um like my family's all okay so that's a win that is a huge win they live in venice florida
so they were like right in the path oh my gosh did they evacuate or did they just hunker down
well so my mom and dad evacuated to but they went south because everybody else was going north so
they went okay to miami which wasn't in the direct path luckily okay and um my brother stayed so we
haven't been able to really get a hold of him but we know he's okay so okay so you know he's okay
because someone else has reported like his whereabouts or something yes okay yeah yeah we
know the people that he's with have been able to like get the word out that they're okay and
they know he's okay so that's good that's awesome that's a huge one for sure is anyone else in
florida or evacuated from from florida brandy my whole family's in florida and they are fine
water and electricity but they live in central florida and usually in central florida you don't
get a lot of damage it's the coast so okay fine yeah good i brandy i saw you had your hand up as
well i'm in miami so we were really lucky it went north of us and we really hardly even got any wind
or rain which was unexpected but um my aunt is in orlando and they got um pretty significant
wind rain they lost power and then there were tornadoes north of them so the tornadoes are wild
yeah i have a lot of friends in florida and and in north carolina so everybody i know survived
with only loss of either like power water loss of property but so everybody's personally okay
which is the most the important thing yeah i somewhat i thought maybe catherine did you have
your hand up as well yeah same here i'm i'm in miami uh but i have family in central florida
in the lakeland area so um they lost power they still don't have power and then um like
three quarters of all their oak trees are down uh but thankfully everybody's safe um so and then
i had my brother uh evacuated um but he got he just got back into town okay good well it's good
to hear that all your families are safe and you're in florida that you're holding up um yeah there's
been just a lot of our of the team the rainmaker team there are several people in florida as well
and there's been a lot of craziness so it's been an interesting couple of weeks for the people in
florida but i'm glad to have you guys here good to be back with you guys again i don't know if
anyone can confirm like if they can find this on the streaming wherever it's supposed to stream
i'm still getting used to the app but i just want to make sure this is being recorded properly
so tiffany i don't know if you're able yeah i don't think it i don't think it actually streams
i think they just have access to the link to join in the app so i think you're good okay
all right maybe it's under oh i see under replay as it shows up okay yeah and it is there so that's
good so people can get it later perfect all right well all right i'm tapping in for steven today
again he's at a mastermind and so i'd love to just talk through some questions with you guys
what are you guys experiencing with the income side of things what questions do you guys have
go ahead and throw up your hands i see brandy you got your hand up you got a question for us today
i do it's not income related but i'm not able to be on the tuesday calls really in a productive way
so i'm hoping that i can yeah it's fine we've got me here she'll help us out
she's been doing lots of stuff with the influence side of things so for sure go ahead yeah so i think
basic oh great now my mac is my computer's gonna sleep so um basically my big problem i'm having
that i use the template to um so what the short version is i'm for the first time doing this
myself i had someone doing it and i rebranded and um i guess a win is that i just rebranded my
profile and um i already have seven followers i haven't done anything that's so um yeah yeah
well um so what happened is i i figured out how to download the video on my computer
um but not on my phone so that's the first thing and then
once i downloaded it i put it into steven's template
And when I play it in Canva from the screen it's like, you know, inside the template if I just click on play it only plays my video, but at the top of Canva, it says play one minute, and I play it and it plays my video and then seamlessly goes into Stevens instructional
video that's already there when you first open it.
So I don't know if that's going to show up on Instagram. Then the second thing is like, I have not been able to figure out how to get it to Instagram, I don't have premium on Canva.
I don't know like I'm just feeling a little bit stuck in all of this.
Are you able to share your screen your canvas screen.
If you tell me how I will do it.
Yeah, share at the bottom.
It says host disabled participants screen sharing.
Okay, I can fix that.
I'm all for designs. All right, try now.
So, I have to figure out
how to
in terms of like the paid version of Canva to, I think that there's a lot of benefit to having the paid version.
I think we've had other people ask questions related to that in the group on other calls and the consensus has just kind of been that the paid Canva version is just very beneficial to have.
I'm sure that there's ways that you can do it with just the unpaid, but it's certainly more difficult.
Yeah, I mean my challenge right now is I lost my job so
I had this fabulous job which I created, and then I just lost it so I don't really have like a lot of, you know, flexibility right now.
And this is asking me to give permission to my computer to share the screen but I
Yeah, I'm on a Mac.
You may need to do that if you haven't shared screen on it before. It's like a settings thing.
Okay, so it's open system settings.
Yep.
To be a little like toggle is like if you clicked on the alert, it should take you directly to where
And the problem is both of them are grayed out, like it is, it gives me the option for loom and zoom but it doesn't allow me to quit. I can, I can't actually toggle it on, it's grayed out.
I'm not sure what. Okay.
Well, I have to do it like when you're not on a zoom mean, although I've had people do it said it before.
I've had people change it before in a meeting.
We might
I can go up and do that and you can help somebody else and then I can log back in.
Go ahead and try. I don't know for sure.
We'll make it on grade for you, but go ahead and try. If we can't get you to share screen. If we could at least see the video you're talking about where it switches to Steven.
So we can maybe it's going on there. And then we could we look at
You could go through security and privacy. I have a Mac to
Okay.
I was, I was on so okay wait let me go back to that settings.
And there's going to be like a little lock thing that opens and you have to enter your password and then it locks again.
Let me pull that again and see if I get the lock thing I didn't see it.
Open system settings.
Let me go to the privacy and security page.
And then go to the bottom. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Awesome. Thank you.
Figured that out. Okay, so now
Yep, we can see that.
Like a million support tabs open
Emotional support tabs.
I mean, that's how bad I had to categorize. Okay, so here we are. See, here's the video.
Right here, it just goes through the whole video I want to make
And then if but if I go up here to this.
Oh, okay. Okay. That's because.
So close out of that.
That's because if you click play up in the top right it's going to play every like slide, like every page. Okay, so see how the second page is still a template.
Okay.
So it's playing like one after the next after the next. If you download. Yeah. So if you download the top one that you edited, like if you just download that to your phone, that but it's kind of weird. Okay, here's, I don't know, Tiffany, what you're
It's like
Yeah.
You're on desktop, and you really want to do it from your phone at least that's what I was doing. Is that what you do as well. Maybe walk through this.
Okay, so there's a Canva app, and it takes a little getting used to.
I used it before, just not for this.
Okay, and, and there is a video that you've made from of like start to finish downloading the video you want to use, putting that in, like snap and stuff, taking that into Canva like he has like a start to finish video that I can send you.
But if you're doing it from desktop.
And it does look kind of similar like if you hit that share up in the right hand corner.
Yeah, and it'll be the same kind of thing when you do this on your phone.
So where it says download. Yep.
And then this is where you want to make sure like where it says select pages.
If you hit that, and then unselect all the pages and just do the current page you're working on. Yep.
And that's going to download just that one template and video that you're working on instead of all the ones like how it was showing page two after the first one.
Is this telling me, is it already downloaded or is this telling me it can't download it unless. Okay, so this is where it gets tricky because there are certain features in Canva, that you can put into your design to look at, but then to download.
They want you to pay for Canva Pro so it might be a font. It might be
a logo or like an element, those kind of things. So, and then also there's the side of it that like you have to be careful of the fonts that you're using because some fonts.
Once you put it up on Instagram, Instagram doesn't like it and they'll they'll block your post from being pushed out because of a certain font. I'll tell you the font that I use that is pretty safe is I
believe is called Helvetica.
I can double check it for you though.
Yeah, that's the one that Stephen had, but it's in the template. Yeah.
It's a premium font. So I switched to Arial, which Arial is also like a super common one.
Yeah, and the logo then, like is the logo itself from Canva?
Oh, it could be I didn't change both of them. This one is Arial, this one is Helvetica World. Helvetica World is, yeah, that's not premium so that should be okay.
And the little picture to the left of the words, is that something that's made on Canva?
That's my personal logo.
Oh, so you uploaded that. Okay.
What's the font of the...
Oh no, that's something else.
I'm trying to figure out what might be premium in here. Yeah.
The only thing I was thinking is, if there is something underneath, you know, like, there isn't anything underneath like once I put my video, his video goes away, once I put my picture, whatever, like this thing down here.
