you
hello everyone welcome on in good to see you all all right welcome to the
business accelerator welcome call I am just going to check and see if everyone
is here real quick so we're gonna do a quick roll call and see here
all right if you are in a place to have your cameras on we're gonna do some a
little bit of interactivity here and some intros so it'd be great to just get
to meet you all and see your faces all right this is business accelerator
cohort a which doesn't mean very much to you guys it just means that you are in a
cohort that has 11 a.m. PST calls that's pretty much all that means with the
exception of today which is obviously 10 a.m. PST let's see here all right we've
got
okay it's Joe Burns here yeah hey Joe how's it going okay we've got Sally hey
Sally and do we have is it Susanna or Susanna how do you say it like with a Z
Susanna Susanna okay very cool I like nice to meet you and then is it Zena is
that how you're saying your name yes that's correct awesome we got some
really cool names in here so that's awesome we've got Maura nice to meet you
or see you again I've seen you before Donna is Donna in here let me see I
don't see Donna yet okay and lyric and Naomi okay Naomi you made it in awesome
okay so we're just missing a couple it's pretty good this call will be recorded
if you need to come back to it and I will show you where you can find it
that'll be part of what we cover in this call so what we're gonna do in the
welcome call it's gonna be a quick hour-long call we're going to kind of go
through some onboarding and go over what exactly is the business accelerator
program what are all the things you have access to where she should you be
logging into and and finding things as well as just kind of an overview of the
program and what to expect and just getting to know each other a little bit
before week one officially starts next week all right so that is the plan for
today so what I would like to do first is just do a quick go around the room
and do a quick intro for everyone so I'm gonna drop in the chat a couple of
questions that you're gonna answer okay and there we go so you're gonna share
your name where you live and mention your time zone as well it's just helpful
for me to know what time zone you guys are in the name of your business if you
have a business or if you are just getting
getting started, that's fine too.
Just let us know that you're just getting started.
What one of your favorite hobbies is,
and then you're gonna pass to the next person.
If you have a business and you wanna share
just a little bit about what you do,
I think it would be cool just to get to know
the businesses in the room as well.
So I'll kick us off here.
My name is Megan, and I am one of the trainers
in the Business Accelerator.
You're going to meet Steven and you, Clydes, as well.
And then we also have Gabby, who is one of our CSM coaches.
So many of you have already met with her.
So you'll meet some other team members here soon also.
I live in Phoenix, Arizona.
So I'm currently Mountain Standard Time.
We're always Mountain Standard Time.
We don't change time zone.
It makes it very confusing for everyone in the world.
Sometimes we're aligned with PST, sometimes we're not,
but that's me.
One of my favorite hobbies I like, I play a lot of sports.
And right now my preferred sport is Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
So I do that several times a week.
And I also play a lot of sand volleyball
because of where we live.
So that's me.
So if I can get everybody to raise their Zoom hand,
that'll make it really easy for us to see
who has not shared yet.
So if you haven't done this before,
there's a button down at the bottom of your screen
that says raise hand,
or it might be under the React icon with the little heart.
And you might need to be in full screen Zoom mode
to see this, but it's at the bottom menu.
Okay, we're almost there.
Let me know if you're having trouble finding it, anybody.
I don't see it.
You know what, Zuzanna, that's fine
because you're gonna go first.
So then everyone else has their hand up, so you're good.
Okay.
So I'm ready?
Yeah, I can start?
Okay.
My name is Zuzanna Faustka.
I live in California, 20 minutes from San Francisco.
So we are passing time.
My hobby is,
what is my hobby?
Yes, hiking, climbing mountains,
nutrition and wellbeing lifestyle.
I was about to do it a long time ago,
but I just started,
call it a business maybe for now,
website building around fitshapebeauty.com.
And it's about to, for women, empower them
and go back to what they,
if they wanna be like more healthy
and start hiking and exercising.
And for women about 40, 50, 60 and plus.
So encourage, you know, their lifestyle,
even if we are busy, I work in ICU.
So my lifestyle is very busy and demanding,
but, you know, that's what I'm trying to do
and balance the life.
And encourage other women to, you know,
it's possible even in busy lives.
You know, to be healthy and,
because if we work hard now,
we gonna have it much easier later on
when we, you know, get older.
That's good.
I love that.
Thanks for sharing Zuzanna.
So go ahead and tag someone in who has their hand up
and they'll go next.
Where do I do that?
Do you see anyone with their hands raised?
Like, do you see the little faces?
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
So just call on somebody.
Oh, Naomi, Naomi.
All right, Naomi, go for it.
Hello.
Trying to eat my lunch at the same time.
Oh, you're fine.
You're all good.
No worries.
I'll let you get back to that right after your intro.
That's okay.
So I'm Naomi Sancha.
I have, well, I'm currently in Jacksonville, Florida
or right outside Jacksonville, Florida.
So we're on Eastern time zone.
I have had a business for the past six years
called Agape Doulas.
And we service primarily pregnant and postpartum women.
But we also teach a cycle health workshop for teens
and even their moms.
That's a fun thing that we do.
A favorite hobby, really watching baseball games
is my current hobby.
I used to knit.
I used to knit a lot
and haven't really been able to do that
really since my son was born.
And he's 14 now, so.
Kind of dropped that hobby, but, uh, but, yeah, currently I just, I watched him play baseball and I watch baseball games with him. And that's kind of my current hobby.
So, next person would be Joe. How about that?
Ah, there we go. I don't like Zoom. I can do Teams, I don't like Zoom. Hi, I'm Joe. I live in the UK, North West England, just over the river from Liverpool.
So, I'm, it's currently 6pm for me. So, I'm kind of late in the day. I have an Amazon business that will be a year old in March that I sell wedding dress garment bags.
