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Taylor Swift is the Most Influential Person on the Planet

As the founder of the Small Business Owners Community, I’m here to kick off your week with insights that matter to you, no matter where you are in your entrepreneurial journey.

Today's Lineup:

  1. Taylor Swift’s Influence on Business:
  • We're starting with a look at Taylor Swift’s latest album release and her massive influence not just in music but as a business powerhouse. Why should entrepreneurs care? Because her strategies for engagement and audience capture are lessons in excellence for any business.
  1. Networking for Real Results:
  • Forget endless meet-and-greets. I’m sharing a personal story about how I accidentally discovered a strategy for making 'dream connections' that can significantly impact your sales and business growth.
  1. The Small Business Summit Update:
  • Get the latest updates on the upcoming Small Business Summit sponsored by The Connection Agency. We've got some exciting speakers and sessions lined up that you won't want to miss!
  1. Chester the Mouse Saga Continues:
  • An update on my battle with Chester the Mouse, who decided my basement was his new home. Spoiler: high-tech gadgets might be winning the war.
  1. Question of the Week - Thinking About Quitting:
  • I posed a question to our LinkedIn network: "When's the last time you thought about quitting?" The responses were both enlightening and inspiring, showing just how resilient entrepreneurs can be.

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Transcript
Speaker:

And good morning, got a question for you.

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Do you know who the most

influential person on the planet is?

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Think about it.

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Is it the guy with his

finger on the button?

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No.

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We'll talk about it in just

how influential you are.

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She is in today's show.

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Welcome into small business mornings.

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I'm your host, Pat Miller, founder of

the small business owners community.

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And today we're going to talk

about what's going on in the world.

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And we're going to get ourselves

primed and pumped and ready to

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small business for the week.

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In addition to the most powerful person

in the world, we're also going to talk

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about something I discovered, which

sounds way fancier than it is, but it's

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I accidentally stumbled across something

really cool and I'm kind of turning it

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into a new method for you to unlock a

dream connection and a sales target.

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Now again, I just fumbled into this, but

we're going to use it for good, not evil.

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We're going to catch up on the

small business summit that's

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coming up next Wednesday presented

by the connection agency.

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And I'm going to give you a mouse update.

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If you listened in last week, you

know that Chester the mouse is

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running around here someplace.

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Well, did I catch him?

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Where's Chester still in the wild?

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We'll talk about that and our question of

the week When's the last time you thought

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about quitting your small business?

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And we've got a great meme of the week

from our director of meme abby miller

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Your job is to drop into the comments

and say hello And say good morning that

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way I can say hello to you back and

suzy's here and erin's here and kristin's

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here and you're here And because you're

here Now we can get started Who's the

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most influential person in the world?

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Do you know?

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If you think it's the president

or, I don't know, a dictator

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someplace, you're wrong.

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She's the most powerful

person in the world.

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And I'm pretty sure the

numbers will bear this out.

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Unless you live under a rock, you

know that Taylor's new album, Tortured

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Poets Society, released last Friday.

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It's Now this is a big deal

because the album is so long A lot

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of her fans need it all weekend

just to to take it all in right?

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So it came out on friday people have

been listening to it all weekend and

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according to abby who listened to it

constantly Uh, it's very emotional

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And it was good to have the weekend to

consume it all but when you hear about

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an artist Or a show on netflix being big

We've kind of lost touch with how big,

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really big, really is Good Morning Sarah.

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Because, if you're a fan, Taylor's

the biggest thing on the planet.

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But even if you're not a fan, Taylor's

the biggest thing on the planet.

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So I don't want to talk about her music.

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I want to talk about Taylor as an

influencer and as a business, not just

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as a musician, because she's probably

way bigger with a way wider appeal

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than you think if you're not a fan.

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So first, you know who

Taylor Swift is, right?

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But you might still think if

you're not a fan, you still

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might think, well, she's really.

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Kind of a niche artist and she

affects young girls and tweens.

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Remember all that?

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That's how Taylor was

introduced to a lot of us.

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Oh, well, you know, it's

kind of a girl thing.

