 What is going on everybody, JR Fisher here. It is a beautiful Thursday, the 25th of February, 2021. And as you know, I'm here today to help you out with your online business. Any questions you may have about making money online, you know, learning stuff, hiring people, which is what we're gonna talk about today. You know, building out funnels, emails, products, you name it, you can put it in that chat section. I will answer all your questions during the live chat. If you're not live, don't worry about that. You can put it in the comments section. I come back around and I answer a lot of those comments. I sat there last night till I think 11 p.m. Just answering comments on videos from you guys, but I really appreciate it. Those comments actually mean a lot. They helped me get distribution of the video. Also, don't forget to subscribe. If you haven't done so, hit that button below there where it says subscribe. If it's red, that means you have not subscribed. So you need to click it and turn it gray. Once you do that, what you wanna do is ring the bell, turn on all bell notifications so that you're notified every single time I go live. You know when I post a video, you know when I'm live, and it saves you a lot of time. You don't have to go looking for stuff. What's going on, James Bring? Good to see you. What's going on, Cameron? Good to see you. Didn't get the usual notification today. Well, that's weird. That's really weird. Thank you for letting me know you can hear me, James. I forgot to ask. That's very helpful. James is always helpful. He's a cool guy like him. He's cool guy. So, ex-truck driver for many, many years. So he's got stories. Man, I gotta hear some of your stories one day, James. You gotta share those with me. That's gotta be super interesting. So today I wanted to talk a little bit. Oh yeah, give me a thumbs up too. That's the other thing I forgot. And don't forget to share this. If you think somebody can benefit from this video, make sure that they see it and they get the benefit of it, okay? So, today I do wanna talk about hiring people. And I think it's not a natural thing to manage people. I think it's a really weird thing to manage people. And I think people go in two different directions that either don't give too much enough instruction and they're afraid to talk to somebody they've hired. They're afraid to tell them to do anything. They're afraid to ask them anything. Or they go the other direction and they think they're a big boss. They think, oh my God, this person works for me. So I can tell them to do whatever I want. They'll do whatever I want. And they're underneath me. And that's how some people think. And I gotta tell you, it's hard to be a good manager. I started managing people in my, I guess early 20s. I used to run car dealerships. And I did that for many, many years. I managed thousands of people over the years and hired people. And I had to learn. I thought I was the big boss and all that in the beginning. And that's not how it goes. Okay, when you're hiring people. And I'm gonna talk to you also today about going to some of these sites and how to hire people. Mike Roberts, what's going on? I'm on for the first time and I'm excited. Man, it's good to see you, Mike. It really is. Tell me a little bit about yourself. Tell me what you do. Tell me what you wanna learn. This channel, what I've been doing is going live since around the 15th of January every day. Six days a week to help you guys out and just answer your questions. And just so you know the value. And I'm not trying to brag or anything. But you know, when I do consulting for companies, I charge $2,000 an hour. Two grand an hour. So you can come on here for free and get any questions you want answered. You don't have to pay those high fees. Need to be a leader manager. Yeah, Paul, and I think you're right. You're totally right. 100% right. But there's a lot to it. I mean, there's a lot to it. And I also wanna talk about hiring people in different countries because the way I manage somebody that works in the US versus the way I manage somebody that works in the Philippines versus the way I manage somebody that lives in India. And I have people in India and the Philippines and Mexico and Pakistan and all these different countries. And I hear varying things from people. Like a lot of people don't wanna hire people in other countries because they say, oh my gosh, I had a really bad experience with that. And this person didn't show up and they didn't get the job done right. And that could be on them. It could be on you. But I can tell you this. I've hired people in all countries, including the United States. And I've had the same problems. I've had people in the United States that hire that were worthless. I mean, they did nothing. And I've had people in India and Pakistan and in Mexico and the Philippines that were worthless. But I've also had some really good people in all those countries. I've had really good people in the US. And what I have figured out over the years is that when you're hiring people, let's see what Mike Roberts