 What is going on everybody? Welcome to Friday Let me know if you can hear me. I want to make sure that audio is working before I get to Into this looks like we got people already pilot name, which is great. Good to see all you guys today we're gonna have a great session today and I think we're gonna talk about doing some networking which we all got to do now right with all the stuff That's going on in the world Put your comments suggestions questions all that good stuff in that chat box right there Today, I'm gonna be giving you free training. Don't forget to give me a thumbs up Don't forget to subscribe hit that subscribe button down there and ring The bell turn on all bell notifications here notified every single time I go live or I upload a video He says it is loud and clear hazy and 74 in Savannah. All right. Let's check San Diego James Let's see what's going on here. It looks like it looks like it's 58 now However, it's gonna be up to 76 76 is okay, right? 76 is a good temperature. So we're gonna be good there today is Friday guys It's the end of the I Guess the average person's work week mine doesn't end I was talking to somebody yesterday. It was really funny and they are retired and they're barely getting by You know, they're trying to squeeze every penny We talked about you know them traveling they couldn't travel they didn't have any money And they said something about how I was doing I said, well, I'm working You know I work like seven days a week and this person this female said, oh my god. I would never do that And she says I would never do that never do that and she's retired and barely has enough money to live on So what is the worst thing? You know, what's worse than that? You know not working? You know only working five days a week which most people do or working a little bit more when you retire You have plenty of money and you can enjoy yourself. So she picked the first of those two choices Just working five days a week. Hey, if you're happy with that if you're happy with working five days a week You don't want to work evenings. You don't want to work weekends And you don't mind getting by on half the income you had as the time you work then I guess enjoy yourself You know you won make sense to me Looking forward to getting back to events again. Yeah, I am too Paul In matter of fact today, we're gonna kind of talk about networking online That doesn't mean you can't ask any questions you want about making money online, you know Starting running growing online businesses, but I did want to kind of talk about networking And the reason I want to talk about it is because I think a lot of people have to do it now And they don't know how to do it and that's kind of scary for some people We see some people would rather bitch. Yes, they would rather bitch And that's exactly what this person did and I'm not even gonna say that this person's a relative, but That's all she does complain complain complain and you know, I don't want to do that. I want to enjoy life I want to get what's what's out there I want to I want to have a lot of stuff going on and I want to talk today about networking guys Oh my god, it's so cool. It's so cool that we can do this and we've been so used to networking You know one-on-one, you know, God, I used to go to these networking events I don't know if you've ever been to one, but people have the laziest most ridiculous Can lines they always come up to you and go what do you do and what can I help you with and you know? They don't want to help you You know, they're just trying to say the line that everybody tells them to say it's kind of funny But today what I want to do is talk about all these things you can do to start running grow your online business through networking and These are things that you know are really simple to do But some of us just don't know how to do it So that's what I wanted to talk about today and networking is really important. I got to tell you I've grown my business so much because of the people I've met over the years. I mean such good people really I mean, I'm so thankful to have met all these people that I've met. It's just really super cool so I want to tell you how to kind of do this online and The first thing I'm gonna tell you guys and by the way, I love your questions. I love your comments I love your suggestions. Please. Please continue to put those in the chat as I talk Because you know, I can I can jump in there and answer those and if you're watching this and it's no longer live That's okay, too. There's gonna be a comment section below the video You can put your comments in there. I come back and I answer those and today, you know Some of you guys I haven't answered your your questions or comments in about 48 hours But I'm gonna get in there today and do that so keep putting them in there and I'll get in there today I'll knock all those out. Don't worry about that So You know the amount of time we spend online It's almost ridiculous that we don't network a little bit, right? And it can kind of seem like a needle in the haystack But you don't you know, you know, you're never gonna find the needle unless you look through the haystack So we got to kind of do that You know four out of five people on linked in if you know linked in drive business decisions according to Reports from Hootsuite, okay So if you use linked in and if you don't you should you know, you should I think it's a good thing to do Number one thing you would have doing linked in is establish your digital presence All right, you want to do that by building out your profile make your profile as Extensive as you possibly can You know buzzwords and statistics and stuff like that do tend to stand out a little bit more Make sure you add a personal picture some people don't put a