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Well, you'd be wrong because the numbers

are showing this influence is real.

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Not the most influential

musician on the planet.

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Not the most influential

woman on the planet.

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The most influential person

on the planet right now.

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This is her 11th.

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Studio album.

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And this is her first release since 2012.

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The new album's 31 tracks long, and

she says it's an anthology of new

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works that reflect events, opinions,

and sentiments from a fleeting

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and fatalistic moment in time.

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Now on the first day it was

out, the first day, it sold 1.

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4 million copies, which is rare because

people don't buy albums anymore.

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But 1.

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4 million on the first day is gigantic.

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And on that first day, first day, it

had 300 million streams on Spotify.

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First day, 300 million streams.

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Now when you think about who has

the biggest reach on the planet,

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the person I think about is Mr.

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Beast.

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People think about YouTube, Mr.

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Beast, biggest influencer there is.

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Well, last week, Mr.

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Beast, I looked it up.

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Mr.

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Beast had 451 million

video views all last week.

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Taylor had 300 streams in a day.

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She's going to dust him.

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It's not even going to be close.

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So I thought, okay, how

can we quantify this?

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If you're still not into

it, how do we quantify this?

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Google trends.

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I pay a lot of attention to Google trends.

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Taylor, Is the blue line.

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This is Taylor's last week of search

volume on Google for Taylor and that big

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spike is the day that the album came out.

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Who do you think the red line is?

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The blue line, good morning

Patty, the blue line is Taylor.

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Who's the red line?

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Now this is Google search volume.

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The red line is literally

the most powerful person in

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the world, President Biden.

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That's Google search interest

for Taylor versus Biden.

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It's not even close Then let's

get out of music for a second.

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Here's another one.

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Check this out The blue line is Taylor

The red line, what is the red line?

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It's something that's happening

today It's something that will be

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talked about in every newscast.

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It's gonna be all inside your social

media feed Everyone everyone is

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talking about this today in the

United States What is the red line?

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So this red line should, like, spike

straight up because it's a one day thing.

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Like, it's a holiday.

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But Taylor is still crushing

this one day of awareness.

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That red line is Earth Day.

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Happy Earth Day, by the way.

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I still don't know how to

celebrate Earth Day, but happy

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Earth Day, however you celebrate.

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That's domination right there.

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Is what that is.

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And that is public awareness.

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Now here's another thing.

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This is gonna blow your mind.

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Are you ready to have your mind blown?

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Are you ready?

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If you think that Taylor's audience

is still just little girls and

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swifties and that whole thing.

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If that's what you think.

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I looked up her audience using

SparkToro, created by Rand Fishkin,

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the keynote speaker of the Digital

Summit coming up on May 1st.

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Here's her audience.

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Now just, you gotta take

a second and look at this.

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Cause this is like, what?

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Keyword Taylor.

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Search the word Taylor.

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Half men, half women.

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Half men, half women.

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52 percent of her audience is women.

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48 percent of her audience is male.

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And if you think, like, that

number really surprised me.

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Not because she's a big

deal, she's a big deal.

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I just didn't know that

her appeal was that broad.

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Here's the last thing about

Taylor and her influence.

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I didn't think that it was

possible to do anything for me.

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that would grow the

ratings of NFL football.

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Now, NFL football, huge fan,

Bears, NFL football is a TV

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show disguised as a sport.

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It's the number one through number 10 most

watched TV shows of the year, every year.

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Yet, when Taylor started dating Travis

Kelce, people tuned in who had never

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watched football before, just to see her.

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Just blip there.

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She is.

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Oh my god.

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There she is and it actually moved the

needle They went back and analyzed the

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ratings of the games where she appeared

and the ratings where she appeared Ratings

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were up 9 to 15 percent of the games that

she appeared at that is Beatles level

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stuff Beatles level stuff So if you're

sitting there grumpily, that's a word

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by the way grumpily grumpily ignoring

Taylor, huh Taylor's stupid like if

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you're one of those folks right now,

and you're a small business owner You're

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missing it It it You're missing it and

to put it even more in perspective If

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you're sitting there today thinking, what

am I going to put on my social media?

