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We want to talk about networking and our experience at the kajabi live event
What an amazing experience if any of you kajabi live heroes are listening in today don't hesitate to join us
Hi may feel free to drop the link the invitation link in the comments
So that if somebody wants to jump in they're welcome to but there's so many there's so many new things about networking these days
That are very important to be aware of one
It's important to remember that it's so effective like it's a great opportunity when you can go in person and meet people
It's such an effective way to connect with people
About what it is you're up to in the world what they're up to and ultimately strike up a business conversation and potential business deals
So I'm so glad that's not dead and to there's different types of communities
There's different types of networking experiences. You can have very very different experiences
Kajabi was by far one of the best events. I've ever been involved with you know
People were going up to each other and hugging complete strangers
You know, it's like it's almost like kovat didn't exist while we were there
It's like that section of life just wasn't doesn't exist anymore
It was so cool because you got a bunch of course creators
you got a bunch of people who are putting down some tremendous value in the world that we're all coming together and
So going to the right networking event matters, too
I highly recommend getting to events like VidCon for example. That's another one the video conference of youtubers
That's going to be a similar type of vibe and experience
Social media examiner is one of those that I would love to be involved with
I heard somebody saying that it didn't come anywhere close to as powerful as this Kajabi event
And that's saying a lot because they do have a great van great brand
So if you know of a conference a networking event that you find to be
Exhilarating or that you find to be uplifting
And with people who are there to help each other than by all means dropping in the comments
We would love to know we want to make sure that we're involved in as many great events as possible each year because
That's in large part where the magic happens. So with that said again Kajabi. This is a program
I may you're also welcome to as you free up to to showcase what Kajabi is
How the solution works we use Kajabi at first-class business to build out our onboarding portal for our clients
A lot of people would see it as an LMS a learning management software system and that is definitely part of what it does
But in reality, it's also a platform to help build community. It's also platform to build landing pages
It's a platform where you can piece your offers together and they've got templates and they've got great guides
And they've got good people who work with the process to help my team has mostly done
Done the the use of Kajabi by ourselves
I called us at the event. I said, we're kind of a Kajabi hermit
We haven't really engaged with the Kajabi community too much and gotten to know people at the event
So this is cool because we didn't know anybody there and so we could have been treated a little bit like an outcast
But we weren't we were embraced fully and people were really excited to help us
Make sure that we maximize the event
Maximize the tools learned what we needed to and and the the environment was extremely reciprocal
So with that said again back to some of the some of the things we've learned about networking over the last few weeks
I went to a couple of in-person events in San Antonio as well
and in the in-person events one of the common occurrences that occurred was the traditional exchange of business cards
That almost didn't happen at this event. Everybody had their their QR codes. I don't even mean you're on coach read
I'm gonna use you as an example because you're awesome, man
And I became really good friends of coach read at this event. A lot of people have the
QR codes
Feel free to scan that if you're looking at this, you'll see where coaches read coach coaches reads
Coach reads page takes you to
And then of course the traditional business information is on that event and then there's these cool pages
I can't remember the platform names. I may might also have that on hand
but
They're like I don't think it was hello sign
Um, but these platforms allow you to put together a quick QR code and that
Those business those virtual business cards that I would say people tried to force on your throat and get to work for years
Um, they've come a long way and they are actually kind of cool
But that leads me back to one of my greatest points of networking and this has always been the case
But I would say it's never been more true than in today's world
It's so important that we show up interested
Not as an interesting individual
um, you know people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care and so
My team, uh, I sent them some screenshots of these different QR code layouts that people had shown me
Um, and again, I'm not saying the assets not a great asset. We did create our own
but going to kimmy's page for instance and seeing what she was putting out in the world and
And carolin as well seeing what her page is all about. I was like, well, these are cool. I sent screenshots to my team
