you
Hello!
Hey guys, how we doing?
Everybody?
Hey Christy, how are you?
I'm good.
How are you doing, Vicky?
Good.
Good to see you guys.
No.
It was like a really long time, but also a short time since we were at the castle.
Yeah.
It's great.
Time changes.
Like you go from week to week to seeing everybody, and then in person, it's like, okay, now it
just seems different.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
I'm just going to make a little pose.
Excellent.
So how many people are you coaching now, Gabby?
Honestly, no.
It's, well, we've had, like, you know, there was a handful of people that, you know, graduated
out October, kind of similar with November.
And as, like, we have the cohorts, the business discovery cohorts going, like, every four
So there's, like, kind of consistently people that are, like, ending a cohort and starting.
So I don't know.
My guess would be officially, it's probably still around, like, 190 or 100 people.
But not everybody is very engaged.
So there's, like, people who probably haven't shown up, who haven't had a call in months.
And, you know, there's definitely something.
So I would say I'm probably consistently maybe 60 people or something like that, which is
actually a really nice, that's, like, a good student load, honestly, like, for me.
It's, like, the right amount of busy.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Maybe, like, three per day meetings.
No.
So, like, Wednesdays and Thursdays are my long days.
So those I probably have, let's see, 14 to 15 meetings on Wednesdays and most Thursdays.
And that's partially because, like, Mondays and Tuesdays I need to finish up calls early to, like, do school pickup and, like, things like that.
And I tried to do calls after school pickup, and that was just a real big no-go, like, with the kids.
That, yeah, I learned real quick that that was not going to work.
So, yeah, I kind of have it where Wednesdays and Thursdays are long, and then I prefer to finish early on Fridays.
So, yeah, I have those long days there.
But, yeah, and most of my job is just calls, like, meetings.
So, yeah, that's what we do.
Yeah.
I had a phone call this morning with a doctor for my full-time job at 730 a.m., and I was, like, literally going on and off mute, like, making my bed, getting clothes on, brushing my hair, braiding my hair, and, like, hiding from my kid in my bedroom because the daycare doesn't open until 8.
And so this is happening.
This is what's going to happen today.
And honestly, he has four kids, so it was okay.
Yeah.
He was driving to work, so.
Funny.
Everyone just multitasking.
Yeah.
All right, guys.
What are you doing?
Yeah, I was about to say.
How are you, Becky?
Good.
Yeah.
How's your Q4 going?
We're a month and a half in.
It's, like, half over for Q4, and I'm just wondering, does it feel good?
What?
Sales are awful so far.
Well, I have a seasonal product, so I'm looking forward to the holiday sales.
This isn't my time to sell right now.
This isn't, like, fall and winter are not my time to sell, but holidays, I hope, make up for it.
Right now I barely get one or two a day.
Some days, none.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're kind of like spring, summer, outdoor.
I should.
I'm hoping to do.
I mean, this is my first.
I launched a year ago.
And it basically took the whole December
to just kind of get inventory.
But I was launching, I guess.
But this year, to be more positioned will be.
I'm looking forward to see how I can do.
What about your digital product?
Is it getting traction, or are people opting in?
I'm just finishing up.
I'm just finishing it up.
Like, I'm going to start a subscription.
So I've been working on my funnel,
and what I'm going to give away, and all of that kind of stuff.
And kind of learning Rainflow, and Stripe,
and how that's all going to work.
So I think I'm going to launch next week.
OK.
I think I'm going to be ready to launch next week.
Yeah.
On Facebook, are you going to mostly do your advertising?
I'm going to do some ads, put it in our social media.
Social media is not really.
I mean, we're just starting, so I don't
have a lot of followers yet.
So I'm going to run some ads, and try to get some traction,
and see what happens.
Yeah, I'm going for just a paid monthly, $9.99 per month.
They get this monthly memory kit,
which I have multiple activities, multiple recipes,
devotion, prayers, all every month,
plus like three or so additional digital products.
That'll just be bonus random every month.
So $9.99 a month, or $39 a year.
OK.
That's a steep discount to do the annual, right?
It's like 40% the total, or no?
It's 60, 60, 60 something, 65 or something percent.
Yeah, discount.
I thought I better just kind of test the waters out, just
to get started.
Well, it feels good, right?
Like everybody's feeling the squeeze right now
with the economy, inflation, and everything.
And it feels like, oh, wow, 65% discount.
That's a lot.
I should do this, right?
Yeah, so I'm going to see how it goes.
Of course, you can always adjust that as time goes.
But since it's new and young, and I'm just
testing the waters, so doing that.
Hopefully, I'm hoping to launch next week.
So it's been crunch time with funneling, and workflows,
and Stripe, and how does that work,
and how do subscriptions work?
How do you cancel them?
How do you manage them?