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Oh, I'm going to put up

a picture of the earth.

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Happy Earth Day.

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Okay, fine.

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Do that if it's on your heart, but know

that you're talking about the thing that's

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down here, not the thing that's up here.

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Every single one of you.

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I don't care if you're

a lawn care company.

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I don't care if you sell

copiers for a living.

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You should put a tweet out or put a

LinkedIn post up today about Taylor Swift.

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I'm telling you.

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If you think that this is some niche

deal, you are:

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It's the biggest story and

the most influential person

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in the world for all of you.

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So that's my recommendation for today.

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Learn it, know it, live it.

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Welcome in, by the way, Pat

Miller, founder of the SBOC.

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Glad that you're here.

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Good morning, Aaron.

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Thanks for tuning in.

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Uh, I want to talk about

networking for a second.

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What's the point of networking?

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You want to build a list of people

that know, like, and trust you so you

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can buy and sell what you need to win.

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Isn't that right?

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Networking's goal is to build a list of

people that know, like, and trust you so

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you can buy and sell what you need to win.

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Now that's a pretty

good definition, right?

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I wrote that this morning and I really

scrutinized it because I'm like,

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what is the point of networking?

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Networking's you get people to

like me so I can sell stuff to

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them and buy stuff from them.

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That's really when we boil

it down, that's the purpose.

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But what hit me as I was thinking

about that, some of us do kind

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of bottomless pit networking.

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Meaning the point of our

networking is basically more.

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Well, what are you doing?

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I'm out networking.

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Who are you trying to meet?

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Everyone.

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Does that happen to you?

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Do you ever get stuck into

the concept of just more?

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And it's really easy to lose sight

of that defined goal of networking.

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You can just kind of avoid drilling

down for power connections and just

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get stuck on the quantity of people.

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And, here's another thing.

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You can, like, fall into a habit

of waiting for an introduction.

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So not only one extreme is I'm going to

go out and harvest as many people as I

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can, or I'm going to sit back and wait

to be introduced to my power partners.

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Both of them can work.

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I'm not being critical of them,

but they're differing strategies.

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And introductions are great, but

I had something happen to me this

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week that I thought, oh, cool.

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I wish I was smart enough to do that on

purpose because I wasn't this happened by

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accident but It was such a neat accident

that i'm making it a thing and I want to

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share it with you this morning a way that

you can meet Power partners and people

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that seemingly are way out of your league

I'm used to trying to meet people out

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of my league because hello look at me.

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Have you met abby?

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Look at this.

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Yes Okay, obviously i'm good at making

maybe like getting to know people out

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of my league So as a host of a small

business community and an organizer

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of business events, there are a few

categories that I need to make friends in.

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I need to find people that want small

business owners to pay attention to them.

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And specifically, I want to find people

that spend a lot of money to get small

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business owners to pay attention to them.

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You know, insurance, banking,

legal, CPAs, those kinds of people.

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And I'm trying to meet those people, like

the national people, like the big people.

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But it's really hard to

meet them one by one.

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I don't need hundreds of

introductions to a bunch of random

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people outside of my target list.

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I need to build those relationships

with the big time targets.

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And I need to tell them two things.

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I need to tell them, I have the

people that they're seeking.

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And I can put them in front of the

people that want to buy your stuff.

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I have the people and I can

put you in front of them.

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Those are the two things

I need to tell them.

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That sounds really simple, right?

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Sit in your basement in your PJ pants.

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Who do you want to meet?

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This person.

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What do you want to tell them?

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I got what you need, baby.

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That's what you got to tell them.

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But compare that targeted strategy to

the last networking event you went to.

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Oh, Pat, I'd like to introduce you to Bob.

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He fixes bicycle tires.

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Pat, this is Al.

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He sells air conditioners.

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I mean, it's nice to meet you, Bob and Al.

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But I want to go where

the power partners are.

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So this week I stumbled across something

good, and you can steal it and use it

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and, like, pretend it's your own idea.

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Okay?

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I had this impossible contact.

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This person that I have on the Mount

Rushmore of I want to be their friend.