Nope, that's good. That's just a frame.
Yeah.
What's the font of the line, like the hook?
I wonder if like the emojis or I remember earlier this week, Jukka was talking about like how Canva changes the emojis.
Was anybody on that call or remember what, I don't know if that could be a premium aspect.
Okay, and does it say anything your design contains?
Wait a second, is that it? Is this the premium image?
Oh.
Yeah, but what is that move the, um, like, yeah, that thing, like the template itself,
like move it and see if there's anything like under it, like, can you like drag it like
off? Okay. I did that to get rid of Steven's video. So
can we see the drop down? Oh, wait, it might be the carrot button. Yeah. So how do you
get rid of that? Remove? It's a watermark. It might be a watermark. I just erased it.
Okay. Okay. Try now. It takes a village. Sorry, girl. Okay. There you go. Such a little detail.
That's what it was. Okay. So when you're saying like to download it on your phone is because
it's just easier to upload the post from your phone than Instagram. So if you want to kind
of like batch do this, you can like open up camp on your phone and be like download
and then it saves your phone and then you just post post posts on Instagram right from
your phone. It's just a little bit easier just because Instagram is more for mobile.
You can definitely do it from here and upload it to meta. If you were going to do it from
here, you can upload it to meta. Okay. So from the computer, it has to go to meta and
not directly to it. You could do it from Instagram. Like I think you can. Yeah. And
I don't know if you can schedule the post on Instagram from desktop or if you have to
do it from meta that I don't know. I've always done that from meta on desktop on mobile app.
You can schedule on the app. I think someone was talking about like, I know this maybe
is too many steps, but downloading it to a computer and then somehow sending it to
your phone. You can do that. So if you do that, I would recommend you use WhatsApp because
it's going to, it's going to preserve the quality of the video. If you like, although
you have an iPhone sending, um, I think airdrop. Yeah. If you have a MacBook and iPhone, yeah,
you can airdrop. Yeah. It's just like an extra step where like you could just, and not clog
up the space on your computer. I also don't like that. So you could just do it on your
phone if you want to, but it is just a little bit more like you gotta like click all the
buttons on your phone, figure out what works for you, what you like. Um, but yeah, just
some thoughts. So to do it on my phone, they had said to, to get the app snap Insta to
do the downloading, right? Because the reason I was doing it here is because it's already
on my computer. I just hit the button and it automatically downloads the video. Yeah.
Automatically. Is there a picture like that on, on the phone where you can,
I just open like on a web browser. I go to like snap and stuff on a web browser. Is that what
you do, Tiffany? Yeah. And I even have it saved. Like you can, it looks like an app on my phone
because I have it. Like when you, when you go to the browser and you like at like, I forget what
the actual website is. Snap Insta app. Yeah. Yeah. And when you bring that up in like the Safari
browser or whatever, when you go to the options at the bottom, you can save it to home screen
and then it looks no different than an app. And then it's just, you know, just a click away. So
I use it so often I'm posting, you know, three, four times a day. So it's easier to just have it,
you know. Okay. And I would love to see that video. I, I went to my brain maker app
and I didn't see the new, I haven't been there today, but yesterday or the day before
in between storm prep, I went to the app and I didn't see it on my phone. I mean, on my,
on my, I didn't see the new. Yeah. And I'll drop the link to the video.
Oh, the media channel mastery. Is that what you're talking about?
Yeah. Like I still have 30 day down for summer camp on mine.
Scroll up, scroll up that media channel mastery. It should be that where the third one down.
Oh, okay. It's like going to be similar content, but I think it's like broken down.
Like the videos are broken down a little bit more like shorter. Yeah.
Is it in here? That video.
The one I'm talking about is under the 30 day downpour session too.
Okay. I just watched the sessions.
Actually, it's probably in it's probably in those videos too. I think they
Um
Canva templates and how to use them maybe that one
It takes a minute for my brain to be able to see my screen
Uh, so up up up
The one at the very top right right there, nope, you just passed it
Okay, yeah, I can't like
This thing sometimes when there's it all looks the same to me
so it takes a minute for my brain to like
It might be that one or it might be the one that's on
How to edit on canva and post a reel from your phone the one that's like moving on your screen right now
It might be that one. I also put the link in the chat here, too. So
All right, i'll watch those
um, actually somebody reached out to me one of the coaches and i'm gonna talk to her tomorrow, so
Between now and then i'll try to figure it out
awesome
And the only other thing is that
I wanted to put the app for the 30 day downpour the influencing him on my computer
But every time I go to that rainmaker fan
dot com
It just doesn't go anywhere
Oh, what about rainmakerfam.com slash download
That's what mine redirects to and then there's three buttons and it's like download ios app download android app access online
and then the access online
Takes you to like
Rainmakerfam.com download. This is what?
This is chrome
It works on my chrome, yeah, that shouldn't be a machine you open like an incognito window
And see if it will work whenever it's like cookies like showing you the same thing
Remind me where that is. I've done it before. Um, yeah, it's like those three dots new incognito window
Yep
I was having a lot of issues accessing it as well for the longest time. Yeah download
Continue maybe try putting okay. What is it? I actually don't have anything in front of it
Https colon slash slash www the same thing. Yes. Is it the same thing without the download?
Yeah, it's the same
Hmm
So it just must be my computer then it might be a cookies thing
I was having this exact issue when you do it on your phone. Does it work?
Like if you open a web browser on your phone
If it works on your phone, it's definitely cookies on your computer well, I have safari on my phone
So
No
It says it might be temporary down or move permanently to a new web address
Oh, so you're not getting this page that this isn't working
It says this site can't be reached
Do you have the app on your phone or you were trying to download it
Oh, well, I have that app on my phone. I was just trying to put it on my computer
Yeah
The only other thing I could suggest you try is to delete your cache and cookies
For the past period of time that you've been trying to log in
So like if you've tried in the past week delete caching cookies for the past seven days
That's what I had to do and then it did work for me because I was running the same issue
Nothing I tried was working. So it was just like it wouldn't get past like what it had originally
Shown me
So you could try that. Um
I wouldn't like erase all of your cookies for like ever because
You'll lose all my passwords. Yeah, so try to do it just like past 30 days or past
Support tabs. Yeah, don't do that. I hate losing all my stuff, too
so
Try that
Let us know we'll keep troubleshooting with you
Okay, and thank you everyone for letting me get all that done
Yeah, i'm glad i'm glad to be able to take action now
Okay, I see ingrid. You've got a hand
And up.
How's it going?
Hi, it's going good.
Sorry, you can see the sun go on my face.
But I tried to log in on my phone
and it doesn't, the link doesn't work for some reason.
What link doesn't work?
The link to the Zoom, if I click,
like if I'm on the app on my phone
and then I click on it, nothing opens.
To this Zoom?
Yes.
Okay, if you're on your phone,
you click on it on your phone, it doesn't open the app.
No, it doesn't.
What if you put the link in a browser,
like Chrome or Safari on your phone?
Will it open?
Will it like force open the Zoom that way?
Well, nothing, it doesn't let me,
like I tap on it and nothing happens.
I can't copy it.
Okay, it was the same thing with me.
Don't tap, copy the link.
There's like two things you can tap
or you can copy the link.
Copy the link and open it in a browser.
I think it was Catherine Torres,
or someone that told me, and it totally worked.
Now I'm on.
Well, I tap on and I, okay, I will try it
because I tried copy it, but it doesn't let me either, so.
Or just type this, hold on, what actually is it?
What is it?
It's like.
It's the, yeah, here.
MarineMakerZoom.com slash income office hours
or something like that.
If you like type that into a web browser,
it will probably force open your Zoom,
but let's get the right link for you.
David, thank you so much.
Yeah, I have that issue when it's,
because what this is, is it's like a rebranding link.
That one might not work.
This one not, okay.
I think I have to get the other one, hold on.
The other thing is, I don't know if you're,
are you doing it from the app
or are you doing it from your calendar?
Yes, from the app.
From the app.
I've added all the times to my calendar
and I can just go to my calendar and click the link
and it opens from my calendar.
Okay.
