you
hello hello hello everybody come on in come on in
Gwendy you are in the wrong zoom I don't know if you can hear me yet I think
she figured it out but no you're right there Gwendy yeah all right hello we're
just gonna wait a minute and see if everybody comes in we got a couple
people trickling in
trickle trickle welcome if you can be camera on that would be amazing but I
understand it just sometimes doesn't happen I know we have more people than
this in the group so we're just you know what I didn't send guys I'm a bad
person I didn't send hold on a little announcement
hold on
let me go ahead and do that
okay let's see who else all righty well we do have a tight schedule to keep this
call is going to be an hour long call so all of the calls on Thursdays are going
to be allotted for an hour just so you know so I want to you know if people
trickle in that's totally fine but I just want to make sure we get started so
welcome everybody if I have never met you if we've never met before I'm Gabby
I am today I'm doubling as your welcome call host but I'm also your client
success manager so you will see me for our one-on-one calls normally for these
calls you'll be either seeing Megan Steven or you Clyde who you all become
very familiar with generally I won't be here so that's me I've been with the
Rainmaker family since April of last year so yeah just excited to see
everyone here and get going so the purpose of the call today is very like
let's make sure everyone has access to everything let's make sure we know where
to navigate and just give an overview of the course just so kind of everyone get
their bearings and get started and then we can also of course answer questions
if they come up if questions do come up I think I will say put them in the chat
and then I will just periodically try to take a gander and answer those maybe
as we go or I might pause if I can slow my brain down enough to remember so one
thing that I want to start with you may have already noticed this in the events
tab if you've been looking at that looking at it there are two calls for a
few weeks that are happening at this time so you will just want to make sure
that you're joining the one that says cohort B January group there are two
cohort B's this is rare this rarely ever happens the other one started in
November so just make sure you're joining the January one you'll usually
be able to figure out pretty quickly that you're in the wrong one just hop
back off and get on the correct one but that's just something important to note
so what we're going to do is start with probably introductions I think so I
would love we're all going to take a minute to introduce ourselves if you're
not able to like put your camera and microphone on then you can just put it
in the chat what I'm gonna ask is everyone introduced like their name
their business you know if you have a business name great if not that's okay
too just like what you are if you're just starting out just kind of give me
like what you think you want to do if you have a business that's already
running great to share a little bit about your vision and then just you can
add in a fun fact can add in any fun fact you want
Make it interesting, I don't know.
Get bonus points if you get,
virtual bonus points if you make it interesting.
Mine are never interesting
because I'm just like, what is there about me?
I'm always like, I love coffee and chocolate.
That's all you really need to know.
And I get obsessive about reading books.
So yeah, I gotta watch out.
I read three books over the Christmas holiday
and I was just like, all right, time to cut myself off.
So if everybody could raise their virtual hand,
this will help me keep track of who hasn't gone.
So once your turn is done, you can put your hand down.
So everyone go ahead and get your hand up.
Sometimes you have to go to the react button first
and then do hand that way, raise hand, raise hand.
And then, so we are doing introductions
if you're just joining us.
And so go ahead and raise your virtual hand
so I can keep track of everybody.
Okay, so Lindsey, you are actually the first on my screen.
So I'm gonna have you unmute and go first.
All right, my name is Lindsey, Lindsey Hoyt.
I have a baby infant business that does have a name.
It is Wellness Within Living.
Kind of focusing on all encompassing
like every aspect of wellness.
And fun fact, I have moved over 40 times in my life.
Wow, any specific reason for that?
Military travel?
No, my dad's job.
We moved more than military really.
And then after I moved out of the house,
I married my husband and he joined the military
and through his military time and training,
we continued moving.
I am, the current house that I'm in,
I have been here since 2017
and it's the longest I've lived in one place,
by like double.
That's crazy, I can't imagine.
Well, we're so glad you're here.
So excited for your baby infant business
to become a toddler infant business or whatever.
Cynthia, if you could raise your virtual hand,
we're all just taking turns going through
and doing some introductions.
So I'll call on you once we get there.
Cian, is that how I say your name?
You're next.
Yeah, hi.
Hi.
So I'm Cian and I'm in Northern California.
And my bit, I've been doing this a long time,
but I just created a new business
and I just got done doing Steven's AI certification
and I'm creating a business around AI employees.
And the name of my business is Metaspa Revenues
and my new niche is Metaspas
and kind of learning a lot of this stuff
and having an agency and yeah,
so that's kind of where I'm at.
That's awesome, excited.
You said you've been doing this for a long time,
what does that mean?
Like I've been doing funnels and automations
and systems like that and click funnels.
Okay.
And so I moved over to go high level eight months ago
and the whole agency thing is pretty new to me
as far as in go high level and the AI employees
and all the AI stuff to help Metaspa owners.
That's new.