Don't ask, but they're big and they're long and they can, so that's okay. But, um, I, uh, I want to look at another business possibility on Business Accelerator.
Something very, very different, but I'm sure we'll get into that. In terms of hobbies, um, don't, don't really do hobbies at the moment. Used to, but life.
Um, but my stepdaughter's just had a baby, literally just had a baby. So, I get to play with that baby.
That's your hobby currently.
So, that's going to be my hobby. Yeah. So, I go up and do the freelance work I've got to do near where she lives and then go and play with the baby. Perfect.
So, that's, that's me at the moment. Oh, I'm walking the dog. So, I have a furry baby and a little baby to play with. So, all good.
You've got plenty of hobbies, Joe.
Most of it involves small things that are cute.
Yeah. Yeah. That's great. Those are the best hobbies.
Um, so, uh, Donna.
I love that because my hobby is my grandchildren. I'm a Gigi. I'm not a grandma or any of that. I'm a Gigi.
And so, I have eight children and grandchildren so far and then bonus children because obviously my children are married.
And so, it's just a blessing to get to be a Gigi.
And so, in that, I do traveling to be able to see and also that I think would be a hobby.
I love to travel for work and just exploration and discovery.
Um, and I have a business called Wisdom's Way.
I know I posted it in the interaction, so I won't go into all of that, but I am a family connection coach and a heart healing facilitator, author, podcaster.
Um, really love to see people flourish and being who God designed them to be and that in family, like the whole family flourish.
God didn't accidentally put us all together in a family or a team.
And so, even as our team is that we're a team, we'll, you know, by the time we get to the end of this, we'll know each other in a new kind of way.
And so, anyway, I just love being able to connect in this group and I'm looking forward to being able to cheer and celebrate everybody as we go on this journey.
Awesome.
And I'm in Texas, so I'm central, central time.
But I move about quite a bit.
I was actually over in Europe and went to 20 different countries and I'm being nomadic in my season.
Wow.
And so, um, yeah, I was kind of hoping 25 countries in 25 would be catchy, but so far I've only done 22.
So that is awesome.
Hey, it's not too late.
Yeah, it's not looking like that, but I probably will travel a little more, but, you know, it's still, it's been a wonderfully adventurous year.
And yeah, I'm just glad to be here with you all.
Awesome.
Thanks.
Go ahead and tag someone in with their hand up.
You got Maura, Zena, and Sally.
Sorry, Sally.
Hi, I'm Sally.
I'm in Pekin, Illinois, which is halfway between St. Louis and Chicago.
My business is Auntie Sally's Bed and Biscuit, and I'm just starting on Amazon.
I haven't launched yet, but I also have an actual Auntie Sally's Bed and Biscuit and keep between 11 and seven dogs at my house.
My favorite hobby, I am very hands-on.
I like to knit, sew.
I'm creating unity rocks and things like that.
So I'm glad to be here and glad to be with all of you.
I will tag Zena.
Good afternoon, everybody.
It is afternoon.
Because I am here in Baltimore, Eastern Time, so it's just after one o'clock.
My name's Xena, obviously.
I have a business called Stormin' Shelter. It is a spiritual life coaching business
using cartology, psychology, and other holistic methods to help people who feel like they are
intuitive and sensitive to reclaim their power, find their purpose, and really step into their
calling. One of my hobbies, I'll say watching anime and cosplaying. I do like to dress up,
so that's always fun. Yeah, I think I covered everything.
So, last but certainly not least, we will go with Maura.
Hi, everyone. Yeah, I'm good. How do I take the hand down?
I can do it for you.
Oh, okay. Yes, I am Maura. I live in upstate New York, south of Rochester,
so I'm not near the city. So, I'm in Eastern Standard Time.
Sorry, I'm looking at the list. Business name. So, I have a blog called happydealhappyday.com,
which I started when my oldest, who's now 16, I started that when she was probably three,
and it's like a deal-finding website, but then I also have made easy recipes, and I love crafting,
so I have a lot of crafts on there, too. I'll put that as my hobby when I'm not
taxiing my two girls around to every activity under the sun,
but I also am a long COVID sufferer and actually not having the best day, so I apologize,
and so that blog kind of took a nosedive just from my own health challenges,
and I just need something new to focus on while I'm home, and I need my brain to be stimulated
again into something that I enjoy. So, my current idea is to start something new called wedwise.com,
which will be an AI tool to help save money for wedding planning, and I'm currently taking
Stephen's AI course and learning about that, but I want to dabble in that,
and that's what I'm looking forward to team up with all of you to be successful at,
and I haven't given up on my blog. I just need something different,
and I'm hoping to also find skills that might motivate me to sort of bring that back to life.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing. I remember when you were sharing about the AI for
brides on a budget tool. I thought that was a really cool idea. That's very cool. Awesome.
All right. Well, thanks for introing everybody. Now, what we're going to do is we're just going
to start doing some walkthroughs. I think it might be a good idea for you guys to pull this
up. I just want to make sure that everyone is able to log in and find this, so let me share my screen
here. Okay. Yes. This is the one. Okay, and I want you to go ahead and log into your training portal
and also pull up the app, the Rainmaker Family app, whether that's on desktop like this or it's
on your phone, but pull up both of these things, and I just want to make sure that everybody can
log in, so go ahead and drop a yes for me in the chat when you are successfully in both of these
places, and you're specifically going to be looking for Business Accelerator Live Cohort A
course in your training portal under courses, and you're looking for the Business Accelerator
Cohort A group in your community app.
I'm in.
All right, got a yes from Joe, Naomi, Zena, Donna. If I could see a four.
Yes, I'm seven. Okay, there's Anna, so I think we're, we need two more. I think just Sally.
I'm in the course. I'm not in the family. Okay.
