7 - Why Not to Come to JV Connect
Welcome back to the Guy Who Knows A Guy podcast! In this episode, host Michael Whitehouse tackles common concerns about the upcoming JV Connect event, drawing from insights gathered in a recent survey. He dispels myths surrounding networking events, underscores the value of connections, and elucidates why JV Connect serves as a growth opportunity for businesses at any stage. If listeners are curious about networking or hesitant to attend, Michael offers valuable insights. Prospective attendees can register at JV-connect.com for a distinctive networking experience!
Mentioned in this episode:
JV Connect, December 12-13, 2023
Join us for JV Connect, the dedicated networking event December 12th and 13th, 2023 https://www.jv-connect.com
Transcript
Hello!
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:Welcome once again to the
Guy Who Knows A Guy podcast.
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:I am Michael Whitehouse, the
guy who knows a guy himself.
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:And the other day, I sent out a survey
to my email community, asking them
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:many things, but one of the things was,
Have you registered for JV Connect?
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:And if you have, why?
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:You know, thank you.
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:And if you have not, why not?
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:What's holding you back?
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:And I wanted to address some of the
concerns people brought up, because
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:this was a very valuable access for me.
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:By the way, if you're ever wondering, Why
is your audience not buying something?
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:Ask them, they'll tell you.
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:In fact, you can do this on
a sales call face to face.
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:You can actually say when you're done,
you know, the game's over, you're
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:pitching your tent, you're putting
your stuff away, it's okay to say.
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:So I'm not trying to sell you up.
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:I, I get, you said no.
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:And I completely respect
that for my education.
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:So I can do better at
educating people going forward.
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:Could you share with me what it
was that made you decide to say no.
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:instead of yes.
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:You can also do it the other way.
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:What was it that made you
decide to say yes instead of no?
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:And they'll generally tell you,
right, they want you to know this,
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:and often, it will give you, almost
all the time, it will give you
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:education, like, oh, I didn't realize,
oh, that's an interesting point.
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:And sometimes, it will make you
realize, Wait, you thought that oh,
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:oh, would you mind if I explain that?
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:Cause I, I completely whiffed that one,
cause that's actually not how it works.
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:Do you mind if I, if
we dive back into that?
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:Cause they, if they're taking the
time to meet with you, they want
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:the solution you have to offer.
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:So if there is a misunderstanding,
they don't want to miss out on it.
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:It's worth asking.
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:So anyway, I asked, I got some answers.
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:I'm going to address some
of those concerns for anyone
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:who has similar concerns.
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:So the first one that I want
to talk about is very simple.
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:Not sure it would be a value add.
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:Why should I go?
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:What's the benefit?
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:Why would I spend my money and
my time going to this event?
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:Now, this is probably very common because
there's a lot of networking events out
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:there and most of them suck, right?
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:Let's be honest.
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:Most of them just aren't very
good for various reasons.
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:And I'm not going to go into
the issues of all of them.
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:If you go to jv connect.
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:com, look at the blog.
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:I'm addressing a number of the
things I've seen in networking
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:events that I don't like and how
I'm not going to do those things.
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:So that thing, I can sit here and
tell you about the value runoff.
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:Oh, you're going to meet a hundred
people and that's going to create
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:this much value and blah, blah, blah.
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:Everybody promises that stuff.
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:So if I tell you the deliverables
I think you're going to get, you
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:don't necessarily believe them.
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:Even if you trust me, you don't
necessarily believe that you're going
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:to get that value because you're
so used to hearing these made up,
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:fanciful, fanciful, fantastic things.
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:You're going, Oh, you got a
hundred thousand dollars in value.
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:Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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:So, but let me try to share
how it would be a value add.
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:So one of the things about networking
is that connections can solve.
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:Any problem you might have,
whatever the problem is,
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:connections can solve it, right?
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:If you're trying to figure out if
you're, if you're stuck and you're
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:just like not getting anything done,
you could meet someone who could
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:teach you some organizational tips.
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:If you need more leads, you could
meet someone who give you referrals.
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:You can meet someone who could
teach you about social media.
