 Hi everybody, Andrea here, let's just do kind of some life updates here. What's happening? What's going on with dental ill tutoring, whitening pro academy, my mobile teeth business, my mobile teeth business, my mobile dental business, just kind of what's been going on with me and some exciting updates that are coming. If you are a fellow follower of my YouTube channel here, it's kind of nice to get updates in somebody's life, isn't it? When I follow people on YouTube, I like to get their life updates and kind of see what's happening with them and what's happening with their business. So I'm kind of doing that. What I've decided to start doing, which I've talked about this before, but I always forget about it, the first day of every month, I'm going to go on YouTube live. Okay, that's what I'm going to do. My struggle is responding to comments on YouTube. I try to get to them when I have a break, but then I have to start working again and then I forget where I kind of left off. YouTube doesn't make it easy to see comments like I wish I could just see them all at once. But then if I answer comments or I like a comment, it doesn't really go down to the next one so I can see what the next comment is. I don't know. Maybe I just have to refresh my feet. I'm not sure, but they really don't make it easy to respond to comments. So I'm still, I need to do better with that. I'm going to start doing better at that, but a way to kind of offset it is once a month, the first day of every month, I'm going to go on YouTube live. So that way you can ask me questions. I'll be right there and I'll be able to answer you live. I used to do this quite a bit actually last summer and people really, really liked it. So I'm going to start doing that. I don't know what time yet. I'll be able to come on the first day of every month because it's really going to depend on the day. If it's a Monday and I'm seeing patients and it might have to be the evening or if it's a weekend, I would love to do it like first thing in the morning. So stay tuned for that, you guys. When I have a proper time, what I'm going to do is post on YouTube and say what time that's going to be my other social media channels. So Facebook, Instagram, which brings me to my next point. I have been more active on social media, but I'm trying to stick to either Facebook or Instagram. So if you're not on my Facebook yet or and Instagram, you really should be a part of that because I post different things with different social media platforms. Admittedly, Instagram is the easiest for me because I can post stories. Like quick to do and it lets people know what's happening. It gives you guys updates. I love following people on Instagram because it's very quick, easy updates. I'm not on Facebook as much as maybe I should considering I have my business, but I kind of plan posts out for Facebook in case those of you prefer Facebook more than Instagram. So maybe comment below, what do you guys prefer? Like, what do people watch these days? I'm not on TikTok yet, but Facebook, Instagram, what do you guys prefer? Let me know. Or YouTube. I'm still uploading my YouTube videos twice a week because I find that everybody loves those, lots of views on that, which is fantastic. If you haven't yet, please like this video and definitely subscribe because there's new videos twice a week and I will not stop doing that because that does still seem to be the most popular. What I've also been doing is getting more active on writing my blogs. So I've been taking courses, doing some research and blog articles really helped to kickstart somebody's business or helps to bring awareness to somebody's business. And I really want the world to know that I offer dental hygiene and dental assisting tutoring. So board exam prep packages, I still get so many emails from dental hygiene or dental assisting students and they say like, Andrea, I didn't know your course existed. How did I not know this? You know, my school doesn't know you exist. And here I'm thinking, I've been doing this for like 19 years. How do people still not know dental tutoring exists and not to toot my own horn, but I can help you guys pass the board exam. So I want to raise awareness. I want to spread the word that I'm the tutoring program that you want to pass the board exam. I wish I had a tutoring program when I was in school, but I would have been amazing. I still maintain a 99.7% success rate when students sign up for my VIP board exam prep Academy package. You will pass the board exam. So anyway, back to the blogging. I've been writing more blogs and looking into like search words, search engine optimization, whatever the term is. I'm probably saying that backwards. I'm still looking into it, but blog posts actually help to raise awareness to your website. So I'm writing more blog posts. I can leave the link for you guys in the description down below. Any website you go to of mine, either the Whitening Pro Academy website, the Toothlady website for my mobile dental patients, or my dental L tutoring. You will see a link to the blog post at the bottom, or sorry, like my blog at the bottom. Click that and then you can read all of the blog articles. I'm trying to do at least one or two a week and I've been getting really good with that. So I haven't been feeling very good this week. Just super tired, just kind of not myself, not feeling good. So every time I have all of these plans to upload new videos, blog posts, all of this, I get tired or sick or like, you know, I just don't feel good. So one of those things, something I'm actually currently working with the doctor about, I'll speak more about that later because I still don't really know what's happening, but there have been some doctors visits. My health has been kind of off. So trying to