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Colin, tell me about your vision. Yeah, you know, my vision is really shared by myself and my two

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co-founders, Zach and Josh. So we have a company called Monkey Island Ventures. We've all known

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each other since we were about five years old and Monkey Island is the name of a park we used to

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play at together when we were kids. And we started Monkey Island Ventures back in 2007 and our goal

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has always been to make the world a better place through entrepreneurship. So not only does that

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include, you know, building businesses that are benefiting ourselves, our employees, and our clients

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and customers, but also we love to educate, we love to share our knowledge, and we want to promote

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entrepreneurship as a path to bettering lives across the world. Can you tell me more about that?

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Yeah, you know, I think at the base layer it's the work that the three of us are doing. So

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we have a few different businesses that are kind of in the tech space, definitely around

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digital marketing, software development. We've launched a number of software products over the

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years. And I think we're fulfilling a lot of our vision through those businesses. I think,

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you know, at the heart of kind of the founder aspect of really helping founders succeed,

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the newest venture that I'm kicking out of Monkey Island Ventures is called Rainmaker,

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which is really helping founders leverage LinkedIn to grow their LinkedIn network,

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leads, and sales. And I think a big component of that that is so fulfilling is that the

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educational standpoint of what I get to share, these founders can go and begin implementing

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that immediately upon hearing the different strategies and the things that I'm recommending.

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So for me, seeing founders come back to me and really appreciative of what I'm sharing and them

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applying it to grow their businesses is incredibly gratifying. And I know that we're making a

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difference. And so I think not only having a vision, but taking the steps to see that

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become a reality, even if it's not the full vision, just starting to see the aspects of

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that vision are coming to fruition. Thank you for sharing that comment. To reiterate,

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can you define for me what exactly is your vision? I think we want to help create as

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many successful entrepreneurs as we can during our lifetime. Awesome. Thank you for sharing that.

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Yeah. You kind of went into what it started, but do you have some story behind where did this

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exactly come from of helping entrepreneurs, educating them? Yeah, I think part of it comes

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from our own experience as being entrepreneurs. So as we have built our own software products and

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had issues with marketing and growing those, I think we started doing digital marketing over

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a decade ago. And then Josh, Zach and I aren't software developers. And so we felt the pain of

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getting our own software developed. And I think that led to Cloudburst and doing software development

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for ourselves and for other founders and entrepreneurs. With Rainmaker, I've been

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doing LinkedIn automation for over five years, but Rainmaker is a company, is only six months old.

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And so I think the vision of helping other entrepreneurs through our businesses, really,

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a lot of times came out of our own frustration and trying to figure things out for ourselves,

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which allowed us to start applying that to businesses where we could help other entrepreneurs.

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So I think then twofold is the actual acts, which is one, providing services, which is great. And

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it allows us to build businesses and to generate revenue. But I think the other part of it is very

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much around the education component, because now that we've mastered these different industries and

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areas of expertise, we can really share that and help other entrepreneurs. So I think there's

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that aspect to it as well. Thank you for sharing that. Can you tell me more about that education

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component? What exactly do you do in that scenario? Yeah. So for me, specifically with Rainmaker,

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clients are hiring me for my strategy and for my automations. But about 95% of what I am doing on

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any client's LinkedIn account are really automating the manual actions that they would be taking.

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And through that automation, they're able to achieve more scale. But what that allows me to

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do from an educational standpoint is to say, this is how you should be using LinkedIn. This is how

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I've used it the last five years. This is where I have seen success. And they can literally take

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those strategies, those campaign types, and begin applying it to their LinkedIn accounts manually,

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and just start improving their performance on LinkedIn. They don't even need me or Rainmaker.

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It's only if they want to apply some level of automation and scale that they would want to

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use me. So it's very freeing to be able to share these very specific strategies that,

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if a business does it right, I don't see how they would fail on LinkedIn. And knowing that

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they could do all of this without me if they want it. And so I just love sharing that education.

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And usually you get invited to people to speak about these things. Do you have a program that

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you give people online? Or do you have a course that people can take? What is it exactly?

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Yeah, that's a great question. Right now it's just me speaking and talking. Going on to podcasts,

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I was one earlier today. I met with a founder earlier today and spent almost an hour talking

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with him about how they should be using LinkedIn. And they want to use me. Great. If they don't,

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I'm fine with that too. So I think that there isn't a program other than hiring me for the

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automation. I don't have anything else. But I do want to turn rainmakergrows.com into more of a

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learning resource. So one of the pages already on that site is a campaigns page. And there's like

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12 different campaign types that everyone should be considering for their LinkedIn accounts.

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And only one of them requires a unique way that Rainmaker can get at data and export data out of

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LinkedIn. The other 11 campaign types, anybody else can use. Oh yeah, there it is. So 11 out of

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those 12, anybody can go do manually. Thank you for being here today. I'm really happy that you

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tuned into Vision Pros Live. I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue

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to move forward. This is going to get more and more fun. We'll have more and more engagement as

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well. We'll invite people to participate in the show. And thank you for giving us your time and

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attention. Have an excellent time building out your vision and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.