 Welcome welcome welcome Govcon Giants family friends and foes I know someone's gonna put a thumbs down on this video, but that's okay. We expected it's part of the process Hey James Dean. Thank you for joining in early. Thank you for watching and supporting us for the last three years I am happy to take your questions any and all questions before we get started today because I know some people got a run I want to let you know that tomorrow if you are on my email list tomorrow We are having our 4th of July celebration. That's what Govcon Giants We're having it on zoom so we're inviting everyone that's on my email list to a free zoom happy hour So again, we are going to be surrounding ourselves with other small businesses large businesses medium businesses Other people just like ourselves tomorrow on zoom so look out For the link that zoom link and your email if you are not subscribed on our email list well Too bad. The other thing is if you are in you've text us at the text number in the past We'll go ahead and we'll be sitting out the zoom link via the text message as well So look out for that information. We will be posting it It's not gonna be actually posted anywhere, but we will be sending it I'm sorry via email to all of those people on the list. So that is tomorrow 7 p.m. Eastern time Just for everyone out there and again I will remind folks as we get closer to the date and it's invite we're any and all people are invited You don't have to be a member You don't have to be in any of our courses or training programs to be invited You just have to be on our email list. So that's a special special gift for folks out there Today, I want to talk to you about what I'm working on. By the way, welcome Demetrius We're happy to have you here I'm not actually doing any teaching today. I'm really asking for help from people in the audience. Oh Look at my man. Ferrell is here. All right. I see you Ferrell. All right, Lonnie. Okay. Okay. Okay. I see you All right. By the way, there's 16 people watching I could use really hit that like button that would help me tremendously. So again Today, we're really not teaching. I'm just sharing some things that we're working on that I could use your help and Demetrius in particular You're one of those wonderful wonderful people that I could use to help me out As you may know, GovCon Giants Inc. We became a nonprofit organization this year. And so we are actually Submitting our first response on training for veterans That's right. So if you are a veteran And it also says if you have any type of military affiliation, we could probably help you We are actually pursuing this grant opportunity now What that's gonna do is we believe we are already qualified based on what we've done over the last three or four years But we need people help. We need your help. Why do we need your help? Because When you fill out grants, right? When you ever fill out a grant, the government is asking you all types of things and This happens to be one of them. So one of the things that they're asking us for We have to send out a survey to all of you out here in Order to help us out to look for an email coming from us with this survey It's called 12 month milestone survey Put your name your email your next code if you've been in any of our programs, whether it's the free course 1.0 2.0 or all the above Check the link if you've started registered your business bought a business added employees retained employees Gross revenues for past year if you're newly registered in Sam Or if you've obtained any type of certification one a contract award Total amount of contracts amounts awarded and military affiliation This what this is going to do for me This this is going to help us to be able to put a better grant response and submit it to the government The now why do you want to do that? Why do you care? Well first of all for the last four years? We've been bringing you all of this awesome content, right? And we've been putting out over 500 videos on YouTube plus hundreds of videos in our different courses and programs and We haven't received a nickel for it So we feel like now it's time That someone takes notice of all the great things that we're doing and imagine if we did that without no funding No sponsors. What can we do if we had actual money? So we have taken that step and we're saying to ourselves, okay We're gonna start chasing down some of these dollars that are out here that organizations are receiving and that we have been I Guess we've prioritized other things in our life. So now this particular grant I want to share it with you because We are open right and I want to be open when everyone out there This is actually a half a million dollars Now it's a half a million dollars over four-year period. So it's really like a hundred twenty five thousand a year And that's the maximum they're only giving out two of these awards. So it's really at the end of day It's really not that much money, but It's something right. So it's a great start and we believe that If we were to be the recipients of that we could do a lot more to give back to the community So imagine that if they gave us the money, right? And so I say we get a hundred thousand a year We could actually work one-on-one with people helping them with technical assistance and doing some of the activities that we teach Now, yes, this is the first one and this is for veterans But there are going to be plenty more opportunities that are coming around that we will have the chance to participate in and so again By simply helping us and filling out this survey with your information That cost you nothing but some time. I think it's the least you could do to help give