Like it was an automatic thing where I just,
it uploaded all the links and all.
Yeah, you added the add event calendar,
which is, yeah, that's probably the easiest way
to access things, but let's see.
Yeah, there, okay.
So I don't know if you can see this link in the chat,
Ingrid, MarineMakerZoom.com.
Type that into a web browser on your phone,
see if that will open it.
Okay, I will try it.
Okay.
And I saved the link already.
Okay, well, I am excited
because this is my first income call
because I feel like my Instagram has finally grown
into the stage where I feel like I can start monetizing.
Cool.
So I put my handle on the chat
and now I don't know where to go from here
because, so I joined because my mom sells hair products
from salon to salon.
And so she has a lot of products
and I just thought this would be a good opportunity
to kind of shift a little bit and start selling online.
So I feel like I wanna start with one product,
but I don't know if I should like open a Shopify store
because I don't think it would do good on Amazon.
Okay.
Do you have an idea of,
you wanna sell a physical product?
Correct.
Okay, do you have an idea already
of what that physical product is going to be?
Yes, it's a live-in conditioning cream.
That's like her bestseller and it's under $10.
Oh, she already has it.
Yeah, she has a lot of product.
She has a little,
my dad has built like a little garage in her backyard
where she storaged a lot of her product.
She's a cosmetologist, so she works with hair.
Okay.
All right, I'm looking at the Instagram
and that is awesome.
Is this all original content or are you reposting?
Yeah, I'm reposting.
No, that's not original content.
I'm like, that's so much work.
Okay, now I see, I see.
Oh my gosh, that's awesome.
I love how like, it's all like the same style.
Like, it's always like, you see their face,
you see their hair, like it's, that's really cool.
Okay, awesome.
There's one post that went really viral.
I don't know how much it is now,
but it was like 4 point something millions.
And so I get a hundred followers a day.
So that's where I feel like,
and I, so what I did was I posted-
Which shop?
Yes, that one.
I posted that one three times and I was doing that
and I was erasing the other two that were not doing well.
But that one just, I don't know what happened.
I see it.
I see.
I see the other one next to it. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah. Well, you did. Okay, so you did change the hook
Yeah, this yet to follow for more easy hair hacks, which like I say that does catch my eye a little faster. So it's interesting
Perform better. Yeah, that's cool
Okay, let's go back to your product idea
so
Hold on one second
Okay, so if you have a leave-in conditioning cream
It's under $10. That's a really easy call to action. You can add right on Instagram. Here's a couple ideas
I have for you one
maybe simplest thing for you to do and for
Like your followers to take action is to sell it like right inside of your an Instagram shop
Like you could open up have you seen one of those before where they have like a shoppable thing
So you can set there's two different ways. You could do it. You can open a meta shop
You apply you actually apply for the shop on meta
I think you can apply right from the Instagram app actually, but even if you apply from Instagram, it's technically a
Facebook and Instagram shop like it's a meta shop
So it appears on like both places, but you can't for this
Then it'll add a little shop button like next to follow message. Then it'll add shop
okay, if you want to see an example of what that looks like you can look up look up mine and
I just I just reinstated my shop button
You can kind of see how you can toggle over to it and you can like see products that are there
So if you could do that and then they can stay right in Instagram and shop from there
the other way the other way you can do it is you can set up a Shopify site if you set up a Shopify site
Shopify does have a feature where you can integrate your Shopify shop into Instagram and they can buy it right from Instagram
but Shopify is the one taking the order and like you can fulfill it from there or
You just have a link in your bio and it's like this is our shop and then they click on it
They leave Instagram they go to Shopify you could do it either way
It kind of depends on like
whether or not people are less likely to buy if they leave Instagram or
less likely to buy from Instagram like which one increases conversion rate like if they stay within the app or if they go to a
Trusted platform like Shopify might be something to play with but those are the two things I'd start with. Yeah, definitely
There's no point in putting this on Amazon if you are driving your own traffic
Amazon is for the traffic, right?
Like you certainly could also sell us on Amazon short
But you would be using the traffic there if you're driving your own traffic your own sales
You want to retain as much of that revenue as possible, which is why do you want it to be your own thing?
so
Shopify the benefit to doing a meta shop is it's not gonna cost you anything
If they approve you which they probably will since your account has been growing if they approve you
Then you won't have to like pay a subscription for it. They will take a percentage of the sale. I
can't remember what it is right now that off the top of my head because they they run like
They run deals specials because it's still something that's not like super popular
So they're incentivizing people to do it. But let's say it's 10% It's often like 10% of the sale
That's what you're basically paying to have it
But it doesn't require you to pay for another subscription if you do Shopify
You have to pay a monthly subscription to have a Shopify store
so
Shopify is gonna be much more like you control it better like you're in control you get to set your own thing
So this is something you really want to like grow and like add products to you
Shopify is gonna be a better long-term solution for you
But if you want to start with like no upfront cost then metashop would be the way to go, okay
Standstore
Standstore I feel like is more for
Well, then let me open stand store. I
Have never heard of stand store. I think it's for like digital products. Okay courses digital products and bookings
Yeah, like for physical products like a physical e-commerce shop
Shopify is the king like shop king and
Then metashop would just be a convenient option because you're using meta
So it would like live in app and they wouldn't have to leave the app to buy
Okay, so you could do either one of those especially since you have the product, you know
Like I'm assuming like at home or whatever you could fulfill it yourself from there
But yeah, I would do either one of those. Are you able to show me how it looks?
looks like just because I just I'm not familiar with it.
Which thing? Um on your Instagram shot on your
oh okay let me see if I can. Was this the right page? I was trying
some people were asking just to share the screen.
Yeah that's the business. Okay yeah. Yeah this is super cute and I love this
logo. Love love. Okay let me see.
Oh it's not showing me everything because I'm not logged in.
Hmm who was sharing their screen a second ago?
That was me. Do you want to see if you can pull it up?
Yeah what I'm what are we doing Shopify?
No go to the Cappy and Luna page and let me just make sure I can see it.
So on Instagram? Yeah on Instagram. So see
how like I do you guys see the shop button
over on the right?
This one here. Hopefully Tiffany can find it and pull it up.
Like I only see it when I'm on mobile so
maybe let me see if I can um share my mobile screen.
One second I'm gonna switch.
Switch.
Okay now I'm on phone. Let me see if I can share
my screen.
Okay there's my beautiful doggos. Okay can you guys see Instagram? Yes.
Okay cool. All right so this is Tiffany and I's Instagram for the Cappy and
Luna brand. So if you see up here following message shop if I click on
that this takes me to my shop. So now I can
see like the product. So you could look at
literally put like all of your products here. It's just like a shop.
So that's the Instagram shop. Yeah and so if I want to check out like right now
I'm looking at this page from my personal Instagram and if I'm on the
Cappy and Luna account like signed in as Cappy and Luna I cannot see this. I can
only edit my shop. So if I want to see it as a customer does I have to interact
with it on another profile. So I would add to cart. See?
Now you just check out like this. Free shipping. Awesome. Okay I can go to
checkout. They pay right there. Bam bam bam. Okay don't look at that address.
That's my friend and yeah that's it. So it's like super
convenient because they never have to leave
this platform. They can just go right and stop
and also you can make specific posts shoppable.
So I might probably like a really old post. I have like a shoppable post where
and I'd love to show you an example but. Is it where like a link is there and then
people just click on it? It's not even a link. It's literally like
okay it's not that. Maybe this is a shoppable post. See this?
Oh see this? Okay so you shop and then it says this is a shopable post.
Right here. You can also make a shoppable reel. So if I click on this it automatically takes you
to this product in my shop. Does that make sense? Yes.
Thank you. So you can make things shoppable
because I have this shop connected. Okay now I'm I'm gonna stop sharing.
Does anyone else need to see anything else here so I can
switch back to my computer?
No I think we're good. All right let me let me see how I switch back.
Now to set up the store on Instagram, the Instagram shop, do I search it up on
YouTube or? Because I don't think there's on the app.
You're muted. We can't hear you. There you go.
You're muted. We can't hear you. There it is.
Oh it's muted again.
Okay there it is. Okay I'm muted. Okay let me see if I can
see on my other profile where you can apply for it.