It's been like, woofka.
So it's been kind of crunching away at that.
I think I finally got it, so cool.
How, like, Vicki, I guess, like we met the other week,
and there was like a lot kind of on the to-do list,
and talking about your time a little bit,
how has that been going?
I think it's going good.
I'm also working on another funnel for my bocce ball sets.
I think I'm going to be launching both tomorrow.
So I've got 35 sets at my house.
I'm going to do a funnel on, I'm going to initially start
with social media.
Got like 319 followers on Facebook
for my Bolovic bocce balls.
I kind of been ignoring the bocce balls, honestly,
because I've been launching Addy and Lou,
and I got a notice on my Facebook
that you have 319 followers.
I go, what?
Yay.
Because I had totally been spacing that off.
So I'm going to, we're going to try
to launch in social media that funnel to CYBLS 35.
See where that goes next week.
So we've been going good, really.
I feel like I'm about, I'm final touching these items here
and trying to launch an Etsy shop with digital products.
I mean, I don't know if you, oh, sorry.
I was just going to say, have you been protecting
your weekend time?
No.
Well, yes.
Yes.
In the regards to what we talked about, yes.
Great.
Love it.
Yeah.
I'm not getting it.
I'm working all weekend.
Like I'm, yeah, I worked all weekend.
I probably going to work all this weekend.
Because I got my boxes of bocce supplies from China yesterday,
and I've been waiting for them for a while.
So this weekend, we'll be replenishing 35 bocce sets
to get them ready to sell.
Hopefully next week.
Yeah.
Love that.
Good.
Yeah.
To see that I was just gonna say, I wonder if you can, you know, geographically target your advertising.
Just because I always go to Florida for the holidays because that's where I'm from.
And we always eat outside and play outside because, you know, it's like 75 degrees or something like crazy warm.
I bet you when I go down for Thanksgiving, it might even be in the 80s while we're there.
And like, we're always playing lawn games at that time.
So I just think like, you know, the bocce ball feels seasonal, but there's a lot of places they don't have.
It can be gift. I'm hoping gifting too, right?
This time of year.
Yeah.
And I just got about, I just had some professional pictures taking winter pics of my bocce ball set.
So I'm getting my premium A plus content going and new infographics around winter.
I don't know if you can like chat GPT some like photos of you.
It's like the really old people and the really young people.
And there's not that many activities they can do together.
But like, that's what you want to feel during the holidays is like the grandma with the walker, like sitting on her walking walker thing, you know, and benches on them.
And then like the four year old beside them.
It's like the great grandkid, like throwing the bocce ball, like together, because there's not like a lot of overlap in activities that those age brackets can do.
That's true.
Yeah. And so it's kind of, I don't know if you tried the like nano banana and those kinds of things.
Not that I was on the call on Friday.
Were you on Friday's call last Friday.
He didn't talk about nano banana, he was talking about making the custom GPT.
Is that what you're talking about the custom GPT?
No, he had a script how to generate a script for nano banana.
And he did one actually on the, and how it turned out so much better than chat GPT.
Okay, I missed that call. I'll have to go back and see if I can find it. But like, yeah, you can make these videos, just, you know, three second, five second clips.
Actually, Karima.
For your marketing campaign.
It was for Karima, I don't know if she can be on.
You did it for Karima on her splatter.
Amazing.
I have some scripts I can share with you guys I tried it out.
It's a very simple script.
Actually, take a screenshot of your existing picture with lifestyle picture.
And then put it on chat GPT and ask chat GPT to describe the picture.
Like a script like a wording that will describe the picture everything.
Then you copy that script and change it to whatever flavor you want to add.
Like, for example, like I change it to Christmas like I want to, you know, sell my ladder screen for Christmas.
And then it just explain no mom is cooking with kids.
It's a warm house and this and that and whatever blah blah and then you add your spin to it.
And then you put it on chat GPT and ask chat GPT to create a JSON file.
It's a code.
It will create the code.
Copy that and then I put it on gem Gemini, Gemini, whatever.
And it just created such nice pictures.
Yeah.
Can you share that Karima I was I couldn't believe that picture on Friday.
I send you the script.
I just put it on my.
It did.
She he did just what she said right had chat GPT create a JSON JSON description of the picture that and then she took then he took that and put it in Gemini.
Yeah, I tried it in.
Well Gemini or yeah Gemini or nano banana or both but my gosh, it was.
It was the best.
And I was amazed.
Now I don't have to even go and, you know, ask anybody else to make pictures for me.
I mean, if you master this skill, then I think we can actually rotate our pictures pretty quickly.
Let me find this on on any team that we are looking for because we are like giving the description and that code work because.
JSON is the language that is AI language, it understands all the all the search engines.