picture or they got a picture You know, how does it make you feel when you see somebody friends you on Facebook or ask you questions and you go to the profile There's no picture of them. It's just weird, right? You're like are they hiding? I mean, what are they doing? There's something strange about that But when you put a picture in linked in You can get 21 times more profile views and nine times more connection requests According to linked in's reporting. So have a picture. You got to do that. Let me get a little sip here What do we got today? Oh, we got this one today. That's what we got today. That's what that's what days you should work, right? Number two find people to connect with by joining linked in groups There's a lot of different groups in there if you join some of these groups You know, if you're looking for a job or related posts or corporate recruiters, whatever, you know And some people do use linked in for finding jobs. That's probably why I'm not on linked in a whole lot But some people do that Did you ever network at the annual system? Seminar in Chicago. No, I don't know that one James. That's that's that's not familiar to me But feel free and tell me what it is. I'll check it out You want to also engage by posting content and talking to industry influencers? Out of the five hundred listen to this five hundred mil five hundred million linked in users only three million share content Is that crazy? There's five hundred million people on there and three hundred million are the only ones that are doing anything Okay, so what it that's that's such a small percentage of them because most people just don't do anything So farming, you know forming your opinions and discussing relevant topics We'll position you as a voice in the industry because so many people don't do it So if you just do that, you're gonna be in good shape And number four repeat, okay until you amass a strong following Optimize your profile. Keep doing that connect with different people Continue to produce relevant content You'll find that people take interest in Those who are active on there. Okay now Meetup, which is a networking platform and I've used it. Matter of fact, I one of my courses Which is webcash Academy was all my meetups But that's another great way to do things and that's gonna be coming back soon And I know for you know past year because of the illness I can't say what it is That you know, that's kind of died down, but that's coming back people are gonna get back together again They're gonna start seeing each other again. So my number two thing is take advantage of social media Okay, take advantage of social media so important that you do that guys and I'm not a social media person I'm gonna tell you that right up front. I'm not I'm not into you know showing off my jewelry and houses and cars and all that crap However social media is important and if you use it and you post on it like this is social media I mean YouTube is social media It's got some unique advantages that allows you to network. Okay over some other things you could do You can connect with audiences. You can drive attention to your work. You can enhance your personal brand There's a whole lot of things you could do on social media And there's a lot of them out there. You know, there's Instagram Instagram is really more than a photo-sharing app Instagram is really a good way to connect with business to consumer companies and brands now. I know DMs are infamous For a flirtation comments. However, you can leverage them for networking too. You could start by following a brand's page You can get a sense of what they post you could do the same thing yourself Observe what you know, you think could be improved on their page and drop them a note Tell them, you know right up front. Hey, you should do this. You should do that People appreciate the suggestions, you know, a lot of you guys give me suggestions in this chat here And I really like it. I mean you guys tell me stuff that you want to hear you want to see you share ideas with me James has shared something with me. I know Paul shared a ton of things with me. I appreciate that stuff You know, it lets me know that you're participating and it lets me know that, you know, you got some ideas and it helps me I've gotten a lot of good ideas from you guys matter of fact Paul. I told Jessica about your idea on the pet video and She's probably gonna do it. So that was a great idea And what I didn't say what it was once you remind everybody Paul in that chat section, which you thought would be a good video for pets That would be awesome if you would put that in there. So good. If you remember, do you remember Paul? You gave me a good idea for a pet video Next thing is Facebook, of course One of the original social media platforms Let's see here. James says I got to find another way to network because I ain't into all that social My jazz well, I know I know but you know what a little bit of it's not gonna hurt Hey, we're networking right now James, right? Me and you talk all the time Let's see here right now on Facebook 2.7 billion monthly active users on Facebook as of June of 2020 that's that's the most recent I can find weight loss for pets You're right Paul. You were right and you know what we're doing that with our dog Kim we've been feeding her too many snacks and we're cutting that out. You know something else. She's doing Paul She's making homemade raw food diets for her cats. So that's gonna be kind of interesting to see her doing that She's gonna be doing some videos on that Now Facebook also has a live feature I will say it doesn't get as much interaction as YouTube does because of the business model Of Facebook is to run ads make money and if they share your live stuff or your post they don't make as much