Because this was a while ago but let's see.
Oh so you have to apply and then get it. Yes.
Instagram has to approve you or Metta has to approve
you for your shop. Let me just see where this is now.
How to apply for Metta shop from
Instagram.
Now, I believe if you set up a Shopify store,
their app, it's like Facebook and Instagram for Shopify.
That's like literally what it's called.
If you connect that
and then connect your Facebook and Instagram account
on that Shopify app,
Shopify will be like embedded into your Instagram thing.
So they have the same shop feature.
So I know you can do it with Shopify as well.
I'm just kind of pointing out like the difference,
the main difference being Shopify subscription plans
can get pricey.
So if you're not like prepared yet to commit to that
monthly cost, then start with this
because it won't cost you anything.
So, okay, let me see.
I think I'm going to start with the Instagram shop
and see how it goes from there.
Okay, convert your personal account.
So make sure you have a business account.
That's the first step.
Set up your shop.
Oh, you know what?
I think you have to apply in business manager.
So you have to go to,
oh, let me make sure.
You have to go to Meta Business Suite,
which is just business.facebook.com.
Hold on, let me back up.
Do you have a Facebook page?
Yes.
Like attached to this Instagram account?
No.
Okay, you will need that.
Okay.
You will need that.
So literally just set up a Facebook page,
name it the same thing as this Instagram account
and link them.
Okay.
Okay, when you link them
and you apply for your shop and get approved,
that will allow that shop to be connected to Instagram,
like Instagram and Facebook page.
So create that page, link them.
Then I'm going to share my screen over here.
Can you see business manager?
Yes.
Meta Business Suite.
Okay.
So again, business.facebook.com.
Once you've set that up,
see how you'll be able to see,
okay, this one here.
See how I have a Facebook and Instagram connected to this?
That's what you want.
Now from here,
I was talking to someone else
about scheduling posts through Meta.
This is where you would do that, by the way.
It's the same thing.
So you would go to Meta Business Suite,
okay, it's the same thing, business.facebook.com.
This is where I can schedule posts.
If I go down here to ads,
I can run ads through Meta.
And if I go to commerce,
then I can edit my shop.
So hold on a second.
Let me find the commerce.
Okay, so if you go to all tools,
hold on, let me go back.
You guys can follow this later if you need to do this.
So go to this all tools, the three lines.
Then come over here under commerce.
So if you're going to run ads,
you're going to go to ads manager.
That's where you run ads from.
Where you edit your shop is under commerce
and where you schedule posts
is under just the business manager.
Three different things, okay?
They're all connected by the Meta Business Suite.
So you go to commerce.
This is where you would see your shop.
Now, I can't show you how to apply for it
because I have one here,
but you should be able to,
like you won't have a shop here,
but there should be a button here that says like apply.
It'll be like, yeah.
So see how like it's showing me my shop here.
It'll say something like apply for your shop here, okay?
And you'll have to wait for them to respond.
And once they respond, you can view your shop.
You can go to catalog and you can add listings.
You can add items to your shop.
This is where you would set up the listings here.
And then you would also set up the shipping,
which would be, I think, under settings.
It'll ask you, like when you set up each product,
it'll ask you for the shipping information.
You can come under here under settings
and like set your like total shipping costs here as well.
You can also run promotions.
Like if you wanna do like a coupon or something,
like I think I have something like
get 10% off your first order or something like that.
So this is where you would like do all of this stuff
connected to your shop.
But this is where you're gonna wanna come
to apply for it first.
Once it's approved, you should be able to see
that shop button on your Instagram page.
And then you'll start editing your shop
and adding listings from there.
Okay, so once I create the page
and then I link the Instagram with the Facebook,
so whatever I post on Instagram,
is it going to automatically link in the Facebook or no?
Say that one more time.
So once I link the Facebook page
that I have already created, so they're linked.
So once I post.
Instagram? Is it going to automatically post on Facebook? If you want, if you want, if you don't
want, no problem. So like when you're setting up a post, let me just, hold on, let me see what it says.
So let's say, okay, you're doing a post or something on this page where you have to add
the caption. Okay, you've got a couple options. There's one that says tag products. You only have
this option when you have a shop, a meta shop. I can go in here and be like, yes, I want to tag
this product that's in this post. And that's how I added that like tag in that post that I showed
you. If you keep scrolling, you'll, this is also where you schedule posts, by the way, under the
more options, but you'll also see the share to, and it'll like have like toggled on or off the
Facebook page. So you can toggle it off and just say like, I don't want to share to Facebook or
toggle it on if you do want to share to Facebook. And I think you can set that setting so that it
saves. So like, I always want this to share, or I never want this to share. Let's see. Yeah,
under advanced settings, I'm just, and I'm not showing you, but maybe you could watch it back
and follow the steps under more options. Under it says advanced settings. There's another, it says
automatic sharing. And it says Facebook. If you have that toggled on, it's automatically going
to share to whatever Facebook page is connected to that account. So if you have it off, it won't.
So depends on what you want to do. You could just share like specific posts to Facebook if you want,
or you could never share or always share. Okay. Got it. All right. Well, I'm so excited. I will
mess with this over the weekend. And if I have any questions, I will post them on the app.
Okay, great. Yeah. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Once that is all set up, Ingrid, it is like
a game of marketing where you have to start playing with call to actions. Okay. So it's
just going to be like what call to actions in the comments, in the caption itself, like in the
picture, in the post, like which ones work and which ones convert. And that's where you start
like testing things. But yeah, focus on just getting it set up and then you can start playing
around with that step next. Okay. Sounds good. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Okay. Let's go to
Catherine. Okay. So you answered a lot of my questions because I'm on the same page
because I've been focused on the influence. I'm just getting to the point where I can do
income. And then just so like for context, my done for you product is on hold. So I'm not going to
really be able to do any of that until next year, just because of the sourcing. So I pivoted. And
based on the fact that I have an audience, I was thinking of doing print on demand for like shirts
and merchandise and stuff for a theme that goes with my account. But that would require Shopify,
right? Well, so you saw some of the stuff in my meta shop. There were several print on demand
things in there. Oh, there are the hats like, yeah, there's it's mostly print on demand stuff.
Yeah. And you connected it the way that you just, um, well, that's, that's where I get stuck.
Like how you, yes. And what you showed us was, was the meta shop, right? Yeah. Okay.
Okay. So here's how you can do print on demand. Um, you could do meta shop, although
the print on demand, it's going to be a lot more manual work to do meta shop. So that's
kind of sucks because if you like a lot of print on demand sites, like Printful is the one that I
use, like that's for all the print on demand products. I have Printful has a ton of integrations,
which means it will automatically create the listings for you. And it creates really well
with Shopify. So if you like set up a Shopify account and you set up a Printful account,
you create all these print on demand products, and then you sync your Shopify account to your
Printful account, you select the products you made and you say, go put these on shop on my
Shopify site. It will automatically create the listings for you. Yeah. Meta shop. It does not
have an integration. So I paid a VA to manually add every single item. So you could do Shopify
for it. Yeah. Well, I are, I, like I started, I already have the Shopify account. I already have
the Printful. I'm trying to figure that out. Um, all right. So then my other question is,
cause it's going to be multiple layers. Cause I want to do.
Amazon affiliate, I wanna do,
there's a health supplement that I have on the side
that I also wanted to put on like a link on my Instagram.
But I've seen different ways of doing this.
So I've seen it, like you have it with the shop,
that'll take you to your shop, that's your meta shop.
I've seen it where someone has like a link
that goes into their website.
And then I've seen it where it has a link
and then it pulls up, let me, like the stand store, I guess.
Yes.
And then I've also seen it where it pulls up
and it shows like when you click on the link,
let me see if you can see this, but maybe not.
Let me get off the, out the background.
Yeah, I'm in the laundry room
because I had to give it away for my kids.
So then I've seen it where it's like this,
like you pull it up, sorry, you can't see it,
but like you pull it up and it has all these links here.
Yeah, oh yeah, it's like a link tree.
Yeah, but what I wanna do,
and I'm assuming it's stand store,
that it has the link up top.
And then when you click on that, it's like pretty.