Okay, yeah, awesome.
So glad you're here, thank you.
Okay, let's see.
Karla, you are next on my screen.
Okay, I'm Karla, Karrington is my last name.
I actually am moving over from the Mastermind community.
So I launched a product on Amazon with FBA
but just due to my interests and the way it was going,
I decided to pivot.
So my product is currently on Etsy.
I've had an Etsy shop for a long time,
years and years and years
and I've done small business like that,
print on demand, digital products, handmade products,
all on Etsy for like 20 years.
So I'm excited to join this group to grow.
I'm starting a travel business
and I don't really know anything about,
like she mentioned automations and funnels.
I've never incorporated any of that into my business.
It's always just been on Etsy, like word of mouth
using their platform and their ad system.
So that's why I'm here to learn all the like business stuff.
There's nothing really fun.
I'm with you, I like coffee, I read, I travel
and that's it, not really interesting
but it's great to be here.
Love it, thank you.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Love starting new businesses.
So fun.
OK, Ariel, you are next.
Hi, everyone.
My name is Ariel Follan.
I am also a masterminder.
I think I joined the Rainmakers, I
think, right around the same, Lindsay, like two-ish years ago.
Did not do anything with it for a little while,
and then got back into it last year.
And so I do have a business that it just started.
It's called Metheros, and the vision for the brand
is just supporting moms postpartum,
kind of right out of postpartum in the health and wellness
space.
So I just launched my first coloring book for kiddos
because we also love our babies, and so we
want to incorporate our kiddos as much as possible.
And so that is the start of it.
I have kind of like checkpoints I want to hit.
So I want to start in the KDP digital product realm
and then have that grow into a physical product
and eventually have a physical product, FBA,
and other sources as well.
I was a prior educator, and so anything business related
is completely brand new to me because that was not
the world that I, or the career path I originally
sought out for for myself.
So this is all brand new information.
So I'm excited to learn a lot.
My interesting fact about myself,
and I use this one every time, my family
flies hot air balloons.
And so that's what I've grown up doing.
So every summer and sometimes throughout the year,
depending on if the weather's nice,
they will fly hot air balloons.
And so I've been in a hot air balloon many times.
That's my fun fact.
That's a solid one.
I would also use that every day.
OK, Cassandra, you're next.
Hi, everyone.
I'm Cassandra Sepulveda.
I am a chiropractor for pregnant women and just women
in general, moms usually, and babies.
That's my day job.
I joined Rainmakers, I think, last year, almost this time.
And I actually did launch a product.
And it's just kind of on my back burner.
I just haven't been able to attend to it.
But it's been doing fairly well, so I'm happy about that.
But I just wanted to join this business accelerator
and just kind of find ways to automate
kind of both sides of my businesses,
like my chiropractic practice, because I've never
done any digital marketing or funnels,
like I believe Carla was saying.
I think I've never tapped into that.
So just learning about that for both businesses
is kind of my goal, just kind of creating
some time for myself and my family.
And then fun fact, I'm pretty simple, too.
Just like coffee is like my jam.
And I love calligraphy.
That's my thing.
I could never do calligraphy.
My handwriting is so sad, you guys.
My doctor writing is pretty bad.
But then there's the other side when I actually try.
In my dreams, I definitely have big visions of calligraphy.
OK, Chrissy, you are next.
OK, here we go.
Hey, I'm Chrissy McCree.
I've been, I was in the mastermind,
or yeah, the mastermind for a couple of years.
And now I'm transitioning over to this business accelerator.
I did not launch a product yet.
But I have samples of products that I
was working on that I'm not really
that interested in anymore.
And so I'm pivoting into more of a new area.
I was doing like photo albums and inserts and things
like that.
But I'm more passionate about budgeting
and that kind of topic.
So I recently started a group called Babes Who Budget.
And so I've been developing some digital products
and have ideas for physical products for that as well.
And I also am a former educator.
But I've been doing something else for four years,
working full time.
Miss the kids.
Don't miss everything else about it.
And yeah, I'm just excited to get more momentum now
with this accelerator because I wasn't accelerating very
much in the last couple of years in the program.
And I also love chocolate.
And I drink coffee.
But I drink.
Like instant decaf, usually.
So people usually are like, why do you even bother?
But yeah, not a huge coffee habit, but just a little one.
That placebo effect can really support it sometimes.
That's for me.
Thank you, Chrissy.
All right, Stacey, you are up.
Hi, my name's Stacey.
And I, like many of you was in mastermind
about two years ago.
Went through a lot of the product stuff,
but never fully got it launched.
And so I wanted to transition into this as well,
kind of lower overhead,
maybe a little bit easier to focus on.
I did have and start a brand, so Pickles and Nugget.
And then I started trying to build up
kind of a social media presence.
So moved more into ADHD and families
because my family is an ADHD family.