So that code is very, very crisp that way, then you get crisp images, if you direct your
direct them to create using that code, let me just find the script, I'll just,
it's such a simple script, it's just it, I just wrote it for myself, just to remember what we
did that day so that I don't forget it later on, because there's so much going on in the AI world.
So let me paste it here.
Can you also paste it in the inner circle membership group?
I did post it in our accelerator, but I can post it.
Yeah, move it over to inner circle membership,
because the accelerator group at some point will get like dissolved.
Okay, this is my layman term, you know, very layman term.
Take a screenshot, ask that DB to describe the image, try it out for your product, your team,
do the lifestyle images and see what results you get.
Because I'll show you I'll also I think, did I show you my Thanksgiving picture?
I tried with that.
Let me just upload it.
You'll have
Stephen did with Christmas.
And then I did it with Thanksgiving, just to get the feel of it.
Chat GPT has a certain look to the images.
You ever noticed that they're kind of orangey looking kind of?
I know exactly what you're saying.
And with these like marketing guys and that Rebecca had recommended,
they immediately were like, that's a chat image.
That's a chat image.
I'm like, yeah, it is hard to see that.
But yeah, you should see green when she puts that there.
Yeah, I get it's not like a chat GPT image.
This is one I did with Gemini.
Oh, yeah.
All the scripts that I did on the top, I just put it for Thanksgiving.
And I put it I gave Gemini my product picture,
like my white background picture of my slider screen, blue one.
And I'm like, I trusted it to use this screen instead of as the product.
So you just have to tweak a little bit.
Sometimes the first go, you may not get a good draft
because it created the image well, but then my product was off.
Then I said, keep all the other elements the same.
But can you please change the product with this picture?
Then I gave my product picture with the white background.
And then it changed it completely.
Like now it's exactly my product.
I see the way they're holding it and everything.
That's my navy blue one.
So it did a good job.
I mean, I was impressed.
Yeah, you used Gemini on that one.
That's Gemini, right?
For code generation in chat GPT, picture generation in Gemini.
I have not tried what was nano banana, but I would like to try that too.
I mean, just to compare.
I mean, this one looks crisp, right?
It looks like you should put the Christmas one.
You should show them the Christmas one.
The Christmas one.
Did he share with me?
He did not share.
I have to say, I have to message Steve.
Oh, really?
He did not put it out on.
He did.
I thought he posted it to you.
I think I don't have the one he created, but I have my own.
I created using which is there, but I mean, these two.
And I thought I saw it, but maybe I didn't.
Maybe did any other tool that works well for you guys?
I mean, no, I mean, I just use the chat GPT because I'm on like level one.
But I'm going to try the Gemini.
I have tried banana when I was doing that Sophie society challenge.
I tried nano banana and was distracted and exhausted and it didn't look any better than
the chat GPT.
So I was kind of like, I'm going to move on.
I guess I should circle back to it though and try.
Do what she put in.
Ask chat GPT to create, generate the image in whatever you want in.
I think it's JSON.
JSON file to Gemini or nano banana.
Yeah, that's right.
That's a typo.
Yeah, it's okay.
Yeah.
I mean, try that.
Did any one of you try any video tools where we can create like lifestyle?
videos. I think I remember Stephen was talking about what
was the name of SORA, right?
Was it SORA? S-O-R-A. That's a thing.
S-O-R-A. But then he said that we need to get like an invite
from somebody to actually join it. We cannot join it without an
invite. So that is something I'll have to check. I have not
tested. That's my next AI project, just to test the video
creation. Because that would be another one to test it out and
see how it works. But for now, I mean, there are so many tools
out there. So I'm just sticking to two, three and just trying to
maybe do something with that. And once we learn more on these,
then we can explore more. That's what I'm doing at this point.
On Nano Banana, you can create a movie. And on Amazon, there's
a, on Sophie's Society, they were using Amazon. You create a
certain type of advertisement, like PPC campaign, and it will
create videos from your listing photos that are like, three
eight second videos. But you can use them for like a video PPC
campaign, but you can also just download them and then use them
yourself. And I think that I think Canva actually has an app
or a plugin that will make a video as well.
Oh, yeah. Canva has something. Did you try Canva AI by any
I just use it to create, um, like a US brand, like a sticker
for me, I wanted to put it on my product. And Canva did a better
job than chat GPT. This for my sticker. So that would be
another tool to explore, because I'm focusing on if I'm paying a
membership for a certain tool, let's exhaust their
capabilities, rather than jumping on to something else
paid. I'll probably try other free tools, but something that
I'm already paying the membership. Let's see all the
capabilities that we can extract from those. Right. So
definitely, it's like $20 $20 $20 $20. All of a sudden, the
OpEx is crazy high.