It's like, yeah, it opens up and you have like,
here's a bar that where you can click here,
you can click here, you can click here.
I think it's markable.
Is that what it is, Tiffany?
What's the affiliate one?
She's using it for something.
Yeah, I think it might be, it might be markable.
I have not had, I have markable.
I haven't used it a ton.
So I'm not, but I know that it's one
that I think a lot of creators use.
Okay, but like, do you already have it up?
Like, so that I could see it or no?
Someone, someone showed it.
There was a coach who had something similar
and showed it at one of these meetings,
but I didn't catch what it was.
I have to re-download it,
but once it re-downloads, I will show you it.
Yeah, so it has to be markable though,
because like, if you've seen it here,
markable is the only platform we've recommended
for affiliate products.
Stand store is more for like digital products,
courses, like digital things.
And markable is for affiliate products.
Shopify or a Metashop is for like your own products,
like private label, because you can't have a shop
where someone buys a product you're an affiliate for,
because you don't have, you don't own the listing.
So that's what markable is for.
Does that make sense?
So that would be the one that you're talking about.
So like, if you wanted to do POD products,
that's technically, I mean, it's technically white label,
where like, it's your products that you're selling,
someone else is like branding them and fulfilling them,
but that would still be hosted on your own shop.
So either Metashop or Shopify.
And then if you wanna do affiliate products as well,
that would have to be like markable,
or you're taking them to like, for example, your Amazon,
like you know how influencers who have Amazon products,
they'll like go to a landing page
where you see all of their products
that they're recommending, something like that.
Markable just makes it more like accessible, pretty, yeah.
The pretty is what I'm looking for.
Okay, so you can have a link tree,
or like a one link in your bio
that opens up the buttons that you were just showing.
And then one of those buttons is markable
for your affiliate products,
and one of them is like a link to your Shopify
for your POD products.
Okay.
That, see, okay, that's where I get lost,
because when I do the link,
what is it that makes it pretty?
Like I can't build something
that has all of that in one spot, one stop shop.
You can't have print on demand products
and affiliate products in the same place, no.
Okay.
Because like print,
like you have to have your own shop
for your print on demand stuff,
but you can't put affiliate products there.
I mean, you can.
I get that, I'm talking about the link.
Like, is there a place where I can put all these links
to make it pretty to then send them
to where they need to go?
That's-
So like the link tree that you're putting in your bio,
that is like the first link that they click on,
and then it opens up their options.
Do you wanna see our shop,
or do you wanna see the products we recommend?
Like them. Got it.
So those two things can't exist in the same platform.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's why you'll see people have so many different links.
That makes sense.
If that room does something else, yeah.
Yeah, because I've never focused
on what they're actually selling,
just like how it looks pretty.
So yeah.
Okay, great.
Thank you.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah.
I'm just reading Melinda's comment.
What would I use if I wanted to-
be both digital, like a planner, and physical, like a t-shirt?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
You could definitely, OK.
So you can sell digital products from a shop as well.
You can.
It depends on, so interesting you said planner,
because planner could also be physical.
So are you saying like print on demand,
or are you saying like it's a downloadable thing?
Downloadable, like is that possible?
Yes, it is.
It is, yeah.
So you can have a shop.
Let's say you have a Shopify store, and on that store
you have some physical products you're selling
and some digital products that you're selling.
It's a digital download.
Let's not say a course, because you
can't host a course on Shopify.
But something digital you can deliver one and done.
You can host that there.
The only thing that you have to figure out
is how to deliver it to them.
Because that's the thing.
Like imagine like a physical product.
Shopify is like you're showing them the products
and then they're paying for them.
But when it's a physical product,
you still have to deliver it.
Like you've got to go figure out how to send it.
Same is true for digital.
How do you get it to them?
So you would set up some kind of like automation or something
where you make sure to get their email.
And when you get their email, you email them the download.
But yes, you can host it in the same shop
and you can take payment for it in the same shop.
Yes.
These are good questions.
Hmm.
OK.
Anything else to that, Melinda?
OK.
All right.
S. Campbell.
I almost said scramble.
Susan.
That's what it looks like.
OK.
Susan.
Hi, Susan.
Yeah.
Hi.
I know I have to change that every time I come into the room.
So yeah.
So this is great stuff.
I think what everyone's getting at,
if I'm not to speak for everyone,
I think it gets confusing.
There's a lot of stores.
So I think we're kind of going.
There's a lot of tech.
Yes.
The smallest amount of stores we possibly can.
But if what I'm seeing, the Markable
would be the only affiliate or Amazon.
So Markable and Amazon would be for affiliate.
Correct.
Dan's store would be for digital.
Yes.
And then you'd pick either Shopify or Metasales.
You'd pick one or the other.
If you wanted to pay 10% off each sale,
you'd pick Metasales.
And if you wanted to pick Shopify,
you'd pay a monthly fee.
Exactly.
You got it.
So most of you all, do you have three stores?
No.
So not to throw another kink in the hose,
but there's other kinds of things
that you can do as well.
Like you can create funnels, which
is a little bit more advanced than what we're talking about.
But it gives you a lot of options.
And it gives you a lot of flexibility as well.
So Rainflow is a software that Rainmakers has,
which you can build funnels on.
You can build a website on.
You can build a shop on.
So I'm using that.
And on that, I can sell digital products.
I can sell a course.
I can host a course.
I can even have a community, like a membership on there.
And I can sell physical products.
The thing with physical products,
selling physical products there, and why
Shopify is still the king of an e-commerce shop,
Shopify is like, let's just explain the difference
really quick between a shop, like an e-commerce shop,
a funnel, and a website.
Because they all have different purposes.
A shop is like, I'm walking into a store,
and I see rows and rows of products and stuff
that I want to buy.
You are there for one thing and one thing only.
I'm here to shop.
I'm going to Kroger.
I'm going to Fry's, wherever you live, whatever it's called.
It's literally called something different,
depending on what coast you're on.
It's mind-boggling.
Like, I'm there to shop.
I'm there to buy stuff.
You have to be from Phoenix if you're
saying Kroger's and Fry's.
But gave it away.
It was so confusing when I first moved here.
I was so frustrated.
Yes.
So you can, you're there to buy.
So that's what Shopify is for.
They do this better than anyone.
Like, kind of how Amazon is like the king
of, like, the third-party e-commerce platforms.
Shopify is the king of first-party,
like, direct-to-direct.
Like, I'm selling direct to my customers.
They're the king.
No one has beat them. You'll hear people using Squarespace. You'll hear people using
GoDaddy shops. You'll hear people using Wix and using BigCommerce and WooCommerce and blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah. But I'll just tell you Shopify is the best. We'll probably be on top for a long
time. But there's other ways you can sell things too. If you want to sell something aside from
physical products, let's say you want to sell a course or you want to sell a service.
Shopify is not the way to sell that. If I'm selling a service or a course, I need a funnel
for that. Because a funnel is going to allow me to direct my customers to take the action I want
them to take. They're not there to browse. I'm there to guide them. So they come to the first
step of my funnel and they see one thing and one thing only. And it's me, my face, a video explaining
this is what this is. And then it's like, click this to go to the next page. And then they're
doing this. This is what this is. Click here to go to the next page. You've all been in a funnel
because Rainmaker uses lots of funnels. That's what a funnel looks like. It's one step at a time.
I'm guiding them. That's better for when you don't want people to just randomly shop around.
Then you have a website and a website is really more of an informational exploratory thing.
If I'm talking to Marla and I'm telling Marla all about my brand and Marla's like,
I want to learn more about this brand. She could go to my Shopify store, which is going to show
her what I sell, the physical products that I sell. But it's not going to tell her what our
mission is or why we exist or how we got started and what you can expect as a potential customer
in that brand. So it's more of a way for me to tell our story as a brand and for us to provide
that informational background, that context about what we do. They have different purposes.