money So unfortunately that doesn't work as well Twitter is really good. It's ideal for instant connections It gives you the chance to send out tweets and get immediate engagement another great feature is Twitter threads if you don't know about Twitter threads They allow you to connect one tweet with another to string together a narrative Let's say for example, you want to discuss the upcoming Elections or something along those lines, which who in the heck would want to do that and your initial tweet goes over? 280 character limits simply break up your commentary into a Twitter thread you can do this that way you can say more and more and you know not overshoot how many characters they give you Next one number three attend virtual network events, okay Virtual events are here to stay okay. It kind of opened the Pandora's box during the illness And people started doing them, but man It's it's just coming it's coming like just full-force now so many people are doing them web conferencing is Projected to account for 80% of all internet traffic web conferencing guys. That's craziness, right? So you need to get used to doing these things virtually James. You got to do these things. It's important See James says we ain't networking. We're like old buddies sharing experiences sitting around the cracker barrel. Yeah, you're right You're kind of right about that. I'm not much of that, you know networking. Hey, you do this for me I'll do that for you, but it's a great way to meet people. I really like that So what does this mean to you attending virtual network events where you're likely to be using zoom or you know Skype or something like that are really going to be on the uprise You'll want to come across as a professional which I don't know if I do or not You know, I was I was kidding with my wife last night because we were talking about these people who get all dolled up And they do their makeup and their hair and then it's jewelry and they're all fancy And they're making a recipe in the kitchen and I'm like, well, I don't know I put on a t-shirt and I talk in my office. Is that okay? Because that's what I do. You know, I don't I don't get into all that I think I like the realism of it and I know some people like the flashiness, you know more power to them So a couple things you need to do is enable computer video and audio on your computer Dress like the image you want to come across now when I do my regular videos during the week and I record them I will put a dress shirt on that's the only time I wear a dress short shirt and many times I have shorts on underneath that you just don't see that because you only see me from here on up Position your computer near natural lighting if you don't have lighting in your office Try to get your computer at eye level or above now mine is probably About two or three inches above and that gives you a better angle if you put it down on the desk and you're looking down at it It's not good. It's not good guys. Don't do that Make sure your background is clean and not distracting. You know, we've got this backdrop here So it looks nice and pretty but you know, don't put a bunch of junk behind you I see that sometimes I always do test meetings before you do the real one every morning You know when I do these lives I turn on the camera and I stream everything for a second to make sure everything's working That way I don't have a problem James says wear a chef hat and don't forget the apron You know, I probably will do some kind of apron because I'm a little sloppy about that That doesn't bother me in the least a chef hat. Nah, that's not happening On top of looking the part you want to speak the part, okay? So you want to communicate in a professional way and don't don't try to talk above people's heads I hate that sometimes when somebody comes across like you know, they're all knowing and they know everything I don't know everything. I know some things some of those things have worked for me and I share them with you guys That's all I know What's your favorite webinar platform, you know, I've tried a lot of them If I'm just going to communicate with people one-on-one Paul, I like Skype I like Skype a lot and I use it a lot because I have Employees of India Pakistan, Mexico Philippines so I need to talk to them and I like Skype for that reason However, if I'm actually going to do a webinar, I use webinar jam or ever webinar Those are the two that I use and I know there's a lot of good ones out there. Those are just the ones I use I know my wife likes zoom and it's really a personal preference thing So what else can we do when we're on here? There are several things you can do to engage people during a live event if you're going to do live events first off Engage them within the first 60 seconds. Okay. Have some energy guys And if they don't know who you are, they don't know your background Do a brief introduction of yourself early on so they know who you are and why you have a right to even talk to them You've got to respect people's time I mean like I respect y'all's time if I if I just show up here and go what questions do you have for me? And I don't have anything prepared for you It's not right. It's just not right because you guys have taken some time to show up and yeah I like getting your questions and answers, but I also better have something to give you a value or else What's the point you showing up? Right? So I have to do that Don't hide in a large group guys I see this happen a lot one clubhouse where people go to these groups and You know, there's 200 people talking on clubhouse in this one group. I don't get it. I don't get any I've tried clubhouse I'm not into it. There's a big waste of time But you know some people like it try to get involved by asking questions make