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:Meet someone who could get you on
their podcast, whatever it is you need.
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:There's someone out there who can solve
it for you and not necessarily for money.
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:They might just share advice.
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:They might refer you to a podcast.
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:They might, who knows, there's all
kinds of ways they can help you.
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:So what, I want you to think about
what is the challenge you're facing,
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:and then I want you to think about who
could help you solve that challenge.
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:Now there's a guarantee on JVConnect
that you may or may not be aware of,
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:and the guarantee is that you will get
valuable connections At least, I it's
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:five, that's what I put on the website.
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:But you will get valuable connections.
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:And if you don't, I, the guy who knows
a guy, will personally introduce you to
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:three people that you need to know who can
help you move forward towards your goals.
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:So here's the question.
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:Is it worth fifty bucks to get
three introductions from me?
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:I would think so, since my regular
networking concierge program is
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:1, 000 a month plus commission.
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:50 bucks.
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:Even if you think this event is
worthless, you spend 50 bucks.
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:It's gonna be more when the
price goes up after Thanksgiving.
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:But you spend 50 bucks on your ticket,
you show up for at least half the event.
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:You have to attend for, I think
at least half, might be more.
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:But you, you know, you play, you play
full out the event, you participate.
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:And if you don't get those
connections, I'll make them for you.
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:Because I am absolutely confident,
I don't expect to make a single
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:connection on this guarantee.
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:Because if you attend and participate...
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:Then you'll be, you'll,
you'll get those connections.
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:It's just no question.
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:There's going to be
hundreds of people there.
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:Over a hundred of them
are handpicked people.
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:I personally invited because of the
quality they bring to the room, right?
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:This isn't some event where it's like I'm
selling Facebook ads to bring people in.
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:I have no Facebook ads,
no paid advertising.
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:It is entirely me inviting people.
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:My own community, and people who are
coming, inviting their communities.
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:That's, that's who we're getting here.
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:So, if you have a challenge that can be
solved by another human, which is almost
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:every challenge you might have, then,
you're going to find find those people.
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:So let's bring up the
next, the next concern.
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:Is not sure if it's a place for
me, as I focus on in person events.
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:This is a person who plans live
events, plans in person events.
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:But, this applies to anyone who,
Who's thinking, I'm not sure if it's
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:me because I focus on blank, right?
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:Now you hear the JV and JV connect.
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:You think, well, it's just
coaches, promoting coaches,
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:just other people's networks.
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:There is that, but
there's also other things.
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:So according to my surveys, at least 97
percent of the people attending JV connect
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:are humans who live in the real world.
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:It is possible as many as 3 percent
of them are just really well presented
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:AIs who don't have human bodies.
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:But at least 97 percent are humans with
physical bodies who live in physical
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:space and attend physical events.
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:So just because they're connecting
online doesn't mean they're not.
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:Live humans who do live things.
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:There's also a lot of people now
who are doing virtual events who
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:want to do more in person events
but it's a bit of a leap to do so.
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:If you're used to bringing people together
on Zoom or some virtual platform and you
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:don't know how to you know, you don't
know How to do in person stuff which
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:involves hotels and food and travel and
printing brochures and printing booklets
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:and all these different things Then you
might want to hire someone to do that
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:or you might not even thought about
that you meet someone You know, you meet
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:someone who does these kinds of things
and you say oh, oh, that's interesting.
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:Yeah.
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:What do you charge?
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:Oh, really?
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:You only charge that much?
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:Yeah, let's do this.
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:Absolutely Okay, so whatever it
is you do it's entirely possible.
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:This is not just a place for
for virtual joint ventures.
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:This is not just a place for promoting
launches and giveaways and summits.
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:This is a place for any kind of, when I
say joint venture, I mean the broadest
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:possible version of joint venture.
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:Anytime two people come together
to create greater value.
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:Anything.
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:Podcast interviews, live
events you know, Whatever.
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:If you're a massage therapist who travels
around the country, I mean, that's a bit,
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:if you're locally focused, then you're not
going to find as many clients necessarily,
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:but you can still find knowledge.