says here. Got a new guy, gotta give him some time. Says, I'm an engineer, former plant manager and former car dealership manager. Mike, I managed car dealership for years too. I did sales, I did finance. I was used car manager, new car manager, general sales manager, general manager and I was a vice president. So I did all that and quit doing that in 2010, I guess it was, yeah, 2010. So it's been 11 years. Well, actually it's been 12 years because I started my business online before I quit my corporate job. But 12 years online now. And guys, if you don't know me to give you a little background, I want to be able to leave the corporate grinder and work full-time online. Buddy, you can do it. I'm dead serious, you can do it. You know, I started selling stuff online in 2009. And then I think 2010 is when I left the corporate world. And man, I'm telling you, it's so great, because when I was in, and I'll get a little off track from hiring people, but I just want to talk to Mike here for a second. You know, and the reason I want to is because I want to encourage you, Mike. Buddy, you can do this stuff. It's not rocket science. It really isn't. It's knowing the right things to do and how to do them. And once you got it, you got it, man. If you worked in card dealerships, you can work online, trust me. You've got the skills to do what it takes online. I mean, personally, technically, I had no technical skills. I had never sold anything online. I can't type, can't type to this day. So I kind of hunt and pack so it really slows me down from what I should be doing. But man, everything that you do online, there's too many people make it online for you to say, well, this person's special or that person's special. That's just not the case. They aren't special, okay? They just know a few things. They figured out a few softwares. They figured out a few things that work. And they put forth the effort. The effort is key, guys. The one thing I'll tell you is, and this goes with hiring people too, whatever you do, you've got to put forth a lot of effort. I mean, hiring people takes a lot of effort. It takes a lot of effort just to find the right person. But that's not even where it begins. It begins at your expectations of that person, okay? What do you expect of them? And then you have to train them to do what you want them to do. Somebody can say, well, I'm a great VA, but they don't know what you need, what your requirements are. And you got to really spell that stuff out. And that is what I want to talk about a little bit today because if you actually do these things and you apply these things, you could get a lot of results out of people. You really can. And you know the one thing that made me want to quit my job. And you think back to this, guys, and most of you out there, if you want to quit your job, it's probably because of money or management. That's it. And the number one reason people quit their job is because of their boss. That tells you how bad bosses are. I mean, that explains it to you right there. And I've become a much better boss. And I don't even want to call it boss. And a boss is such a ridiculous word. Like you're above somebody else. You're not above anybody else. You're not, okay? You're somebody giving somebody some money for their time in exchange for something you want to get back. And you need to respect that person. I mean, you need to give them tremendous respect because don't you remember what it was like to have a crappy boss? Don't you remember what it was like to be talked down to? You know, when you're hiring people online, you've got to give them that same respect that you would give somebody in person or in your country. It doesn't matter. People are people. Period. And as soon as we realize it's not skin color. It's not gender. It's not any of that stuff. We're just all people. It's that. That's what the world is made up of. You know, if everybody would just kind of realize that and go with that, then I think you can do a whole lot better. Let's see what I will do at Mike Roberts. I believe you will, buddy. And you know, ask me any questions you want seriously. If I can help you out, that's my goal in these live sessions is to help people out. And to give you a little background to me, if you don't know me. I started in 2009. I started selling trinkets of cell phone cases and silly things online. And I moved into survival food. I now own one of the largest survival food companies in the United States. We have some days we do over six figures a day. So we do pretty good. I shared, I think a screen share with you guys the other day of some of our sales. You know, and I run a promotion and it's nothing for me to do, you know, a half million dollars in 30 days. So we make money, okay? We make money. I've made millions of dollars online about digital products and physical products. So if you're interested in doing digital products such as courses or ebooks or PDFs, whatever, I've sold those and I sell those every single day. So, you know, I can help you out. Paul, what do you got to say? I like the saying