back to Myself and our team and all the people who have given to you and again That's only for those of you who like us love us support us want to help in some kind of way That would be tremendous and that would be appreciative. So again Really, I want to just talk a little bit about this and then also like I said those of you who are just joining us tomorrow 7 p.m. We are having a Govcon Giants happy hour free for everyone and who will you find there? Well, guess what you're gonna find a lot of our? Former right you're gonna find a lot of our students from the making Giants podcast because typically they're on these Tuesday calls So you will be able to interact with a lot of our students from the Tuesday calls on tomorrow's event So again, that is free for everyone cost you nothing You just have to be on our email list if you're not on our email list Then you can't get the invite because we're only sending out via email. It will be on zoom It's tomorrow 7 p.m. Eastern time. And so again, everyone's welcome But we don't want any grumpy people So if you're grumpy and you're and you've got an attitude and it's that time of the month whether it's you know Intentional or not intentional stay home. Okay, we just want nice people happy people smiling people friendly faces It's what we're looking for. So again, thank you for joining us today Really what we're talking about is a couple things is we're doing our 4th of July celebration a little bit early So we're celebrating with all of our wonderful people listening to us. And then we are asking for help With this particular grant. I'm doing the writing Maria's helping with the writing La Lani is helping and we've got some other people helping us in the back end but where we could use your help is and Completing this survey. So again, look for this in your inbox today tomorrow this week I've got three think three weeks to do this. Yeah, I've got about three weeks to put this together But look for this survey and if you could fill it out my goal My goal is to get 500 responses, which I think is Very very very minimal considering I have over 12,000 people in our email list and 17,000 subscribers So I think 500 is really should be like my minimum bar But our goal is get 500 responses. So if you can help us with this, that would be wonderful. In fact, I Believe the link is already on this particular Site, but if it's not I'm gonna drop it in the chat right now for folks out there And then we're gonna talk to you about why what are we doing and how do we think we can help? So let me just drop that in the chat Okay in there. Oh, we already dropped it good. I should have known Service able veteran perfect Demetrius, and I know that you want to help and that you are a fan of supporter and so Part of the issues that's happening and I think a lot of you may have know this But if you're not aware, let me just educate you on some of the facts and we've talked about this in the past Small business contracting has been on a decline for the last decade. So there are 32 percent fewer companies Now working for the government than there were in 2009 There's a 24,000 company decline for Department of Defense 8,000 which is a 13,000 with Department of Veterans Affairs and 13,000 Department of Interior And so while we may have all of these great people with all these programs and all this money They're not reaching people on the places where people go to get information. So as you see probably on my screen, I Actually just I did my first tiktok video the day by the way So I've done a couple but I first one I actually posted And so I plan on doing more of that but we are reaching the people where they're at right so people Now are on social media. They're on all these platforms That's why, you know, Microsoft is two trillion dollars and you know, Amazon is a trillion dollars and all these companies, right? So people are being Educated train information is going out through all of these huge platforms But the government still has not caught up. And so yes while they're on LinkedIn and LinkedIn is a great resource LinkedIn is still, you know, it's a it's an old platform It's not a great way to submit a whole bunch of information to a lot of people at once. So again We want to reach people where they're at and we want to be known for the platform and the community that does that And so that's why we have created all of these tutorials and videos and stuff and put them on the second largest search engine in the world Which is YouTube to me that makes sense But then when you look at all of these organizations that get millions and millions of dollars They're not doing this and so again, we are we feel like we are in the best possible position And we're poised to do more and better things given if we were given some resources until that's why You've never heard me ask for anything in the past That's why this is the first time I'm coming out and I'm reaching out and saying I need help and I need help from my people I need help from the community. I need help from all of you out there because in order for us to like change the curve It's not gonna be one of us. One of us is not good enough to do it. That's why I start training because now we have Hundreds of winners, right? Soon we'll have thousands of people winning contracts. We have Less than a handful that hit five million, but then we'll have a Dozen people that hit five million then we'll have two dozen people that hit the five million mark And so again, it continues to go on and on and on but but How does that happen? It happens when we get together when we fellowship and when we nurture and support each other And we work it out and I can