my team ended up reading those screenshots for me
And I started to provide that same type of experience to others and what was interesting is is I I provided
My QR codes to people, um, you know and got people interested
And what it is we were doing at first class business or vision pros or at able health
The conversations fell a little bit flat versus, um, you know, and I say a little bit flat
Um, sometimes they fell completely flat other times, uh, they just they wanted to ask more and more questions about me
But what I like to do is ask questions about other people and get to know what they're putting out into the world
So it kind of like pigeonholed us down a rabbit down on one of my rabbit holes
And it made it a little bit harder to connect to them about what they were all about what they were doing
So I found that one of the best things you can do is keep the QR codes at bay
Don't use them. Um, and on your end take interest and opt in to somebody else's QR code and take a look at just like
You're supposed to take somebody's business card and explore it, you know and and really see like okay
You're an author your speaker coach for foreign strata. Well, tell me about the book you wrote. Um, you know, I want to know about that
um, and as you
As you engage with people about what they do and take interest in who they are and how they're putting things out into the world
You might have somebody that you connect them to
Um, you know, you might have an opportunity to connect them to somebody else that you met at the conference
Um, so being interested is really what it's all about. It's about figuring out
Well, what type of value can I bring to the lives of those that I'm with and what that also leads to is not only reciprocation
But the opportunity to extend
The relationship while at the event right go around and do things with people at the event hang out with them
Uh organize a luncheon for instance one of the things that we did at this event
Was we organized a paddle boarding trip small power paddle boarding trip wherever it was available
It was kind of hard to squeeze in there was a lot going on at the conference
But I knew that one of the things that I wanted to do at the event was make some time for balance
Right, so I wanted to make sure that this experience took place during a time that wasn't conflicting with anything else
The only time slot available was right after the event
I knew some people would be like, you know, oh well Jackson, I would love to go on this paddle boarding trip
But we're tired. Well, that's exactly why we went right so me
Jane
Alyssa and Vic Wheeler all went to this paddle boarding experience and
All of us felt so rejuvenated. I asked them, you know, while we were out there like, what's your favorite take away from the event?
What's the favorite thing that you've done and uh, you know, I felt so honored that all of them were like this
This is it. This is the most amazing thing that that we've done this week
Uh, and I was like, yeah, like awesome. Cool. We did the right thing, right?
But seriously, we come back from that event um for that activity
And now we're like centered in balance with nature
We've had an opportunity to unplug we've had an opportunity to appreciate the environment with which we were in in Austin
Get out of the skyscraper so to speak and and it was able to just kind of add
I add the cherry on top right of the the ice cream sundae that we got to have for the week at this kajabi event
so, um, you know organizing a little event
Um, it doesn't have to cost a lot. You don't have to incentivize people, you know to to go do that
Uh, it does take a little bit of effort right to get people the information network now
The other cool thing is there was dozens and dozens of other people who couldn't go
But kind of get to vicariously experience that through the friends that did go, um, you know
And whether they end up walking away saying like man, I wish I would have gone to that
I should definitely connect and catch up with them later. Um, you know, or they're thinking man next year when this happens
I gotta make sure I make time for that. Um, that that's one of those
Realities is the event isn't just about what happens in the here and now
It's about planting seeds for the future of your relationships, right? So I got to meet
the CEO of kajabi, um, ahad
and become
powerfully quick
acquaintance friends with him, um, right whether he considers me a friend or acquaintance
I don't know if I put them on uh on the spot on a stage I guarantee you, uh, he would say friends, um, and
There's there's a lot of truth to that because we know that being involved in this environment, right doing what we're doing
There's so much
Synergistic overlap and harmony in what we're doing that it makes it easy to know that okay
I got a friend here anytime I need it
But what will facilitate an even stronger friendship what will help build on that is as I show up in the kajabi community
Helping others right being a servant to those who I've met at this event as I continue to talk about the benefits of kajabi as well
Um, we have an affiliate link that will eventually put out
Um, you know, we'll be paid for people who end up joining kajabi. Um, but that's also something that's like the back burner, right?