higher, slow, but fire fast. Yeah, yeah, I tell you, and I'm gonna give my input to that firing thing too. Like you said, you need to pick people aligned with your values, of course. I have found that car people are resilient being it's a tough market to work in. Oh, it's dog eat, dog buddy. I'm gonna, I can tell you stories. You know, when I first started selling cars, I was 19. Yeah. And, you know, it's softened over the years. I mean, car sales people are a lot softer now than they were back then. I, you know, they had a thing called a split deal in car dealerships where, you know, if you up a person and they don't buy and they come back and somebody else talks to them which you've already logged into the log, then, you know, of course, it's a split deal and each of you get half the deal. But when I first started, it wasn't like that. It was like, you know, if you went up to the manager and said, hey, I think I'm supposed to be on this deal and he thinks he's supposed to be on this deal, the manager would look at you cold in the face and say, go out back, settle it, come back. Let me know who's on the deal. I mean, you literally had to go out there and get into a fist fight. And yeah, I did that, I did that. But I mean, that's what you had to do then. Nowadays, it's, oh, who logged on and you've got 72 hours protection and all this stuff. It's a much more softer environment than it was when I first started. So yeah, if you could kick the guy's butt and you knew you could, go out back and handle it. You know, and if you felt like you couldn't, let him have the deal, okay? That way you don't have to get beat up. Let's see, I learned who you are from watching your interviews with John Crestani. Oh my gosh, John Crestani's a great friend of mine, great guy, really liked John a lot. Really, really kind guy. He has not been on YouTube in over a month. And I gotta text him, I meant to text him the other day. I don't know what's going on. I know he went to New York and he's doing a lot of infomercials, that's his thing now. So he may be spending his time doing that. How long before you hired your first person and what did they do for you? Okay, great question. It was when I finally quit my job and I got a small warehouse. It was, gosh, I think it was 600 square feet. She was on Live Oak Drive in Chesapeake, Virginia. So you can look that up if you want Live Oak Drive in Chesapeake. And I had a little warehouse there and I hired a girl to be in the office and her job was fulfillment of orders. And back then I did a lot of camping products and a little bit of survival food. It was not my own brand. I was selling somebody else's. And her job was to fulfill orders and do some paperwork and stuff like that. She was awful. She was awful. And I got somebody one day and they got the wrong order and I went to her and I said, this person ordered this item but they got this item. What happened? She says, oh, I didn't see any of these so I just gave them this one. I was like, what? You what? So, maybe that was my fault but I would have thought it was painfully obvious if they ordered an item and we don't have it. We don't send them anything. We don't just send them another random item. But she did that. My wife saw what she was doing at the time. My wife actually worked for me at the automotive dealership but she was still at the automotive dealership. And she came to one day and she said, I'd like to help you out. I'd like to work with you. And I thought, oh no, that's not gonna be a good idea. That can't be a good idea. But I went ahead and I did it. I fired the girl and my wife came to work for me and man, she's helped me so much. I wouldn't be where I am now today without her. I really wouldn't. She's an amazing employee. Probably one of the best employees I've ever had and I'm not saying that because she's my wife but her too, I have to learn how to manage, okay? Because certain things are gonna work for her and certain things aren't gonna work for her. And I have to talk to her very kind. I think that's very important. And some people you don't. I mean, every individual's different guys. There's some certain similarities to countries but individuals are different. I raised two kids. I raised a boy and a girl and the way I talked to my daughter was entirely different than the way I talked to my son because I need to get results from both of them. And my daughter would get offended really easy. My son, nothing bothered him. I mean, it bounced right off his back. He didn't care. So I could say things a little bit harsher to him. Not that I wanted to but to get him to do something I kind of had to. So let's see here. Mike Roberts pays a lot less than it used to. Yes, you're totally right about that. During, I would say 2008 when everything kind of came to a crash. A lot of these car dealerships cut back on salaries and pays and they quit giving cars out and benefits and they never went back to it. That's the amazing thing because one of the best things, I'm a little off track here, but Mike, is this talking about interesting thing for