get that back on track, nothing serious, of course, but just trying to get things back on track, trying to be present for my students and everybody as much as possible. When it makes it a little hard when you're so tired all the time, does anybody else have this problem? Or, you know, I think my hormones are out of balance and I don't know, you guys probably don't wanna hear about that stuff, but behind the scenes, this is my life, this is what's happening. So yeah, fun stuff, right? But also there's been some updates with my board exam prep academy packages. So there will be a video being uploaded. If you haven't seen it yet, it could be by the time this video comes out, but where I explain the differences between the VIP and the express board exam prep academy packages. So definitely check that out. In a nutshell, the VIP package has everything you need to know to study for the board exam. It's the most popular. You get a full year's access if you need that amount of time. The express package is meant to, if you're taking the board exam like next week, next month, you just wanna take a few mock exams, you wanna make sure you're on the right track, then you want the express package. But the VIP is for those who are like, okay, I'm going to start studying for the board exam. I don't know what to do. I need your help. You need the VIP package. I go through everything with you from we go over things in our teaching videos, quizzes, mock exams, case studies, it has everything. But that's all in that video. So I won't bore you with that. So I've been fine tuning those packages to make it a little bit easier for students because students do ask me, well, which one should I do? The express or the VIP package? The express is a lot cheaper, but the VIP has so much more. And yes, it's more expensive, but you get more bang for your buck. So I go through that a little bit. I'm still doing the teeth whitening training that has been very, very busy, especially around the holidays. I find everybody's thinking like new year, new you, it's time to start your own business. So the whitening pro academy is still going strong with the teeth whitening training and tooth gem training as well. So I do train to place tooth gems that is very popular in certain areas for sure. That's something new as of last year, but yes, I'm still training on that or helping train people on that. And I'm busy with my mobile dental practice as well, which is fantastic. I love seeing patients. I love coming home to work from home tutoring, editing videos, the whole works. So that's just kind of a quick life update, everybody definitely hit subscribe if you haven't yet. So you get all of these videos on the channel and that does help to support me as well. If you're picking a social media account to follow me, you wanna do dental L on Instagram because I'm more active there. Definitely check out blog posts, blog articles. The recent blog articles I've done is what are the recent ones I've done? Actually I should probably check. I'm trying to think of which ones were scheduled because I just wrote an article about night guards and who needs them and why, but I don't know if that one's been posted yet. I just did an article, actually I can show you guys if you want, sorry. I'm just looking at the blog now. I did an article on Emmanuel versus electric toothbrush. I don't know if you guys can see that. Can I assume in, sorry, it's not letting me zoom in, weird. Tooth sensitivity, how to fix cavities without a drill. Some of the more recent ones, oh, this is the most recent one I did was why choosing a permanent lingual retainer. Trump's removable options post braces. So to read the article, you just have to click preview and then it's all right here for you. So I'm getting more into blog articles because that's supposed to be really helpful. And I do feel like too, I have so much information to share. Like it amazes me how every time I see a patient and I'm just telling them about their oral health, they're like, wow, no one's ever showed me how to brush before or no one's ever told me why Emmanuel might be better than an electric. Like, thank you for helping me. So these are also for my patients. So I can say, oh, I just did a blog article on lingual retainers after braces. You know, go on the website, click that article and it's all there for you. So it's kind of for my patients. It's for students who want to know more, just any way to get in touch with me and to spread the word about my tutoring business, teeth whitening training, my mobile dental business here in Winnipeg. A little bit of everything. So thank you guys for always watching my videos. Thank you for all of your emails. Thank you for everything. I love your support and I am here to help you. So the first day of every month, I will be coming on from now on to do a YouTube live. I just think about that. Is it actually called the YouTube live? I don't know, but I'll be coming live on YouTube to just answer any questions you guys have. February 1st is coming up actually, isn't it? Depending on when you're watching this video, of course. February 1st is, I'm just checking my phone, is a Thursday. So I will likely be coming on in the morning because that's actually my stepdaughter's birthday. So we'll be doing something fun that night. So yeah, you guys, I look forward to seeing you guys February 1st, I hope you can make it. I will be posting in the YouTube channel and on Instagram and Facebook the exact time that I'll be coming on. I'm thinking 10 a.m. central time, but I'll keep you guys posted and let you know, okay? Thank you guys for watching. This has been a little over 10 minutes, so I hope this wasn't boring for you. Thank you for watching. Click like, click subscribe, and I'll see you in the next one.