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Like, these are the ones, like this is,

if I could get this person's attention and

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sell them stuff, we would be on it, baby.

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And I had reached out to this person, Hi,

I'm Pat, and I have a community, and I

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think you're swell, and if we could ever

have an ice cream cone together, like,

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it was one of those deals, and nothing.

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So I was scrolling Twitter, and

I saw that someone on my Twitter

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feed interviewed her on a podcast.

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So I'm like, hey, that's, that's

the person I've been trying to meet.

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So I listened to the

podcast, and it was great!

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So that I followed the host of the show.

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I followed the show.

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And then I went on LinkedIn

and I DM'd the target.

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This person.

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And all I said was, Hey person, I just

got done watching you on this show.

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I really appreciated your

comment on this thing.

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Great job!

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And you may see in our chat history

I've wanted to connect with you

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before in the past and I would love

the opportunity to tell you about

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the small business owners community.

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That was it.

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That was all.

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In less than an hour, I got a response.

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Hey, thanks.

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Here's my email.

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It's good.

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I'm not saying that I'm selling

anything to this person.

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This was a complete happy accident.

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Did the thing.

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Sent the thing.

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Yahtzee.

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Whoa!

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Okay.

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So now today I have to send a

very thoughtful email, share

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the stuff with the contact, and

I'll let you know how it goes.

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Huge win.

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And this all happened by accident.

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Again, not smart enough

to invent this strategy.

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However, pattern recognition showed up

and I know, hey, let's drill this down.

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So I want you to think

about a dream target.

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I mean, dream target for what you do.

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You're a speaker, right?

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Who makes the decision on the TED stage?

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Great.

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That's your dream target.

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Google their name plus podcast.

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Now you know how that works, right?

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If you put in Pat Miller, and then you

put plus with no spaces plus podcast, It

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will return results of me on a podcast

or me being mentioned in a podcast.

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Plus podcast means include

podcast in the search results.

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Or Google their name plus

blog or plus YouTube.

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You'll get a bunch of results.

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Then sort those results by the date.

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And you may see your dream contact

was just on a podcast 60 days ago.

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or just released a blog two weeks ago.

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Once you do, read it, listen to it,

find something thoughtful about what

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they did, and then message them.

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Hey, Patty, just wanted to let you know

I read your blog, and you said these

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things, and I thought it was great.

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Way to go.

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That's it.

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That's all.

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Now, why does this work?

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I'll tell you why this works.

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I don't care if you're the chair of Ted.

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I don't care if you're, uh, Simon Sinek.

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I don't care who you are.

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When you sit down with the courage to

share what you think with the world,

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I don't care who you are.

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You're waiting for the feedback.

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You want to know that what you

said resonated with someone.

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I don't care who you are.

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Every single person wants that.

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And if they say they don't

want that, they're lying.

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And maybe they don't sit there

and wait for it, but they

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appreciate it when they get it.

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That's probably a fairer way to say it.

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So if you send literal

fan mail to someone, Hey,

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person, saw you on the thing.

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I really respected your perspective

on this and I'm gonna use it for this.

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Stay awesome.

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It could be that simple.

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You might have a chance to

start a dialogue with them.

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I did this by accident, but now

I have at least a conversation

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started with my dream client.

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So rip it off, try it, and if you

use it and it works, let me know.

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Like, I would love to

know what that works.

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It's um, it's pretty cool.

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So, wish me luck.

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Coming up, I'm going to give

you a Chester the Mouse update.

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We've got our meme of the week.

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We have our question of the week.

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When's the last time you thought

about quitting your small business?

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But first, I want to talk about our small

business summit coming up on Wednesday.

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Not this Wednesday, next Wednesday.

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May 1st is the Small Business

Owners Community Digital Summit

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presented by the Connection Agency.

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It is from 9 to noon.

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It's on Zoom, and this is a can't

miss event for small business owners

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because we're talking about the three

hottest topics in business right now.

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Those three hot topics, sales,

AI, and audience growth.

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Because all of us, we need to meet

more people and introduce our product.