You go to these events you get affiliate opportunities
And if you're seeking it for the affiliation right for the commission, then you're not going to do very well
but if you're utilizing that as a mechanism to
Perhaps drive a little bit of additional revenue
But because you know the value of the tool and you're helping people guide
I got helping guide people through that process of of uh leveling up what it is that they do then
Uh, it becomes a very powerful asset. Um an experience. So that's one side of it
Then as we go to the next kajabi event, um, you know, which should be next year once again
My relationship with a hud becomes that much stronger because now, you know, we're showing up in multiple places if they do
Masterminds at corporate office, which I've heard that they're going to start doing soon
Then thank you. Uh, hi me. This is awesome. So hi me is now pulling up some of the photos from the event
Feel free to interrupt me anytime hi man and jump on the mic
Um, but this is uh, this is a session with priya for instance that session right before there he is
There's a hud marusha. There's some great people in that photo. There's brennan brashard speaking at the events
Um, and I didn't get to know brennan brashard personally
I look forward to it. Um, he reminds me a lot of me
Um, he's like always getting out there and and i'm excited to be following along his path
And I know it's like lebron james st. Michael jordan, uh, you know, it reminds him of him. Well, that's okay like own it, bro
Um, you know own the path that you're on
Brennan brashard, you know started with with a whole lot of uphill battles
And you know one of the big things for him is he just got on the got on the microphone
And he just turned his little lights on you know and started presenting to the world and he makes some funny comments about that
But he was working, uh, you know initially very broke
Um, you know what he was doing and vulnerably putting himself out there and driving success in his book out there
And it you know it took a lot of a lot of systems falling into place and a lot of effort
Um, you know a lot of learning how to influence people to get to where
His businesses got to a scalable position. Um, you know, we started doing
Million-dollar launches over and over and over and he figured out you know how to do that
It wasn't something that happened overnight, but he did share a story
um about
his sweet significant other coming home
Uh laying in bed and and you know his his bed was an extension of his office and there she was laying underneath
Uh, you know the bills of his bills that were overdue
Um, and you know the powerful influence and impact that that had on his desire to provide
Um for those that he
Works. Oh, that was a really cool experience. Um, I will need to look up her name
but the the lady that I was um
Uh hugging right there and that was so funny. We had a meeting scheduled for the week of kajabi that we had both accidentally booked
There she is. Um, so let me see if I can look that up real quick because uh, we had met
Very briefly through a podcasting event that took place
The week before kajabi. All right, so I knew that I had actually overlapped and booked some appointments for
Uh, man, where is that meeting? I wish I I had it on hand
um
But we found ourselves sitting two tables apart
I sat with her co-founder and I'm like wait a second. I like I'll have a meeting with you guys tomorrow that I'm supposed to call on cancel
Um, so because I'm not gonna be able to do it here. Anyway, we ended up meeting at the event
We met like a thousand people at this event and next thing you know
Like we're in the same room the day before our meeting get in to meet each other in person
Um, and I look forward to hosting her on vision pros live as well
They have a really cool tool for what they're up to helping podcasters. Uh distribute their podcast and
um, ultimately streamline the process of improving
how the
the post
Show episodes um move forward and get distributed. So there's jared
Jared is the uh vp of experience for kajabi and he had his own podcast. There's a moon. Yeah, he'll be coming out in the show as well
um, but taking the time to connect with people and promote who they are right getting them more exposure for what they're doing
That's ultimately what roberto and a lot of these these other individuals who are at the event
Are looking for is they want to make a bigger impact on the world?
So I've set up a podcast stage while they're um, you know in my room
You know, I set it up in my room
Fortunately, I had a beautiful view of the city and the the river so it made it easy to attract people to want to come back
To the room and and take this look at that picture. It's just beautiful
Um, and so we did the episode right there. We thought we shot some great photo photography for the individuals
Thank you to google phones. Um, because I'm not much of a photographer
Um lucia we did her interview in spanish for her company based in colombia
Uh, that does some awesome things with tourism and history and it got great youtube
They got two youtube channels with like 25 000 subscribers on the youtube channels
That's just one. Um, and that is one of the other cool things about these events. Is there people?
Uh at these events who are now very very big social media
Uh influencers and you don't know who has an audience of what size on news putting what out into the world
You might be talking to somebody that has a half a million subscribers on youtube or a half a million followers on facebook
Uh, that became very true when I found myself
connecting with ala of ala's yummy food
Um, and she's got not only an incredible following, but she's got these amazing recipes
Um and amazing videos of the cakes and the desserts that she teaches people how to make and we became super good friends
Um just by having attended this event and at the end of the day
That's also what these
Conferences are all about. Um, you know, it's an it's a great opportunity to rejuvenate
Your your love and your belief in your career as well
So I mentioned a little bit about qr codes and opt-ins
Uh highway feel free to use this as a guinea pig on that as well. We only got enough done with that to be dangerous
Um, you know, we've got we've got these qr codes all established and as we showcase these on the screen
And if you need me to send you the link, I may don't hesitate to ask
Um, you know, we're like trying to get qr codes for able health for vision pros for open eyes to the work for Latinos
um for uh the power launch for our webinar for the ebook
Um, like there's so many different things that we and I was like, you know what?
Maybe a good qr code an easy one would be
A message for facebook, right?