tell you that Like the people that are on here that continually come on here like people like Demetrius I know the great work. They're doing Demetrius. Let me ask you something by the way Drop in the chat. How many contracts did you win this year? How many contracts did you win this year? So I know people like that They are giving back to the community. They're partnering with other people. They're working with other folks out here You know, you've got to put in your side and your piece But then they could come in and add their level of expertise and experience and they already have maybe maybe there are few steps ahead of you Right, but you have a technical expertise so now that person who has more experience and working in government and Brings partnering with your technical expertise now you combine that and we've got an even stronger powerful team And that's what we teach and that's what we do And so that's why we are asking for help because we believe that we can do even more of that Given some additional resources. And so this is one of the first things that we're looking at And let me show you want to scroll down and show you Okay, so this is where the survey comes in because they want to evaluate us based on outcomes So this is where the whole survey part comes in because the government's looking at Where are the outcomes of the data from the program? So that's how We originated doing this particular survey. So if I can't show outcomes They don't really care that, you know, I've got almost a million views and 17,000 subscribers That doesn't really mean anything to them because you know, they're looking for these outcomes and and yes We do know that we have helped a whole bunch of people But if we don't have the data to support it to show it Right, right, right, it's not gonna remain anything. So again, please please please please please please You know, I believe that if I've helped you in some kind of way, otherwise you probably wouldn't be here I've put together this wonderful community of great folks Put together the brand put together the name Organize all this stuff and I've spent a whole lot of time of my personal time Invested in this on top of hundreds of thousands of dollars of my personal money Invested in this as well over the last four years. So again, I think that this is a really small ass from folks out there and We believe that again It's the whole point is to further our mission of bringing more small businesses into the community of helping further small business along their journey of This particular program for veterans So if they give us this money and we can work one-on-one with 25 veteran companies and not charge them because the government Subsidizing it I think that would be a big boost for a lot of people because we have a successful track record of helping people go From zero to becoming a hero and winning tens of thousands Hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars in contracts And so we just want to continue to perpetuate that we want to continue to show the good work that we're doing And we want to demonstrate that and we want to now start showing the world and other people all the great things that we've Doing and then we want to take it a step further is you know We want to show not just the people in our community and not just people in the government contracting world But we want to show people like on TV and in the real world because this is truly an Industry an opportunity that anyone I don't care what background I don't care Which you look like I don't care your education level. We've proven it time and time again that They are not discriminating against anyone when it comes to contracts contracts don't have colors Contracts don't ask you about any of those things And so despite the myths out there that people said you got to be in business for two years. That's a lie You got to have good credit. That's a lie. You can't have a felony. That's a lie You got to have an education. That's a lie. All these things are lies. You got to have a certification That's a lie. All these things are lies. We've proven it. We've disproven time and time again We might so call us the myth busters of government contracting lies because we have proven it before and we continue to prove that Anyone and everyone can do this. All right. Hey, by the way, 30 people watching hit the like button, please I know this isn't the the best particular video in terms of education But I think again, we've got 600 videos of education So which one day where I'm asking for a be recipient for some kind of help. So today I'm going to ask for help and again My focus is on this survey Easy easy easy easy. This is so easy. Like it's a survey. Just do the survey, right? easy, so Let me look in the chat and see what's going on and What do we have out there? What we've got talking about? All right Facility support services. Yeah, by the way, I Know I didn't say this but for all you people out here watching always when you come on to our channels on Mondays Let us know the industry that you're in the city that you're from and the name of your business that way people can Help you. So let's see. LaLani did it. She put construction housing California see she did it A Man Demetrius, I already know what he does. Let's see Okay, BJ young crossing young group Mississippi equipment supplies perfect James Dean US Marine combat veteran Iraq war facility support services company good stuff Man said we've been winning services able to set aside for five years. Look at that veteran start up in aerospace Okay, that man Listen everybody make sure you're there tomorrow at the happy hour. I think that would be great I would