me? One of the things that I think everybody went to the car business for was that they could get a free car. You got a car to drive. You got a brand new car to drive. That was pretty cool. So what they did at some point is they got rid of cars for the sales people and it was just the managers that had them. So I had a car. Well, I got a new car every six weeks because I had to put a certain number of miles on it. And I put enough miles on it. I think 3,000 or 5,000 miles. I was gonna think of what it was to where I maxed it out and just get a new car every six weeks, which was a nice benefit. Then it got to be where you had to get taxed on that benefit. So let's say you got a car they would pay you $500 a month but then they would take 500 a month out of your paycheck. And then it got to where there's no cars. I don't know if any managers have cars anymore but that was one of the big benefits. But anyhow, getting back to hiring people I hired a lot of people in the car business. And when I started hiring online it was entirely different because there were different norms and different expectations. I hire the Philippines. Filipino workers are great. Love them, love them, love them. If you do the right things by them they expect certain holidays off. They expect a 13 month pay. That means if somebody works for you for a year you gotta give them a month's pay. A whole entire month's pay. That's what they expect, okay? They can get offended very easy. You have to be very gentle how you talk to somebody in the Philippines because they're trying their best. They really are. And if they feel like they're letting you down they feel so bad they just disappear. They just don't show up, you know? And you won't find them anymore. They're just gone. So you don't wanna do that. So I found for the most part, for the most part I've had some crappy employees but for the most part over the years some of the worst situations with employees were my fault. It was my fault. Because I didn't give clear expectations. I assumed they knew they should do X, Y, and Z and they didn't. And they didn't do it and then I was disappointed but I never really told them to do those things. I never told them what the expectations were. I never told them what the timeline was. So when you're hiring people online it's no different, guys. It's no different at all. You've got to give them very clear rules and I think a lot of people when they start a business online they don't know anything. So they go out and hire people to do things they don't know and then they get disappointed when those people don't do the things they want them to do. For example, let's say they wanna get more traffic. They go, well I'm gonna hire this person who does SEO and I want them to increase my sales and then I'm gonna make more money. There's a lot more to it than that. Let me get a sip here. Let's see here. How do you suggest finding someone to edit videos? That's a great, great question, James. Look at their work. When you go to these sites, if you go to Elance, if you go to Freelancer, if you go to Fiverr, if you go to onlinejobs.ph, look at some of their work and then once you find some that you think does decent work, send them a file, send them a 10 minute video and say, I'm gonna pay you $10, $20, whatever the going rate is and I'd like to have you edit this video. These are the kinds of things I want you to do. I want you to have some Zoom in, Zoom out. I want you to have some B-roll in there. Once again, you got to supply them with a B-roll. I have a membership to the thing called Video Blocks and it has a bunch of B-rolls so they can just log in there and get the B-roll and I say, this is what I want in the beginning. I want an intro in the end. I want some end cards. I want it optimized for YouTube and let's see how you do on this. If you do good, I'd like to hire you full time. So I think one of the keys is with all these people that you hire online is give them a small job, see how they do it. Give them a small job and see how they do it because you'll be surprised that a lot of them have put up some really good examples of what they can do. They weren't their examples. They were just stuff they put up there. So you can get scammed. Now for the most part, I think most people on these sites are pretty honest and they're just trying to do an honest day's work. They really are. But you can get scammed. So if I give them a piece of work to do, if I say, hey, I want you to design this homepage, design this homepage for me and if you do good, I'll hire you full time as a WordPress developer for me. See a sample. That's the easiest way to do that. Let's see here. How did you find your first foreign employee and what country was it? Philippines. No, it was India. I hired exclusively in India in the beginning. I don't know why. I think I found a site called Elance. It's no longer around. I think it's called Upwork now. But yeah, I think it was Elance I used and I needed somebody to do something technical and it was actually to build a Magento website. Here's the truth. I needed somebody