Just get people to where it opens automatically the ability to send me a message on facebook
Because that's where they can most authentically connect with me where I know i'm going to get that notification
I'm going to see it. Um, and i'm going to be able to respond to them and they can send me a friend request
Because my team and our systems are constantly sending friend requests out there
So we have to be careful about the threshold of friend requests that I send
Um, due to the amount of people that we're constantly connecting to I was like if I can get people
To send me the first message on facebook, then that'll make it very easy for me to stay in touch with them
Um, I make sure that we foster and build a long-term relationship. So um, let's see here. Hi, may
Uh qr codes opt-in pages. Let me know if I need to to pull that up. You can come on on the mic and let me know
Um, I've got those links
As well. Hey, buddy. Hey
Hey, I'm not gonna I sent you
Yeah, no, no, go ahead and share yourself. Um, I I shared some
You shared some links what?
Um, I shared some links on screen where you can create those uh cure links, uh, but
Go ahead and oh cool. Let's pull it up. Let me see here. I had to stream. I got it. All right, so
qr champ, okay, you got the google thing there. Do you know what our team used for our qr codes?
I I don't know but it's it's one of these pages
Okay, no, that's fair. We'll find out guys. We'll drop it in the comments afterwards
Um, you know, I like I said, I took the screenshots and I sent them over. Let me pull it up on my phone
Um, so one of the one of the tools they use to create our virtual presence and again, it's not bad to have it
I just recommend don't rely on it, you know, like don't force it down people's throats
And it's more better. It's a better idea to get their information too because then you're in control of the follow-up
Right, if you don't get their information, you're just giving yours out giving yours out giving yours out giving yours out
And people don't have to discipline it follow up typically or they get distracted, right?
Four day event meeting a thousand creators who are amazing, you know, or maybe just a dozen
But it's like what's the likelihood of them remembering the impact you had in your 15 second or your five minute meeting
It's kind of low
So it's nice to be able to connect to people on your own terms and nurture them along as as one should so
One of the one of the resources
That we created okay marusha for instance. Oh man, she's amazing at facebook communities
I highly recommend connecting with her. She uses blink dot me. That's blin
Q dot me and and her system. I thought was a little bit nicer than the ones that I adopted into and created
so we utilized a program called
Hi, hello dot me h i h e double l o dot me and that allowed me to like get a picture on there
And who I am and the different links I might want to send to people
So that was uh, that was a nifty little tool and it says this is your card, right?
and we could create multiple tools for the multiple entities that I might want people to
To go check out whether that was again able health or vision pros
meanwhile
We had this idea like the team's kind of communicating with me in between sessions and I'm like guys
Let's create like a list of all the qr codes and one page so that I can quickly go to them and zoom in
And so they did they created this platform where I could go through all the different qr codes of the different assets that we had
um, and
Again, that was just us experimenting and seeing all right
but what type of value
Should we be putting in front of people? Um, and at the end of the day
The big secret behind that is the value of your love
All right the value of how much you care
All right the value of diving into their materials and seeing like all right. What are they all about?
So here I was
Opting into their funnels having my team opt-in sending certain ones back to my team and saying hey guys
Can you opt into this a great example? That is john?
John created a program called courses dot AI
um, and that courses dot. I he's also one of the original
template builders for kajabi
Um as a third party entity
But courses dot AI was a way to combine the
prevalence and powers of systems like chat gpt
With the ability to create a course
quickly
Um, so that you're not getting sucked into the weeds of the operation and the structure
As much as you're able to focus on the value that you can provide to others while not getting bogged down by how am I going to structure this?
Um, so I I've sent that to my team a couple times and I've been like
All right. Um, hi may amon well. Can you guys opt into this and try this out and test it?