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:Which brings me to the next
objection, next concern.
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:Currently building my business.
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:So I hear this often.
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:I don't want to go, I'm not ready.
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:I don't have my offer.
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:I don't have a list.
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:I don't have anything
to bring to the table.
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:Yes, you do.
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:You bring something to the table and even
if you have nothing even if you're saying
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:you know what I don't even know what my
Business is I'm thinking about starting
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:a business haven't even started it yet.
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:I've got Absolutely nothing then
you should be at JV Connect.
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:You should absolutely be at JV Connect
because it's the most Affordable education
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:you will find anywhere Let me tell you why
you are going to be in a room with dozens
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:or hundreds of experienced established
ethical Entrepreneurs good people who
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:know what they're talking about and are
open to serving open to helping and so
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:you can get on a one to one With someone
like this, you know get 30 minutes their
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:time potentially and they will share some
knowledge with you Okay, if you tried this
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:here's a platform I try someone else to
talk to you Let me connect you some people
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:I know because that was me In 2021, when I
attended the event that I, I took a lot of
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:the cues for this event from, I had this
vague concept of like, I'm the guy who
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:knows a guy, I do maybe some coaching or
something, or maybe I do a couple events,
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:I guess, I don't know, I do some stuff.
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:I got on calls with
DOZENS, DOZENS of people.
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:Who were, you know, six, seven,
eight figure business owners,
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:experts in sales, experts in
mindset, experts in joint ventures.
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:The networking concierge program
came out of connections I made from
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:there, as did the initial clients.
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:If you go back to season three of
this podcast, you will find a lot of
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:interviews I did with people I met
at that event and learned from them.
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:I brought very little to the table.
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:when I arrived at that event.
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:But, these people were willing
to meet with me because what
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:they saw was, I'm growing.
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:If you have an attitude of I'm here
to give, I'm here to serve, even if
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:I don't have anything, but whatever
I've got I'm here to serve with it.
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:If you've got that attitude,
they're happy to help you.
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:Why?
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:Because that tends to return.
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:At worst, you're going to leave and say,
Wow, that was such a nice guy I met.
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:I'm so glad I met him.
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:I'm going to tell a couple
friends how cool he is.
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:Right?
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:You improve their brand a bit.
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:At best, one of the people who I
met who was very very generous with
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:his time and his knowledge with me,
I ended up making I think a dozen
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:introductions, if I'm not mistaken about
six or seven of them became clients.
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:So, you know, there's paybacks.
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:So don't worry about where you are
in business, what you've got ready.
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:It's fine.
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:So the first two days
are open to everyone.
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:Now day three is invitation only.
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:Day three you can't go to.
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:If you don't have your business
ready, your offers, your list, your
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:programs, your systems in place.
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:But that's fine.
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:Day 3 exists so that the established
folks on day 1 and 2, they understand
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:they're meeting with people who don't
necessarily have all their ducks in a row.
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:And that's fine for them.
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:They know what they're going to meet.
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:They're also going to
meet a lot of each other.
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:But day 3 is where they're going to
make all the big deals with each other.
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:But if you're not there, you
still get to hang out with them.
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:It's not going to be a bunch of newbies
hanging out with a bunch of newbies.
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:Which is what you find in a lot of other
events, because they're enrollment events.
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:This is why JV Connect is
not an enrollment event.
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:With an enrollment event, you
need to target your audience
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:who are going to buy from you.
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:And that tends to be more the newbies.
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:The people missing something
in their business, that's why
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:they need to buy from you.
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:You make that a networking event,
that ends up being who's networking.
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:And then you end up with the blind leading
the blind, groping around in the dark,
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:and probably trying to grab your wallet.
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:And that's not what I want to have here,
that's not what we're going to have here.
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:We're going to have something much
more valuable, where it is a mix of
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:more experienced and newer people.
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:And as it's currently breaking down,
mostly more experienced people, but don't
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:worry, they're not going to judge you.
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:They were, you know, the
online industry as it is...
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:Only existed for the last few years or so.