to build a website. I never heard of Magento, okay? And I came across this person at really good ratings and they said, well, you need a Magento site. I said, what's a Magento site? And they said, well, what you've explained to me is that you have people that are gonna be selling your products and people who are retail buyers of your products. They all need to be logged into one area and see different pricing levels and be able to put in orders, be able to buy stuff from you. And to do that, you need a really high level e-commerce site called Magento. And I had no clue what Magento was. And actually I really wanna thank that person because that was back in 2010 and they built a Magento site for me, which I'm redoing again. I've redone it like three or four times. They helped me a lot. They really did. And they actually showed me a platform I didn't know existed. So if you hire the right person, they can really help you. A few months ago, I hired somebody in India and they were like, you don't have share a sale. I'm like, what's share a sale? And I'd kind of briefly heard of it before. They were like, well, you need that because it's gonna really help you make money because other people can sell your products and you can make money off them. I said, well, it's like click bank. And they were like, no, share a sale is different because you don't have to really have, they don't have to send out stuff. They can just use your link in different places and they get cooking and they get paid. And I tell you what, I just had a money off share a sale. That one suggestion from that guy was really, really good. Great video. I look forward to grow my community, subscribe, please. Gaming for pleasure. Once people to subscribe, do me a favor guys. And I want, this is for YouTube gaming for pleasure. Don't ask people to subscribe unless they're gonna watch your videos. Really important, really key, key thing. The way that YouTube algorithm works is they look at your subscribers. If they're watching your videos, great. They're gonna push it out to more similar people. If you have a bunch of subscribers and nobody watches your videos, they're going to block your videos for most people and they will not get distributed. So be very careful. And I see people do this on Facebook too. They were like, like my page, like my page. I have a roofing company. Well, if you like somebody's page and you never go there and you never read any of their posts, you've actually hurt them. You've hurt them because there's no engagement in the audience. If there's no engagement in the audience that tells the algorithm that this content is worthless and they're not gonna show it to more people. So be very careful. Like, I want you to subscribe to my channel. I really do. But I don't want you to subscribe to my channel if you're never gonna watch a video here. That's just gonna hurt me. Please don't do that to me. I got a bunch of good comments in here, guys. Thank you so much for all this. I really appreciate it. In the future post, can you go over how you went from selling someone else's products to making a jump to manufacturing your own products? Also, how you learn the process for making food in a can. Yeah, I've actually hired some experts since they know I did that. But yeah, that's a long story. That really is a long story going from other people's products to mine. And I can tell you, I don't get much credit for it. What I get credit for is I ran into a lot of obstacles and I didn't quit. That's what I get credit for. But it wasn't because I had all these grandiose ideas. It was because I was pushed into a corner and I was out of money. And that's really why, you know. And when you get in those situations, understand those are the big opportunities, guys. When you're pushed into a corner and you have to do something, man, those are the biggest opportunities in the world. They really are. Mike Roberts, which is, I bought John's book, signed up on Clickbank and Digibank. I don't know about Digibank. I am on Clickbank. I'm a platinum seller on Clickbank, actually. Let's see here. Trying to learn enough to actually place ads so I can actually start doing something. I like the way you put that in all caps. Do you have any materials that can help me? Yes, I do. As a matter of fact, you're not gonna see them now, but at the end of this video, there's gonna be a description that's gonna pop up. There's a free course you can opt in for that. I have a lot of courses, a lot more than John does. Not that that means anything. I'm just saying I do. I have courses on Facebook ads. If you wanna do Facebook ads, I have a really good course called Facebook Ad University. I have courses on Shopify. I have courses on drop shipping. I have a lot of courses. I have an email marketing course. If you get on my list, you'll see some of that stuff and you can always send me a message, or post in the comment section after this is done, what you're looking for, and I'll put a link in there to some of this stuff because I can't put links in the chat box. They won't allow you to do