And let's see what types of things in fact hi may I'd love to see us test that with open eyes the
Right with opportunities for work for latinos. That would be a great
tool to utilize that for because if we can create
mini courses for people to learn how to find work
And and learn how to pass the course
Um, and and learn how to pass their interviews
Um and do so in a way that is streamlined then we're more effectively utilizing our resources to help people at scale
Um, and that's something that I'm not going to have the time
Um and bandwidth to create attention for uh very soon. Excuse me. I have to sneeze
Oh fake out. Okay. It's gone. Um, so yeah, welcome to recording live
All right, so um
Again another point everyone's a social social media guru
That also means that follow-up is far more diverse these days
So if you're going and connecting especially at a conference, that's a little bit more techy or that uses technology
you know expect people to
Not do business the traditional way
Um, it's pretty obvious. Some people are like anti-email these days. That is weird
That is like super hard for this old guy to comprehend. Um, you know, it's like
Everybody's supposed to use email. Um, you know, and you do have to have it
But in terms of like a follow-up
Reality like a lot of people want to talk on instagram like I'll be honest
I don't I didn't really know how to navigate instagram messages very well because I'm not an instagramer
You know, I've now it looks like I am because I got more posts
But I had like I don't know 350 friends of mine had followed me on instagram
And I had followed like two people and I only had three photos on my instagram for like six years
Um, and I was like, why are people following me on a platform that I don't have anything on this is weird
Um, but again, like I said, I've learned to adopt
different social media channels because there's people who you know, like that's that's where they're comfortable being contacted
That's it. Some people want a message on linkedin. Some people want a message on instagram. Some people
Uh, you know want to stay in the know on tiktok that people want to email some people are comfortable with the phone call
Some people want a text message. There's so many different methods of communication these days
Um, and you know, if you if you want to have an influence, um, you know, it's scale
Right if you're trying to reach more people then it's important to be reachable on the platforms where they hang out the most
um, and again, it used to be more streamlined between
phone and email
Um, but it's very important to be available for your audience. So let's see. So hi mays got a trailer ready for us
um, what I did at the event one of the things that really helped us stand apart and
Meet more people with purpose
as I talked about vision pros live and how we want to have them hosted on vision pros and we wanted to create some
teaser reels and do those interviews so without further ado
We're going to play the trailer of some of the teaser interviews that I did while at the event
And if you want me to come to your event and do teasers like this by all means, I'd be happy to
Let's see it. Let's do this. Hi may
Another big thing I love about it is you're not driving people towards it becomes $7 million winners in 30 minutes
Sure
All right, you've got let me help you make a thousand dollars per month
One question I have about it is in just 30 minutes a day over what time frame? That's a fair question
It's variable, right? Because the bigger question I would get is like how how much time do I have to commit to this?
I want to work or already have a service-based business. So they're thinking I don't have time to start something
So that was the pain point of like, well, I'm gonna teach you what to do in so by the way
We're testing some things right now. That's that's Graham Cochran. Um, I think he's got a few million followers
We brought him in with a couple of his clients to interview him and then about how they felt
And she does a lot she's locked the in recipes
There's a lot of cakes, cakes, cheesecake, sponge cakes, loose cakes, whatever you want
She's one of my new besties. I have very very much meaning
So we're gonna have her on the show down the road and so make sure to do because we're gonna learn about the recipe
She has you know how many followers on the instagram like a billion
Yeah, just put two billion. It's fine, you know
I'm very casual. She's super cool and she has more followers than I can count
And uh, anyway, we're gonna have we're gonna have some fun at the kajabi event and we will see her on the episode later
I'm here
Tell me about what you do because from what I understand I read this book called rocket fuel and it talks about the visionary
All right
And I'm gonna pause it just in case because on my side the quality wasn't coming through very well
Um, and so if it was coming through well, you got a sneak peek an idea of how it goes if uh, it didn't come through very well
Well, uh, that's learning the art of broadcasting live
um, and probably has a little bit to do with the the internet in columbia right now as well as the uh
Uh, perhaps that's not the highest quality version of those clips, but those clips allowed us to um
Get some teaser reels that are super high quality
We'll be able to promote those and all of our different social media channels in a way that's effective for those individuals to get a little bit more
Uh connected to our brands before we host them
Um, and then each one of those people will be able to host on vision pros live and create further exposure and create
Um, ultimately better relationships with each one of them. So um, that is that is one of the uh
the fun hacks of people who do have a
Audience that they like to go live with or they have a podcast that they're putting out there
utilize those conferences as an opportunity to
Do those uh pre interview segments
So i'm not i'm not talking about going to the event doing a 45 minute version
talking about going to the event and doing a one minute version to 15 minute version with graham cochran
It was more of a 15 minute setup because we had a couple of his clients and we wanted to find out
You know their stories what has graham done for you?