All right.
That's halfway there.
I'm not sure that I have both.
I'm in the Rainmaker under the courses.
I do see cohort A.
And I clicked on that, but I don't know what else I'm supposed to be in.
Are you in the training portal or the app right now?
The training portal.
OK, so you do see this course.
Yes.
The other thing is the Rainmaker app.
So you can either open that on your phone or you can do it on desktop.
If you do it on desktop.
I'll drop the link for you.
OK.
If you've downloaded the mobile app, you could also pull it up on your phone.
OK, I have not downloaded the app yet.
I guess I should.
OK, yep, I got it.
I'm good.
Let me know if you can log in and let me know if you see this group.
I want to make sure everyone is able to get to the right places.
And while we're on the topic, if anyone has not yet
downloaded the mobile app for the Rainmaker family app,
I would recommend you go ahead and do that
because we do send out push notifications there
that just, you know, let you know, like, hey, we're about to start,
you know, our workshop or the welcome call.
And we'll even like send you directly to the Zoom link.
So it's really helpful to have that app downloaded on your phone
where you won't get the push notifications on desktop, obviously. So.
If you are in the Apple store or the app store,
it's called Rainmaker family and it has like a little purple umbrella
that you're looking for.
Hey, Megan, I'm here.
Can we have emails sent to us for the notifications?
Um, no, I don't believe so.
It OK. Notifications for the app specifically.
It's like a push notification, so it will only go to your phone
if you have the app downloaded.
But that's just for like, you know, hey, we're about to go live
for this call type of thing.
Any like important information I'm always going to post as an announcement.
So you'll always see it here.
So you will be like notified in other ways.
It's just sort of like a convenient reminder type of thing.
All right. Thanks. Mm hmm.
OK. Everyone else is in the app
and both places. Yeah.
OK, cool. And more.
I'll let you work on that for a little bit.
So let let's start with.
Hold on one second.
I need to pull up something else here.
There we go. OK, we're going to start with the trading portal,
so feel free to just look at my screen or follow along if you want.
And you're not here.
I'll show you how I got here.
You are going to see under the courses section,
you're going to see a few different tiles here.
Each tile is a different course.
OK, so if you remember when you signed up for the Business Accelerator,
one of the bonuses was you actually get access to like all of our course material.
So you may see some other courses in here.
We're going to focus on the Business Accelerator course right now.
But you're you are welcome to explore all the other course content at another time.
So you're going to find Business Accelerator Live Cohort A right here.
And this is going to show you the full course.
So what you'll see when you open this up is you will see
nine different modules.
OK, these are all modules.
And then inside those modules are three lessons for each week.
This is how every week is structured.
You're you are not going to be able to see any of the weeks that say locked.
You're not going to be able to like open those up yet
because we do unlock each week at a time, basically.
So right now you only have the onboarding week unlocked.
And then at the beginning of week one, we'll unlock week one
and then week two and so on.
Week seven and eight are unlocked right now only because we have another cohort
A that is finishing up.
And once they are graduated, I'll lock these again
so that you're not confused about where to be.
So each week is structured with three lessons.
So there's an overview lesson, which is always just like a text
based overview of what you can expect that week.
And this is really a better example because it's going to look like this.
There's going to be a big question.
So like, what is this week all about?
What's the big question we're answering this week?
There's going to be.
some bullets of what specifically you're gonna learn
that week and then what you're gonna accomplish
by the end of this week.
That's gonna be the structure of the overview.
And then under the training section,
this is where all of your training videos are gonna live,
all under this one lesson.
At the top, I'm always gonna tell you
about how many hours of training it is
so that you kind of know how much time to budget.
This is assuming you're watching it on 1X speed.
If you're a 1.5 or 2X speed person,
like I am, I do everything on fast speed,
then you could save yourself some time that way.
So you're just gonna scroll down
and watch all the videos underneath that lesson.
And this is all prerecorded,
so it's on your own time whenever you wanna do this.
The idea is that you watch all of the training
by Thursday of that week.
So I'm always going to unlock the week,
the Friday before that week starts.
So week one starts on Monday.
I'm gonna unlock week one for you tomorrow
because some people like to work on the weekend,
so I'm gonna give you the weekend to start if you want.
And the goal is that you watch
all of this training by Thursday.
The reason is we have live workshops on Thursdays,
and so you wanna be able to get the most
out of that workshop and really participate.
You need to watch the training
so that you know what's going on.
Okay, Donna, you've got a hand up.
Yeah, one of the things that I really like to have,
and I didn't see it as I was working through some,
is transcripts to the audio,
like the videos and things like that.
Is that available or is it not available?
That's a very good question.
I do think there is a way to download the transcripts.
Let me see here.
Usually there's all these gold nugget statements
and things like that, and if you can highlight them
versus have to do everything by hand,
it's really helpful to capture.
Let me see.
Speed, okay.
There's a transcript button there on each video.
Where is it?
It's four from the right.
So transcripts are available alongside the video.
You often can't download them, though.
Yeah, you can't just grab and then use that
as you're watching to highlight notes and stuff.
So it helps while you're watching it,
but at no point is it downloadable.
And that was something I was asking about months ago.
Yeah, I love download.
Like when you can have it.
Yeah, it's nice to have the notes to go back to.
So you wanna like download,
so not just like see the words,
but like download the entire transcript and save it.
Okay, you know, I do know we can do that
because this is Vimeo and Vimeo allows you
to download transcripts,
but that would be something we would have to do on our end
and then basically upload like the file.
I can have a team member work on that.
It'll obviously take some time
because there's a lot of videos,
but I can have her work on that so that you guys,
and I'll just add it like underneath,
like here's the downloadable transcript.
That'd be so amazing.
