you
Bye Bye.
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Come on in.
Hello, everybody, come on in.
Give me just a second.
I love that you guys already have your cameras on.
It's awesome.
Sometimes everyone comes in and they have no camera on,
which is fine.
We'll give everyone a couple minutes to get in here.
Sometimes people aren't able to make it to the welcome call,
which is totally fine.
So if it's a small group,
we'll just move a little bit faster.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
While we kind of wait here for maybe another 20, 30 seconds,
just to give you guys an idea of what we're gonna do today.
So we will take some time to do just some introductions
because you guys are gonna be in group together
for the next eight weeks.
So just kind of get to know a little bit
about everyone individually and their businesses
and what you're hoping to achieve.
And then we will spend most of the time
kind of doing a tour of everything
that you're gonna have access to
and are probably gonna be utilizing in the next eight weeks.
So you are probably gonna wanna take notes
or you can always come back and watch the replays as well.
And I'll show you where to do that.
So it is gonna be kind of a lot of information,
but you'll have somewhere to come back and revisit this.
So you can come back as much as you need to.
Okay, so let's kind of start with some introductions
and I'll go first.
So I think we'll do name.
I always love to know where you are.
Maybe quick overview of your business.
And then goals for next eight weeks.
I'm gonna put this in the chat.
So this will be what we are,
mostly everyone is gonna answer.
So you can be thinking about that.
So my name is Gabby Barton
and I am the business consultant here
with the Rainmaker family that,
or you might know us by the AI for companies,
just depending on where you're coming from.
And so I meet with everybody
who is receiving one-on-one coaching calls
every single week.
I do a handful of other things,
but that is the main job that I hold.
So you will see me on a couple of your workshops here,
leading some of them,
or you might see me in some one-on-one calls.
I've been here for about a year now.
I've had a couple of businesses of my own
at different phases in my life
and just kind of done a handful of different things
that I've figured out what I want out of life
and just happened to come across this community
through mutual people and just loved it
and didn't wanna leave.
So that's kind of what I do, just very light.
Oh, and I'm in Mesa, Arizona.
So I don't know if anyone's ever been out here,
but I'm here in the desert.
And yes, we are getting hot
and yes, I will complain about it.
So you'll probably hear me complain about it
because we're just getting in,
like this week got real hot for a couple of days
and I was starting to panic.
But I love it during the winter
and I don't love it during the summer.
So it is what it is.
But if, let's see, there's only a few of you.
So I don't really need you guys to raise your hands,
but how about we start with Rhonda?
You're at the top of my screen.
So if you don't mind unmuting
and giving us an overview about you.
Hey, hello everyone.
My name is Rhonda.
Sholto is my last name.
It's hard to say and spell,
but I am living in Rhode Island.
I was born and raised here on the East Coast.
It's just a little small estate near Connecticut,
Massachusetts.
People think it's, sometimes think it's an Island
and not a state.
But I have, as you can see,
my company has helped me Rhonda Tech,
which was named my generation that recognizes the branding.
It was a song that was created by the Beach Boys.
And so, you know, my clients and customers,
I did tech support for about 30 years
in IT and corporate.
So we got that song sung to me constantly
when I get a phone call or a call for help.
So that's when I started my business 11 years ago,
it was something that branded into the business.
And actually my LLC is called Witty Solutions.
But so when I launched, I first launched as an LLC,
but now I'm branded as Help Me Rhonda Tech.
And who I help is, as you can tell,
those that are like encore entrepreneurs like myself
have had businesses or careers
and now want to start something on their own
and launch out.
serve or have a passion to do something in the encore years.
And I help them with the technology,
which typically is a barrier and causes them to get stuck.
So I help them with the technology.
And so I do local business in Rhode Island,
as well as online business for the last six years.
That's awesome.
What are you hoping,
what are some goals you have
for the next eight weeks or so?
What I like is to be able to,
I mean, cause I am the coach, the trainer,
all the hats of the entrepreneur hats in my company,
leveraging AI so that I can free up more time
to work with my clients,
the ability to be able to create more content using AI,
and also just to reach the people that are looking for me.