actually if all of you come tomorrow, I'll set up a room just for veterans. How about that? We'll actually set up a room just for veterans where you guys can like just Talk about your experiences and stuff. We do have breakout sessions so I can do a breakout session for veteran on companies I mean, I think this is like with 30 of you now on here. I think that'd be a great Session just to chop it up Let's see link up on the email Okay Somebody's over there talk to us Caloosa My man Demetrius had eight contracts this year. Good job Xavier Okay I meant Charles and Maui Charles. What time is it your eight hours back? It was it is it noon or 1 p.m Social impact. Thank you. Lilani All right, can't eat Lewis. Tell us about you. Tell us what do you do? All right, we got pyramid construction out of Miami, Florida Stephanie Richardson janitorial laundry services All right, what else? Who else we have out there? If you are just coming on if you're just joining us and you missed it tomorrow Tomorrow we're doing a Gulfcon giant zoom party tomorrow 7 p.m. If you've never been to one of our zoom sessions Join us All right tomorrow 7 p.m. Join us tomorrow 7 p.m. On Zoom, but you have to be on our email list. It's only going out the invitation via email if you're not on our email list It ain't happening. So join us tomorrow. I Love to have a breakout session with just veterans. Okay, Maria sent the link For the survey, please help us out with this survey folks. Help help me help you Help us out with the survey. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. All right What else? Okay, 1224 I was close. I said about one o'clock. Okay. I don't know how you like videos on mobile James. I don't know James says I'm not I'm actually setting up a company Guatemala. I'm connected to high places down here If you want to do my work here we can manufacture. I'm your guy. Yeah, I bet you go out of my life I think don't they manufacture like Jeans and things like that like pants down in Guatemala. I remember when we're looking at PPE They had some factories down in Guatemala Okay, army veteran here I need I need my veterans to fill out this form Please I need you guys to share this form and fill it out. Please Okay, I'm gonna remind everybody tomorrow at happy hour That's right. Giant wine. This is segment from Jerry McGuire. That's right That's right. That's right. Please. Please. Please. Please. Help your boy out. Okay This is what they're looking for This is what we got to do All right You guys listen I promise you this remember this If we win the funding If we win the funding Right, we're gonna have to work closely with 25 or so veteran companies Okay, you're gonna get me Pierce Randy Maria. Like you're gonna get So you get in the squad so I'm gonna have to work with someone anyways So imagine if they give us the funding. I'm gonna have to work with some people out here So again, don't come to me afterwards and tell me you're a veteran and then I go back and we pop in that say Maria Hey, go look at this survey results. See if so so so fill out the survey Okay, because this is the activities that we do today For the money that we get tomorrow. It's the it starts today. It doesn't start tomorrow You can't come in after the fact and say, oh Eric, you know Oh man, I would have did that survey for you But my wife and my kids and my dog and my car and Fill out the survey help us help us to To compete to win help us become eligible so that we can have a running at this a shot at it And people get to know our names. So again when we win the funding I'm going back to my survey and I'm saying let me see who helped me out I already know Demetrius helped me out. I'm not even worried about I already know Xavier I know he's going to be on the list. I'm not even worried about that So I already know Quentin Swift is going to be on that list. I know Stephanie Richardson is going to be on that list I'm not even worried about that So I don't want you guys to come back in and say, oh, you know, um, yeah Hey, I heard you won that So, you know, I don't want people to come back and say that Please help me out Do the survey. This is where it starts. This is the beginning. This is how we come together This is how we work together. How do we win? They always say Coming together, right when we start to form Teams groups when we come together and we unify. That's how we start winning We have to unify There's a lot of there's 36 people on this call Our Tuesday sessions get 48 to 75 people on it All right tomorrow session, let's say we get 100 people on tomorrow's happy hour 150 people in a happy hour Coming together learning about each other learning about each other's businesses Figuring out what ways we can help one another Figuring out who's got what skill sets who's got what strengths who has the weaknesses who can help fill in the gaps Okay, and that's how we win That's how we were able to successfully Land 18 million last year in PPE contracts. No, we didn't close We weren't able to do it because we didn't have the funding but we were able to get the actual Purchase orders for the 18 million dollars. It was five of us that came together and we went after it as a team We have the power. We have the collective power Do you not realize that you all of you out here are the ones that are making instagram rich Facebook rich, it's not instagrams. They make themselves rich. It's us the people We're the ones that are posting the pictures posting the videos sharing of videos with our friends Like the videos of our friend They're just the utility But we the people are the ones that are actually enriching them because We came collectively together which gives a