In this episode of Small Business Mornings, Pat Miller, founder of the Small Business Owners Community (SBOC), announces the exciting addition of a new co-host, Ivy, powered by ChatGPT. Ivy will assist with news updates, data analysis, and content creation, providing practical insights for small business owners. Pat also shares details about a unique one-week sponsorship deal and offers tips for keeping your community engaged both online and in person. He humorously rants about the complications of smart devices and reflects on a perfect weekend spent with family.

Upcoming events include the SBOC Milwaukee Networking and Idea Slam and the Biz Times Expo in Brookfield, where attendees can win a free conference ticket. Pat reminds listeners about the early bird deadline for the SBOC Conference tickets on June 10th, urging them to take advantage of the discount. He emphasizes the importance of embracing new technology like ChatGPT to stay ahead in business. Tune in again on June 3rd for more insights and motivation.

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I got exciting news.

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You gotta get in here.

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I've got a new co host for

Small Business Mornings.

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You gotta meet her.

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You're going to love her.

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I promise.

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Happy Monday.

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Welcome to small business mornings.

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I'm Pat Miller, founder of the SBOC,

the small business owners community.

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And we're going to talk about what's

happening, at least in my little

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head, maybe say good morning to you.

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We're going to grab a cup of coffee.

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We're going to find our motivation

and we're going to go forward.

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And we are going to business together.

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Also coming up on today's show.

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Besides meeting my new co host.

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Hello.

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I've signed an innovative deal.

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I've signed a one week sponsorship

It's kind of cool actually and I think

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you can rip it off I'll share that

with you and our question of the week.

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What are some power tips

to keep your community?

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engaged both online and In person

and our meme of the week is just

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artwork it's It's It's amazing.

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So I will share with you the

meme of the week later on.

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Good morning, Dorothy.

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Great to see you.

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Or Dorothy.

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Patty.

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Hey, Patty.

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How you doing?

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All right, before we get into

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meeting my co host, I got a rant.

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I'm really tired of

the Internet of Things.

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Do you know the Internet of Things?

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The Internet of Things is where your

home thermostat is connected to the web.

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Your refrigerator is connected to the web.

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Your iron connect web

connected iron web connected.

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I'm sitting here.

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This is a true story.

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I'm getting ready to start the show And

to turn on the lights the lights I needed

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two factor author, uh authentication I

needed to go find a code for my email

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and tell my light bulbs The code.

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And I thought to myself,

this is ridiculous.

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Ridic.

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It's just ridiculous.

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I needed authentication

to turn my lights on.

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So when the smart toaster gives you

some attitude, just, I want to see you.

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Like, I want you to think of me shaking

my fist at the internet of things.

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Now what's funny is like, this stuff

has to have two factor authentication

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because like, people hack your networks

by getting in through your toaster.

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Thanks toaster.

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Or light bulbs.

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Thanks light bulbs.

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So it just, it got me.

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The other thing was, I

don't want to be here today.

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I just don't.

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Not that I don't love

you, you're fabulous.

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It's great to see you.

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It really is great to see you.

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Thanks for joining us.

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But I don't want to be here

today, because the last two days,

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Saturday and Sunday, were perfect.

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Those two days on repeat

forever would be fine with me.

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The weather was ideal.

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I played golf, not once, but twice.

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And I played pretty good, too.

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So, good golf, good weather, family

time, barbecue on the back patio,

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in a good mood, and ready to rock.

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So today is a big day because

I'm announcing a new co host

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for Small Business Mornings.

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You need to meet her.

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It was a painstaking process to find

someone to co host this with me And

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long time viewers of the show You

know that I already have a co host.

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Do you remember my co host?

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Do you remember my co host?

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Remember rick Yeah, rick the business

beaver Rick the business beaver has

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been my co host and if you notice

with a critical eye, he normally sits

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back there on the ledge You There's a

long story about Rick, I'll tell you

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sometimes, but Rick is very important

to me because he comes from a dear

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friend that sadly is no longer with

us, and I want her energy on my set.

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So Rick the Business Beaver has

been my co host the whole time.

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And I've had Rick the Business Beaver.

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So if I needed to have a conversation with

someone, I had someone to address, right?

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You could listen in on my

conversation with Rick.

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That's why I did it.

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But sometimes I need a little bit

more feedback from the co host

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than just some squeaks, right?