And I just, I'm kind of limited
to what I have been able to do.
A lot of my businesses is referrals.
And I do have an email list,
but it's about a few hundred people
and some Facebook connections,
but I really just want to expand and get more leads
and help people find me and me find them
that who need my help.
Yeah, we're going to hit that in the first two weeks,
we'll be hit and leave.
So you'll love that.
Thank you for sharing.
And Dora, I see you there off camera.
I don't know if you're not able to come on camera or unmute.
So if you need to put your answers in the chat,
feel free to do that.
Oh, perfect timing.
Her name is Dora and you're in Wisconsin
and you want to be able to build AI agents,
starting selling through your website.
No worries.
It's okay.
You're at work.
Totally fine.
I'm assuming AI agents is going to be a big goal
for everyone.
It's been a time of wanting to save time
and just wearing less hats.
So I totally get that.
Well, thank you.
So glad you're here, even though you're at work.
Appreciate that sacrifice.
John, would you like to go next?
There it is.
Hi, my name is John Henry and I'm from Pennsylvania.
So not too far from you Rhonda.
And I'm a solo operator.
And I've never worked for a large business.
I've always worked for either a very small contractor.
I started in construction.
I've always worked for very small businesses
and I'm currently doing marketing for contractors.
So I have eight clients at the moment
and I want to scale it,
but I've never been around people who have scaled
to the scale that I would like to go to.
And so this opportunity to look really appealing.
And then I was very blessed.
I actually won this one.
So that was actually incredible.
So yeah, what I'm hoping to get accomplished in the next,
is it a 10 week program, I believe?
Yeah, next we'll have eight core weeks,
but yeah, kind of 10 total with this one
and then the one week at the end.
Okay, my goal going into this,
and that might change somewhat as we go along,
but the goal is to get a solid foundation
underneath the business that I want to build and scale it.
I started out doing web design and social media management
and I'm kind of pivoting because the people that I serve
benefit a lot more from starting
with their Google business profile.
And so I'm really just going to zone in on that
and then add the other things on later
as I build my customer base.
So that's where I'm starting from.
Did I cover everything?
I think so.
I think that's awesome.
I love it, scaling.
Yes, you are in a good place.
Definitely working with a lot of people
started small or humble and kind of built it
and scaled and found ways to do that.
So it's exciting times.
So definitely a lot of things to learn,
a lot of comfort zones to get out of,
I feel like when you're getting to scaling.
So, or anything in business,
I think everyone experienced that as an entrepreneur,
you gotta get out of your comfort zone
at some point in time.
Well guys, thank you guys for sharing.
So we are gonna move into doing some,
like I said, the tour.
So I'm gonna hopefully give you a good idea
of how all these different things work together
and how you might use them.
And then of course, if there's questions,
we can absolutely do that as well.
I'm just gonna pull up all my tabs here.
Okay, so I'm gonna share my screen.
Okay.
Make sure that pops up.
Okay, so are you guys seeing my screen okay?
Perfect, it's all the thumbs up.
So what you're looking at right here
is what we call our Rainmaker Family app.
Sometimes we refer it to as the.
community app or just app.
So if you haven't already,
you are actually able to download this
as an app on your phone.
It's just the Rainmaker Family app.
Or you can access it through your web browser
like I'm doing here at rainmakerfam.com.
Either one is great.
What I love about downloading it as an app on your phone
is that you can enable your notifications
so that you can get the notifications
for like the workshop calls
or if we have any important announcements.
You won't miss those things,
but that's totally up to you.
So we're just gonna go through the tab left to right
and I'll kind of explain what they are.
So you'll notice you have a dropdown menu.
I of course have lots of groups
because I've been in all the groups,
but you guys should probably just have one or two groups
depending on how you came into CSN.
The one that's most important for now
is this Business Accelerator Cohort B, May.
That is your group.
So anytime you see anything Cohort B, May,
that is referring to you.