So, and I have, I'm a family therapist back in the day.
And what else?
Interesting fact, I guess I did aid work for a long time.
So I've lived kind of all over the world a lot.
Now I'm focused in one place with a family, so.
Love it.
Thank you, Stacey.
I am glad you were able to make it very last minute also.
Thank you.
Stacey got the information today and she's here,
which is great.
Love it.
Okay.
Mailey or Miley?
I don't think I've ever asked how you pronounce your name.
I'm sorry.
It's Mailey.
Okay, that's my thought.
Okay, you're up.
It's not like the Miley Cyrus.
My name's Mailey.
I live in Las Vegas, Nevada.
I am a licensed marriage and family therapist.
As you can tell, I use my Zoom a lot professionally.
I wanna say a lot of what Cassandra said
was really resonating to me because
like I've never done anything digitally
or anything like that.
And I was also a mastermind who transitioned over
and I did launch a product.
It is not a passion of mine.
It was a done for you product that Raymakers did.
And I'll be honest, it was the worst product
anybody could choose for a first-time product
because it was a children's costume.
It had a lot of moving pieces.
It took me a long time.
A lot of compliance issues, a lot of safety issues,
like just a lot of stuff that I would not recommend
a first-time launcher to do.
So I finally got it launched right before Halloween
and it did extremely well.
But still trying to find my niche.
My niche, my passion, I met with Gabby
and my passion lies like,
so I have my hands in a lot of different pots therapy wise.
I'm a supervisor, but my niche is maternal mental health
because I went through my own postpartum
and grief and loss and things like that.
So I find it very fascinating and I'm very excited
that a lot of you work with pregnancy and postpartum.
And I think that's awesome because it's such a needed,
it's so needed and it's slowly gaining traction
because when I went through postpartum five years ago,
it wasn't really a thing.
It wasn't really recognized.
So anyways, I was just hoping to maybe learn more
about how I could get that off the ground through that.
And so fun fact, born and raised in Las Vegas,
have lived here my whole life
and I have never moved, so.
Love it.
Very rare.
Very opposite of, very opposite of Lindsay.
Alrighty, Catherine, you are up.
Oh, Catherine says, hello.
I have six child at home today,
so I can't do the video today.
I'm just starting out and want to see what to do.
Fun fact for me is I'm a mom of five kiddos
and our family loves to go camping in the summer.
Love it.
Busy household.
Camping is, I used to camp a lot,
but I found when I had kids,
I was less enthusiastic about camping.
I don't know.
That's just me.
Thank you for sharing, Catherine.
Feel free to share any other details
if you want there as well.
Okay, Cynthia, you are up.
Hi, everyone.
I am from Ocean County, New Jersey.
So I'm right like 10 minutes from the ocean.
And I am so thankful
because God has given me a really full life.
and I realized this year when I turned 60
that I wanted to release more things in my life.
There was more for me to do
and I just wanted to climb this mountain.
So I started with Rainmakers about a year ago
and halfway through my program, my parents got really ill
and I had to just put everything aside
so I never did get a product launched.
But my passion is to really pour into the next generation,
to really support families, making meaningful ways
for people to have valuable time together.
And so I was headed down that path a little bit
and then kind of got sidelined a little bit,
but that's okay, just moving forward.
And I'm excited about this program
because I am not tech savvy
and so I'm hoping to learn a lot in this program.
And as you could tell,
I couldn't even get my hand raised for a long time.
So I will get there, I just have to learn a lot.
And I'm excited to launch out on a new journey.
Love it, love it.
Did you share your fun fact yet?
My fun fact, let's see.
Oh, sorry, you missed the overview.
Yes, share a fun fact, please, about yourself.
Okay, I have one grandchild and one on the way
and we're very excited about that.
I have four children and two of them are married
and two are not.
Awesome, thank you for sharing, Cynthia.
We're glad everybody is here.
Okay, so we're gonna kind of switch gears now
and go more into overview mode.
So many of you who are coming from our Mastermind community
are already gonna be very familiar with our platforms,
but I still just wanna make sure
that everyone knows where to go.
So I'm gonna share my screen.
And there's really gonna be two places
that you're gonna be living that you need to worry about.
One of them is going to be this here.
This is our app.
We refer to this as the app, the community app,
the Rainmaker Family app.
If you hear app, this is what we're talking about.
You can access it on the desktop
or actually download it as an app in your Play Store
or your Apple Store, which we recommend doing
because we push out notifications
about the calls that are happening or stuff
or important announcements,
and then you can get notified and not miss anything
if you have the notifications on your phone,
but you don't have to if that's not your jam.
But this is where you're gonna be.
So for those of you who are new to our platform,
I have all the groups,
but you guys will have this
Business Accelerator Cohort B January group.
So this is gonna be somewhere
where you're gonna wanna check multiple times a week
for anything that's happening.