Yeah. So that is the thing, because now, I'm paying for
I'm paying for chat GPT. So maybe exhaust, I mean, privacy,
and Gemini is free. So Sora is also free. That's what Steven
said. But then we need to figure out how we can get into it. But
at least these four or five tools just play around with
them and figure out what we can do. Yeah.
Right, guys, I would love to hear I mean, you guys are
already sharing all of this, but personal business best, like,
there's some personal wins in your life, some business wins.
Whoever wants to go first, go for it.
You're talking about this week, or like since the castle or
whatever, whatever comes to mind.
In 2025.
Okay, maybe within like the last month.
So this product is like my second product line. And last
week, I got the inspection report. And it was like almost
12% failure rate. And so I went back and forth with my gym
coordinator and they did 100% inspection, which meant they had
to like put the plastic wrap back on it again. But like, I
found how so it was like overall a 20% failure rate of the total
product. And I was like, okay, cool, go ahead and ship me the
products that are good. And so I asked her to like, basically
ship me a quarter of the inventory so I can try to sell
it in q4. And I've been trying to figure out how once it lands
here at my house, I'm going to ship it to my house how I can
actually sell it. And it feels kind of like, even though I'm
not profitable, it feels awesome to have like two different
product lines. It feels kind of like I am an entrepreneur. It's
like like that ownership.
of the title more than, you know, the fact that the product may or may not survive.
I think my first product, I'm having some issues with it fitting and I've been going back and
forth with the manufacturer on, you know, potential changes before my next bulk order,
but it still feels like really empowering that I'm like taking ownership of like the title of
entrepreneur. So I think overall, it feels like a lot of progress since the castle, but also since
I started. Yeah, that's great. Keep going. What was the second product? What is it?
Well, I didn't know what I was doing. And I just like started like a different brand.
And it's a toy brand that basically it's an affirmation card deck. I could probably
unblur my background so you can actually see it. But this is what the box looks like. It's called
Animal Power Affirmation Adventure. And so it's like a gamification of the affirmations for young
kids. And these are really like Canva graphics, but it says, you know, the affirmation for the
kid. And then on the back, basically, after they say the affirmation, you ask them a question about
the affirmation. So this one says, I am persistent. When are you most persistent? And when they do
that task, then they unlock an animal adventure. And so then they can pretend like they're like
a rhinoceros or a peacock or a rabbit. And they can like act kind of crazy and energetic
all over the house like an animal for as long as they want. And if they do like multiple animals,
then they can like mash up the actions and go crazy. And then in the booklet, it gives different
spins on the game. So different games, you can play with the same card deck. And when I originally
made this, I thought that I would have kind of like an online like a Facebook group where people
could get supported in like teaching their kids positive affirmations and just positivity in
general, and have different games available like to share like how you can reuse the same deck.
And then it kind of goes like along with the other done for you product that I had was this
felt storyboard set. And so I was starting to make books and felt pieces that go with the books.
And the whole brand is really just about promoting vocabulary building to express
the so the kid can express themselves so that the parents can understand what the kids feeling so
that they can have better communications and essentially avoid conflict or misunderstandings
and stuff like that. So the whole like felt storyboard stuff is really just language development
around normal things, and kind of like normalizing stuff. So like there's one that I mean, I have
done, but I'm like never actually done. It is about like food choices, how to fill your plate
with healthy food. So that's like, you know, tangential to my lunchbox idea. And it's supposed
to be like a crossover product. And so like this one, I would eventually for the affirmations,
I would have little cards that you can cut out, like print and cut out and put in the lunch boxes,
like I love you notes for the kids, but affirmation notes for the kids. And then
other stories that would have the felt pieces or like toilet training, and picking up your toys,
and, you know, kind of learning vocabulary and routines around like putting on your jacket in
winter or putting on your flip flops to go to the pool, stuff kind of like that. It's a work
in progress. It's like a three year thing. It's gonna be phased in. Yeah, you have so many ideas
there. So many products can come out of that. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, it feels kind of like,
I'm really trying to own like when I went to the castle, it's like on the way there,
I was really brainstorming with that 67 day yearbook, like, what do I need to make next level?
it really is like having a whole team of people and like trying to like get out of the toxic DIY
mentality and like not have to do things so independently but how do I like you know
justify the expense of hiring people to do things and like they can do it really well but I actually
have to like let it go so I think I'm gonna try to hire somebody off of Fiverr or something like
that to help me as a designer for some of the toy products. Did you get a new brand then and
trademark and everything or? So I need to I'm like so like not wanting to but I need to like
this is the logo and I need to put it into the trademark system and honestly like this has been
sitting on my desk since like before the castle like I brought this my golden sample to the castle
I should have over a month ago filed it I can't even make my Amazon listing I can't do my brand
registry because I still haven't filed it it's like on my list daily I feel like it's gonna
happen today though. Is it haunting you or something or what is stopping you?