Yes, that would be so-
I've actually never had anyone request that,
which is so interesting
because you're all kind of talking about it.
That's so good.
Well, because it's like you're-
Can't AI do it?
Well, AI can do that.
A person doesn't have to,
but that's what happens when you do it with Vimeo
is it does it for you.
But the idea is then if you're visual and audio
and then consented, you're like jotting any extras,
you're like involving all of your learning skills
at the same time.
That's cool.
I did feedback that as a major training organization,
which Rainmakers is now,
you should be offering it.
Well, it's true, isn't it?
You should be offering though
because everything comes out as a video
and that's not differentiated learning.
You've got visual, you've got audio,
you've got, and you're just serving one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So if it doesn't have to,
transcripts actually are quite messy.
Decent notes will be better
because you get all the uh, uh, uh, uh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, it's easy to clean up with AI now.
Yeah, you can clean it up.
Ask AI to clean it up for you.
Yes, yes, you can.
It'll summarize, put it in bullet.
It's amazing.
We can definitely work on that.
Notes rather than transcripts, that'd be even better.
Yeah, I'll just add it like underneath these videos here.
So we'll just, we'll have to go through
kind of like week by week,
but I have someone who can work on that.
So keep an eye out.
That'll be coming, pending.
All right.
Was that your question, Donna?
I already lost track of where we were.
Yes, that's, I just wanted a way
to have like written audio
and then adding my own things
to really complete the learning.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, great.
All right.
Let's see, where were we here?
Okay, yes.
Training here.
Okay.
And then the last lesson.
is called Deliverables.
So this has like resources.
Let me pick a different one that has more stuff
so you can see.
This will have like resources and tools and things,
things that we've mentioned in the videos
that you might want access to,
or just like things that we've created to give you.
Like, hey, we created this tool, go use this.
So this is kind of like all of the stuff
that you might need to use.
I'm actually gonna come back
and talk about this one specifically a little bit later,
but that's the breakdown of every module.
So you've got overview of the week,
what to expect, your training videos,
and then all your resources and tools.
Okay, any questions on that?
Okay, let me quickly go through
the like topics of the weeks really quick.
Let me see here.
So, hold on a second.
It would be helpful if I pulled up this calendar as well
so we can kind of look at that.
Okay, so this is structured in an eight-week format.
Each week builds on each other, okay?
So you can't go do week four
without doing weeks one through three.
So it is really important that you kind of follow along.
And if you get behind, that's totally okay,
but catch up before you move forward.
Otherwise, it just won't make sense,
if that makes any sense.
So the first four weeks,
I kind of divide this into like two different sections.
There's like the first four weeks and the second four weeks.
The first four weeks are designed to help you
get leads, customers, and revenue for your business, period.
This is like the essentials that you need in a business.
You need people, and then you need revenue.
You need some type of product to sell.
That's what we're highly focused on the first four weeks.
The second four weeks, we're helping you
build systems and processes and kind of scale that
and put more like vision and details to that.
There's really no point in doing any of these things
if you don't have any of these things.
There's no point in worrying about how you hire a team
if you have never made a sale, right?
Like we wanna focus on the most important things first.
So that's why the first four weeks are designed
to get you the most ROI out of what you're doing.
And then the second four weeks are designed
to help give you that structure and support
as you grow and scale.
So the topics of the first four weeks.
Week one, we are focusing on creating a lead magnet.
A lead magnet is a way to get a lead,
and a lead is a potential customer.
So if you have a business, the number one thing
that you need in a business is people, right?
It actually doesn't matter if you have a product.
It doesn't matter if you have a store.
It doesn't matter if you have a way for people to pay you.
None of those things matter
if you don't have people to serve, right?
So we have to start with people.
So that's why week one is about how to get customers.
You need to start attracting the person
that you wanna serve to you.
And the best way to attract them is with a magnet.
So we're using a lead magnet,
which is some type of free or low-cost offer
to bring them into your world, okay?
So week one, you're gonna learn all about
what is a lead magnet, how to create one,
and not just any lead magnet,
but a truly good, irresistible lead magnet
so that you are actually guaranteed to get leads.
Then in week two, we're gonna build on that
by teaching you how to drive traffic to that lead magnet
so that people can find you.
So first you have your magnet,
and then you need to wave your magnet around
to get people to come to you, right?
So that's what we're doing in week two.
We're teaching you how to drive traffic to that tool
so that people will start signing up.
And then you're gonna start gathering a pool of people.
Just as an example, the cohort A previous to you guys,
we have, it's a smaller group,
but one student who's in that,
she was just on my call this morning at 9 a.m. PST.
She has over 600 leads,
like people who have given her their email and phone number
for this free thing that she created during this week.
She's got over 600 leads for her business.
That's 600 potential customers for what she's building
just from a one-week thing.
So this is an extremely, extremely important
and valuable week because without this,
you don't have a business.
You gotta have people,
and then you can start finding ways to serve them,
which translates into revenue.
So week one, lead magnet.
Week two, drive traffic.
Then week three, okay, you've got some leads.
This person, she's got over 600 leads.
She's like, what do I do with them now?
That's where you need an offer.
What is my back-end offer?
Back-end meaning the front-end is the lead magnet.
Now the back-end, what is the product, service,
or whatever that I'm offering?
to serve you in some way,
solve some sort of problem that they have,
which is gonna translate into revenue for your business.
So in week three we're gonna be helping you build an offer.
Right now you might have no idea
of what you wanna sell or what you wanna do,
and that's totally fine,
because we're gonna teach you how to build an offer
that's very, very irresistible
and is guaranteed to convert leads into customers.
So that's what week three is focused on.
And then week four is you're taking everything
that you just did and now you're gonna go test it.
You have a lead magnet,
you have people to drive traffic to,
and you have an offer.