If I want to learn about how Kroger got started, I'm not going to go to their store. I'm going to
go to their website. It just depends on what you're trying to accomplish. Now, Rainflow
can do pretty much all of those things. I say pretty much because where it lacks
is the shop portion. Shopify is still very much the best. Personally, I would prefer to have
Rainflow and Shopify if I'm selling physical products, Rainflow and Shopify. I have Shopify
for my physical products and I have Rainflow for everything else, my funnels, my website,
my email marketing, hosting my courses, my community, my automations. I have it for everything
else. So that's what I would use. If you're just getting started, you have to figure out what it is
that you want to sell before you decide what you want to go with. If you're like, I'm going to be
a course creator and I'm going to teach people how to do stuff, then you want to be looking at
teachable or school. Those are platforms that will host courses for you and they do a very good job
of that. You don't want to put that on Shopify. If you want to sell physical products, then you
want to go straight to Shopify. If you're selling digital products, then you could do Shopify or
you could do something even simpler than that. You don't even need something as fancy as Shopify
for digital products. All you need to do is get them to pay and get their email so you can send
it to them. It could just be a landing page. So you need to figure out what you want to sell first
and then figure out what platforms do I need to make that happen. Now, some of you might be taking
a diverse approach. Tiffany and I, we're building a brand together and that brand includes physical
products, digital products, and services. So those are potentially different platforms,
but we're going to be hosting it mostly on Rainflow with potentially a side of Shopify
until Rainflow gets its act together. It's not Rainflow's fault, but they don't have the
tech available to make the physical product portion as easy as it is on Shopify. Integrate
it with Amazon so it can ship the products out for you, for example. I know that's a lot of
information, but I just want to big picture explain. You got to start with first, what's
my vision? What is it that I want to do and what do I want to sell? Then you decide what your tools
are going to be for how to sell it. Right. So I was going to give away some digital products. So
I was going to do a stand store, but then I thought, well, maybe just to wait for, because
I don't want 12 stores. I was going to give away digital products, definitely have the physical
products, and then possibly the affiliate products as well, which I know I could do on Amazon.
Amazon, so that would just be Rainflow and Shopify.
You're gonna sell physical products as well, you said?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, and exactly, yes.
If you really, I would be fine with using Rainflow
to sell physical products up to a certain point
because it's gonna require a little bit more manual work.
So I would do it up to a certain point
and then when I was getting a lot of sales frequently,
I'd be like, okay, let's do something more robust
like Shopify, does that make sense?
Because I'm always like, let's take the easiest path,
the least complicated path,
the least subscriptions involved path
before we overcomplicate.
Like you add tools as you grow
and so I wanna pick the one thing
that's gonna accomplish as much as possible,
like 80% off the bat.
And that's gonna be Rainflow for most people
because it can do several things.
Right.
Yes, but if you are like,
the advantage to something like Standstore or Markable,
Markable is like, you could use like Amazon
for that for sure.
But something like Standstore is like,
it's already kind of set up for you, okay?
Let me try to think of like an example of this.
Like someone, okay, let's say someone gives you a car
and it comes like perfectly, almost perfectly customized
to like your needs and what you wanna do.
And you're like, this is awesome,
all I have to do is like make a couple tweaks in there,
it's good to go, okay?
That's Standstore.
Now let's say someone hands you a Tesla,
which is pretty much a computer
and is like, okay, this computer is far more powerful
than the car that you had,
but you have to customize it to do what you want.
So it's a little bit of like, ooh,
it can be a little intimidating,
but it's a far more powerful vehicle.
Like it can do much more
and will allow like really expand your capacities,
but it's gonna require more customization on your part
to match it to what you want.
That's the difference between something like Standstore
and something like Rainflow.
Rainflow is the all powerful engine
that you customize to meet your needs
and Standstore is the like one size fits all.
So less control, but less work,
but that's why it's a really good place to start
because for a lot of people,
most people don't wanna get like super involved
until they're like, oh yeah, I see how this is worth it.
So just some thoughts like to consider,
by all means, don't let your momentum slow down
because of tech.
Choose the easiest thing available to you
so that you can keep building momentum.
Like that's what I would say.
And then when you have momentum and you're gaining traction,
then you optimize that
with upgrading to a different system.
Right, so you can easily just pivot
if you decide to migrate everything into Rainflow.
Okay, excellent, thank you.
One of the biggest things I see people do
is like they get stuck in the weeds on the tech.
It's like, oh, I can't go live until my, I don't know,
until like I have my policies,
like my privacy policy set up
and I'm like, nobody clicks that link.
Like nobody cares, like just start selling the thing.
So don't let all those little things like slow you down.
Like, I love Steven's analogy of like build a skateboard
and then we can like upgrade to like a bike
and then a motorcycle and then a car.
It's like, yeah, like just get the thing going
so you can build traction and momentum.
Yeah, I know I've been talking about Rainflow a lot.
So yes, we are gonna roll it out.
I don't know if any of you were,
how long you guys have been around the mastermind,
but if any of you were around a few months back
when there was the lifetime access offer for the mastermind,
if any of you got that, you already got Rainflow.
I don't know if you remember that,
but rolled into the lifetime access offer
was you get Rainflow at like our best rate, basically.
So we've been putting together a course for you guys
because we don't wanna hand you a Tesla
that you have to customize yourself without how to do it.
So we've put together a course for you guys
so you know how to use this
and we're gonna roll that out this quarter.
So actually, I don't know if it'll be,
I can't make any promises because I might get in trouble,
but maybe by the end of the month,
I'd love to see it rolled out by the end of the month.
And then when we.
I do roll it out.
I would also love to roll out a coaching call to support that, to, to help people
like, okay, how do you use this?
This engine we just handed you, you know, how do you set this up?
So we're going to roll out support with it, but that should be ready pretty soon.
Yeah.
Great.
Wonderful.
Yes, it is wonderful.
Okay.
If you were just starting and do not have access to rainflow, would you
recommend Minnesota's easiest thing and cheapest option for physical products?
Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
Uh, it's definitely the cheapest option because it doesn't
require a subscription to do it.
Um, Shopify is probably even more user-friendly in my opinion.
I don't know.
Some people might disagree with me, but I think Shopify is very
user-friendly, but it costs a monthly subscription.
And so I really liked that meta shop.
I mean, it's, you're already using Instagram.
It's right there.
They don't have to leave the platform.
There's a lot of benefits to using it, but you do have to apply.
So if you were like to get denied, then you may need to build some more
attraction before playing again, or go to set up a Shopify, but yes.
Meta store would be the best for physical products.
Yes.
Okay.
I'm going to check the chat.
Um, Suzanne, I see you have your hand up.
I want to make sure I get to you as well.
Are you still there, Suzanne?
If you are, I'm looking for you.
Okay.
Think I found you.
You're still muted.
Hang on.
I'm here.
You're good.
I saw you.
Okay.
I'm trying to, let me get my, um, get my profile right quick and give it to you.
I have so many questions, but I'm trying to one, three,
one, and it just gave you one.
Suzanne, do you mind ask where you live?
Like, where are you from?
I live in Buckner, Arkansas, Podunk, Egypt.
You have the most, just the sweetest accent.
And I just love it.
I'm actually from Oklahoma.
So I'm kind of from that region as well.
We're not that far away from each other.
Then it depends on what part you're in.
Well, I grew up in Tulsa.
I now live in Phoenix.
Okay.
Well, I'm close to Texas, Arkansas.
I'll be part of that.
Jonesboro.
Oh, wow.
Well, I'm close to Texarkana about an hour from there.
Y'all probably heard of that place.
Um, okay.
So, um, I started at ground zero.
I've, I've been doing the, doing Rainmakers for, I don't know,
probably almost a year now, but I couldn't, uh, I couldn't afford
to do the mastermind and all that.
So when this came up, I jumped up on it and so, so I'm at, I've, I've got like,
um, I don't know, maybe just to measure it, maybe six or seven more levels until
I get to the community builder on Instagram, I just now have followers
coming in and I've got like, I think 111, something like that now, but I've,
I've, the account for it, so, big time.
Um, let me go to another room here.
I don't know whether it's a good idea.
I think the truly awesome thing, but I don't think, um, they're
knowledgeable enough to do that.
I don't have, I don't have a product, but I do have two nearby farming
neighbors that have their own store.
Like online, one at one of them does wood laser creations and
the other one does, um, framing.
They know nothing about Rainmakers, Steven Exel or anything like that.