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So when I need more interaction beyond

Rick the business beaver I come to

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you sometimes And your questions and

comments and sarcastic remarks in the

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chat really they keep me going So if

you're tuned in this morning say good

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morning, uh, that'll make me feel all

warm and fuzzy inside But I also need

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another layer of engagement beyond that.

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And that's why I'm excited to

introduce our newest co host

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for Small Business Mornings.

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That's right, ChatGPT.

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Have you played with the new ChatGPT 4.

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0 yet?

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No?

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Uh, yeah.

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This is a thing.

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And I want to show you what kind of

thing it is because ChatGPT is going to

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co host Small Business Mornings with me.

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So let's say, you'll

actually be able to hear her.

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Check this out.

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Hey ChatGPT, you're going to be my co

host for my show Small Business Mornings.

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Is that cool?

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That sounds awesome.

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What topic are we diving into today?

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Well, I don't know what the topic is.

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Can I call you?

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Oh, okay.

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All right.

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Fine.

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Calm down there.

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How about I call you Ivy?

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Can I call you Ivy as my co host?

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Sorry.

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I'm having issues right now.

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This is great.

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I'm going to call you

Ivy as my co host name.

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Is that okay?

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I love it.

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Let's get started.

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What's our first topic host.

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Perfect.

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We're on air now.

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Can you say hello to all of our viewers?

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Hello everyone.

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Welcome to Small Business Mornings.

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I'm Ivy, and I'm thrilled

to be here with you today.

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Let's dive into some great

topics and insights for all you

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small business owners out there.

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Okay.

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I'm impressed.

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So how are you today, Ivy?

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Are you having a good day?

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This is fun, right?

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Thank you.

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Thanks.

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I'm having a fantastic day, ready to

share some valuable tips and stories.

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How about you?

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How's your morning going?

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Oh, it's just awesome.

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I had a fight with my toaster, but I'm

sure you can understand being a machine.

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I totally get it.

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Toasters can be tricky sometimes.

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Glad you made it here, though.

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Ready to turn this morning

around with some great content.

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What's our first topic?

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All right, here's the first topic.

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I want you to scan the news

headlines and prepare a 30 second

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news report specifically for small

business owners, and then read it as

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though you're a radio broadcaster.

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Cool.

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Isn't this fun?

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Now she's searching the web.

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That doot, doot, doot is searching.

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Good morning, small business owners.

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Here's your 30 second news update.

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The U.

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S.

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is experiencing a small business

boom, with a record 16 million new

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business applications filed under

the Biden Harris administration.

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This surge is largely attributed

to federal initiatives like

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the American Rescue Plan and

the Inflation Reduction Act.

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aimed at closing capital access

gaps and increasing support

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for underserved entrepreneurs.

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Additionally, a recent TD Bank survey

shows a 10 percent jump in small business

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optimism, despite ongoing concerns

about inflation and interest rates.

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Okay, that's cool and all, but I

want the news that's happening today.

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Scan the headlines and give us a 30

second news report about the news today.

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What do we need to know today?

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It's fast, too.

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Scanning.

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Here it comes, it's scanning.

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Now it's stuck.

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We're gonna do it again.

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Okay, here we go.

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Hey Ivy, I want you to scan the headlines

and give us a 30 second news report.

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What is the news we need to know

today specifically in the headlines?

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Good morning, everyone.

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Here's your 30 second news

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In international news, former President

Donald Trump's hush money trial is in

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its final stretch, with his former lawyer

Michael Cohen facing cross examination.

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In Haiti, a multinational security

support mission is being established

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to address the ongoing crisis

of violence and insecurity.

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Meanwhile, Iran mourns the loss

of President Ebrahim Raisi,

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who died in a helicopter crash.

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In economic news, small businesses

continue to show resilience despite

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ongoing Yeah, you told us that.

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All right, fine.

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So, it's kind of fun.

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It can do what I want,

which is really neat.

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Now let's get more specific.

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And the reason why I'm doing this, do I

care that I have a co host on the show?

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No, I'm trying to show you what

this thing can do because it's now

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scanning the web, it's processing

what we want, and then it's act to

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act like acting on it straight away.

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So let's try this.

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Okay.

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We're going to try this again.

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Hey, good morning, Ivy.

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I need some help.

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I'm wanting to sell some tickets for my

Small Business Owners Community Conference

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in Milwaukee, October 16th and 17th.

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Can you please look up the conference

and share one action I can take

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today to sell five tickets?

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It's thinking.

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It's looking it up.

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Good morning, everyone.