You are now going to test that with real people
and see how many people convert.
This is really important to see if what you built works.
And we really emphasize developing what we call MVPs.
You're gonna hear that a lot throughout the trainings.
MVP is not most valuable person in this instance.
It is minimum viable product.
What is the least version, the lowest version,
of something that you can create to make it functional
to put out into the world?
The reason why we emphasize
creating MVP minimum viable products
is because you don't want to spend six months
perfecting something that nobody ends up buying, right?
That is a colossal waste of time.
So you need to create the smallest version of that thing
and then go test it in the real world
before you spend a lot of time or money on it.
You're gonna test it, see how people respond,
and then you're going to respond appropriately.
I'm gonna make this adjustment.
I'm going to add this.
I'm gonna totally scrap it and start over.
So you're gonna test it, respond, test it, respond,
test it, respond.
And over time, you're gonna develop that MVP
into an incredible product, right?
And if you look at any big company
or big brand in the world today,
you'll see they do the exact same thing, right?
Elon Musk has a whole bunch of businesses.
Everything that he does, he launches a beta version first.
He's like, this is the beta version.
Why is he doing that?
He's testing it, testing it, testing it.
He's not gonna spend years and years
and billions of dollars on something
that he doesn't know people want.
You're gonna do that too.
So you're gonna embrace that concept
throughout these four weeks.
Okay, that's weeks one through four.
They're fast.
There's a lot of stuff to cover.
So you definitely wanna hit the ground running.
I will just give you a heads up
that weeks one and two are quite long
and going to feel a little bit overwhelming.
Weeks three and four are significantly shorter on purpose
because a lot of times you need to catch up
from weeks one and two.
Or if you kept pace, weeks one and two,
you're gonna need a breather, weeks three and four.
So it is going to be like sprint, cool run.
Sprint, cool run, okay?
So just be prepared for that.
And then weeks five through eight,
we're kinda switching gears to thinking bigger picture
and future forward, okay?
Weeks one through four are here and now,
what you need right now, high ROI.
Weeks five through eight are thinking future and scaling.
So in week five, we're gonna be talking
about systems and teams.
How do you implement systems and build teams
to create a highly leveraged business?
Nobody wants to build a business
that is wildly successful in the books
but you spend 80 hours a week of your life
working on it and you never see your family.
Nobody wants that and we don't teach people
how to build businesses like that
because we don't wanna build businesses like that.
So this is a really important week
to teach you how to build a highly leveraged business
so that you can actually work in it as much as you want.
Week six, we're talking financial foundation,
obviously very important.
You need to understand your numbers
and know what they mean about your business
and therefore how to make adjustments.
So we're gonna be talking about some important,
just basic financial concepts from our director of finance
for how to run a business profitably,
cash flow, those types of things,
as well as the most important numbers of your business,
which is marketing.
Where you are going to become unprofitable
is on your marketing and on your backend offer.
So this week is going to break down
exactly how to understand those numbers
and we give you a bunch of tools,
calculators and stuff like that
that will just do it for you.
So that will be really useful for you.
And then week seven and eight
are gonna be much more like vision casting
and thinking about the overarching plan for your business.
So in week seven, we're talking about
funnels and customer journey.
When you start a business and you sell a first product,
you're like, all right, got a business, I'm doing something.
But if you really wanna build a business for the long term,
you've gotta think about the greater journey
that you're leading that customer on.
Where are you taking them?
Not just what does this one sale look like,
but what does one year with this company,
this business look like?
brand look like? What does two years, five years look like? How long is the lifetime
journey of a customer in my brand? So that's what we're really looking at and also looking at how
to build funnels around that, both sales funnels and customer journey funnels, which we'll talk
more about in week seven. And then week eight, we're going to be really focusing and honing
down your brand identity, which when you first start a business, things are less clear. The
further along you go in that business, the more clear things need to become so that you really
solidify yourself and establish yourself as an authority in whatever niche you're in. So we're
going to be focusing on brand vision, brand identity. And then we're also going to be
focusing on vision. Where do you want this business to go? Like what is your ultimate end
goal? Do you want to build something that you can sell? Do you want to build something you can pass
down to your kids? Do you want to build something and then have a partner takeover? Do you want to
be the CEO of this giant thing? Do you want to just have a side hustle that's profitable? Like
you need a vision and a plan for what you want to build so that everything that you're doing is
working toward that vision and not against it. So that's what we're going to be doing in week eight.
Okay, that's the breakdown of the weeks. Let's pause right there for any questions,
thoughts, questions. Yeah, I have a question. Sure. How long will we be able to access the videos?
Like after the course is over? Yeah. So the answer is you will never lose access to it,
but it will look a little different. So this is a live cohort course right here, which means
we reuse this every time we do a cohort a which is every eight weeks. Okay. So when you graduate,
you're going to be kicked out of this course. And I'm going to add you to our business accelerator
evergreen course, which is the exact same content, but it just puts you in a place that's not going
to be locked because I do, you know, kind of like you see now I lock them and unlock them for a live
cohort. The evergreen course has the same content and you can access it at any time. Something to
note is that we do occasionally update this content. Like we're constantly creating new
updated content. This course will be updated with our most updated trainings and content over time.
So just be aware of that, but you will have access to this course once you graduate.
Any other questions? I do have a question. I'm just thinking about my own path forward. I know,
well, everyone in this group already has a business. And while yes, I have a business,
I'm focusing on something new and different. Yeah. How much? So I know that we're learning
how to run the business. I'm just wondering in terms of time after I watched the lessons,
I still need to build my tool. So yeah. Is that just something I do? Everybody. No,
that's everyone, not just you. So like you'll like in week one, everybody is going to be building
a lead magnet. Everybody, even if you already have a business, you're building a lead magnet
following this specific way to do it. And then week two, everybody is setting up a traffic ad
and in week three, everybody is looking at their back end number. So you're going to be doing it
along right side, everybody else, even for people who already have a business. In our experience,
most business owners, even those who already have a business don't have all of these pieces.