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We gotta close the sales when

those opportunities show up.

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And AI is going to change

the way that we work.

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So if you want in and you're a

small business owner community

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member, all you got to do is

click RSVP inside the software.

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But if you're not a member

yet, this isn't all swim.

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We want to help all small

business owners with this event.

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So click the QR code that's on your

screen right now, and you can join us.

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May 1st.

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It doesn't matter if we've never met.

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I'd love to meet you, and I'd love

to have you come to the event.

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Our keynote speaker is Ran Fishkin,

the founder of SparkToro and

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Moz, and he's doing a talk on how

to build your audience online.

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I mean, he is like the leading voice

on how to identify where your audience

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is and how to connect with them.

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Then we're talking sales with Dr.

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Donna Smith Bellinger.

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Sales is not about wait and see.

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How do you follow up with purpose and

close the deals that are out there?

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And then our good friend, Founding

50 member, Jennifer Buchholz,

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she's doing a full blown demo on

Microsoft's CoPilot generative AI.

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And what's cool about it is she's not

only a Microsoft certified trainer,

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she's also going to approach this

from a very practical standpoint.

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What if you don't pay for CoPilot?

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Can you still unlock some of the goodies?

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You can.

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So JB is going to do a training on that.

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So the community summit is going to

be incredible free for all members.

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Just click RSVP in the app.

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And if you're not a member yet You

just got to click the QR code that was

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on your screen until 10 seconds ago.

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There it is And you can get

your ticket before the summit

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next Wednesday 9 to noon.

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It's going to be great presented by the

connection agency one of our new partners

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Okay, let's talk about our mouse update.

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Did you miss last week's show?

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Well, you missed something fun last week.

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Well, kind of not fun for

me, but maybe fun for you.

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Something happened last week

when it got to be 70 degrees.

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When it got to be 70 degrees, everything

with legs decided to crawl out of

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whatever hole they were living in.

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I mean, I'm talking spiders everywhere,

millipedes, ferrets, and a family of mice.

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That's not a thing.

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Not a thing.

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I'm sitting in the living room and I

hear Abby make a noise reserved for, oh

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my god, there's a mouse in the basement.

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So I went downstairs and determined,

yeah, oh, there's another one.

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Uh oh, we have a family of mice.

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So I went and I established

a second mortgage at Lowe's.

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And I bought every weapon

possible to get rid of the mice.

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They can't even shake their tail

in the house without laser beams

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of death coming down on them.

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And over the last two weeks,

I've actually ejected two mice.

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Two!

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And for you mouse lovers,

I didn't kill them.

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What I actually did is, I, I saw them

and threw a towel over them, and scooped

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them up and released them outside.

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I literally did that.

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I did not kill them.

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But I've only seen one

other running around.

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I've only seen three total,

which means there's probably 87.

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But I've only seen three and gotten rid

of two, so I'm feeling pretty good, right?

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But that one, that extra, Chester,

we named him last week on the show.

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Since last week, I have

not laid eyes on him.

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Now it may be the rat poison

that's every two feet.

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Maybe that's what got them.

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And I've got traps everywhere,

although none of them have worked.

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But I did one other thing that as soon as

I did it, I haven't seen the mouse since.

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So I'm walking through Lowe's,

again, spending an obscene amount

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of money to demouse the house.

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And I saw something I'd never seen before.

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It's a little, it looks like a nightlight.

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It's like a little square, about

that big, and you plug it in the

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wall, and the package claims that

it emits a sound, a high pitched

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sound, that the mice don't like.

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Eee, probably sounds like that.

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You know what it might be?

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It might be, go away, at like

a frequency we can't hear.

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You're no longer welcome.

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Go away.

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But it's a high pitched frequency.

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As soon as I plug those things in,

I have not seen the mouse since.

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Now, I know, just because, life, I'm

gonna see this thing run across the

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floor here while I'm talking to you.

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But I have not seen the mouse since.

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Bait didn't work.

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Traps didn't work.

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But maybe these little plugs worked.

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I'm not sure.

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But yes, we are mouseless as of right now.