We're also probably gonna ask you
to be posting in here a lot.
Some of you may not be used to posting
in our other mastermind group,
but I'm gonna be pushing you to be posting.
Couple of things.
Some of the tabs that are important.
Community, this is where you can post things.
I am gonna ask everybody later on
to post a introduction on here if they haven't done that.
I would love it if you could do a picture,
but you don't have to.
And then over here is the next important tab.
This is the Events tab.
So this is where you can sync this calendar
by clicking Follow to your Google Calendar,
Apple Calendar, whatever you use.
Again, like I said in the beginning,
you'll notice here just for a few weeks
that we have two groups that have a call at the same time.
So you just wanna make sure
that you are clicking on this January group
to get the correct Zoom link.
If you get into Zoom
and you don't recognize anybody there,
then you are probably in the wrong one.
Or if you have no idea what they're talking about,
you're probably in the wrong one.
So hop back out and get into this one.
But this is where all of the activities will be.
We won't add new events or things like that,
but if we did, it would be here,
and you could find that here.
But that won't happen.
Like 99.9% chance that won't happen.
But if it did, it'd be there.
There is a Members tab.
This is everybody that's in the group
that you can see here.
You can start chats with people,
which I do encourage.
You kind of get to know each other,
talk about what you're working on,
get some peer help if needed.
And those, like if you're not used to doing that.
doing that, the little DM notifications show up here
up in the right-hand corner,
and you can access all the stuff there as well.
Resources are here.
The only thing that you'll ever really see here
is a link to get to your training portal
where your course lives, and the Zoom link.
The Zoom link is always gonna be the same
every single week for the Thursday workshop group calls,
so you can use that here.
So yeah, I think that's all for now on this one.
The other platform where you're gonna be living
is what we call the Rainmaker Academy
or your training portal,
or we usually refer to it as your training portal.
So this is where, if you haven't checked this out already,
your courses are going to live.
So this is the dashboard.
You'll wanna navigate over here to your courses,
and again, I have lots of courses in mind,
but yours will have the Business Accelerator Live Cohort B,
so it'll look something like this,
or it'll look exactly like this, and you can check that out.
Couple of things to kind of go over here.
You're gonna notice that each of your weeks is locked.
I think because we have two groups right on,
like our other group is on week five and six,
so we've left that unlocked for them,
but we lock each week,
because we really want people to be focusing
on each week's content to get the full value.
You'll notice here that every single week
has an overview, so like here in week five,
the overview here is gonna say,
hey, what are we learning this week?
Like basically, what big question are we answering,
what you'll learn,
what you'll be able to do by the end of the week,
and then the training is where all of the actual
meat and potatoes is, like the training for that week.
Something to note, Onboard Week
does have training videos in it.
None of this is required,
but I highly encourage you to go and watch these
if you haven't already, or at least some of them,
especially these that talk about buckets
and deep work session.
This is more or less a time management system,
but like on steroids, it's super effective.
Honestly, we've had people's lives have been changed
by implementing some of these concepts into their life.
Really just allows you to work more efficiently
and effectively, and work in a way
that is good for your brain.
Good for your brain, not always switching tasks,
things like that, but again, not required.
Another thing to note is the deliverables section.
So this is like if there's anything extra
that we're giving you,
it will always be in the deliverables.
So for instance, week five,
the deliverables are all of these things here.
Not all of this is stuff
that you're necessarily gonna be using,
but it is there available to you.
One thing I do wanna note,
I'm gonna go over here to a different one,
so I can actually show you guys in week one,
something important.
So in week one, under deliverables,
you'll notice that you get access to Rainflow.
If you're taking notes, I want you to write this down.
As soon as week one becomes available, guys,
I want you to go into the deliverables
and sign up for your free 12 months of Rainflow.
You get that as a part of the Business Accelerator.
And schedule, step two is schedule
your Rainflow onboarding call.
That is, Megan runs those calls.
This is gonna be super important
that we get this done within the first couple of weeks
of you being in the Accelerator.
Not the end of the world if you can't,
but it definitely will kind of halt your progress,
especially if you're not super tech savvy.
I really, this is high priority to get this done.
Somebody else is joining us a little bit late.
That's okay.
Bethany, I see you're just joining us.
We are just kind of going an overview of the courses,
or of the course.
So week one, we're really gonna focus on
how to get new leads.
This is like the big,
this is like the gateway to success in your business, right?
How do you get new leads?
We do that through a concept of creating lead magnets.
And if you don't know what that is,
you'll learn what that is.
Setting up ads, things like that
that can eventually run more behind the scenes
without you having to always work on it.
Week two is going to be actually more of the technical part
of setting up those ads and things like that.
So just notice that in the first couple of weeks,
we're doing some more techie things.
So sometimes that feels very new to people,
and that's okay, we will get you through.