And you have what I call
like a little task management system here.
If you wanna use it,
you can add things here in this Week tab.
You know, maybe you just don't wanna forget,
you wanna enable the notification.
If something related to your courses
or something, a homework assignment you gave yourself,
you can use this here.
Sometimes people don't have any sort of task management
system or time management system,
so it might be great to start using something,
but you can use that as much or as little as you like.
The next tab is probably the most important tab
or one of the most important tabs.
And this is the Community tab.
So you can see here, we only have a couple of posts,
but this is where we post our announcements.
We will post like a welcome to week,
blah, blah, blah, every single Monday.
So this is like the onboarding week.
On Monday, you'll see a welcome to week one,
and we'll give you like an overview of what it is,
a reminder of when your workshop call is happening,
and anything else.
Sometimes we have one-off announcements
that come up that are relevant that we'll post here.
This is also where you guys can interact,
and I highly recommend that you do.
I highly recommend that you utilize posting in here,
and sometimes I will even recommend that you post in here
so that you can get feedback from the other cohort members.
It's just a great place to build community
and really just leverage everyone's
maybe different expertise or strengths that they have.
If I didn't have a lot of experience in marketing,
they'd be like, hey, John, what do you think of this?
Like, just give me your eyes,
even though you have a construction background.
It's one of those things that it's like a fringe benefit
of having this is being able to use the community.
The announcement page is kind of similar.
It'll have just the announcements,
so mostly if you pay attention to the community
when you're gonna be fine.
This is one of the very important tabs,
and this is replays.
There's nothing here yet,
but at the end of today or tomorrow,
you'll notice that the replay for this call
is gonna be posted here.
So all of your workshop calls that you get access to,
the replays will be posted here,
and you'll be able to go back and re-watch them
during the next like eight weeks or so.
So they're all gonna live there,
and then the events tab is probably what I would consider
the other most important tab.
So this is where the schedule for all the calls
that you get access to are gonna be,
and you can follow this calendar,
whether you use Apple or Google or whatever.
Again, I highly recommend that you do that
so that you can create reminders and notifications
for the calls that you don't wanna miss.
You will see here that there are a lot of different calls,
and so some of these are optional.
For you guys, if you're very busy,
or your time is limited, or you're working a job,
and you know you're not gonna be able to make
a whole lot of calls during the week,
absolutely prioritize the Thursday cohort calls.
These are the calls designated for your group only.
This is where we will be going over
whatever that week's content is.
We'll be workshopping through what you're working on,
whatever your homework is.
This is where you'll be getting feedback.
So you'll definitely wanna prioritize those.
They're gonna be every single Thursday
at one o'clock p.m. Pacific Standard Time,
so that's four o'clock if you're on the East Coast.
And if you click on these, it has the Zoom links,
and the Zoom will always stay the same,
but you can access that here.
These other calls are gonna be helpful,
and sometimes we might recommend that you attend one,
depending on, maybe if you're having an obstacle,
that we are like, you know what,
we really could use some extra time
outside of this Thursday call.
Can you hop on Tuesday's call with so-and-so?
These are calls that we run for all of our programs
or other programs that people have access to,
and they can be very helpful,
but again, if you're very busy
or you've got a lot of moving pieces.
it may cause more overwhelm to get on these.
So maybe try it out or if we prescribe one
for you to get on, then get on it.
But again, totally up to you.
And also, I know we have duplicates here.
We're having an error when we're scheduling these
for some reason, there's duplicates that keep showing up.
Don't worry about that, the link will be the same call.
But just know that sometimes the duplicates happen.
So that is the calendar.
The members tab is just everyone that is in your cohort.
As you can see, there's more than just three of you
in this cohort, but not everyone is always able
to get on the call that week or get on live.
So this is where you also can connect.
You can send people a DM if you want.
If you maybe get into a conversation on a call,
I can just send you a DM later.
We can continue the conversation.
This is where you could do that.
And then your resources section,
it's not gonna have a lot.