relevant comments Actually be somebody who stands out like you know Paul and James you guys always do that That's why you probably get more out of stuff. That's why you're gonna learn more because you're involved You're not just sitting back listening that doesn't make you part of it I'm Keeping it a high level if you can you know dive deep into subjects avoid, you know long monologues about you talking about all this crap Actually give people information Let's see what's the other one. I want to tell you instead of wasting a lot of your time Actually have things planned out have an agenda Even if you're going into somebody else's seminar make sure you have some questions that you know you want to ask them Number four tap into your online network. Okay, so we all have a little bit of an online network We all have some people we talked to What's Paul saying here? Do you think a lead-in like music or a commercial type intro is worth doing? You know, I used to think that and I got rid of all those Paul It's like what's the point is it to make me look like I'm a big shot or something? You know by having a music and bunch of pictures of me running around and talking I got rid of them I don't have any lead-ins now. I don't have any bumpers anymore I know that was a big thing before and I just don't do it matter of fact We're testing out a new thing Paul or my thumbnails for YouTube. I'm not putting any words on nothing I'll put a picture or maybe something related to it, but no words whatsoever Now I don't know if that's gonna work or not, but I know fewer words worked better than more words because you know It was it was bigger and people could read it so I'll try out with no words see what it does So whether, you know, you're asking for a job referral or a letter of recommendation or whatever you're trying to do online You don't want to burn any bridges. You want to be kind to everybody And I try to be kind to everybody even people who leave me nasty comments. They'll say like This one guy would tell me says you sound like a used car salesman Which was funny because I was in the car business and I was a used car manager and I'm like, well, you must be right I'm so sorry about that So I don't get mad at them. I don't argue with them You know, I'll say hey, thanks for your input. I really appreciate your input I'll certainly take a look at that and if they're really super rude and they're just trying to get under my skin I just block them, you know, but I don't get into any back and forth with anybody This is not this is a waste of my time. So I don't do that But that connection that you make along with all your friends and family and business associates You can parlay that okay, and then the last one which is number five is Don't quit and I want to give you an example of that in a second Paul says I like how you use bullet points for meeting the conversation and make sure You're hitting points. Yeah, I try to do that. Thank you so much. I appreciate that This last one is really important because I have I had a friend and she would come to my meetup groups Gosh, this is going back. Oh, I hate to say it six years ago And she wanted to be You know making money online and she she I guess branded herself as this all-knowing coach And she had the hair and the makeup and the fancy backdrops and And I met her one day and we were at a Starbucks and this is in probably 2016 17 And she says I just want to be an online coach and I want to charge $2,000 a month And I just need like 10 people that will give me 20 grand a month And I was like, well, what are you going to coach? She goes along to coach people how to make money online I said, but you've never made money online. You've never done that. You haven't done that yourself How are you going to coach them? And she's like, well, I know what to do I just want to coach other people how to do it And at the time I looked at her and I thought, well, this is the scammiest thing I've ever seen in my life So yesterday I was looking through profiles and I happened to come across hers And I happened to come across her personal one and her coach one if you want to call it that And then I started looking further and I looked her up on YouTube And it was interesting. I gotta say it's interesting. She's still posting all these fancy pictures of herself She may get one or two likes occasionally. There'll be a comment, but usually no comments whatsoever I went to her YouTube channel and she had that all fancy with a bunch of pictures and she's the seven-finger coach and all this stuff And I looked at the videos that she had done and you know, they were all fancy and they had beautiful thumbnails and all that But she hadn't done a video and over a year. She had 123 subscribers to her channel So I don't know I think it's a combination of things. I think it's a it's it's a work ethic thing that, you know She didn't continue doing videos But how it's got to be tough to do a video on how to make money online when you haven't done it When you haven't done it So the one thing I would tell you and so what I'm what I'm saying for number five is is you got to put in the work You got to put in the work guys. There's you know, I'd say this pretty much every time I go live That this is not easy. This is hard. You know, I was telling my wife about her last night and she says, you know what? It's hard to make money online. It really is and she makes money online too instead of I And we both know it's hard work. Okay. I don't you know, this is the this is where I lose everybody You know, everybody's like, oh, well, don't tell me that don't tell me I gotta work or don't tell me I gotta work nights. Oh, no, no, no, no, not the weekends. That's when I got my shows I watch not on the weekends That's when I go