that. So unfortunately, I can't do that. Real quick, I wanna go over some of the sites you can go to. I like Upwork a lot. Upwork is a really good site. I use that for one-off jobs. I don't hire full-time people there. I just use it for one-off jobs. Or somebody who is somebody I'm gonna use on a one-going basis and I wanna pay them by the hour. I have several employees on there like that. If I wanna hire somebody full-time and it's like video editing or WordPress development like that, and I wanna have them full-time 40 hours a week, I go to onlinejobs.ph. Let me see, onlinejobs. I don't think I can put this in there. I'm gonna try it though. Onlinejobs.ph, it did let me do that. Those are all Filipino workers, really, really good. But keep in mind, you don't wanna hire them part-time there. They all want full-time jobs. They will take a part-time job, but as soon as they find a full-time job, they're quitting. So make sure if you go there, you're looking for full-time people. So that's full-time. Also, freelancer.com is a really good one. Like freelancer.com, Fiverr is good for simple jobs. Let's say you need a logo done, something like that. But the one thing I hope you get out of today's session is that you gotta treat them with a tremendous amount of respect. Be very kind, be very polite. And Paul was saying something about hire slowly and fire fast. This is true. However, don't ever fire anybody with malice. It's really bad. And in the beginning I used to say, if you were fired, you're out of here. It was that Donald Trump thing, where you pointed at people and you're fired. And later on in years, I learned that's pointless. Because it didn't work out in this job, it doesn't mean you guys can't be friends. And I would say the last 20 years, I was in car dealerships. If I fired anybody and I saw them out at a bar, they were likely to buy me a drink. They were likely to thank me. Because really, if somebody's not working out in that job and things are working out, then there's probably a better place for them. And that was the talk I used to give them. I used to say, man, I'm sorry, it just didn't work out. I thought it would, but I gotta tell you, I don't want you to take this poorly because you're gonna find something probably much better than this job. Okay, this job is just not a good fit for you, but that doesn't mean that you're not a great employee or a great person. And that doesn't mean that at all. It just means that this situation didn't work out. And not every situation does in life, guys. And not every relationship works out. So why should every job work out for you? It just doesn't. Can you recommend a person for graphic work that's reasonable? Paul, there's so many people out there, buddy. I have a full-time graphic person that works for me right now, and they do all my stuff. So I don't really hire anybody in that area because he has the ability to do all that. But I would just say, look at the reviews on Upwork or Fiverr or whatever. There's some awesome people out there. They really are. Fiverr is really good as far as getting stuff back to you quickly. But all you got to do is look at the ratings, look at the examples. And the reason I wouldn't recommend a graphics person to you if I did have one that I used to barely, I don't, I have a full-time one, is because people want different kinds of graphics. Like maybe somebody specializes in cartoonish type stuff. Maybe people specialize in business type stuff. It's rare to have somebody that does all kinds of graphics. I don't look for people who wear a lot of hats. The one thing I would tell you is I would look for somebody who's specialized. So if I had an e-commerce website, I would look for an e-commerce graphic designer who knows e-commerce. If I had an artistic website, I would look for an artistic graphic designer. So try to niche down. And try to find the people that are niched down because they're gonna be really good at what they do. They're gonna do it faster, quicker, and they're gonna give you the results you want. So yeah, so today, guys, some of my videos got messed up from last week. So I've got to record videos again today. I've got 12 videos to do. I will start at 10 a.m. It's 9.27 now. Excuse me, let me get a drink. I do want you to do this today, though. Can you do that for me today? That's one thing that, where is he at? Where is he at? Mike Roberts just said, he wants to get something done. It's aggravating, isn't it, Mike? I mean, it's like, I want to get something done. And I know when I worked in the car business, I came up with a lot of excuses. I really did. I wanted to leave. I wanted to sell stuff online. But my excuse was I had to be at work at 7.38 in the morning, sometimes 7. And I wouldn't get home to 7.38 at night. Sometimes 9 or 10. And I was a single dad raising two kids. I had to get them in bed, I had to get them fed. And then all I had time was for like an hour or two of TV at night, that was it. So I had totally convinced myself that I didn't have enough time to do any of this stuff. I mean, I had to do all these other