It's basically just gonna have a little hyperlink here
for you to get to your courses
or this is also gonna be the Zoom link,
another place that you can access the Zoom link
for every Thursday.
Okay, and then let's see.
Hopefully there's anything else.
This contact support button,
you can definitely always click on this.
If you ever are having a problem
and you're not really sure where to go,
you can definitely submit a support ticket here
and our support team will get you connected.
A lot of times, though, they're gonna be great
if you're having an issue with your account and payment,
maybe your login, something like that,
definitely can reach out here and they'll be super helpful.
But again, if you're ever in doubt
and you don't know where to go,
reach out here and you'll get where you need to go.
Okay, so let me pause there
and we're gonna move on to the courses,
but does anybody have a question about the app?
Everyone's looking okay, looking okay.
I'll check the, I can't see the chat here.
I'll check it in just a second.
So if there's anything in the chat, I'll get there.
Alrighty, so then we're gonna move over to,
this is your training portal.
So app.raymakers.academy,
this is where all of your coursework is going to live.
So again, this is a very important website
to keep a hold of.
You can access this on your web browser, on your phone.
I would say it works better on a desktop,
but just know you can do it on your phone
if you're ever on the go and wanna listen to videos.
So when you log in, you have your dashboard,
everyone's dashboard looks like this,
and then you have your courses.
And of course, I have all of the courses
that we've ever, ever created,
but you guys should see
the Business Accelerator Live Cohort B.
This is a live course, so this is why it's labeled live.
This is where you're gonna wanna be every week,
multiple times a week, watching your videos.
Couple things to note here
is that you see all of the weeks are locked.
So we really want you guys to be focusing
on each week's assignments.
We have built the course very intentionally
to build on itself, so we really want you
to get into week one, master week one,
and then move on to two.
So every Friday is when we will open the next week's course.
So tomorrow, you'll notice that week one gets unlocked.
That way, for someone who likes to work on things
over the weekend, you'll have access to it.
Right now, this Onboarding tab is open,
and just so you know, guys, this Onboarding tab,
these are all bonus.
You do not have to, don't feel obligated
to go and watch these videos,
but some of them are super helpful,
especially in terms of tracking your time,
having a different kind of time management system.
If you tend to struggle with being scattered
or overwhelmed, I would definitely recommend watching these,
but it's not required.
And then I do wanna highlight,
when you get into week one tomorrow,
you'll wanna check out your Deliverables section.
So every week is gonna have a Deliverables section,
so any sort of resources that we're recommending
or giving to you will be posted in the Deliverables section.
So for here, we talk a lot about different AI tools
in week one, any kind of software,
we have them posted there.
As a part of the Business Accelerator,
you guys get access to Rainflow,
which is our white label version of Go High Level.
So if you're currently not using a CRM,
or you might be using one,
but you would like to save some money,
we highly recommend you move over to Rainflow.
It's extremely affordable.
We give you a year free, no additional costs,
and then after that, it's $89.
dollars a year, so
drastically cheaper than all other CRMs out there.
But you'll want to sign up for this as soon as week one opens up
and
use the code there to get your discount. You can ignore
step two. We've changed the process a little bit, so we don't have a rainfall onboarding call anymore,
but you'll have next steps within that course, and we give you a rainflow course. Just it's like a
it's more or less a
encyclopedia. I'm going to go here.
It's not necessarily a course that you need to feel like you're staying on top of or watching all the time,
but it just helps you navigate the platform. You know, where do I need to go to build funnels? How do I do that?
If I want to create products, how do I do that? Things like that. So you'll get access to that as well.
And then
a couple of things I want to make a note on, too, for the first couple of weeks.
Weeks one and two are probably going to be your busiest weeks,
so a lot of times people come in
to the first couple weeks, and they're like, wow, this seems like a lot. Is every week going to be like that?
And that's not the case, but the first couple weeks are really important, and there definitely are heavier training weeks,
so I really recommend setting aside anywhere from five to ten hours and
every week in these next couple of weeks to make sure you're getting on the workshop call,
watching the videos, and implementing what we're teaching in the videos. That is
usually the time that I see people spend in the first couple of weeks,
and the first couple weeks are getting your ads set up and running.