whole bunch of eyeballs And so now makes instagram rich makes facebook rich and all these people because Right, we're using that utility. We could do the same thing for ourselves We could be our own utility for ourselves to enrich ourselves We have enough people. You don't need a thousand people. Trust me Five of us pulled off 18 million in PPE contracts five And with the sixth person we were able to raise the 10 million dollars. Okay So five of us pulled off the 18 million purchase orders the sixth person raised the 10 million Unfortunately, we didn't have it all in an expedient of time frame. Otherwise, we could have capitalized and closed and We would be having a different story right now But am I thankful? Yes. Am I happy? Yes. I love the experience. I think it was great And so Like a giant wine just said if you're not paying for the product you are the product Simple as that. So again, we can come together And like you said, we could come together and combine our collective efforts as one And now start going after this stuff because I can tell you right now what i'm working on Um, you know with my time has been to assume I have Two projects that i'm working on now one's a 200 million dollar Is it may talk? Maybe nicky's on here with us and I shared that and I'll share it tomorrow in a group I'll show you guys what we're putting on and then uh, we're working on another 240 million dollar mac contract. So Um, you know, we we did this stuff and um So we we're gonna we're gonna get one of those and that's gonna carry us for the next five years Um, the survey is gonna how long is gonna survey gonna be up? No, I mean, it's it's a google form So the survey will be up indefinitely because we're gonna continue to get responses And in fact, um, I made a mistake. I should have put the survey Up on the screen Let me see How we could do this All right I'm gonna go back to the survey Give me a second And let me see if I can Do something here I'm getting pretty good at using this software So let me see If I can Put up on screen. Hey, does anyone have any questions for me? By the way while we're here Talking Anybody have any questions for me? Ask away Ask away, uh, I didn't see everyone put in there their information either Maria dropped the survey in the chat. I'm gonna pop it up here on the screen Man, I'm learning how to do this stuff. I'm getting pretty fancy on this Look at that boom All right, that's the survey go find eric.com slash 12 month survey That's your survey All right What else what else what's going on with everybody? How was everybody's weekend out there? Did you guys see my picture with the goat? Somebody actually bought a bought a goat to this restaurant that we were at which is pretty freaky So, um What else a man james says I wish you knew I knew you were doing PPE Have any need for sanitizers spray-infectant? Yeah, I mean, I'm not doing a lot of stuff Anymore james, uh, we did at the time and unfortunately You know, like I said, everyone and anyone told us they could help us. They didn't help us. Uh, so, you know James says we had a call set up two years ago. We should finally have that call All right mtp All right, who else make sure you get on the list make sure you're on the list Uh Make sure we are talking about the survey today. Please We are asking for everyone's help and filling out the survey How many questions is it's like 10 questions. It should take about two minutes In fact, okay, I have four responses Four Thank you the four people who responded. I have four responses so far So thank you the four people who responded Much love. I appreciate you. Thank you Easy as that. So people literally fill it out. Why they're on this chat today Ron Thomas, I know you're filling out the survey Who out there needs help who how many veteran owned companies need help? Raise your hand if you're a veteran owned business and you think that you could Grow expand your business with my assistance. Let me see your hand. Give me a thumbs up in the chat If you are a veteran owned business and you believe That you can grow expand your business with my assistance. Give me a thumbs up I want to see the thumbs up out here because you know, maybe you don't need help Maybe you guys are good and you're like, nah, I got this Uh, maybe you don't really need the help. I don't know But if you think that you could grow your business or expand your business with our assistant let me know because uh Again, I only want to work with people who believe that we can help them and it takes a lot It's got to start up here first of all, you know, so you've got to believe it yourself And before I can help you because again, um, we could give you all the tools I can even hold your hand, but you still have to do the work. So Yep, I'll be standing right next to you, but you've got to do the work And that's the important part. But um, if you think that we can help you in some kind of way You think we can help grow your business, uh, and you like to see us do it Then, you know, give me a thumbs up Let me know because again, this is what we want to do. This is the objective And why not let the government pay for and subsidize it? um we've have people That the government has so much money so much Resources, they're just giving it to people that don't That don't have a their bet your best interest in hand and that's the way I see it A lot of people that have been giving this money do not have your best interest in hand. And so again, uh, We believe that it would be better suited in our side so that we can pay our teams So that they can support you guys because again, I'm going to be standing there side by side with you In fact, listen, these people