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If I see Chester, I'll tell

him that you said hello.

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And I need to kind of figure this out.

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Because Abby, while understanding

my loving wife, she wants a corpse.

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She's not okay with, I haven't seen him.

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No.

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Until I produce a corpse, there's no way.

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It's not done yet.

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Abby, when she sees a spider,

I'm the squish patrol, right?

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I could be in New Hampshire.

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If there's a spider in the house, I

am to report and produce a corpse.

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No matter what.

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That's my job.

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I haven't seen a corpse yet of the mouse.

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So this job is not done.

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But that is an update.

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Okay, Aaron, are you serious?

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My daughter is getting a snake.

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So save them for me, and I, whoa.

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That would be, uh, effective.

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Abby, I didn't kill it,

but it's off to be killed.

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She would probably

accept that as an answer.

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I don't understand snake people, Aaron.

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Respectfully, I'm not critiquing them.

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I'm saying, my ignorance is, I

don't understand snake people.

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You can't really, I mean

maybe you can cuddle them?

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I don't know.

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I don't get it.

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I don't get it.

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I'm not gonna say anymore cuz I

don't wanna get in trouble with

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Big Snake because Big Snake people

probably uh, would beat me up.

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Okay.

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Oh, Laura's got a comment

in the mouse sonic devices.

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They use them in their

camper over each winter.

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They get zero mice as long

as they have them running.

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Maybe I have stumbled across a hack.

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Mouse.

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Sonic devices.

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Thank you, Laura.

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Appreciate it.

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Good morning, by the way.

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And Patty says, I'm with Abby.

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Yes, we need to produce a

corpse or this job is not done.

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We've got our meme of the day coming

up, but I want to do our question

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of the week because it's a good one.

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When is the last time

you felt like quitting?

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See, we're goofing around with

mouse corpses and laser beams

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and ferrets and then I hit you.

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Pow!

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When's the last time

you felt like quitting?

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Oh.

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Things happen.

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Things slow down.

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You get frustrated.

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And if you're like me, you kind

of doom spiral a little, right?

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And you reach the point where you think

to yourself, you know, this would be

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easier if I work for someone else.

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You know, what would

be nice is a paycheck.

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You know what would be nice is if this

was someone else's freaking problem.

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Now, you might even have actually

looked at the job listings and I'm

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going to tell you right now, I have.

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Recently.

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So this is not, we're not immune to this.

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We're all subject to the ups and downs

of our small business and sometimes

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that might mean considering quitting.

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Now I'm not, I was just in a

bad place, but when you think

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about quitting, what do you do?

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I asked my LinkedIn network that,

and I want to hear, what do you

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do when you think about quitting?

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And look at Laura Holliman.

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Brilliant.

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When's the last time you

thought about quitting?

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Well, it's Monday.

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So earlier today.

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Bravo, Laura.

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Thank you very much.

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Show's always funnier when you're on.

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Appreciate it.

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All right.

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So, I asked the LinkedIn network

when's the last time you thought

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about quitting and what did you do?

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Joseph Levy reconnected

with the purpose of his job.

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I thought this was a good answer.

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Working in higher education, specifically,

measuring student learning and managing

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quality assurance, talking with staff

and students about their passion and

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purpose helps me get back on track.

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Yes, there are stressors, bad actors, and

many barriers and pressures, several of

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which we may be creating for ourselves.

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Great insight there.

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But we also have a good amount of

talented and passionate people who

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have the capacity to come together

and transform students lives through

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education, and I get to be a part of that.

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Awesome answer, Joseph.

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Awesome.

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Sherry Danialak considered

the alternative.

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At times when I feel like quitting

my business, it's because something

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didn't go as planned, and I'm feeling

overwhelmed and really stressed out.

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Right?

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I spend some focused time remembering

my mission and vision, since the why is

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where I find inspiration to keep going,

and I take a look at my vision board.

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I also think about the potential

clients who I can serve and how

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fulfilling it is and joyful it is

when I see that I've made a positive

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difference with my current clients.

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And here's the landing.

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Stick the landing.

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Do it, Paula.