um, and then the
Environment was so comfortable uh in my room with that beautiful view that we kind of just sat around and talked with each other a little bit
and him and I have a very very large overlap in terms of balance
And and showing up as fathers in the world too. So it was it was just such an awesome opportunity to have them come up at
atm and do that and then uh
Then with other people like uh, a la we'll have a bigger interview later
But we just took the time right there in the and where it was all the people around us to quickly talk about what she did
Value and it creates these teaser reels. It creates these aha moments or people like oh man
I can't wait to see that episode later. So a lot of ways to
Leverage your presence. Um, you know when you're never getting with people now
One of the things that i've seen that people have really advanced on to a certain degree is
They're taking pictures with people and they're posting those on social media and tagging each other when I was doing events in
2012 almost nobody was doing that. So it was a great way to to stand out
Well, you'll still stand out because there's people who will do that to an extent
But there's so many more levels you can take. So if you want to have
Super success in an event and you really want to stand out, um, you know for the sake of gathering the right relationships
One of the best things you can do as well is as speakers are on stage
Make sure to take pictures and make especially if you want to connect with the speakers
Take pictures that make them look great
and
Create fortune cookie posts. I call them right so take just one or two lines that they say
That's of powerful impact to you
And share that line
Um, you know with that screenshot or with that person's picture
Share that on twitter or share that on linkedin
You can share it where their greatest audience is if you want their existing audience to see it
Or if you have a platform where you have a large following and they're not quite as known
Now you're expanding their reach for them and that's that's one of the best ways to honor
Those that you love that are in the game of distribution
Meaning they're in the game of wanting to be seen and heard now
There's two sides to this coin
There's somebody who spoke that I actually really like her a lot
She did an excellent job and in was ellen and she spoke about strategic partnerships one of the best
Plans I've ever seen laid out for strategic partnerships and closing like sponsorship style deals and keeping yourself protected in that scenario
And she talked about just networking with one to two people
And ultimately what she was also getting at was making sure that your connections are genuine
You're not just shifting through people, you know and just touching as many people as possible just to get a touch point in
Like that's awkward. That's weird to get what she was saying and at the same time
I would say there's a harmony that exists between the two. Okay
So I don't want to just walk up to the first two people I see in the event and say they're going to be my best friends
There's still some purpose that has to be be driven there
So if you're going to an event you do want to filter through enough people to gather what I call the low hanging fruit
opportunities the people who
Resonate with you the best and sometimes that means having quick conversations with a bunch of different people
So that you can then evaluate and go back and say, all right, which one of these people can I help the most?
Which one of these people would be the best type of strategic partner, right? And if you don't take the time to
Explore the masses so to speak and go through and see wow who really resonates with me then you may not end up
Gravitating towards the people who are most effective for the experience. So there is there's two sides to that coin
One side again hustling too much and pushing people away the other side
Uh boxing yourself in before knowing your environment and knowing who's in it
There's a happy medium to be had in that so if you're networking if you're going to a networking event
Or you just went to one you've got an idea in the comment
You've got an idea drop in the comments. Um, let us know. What are some of the tricks of the trade for you?
Um, you know, what are some of the important elements that we can remember to take advantage of?
Um, I may if you go to my instagram as well
You might be able to pull up
the
The 3d video thing that we did
You'll notice that I did that with marusha and heather hardgrove
And one reason why is I don't like selfies. I don't I don't like to take pictures of myself
I like to be with other people so I told them I was like, hey, I booked a session come on out with me
And let's do this together and so uh, we suck out during the session. We went and did our our 3d photo
We did the oh it was so much fun. It was way more fun to do that
Uh photo session with friends even on their brand new friends and it gave us some memory too to think back on
I'm like, we did that together. That was fun. So, um, you know create experiences
That allow you to have other people involved. This is fun. All right, I
These are these sessions these photo sessions are so silly. Um, and uh, yeah the guy who
Who is doing this we're having fun talking about the business model behind it and how much money they make by doing these
And then you got the little kajabi brain in the quarter
So kajabi paid them a certain amount of money to have this really cool spinning photo thing that goes around
um, but like how awkward would this have been for me to like
Dance by myself, you know in this session like no way
I did end up taking my own video will post later