things. When in fact, one night I sat there and I looked at the TV and I was like, wait a second. I'm watching TV, huh? And I'm gonna do it for about the next hour, hour and a half. What if I turned it off? We don't turn off TVs like that anymore, do we? What if I turned it off? And I just tried to do something online. And that's how I got started. I just tried to do something online. And that one to two hours a night turned into sometimes three or four. Sometimes I'd be up half the night and I'd get hardly any sleep and I'd have to go to work the next day. And people would say, well, didn't you get tired? I was like, yeah, but you gotta give up something. I mean, it's just required. You gotta give up something, okay? You can't keep doing what you're doing and expect different results. And we hear that's the definition of insanity. And it really kind of is. And I talked to so many people who wanna do certain things and they say to me, well, I can't because of this and I can't because of that, I can't. Just do it. Cut out something else. Make a list of all the things that you do in a day and the things that aren't serving you well. Get rid of them. Get rid of them. Now, some of you say, well, I've gotta have my downtime and I've gotta watch the game and I've gotta go to a movie every now and then, then you're not gonna have a business online. If you don't have enough time and you have to do these frivolous things, then you're not gonna have a business online. It doesn't matter to you enough. It doesn't matter to you to have security. It doesn't matter to you to make more money. It doesn't matter to you. It just doesn't matter. Look at yourself in the mirror and say, it doesn't matter to me. You know, I watched an interview the other day with Elon Musk and he says just about every day, you know, I'm at work at eight, nine o'clock and that doesn't sound super early, but here's the key. He works to one or two AM every day. He says, usually I'll do it six days a week, maybe not seven, but for the most part, yeah, I do seven days a week to one AM. What are you doing? I mean, yeah, he's the richest guy in the world. He's a genius and all that, but he could be a genius and not be rich. What he's added is effort and you can be rich without being a genius. All you got to do is add effort, effort, effort, effort. Nobody's gonna outwork me. I mean, that's the one thing I got going for me. I'm not real super smart. I don't have a lot of talents technically, you know, technology-wise. I can't type, but it's hard to outwork me. I mean, it's super, super hard to outwork me. You know, we've got one of those mixed fitness bikes I was on at last night and the most amount of time you can go, the longest ride they have is an hour and I found one last night that was the longest ride, which was an hour and it was the toughest level and one hour I've earned 836 calories. It's hard to outwork me. It's hard to outwork me. And there's 10 minute, 15, 30, and 45 minute workouts. And you know, it's funny because the instructor even says, I don't know why you selected an hour workout, but you're serious. I know you are because most people don't select the hour workouts. I mean, he even tells you that in the video, but let's get going because we know you're serious. And I was serious. I ate too much for dinner. I fixed this incredible, oh my God, Paul, I gotta make this dish. It was a Cajun, it was like, I think it's called Mardi Gras Pasta, but it was basically a Cajun cream sauce with butter, seared chicken and Pinae Pasta with sun-dried tomatoes. Oh my God, it was so good. But after I ate it, I was like, I gotta get on the bike. This is gonna go straight to my belly. I mean, I'm gonna get fat, I gotta get it off. So that's the one thing. You gotta work hard, man. You gotta work hard. There ain't no way around this. You know, I used to think you could hire people to run your business. You can't, you can't. I mean, maybe you can get to a level of one day where you can trust a few people to do some things. I mean, you're always gonna have to work. You're always gonna have to show up. You're always gonna have to be there. That's the way it is. Let me check some of these comments here. You guys are really, really giving me some good stuff. I really appreciate it. Can you tell us about your monthly membership for beginners? I want to share with people looking for, to escape their job, just over broke place. Yeah, I would say Ecom Road is a good one, or Webcash Academy. Webcash Academy is my private VIP training that I did in person that we recorded with local businesses. Ecom Road shows you how to set up a Shopify store. It takes you step by step for that. And I think they're like $27 a month, something like that. You know, I haven't looked at it in a while, but I think it's around that. Those are some of the best beginner courses, and the free one that's gonna be in the description, which walks you through a few of the things you can do, and then that leads into one of those courses. And I think it does lead into Ecom Road. James Breen suggests you check