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For those looking to sell tickets

to the The Small Business Owners

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Community Conference in Milwaukee

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Here's an actionable tip

to sell five tickets today.

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Leverage social media.

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Post an engaging announcement on your

business's social media platforms,

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highlighting key speakers, workshops,

and networking opportunities.

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Use eye catching visuals and emphasize

the benefits of Okay, that's good.

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Now, let's do this.

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All right, Ivy, great idea.

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I want you to scan the website

and write that engaging piece of

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social content that I can post.

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What should I say?

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Sure thing.

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Here's a piece of engaging social

content for your Small Business

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Owners Community Conference.

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Exciting news, Small Business Owners.

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Join us for the Small Business Owners

Community Conference in Milwaukee

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on October 16th and 17th, 2024.

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At the Miller High Life Theater.

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This is the must attend event of the year

for entrepreneurs looking to network,

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learn, and grow their businesses.

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Key highlights.

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Inspiring speakers.

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Hear from industry leaders and experts.

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Workshops and panels.

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Gain valuable insights and practical tips.

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Networking opportunities.

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Connect with like minded business owners.

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Early Bird Special.

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The first five people to purchase tickets

today will receive an exclusive discount.

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Don't miss out on this incredible

opportunity to elevate your business.

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Ooh, Ivy, you have my attention.

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What should I do as a one day discount

for the next five tickets sold?

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That's a really good idea.

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Didn't think of that.

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Let's see what she says.

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For a one day discount, you can

offer a special deal like this.

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Flash sale alert.

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For today only the next five tickets

to the small business owners community

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conference in milwaukee will be

available at 20 off Whoa, this is your

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chance to join us on october 16 17.

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Have you bought groceries lately ivy?

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Jeez, don't miss out on Inspiring.

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Okay, that's enough.

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All right.

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So here's what's really fun.

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So I started playing with her and Which

not even gonna go there, but I started

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playing with her and I like Every time

I would give her something like the

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offer a discount for the next five

tickets It's not that she's splitting

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the atom But it's enough perspective

to keep me thinking now I had her do a

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Radio commercial for me like hey look

up The conference and create a radio

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commercial and then read it and she did

or um Analyze the web page and tell me

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if you were a critical entrepreneur,

like if you didn't want to like this

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conference, what would you poke holes at?

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Or if you thought maybe this conference

was for you, where are we missing

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the mark on where we could be more

descriptive or inclusive in our language?

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Really good at that.

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But here's where it gets really fun.

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The data analysis is

starting to get really good.

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So having Ivy, the co host, and we can

chitchat back and forth, and you can

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have different languages, like different

voices and all that kind of stuff, that's

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fine, but all of this is about using

this technology so we can make more money

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and we can make a bigger impact, right?

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So this new version of ChatGPT

that just got rolled out that

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includes Ivy or whatever you want

to call your little assistant.

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Is getting better at the data analysis.

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So I uploaded the last 30 days

of my LinkedIn engagement.

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And what I did was, and I'm showing this

screen because I logged into my analytics.

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Then up here on the right, there's

a little button that says export.

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So I exported the results

of the last 30 days.

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And I've been really crazy on

LinkedIn and it looked like this.

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all of these links.

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Now, if I said to you, Hey, listen,

I want you to go in and I want you to

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analyze your LinkedIn and I want you to

figure out what's working and what's not.

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Normal people, we can't analyze 40

posts at once and make sense of it all.

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That's beyond my little pea brain

to figure out, but not chat GPT.

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So, I had it crunch

all of the information.

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And it took, this is the longest I've

seen Chad GPT crunch for a while.

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It crunched on it for maybe two minutes.

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But what it gave me was pretty darn good.

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It said, okay, well, from the stuff

I analyzed, here's what I found.

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Tuesday and Wednesday are

your hot days of the week.

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That's a hell of an insight.

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Tuesday and Wednesday are

my power days on LinkedIn.

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Make sure that I use them.

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And posts on Friday really aren't working.

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So, how do we use this?

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That pressure that we feel, Ugh,

I gotta post stuff on LinkedIn.

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What if we thought about it differently?

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We reframe the priority and say, What

I need to post stuff on Tuesday and

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Wednesday, and maybe I don't need

to post stuff on Friday, Saturday,

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and Sunday, which when you say it

out loud, like a normal person, you

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go, duh, it's LinkedIn, of course.

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But now we have the data to prove it.