Week three and four is where like,
we can be making money, guys, okay?
So supercharge your offer is.
And it'd be like, what is ultimately your business
offering your target audience?
And how can we start selling that basically
within the first 30 days of us being in the accelerator?
It definitely can happen, it's super possible.
We just need you to be showing up for that.
And then week four is basically fine tuning,
ramping that up and dialing up your offer.
The second half, weeks five through eight,
go into more of the backend side of your business.
So thinking more about like, do you have systems,
you know, standard operating procedures in place?
Do you need to consider hiring a VA?
Are your financial, like, do you have your business
kind of laid out financially?
Kind of more overview of like, what is your customer journey?
How can we plan that out?
And what's really funny is we really end the accelerator
with brand identity and vision,
which people always think should be first
and it used to actually be first,
but we find like, it's not that it's unimportant,
but we don't have to have that stuff figured out
before we actually start making money.
So we will get to that.
So that's just like the most briefest overview
I could possibly give you.
I'm gonna stop sharing just for a second
so I can see the chat, just in case.
Okay, let me look.
And then I'm gonna pause for questions.
So if there's any questions, you can raise your hand
or put them in the chat.
Lindsay, do we need to do anything
if we already have rain flow?
No, I would maybe,
I don't know if we talked about this yesterday.
I would maybe just send a note to support our Megan
just to make sure that they,
like, I don't know if they're going to like reimburse
if you were paying for rain flow before
on if they're gonna reimburse you or whatever,
cause you are getting a free period.
So maybe just checking on that.
And then Bethany, she has pictures in the wrong place.
You are in the right place now, Bethany.
That is too funny.
It happens, honestly, it happens to the best of us.
So no worries, you're here now.
We've just been going over everything.
And so you can always catch the replay later on
to catch up on anything that's missed.
And then rain flow.
So Cynthia, I'm not gonna take a lot of time
to explain rain flow today.
You'll get more of this in watching the videos
in week one training.
It'll go through like what rain flow it is.
It is a CRM software.
So basically that is just like a place
where a lot of your business can live,
like where you can build out your website landing pages,
build, when we talk about funnels,
you're gonna be building that in rain flow.
Email sequences, all of that can be done in rain flow.
For instance, when we send you text messages
from our Rainmaker number, that's happening in rain flow.
So things like that.
But more of that will be in the videos.
Sienna, I see you have your hand raised.
I am looking at my deliverables
and I have all week one, two, three, four, five,
or one through four locked.
Yes, so they're all gonna remain locked.
Yes, so on Fridays, the next week's content will be unlocked.
So tomorrow week one content is going to be unlocked.
If we ever have a break, I think we have a break week
the last week of January,
we will unlock the following week early
so that you can work on it that break week if you want to.
But yeah, always anticipate on Fridays for it to open up.
Sounds good.
But yeah, week five is open.
Yeah, so because we have that other group that is happening
that I mentioned before, they're on week five and six.
So it just was simpler technologically wise
for us to just open up those weeks.
Okay.
Yeah, no worries.
And then Bethany, I see your question.
Yes, I'm gonna have you go back and watch the replay.
So we kind of went over this in the beginning,
but you can watch the replay for more details on this.
But in the group, in the Rainmaker family group,
there's that events tab.
And that is where you can see the calendar
and sync that calendar as well.
So check that out.
Okay.
What are they doing guys?
Oh, yeah, I got it.
Yeah, I go back to sharing my screen now.
That's what I'm missing.
Okey dokey.
So one thing that I'm gonna have some of you do,
if you are probably some of you that are coming over
from the mastermind community or any of you that are newer,
that you feel like you have a new business,
you kind of have an idea of what you wanna do,
nothing's really like nailed down.
I'm gonna have you go to the resources section.
So make notes of this.
If some of you, I went over with this already this week.
Go to the resources section,
you can type in brand into the search bar.
And we're looking for this course right here.
This is called building a purpose.
brand. So this is hosted like it's on a different platform so you do need to
like click through it and create like a login. It's free here so you just need to
like create a login. This is a quick course that Megan put together that is
going to help you nail down who you want to serve and how you're serving them
like what need are you solving for those people. If you have those two pieces we
can help you do the rest here in the accelerator but we do need to have a
clear direction of like who your target audience is and what the heck
we're doing for them. Sorry guys. So this course will help you think through that.
So I am going to assign this as homework to get this done like ideally this
weekend if you don't know who you're serving or you just kind of have a
general idea or if you just want to kind of like touch base with it again maybe
it's been a while since you thought about it and you just want to like get
back to it go through that. It's not super long I think in total it's like an
hour and a half worth of content to consume so it won't take too long but
that's going to be super important you know starting out. Okay I'm gonna make
sure I'm not missing anything. I have notes. I might be doing I might be moving
faster than I think I am. Let me look for more questions.
