it into. Oh, wait, I don’t have any saffron (I do.) or any fresh rosemary (there’s some in the freezer, I need to clean the bits of rosemary out of EVERY bloody freezer drawer.), better pop back out to *Insert supermarket here* to pick some up, ooh, a 3-for-2 on something I didn’t go in for, what a bargain. (It’s only a bargain if you wanted 3, and you can use them...) 
This is where the ‘Poor people eat rubbish’ comments happen, and where I feel compelled to shout “No, we don’t!” I am living well below the poverty line, my UC is something like 1/3 of the national ‘average’ income. ‘Poor people just order take-away!’ ‘Poor people cannot cook from scratch!’ ‘Poor people think chickens lay cheese!’, OK, I exaggerated on that one a bit, but it wouldn’t surprise me. It’s the outsiders-looking-in thing again, yeah, you can’t see much if you look in here, because my massive telly is in the way of the window. “Don’t buy pre-packed, it’s lazy, it’s cheaper to buy from a farmer’s market!” One of my hands doesn’t work, and the farmer’s market is on once a month, in a town a £4 return bus journey away, do you really think I can carry a month’s worth of vegetables home on a bus? “Don’t buy from convenience shops, it’s more expensive, use one of the discount supermarkets!” Again, I live in a village that’s relatively remote, not as cut-off as some, but the £4 return bus fare for a ‘big’ shop at Aldi, or even the £2.50 back home if I manage to walk there are pounds no longer in my pocket for food. “Don’t use the ‘big’ supermarkets, it’s better to buy from small, independent retailers!” Mate, have you SEEN my High Street? We have a Tesco, more charity shops than I can count, some nail-bars, some take-aways, and about four billion hairdressers. There’s a butcher, I’ll just subsist on hooves and tripe, to ease my civic conscience, shall I?
Until you’ve made one slow-cooker of soup last all week, don’t get judgemental at me for using 28p own-brand dried mixed herbs, instead of hand-chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley. Don’t tell me that I’ll ‘ruin’ a dish by using sunflower oil instead of extra virgin olive oil, or that own-brand and budget-range foods are ‘cheap and nasty’. More than that, don’t assume that, because my weekly food allowance is roughly £10, I must be living on £1 ready meals, and white cider. 
My ‘project’, to distract myself from my ‘emotional well-being issues’ is something I dabbled with the idea of a while ago, but never got around to doing. I’m going to set up another blog somewhere, on the theme of ‘Nowt thrown out.’ When I speak to Approved Food about my kidnapped sausages (Better just not to ask about that.), I might ask about linking up, for ad-revenue as store credit. People who have always had plenty of food are going to need to reduce wastage, as costs increase. People who have ‘never’ cooked are going to have to learn. People scraping by on next-to-nothing might appreciate tips on how to make f*ck-all go a little bit further. I’ll feel like I’m doing something useful, and it’ll keep me out of trouble. Possibly.
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johnmuffus · 5 years ago
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Shopping Empires Review
Shopping Empires Review (Karianne Gagnon Course)
Today, we’ll be going through Karianne Gagnon’s Shopping Empires. It’s currently priced at $497, and its main focus revolves around WooCommerce, Shopify, and Google Ads Shopping.
As always, the sales page sells you wonders, and its design is very flashy and professional. It provides several comments and testimonials from both students and other gurus, which I’ve reviewed in the past, as backing for its claims.
However, as you probably know, that’s a standard (in one way or another) among eCommerce courses, so it’s not a selling point.
The content is, though, so let’s get right into it.
Who’s the author?
One has to look thoroughly to find out who’s Karianne. There’s not much information available besides a software released back in 2016. She does, however, claim to own various 7-figure brands on Shopify and consistently making $1,000 every day.
She seems to be a former student from Franklin Hatchett’s eCom Profit Masterclass, starring Richard Telfeja’s mentorship. However, Franklin ended this partnership a while ago, but it’s still a good sign.
Karianne is offering her own course, offering a break from Facebook Ads to focus on Google Shopping Ads, implementing it with a store on Shopify and WooCommerce.