So, I mean, that's one thing I could do.
I know I could buy their stuff and, but I don't know exactly
how to go about doing that.
I mean, I think they probably would maybe come up with a wholesale price for me.
But what if they run out of it?
Yeah.
Okay.
Let me ask you this.
Um, the, the, the media channel that you're building right now, is it, is
it related, is it in the same niche?
Is it related to what your neighbors have got going on?
No, not really.
It's country farm, but I mean, you know, the one of it, one of them is, you
know, they just do all different kinds of home decor that's with the wood laser.
They do cut.
posters, they do cutting boards.
I've seen some wall hanging stuff on their store.
And the other one is custom framing.
What kind of custom framing?
Like custom picture framing.
Oh.
I guess they like build them themselves.
Oh my gosh, wait, I might need their contact.
I have these things I've been trying to frame for like ever.
Yeah, they have a little store put together
right beside their house.
And I know she does Etsy and probably Facebook too.
Yeah, okay.
All right, okay.
So here's my thoughts.
Let's just talk kind of in general terms.
I like where your mind's at,
because you're thinking like, okay, I can partner.
Like, how can I partner, right?
Like, what do I have?
And I like that.
I think that there's other ways you could do this too,
if you want to create something that's your own.
If you partner, you can totally do that.
And you could partner in like one of two ways.
You could partner in the way of like,
they're kind of a supplier to you.
Like you were saying, like sell me stuff at wholesale prices
and then I basically resell it
and I'm doing my own thing over here.
Or you could partner in the way of like,
hey, I'm gonna help you expand your business.
And-
But I'm not sure I'm smart enough to do that either.
Oh, you are, Suzanne.
You are, Suzanne.
Let me tell you why.
Because you have access to lots of information,
resources, and brains that you get to just like,
channel through you.
So you don't even have to have all the answers.
You just have to have access to the answers.
I sat down and I looked at that,
at that, the, that spreadsheet
that he's been talking about on the truly free thing.
Oh, okay.
Because I, and I was like,
I don't know what to do with this.
I think that confused everybody.
I was going to say,
I've heard from many people that's confusing.
So don't, don't measure yourself.
I was like, I have zero to offer.
There's nothing here.
Okay.
Sorry, I'm trying to respond to Amel at the same time.
So this is not working.
Let me just answer Amel's question in the chat.
She's asking if there's gonna be something
after this I2I accelerator.
Not after these 90 days,
but when I was talking about how we're gonna roll out
brain flow and then roll out a coaching call for that,
that will be like the natural place
to talk about these topics.
Does that make sense?
It'll be like a natural continuation.
So that's just to answer your question.
Okay, Suzanne,
I want to make this comment really quickly to all of you.
I believe that if you're learning something
and the person teaching you does not make it simple enough
for everyone in the room to understand
they're doing a bad job.
It is not your fault for not understanding.
Okay.
And I have learned this lesson many times
in my experience as a teacher.
You teach to the lowest kid in the room,
but then you also-
I can tell you for a fact that that is true with algebra.
Yes, it is.
Because I had to take it more than once in college.
And when I finally got the right teacher,
the light came on.
Yes, exactly, exactly.
So there aren't bad students.
Like, it's just that, well, there are bad teachers.
So you can just blame the teacher.
I mean, really every student learns differently.
Yeah, this is different learning styles.
Exactly.
A teacher's job is to make it understandable
to every kid in their room.
The kid who is like going to pick it up right away,
then you have to challenge them.
And the kid who is like going to be on the struggle bus.
And that challenges you as a teacher of like,
okay, I need to make this even simpler.
I need to break this down even more.
So if you're all feeling confused about the same thing,
you know, you are not the problem is what I'm saying.
I won't say anything else.
I'm just saying you're not the problem.
And he's probably in a place where he's,
I mean, you know, he's been doing this for so long,
you know, it just comes natural to him.
So he didn't, you know, he don't think about that.
I don't blame him, but-
No, right.
I'm just not there yet.
Yes, having a lot of knowledge
does not make you a good teacher.
Like it's a different skillset.
So, you know, I meet very intelligent people all the time
who cannot teach anyone anything.
So then you have to find an interpreter
to figure out what they're saying.
So that is a skill.
So yeah, don't feel like, you know,
you're doing everything right.
It's just, you know, finding the right people
to explain it in a better way is a huge part of the process.
So what I wanted to say about your idea is like,
I think you need to ask yourself if you really mean like,
do I want to partner with someone
because I want to partner with someone
or do-
I just see that as my only option right now.
Yeah, that's what I see.
I see that I feel like I should monetize,
I should do something just to prove
that I haven't been wasting my time.
Okay, that's fair.
That is really fair.
That's really good.
So if you want to like get a quick win going,
I would offer to do something for not both,
but one of the businesses, right?
I would offer like, what was the first one again?
It was like custom something or other.
They do custom framing.
She's a little bit harder to get in touch with.
I can probably ask her husband easier than I could her
cause she's got her own thing going.
But the other ones,
they have like one of those laser machines
that does the woodwork, laser prints on the wood.
And they do just different kinds of home decor.
Okay, okay.
So let's just take an example.
Let's say you have these people that you know,
and you know that this would work really well on Etsy
and they're not on Etsy yet.
I would say,
hey, I'd love to enter some kind of arrangement with you.
I'd love to get you set up on Etsy.
And this is my starting fee.
And then I'd like this percentage of the profits
for this period of time.
You don't have to know those details right now.
I'm just giving you an example of what that could look like.
And then you're showing them the results of like,
by expanding here, you could get this many more sales.
And you show them some similar competitors
who are already doing that on Etsy, right?
If they already are on Etsy, then we do something else.
Like, hey, I can build a media channel
around this brand for you.
And I can generate leads for you
and I'll set up the lead generation.
And then I'll help you set up a way to market to them
so you can bring in more customers for your business.
And all I'm asking for is this setup fee
and this percentage of X amount of sales.
Just an example.
And that's how you could do like a quick win.
Like a quick win while you're figuring out
what you really want to do.
Because I think there's something in you, Suzanne,
that you want to build your own thing.
But maybe you're not there yet.
This is my very last hurrah.
I'm 58 and I'm still going strong.
But I don't know how much longer I can hold up
to the 12-hour night shifts
plus the farm and the daytime and everything.
And it's rough.
So I like, it's gotta work.
Yeah, yeah.
I think you're in a spot where it would feel really good
to have a quick win.
So I think it's good that you're looking at what you have
and you're like, how can I turn this into a win for me
and a win for them, right?
That's a really good thing to focus on.
And then once you get a little practice with that,
you just might have some ideas
for how you could start your own thing, you know?
Yeah.
And that might be a really good start.
So what I would do in your position
or what I would recommend you to do
is to pick one of those two that you mentioned.
Don't try to do both.
Yeah.
Pick one.
And you will know what the better one is.
You probably already have a gut feeling about it.
It's either like you have a better relationship
with the person or you have a better taste.
Okay.
Their neighboring, the one with the laser printer,
the wood stuff, they do everything theirself.
So I doubt they would be, I mean,
they have chicken breeder houses like us
and they outsource nothing.
Okay.
All right.
So are they already on Etsy?
Are they the ones on Etsy?
No, I think they're on, that I know of,
I think they're just on Facebook.
Okay.
So, and they laser what kind of stuff?
They do the woodwork there.
I think it's RF Creative Designs
is what they are on Facebook.
And the other one, let me, I'll have to look right quick.
I can't remember what she calls the custom framing thing.
Let me see what she calls that.
It's-
Susan, I'd love your page too.
I wanted to just bring it up.
And share it.
You laughed at my page.
So, I thought it out rough.
I know, but you was like-
No, yeah, you're getting some good views
and I love your niche.
I think that you could really like,
even, you know, continue this
and do some like affiliate links.
Well, I thought about Nap-On Tools.
We spend a lot of money with them.
There you go.
I'm sure they have some sort of affiliate program there.
It would be, that would be a good one.
My son just bought a toolbox that it'll take him
a couple of years to pay for that sucker, I bet.
Let's see.
I'm going to go ahead and say what is it, Jodi?
Bailey, I think is her name.