Ooh, Mailey good question. What if you cannot connect to this time every Thursday?
Great question. So the Thursday calls are highly encouraged but not something that
obviously we can force you to be at. If you cannot make this time then I'm gonna
really encourage you to rely on watching the replays like religiously because
this call on Thursdays is where you're getting all of the hands-on help with
our team. Where you are leveraging Stephen, you, Clive, Megan's like expertise
and knowledge which is collectively like I don't know 20-30 years of knowledge of
all of these things. So you're gonna be working on things week to week and
you're gonna be coming to the call saying like here look at my screen this
is what I've got what do you think give me your insight. Asking questions so you
will learn a lot by hearing other people's questions and just hearing the
feedback. So still a lot of value to be gained but just watch the replay and
then otherwise I would say do your best to block out the time on occasion if you
can. I've had students who are never able to make a live call and that's
totally fine they do quite well watching the replays. Another thing we are going
to encourage you to do is post in that Rainmaker family app. There's gonna be
weeks that you'll you'll hear me say hey you are like working on your lead
magnet can you post that in the group to get some feedback because we want all of
you to be helping each other and also our team can give you help when you're
posting in there and you can do screenshots or whatever it may be or
links. So definitely lean on that. Most of the time people don't post as much as
they can and you'll hear me so many times guys over the next eight weeks
post that post that post that and you're probably gonna get super annoyed but
no one uses it as much as they really can like you can post 10 billion times
a day and like why not and get help from everybody else. And I also encourage you
to go and give help like go and look at what other people have posted and just
give your opinion give what you see or maybe your unique perspective and just
be willing to help out in that way. Bethany are there other calls during the
week for the accelerator program or just the Thursdays? So you will have in
addition to the Thursday calls you and I have one-on-one calls ideally every
single week. So let me I can put my link here you also got my link in your
welcome email but I can drop it here in the chat if you want to save this and go
ahead if you have not for any of you that have not gotten on my calendar yet
it is important that you do this ASAP. My calendar does fill up so just try to
get in there and get a time and then we can you know schedule out your weekly
calls at a convenient time for you. Those are the only two calls a couple weeks
yeah I did see that next week was pretty full already so if you you know if you
find that next week you want to get on a call let me know you can send me a
message and I can open up some time for you. You are also new to the
community so I haven't been able to touch base with you whereas most everybody here I've
had calls with before so I definitely prioritize getting you in if needed but
yeah so those are the only two live calls otherwise everything else is going
to be on your own time. It's very asynchronous you're going to be you know
working at your pace. I would say most the time on average people spend
anywhere from five maybe up to ten hours
a week on everything. That's on the live calls, that's watching the videos, doing the homework,
things like that. Just depends on how quickly you work. I find that 10 hours might be kind of a lot.
Like if you're doing 10, you're probably doing a lot or you're just not understanding something
and you're having a hard time, which is a okay, we can figure it out. But I find that that's kind
of a lot for a lot of people. Usually five to six or seven is more accurate. Okay, anything,
any other questions? I don't know if I'm going like so fast, I'm forgetting something.
I have a question. So going back to the product, I have one thing that I've been wanting to do and
I'm passionate about is the KDP. And I actually have a book on Amazon, but I'm locked out of my
seller's account. Okay. And because I changed my email and my phone number and they won't let me
create another seller's account. And I'm kind of like, I don't know. I mean, just like that's
passionate for me. And it's like one thing I really want to launch and I want to have access
to my book and the money for my book. Yeah, you're probably, you're going to have to work
with Amazon seller account for them to unlock it. Okay. Which is a little frustrating because
some of us know Amazon support, but yeah, I can't help you with that. It's an old Amazon
platform to get it unlocked for you. Okay. Yeah. I've tried. Yeah. I mean,
I'm sure they have like a, you know, like, Hey, do this, do this to fix it. And kind of part of
the game with that is hounding the support until you get someone that's actually helpful. Okay.
Yeah. All right. Thank you. Yeah, no problem. Stacey, you have your hand up.
Yeah. So I just asked, I want to make sure it was covered. I purchased the lead magnet and that
DIY funnel build service. Would I wait to use that till kind of the end when I fully have like,
I mean, I have a product idea and everything else and I've kind of semi created it,
but I haven't launched it at all or, you know, created any selling points for it.
When would you suggest I use that?
Um, you could use it whenever you want. That's a great question. By the way,
everyone you all have this available to you can purchase a done for you lead magnet funnel.
I would, I would probably use it when you feel like you have great clarity
on where you're going and what you want it to do, which I think you do. We can talk more
about this on our call too, but either way, I'm going to encourage you to go through week by week.
So you're getting an understanding of what's happening. You may be, depending on what type
of learner you are, you might want to do that. And like, Hey, now I understand how this works.
