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- Welcome everyone! My name is Zach Gideritz and I am actually the creator of Historical Conquest. Now I know exactly what you guys are going through. All the vendors out there that are trying to get your word out and you're not finding the best way to put out there. You could do Google Ads and maybe a fraction of them are actually people that are actually interested in your product. Or you can try Facebook and you have to put a lot of effort into chatting with everyone possible. Or paying for somebody else to chat with them. There's so many different places you can actually put your money. I mean I play what $500 for one campaign. I put in a thousand dollars for another campaign. That's a lot of money coming out of the pockets of us as vendors. So in order to make this a little bit easier for all homeschooling vendors as well as other educating vendors, we wanted to create what we call My Learning Source. Now My Learning Source was actually a program that was set up actually back down in COVID times. So back in 2020 we actually had a group of vendors that got together. Big ones that you might have known about or might have heard about. And we got together and started creating a website. Now in that website we basically produced what we have today with My Learning Source. But as we were putting together, a lot of the convention started to open up. And because they started opening up, a lot of the interest in finishing this project went away. And when like half of our people went away, there was basically left with five companies. Five, six companies. And we're like wait we're not going to carry the weight for everyone else. And the conventions are opening up so do we really want to do this? And so they said yeah you know what we need to go back to the conventions. The problem is a lot of the conventions have decreased in their attendance. So what do we do? We have to find a place that people can rely on actual homeschoolers coming to a place they can trust. And they can get reviews, they can read articles, they can read we call them workshops. But they're basically blogs, written workshops. You can also do live workshops and very soon you're going to be able to do video workshops as well. Now with that being said, we want to make sure that everyone has the ability to partake in this. So all homeschoolers from all across the country. So as you can see, you come down this is the main page. We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine different states already working with us. And we are continuing to add on more every week. Now one of the things that we're doing, these are all ESA states. These are ESA, EFA scholarship states. As you know, Step Up for Students is the one that runs a lot of the scholarship programs in Florida. They're not ESAs, they're not EFAs. They've named them something different. Let's see, Tennessee has their own as well. West Virginia has their own. Georgia, I think it's the ESA. I can't keep them all straight. There's a lot of them. There's literally 30 different ESAs, so 30 different states all providing ESAs. And we have like five more, let's see, five more that are going to be joining on fairly soon. Other states that are gonna be joining on. Not that we're adding to the site per se, which we are, but that they're gonna be creating ESAs for their actual state and running through maybe Odyssey or ClassWallet or creating one of their own like Florida is doing, which they're not having the best of luck with their technology. They've been struggling for a while and everyone knows it. I mean, that's Arizona. That's another one that we are about to go into as well. Let's see, Missouri has one. They just started opening it up and we have a few other. Idaho has one. Now, California has a totally different system. It's through charter schools, but like the conventions, you can actually get into this, our program, and be seen by people in California. And we'll make sure that they see it. We are putting every dollar that comes in from our vendors goes out in advertisement. We don't pocket any of the money. So the reason why we don't do that is because we're just like you as a vendor. We're just trying to get our stuff out. And so we want to be able to have a place 24-7, 365 days a year to get your stuff out. So that's why we created the system that we created for all vendors. Now, there's also a free tier. If you don't know if it's going to be successful, you can do the free tier. If you don't know if it's going to be that reliable or that beneficial to your company, try a free tier. We have people that are being offered the free tier and they're being able to use the paid tier because they want to get into multiple states. So if you get a free tier, you'll get in like Florida, but you won't get in Texas and such. So that's where we basically say you could try it on Florida. If you like it, we're going to prove it to you and then join on. It's so inexpensive. It really is. And adding on additional states is also very inexpensive. And we will have packages and everything that you can buy to get like all the states if you want. Anyways, let's keep going. Okay. So once you get into this location, you can see which states we're in. Let's hit Florida. Now in Florida, this is actually the website that you'd come to. This is what the customers would come to as well. Let me go through some of these smaller functions and we're going to go through different videos. We'll have different functions. I'm going to do 