Well just like the frustration that I didn't put everything underneath one brand and that it's
gonna cost so much to manage two different brands but it's like I have more than two brands because
I also have my social media channels and just like the real like you know after we went through the
whole accelerator understanding of how much it cost to do market awareness of just your brand
itself and your product offerings and like how to drive traffic and like just the frustration with
myself of like if I would have known that I would have set it up differently but now like trying to
merge it together I think I've had like probably a total of four calls with Megan or conversations
with Megan like how can I merge these things and every single time it's like I try and then I get
feedback like it just doesn't make sense like the marketing people that Rebecca like recommended
they looked at my Shopify store and they're like it's fine but when people come to your website
they don't trust you because you're talking about this but you're trying to sell this
and it's just like too far apart for where you're at in the marketplace if I was Target
then I could have Cat and Jack and like whatever their other 20 brands are at Target but like I'm
obviously not Target so yeah it's I think that the thing that's stopping me is just like the overall
frustration. Yeah. Did you trademark ADN Lou already? No I don't know I'm not sure if I will
I don't know maybe I'm not sure. I didn't trademark my social media channel stuff either
and I don't really plan to have physical products with that right social media thing like I plan to
some digital products but I don't know that I would use any like branding really on the
digital products. Right I don't have any plans to I did get approved on my Bolovic I just got
approved like officially trademarked on the Bolovic brand so you know that I guess that feels good but
then I I don't know we'll see what what happens if hopefully they survive my bocce balls and
so I have two different I mean I'm doing two different things too they don't really
I don't know maybe we talked about that at the castle right I do I bring them over into
ADN Lou or I can't take ADN Lou over into Bolovic that doesn't make any sense
but I mean I suppose I could bring the bocce ball set into ADN Lou if
and rebrand it but I don't know maybe I'll just have two different brands
just kind of promote them to each other and they're all part of my overall
company and just keep them separate don't I'm not going to try to
it's okay I think it's okay for us to have multiple things like that
you shouldn't feel bad I don't think you should feel bad
you feel bad about the expense of it that the overhead for the company is just so high that it
feels like to become profitable is challenging and that that's I think the first
frustration around it because, you know, whenever, like if I had a second lunchbox set, then
a lot of my PPC and a lot of my Facebook marketing, it would all overlap and there would be crossover
opportunities to sell to the same customer again. And that is, yeah, it's hard I think also to
understand that's like 30, 20, 30% goes to marketing, you know, 40% goes to Amazon. And so
how can you adopt the taking ownership of being an entrepreneur into this very specific scenario?
So delegating to get some of my digital product ideas out so that I have non-tangible things I
can give away for free to help get more brand awareness and get and continue like brainstorm
crossover opportunities for the product lines so that I can bring customers from one product
into the other and vice versa. That's kind of what I'm focused on right now. I need to
probably look into instead of just like hiring somebody outright for some of the design stuff,
like hire people who know how to capitalize off of the AI stuff and they maybe like have
an account already so they can do a lot of the AI generation of things for me when I can like
offload some of that stuff. I guess I also mean like how can you adopt that mindset into even
thinking about the finance part, like that profitability factor that's frustrating you,
like what can there be a link between this like new or transforming identity
and how that identity thinks and feels about this frustration?
I mean aside from just trying to like create more things which I feel like is what entrepreneurs do,
you know, create, I don't really know. How do you think I could do it? How do you think it would
work? I don't know if I have a specific thought. I would almost, I want to say pivot but I feel
like that's such even kind of like a vague, vague concept and it's even like pivot and it's not even
necessarily pivoting your actions. It's something, I think it's more in your mind. I think it's
you're putting extra meaning either on the finance or something and it's not that what
you feel is wrong because profitability making money is like more than half the reason we're
all here but I just think that there's, I think there's something that can be unlocked. I don't
know what it is. I just feel like there is and it's in here, it's all in there or in your heart,
you know, because it's like when you're talking about like you when you're saying like you're
the frustration is kind of holding back from doing the trademark thing.
There's something it's like when we're going to kind of hit, I don't even want to say like
another level because that sounds so cheesy but when we're going to hit a different part of
transformation, there's some sort of resistance and for you it's like that trademark is this
resistance and there's like there's something you're holding on to whatever it is and it's
like there needs to be a release. It's kind of like all right step into this next phase of
transformation. Personally, I just don't know what it is. It's just kind of like my intuition
so I don't know if that resonates at all but it's not a good answer.
Like practical step-by-step answer.
Vicki, what about you? I know you shared a lot too but like personal business best.
When? I don't know what to say. Why?
I can think of a couple already.
Yeah, I don't know. I feel
good about the direction I'm
taking, I guess, to, you know, I'm not seeing the profit yet.