Now I can walk into doing the done for you, working with the team and like understanding
more and having context to like, um, you know, to speak what you want. Um, it kind of depends
if you're worried about your time and your bandwidth being really limited during this,
like eight week session, then maybe do it earlier so you can get something off the ground sooner,
if that makes sense. So just kind of like gauge your situation. I hope that's helpful.
Yeah. I might try to get a call with you earlier then.
Okay. Okay. Yeah. Send me a message if you need to. Um, where should we be with the online video
studies for our next call next Thursday? Great question. Um, so, uh, Bethany, I don't know if
you hopped on right after I might've said this. So on Fridays, the next week's content course
content is going to be unlocked. So tomorrow week one will be unlocked. And ideally by the time you
get on that call on next Thursday, you'll at least have gone through the majority of that
week's content and have worked on stuff so that you can bring it to the call and get feedback.
Now, uh, no, a disclaimer that doesn't always happen. Everybody has different schedules.
Everyone has different things going on. So sometimes you might find some weeks you're
really on it. You're done the content, you've done the homework. And some weeks it's like,
you kind of like, all right, I'm going to get on there and listen and just kind of absorb what I
can. And the next week I'll be more caught up. That definitely happens. I had a student who, um,
some of you probably heard me say this, who she had a bookkeeping, but she has a bookkeeping
business. And the first like 10 to 12 days for her at the month are extremely busy. And she found
for her, it worked really well to just focus on her bookkeeping business those first couple of
weeks. And then the second half of the month, she would work in like a big batch and do the
accelerator that way. So that is totally doable. You're also not restricted to asking questions
on those calls, like only, um, that are associated with that week's content. So it's like, it's week
four, you can still ask questions like if you're doing something from week two, like it's totally fine. You can do that as well.
But to get, I haven't done the content for onboarding yet. Okay, the onboarding content is not required.
It's just there to be helpful to you.
And then the part that you're mentioning on Friday will be unlocked. How long on average does it take to get through that section?
Yeah, so this kind of goes back to it takes on average people are spending five to ten hours a week total on everything.
Now, you will notice that not all the weeks have the same amount of training. Weeks one and two kind of have a lot.
They're a little bit intense.
There's a lot of videos and then weeks, I think both week three and four only have one
training video each, like 20-25 minutes.
So it will fluctuate just a little bit. It's not always going to be the same.
But it will give you in there each week.
You'll also see like how long each video is. You can maybe look ahead to your week and look at your schedule and just like
say, all right, I'll do these videos at this time.
Stacey, what's the best way to get a hold of you for questions, text, or email? You can't. It's not available. I'm just kidding.
So,
that felt like a dad joke for some of you.
It felt so corny.
So the best way to get a hold of me, so as a business accelerator student, you guys get top priority.
You get as much attention as I'm able to give you.
So I would say sending me a direct message on the Rainmaker Family app is
probably best because I'm, I have to check that multiple times a day for other reasons anyways.
And I love it because I can also send voice memos on there and you can send me voice memos.
And honestly, who's got time to be typing things out? Nobody. So a voice memo is like my preferred way to communicate.
With that said,
you can also send emails and text that Rainmaker number.
I'm probably just going to be a little bit slower to respond to those, but it's also very much a possible way to reach out.
You guys are also more than welcome to reach out to Megan. Send her direct messages, email,
and she also checks that Rainmaker number as well from time to time.
So not just, you don't have to worry about just reaching out to me. You also have Megan as well.
And if all else fails, you can go to the support and be like, I'm trying to get a hold of these people and they're not responding.
You know, I'm always like, just do more than one course of action and one of them will work and one of them will work faster.
All right guys, any other questions?
Let's see, office hours. Yes, good question. I totally forgot about that.
I have office hours for all of students who are in some type of active coaching, which you guys are getting weekly coaching.
So I have office hours that are on Wednesdays
at 11 a.m.
No, 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. All of you will have gotten added to my
Coaching with Coach Gabby group in the app. So you can check out there. I post
I have it pinned at the top.
Office hours every, I think I need to edit it, office hours every single week. You're more than welcome.
There are various people from different programs also have access to that.
So if you get on there, you might hear stuff that you're like, I don't know what these people are talking about.
That's okay. They're in a different program than you.
But that's another place that you can go in and just like get a little piece of community or get some help or get some
feedback or ask some questions, things like that.
And then Ariel, you said we get one-on-one calls every week. Yes, so we will have weekly calls.
Ideally, and yes, you're good to go. Definitely get those on the calendar. If you haven't, we can do it on our next call as well.
But
every week, ideally. This is really important. This helps me and helps us gauge your progress. Just make sure you're staying on track.
You know, work out any kinks or anything that's clunky.
That was the college phone.
Okay, Bethany, you're here now. It doesn't matter. That's all that counts is that you're here now.