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:So no one's that experience.
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:Everyone remembers when they were new.
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:And even if they, they've been in business
a long time, they're not there to judge.
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:That's not the kind of people I invite.
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:That's not the kind of
people that I'm attracting.
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:We're, we're attracting people who are
abundance mindset, growth oriented and
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:thinking about constant improvement.
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:So wherever you are, that's
just your step in the journey.
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:And they all recognize that.
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:And if they don't let me know.
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:Because if someone's giving you issues,
if someone's making fun of you or
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:putting you down because you're not
in a good place, I want to know about
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:that because I'm going to have a
conversation with them and let them know
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:that's not how we do this here, right?
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:Because this is a supportive
environment where we're all helping
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:each other move ahead as we can.
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:The next concern was that see this
person is concerned about you know, why
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:no, there's going to be a, a next level
networking event because a lot of the
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:events this person's gone to what they
find is that the people they meet, they
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:don't want to share what they have.
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:They don't want to
share their information.
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:They don't want to share connections.
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:They don't want to share introductions.
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:They're not there to give.
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:Now that tends to be a matter
of being a newbie networker.
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:People who don't know how to network.
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:Hoard their networking connections, right?
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:Oh, no, I don't want to
introduce you to that person.
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:That's one of my special
networking contacts.
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:I can't share them with just anyone.
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:So, I'm not gonna, I'm not
gonna share that with you.
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:A great networker comes to
give and comes to share.
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:And I very often make connections.
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:Yeah, I'll meet someone for the first
time and then I'll say, Hey, you
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:know, you should meet this person.
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:Let me connect you.
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:And does that go bad sometimes?
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:Do I sometimes hear back, Hey,
that person introduces you?
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:Yeah, kind of a, you know, Kind of a
stinky fish not a great introduction.
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:It happens, sometimes, but not often.
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:The worst case scenario generally
is that they meet and they say, Meh,
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:that was nice, thanks, moving along.
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:You know, didn't really get much from it.
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:But there, there's, there's
nothing to be lost from making
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:a well intentioned introduction.
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:And anyone who's a good
networker understands that.
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:Anyone who's successful in
business understands that.
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:Truly successful, not
struggling at a high level.
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:Anyone who's...
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:You know, we're successful business
abundance minded understands that and
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:that again, that's who I'm attracting to
this event That's who I'm bringing to JV
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:connect those kinds of people who want
to give who want to share The kind of
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:people you meet them They're gonna want
to connect you to people they know and
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:provide that value and support you as
they can now I can't guarantee that every
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:single person you meet is gonna be like
that and I don't know how you network.
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:So, you know, it's possible that
you might give off a vibe that
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:makes people be like, I don't really
want to connect you with anyone.
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:So I can't speak to that.
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:But if you are giving and open and
abundance minded and charismatic
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:and you make people like you, then
the people you meet at JVConnect
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:will be receptive to that.
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:And, if everyone you meet ends up
being a dud and like, no one will
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:introduce me to anyone, this event
was crap, well, we've got a guarantee.
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:That if you're not satisfied with
the people you meet, I'll make
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:three introductions for you myself.
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:So, once again, is it worth 50 in
two days to get three introductions
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:from the guy who knows a guy himself?
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:I think so.
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:And the final concern that I have
here is, Just need to make it the
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:right priority at the right time.
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:Now obviously that's up to you.
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:Right?
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:As I'm recording this, as the moment
I'm recording this, there was a
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:networking event I was going to attend.
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:I decided not to go to it because
I looked at it and said, yeah,
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:this actually, could it be good?
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:Could it be valuable?
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:Yes, but it's an hour away and
I got to pay for parking and
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:I've got a bunch of stuff to do.
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:I need to record my podcast and
you record these other things.
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:This is not the priority for me.
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:So it could absolutely be that this is
not a priority for you at this time.
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:You don't want to spend two days.
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:First off, let me make this clear,
you don't have to spend two days.
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:You could come for four hours, five hours.
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:If you come for half a day, a
little over half a day, you're
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:going to get your money's worth.