But the only reason I was able to and felt comfortable doing it is because I had my two friends there cheering me on saying like
Yeah, like let's do this, you know come up with this idea. So, um,
It made it a whole lot more fun to get out of your comfort zone and and to do things that you know
promotional aspects that might otherwise be like, uh, I don't know if I want to do that by myself. Um
All right, so some other aspects, you know, again, if you if you have some ideas for networking
We would love to hear it in the comments. Tell us what what makes you
successful in your networking capabilities
I will again go back to the podcast interviews
You don't even have to have a podcast to do an interview by the way
You know, if you have a follower of one if you have one person who's listening and it can benefit from
Distributing that person's voice. I hope that person values that one person as much as I do
Um and as much as they should because those are real
life individuals people who matter
Um, and it doesn't matter if you reach 100 people or you reach one person
That is one of the things that Brendan delivers with more grace than I do
But it drives me a little bit crazy when people like don't value those who are listening in, you know, it's like
Why would you not? You know, even if it is one person
We've got a little eyeball on the top left corner of this podcast for instance
And it says that we have one live viewer right now
And if you're benefiting from the value that I'm putting down
That's why it's worth it. That's what it's about for me
I want to help you win and if we happen to have a few listeners who are like wow
Um, I love what Jackson's doing and putting down and I want to have
My brand distributed and I want to become a better networking and I want to have the assets built up around me and they want to buy from us
That's fantastic too, right? That's awesome as well. That's that's additional value that exists
But I do know that these these types of practices they take time to develop
It takes time to snowball these opportunities. It takes time for people to realize wow
He's not going to give up on this podcast thing
He's got keep going and keep providing value and next thing you know, we're going to have more and more people
Hosted on this show and we'll have more and more people
Lying up to tune in live with us and to be on this broadcast
We're going to have more and more people who recognize that oh, wow, that's actually a thing
Um, you know, and maybe you didn't hear that during that segment because you tuned in late to the show
It doesn't really you know, I don't really try to control
The entire environment as much as we do strive to facilitate
Uh an opportunity for everybody to learn and pick up value. Um, so
QR codes and opt-ins
Let's oh see let's here follow up this far more diverse these days
We did talk about that and how again, I got people who only want to connect on instagram
And now I'm sitting there figuring out like oh man, like how do I find that that message button again?
Where I can actually like message people on here and how do I keep track of people on multiple channels?
And there's different tools to be able to do that
You know, we use go high level for one for our our primary
client retention management or customer retention management system
We also use a great program called flowchat
And so Jaime and I were talking we've got a list of people that we fell in love with that
We want to we want to promote coach read Tiffany Ramona
Amunya Marusha Heather of all Graham and the list goes on and on there's so many people
That that we want to follow up with and touch base with it's like, all right
Um in order to manage these relationships properly and effectively in order to make sure that we're moving forward
Sincerely and putting the right value down in front of each one of them as we move forward
How are we going to go about making sure that everybody gets booked for their pre-show interview?
How are we going to make sure that they get booked with me again?
If we didn't get a teaser reel produced because I think that's an awesome opportunity. How are we going to help them see?
um, you know what
What it is that first-class business can do in order to help them maximize their message and get out there
Um, how are we going to opt in and learn about what what resources they have available?
And don't get me wrong. We have most of those paths figured out, you know in a process for each one
Jaime and and the podcast presentation is a massive part of helping them realize like just how much value we can throw down on the front end
Um, but we're always going to be looking at it and saying how do we make this even more effective?
uh, more efficiently because at the end of the day each of the vision pros that we have on this show
We're not just trying to
Help them get involved with our audience. We're trying to help them
Maximize the efficiency of which they can fulfill their own visions because while I love them as friends
While I want to connect with them on a one-on-one level and have that opportunity year after year
I don't want to selfishly hoard these visionaries
I want them to be able to get out there to where they're like Allah who's got 500,000 followers on facebook
And she needs to be empowered to be reaching them more often
More effectively because they all rely on her for baking these amazing cakes that make people happy
I mean all like cakes are a great thing. We need more cakes in this world in my opinion
um, you know on the nutritional facts for instance, you know, there's a lot of important information on there the amount of uh
Uh, I see that shows you how good I am with nutritional facts, but calories the amount of fats the amount of trans fats all that
But where the heck is the happiness bar?