It's just very common that they just skip over it or, you know, they kind of like started it in a
very organic way and not necessarily with like strategy behind it. So they don't have all these
revenue just starting. So there will be like homework with each week. So like week two or week
one, we're teaching you how to build a lead magnet and the homework is go build a lead magnet. So
everybody will be doing that. And that's a big part of what the workshop will focus on is helping
you do that piece. Okay. And so I understand the lead magnet thing because I've done that with my
blog, but like the final product of actually creating my AI tool, there'll be time in this
course to be able to go do that. Like, I already know what I want to do for the lead make. I just
need to sit down and do it. Yeah. I guess I'm part of me. That would be like week three, your back
end offer is like you are going to actually create your back end offer here. So if it's an AI tool,
you're creating it there. And especially in week one, I know it's about lead magnets, but you can
apply this to the offer as well. There's a lot of trainings that really walk you through how to
like how to create an AI tool, how to create a custom GPT, how to create like, so you have that.
And then you also have access to the AI certification course, which has more training
still, but it's really teaching you like how to actually do that because that is the purpose is
you're actually creating it. Okay, great. That is very helpful. Thank you. Yeah.
Oh, I saw your hand up next.
Yeah, just a quick question.
The deliverables, do they stay available as well?
Yeah, of course, of course, yes.
Okay, thank you.
Donna?
So once we, when we're meeting with like the weekly coach,
where do we share what we've created and it get evaluated?
Is there a particular place for that or is that?
Yeah, we'll talk about that
when we get to the community group,
but this would be the best place to like share,
get feedback and things like that.
And it's very much a community feel.
So you guys can ask each other for feedback.
We're in there as well.
You can also come on the live workshops
and get feedback from a trainer.
So there's a couple of different places to do that.
So I'll go more in depth on both of those pieces
as we go along this.
Any other questions about the course and the layout of that?
Okay, I'm just gonna quickly show you the calendar
and like the breakdown of things
because there are a couple of breaks in this cohort
because of the holidays and things.
So I just want you to see that.
I'll go over a full walkthrough of this here,
but this is the events tab and this is your calendar, okay?
For Business Excel to Cohort A.
Now I need you to notice something
because we do have another Cohort A finishing up right now.
So I don't want you to get confused
and accidentally get roped into what they're doing, okay?
So you'll see next week, like there's two calls, right?
Same as this week.
That's because they are graduating next week.
So just ignore that one.
You guys are this one here, okay?
You guys are Business Accelerator Workshop week one.
So next week is week one for you.
The following week is week two.
The following week is Christmas.
So this entire week, we will be taking a break.
This entire week.
So just count this week as like does not exist.
The following week, same thing because it's New Year's.
So you have a full two-week break.
So you're doing week one, week two, full two-week break.
And then week three picks up on January 6th
is when that starts.
What you're seeing here are the live workshops.
That's why you're seeing Thursdays only.
But week three will start on January 6th.
Week four, the 13th.
Week five will be the 20th.
And then we have another break the week of January 27th.
The reason for this break is because
we are doing an in-person event in San Diego this week,
which all of you are invited to as well.
If this is not good timing for you,
you're welcome to attend the next in-person event,
which is likely gonna be April.
But that's why we're taking this week off.
Everyone will be at the in-person event.
Okay, so then we pick up with week six on February 5th,
and then week seven, and then week eight.
So this is your final week.
So you'll wrap up at the end of February, okay?
Now, when we have breaks,
sometimes people like to work ahead.
So if you guys are like,
hey, I know we have a two-week break over Christmas,
but I really wanna work over this holiday.
That's totally fine.
I can open up the following week or two weeks for you
if you wanna work ahead.
Just let me know if you guys wanna do that,
and I can open it up for you.
But just be aware that we will not have the workshop
for that week until we resume on the 8th.
Does that make sense?
Okie dokie.
All right, let's go through the Rainmaker app
now that we're here.
So you've got some tabs across the top.
The week tab is going to show you tasks to do.
This is designed to help you not miss things.
If you don't like this, feel free to ignore it, okay?
But you'll notice that it's like,
oh, business exciter welcome call.
I need to do that.
So if you haven't attended live,
you need to watch the replay so you know what's going on.
When you click this little checkbox,
it'll be like, good job, you completed everything today.
It's just a way to help you
make sure you don't miss anything.
So anything that's a live call
or a specific thing that we need you to do,
like we'll put here,
it's mostly just gonna be the workshops, the live calls.
But feel free to ignore this tab if this is confusing to you.
You can also add your own things here
if you wanna set your own reminders for stuff
and use it as a task management system.
Okay, the Community tab,
this is where you're gonna spend the most time hanging out.
This is where you're going to post and talk to each other.
So anything you wanna share with the group,
you wanna get feedback, you wanna share some takeaways,
some wins, some things you learned from the training,
something you were confused about,
you wanna get someone else's opinion,
use it like a Facebook group, use it like a community.
That's what this is for.
We're in here as well and everyone in this cohort.
So it's the more you use it,
the more of a community feel you're going to create.
So the biggest piece of advice I have for people
is if you wanna be a part of a community,
be the community, right?
And then other people are gonna follow suit
and you're gonna create a really fun place
for everyone to interact.
Okay, Announcements.
This is where admin like myself are posting.
Important announcements, pay attention to these.
I'm always going to post an announcement
at the beginning of each week,
just letting you know, hey, this week has started,
here's what we're doing this week,
reminder about the workshop on Thursday at this time,
things like that.