So we like for that to happen quickly so that we can move on to other aspects of the business while you're also
getting new leads in.
Okay, so some support here.
Let me make sure I'm not missing anything.
This support button will get you to the same place as the other one that I showed you, so you can definitely
access it from here as well.
I don't think there's anything else on here. Any questions on your training portal or courses?
Yes.
Do you want it written in the chat or just ask here? You can ask here if you want.
Okay, you said the encyclopedia or the
index to navigate around. Which one? Which course was that?
It is Rainflow, so that's our white label version of Go High Level, our CRM.
Oh, gotcha. So it's inside of that course there. Yeah, you can access it here.
Let's move on to your 8FIG AI toolkit. So this is another thing that you guys are going to be using a lot
along with probably some other AI tools that we recommend or you're comfortable with.
But we have our own toolkit that we have spent a significant amount of time on.
So if you're interested in learning more about that, you can go to our 8FIG AI toolkit.
It's a really great tool. It's a really great tool that you can use for a lot of different things.
But we have our own toolkit that we have spent a significant amount of time
training to be well-versed in our methodology and all of our mentors that we've used over the years
in business, marketing, and sales, and all kinds of topics. So
one thing I want to note here is that there's a lot of tools.
You can see that. You may not use all of them right now and you probably won't and that's totally fine.
But I definitely recommend getting in here and just poking around if you haven't already.
You can just go to 8FIG.AI and log in.
Again, this is something that we give you free for this first year.
You don't have to pay the subscription fee. It's part of your business accelerator bonus.
And you get full access. So even all the expansion packs you get full access to as well.
You'll probably be using this marketing tab quite a bit, especially in the first couple weeks. We'll recommend some of these tools.
Potentially when we get into finances, you might be looking at some of these.
And it's depending on what your business is. We might recommend some other ones, but definitely recommend getting in here.
Start with the onboarding and that's just really where you need to train your AI on your business.
So get in here, start a chat with it.
I just need to tell you about my business so you know what I'm trying to do and it can start getting comfortable with who
you are and your goals and be working
for you.
And then last but not least, I know this is a lot of information guys,
is Rainflow itself. So
when you log into Rainflow, when you create your login and you get in, it's going to look like this. This is your dashboard.
And I'm not going to really go into,
I'm not really going to show everything here. Your Rainflow course is
is gonna give you a walkthrough of all this,
but there is a place in Rainflow
to access that course I mentioned,
so I do wanna show you that.
That's gonna be, if you go down here
to this Membership tab after you log in,
we're gonna go to Courses, and then Products.
Wait, hold on, it might have changed.
Hold on.
Used to be in Products.
Oh, it's because I'm not in mine.
There we go, I was in the wrong account.
Courses, Products, and it's here as well.
So there's just multiple places to access that course.
It just depends on whatever's easier for you,
comfortable for you, doesn't really matter,
but it'll have all the stuff here.
When you get into here,
I do recommend watching all of the introduction videos.
It's just a welcome and overview,
kind of giving you what to expect,
what can you do here in Rainflow,
how to walk through maybe the courses
and videos and just some kind of tips and tricks.
But that is Rainflow.
Now, I will say, again, if you decide to use Rainflow,
there's a couple different areas of support.
And the reason why I'm making a point
to go over this specifically is because
we have our own label of Go High Level,
the support looks a little bit different.
So one thing is that we do pay for a team
to manage this 24-7 chat.
So this is not necessarily our team,
it's a third party company that manages
a 24-7 chat and support.
And they are like Go High Level experts.
So if you're ever in here and you're trying
to build something and you're running into errors
or you don't know how to do it,
you can start up a chat here
and they will definitely assist you.
They are the pros.
This is what they do all day, every day, they are the pros.
And again, I would recommend looking
for any sort of support here in the videos first
because we're pretty comprehensive.
But if something's missing,
you can definitely reach out to the chat here.