out Joy of Baking. She has a great channel. Yeah, I know it's off topic. The devil made me do it. No, that's fine. You don't have to be on topic. Okay, but this is not a strict training session. I want to be here for you guys. I will check it out. And I like looking at this. I'm not a baker. I never have been. I haven't really developed an interest in that, to be honest with you. I made some great flour tortillas the other day. I tried that. They came out pretty good, but I'm not a baker. I know that. It's just, it's too precise for me. You know, it's like, you gotta have certain temperatures and certain amounts, and they have to set for a certain amount of time, and I like being able to just taste it and season it, keep moving on. But I will check it out, and I appreciate you sharing that with me. I really do. When building, it's delayed gratification and doing what others won't, so you can have what others can't. Your gift is common sense and persistent. And Paul's hungry now. It is very true, and it is delayed gratification. I mean, working out is delayed gratification. You know, when I go to push-ups and pull-ups and all the things that I do to stay in shape, you know, at my advanced age, I know it's delayed, and I know it's hard, and I know I'm not gonna see a result that day, but over the years, I have seen results. I can do 120 push-ups, okay? Not bad for my age, not bad. You know, am I the best at push-ups in the world? No, am I the best at my age? No, am I better than most? Yeah, yeah, and only reason for that is I put in work. I put in work every day. And the way you make yourself put in work is you say, you know, if I was, we'll take working out, if I was in really great shape for my age, what kind of things would I do to get there? And just do those things. I'd wake up every day and go, that's what I do. Those are the things I do. I just do those things. It doesn't matter if you feel like it. Don't ever say, well, I didn't feel like working out. That's bull, okay? Of course you don't feel like working out. Nobody feels like working out. You just do it, okay? I don't feel like filming 12 videos today. Do I enjoy it? Yeah, but I mean, it's hard. You know, I'll be in here for eight, nine hours doing videos, okay? It's difficult. It's difficult to do, but you gotta do it. You just gotta do it, okay? And don't expect, and the last thing I'm gonna tell you about hiring people, don't expect other people to care as much as you. You'll be let down every time. You'll be let down every time. Don't expect that. Just get the best you can out of people by treating them fairly, paying them generously, and being kind to them. Just do that, okay? When you're hiring people, just do those things. That's what I would suggest. If you have any other comments, throw them in that chat section right there. If you're watching this after I went live, put it in the comment section there. The chat window will not be there. You have to put it in the comment section. I have a lot of links in my description when this video's over with. You can go in there and look for different products, for different courses, for different trainings. I do have a free $97 course. I guess it's not a $97 course, I'm giving away free, but it sells for $97. I'm giving it away free. You can opt in for that. You'll find that in the description after this video's over with. Don't forget to subscribe, hit that subscribe button. Don't forget to share this video with some of your friends. Sharing is caring, right? Kind of hate that saying. It sounds so wimpy, doesn't it? Hey, ring the bell. Turn on all bell notifications so you're notified every single time I do a new video. I really do appreciate you guys being here. So thank you for taking the time to help people. No problem, Mike. And show up again tomorrow, I'll be here. Show up Saturday, I'll be here on Saturdays. I'm not till 10, but I do giveaway gift cards on Saturday, Mike, so maybe get a gift card. Can't tell you how much I look forward to these lives, and I hate when I miss them. I hate when you miss them too. I want you here, Paul. So many great lessons here to share with people. You may find things from Joy of Baking that may help you with Cooking Channel. I'll do it, man. No, I'll do it. Serious, I really will. I'll check it out. I have a lot, I have, I think, 87 channels that I subscribe to right now on YouTube. I'm not allowed to watch them until after about 10 at night. I have to work up until then, that's my rules. But after then, from 10 to 1 a.m., a lot of times I'll watch them. Unless I'm having a project, I've got to work on something like that. But I really appreciate you guys being here. It's been wonderful. I love your comments. I seriously do, guys, seriously. Being able to communicate back and forth with you and figuring out what you want and what I can do for you means the world to me. I really love having you guys around. I really do. Thank you so much for being here. Don't forget to subscribe, ring the bell. Give me a thumbs up, thumbs up. 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