It's a small business owner.
It's Jodi Mae Bailey.
It's 2C custom framing and crafty creations.
I'm going to go ahead and say what is it, Jodi?
It's a small company.
That's the one you're more leaning toward?
No, that's the one they don't outsource nothing.
I doubt they would go for outsourcing.
What about if you help them get set up on Etsy?
That might be good if I had ever done that.
It's pretty easy, yeah.
Of all the platforms, Etsy is the most straightforward.
That would be one I would recommend starting with.
I'm trying to find them on Facebook.
This one, is it this?
Hold on.
I see ornaments and stuff.
I'm going to go ahead and say what is it, Jodi?
It's RF creative designs.
I believe is what it is.
The other one is 2C framing
and crafty creations.
I can put it in the chat.
Is it this one?
Let me see.
That looks like it.
We found it!
That's them.
I'll put this other one in the chat.
This lady is a runner.
Like Forrest Gump, I think.
She's flying to Florida here somewhere.
Running a little marathon thing.
There.
Okay.
These are just people
that live pretty close around me.
They just kind of do their own thing.
I'm looking for it in the chat.
Does anyone else see it?
Did it not come?
It didn't come.
Okay.
Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
What's it called?
2C custom framing and design.
There it comes.
Is it this one?
I wonder if it is.
It should be in the chat now.
Maybe it came.
That's her personal page.
It just tells what the name is on it.
That's it.
2C custom framing and design.
Okay.
It's almost $2,000.
All right.
She's the one who's already on Etsy?
Okay.
All right.
It's right next door to us.
Okay, cool.
You could do either one of these three options.
You could partner with this person.
You could partner with the laser engraving person.
Or you could,
I don't know what your page is about.
Tools are one of those things that people really like.
either really like a brand
or they really like a word of mouth recommendation.
And they're expensive,
which makes it good for affiliate marketing
because you're giving a word of mouth recommendation
and it's gonna be a decent, like a decent return, right?
It's not like a $10 item.
So that could be a route to go and lean into, you know,
especially because you're already kind of creating
that media page for yourself and that niche.
Yeah, I just went with what I live.
I didn't know what kind of a niche to do.
So I started out with my own content
and then I figured out, okay,
that's why I was trying to figure out
how to do the viral post and everything.
So that's, we have farm and diesel mechanics right here.
So that's what I did.
Yeah, but now it's kind of,
everything is leaning towards cows.
So that's most, I have more of that on there
than I do the other stuff.
Like your views and stuff?
Yes.
And you have a farm.
So you have cows.
I have some cows, yeah.
The one, the meme that I did on there,
cause I just kind of tried something different.
It, the meme where the cow says,
I know what you did last summer, that's my cow.
That's awesome.
That's really cool, okay.
Just me.
Maybe there's some,
maybe there's like a,
like a theme that you could go with there.
You know, like you live on a farm, you use these things.
You could come up with some products
or some affiliate products that relate to that content
that's connecting with people.
You know, like things that you use
to take care of your cows.
I don't know anything about farming.
Well, I was just listening to y'all talk
and I was like, okay, so I don't have to do
Truly Free or Amazon.
I can do my own store, I guess.
I don't have to, I'm not trying to,
I already owe a million dollars.
So I've done a million dollars one way or the other.
I haven't made it probably, but I owe it.
So if I could just make a little bit,
you know, on the side here
and not have to go to the nursing home
every eight days a week, sometimes,
or nights rather, that would be great.
I think you're, I think you're building,
like your page is building,
like you're definitely off to a good start.
Like, I wonder if you continue that PVC,
obviously to keep the growth happening,
but then eventually like sprinkling
in your own original content around your farm
and your family and people love that.
I mean, everything you're saying is so interesting.
We're about to get a new house full of chickens.
They've, one house is out right now.
And I thought, well, I might try putting some of that
on there when they bring the chickens back in.
I have a cousin who's entire,
she has built an entire social media empire
around backyard chicken keeping.
Look her up, Purely Chickens, and that's it.
Like that's all her content is just teaching people
about backyard chicken keeping.
And I mean, like you having this knowledge and this-
I would rather be doing that than having 10,000 chickens
or six, there's about 16,000 probably in a house
when they start out.
It would be a lot easier to be back.
So you have to think about, yeah, you have to think about-
Susan, can I give you a suggestion?
I live now in a farm community
after living in a city for 22 years.
Farms love with their tools on their land.
They are more precious than a house and a car.
And I mean, so I think you have an excellent niche there.
Why you don't present some of the tools that you use?
I mean, and maybe in the future,
those companies will approach you.
You know, just say your son is going to be paying
for whatever tools he bought for a few years.
So, you know, they are precious, they are important.
Why you don't show how to use those tools?
I mean, again, I live in a farm community
and this is important stuff for that group of people.
So you have, I think you have everything in your farm
to create a really good niche there.
Maybe just keep going like I'm going for a while
and see what happens.
And when you say about girls shopping already, when you say with your chickens, present that
I mean, I'm fascinated by farm life, because I have always lived in a city.
So I'm thinking how they grow this, I mean, I live in Iowa.
So corn is the king in here.
So I'm thinking how to grow this, how they never live in the country, never in my life.
And I love it.
I'm fascinated.
I'm not a farmer, and I'm not planning to be.
But I mean, it's really important here.
This is the bread and butter of these people, and they're very proud of it.
And in terms of age, let me tell you, I'm 57, and I'm learning, so you are fine, we
can learn.
Yeah, I'm never gonna stop and, you know, trying to learn something new.
That's just what who I am, I'm always trying to do something different, but my body is
getting tired.
Keep going.
I think we're in a good area, really.
Yeah.
Thank you so much.
Okay, well, I may just keep going like I'm going for a little bit, then.
I think you should, Suzanne.
I think, I think, deep down, I think you want to do your own thing, you know, and I think
you have potential to, yeah.
Build your brand.
And you're that brand, I think you're that brand.
And I think, like, even having, I don't know if your son is social media, like, into social
media at all, but like, partnering up with your...
If you look back at my very first videos, where I was using my own content, that's him.
Okay, perfect.
He's the star.
Yeah, team up, he can show how to use certain tools, like Maya mentioned.
You have the knowledge of, you know, you're a mom, you're the farm life, all of that.
I don't know.
I think it just...
And like Marla was saying, I think, too, like, it's not just people who live on a farm that
are interested in that content, like, like, like Marla said, people who live in the city
and don't see that every day are interested.
I have learned so much interesting stuff, just posting this, this stuff, you know.
Stuff that I didn't know, you know.
Yeah, yeah.
And I see, I see really good viral content all the time, that you can very easily build
a page around.
So I think you're onto something just with what you're doing already, just keep it going.
And I'm sorry, my family is completely noisy, I'm going to mute now.
You're good.
Well, thank y'all so much.
I'm just glad I was able to get on to a call, because I usually can't, because I have to
go pick my daughter up at this time.
And there's no service in the area, so, but...
Well, it's good to meet you.
We're glad you're here, Suzanne.
I have to say, I would listen to you talk about cows and farm stuff, like, just listening
to you and your accent and, like, the farm and the cows, that was like a whole calming
experience.
I would just watch you do that all day.
So I think you really should keep going with what you're doing.
Like, keep the course as if you have 100% confidence that you're going to be successful
with it.
Like, if you knew, if you knew without a doubt, you were going to reach the end, you would
go 100% in with your effort, like, go in without much effort to expect to get the prize.
Okay.
I really think...
Well, when you say it like that, well, that's what I do with my nursing.
So...
That's right.
I just have to keep on swimming, like Dori.
Come back and join me when you need some more support.
Okay?
Okay.
Thank you all so much.
You're so welcome.
All right.
Thanks for hanging out late with us, you guys.
I'm sure it's late for you guys on the East Coast.
I hope that you guys learned something today.
I hope you're able to take action on something in the next week.
And then you guys will be seeing Stephen next week again.
And if I get invited back, I'll love to hang out with you guys again.
If not, I'm sure I'll see you guys around the Mastermind and we'll keep you posted about
rainflow and all those kinds of things coming out too.
All right, guys?
All right.
Have a great night, everyone.
See ya.