giving me money I might fly to go see some of y'all just because It's that important to me if I need to be at a meeting with you if I need to be Forget the calls now. I'm we know I'm gonna be on the call with you But if I got to be at a meeting and we've got to go see someone and I need to show my Little face so it makes things go better That's what we're gonna do because that's what we do here We we are literally like this just like mtv has out there. We're holding hands. So again um I don't have any hard requirements right now melvin It just came out and so we are going through it and the first thing I need just melvin for people is to help me By filling out that survey. So that's the first thing that I need people to do is fill out the survey and once they do that Um, then we can go in and we could start uh looking at What's going to be the requirements of the program and how to qualify and all this kind of good stuff But if they let me Determine make that determination then, you know, we'll set our we set up the rules Based on uh, whatever criteria that that they're that they're looking for so They haven't not set the criteria up for how we choose the participants in this particular program But I believe that's something that we're gonna do and um, so I'll work closely with my team on the back end To see how things go James says I have a factory in hollywood. You won't be disappointed Um, I can help all federal conducts with peo services. What's peo services james? I found the best solution around. Let us know what peo services is so um But yeah, james if you're in hollywood, I'm right here in palm beach. So I'm down the road Uh-oh rilanda says me I do I stumbled and did my first contract by watching your last year now. I'm ready for real help And that's that's this is the kind of stuff that we need to tell These people that are reading these proposals rilanda I need I need more people to say that so I can have it in writing We can have it document it and I could send it into the government people and let them know because The other people who are out there taking the credit for helping folks that aren't helping folks They're getting all this money and they're just taking credit. So Why not give it to the people who? Are out here that are really making an impact so that we can continue making an impact And by the way, if you don't know tomorrow tomorrow We are having a celebration So tomorrow 4th of july celebration on zoom Everyone's invited Everyone everyone You just have to be on my email list. So everyone's invited tomorrow happy hour Uh Just sit back lay it back Uh, if we have to do a breakout session with veterans, we can if we want to do a breakout session with women businesses We can however, it's you know, it's going to be free flowing There is no format just want to I just want to bring hundreds of people together That are interested in growing and building businesses Using the power of federal government contracting. I want to bring all of us together so that we can fellowship I know that good things happen when we come together Um, and great things happen when we actually start working together So again, we start off with the good and then we move up to the great and then when we start winning I mean, it becomes excellent, right? So, uh, I know that by doing this kind of community outreach and connectivity That it's just going to yield a lot of greatness come 2021 2022. And so again, um, I'm about the mission I'm about serving. Um, like I said, I have Continue to oh nelly satellite beach. All right. We know satellite beach Um, and so we want to just bring great people together that really really really truly have an interest and growing and building their businesses Uh, I want to hear more of your success stories. I want to hear more of your, uh, learning experiences and you know, I'll share mine So, uh, that's tomorrow 7 p.m. Eastern time. Um, and that email the zoom link will go out On that as well. What else? What else folks? I've been running my mouth for 40 minutes Please please please fill out my survey. Okay. I'm in begging. This is the this is the most begging I've ever did before You know, I'm on my knees begging Please please please Please 11 people have filled it out. Thank you 11 people have filled it out Thank you so much. Um, that's great. So What else so we're gonna see everyone tomorrow? All right It's free. It doesn't cost anything. Just bring a good attitude bring a smile All right, make sure it's 37 people watching 28 likes Make sure to like the video James you sound like an interesting person. Um, like you said, you missed a call two years ago Maybe tomorrow you'll be there and you could we could chop it up tomorrow and the tuesday zoom Quit and swift. I already know what you're gonna do the right thing Survey done. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you. Survey complete. Thank you Xavier. Appreciate you Rolanda, I can't believe it. That's a great success story. I love that That's those are the kind of stories that I need help with BJ. Thank you. Appreciate you completing the survey All right Thank you. Thank you All right Yeah, it's on tomorrow. Let's have some fun. Let's let's you know in preparation I know people probably have holiday plans and things like that for the weekend I'm probably I'm gonna probably be working on doing this particular application And working on my other one that I have as well, which is uh This big the big boy. Let me pull up the big boy. Yeah, I want to see the big boy Let me see. Where is it at? Hold on I'll tell what I'm working on this weekend right here. Let me grab it drop it on the screen for you Uh Give me a second. Let me