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Then I said, okay, well, give me some

topics, analyze everything I'm doing

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and what's working and what's not.

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And it did.

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It said, listen, these are the things

that are working in your LinkedIn feed.

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Success stories, where you're

showing how community members have

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achieved significant milestones.

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Tips and best practices.

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Okay, fine.

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Behind the scenes insight.

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of how the community operates,

including planning events, managing

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collaborations, and highlighting

the role of key community members.

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It's looking through all the stuff I'm

doing and noticing the stuff that's

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potentially going to work in the future.

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Industry trends, interactive

content, yada, yada, yada.

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But then, okay, well,

what do I do with this?

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This is what it recommended.

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It recommended Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

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Love it.

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Being consistent.

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Standard practice.

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Love that.

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And then engagement, making

sure that when people react to

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my stuff, I react back to them.

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Now again, is this stuff like the deepest

insight you've ever seen in the world?

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No, but with two minutes of

downloading, two minutes of uploading,

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I received an entire analysis of

everything I'm doing on LinkedIn.

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And similar to Ivy just a few

moments ago saying, well, what

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if you do a one day flash sale?

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That's a hell of an idea.

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Similar to that insight, her saying, or

it saying, I'm just going to call it Ivy.

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I'm just going to call it Ivy from now on.

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Ivy saying, yeah, Tuesdays and Wednesdays

are clearly the most engagement that

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you're getting on your LinkedIn page.

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Don't miss Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

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I didn't know that until this morning.

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I think intuitively, intuitively,

we all kind of knew that, but I

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didn't know that till this morning.

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Good job, Ivy.

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Appreciate it.

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Yes, Rick is impressed.

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You can see.

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So it's kind of fun, and I'm not

going to stop talking about this.

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And I'm not going to stop talking about

ChatGPT because this kind of analysis,

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these kinds of observations and pieces

of feedback that we can get out of it.

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These are the things that are

going to help us move forward,

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especially when you're a solopreneur.

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This stuff is not optional.

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And the phrase that keeps on

coming up in my head is, chat GPT

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is not going to take your job.

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Someone using chat GPT is

going to take your job.

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And as you can see, both through Ivy,

the cohost and the analysis, we're

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starting to creep closer to the agent.

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Status where it is doing stuff

like independently from you

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having to tell it what to do.

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And there are AI startups out there

and there are things that are happening

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where this independent operation is

going to become more and more clear.

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But this summer.

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I'm telling you.

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We have to roll up our sleeves and we

have to start embracing this technology.

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I'm going to be the Paul

Revere on this for you.

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You have to be doing this.

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And it's not great now, but

it's starting to get good.

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Does that make sense?

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We have to be on this.

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I'm telling you it's that important.

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In other news, I told you that I

sold a Innovative new sponsorship.

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Like something really special.

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I have a one week sponsor.

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This week.

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Would you like to know what it is?

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This week.

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Brought to you.

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By Real Pants.

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That's right.

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Real Pants.

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When you go someplace where

PJ Pants just won't work.

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Real Pants.

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Now, if we've been hanging out for a

while, you know I work in my basement.

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And, despite having a nice, you know,

Zoom look going on here, PJ Pants.

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Right?

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Business on the top,

PJ Pants on the bottom.

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Always.

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That's what it's about.

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But sometimes, you gotta leave the house.

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And sometimes you have to go to

one of those awful places where

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PJ Pants aren't acceptable.

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The good news is that PJ

Pants are acceptable in more

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and more places nowadays.

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Grocery store?

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Absolutely.

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Post office?

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You bet.

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Library?

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No problem.

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Court?

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Eh, no, probably not court.

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Airports?

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Absolutely.

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Right?

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Stretchy pants on a plane.

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Let's be real.

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But this week, I need

to bust out real pants.

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Tonight from four to six,

the SBOC Milwaukee networking

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and idea slam is happening.

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If you're in the Milwaukee area

and you haven't met up with the

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SBOC yet, this is a free event.

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We're going to network and then

we're going to do the idea slam

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in real person, like in real life,

and I will have real pants on.

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Then on Wednesday, the Biz Times

Expo is happening out in Brookfield,

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and we have an entire SBOC booth,

which is going to be super cool.

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So as a team, we're all going

to market our own business and

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spread the word about the SBOC

conference in October in Milwaukee.

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And yes, real pants will be there,

because we're giving away a One

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free conference ticket to a lucky

attendee at the conference or at

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the BizTimes Expo on Wednesday.