So my direction is to add more lines of places
to bring money in instead of waiting on the bocce ball
set, kind of starting these other streams of income,
I guess, to help bring in more income
and not waiting on the one to make me the great amount
or make me the money that I'd like to be making.
So one product isn't going to do it.
Instead of, for me, investing in a physical product that
has all those back-end costs and to start up
trying to get to the digital world
here and figuring out how to take advantage of that,
I guess, to bring in other streams of income.
So, I mean, time will tell if these tracks are
going to work, of course.
But I guess I'm going to think positively on they will work.
And just being patient through the startup process
of getting them going and just not expecting it immediately,
but just to work them as the newbies they will be
and be patient.
Three or 19 followers took me a year
to get to that on Ball of Wisdom.
But it's something, right?
I guess I feel good about that.
It's not thousands or anything.
I know some people are doing thousands.
But it's just a product-based.
It's just product-based.
It's not, it's only the bocce ball set.
It doesn't, that's all it is.
So for three or 19 followers, I kind of felt pretty good,
I guess, to like, wow.
Untapped potential, for sure.
So I'm proud of how you kept your commitment
with the weekend thing we discussed on our call last week.
Because I know that was a hard shift for you.
Like, normally, it's a lot more family time on the weekend.
And you really kept your commitment
and really put your head down on it.
That's a huge, that can be both personal and business way.
Because I incorporate both sides of it.
Two weekends in a row, which I was hoping to not have
to do it this weekend, too.
But it's just, it's crunch time for me
to get some of these done and going
and use that weekend time to be productive.
And so I might have to do it two weekends in a row.
I usually go see my grandkiddos,
that one's two hours away and one's three hours away.
And that's what we usually do on the weekends.
But my husband is, he's a semi-retired farmer
and he helps my brother and nephew in its harvest season.
So he can't really go with me.
So I would go by myself.
But I would still normally have done that.
But I've been, I stayed home last weekend,
I told Gabby because, well, I had to,
it was a little bit of a sacrifice
because I am trying to push some of these out
and get some of these things going for the holidays.
And just, again, start these streams of income
and get them going.
Like the subscription isn't a holiday thing.
I mean, it doesn't matter what time of year,
but I want it, it needs to get started
because it is a stream
that I want to start sooner rather than later.
The vocci balls is holiday, that has to go.
Like this is my time to sell them.
It's either now or I'm going to have to wait
till next spring and summer.
And those are going, they're going in November, December,
if I have to like give them away.
So anyway, I've had to sacrifice some weekend time.
I wonder if we could brainstorm ways
to like bring your family into the things
that need to get done.
How old are your grandkids?
Well, they're, well, they're a baby.
Two are babies, less than a year.
And the oldest one is almost three in January.
So do they go to like school or daycare?
Two hours and three hours away.
So they're not here.
But are they like in daycares or in schools?
Like, I wonder if you could offer
to like launch your product at their daycare,
you know, in some way.
At my kids' school, they're always looking for PTA sponsors.
and so right now especially like if you buy like your Thanksgiving dinner from
this restaurant then they give 10% back to the PTA or if you buy like at this
craft market then 10% goes to the PTA and they'll have pop-ups for
fundraisers for the schools for the churches for the Girl Scout troops for I
mean last week there was like a movie on the lawn to get art supplies for the
art teacher and that people would just bring their extra boxes of crayons and
stuff like that for for that kind of thing I just wonder if those networks
where you would say to yourself it's like hey I'm gonna come and visit you
but can you set up this meeting and like introduce me to these people and I can
like present this and then like the rest of these like 20 hours that I'm gonna be
with you I'll be focused not on my business anymore yeah I mean they're
obviously not gonna help you assemble a box if they're that young but the gal
that I'm working with on the the Etsy store this this Kate Hayes you know I
don't know if you guys watch the Kate Hayes digital products on the in our
might figure out how to market my Etsy store and one of her suggestions was you
know schools and you know daycare places where moms are and and that whole
marketing thing just brings like a it fills me with anxiety like I just want
it to go I just at home marketing like
sometimes it's like easy to give it away for free because it feels like
asking your friends for money is painful but you know giving away things
for free it's like oh look you know this handmade thing I want you to have it and
I wouldn't do it with the bocce balls but like an introductory packet to your
digital membership like that's something that you could say like here's one
worksheet out of 20 that's in the digital packet like you know would love
to get your feedback and just like do you think that this is interesting or
like do you know anybody who would be interested in it I mean yeah I have to
like I have to get over some things to figure out how to do I know cuz I love
to be anonymous people that I actually know like showing my products to people
that I really like know and like I mean so the people at my youngest daughter's
school don't know that I made like I'm marketing that lunchbox like I brought
it from China and like that's why she's using it and last week her teacher like
looked me in the face doesn't know that it's like my lunchbox and was just like
she cannot open and close this lunchbox you need to buy her a different lunchbox
like it's just not appropriate and I was just like I just came home and like
emailed the manufacturer like how make this work for me they told me no they
can't make it work that change the mold it's gonna cost like $1,400 and they
tried different molds and if the lid is looser it's gonna leak and that's not
gonna meet my design criteria and all of this stuff so it's like a back end kind
of like I'm thinking on it we'll see what happens with it yeah I know that
was painful I know there's certain things you just kind of want to stay in
the background and and have things just just work yeah yeah I don't yeah I those
I know they're good ideas I I just maybe you have like a friend or like a
not as close to it and so they are happy to like just say hey look at this
cool thing my like third degree of the Association person just showed me what
are you thinking like like can you
do this, like, look at this. And then, like, a lot of the times, you know, especially,
like, if they're friends of a friend, like, you don't even have to pay them a commission,
but it's enough to get feedback and confidence in yourself and in your product to move to the
next level. I definitely had some friends post my lunchbox on their own Facebook, like, feed,
and I haven't even posted it on my own.