just switch PDFs Real quick So this this what I'm working on this weekend All right may talk This may talk I'm putting together with my team All right, this what I'm working on maximum value 200 mil That's what I'm working on I gotta put together a technical proposal for this bad boy So That's where I'll be spending my fourth of july weekend digging in in this paperwork But then I don't want folks to be like, yo, how did you do this? It starts today. Remember Remember to you are where you're at today as a result of what you did in your past So I'm going to be where I'm going to be at tomorrow as a result of what I'm doing today And that's the same for all 40 of you listening and all hundred or 200 of you or thousand be listening after the fact so again What activities are you working on today? That's going to put you where you want to be at tomorrow This is what I'm working on So I'm just sharing sharing is caring. I'm just sharing but I ain't caring. So what else? What else? What else? What else? All right Keep making contacts Hey Trinnell. How are you? Welcome All right, um tomorrow tuesday Be here tomorrow Okay, zoom Do my survey See you at happy hour survey complete. Thank you ty all right And again, if you have any other ideas that can help us out in completing the forms that'd be great Um, you know, we're we're always looking for help So if anyone has anything um that they want to add that that can help us Better be able to do this that'd be great um because Again, like I said, we um, you know We just want to continue to do the good work that I think that this is why I was put here And um, so now I just want to further the mission further the cause And bring a lot more great people on Um, by the way, I don't know if you if you know this, right? Again, if you're new if you're not here, uh federal contracting And the last decade is 32 fewer companies Working in 2018 than it was in 2009 24,000 firm decline department of defense 8,000 gsa decline 13,000 Department of veteran affairs 13,000 fewer small businesses working with the va That doesn't make sense. That's an atrocity And so we want to help curve that and that's why we're asking folks to help us help them By filling out these forms and this survey and that's what we're on today If you're just joining us, I've got 15 responses. Look up there. Boom 15 responses. Good stuff. So that's why we're coming on today To not ask you to beg to plea for your help Because we have this grant application that we're submitting and we need people to respond and tell the So we need to put it on paper all the good work that we're doing out here and so again I'm asking you to do that and then also if you have time tomorrow 7 p.m. Eastern time Join us for a free zoom party with other gulf congiants members Students you might get a chance to meet some of these people on this list And I can tell you right now the person at the bottom if you have not already seen This list the last episode which were one behind episode this number six here Okay, if you have not watched this episode All right, listen if you have not watched it Okay she is Approaching the five million dollar revenue mark So if you have not already watched that episode All right, witness Cole. She's approaching a five million dollar revenue mark So I think it's definitely worth tuning in it's worth watching She's highly likely to be there probably to be there tomorrow with us. So if you have not seen it Make sure to check it out. She's probably gonna be in the room with us tomorrow. All right, what else? What else? All right, everybody's doing a survey good Excellent Yeah, I believe it mtp, but that's okay. That's what we're gonna help All right, good stuff. Hey listen, um Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for those who fill out the survey. Thank you. Thank you Thank you for those who are going to fill out the survey. Thank you for those who support us Those who bought any of our programs because again You know, we're learning we're growing. Oh by the way, let me show you something else. Hold on hold on hold on Hold on hold on hold on hold on Let me see something Let me see if I can pull this up real quick Let me see if I can show you If I have it Where is it at? Let's see if I can find the right website Nope, can't find it. Oh, here we go. All right. I found it Let me see if I can make it smaller for you folks See, we're working on our new site Okay And we're showing Let me see how it looks up on the screen All right So we're working on the new site. We're working all this stuff This is what I was telling you about right here those facts That's what I was telling you about right there so um So we're in it. We're working on those stuff again, like I said You know, I got a lot of people working on this and putting time and effort All right, uh, listen, I'm gonna hop off. Thank you. Um You know James reach out to Erica. She's our new research specialist um Her number is seven eight six four seven seven zero four seven seven if anyone has any questions Uh reach out to Erica I'm dropping her number In the chat seven eight six four seven seven zero four seven seven Um, definitely reach out to her and I will catch up with everyone tomorrow All right. I'll catch up with everyone tomorrow and uh, thank you for those who fill out the survey Thank you for those who are going to fill out the survey because again It's only going to help me to help you help our organization to be more successful in doing what we've already done Um, but taking it to the next level. So again, I just want to thank everyone who's done it Thank you for sharing the video. Thank you for liking the video. Thank you for being supportive