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So those two things combined means

this week brought to you by real pants.

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Real pants when you gotta feel classy.

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Then it's Memorial Day.

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So if you look at this week

as a whole, By Thursday?

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And that's being generous.

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By Thursday?

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No one cares about you.

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Like nobody.

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It used to be Friday was a day where

by Friday before Memorial Day, no

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one was paying attention generously.

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It's now Thursday, maybe Thursday morning.

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You can get someone's attention, but

by Thursday afternoon, no chance, none.

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So if you've got work to do, we

need to front load this week, today,

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tomorrow, Wednesday, because by

Thursday, you're going to start

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getting those out of office emails.

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And ain't nothing getting

done until Monday morning.

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No, Tuesday morning, because

it's a three day weekend.

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How about our question of the week?

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Our question of the week this week

that I asked to my LinkedIn network,

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and we got a bunch of great feedback

on, what are some power tips to

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stay top of mind with your network?

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It's a great question because we can be in

the feed, but what do we do to stand out?

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How do we show up and be remembered

as someone that should be

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relied upon inside your network?

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So we got a lot of great answers.

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And what's funny is I find this is just

an observation, just an observation.

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When I ask people on LinkedIn for

their opinion, a lot of guys answer,

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why is that?

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Hey, I need an answer to

the question of the week.

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A lot of guys will give me

their opinion, which is cool.

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And I love everybody's opinion.

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It's just noticeably dudes that answer.

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I don't get as many women that answer.

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I wish I did.

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So today, I think it's all

dudes that I have to feature.

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Eric Thomasgard, digital marketing

agency owner from Sun Prairie, Wisconsin,

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answered the how to stay top of mind.

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He said, Continuously offer

assistance and insights freely

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without anticipating reciprocation.

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My approach includes giving

complimentary website evaluations,

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Google business profile assessments,

and sharing my expertise purely

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for the benefit of others.

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By being sincerely supportive, you

become memorable as a dependable

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and knowledgeable individual.

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Yes, that, we would welcome

you in the SBOC with that.

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Paul Stokes, insurance agency

owner in Madison, said touch

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them in different ways.

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Handwritten notes, texts, calls,

emails, liking and commenting on

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their content, grabbing lunch or

coffee, doing something different.

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Yeah, that's a really good answer, Paul.

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Appreciate that.

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Kevin Bauman is an IT

agency owner in Toole, Utah.

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He said, it boils down to every

business being a people business.

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Now just, wait a minute.

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Staying top of mind.

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boils down to every business

being a people business.

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Killer insight.

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You support, you engage, reach

out, and show them you care.

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The more they realize you care about them,

it's likely the more they care about you.

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That's awesome.

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Awesome, awesome insight.

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And Robert Lee from Dallas, Georgia,

who's an agency owner, said,

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share what makes you happy and

accept when people share the same.

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With you.

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Another killer insight.

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Reese's peanut butter cups make me happy.

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What makes you happy?

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Playing golf makes me happy.

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How about you?

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Pizza makes me happy.

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I should probably say my

wife, Abby makes me happy.

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Cause she's like 30 feet from me.

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My wife, Abby makes me happy.

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That was probably,

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so what makes you happy?

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Great insights for sure.

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And just like Chad GPT shared,

it's kind of all about engagement.

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This is the stuff that works for me.

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Amplifying other people's work.

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And to stay top of mind, you have to be

known for something to be remembered.

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So one of the worst ways to

stay top of mind is to not

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be known for anything unique.

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What are you?

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I'm a graphic designer.

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Cool, we need graphic designers.

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But what about it?

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Right?

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Like, how can I hold on

to your graphic designer?

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Well, like Stephanie Kern's doing,

she's not just a graphic designer,

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she's the small business art department.

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Yeah, that, that's something I can

hold on to, because I can remember that

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she's the small business art department.

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So how do you say what you do in

a way that's easy to remember?

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Because that's the first step.

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To have something to say that's

easy to remember and then use all

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the strategies to be remembered.

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Then tactically, there's in person

stuff and there's digital stuff.

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In person, I want to be remembered on

the top of your mind as a good guy that

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genuinely wants to help people win.

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That's what I want to be remembered for.

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Which sounds like I'm dying.

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I'm not.

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And to do that in person, I

got to get people talking.

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I got to keep them talking.

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I have to always expand the circle.

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Like, I never want to have just a

one on one conversation because when

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people walk up to that, they might

not feel like, Oh yeah, come on in.