I'm always going to pin the most important announcement
that you need to see.
There's two pinned right now.
One is the welcome post, I think most of you saw this.
It's just a little bit of an overview
and asking you to introduce yourself.
And then another is just giving you a direction
to do the lessons in the onboarding week
in the Business Accelerator course,
if you wanna work on that.
And then next week, I'll have one for week one
and I'll unpin these,
so you can always see the most up-to-date announcements.
Under the replays tab,
this is where we're going to live stream all of these calls.
So we are live streaming this call right now.
We can see ourselves on the screen.
And when this call is done,
the replay is going to live here, okay?
So you'll be able to come back
and see all of the replays for your group in this tab.
So I would recommend that you take note of this
so that if you ever can't make a live call,
you can go back and watch the replay.
You can also join the Zoom from this button right here.
So if you're ever like, I can't find the Zoom link.
Once we start the live stream,
you can click this button
and it'll take you right to the Zoom meeting, okay?
And then the events tab, which I just showed you,
the Zoom links are also here.
So if you want to grab the Zoom links here,
they're also here,
but this is helpful to see like dates and times of things.
It says 12 for me because it's showing it in MST
in my time zone,
but you guys should see it in your time zone.
And then members,
this is going to show all the people in the group.
You can DM each other if you want to reach out to each other
and then resources.
These are just a couple of resources.
This is a link to your training portal
in case you ever forget what the link is.
And then this is actually the Zoom link
for all of your workshops.
So I just try to put the Zoom link
as many places as possible for you guys.
So you can always click this every Thursday, same time.
Your calls are always going to be at 11 a.m. PST on Thursdays.
So if you want to just make note of that
in a calendar somewhere, you're welcome to do that.
Okay, questions on the community app.
Okay, let me just read through some of my notes here.
Okay, a couple of things I need to point out.
One, there is a weekly accountability form
that we ask you to fill out at the end of each week.
So by Friday of each week,
and this is always going to be
under the deliverable section here.
Or I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
I'm lying.
It's always under, well, actually it's in both places.
It's under the overview at the bottom.
Don't forget to fill out
the Business Exciter weekly check-in form.
And it's under deliverables.
It's always the last one
of the deliverables every single week.
So this is the link to this form here.
And it's just a quick type form.
And it's just letting us know where you're at.
It's like, hey, what week are you in?
Did you complete everything this week?
It's just designed to help us tell you where you're at.
And it also gives you a chance to give us feedback.
How did you like the trainings in the workshop this week?
And you can leave a rating.
I will try to send out a notification
each Friday reminding you guys to fill this out.
But I'm just pointing it out now so you know it's there.
And if you can remember to fill it out each week,
that would be great.
Also, I wanted to point out Rainflow,
which is the first deliverable in week one.
Rainflow is a software subscription, okay?
And you get a 12-month subscription to this
for free.
And then after the first 12 months, it's $89 a year.
Okay, so Rainflow will replace any softwares
that you have for building websites, funnels,
forms, email marketing, automations,
almost anything that you use to run your business,
Rainflow will replace that.
If you are familiar with Go High Level
or have heard of that, that's what this is built off of.
Rainflow is a white-labeled version of Go High Level.
It's one of the most robust tools
for building an online business and online marketing today.
So you get a free account to that for 12 months
and then $89 per year after that.
Guarantee you won't find this price
anywhere else in the world
because it's stupid to actually offer this.
We basically are just offering it for free
because it's a part of the program.
If you were to buy software subscriptions on your own,
you're spending at least $1,000 a month
on all of the things that it does.
So highly, highly recommend that you sign up for this.
Take advantage of it.
You have access to it.
There's an entire course that goes along with this.
There's an entire course that goes along with this
teaching you how to use it.
And there's a live onboarding call as well
to help you set up and make sure you're ready to go.
You are going to sign up for it here, here specifically.
We only offer.
this deal to Business Accelerator people,
so don't sign up for this anywhere else
or you won't get this deal.
So make sure you go to the week one deliverables to do that.
All right, Xena, I see your hand up first.
Is Rainflow the same thing as the Eight Figure Toolkit?
No, nope.
The Eight Figure Toolkit is like our suite of AI tools
that you can use to help you do stuff.
Rainflow is like a marketing software
that you're gonna have your own account for.
Okay, so if I'm using Rainflow,
do I still need the toolkit or is it-
Yeah, they're different, yeah.
The toolkit is like AI tools that you can use,
but you don't own them.
This is like, you need to build a website,
you need to build a funnel,
you need a place to have your email list,
you need a place to build automations and to send emails,
like that's what Rainflow is gonna be for,
so they're like different purposes.
Thank you.
Yeah, good question.
Donna, go ahead.
So if I have somebody who handles a lot of those aspects
and stuff like that,
because I am paying a few places for subscriptions,
software subscriptions, can they access this?
Sure.
Is this because I don't do that work?
Of course.
And can they go through the course and-
How will I go about that,
just giving them access to it or-
When you have your own account,
there's a place where you can add team members
and they can have their own login accounts.
And I will actually show you that
in the onboarding call.
So when you sign up for your Rainflow account,
it's gonna say, all right, schedule your onboarding call.
Like, let's go ahead and get it scheduled.
I will show you how to do that.
And they can access it and watch the course.
If they are people who build websites and stuff,
they 100% know what Go High Level is, guaranteed.
Unless they've been living under a rock.
Like, everyone knows what Go High Level is at this point.
There's tons of VAs out there who can build stuff for you.
And you can just have them do everything they're doing now,
but on this.
And it'll just save you a lot of money.
Okay.
Well, that was like, well, I don't want to go over.
I just didn't know how access would work,
but I hear what you're saying.
They'll have their own login and everything.
You can control their permissions
and what you want them to access and all of that.