Yeah, I haven't done anything on my personal. Well, I'm not a poster anyway.
Yeah, I don't. And to purposely do that, that would be another stretch for me,
put myself out there and publicly go public facing, I guess, to what I'm doing. I mean,
people know it, but I don't know, that would be,
that would be tough. I mean, I don't hardly like people's posts. I just, I'm just a creeper,
and I'm barely that at times.
Send me your link. I'll put it in my socials. I'm not saying that my audience is engaged,
but I'll put it there. If anybody, one person clicks on it, that's free traffic, right?
Yes. Also, that reminds me, I'll take the last minute to say this. We started, Vicki,
I think you were in the office hours where we were talking about having like the gift group,
the gift section of the group. Were you on that a few weeks ago? Yeah. So we have that on the
master. If you go into the mastermind group, there's now a tab that says gift guide or whatever,
and that's where you can go and post your product. What was that, Vicki? Is it just coming
soon or? It should be there. Like I, unless they, unless like Megan was testing yesterday,
so unless she took it down and they're going to. I don't see it under Rainmaker Mastermind.
Oh yeah. So it's there. So when you go into the mastermind group
and then you go all wins, questions, Amazon influencers, international, and then gift guide.
Oh, down there. I was looking at the top, the members resources. Oh, gift guide. Yeah.
So that's where you can post your product before like people can go and shop. There'll be more
announcements on this on like Mindset Monday, and I'll try to keep remembering on like office
hours. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. So if you want to, we did have this before. So a couple of disclaimers
that I'll be kind of bringing up consistently. We used to have this before and we had to shut it
down because people were using it to go in and see like how much other people were selling
or things like that. And cause when you have an X-ray, you look to like go on and see.
And it was mostly people who were new or were like nervous and wanted to see like,
they want to see that this is like going to work or any, you know, and then they don't really have
all the information. And so it created a lot of noise, but we want to give it a shot because we
that people want to support each other. So kind of the disclaimer there is like,
this is not to be compared, comparing ourselves to anybody or anything like that, or comparing
using it as proof to like, say this is successful or not. Everyone's journey is very unique. So
kind of just something there. And if you ever see anybody commenting or things like that,
that were kind of like little red flags, please let us know. But yeah, we want like everyone to
support each other. And like so many people have asked for it, but that is where you can go post
your links and your stuff to your products. And you know, hopefully we'll fill that up and people
can shop from each other for the holidays after the holidays. And yeah, I know every like, I like
with how many students they have, there are so many products and I'm like, Oh, I can use that.
Oh, I can use that. And I'm just like, Holy moly. I can't afford how much.
I never really used those tabs before, I guess.
Amazon influencers, like those influencers we can reach out to.
Both looking for and if you are one? I think it's a little bit of both. So I see in there a
little bit of both. People who need an influencer, but also there's people like
there's someone who's like, I am an influencer specializing in kitchen home and family.
So yeah, there's definitely a little bit of both. So you definitely get in there and look around
and see what you can do. And then yes, gift guide, feel free to be the first ones to post your
products. Okay.
We'll have to take a look. I can admit I've totally spaced off those little thingamajiggies
there. Okay. I know there's like a lot and you lose your brain. I have to say this, this section.
that we go to on notifications. Like, I can't always get there.
Like those calls, like Friday's call, for example, because
that's really the one where Thursday's the one I'm doing
Thursdays. Like figuring out how to join that call, like, was
the most frustrating, difficult thing, like, to search for the
Zoom link, like, can't it just be just right there?
Is that the AI call you're talking about?
The Thursday call, now they could be all the same, like,
like the pre-revenue call. If I click on that, like, it doesn't
even open, like join the Zoom here, like it, maybe it's because
it's not live anymore. It's not going there.