I love it. It's funny because you do it once and then you like never do it again.
You're just like scarred for life. Get on the right call.
So, yeah, one-on-one call is super important.
You know, sometimes they might be quick. Just know like so the time slot is for 30 minutes.
Sometimes they go faster. Like if you're just in a groove and you don't have questions and you're like, I'm good to go.
Awesome. Love it.
But they are also there like sometimes if we're feeling overwhelmed, if we have no idea what's happening in the world, in the life,
you know, we can just kind of come in there and have a conversation and I can bring some clarity to the situation.
I would also say I'm your point of contact person. So,
generally, you can just reach out to me and I can point you in the right direction or give you an answer if I have
have it or I can go find the answer if I need to. But all that, yeah, good questions, guys.
What else? I'm just going to kind of sit for a minute. Sometimes it takes a second for
questions to come out. Oh, I did forget something. I've got to share my screen again. Oh, where
are they going? Okay, guys, so another piece of important information. Go back to courses.
At the end of each week, you will notice in the deliverable section that there is a fill
out, like a check-in form. I can show you this. Deliverables, I'm going to scroll down.
Every single week has this Business Accelerator weekly check-in form. Please, please, please
try to remember to do this every single week. We will also post little reminders each week
so you get a notification reminding you. But this also is something that is going to help
us keep track of your progress, but it's also the place where you can leave feedback on
that week's content or maybe call or just like it helps us improve our experience or
improve the experience that we give to you. So I was going to go through this, but this
is more questions that I feel like answering already. So definitely utilize that. And it's
going to give us just a way to kind of like take a quick look and see like how you're
doing if we need to. And then definitely, most importantly, just use it for the feedback
if nothing else. And if you are like behind and lost, you can be on there and be like,
I'm behind and lost. And then we will see that. And if I haven't touched base with you,
then we can get on a call and figure out what's going on. So that will be another important
piece of information. Okay, let's see. Cynthia, can you give some advice on how the best way
to approach week one since you said it's a lot to take in? Yeah, Cynthia, for you, I
think we talked about this on the call yesterday, but going through the purposeful brand course
first this weekend, and then I think going into the onboarding week and looking at some
of those videos on the time management system will help you potentially alter your schedule
and your life a little bit to set some time aside to go through the videos. I think this
really is going to depend on how you learn. So for instance, I learned by doing. So if
I'm going to sit down to watch the videos, I need to be able to also have time to go
in and try to implement it. Otherwise, it's really not going to stick very well. Some
of you may be more auditory or just visual, and that's fine. And so you might find you
watch all the videos in one go, and then you have a separate time later on where you're
implementing. So just kind of know your learning style. And it's a little bit of trial and
error. We're also going to talk a lot on our one-on-one calls about your time and just
like where to work things in, troubleshoot, like does something need to come off your
plate for a little while, things like that. And if all else fails and moments of overwhelm,
just take a deep breath and be like, it's okay that I don't know all this right now.
You are not expected to know it all. So it is okay. And you will learn. And then, Bethany,
when I watched the replay, did you search around the platform to explain where things
are found? Yes. Yes, yes, yes. So I think we covered everything like that. I show you
in the replay. In the replay, you'll see like where you can like DM and stuff like that.
So that's perfect. And then, Bethany, I'm pretty sure you have my email as well.
So, Anne, I see you have your hand up. Yeah, I don't want to get too much into tech,
but I have my own agency account. Okay. I mean, I have the Flow account too. Okay.
So is it better for me to like I moved everything to my agency account? Okay.
Is it going to make a difference? Um, that might be a question for Megan,
but typically we have everyone move all their stuff to Rainflow. If that answers your question,
mostly just because Rainflow can do sometimes it can do everything and more of all the other
software I'm using go high level. Yeah. And it's but it's going to be a lot cheaper
in the long run. I think it might depend. It might depend on your specific situation.
So that might be a question for the next call or one of our calls.
Once we get a feel for like kind of what you're working on.
Let's put a pin in that and kind of get back to you on that.
Okay, thank you.
All right, guys.
Are there any other questions?
That might be it.
I do have to hop to another call in a few minutes,
so we are gonna be shutting it down here in a minute.
Is everybody here going to San Diego?
Great question.
Put your little hand up if you're going to San Diego.
Okay.
So as a Business Accelerator participant,
you can go to San Diego in January,
or you also can choose to trade it for,
we have tentatively planning the next in-person event
in April, you could do that either.
I mean, you could go to both,
but in terms of what's included
with your Business Accelerator,
you can choose one or the other.
And you are very welcome, Stacey.
So, love the gratitude.
All right, guys.
We are gonna hop off here.
It was so great to meet everybody.
I will be seeing you on our calls.
And I'm excited to get started.
Bye.
Bye-bye, thank you.