You know like can I get an amen anybody want a happiness bar added to what you're eating? I do
um, because if I'm eating a muffin or I'm eating a cake and it's making me happy like there's a nutritional value to that
That's it's being unfairly misrepresented
When you're looking at the calories and the vitamins and all that like uh, uh, man
There there's some serious value that comes from being able to eat food that you love and are like wow
This is some good stuff. So I'll is fulfilling the happiness bar that is not on a nutritional facts
And she's doing so at a level that's scaled to half a million people already
um, so like I said the the vision pros, you know
Our our desire is to meet the visionary get them hosted and then release them
You know into the wild so to speak like get them out as far as we can so they can keep helping people because we've got
So many people on this earth who need so much help and you know the visionary entrepreneurs that we're hosting on this show
They're the type of people who are putting down tremendous value to help people in life. Um, and uh, you know, whether that's again about cakes
Or it's about business growth. It doesn't matter. Um, as long as it's providing sincere value
Uh to those who will live on this earth with us. So hi me
Um, I'm gonna bring you on any questions you have about networking or anything that you notice from this experience
That you feel like I should cover for the audience
Um, it's also like we're honoring the people that we are meeting so those meaningful connections are
Obviously an honor for people that are coming into our lives people that we didn't know from before so these in person
um
What do you call it networks or networking that that is done?
It's definitely a great opportunity to meet a person and in reality just have
An authentic relationship built. So these are great opportunities always take a chance and go to these events
I guess it's just given that invitation to to people to network and create those meaningful
Um, those meaningful relationships with people and so with that
I also wanted to provide a special invitation to the mastermind that we are doing for the academies of first class businesses and
We will be holding these every tuesday at 3 p.m. So we'll send you more information down in the comments below and just feel free to ask anything
and connect with us as well
I love that and this is huge for hi me because in colombia
Uh, they don't they don't have as many opportunities to get involved in in person networking events, right?
And that's one of the things I love about our company. We spend a lot of time on zoom creating relationships
Um, and I'll be there for each other
But we want to make sure that we're extending our ability to network
online so this uh, it's labeled a little bit wrong. It's called a networking mastermind
Um, and so the networking mastermind with the academy of first class businesses is tied specifically to our facebook group
Of first class businesses and so we're going to start hosting more and more people on tuesdays at this event
Or we can network with each other meet other visionary entrepreneurs and their teams
Uh discuss some of the victories and challenges that have taken place and also learn
How to gain more exposure how to become a high demand brand?
um, and ultimately
Facilitate relationships with people who could be fantastic strategic partners for you out there
So we just launched our first one. Um, our first transition to this new style of event
Uh on tuesday because of the inspiration of the events that we've been attending in person
That's like man, we need to be facilitating this online like immediately
We need to get going so that's exactly what we did and we spent some great time with charlie goldsmith and with bick wheeler
Building out a little bit more in terms of their lead magnets and who they're targeting and making sure the lead magnets
Align with the audiences they're facing and introducing them to each other as we get more and more people
uh involved in the process and we get better at our own ability to
Invite and inspire people to come out to uh the the networking mastermind
The value of that is going to exponentially compound
Based on those who come in with the right mindset and we will be particular about that. We're talking about
Business owners who have three to five years of experience of experience as business owners. That is an important qualification
Um, we need people who understand that it's not easy
Um, and usually if you haven't been in business for longer than three years
Um, you you haven't realized that yet. Um, you haven't realized how much humility comes into the process of growing a business
The other thing that we need is experts who have five to ten years of expertise
Um, so I can't market and I won't market somebody who's still learning
Uh, you're welcome to come in and get connected perhaps to a job opportunity
Um, in order to an opportunity you might be a value in but if you're going to be, um, you know
Networking in a in a first-class business environment. It's very important that you have five to ten years of expertise yourself
Um, because we can we can quickly tell um, who doesn't involve and who doesn't belong
Um in an environment like that and we'll need to remove you from the equation because
We'll only be able to facilitate the right type of growth and value if we have the right type of people involved
Um, so if you're a first-class business professional or your first-class business owner
You own a business that strives for first-class service and by all means start showing up on on tuesdays for our networking
mastermind
um, definitely check out what we're doing with the academy of first-class business some of our free resources and uh,
Let's start building phenomenal relationships to be able to bless those who are out there in the world. So
hi, may thanks for dropping that registration link
um on the different channels and
Um, without further ado my vision pro friends go out there and network
Uh, let us know if again if you've got a
Uh, a networking event coming up that you're going to be going to or one that is your favorite
Let us know in the comments what it is. We'd love to attend it
Like comment share vision pros live with those who you know
Uh, let's get out there and bless more people in this world and thanks so much for tuning in
We'll see you on the other side everybody
See you tomorrow. Bye. Thank you for being here today. I'm really happy that you tuned in to vision pros live
I'm looking forward to
Seeing your reactions as these episodes continue to move forward. We optimize them as the months go by
This is going to get more and more fun. Um, we'll have more and more engagement as well one fight