golfing. That's when I go play basketball. That's when I go watch movies You know, you can't tell me I gotta work then. Well, I'm here to tell you you gotta work then you do And that's where I lose a lot of people. They're like jr. Don't tell me that that sounds too difficult Um, but that's what she didn't do is she didn't work and she didn't learn to make money online She didn't do these things and you know being an online coach is just BS if you don't do it I personally Don't understand why people want to be online coaches. Uh, and I don't understand it because you make so much less money I mean, even if I were to charge somebody $2,000 a month and I had 10 people that's $20,000. That's way less than what I sell online I mean way that's a fraction of what I sell online So why do I want to in the thing about coaching is I'm teaching other people how to make money online one on one Now I don't mind doing courses because I can sell billions of courses But one on one if I'm coaching somebody Why would I want to help them grow a business when I could just be growing my own business? I can make more than $2,000 a month helping myself grow my own business So this online coaching guru thing I I don't get it. I don't get why anybody wants to do it And I did it some and I was charging some serious money I was charging $2,000 an hour and I still didn't think it was worth my time So I don't quite get it. Let me look here. Uh, let's see I'm gonna read through some of these comments here Are you trying to create curiosity with your thumbnails? Yeah, I guess so I'm just trying to I'm just trying to do something different James. It's like I tell everybody to test So I'm gonna test. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm testing that out So I'm you know, I'm just trying to do and I don't do the thumbnails. So don't get me wrong. I'm not a graphic artist I can't do that. I'm lousy at it But I have a great graphic artist and he does it And I want to see what he can come up with and I want to see what that does to my click-through ratio I know my click-through ratio was over five percent now Which is pretty good because it needs to be like two to four percent something like that But I want to see if it improves it. It may not, you know, it may go down Um Paul says it was great to meet you in person after following you online for a while. Yeah, it's great to meet everybody I mean, you know, we're all out here just trying to make a living. I mean, that's all it really is Uh, Paul says far too many fake gurus out there. Love the engagement here with this tribe here Thank you so much, Paul. That's so kind, but it's not me. It's you guys Really, all I do is facilitate you you guys are driving it with these awesome comments and questions and suggestions I mean, you're it. I mean, it's like I can't have a youtube channel without the almost 5 000 people that have subscribed so far I can't you know without the people who put comments on my videos without the people who watch my videos I got nothing. I got nothing. I really do. Uh, there's an old adage people who can't Do teach. Yeah, I heard that I've heard that but I don't want to say that entirely because I'm teaching right now But um, yeah, just to do that I don't know I don't I don't I don't the online coaching guru thing I'm not quite sure about that. This is maybe not my thing um, so today guys, uh, if you don't know on fridays we go to lunch Uh, and uh, we're going to go to a new lunch place today Uh, and I think it's going to be pretty good. Uh, I've saved it on my computer here And if you guys are interested follow me on facebook if you follow me on facebook You will see where I'm going. I'm going to post some pictures And if you guys got any other questions now feel free to do so Uh, put those questions in that chat section there. I'd love to get your questions I'd love to answer anything you got. I only got a couple more minutes here And I gotta get out of here. What time is it 9 25 9 25, you know, I've been going live here I think it's for like three months. You guys can correct me on that Uh, but three months every single day of the week except for sundays Um, and what is that? That's just work nothing more than that just work I was looking to say if I have my light on it looks dark in my computer here for some reason I don't know why it looks so dark so like dark to you guys. I don't know. I just noticed that Looks okay down here on the ipad, but on my software up here. It looks dark for some reason It's probably just me any up After bouts, but we'll see everyone tomorrow. I have a blessed weekend gang. Hope house is coming along. It is Paul Thank you so much And guys, I really love having you guys here. I really love talking to you I will be live tomorrow, but it's going to be a 10 a.m If you're on my email list, which you should be Then you're going to get an email about that Yesterday today tomorrow morning and tomorrow right before the actual live Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't done so give me a thumbs up if you like this If you got something out of this put in that chat section if you like what you heard If you got something out of it put that in there. I'd love to see your comments. Don't forget Bring the bell turn on all the bell notifications so you're notified Every time I go live every time I upload a new video guys. Thank you so much for being here I love each and every one of you and I appreciate you Have a fabulous weekend. Try to get a little bit of work done. It'll make you feel better. I promise Physical work right do a little exercise Business work do a little business work and man. This is nothing Going to but improve you if you do these things. So please please do it You guys have a great weekend and I'll see you real soon