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:Alright, if you come for three
hours, you will probably end up in
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:at least five breakout sessions.
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:And you're going to make some powerful
connections because these sessions are
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:built to create connections for you.
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:The primary objective is that
you get valuable connections.
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:That's what this is around.
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:I'm not trying to teach you anything.
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:I'm not trying to sell you anything.
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:I'm trying to get you great
connections because if you get great
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:connections, you're going to register
for the next event in March and
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:you're going to bring some friends.
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:That's the business model.
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:give you a great experience with
great results so that you want
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:to keep coming back forever.
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:That's my primary KPI.
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:How many people at one event
register for the next event?
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:That's my KPI.
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:So if your challenge, whatever you're
doing could be solved by meeting more
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:people, Whoever those people might be,
then JB Connection can do that for you.
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:If you're in a place where you're
like, I'm meeting people left,
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:right, and sideways all day long.
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:They're great people, but I
don't have my landing page.
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:I don't have my course created.
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:I don't have, you know, there's all these
technical things I need to get done and
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:I'm not getting done some networking
too much, then yeah, you might want to
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:skip this one and join us in March when
you've got everything together, but,
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:but that is, if you have a clear list
of things you need to be getting done.
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:If instead of going to JV Connect,
you're going to wander around worrying
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:about what you haven't gotten done
for another day and remain unclear
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:and unfocused and not sure what you're
doing, come to JV Connect, because
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:you'll meet people who will inspire you.
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:You'll meet people who will
set you on the right track.
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:You'll meet people who
will hold you accountable.
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:You know, you'll meet the people
who will give you the information
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:and become more productive.
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:So, some people, absolutely.
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:Maybe it's not the right
priority right now.
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:But if you're not sure why it's not,
this will be the most valuable two day
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:networking event you've ever attended.
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:I am confident of that for most
people for a virtual networking event.
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:I'm not sure I'd hold this up against any
live multi day networking event, because
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:if you're going to a live multi day
networking event, you're probably dealing
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:with some really, really high level
people, and you're doing it face to face.
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:Real powerful.
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:So if you have a choice
between, like, JBConnect and...
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:Going to the folks, hanging out
with the folks who go to Davos,
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:hang out with the Davos folks.
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:But if it's a choice between JV Connect
and, you know, I don't know, writing
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:some emails, come to JV Connect.
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:I think you're, I think you're
gonna get something out of it.
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:And if not, worst case, hey Michael,
you owe me three introductions.
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:We'll get on a call.
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:We'll hook you up.
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:I'll make sure it's worth
your time, worth your money.
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:So if you are not yet registered
for JV connect, you should
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:go to J V dash connect.
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:com JV connect.
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:com hit the purple button, go to the,
go through that second page there
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:and register at this very moment, as
you listen to this, it is 50 after
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:Thanksgiving, it's going to 70.
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:So, you know, we don't have any
kind of black Friday discount, but
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:the black Friday deal is the price
is lower than it'll be afterwards.
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:So don't wait, unless you want to give
me more money, but don't wait, if you
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:want to give me more money, just send
me more money, totally cool, buy two
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:tickets, whatever, buy a ticket for a
friend you can do that by the way you
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:can buy a ticket and just, you know,
you can only buy one ticket at a time,
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:but you buy a ticket, you then buy a
second ticket, put in your friend's name
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:that you want to, your friend's name
and email address that you want to buy
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:a ticket for, you have to put in your
own address, because it compares the zip
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:code to your credit card number, but put
in your friend's name and email address,
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:and thus you can buy them a ticket.
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:So, there you go.
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:If you do decide to do that and you want
confirmation, because of course, they'll
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:get the confirmation and you won't, then
just email me, michael at guyknowsaguy.
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:com.
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:Fuck yeah.
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:Alright, I look forward to seeing
more and more of you in December.
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:We have over 140 people registered
as of this recording, and it
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:just keeps getting better.
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:I think we've had three
registered this morning.
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:So it just keeps cooking along.
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:Thank you so much for listening,
and I'll see you in December.