Well, what we did, I paid a one-time fee lifetime access,
but it doesn't do all the things that I wanted to do.
And I ended up having to access other things anyway.
And so this would be amazing to have it in.
That price you cannot beat, for sure.
No, yeah.
And you can tell me more about kind of what you have
in our onboarding call,
and I can tell you like this replaces that,
or you should keep that.
I can kind of give you an idea of what it can do.
All right, Jo, go ahead.
I forgot what I was going to write.
Oh, I remember.
So I've got a website that I haven't done anything with yet
because I just bought the domain.
This will integrate into that
so I can build the website on my domain name.
Yeah, you would rebuild the site here on Rainflow.
You haven't built it at all.
So that's fine.
No rebuilding required, but I just built,
so not use WordPress, I'd use this.
Exactly, yep.
And you can make your domain here and everything.
Fabulous, thank you.
Yeah, Zina, go ahead.
So I'm assuming it is,
but please tell me it's easier than WordPress
because WordPress makes me cry.
You know, it depends.
I would not say that it's like
the most user-friendly thing in the world.
I mean, WordPress I don't think
is very user-friendly either.
We're talking user-friendly.
Honestly, I'm not sure there's really
any website builder out there
that is like the simplest thing to understand,
but they're all very similar.
Like they all have the same features,
you know, and builders and stuff.
But that's also why we created a course.
Like the course has like, I don't know,
it's like a seven hour course.
We're really trying to like give you
as much resources and tools as possible.
Like here's how to do this.
And we do have live coaching calls as well,
where like I do a lot of teaching of Rainflow
and you're welcome to come to those
as you need help like doing things on there.
So it really depends on what you're comparing it to.
Okay, and then, so if,
for those of us who already have something set up
on WordPress, is it just like a matter of like
copying and pasting or?
Yeah, you've got options.
So you can either completely rebuild it.
WordPress actually integrates with this.
So if you already have a WordPress site
or like a blog and it's like,
you've been using it for a long time,
has a lot of traffic, you can actually integrate it.
You don't need to rebuild it.
You can just, it'll integrate right in.
It does cost extra.
I think it's like $10 a month to add that feature.
But you could just completely rebuild the site on Rainflow,
which would be a good idea
if it's not like a heavy traffic site.
And then it's like, everything is native within Rainflow,
which is gonna be best for you long-term
for like the automations and all the other pieces.
So you've got options with that.
But if you wanted to just like, for now, keep it live,
you could also just separate, keep your WordPress.
right over here, and use Rainflow to build your other stuff until you wanted to rebuild
it.
Okay, gotcha.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Okay.
Um, the last thing is at the end of this accelerator, we do have a brand showcase.
And that's usually about a week after you guys graduate.
Now the idea with the brand showcase is really just like a five minute presentation with
your peers to show what you've created over the past eight weeks.
And about once or twice a year, we do a rain tank event, which is kind of like Rainmaker
family's version of Shark Tank.
And you can actually like pitch your business or your brand to investors.
And how we do that is we take all the brand showcases, we we vote on like winners of the
brand showcases.
And then the winners go on to like pitch their business or their brand at the rain tank event.
So that is something to be aware of.
We do have like template slides and things you can use.
But we'll talk more about that as we get into the accelerator.
But you can expect that to be, you know, sometime in like February or March for you guys.
Okay, I think that's everything I wanted to cover.
Oh, one last thing.
I would just recommend if you are one of those people who's like pre revenue, you don't have
a clear idea of your business, or really, you don't have a clear idea of like who you
want to serve, I would recommend that you go through the brand building course.
This was mentioned in an email previously, but isn't anywhere else here.
But this is actually a separate course that lives somewhere else.
You can find this in the resources section of the training portal.
If you type the word brand, you'll see it come up.
It's building a purposeful brand.
This link will take you to sign up for it for free.
Now you don't need to complete this course.
But if you're kind of like, I don't really know what I want my business to be about,
or the person that I want to serve or the problem that I want to solve, this is a really
good place to start before we get into week one.
And I would recommend you check out maybe part one and like the first couple lessons
in part two, just to give you an idea of kind of solidifying what is this business that
you want to build really about.
So if that's you, I recommend that you sign up for that and watch some of those trainings
before you get into the trainings for week one next week.
Any questions on that?
Yeah, Donna, go ahead.
So you're saying if you have a lot of clarity, you defined who your who is in the product?
I mean, I'm not necessary.
All right.
I just wanted to be helpful.
So if you want to sign up for the course and save it for later or something, you're welcome
to do that.
But it's essential if you don't know anything that you want to do because you won't be able
to do week one or week two or week three without that information.
Not essential if you already have a clear idea of what you're building.
Well, that was my I looked at it and I thought, well, I was just going to run all the things
that I've done and just see if there's anything that needed to be tweaked.
But yeah, I also wanted to spend the time wisely.
And this was three and a half hours.
And then there's two more hours.
So exactly, I wanted to go with the most essential.
Yeah.
If yeah, this is essential.
If you don't have a clear idea, if you do, I'd say do the onboarding videos.
That would be better.
So it just depends on kind of where you're at.
Good question.
Okay.
Any last questions here before we wrap up?
Okay.
So tomorrow, I'm going to unlock week one for you.
Okay.
So you can get started over the weekend if you like.
And then Monday, we'll officially be kicking off week one.
And we'll have our first week one workshop on Thursday at 11 a.m.
PST.
Your trainer will be you, Clydes, who you guys will meet.
He is an expert marketer.
And that's what you need for building lead magnets in traffic.
So you guys will be meeting him next week.
All right.
That's it.
Thanks for being here, guys.
Wonderful to meet you.
And looking forward to getting started with you.
Bye.
Have a good weekend.
Bye.