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Lastly, I think about the alternative

of going back to work for somebody

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else and that is a big heck no.

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No!

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No!

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No!

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If someone walked down the steps right

now and said, Pat, here's a blank check.

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Write your salary to come work for me.

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They would have to have one of

those big floppy checks that they

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have at the casinos just to be

able to fit all the zeros that

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would get me out of my basement.

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No way.

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So we're asking the question,

what do you do when you think

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about quitting the business and

how did you get out of that funk?

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I asked my LinkedIn network and

I want to hear what you do when

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you feel a little bit down.

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Jill Melford gets creative.

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At times, it gets challenging to

stay motivated, especially when

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things don't go as planned, and

I begin to struggle financially.

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At those moments, I take a step back

and try to look at things from a variety

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of perspectives, always looking for

ways to save money and make money.

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Good exercise.

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I research consumer trends and

what they most want and need.

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It's important to do this a couple of

times a year since consumer trends change.

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Then I dive deep into those trends

within my business to see what's

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being produced for consumers.

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It ignites my creativity so

I can develop new products.

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This is how I stay in the

game and avoid quitting.

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I redirect negative energy into

positive creative energy to produce

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new products that make customers happy

and my small business profitable.

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Awesome.

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Awesome answer.

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One more and then we want

to hear yours as well.

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So drop it into the chat.

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What do you do when

you feel like quitting?

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Chris Wallace said, uh that

they lean into gratitude.

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Chris said, I think the best way I have

found to cure what Zig Ziglar called

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stinking thinking is to stop, take a

breath, And make a list of what I'm

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grateful for in my business and life It

is virtually impossible to feel negative

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about a situation if you start with

gratitude Because gratitude is the most

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powerful emotion we have it vibrates

at a higher frequency It's been my

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experience that things look different

once you reframe them with gratitude.

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Aren't those awesome answers

and all like Wow, like I can use

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all of those So what do you do?

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When you think about

quitting your business.

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Kristen came in.

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She has an answer.

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About a year ago, there was discussion

of what used to be my dream job opening

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up, and I would be a front runner for it.

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I considered it for about 10 minutes.

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LOL.

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Absolutely not.

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And now you're crushing it.

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Way to go, Kristen.

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Thank you.

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And Sarah says, I reach out to

my network and do something to

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either reduce my expenses or grow.

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Sometimes I'll grab another part

time job, just like last week.

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Yeah, we got to do what we

got to do, right, Sarah?

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But that's a good way to do it.

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Just reconnect with your folks

and remember, don't grow it alone.

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Meme of the Week time, Monday

morning, Meme of the Week time

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from your director of meme, your

friend the photographer, Abby Miller

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from Stories Frame Photography.

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If you're having a hard time

this morning picking out what to

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wear, and you're a small business

owner, Maybe this will do you.

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Just me and my to do

list ready for action.

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Perfect.

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Isn't that the truth?

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So you hear dorks like me say, take the

weekends off, don't work on the weekends.

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Well, this dork has been

not working on the weekends.

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And now this is what my life looks like.

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Monday Today is like.

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Boy, I can't wait to sit

down and do all the things.

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That's my to do list today.

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Pat, how's your day look?

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Awful.

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That's today.

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I have all the things.

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So that visual is just spectacular.

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And that's what I'll be wearing today.

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PJ pants and a shirt made of post

it notes ready to take on my day.

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Okay, before we get out of here,

I'm reminding you the Digital

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Summit's coming up on May 1st.

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Remember, SBOC members get in free

because you're cool and nice smelling.

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Also, it's open to the public.

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So, if you have not grabbed your ticket

yet, you don't want to miss this event.

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It's only 47, people.

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Like, come on.

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9 to noon, next Wednesday,

it's gonna be great.

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Grab your ticket before

you think about it.

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Like, go do it right now.

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And join this group of

people and enjoy the Summit.

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So thanks for joining this episode

of Small Business Mornings.

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I'm Pat Miller, founder of the SBOC,

fun chatting with you this morning.

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Now go do something that matters.

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Will ya?

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Talk to you back here next week.

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Thanks.

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