But just keep in mind, this is not our team,
it's a third party that we pay to manage this for us.
Okay, any questions about any of that?
Go ahead, Rhonda.
I've had 8th Big AI for probably since December,
I've been a founding member.
I guess I could probably put my monthly payments on hold.
Just reach out to support for that.
Yeah, absolutely.
Definitely reach out to support,
let them know, hey, I've just gotten
to the Business Accelerator.
As a part of that, I just, as a reminder,
I get this for free, can you please upgrade my account?
Yeah, absolutely, reach out to support.
And then if you run into any issues,
and then if you run into any problems on that,
you can always send me a message.
If you guys ever are needing anything,
Rhonda, I know we're meeting on Monday,
but if there's ever something that comes up
in the in-between time, you guys can post
in that community section of the app,
you can send me an email.
I'm putting that in the chat.
And we will generally get back to you
within about 24 to 48 hours.
But that's if anything comes up.
All right.
All right, we moved super fast.
So that is like an overview of what
this next eight weeks is gonna be.
Today was just going through all of the platforms.
Next week, we're starting on week one.
If you get a head start with the weekend, great.
On the workshop call next week,
what you can expect is it to be,
I think you'll either be meeting you, Clyde, or Steven.
So there'll be like the three of us
will be doing different workshops
depending on our strengths and expertise.
But next week, you'll be one of the guys.
And you'll be, in week one,
you'll be working on a lead magnet.
And some of you might already be very familiar with that.
And so you might already have some ready to go,
or you wanna create new ones.
But we want you to bring that to the workshop call
so that we can give you feedback.
And sometimes schedule gets in the way.
So even if you just bring a concept,
you don't have anything actually put together or designed,
bring a concept and you can get feedback on that.
That is actually the best way to get support
during this next eight weeks is those workshop calls.
Everyone is gonna get time on those calls.
We manage the time well.
We give everyone about five minutes, five to seven minutes,
depending on how many there are,
to have the floor and go over what you've been working on
and get any support.
So that'll be next week.
All right, guys.
Any lingering questions?
What's up, John?
Yeah.
The thing that you just talked about,
that's a lead magnet or a specific offer that we are.
Wanting feedback on or both so a lead magnet specifically is week one
So in week one, we specifically start with the lead magnet
Week two is when we set up like technically set up the apps
Or sorry the ads and you get your lead magnet connected to your ads week three is when we go into offers
And so whether that's designing a new offer
reworking a current offer
um
You know anything like that, you know, that's when we hit that now I will say though
If you have a question
It doesn't hurt to ask on the workshop call, even if it's off topic
So I want those to be helpful for you guys. So if you're like, hey
I have a question about something else. Can I ask it?
And then depending on who's on the call, maybe they'll be able to help you and maybe they might say hey wait for next week
Steven might be a better fit to answer that something like that
Okay. Thank you. Yeah
Okay. Yeah
What's the best way to prepare for the call with you is it something that we do once a week also, um, yeah
Yeah, ronda you and I will be meeting once a week
um
It kind of depends. So people use like the calls with me differently
um
I usually recommend for you to have gotten started on watching the courses
and
Definitely use it as an opportunity to bring any questions to me. We're meeting monday. So it's much earlier than thursday
so you might bring any questions or you might you want to like
Get feedback in terms of like hey, can I bounce my ideas off of you?
Or just depending on what your needs are we'll address that but our first call on monday
We'll just spend a lot more time getting to know one another i'm gonna ask a lot more questions in terms of like
Goals and what you want to accomplish. What are your priorities right now?
Because that's going to really influence the feedback that I give you
um, you know once I know
What needs to move forward right away in your business and what can be done later?
Okay. Thanks. Yeah, no problem
All right guys anything else
Alrighty
Well, just remember tomorrow week one is going to get unlocked and so you can get a head start if you'd like
Um, you have your workshop calls on thursdays
And then if anything comes up feel free to shoot me an email
Alrighty guys, it was really nice meeting you. I will see you all soon