10 minutes each video. So you can watch as many functions as you want and see what you're going to do to be able to use those functions. Okay. So you come to the site. It tells you all about the different scholarship programs, but you don't have to be on the scholarship programs to use it. Every homeschooler can use this. Now you come in here, you can actually find your vendors. We'll go over that in just a second. Learn about the scholarships. We got it for you. Now down here, it just shows you basically everything in one place. Now we are adding on different functions all the time. We just included social media. That's right. So all homeschoolers can actually come to this site and register to have their co-op and all of their people be able to see what's happening at their co-op and just those people. You can lock people out. You can allow people in. It's a great system for homeschoolers to be able to know that their information is safe and their people are safe. In order to get into this system, you actually have to have a working email. So all these things are for the safety and security of our people, our customers and our vendors. Also, top rated scholarship vendors. Look at that. We've got, that's my company. Yes, it's because I've been on here the longest. We have other ones. Etiquette Factory, Monica. Amazing. You guys, if you don't know Monica with Etiquette Factory, you need to talk to her. She's a great woman and she has great things when it comes to etiquette. I wish my kids had that. I need to actually get them that. I totally support that. And look, we're tops because we actually have reviews. Not all vendors have reviews, especially when they first jump on. We want you to hear what you have to say about them. So please jump on and give your reviews. Now again, we don't like trolls. So the only way to give reviews is to start up an account on our program. Now again, goes through a little bit of the scholarship programs and how much money you can get from either any of them. Down here, this is our workshops. So guides and insights for Florida families. But this is not just any type of thing. These are actual vendors giving their insight. So this one is from Ember and Ivy Literacy. This one is from Black Back Handwriting. They've been on for almost the whole time and their blogs are actually the most successful. They've actually had a lot of people come to their sites because of their blogs. Now their blogs go everywhere. And they're about handwriting. If you have a great blog to put out, put it in here. A new vendor or actually all vendors get one blog per month. Just put your blog out there and see how it goes. What's great about it is if it's chosen as number one, which means it has the most likes and the most viewers, it actually gets put into our newsletter, which goes out to the customers each week. Sorry, my voice is about to go out. But if you, let's say you click into here, you can click into the article or you can click on the person or the profile that puts it there. So and this one's from Zogos. This one's talking about games. This one's talking about handwriting and therapy. And this one's talking about dyslexia. All very important ones. So let's hit this one. And you can read through these blogs. Now again, they're workshops and they'll probably promote themselves near the end. So you don't have to read it unless you really want to. You want to know who's who's providing it. This one's really cool. Just throwing this out there. Lightning Round. That is a great game. It's called, basically it's stealth testing. Stealth testing is basically where the kids can be tested, not knowing that they're being tested because they're having fun with trivia. Pretty cool. Okay, going back to the top. Back to the marketplace. Okay. Now, as I said, we're only going to do this for 10 minutes at a time. We're going to go through the the workshops, the parents and what they get. All these different things. We're going to be making these for the parents as well. As right now, we're just getting out to the vendors because we want more vendors on here before we really start pushing it out to the customers. We have a little bit of a trickle to the customers right now, mainly because we're trying to get more blog posts, more vendors on here. So when a customer comes in, they see the value of it and they stick around. We have lists galore for co-ops and others who have organizations in homeschooling. We're going to be passing it out to them very soon. So probably within Monday. So one week from today, we're going to be sending it out to co-ops, maybe even a little bit before then to test it out with one of the states. OK, so that's it. I hope you appreciate it. I hope you appreciate what we what we're what we created for you, the vendors, so that all of us can win. When one boat rises, we all rise. That's what we're trying to prove. So please be part of it, even if it's a free tier. Jump on, make your profile, get yourself heard with the blog posts and see where it goes. You can't lose. It's free. And if you want multiple states, you want to be able to write multiple blog posts. You want to get your SEO. You want to be able to see how many people actually come and where they're coming from. It's like thirty dollars a month. So that's very low, too. That's literally a dollar a day as a business. You're spending way more on any kind of campaign that you put together. So I hope you enjoy this. I'm going to get a drink. Thanks for stopping by and we'll talk to you soon. Take care. Bye.