Right? Is that why? Because sometimes they don't go anywhere.
Because it's not live, huh?
I would go through the events section. But let me check and see
if that's even working.
So instead go to
So I always look at the events tab where the count where there's
a calendar, and you can sync that. Now, that is a mistake with
how it was pinned, like the announcement at the top, like a
featured, like that should have still gone to Zoom, and it went
to the app.rainmakeracademy. But like the events tab where it has
the calendar that you can sync, I usually, that's how I do it.
Like I click in there, and then I click the link, and that should
open up your Zoom. But I will also make a note for us to
double check the
that when there's like, it used to take you directly to the Oh,
that opens up the Zoom link. Okay, may I just
featured one that says pre-revenue, that one is not
taking it to you where it should. So I'll make a note for
us to fix that.
I guess I'm expecting it to have the Zoom link like it used to and
it doesn't. It takes you to the rainmaker links.
I'm sure it's probably just a it's a, I just have to get used
to something. It's been, it's been a, I do a lot of clicking
before I get on to these calls sometimes.
Yeah, everybody, they'll even put it into the chat, like,
where's the link? How do we get on this thing? Right before the
call starts?
Because sometimes I could see him there, but I can't, I can't
hear him. I can't figure out like, I don't know if it's just
me or not. But
you're very technically savvy.
I know I am. That's what's like, why is this?
That's not you.
I followed the calendar. But on my Gmail calendar, there's no
link to join. Even though it says now is the time of the
call, I still have to go find the link. And I usually go to
the app.rainmakers.com or whatever we originally our
original portal and I tap in from there. That's usually the
easiest thing.
Yeah, it used to be able to get to it from the calendar. Just
go to our own calendar, it would sync, go to our own calendar,
click in there, right, the zoom link would be right there. But
now it is a little bit of a gymnastics routine. It's a
personal problem. It could be a personal problem. So I'll work
on it. All right.
If not, I'm making a note to see what we can do.
Okay.
But all right, guys, I have to get off this call to the next
one. But it's been great. And I'll see you on our
sounds good. All right. Yeah.
We don't really have our official one yet. Right? Like
Thursdays aren't for us yet. Like we can go to the other one
but our class doesn't ours don't start yet. Right.
We don't have like a weekly thing.
Yeah, but you guys have access, I think to joining one of the
cohort calls. I don't remember which one it is. That was the
I think I looked ahead and ours starts like in a week or a
couple weeks. Ours is on the calendar in a couple weeks.
Yeah, like this for our I know we can go to this other one. But
the one just for our cohort hasn't been on the calendar.
Last week, it was confusing. I actually joined the the welcome
call because I thought it was welcoming us
just back to you know, being like together again, but I was
joining a new cohort and I'm like, Oh my gosh, you don't
know any of these people. I must be the wrong place.
See both of them on the calendar. So I'm guessing that
means you could probably choose
Um, for in the, in the membership group, like the inner circle membership, I'm seeing both of the cohort calls on the calendar cohort. It's not ours. So, yeah, we have in there. Both of them are not yours. So they're going to be those are like the live cohorts that are currently going on that have just started or in the middle of starting because we're cohort.
Oh, we do have one this week. We start this week. Yeah. Okay.
That's a new
Like you have access to it starting now, but like that's a new totally new group. So I would ignore like the cohort like those are not referring to you guys at all the cohort a or b like this new because we have new ones starting every four weeks. So it's just you guys have access to joining those calls because you can revisit all the topics get help.
Oh, goodness. You said that. So what is what are we then
Like, says October cohort. Yeah, we're not October. We're August. Right. So we don't really have like our own August cohort.
Not anymore. You're not because you're not a membership. So now your business, it's our membership.
So we have this call, which is like an office hours where anybody can join and there's not another business accelerator specific call for our cohort or for people who have already graduated. There's not like a graduates call.
Yeah, but you can join all of the accelerator, whoever the current accelerator calls are you can join those if you want.
Oh, I'm kind of confused. Okay.
It's okay. It's just that it's other people going through the accelerator like you did.
So, but you can join those. You can also still get help on the different phases.
But we don't I thought we were continuing. Is that what this call is
No, I thought we were continuing something every week with our group.
No, I'm a choice to be. Oh, it's not just our group. It's now everyone of membership.
Oh, so basically, you're just going and joining an existing business accelerator class and going back over the things that we always went over.
Oh, I thought we were going to get on a on a call where we would just be able to still like
We will probably
Yeah, we will probably have special workshops for membership only, but those will get announced as a couple of months.
Explain that because I was, I was, I guess I misunderstood that.
I thought we were going to weekly class, not not necessarily a class, but just a connection point.
Okay. Okay.
But that is what this is, is the weekly
That's what this one is.
All right, guys, I will see you soon. Okay.
Bye.