Of course, the sales page has some warning signs. These include zero mentions on the actual profits she makes, and instead opts to talk solely about her revenue. Making millions in sales doesn’t mean a lot since marketing and maintenance costs can be quite big.
There’s also how she says you can make a living off dropshipping and Google Ads without investing any money. Even if you somehow get Google advertising for free, you still need to pay for hosting, domain, or a Shopify subscription besides a good internet connection and mobile data to always be on the lookout for news.
Of course, you also want to test the products before offering them, and that’s an extra expense.
Reviewing Shopping Empires
It’s confusing to figure out the actual content from just the course’s sales page. Setting up a store on WooCommerce or Shopify and scaling it with Google Ads is something, but the sales page is quite hyped for it to be just that.
Besides, the price tag is a significant $497, and it’s promised to raise all the way to $997, so it really contradicts the relative simplicity of this course. Given the imminent raise and the positive testimonials, buying it before it increased seemed like the right choice, so I decided to take a look.
The members’ area was another section that seemed confusing, even for someone who’s seen countless courses like me.
This course breaks down into a main section with 12 modules and 22 PDFs complementing them. Surprisingly, there aren’t videos nor audio books on the course, which is admittedly rare in today’s courses.
You just get a bunch of PDFs and feedback documents. Besides, the modules are fairly standard with today’s courses.
They cover the preparations for your store: domain, hosting, planning, etc. It takes you into two modules after that: one on WooCommerce and another one on Shopify for setting up your store on one of the two platforms.
It then goes into website speed and tech stuff before going into product research. You have a module on data feed before the actual Google Shopping Ads module.
I want to make a pause here and state how disappointingly short the Google Ads section is. It’s supposed to be one of the main selling points of this course, yet it provides basic content with a few good (but not enough) insights. It’s fine to get you started, but it’s not a masterclass like it was sold to be.
The rest is management stuff: testing, calculating your actual profits, and scaling your business by hiring virtual assistants.
The first and lass modules were exceptionally short, just a PDF with basic steps or information. It’s really just content you can get for free on YouTube.
Bonuses
The first “bonus” is just access to the private Facebook group, which isn’t really a bonus since it’s offered in all courses, even the lower-end ones. You can also access a public group with over 200 members, and it’s actually quite active and interesting at times.
However, there’s a significant quantity of posts complaining about the reduced profits you get if you stick with Google Shopping and mess up your keywords. It’s logical since Google Shopping is all about precision, and randomly choosing keywords will burn your budget.
The first actual bonus is a strategy for your email marketing and recovering up to 20% of the income you may have lost. Another bonus comes as a cashback tip for AliExpress, but it’s mostly common knowledge. The third bonus is how you can prevent from getting on Google’s Merchant Center’s wrong side. The forth bonus is an extra module about Facebook retargeting, and the last one is access to Karianne’s supplier.
As you can see, there’s quantity but not enough quality. The Facebook group and extra module should be a given in every course. The AliExpress isn’t groundbreaking, and the others are nice, but they don’t offer enough impact to your success.
Final Verdict
Is It Worth It? Final Verdict
The course simply isn’t worth spending $497 despite what the sales pages and testimonials on it may tell you. You can get a much better course for just $297 by heading over to eCom Elites (from her supposed mentor), and receive actual videos instead of PDFs, so that’s another selling point for those who hate reading.
I hope you found this review useful and if you have any questions, please comment down below. I’ll be more than happy to assist you.
Once again, thanks for reading my Shopping Empires Review and I wish you the best of luck.
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Shopping Empires Review
Shopping Empires Review (Karianne Gagnon Course)
Today, we’ll be going through Karianne Gagnon’s Shopping Empires. It’s currently priced at $497, and its main focus revolves around WooCommerce, Shopify, and Google Ads Shopping.
As always, the sales page sells you wonders, and its design is very flashy and professional. It provides several comments and testimonials from both students and other gurus, which I’ve reviewed in the past, as backing for its claims.
However, as you probably know, that’s a standard (in one way or another) among eCommerce courses, so it’s not a selling point.
The content is, though, so let’s get right into it.
Who’s the author?
One has to look thoroughly to find out who’s Karianne. There’s not much information available besides a software released back in 2016. She does, however, claim to own various 7-figure brands on Shopify and consistently making $1,000 every day.
She seems to be a former student from Franklin Hatchett’s eCom Profit Masterclass, starring Richard Telfeja’s mentorship. However, Franklin ended this partnership a while ago, but it’s still a good sign.
Karianne is offering her own course, offering a break from Facebook Ads to focus on Google Shopping Ads, implementing it with a store on Shopify and WooCommerce.
Of course, the sales page has some warning signs. These include zero mentions on the actual profits she makes, and instead opts to talk solely about her revenue. Making millions in sales doesn’t mean a lot since marketing and maintenance costs can be quite big.
There’s also how she says you can make a living off dropshipping and Google Ads without investing any money. Even if you somehow get Google advertising for free, you still need to pay for hosting, domain, or a Shopify subscription besides a good internet connection and mobile data to always be on the lookout for news.
Of course, you also want to test the products before offering them, and that’s an extra expense.
Reviewing Shopping Empires
It’s confusing to figure out the actual content from just the course’s sales page. Setting up a store on WooCommerce or Shopify and scaling it with Google Ads is something, but the sales page is quite hyped for it to be just that.
Besides, the price tag is a significant $497, and it’s promised to raise all the way to $997, so it really contradicts the relative simplicity of this course. Given the imminent raise and the positive testimonials, buying it before it increased seemed like the right choice, so I decided to take a look.
The members’ area was another section that seemed confusing, even for someone who’s seen countless courses like me.
This course breaks down into a main section with 12 modules and 22 PDFs complementing them. Surprisingly, there aren’t videos nor audio books on the course, which is admittedly rare in today’s courses.
You just get a bunch of PDFs and feedback documents. Besides, the modules are fairly standard with today’s courses.
They cover the preparations for your store: domain, hosting, planning, etc. It takes you into two modules after that: one on WooCommerce and another one on Shopify for setting up your store on one of the two platforms.
It then goes into website speed and tech stuff before going into product research. You have a module on data feed before the actual Google Shopping Ads module.
I want to make a pause here and state how disappointingly short the Google Ads section is. It’s supposed to be one of the main selling points of this course, yet it provides basic content with a few good (but not enough) insights. It’s fine to get you started, but it’s not a masterclass like it was sold to be.
The rest is management stuff: testing, calculating your actual profits, and scaling your business by hiring virtual assistants.
The first and lass modules were exceptionally short, just a PDF with basic steps or information. It’s really just content you can get for free on YouTube.
Bonuses
The first “bonus” is just access to the private Facebook group, which isn’t really a bonus since it’s offered in all courses, even the lower-end ones. You can also access a public group with over 200 members, and it’s actually quite active and interesting at times.
However, there’s a significant quantity of posts complaining about the reduced profits you get if you stick with Google Shopping and mess up your keywords. It’s logical since Google Shopping is all about precision, and randomly choosing keywords will burn your budget.
The first actual bonus is a strategy for your email marketing and recovering up to 20% of the income you may have lost. Another bonus comes as a cashback tip for AliExpress, but it’s mostly common knowledge. The third bonus is how you can prevent from getting on Google’s Merchant Center’s wrong side. The forth bonus is an extra module about Facebook retargeting, and the last one is access to Karianne’s supplier.
As you can see, there’s quantity but not enough quality. The Facebook group and extra module should be a given in every course. The AliExpress isn’t groundbreaking, and the others are nice, but they don’t offer enough impact to your success.
Final Verdict
Is It Worth It? Final Verdict
The course simply isn’t worth spending $497 despite what the sales pages and testimonials on it may tell you. You can get a much better course for just $297 by heading over to eCom Elites (from her supposed mentor), and receive actual videos instead of PDFs, so that’s another selling point for those who hate reading.
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Once again, thanks for reading my Shopping Empires Review and I wish you the best of luck.
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