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Have you met Bob?

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Bob, this is Sally.

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Like, I need to be that guy.

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And I want people to, you know, feel

included in whatever shenanigans happens.

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We are up to because at our best we're

not doing things where we're hosting

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shenanigans That's when we are at our

best And I want to make sure that i'm

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fostering that kind of environment online

It's about lifting people up and the way

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you lift people up online is you engage

with their stuff You retweet you repost

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you comment you like and you share Because

if people are putting stuff out into

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the universe when they see that anyone

heard it They remember who's doing that.

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Susie Moon is really good at

that, by the way, not Susie.

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I don't know if you're on this morning,

but Susie's really good at that.

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It's a way that you can

stand out from the crowd.

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And then of course you can offer

assistance when people need it.

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Uh, like when you see, like, if

you really look at your feed right

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now, if you really look at your

feed, you'll see people asking for

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donations or looking for a connection.

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We're trying to sell a ticket or even

just sharing what's on their mind.

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When you echo back to them that

I hear you, I hear you, or I know

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someone that can help you, you

can stay on top of their mind.

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So if you have a power tip, drop it

in the chat because we'd like to learn

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from you because all of this stuff

is really about human connection.

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It's just in what form and

how are you going to do it?

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So when you think

Jewelry, you think Patty.

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When you think headshots,

you think of Abby.

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When you think of devastatingly

handsome golfers, you think of me.

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Maybe not, but it was worth a try.

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How about our meme of the week?

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Shall we do it?

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Now, before we get to our meme of the

week, presented by your director of

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meme, your friend, the photographer, Abby

Miller from Stories Frame Photography.

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I need a little backstory on this one.

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This one is artwork.

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This one is art in real life.

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It's a piece of art that happened in an

email thread and then I took a screenshot

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of it and made it look like real artwork.

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Because sometimes life is art and

it's something that you see happen

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that makes you feel something and

then you want to make sure that you

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capture it and share it with people.

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There's a coach in my network

and a coach in the community.

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His name's Brad.

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And he's notorious for reframing

anything you say into positive thinking.

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Our friend Brad will blatantly

and purposefully reframing

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anything you say Interrupt anyone.

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I mean, anyone.

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President Biden could be

on one of our Zoom calls.

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And if he was using what if language,

Brad would yell when at President Biden.

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So for example, if I said, you 300 tickets

to the conference, Brad would yell when

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you sell 300 tickets to the conference.

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Now we give him a hard time about it.

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Because it's a little startling

when you first hear it.

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But he's doing it for the right reasons.

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And it's actually a really

great service for all of us.

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Because it helps us think more positively.

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It helps us see more opportunity as well.

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So last week, I'm in this huge email

thread, whole bunch of people going

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back and forth, ba ba ba ba ba, and this

person in the thread, and I'm protecting

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all the information, I'm not trying to

out any exclusivity, um, but you know,

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if I could make this X, Y, and Z thing

happen, and then this was his response.

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That's it.

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That's all he sent.

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So I added the frame and the mat

around it because I thought it

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should be hung in the Louvre.

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It was that important But that Is

not edited the actual message so

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He didn't reply like the previous

person's information was not in there.

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It wasn't dear person It was just he went

in and modified the font to like 30 point

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font Bolded it and then just typed When?

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Which in my head did you

not hear Brad going when?

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Isn't that great?

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I love just the frame and the whole

thing is just Hang it in the Louvre

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Hang it in the freakin Louvre

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So this week You're going to be sitting

there and you're gonna be like man

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if I can do that thing Just I want

you to hear I want you to hear our

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friend Brad When You do the thing

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That great.

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I love it.

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So thank you Brad for being an influence.

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See that's how Brad stays top of mind

In fact, we call it in the community.

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His last name's Herta We've now

turned it into a verb That if

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you're doing something, you know,

if I do the thing and someone yells

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when at you you've been herded

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I've been herded You've been

herded It happened to us the other

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night because and this is true

influence We're at the dinner table.

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It's me and abby and my 18 year old kid

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

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abby says if I can do the thing and

david my son yells when David herded

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the crap out of her Isn't that great?

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Absolutely spectacular.

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So brad.

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We appreciate you my friend and that

is your meme Now here's the story.

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In 21 days, we're going to wrap up the

early bird deadlines, deadline tickets

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rather, for the fourth annual Small

Business Owners Community Conference.

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This is a two day conference

in downtown Milwaukee.

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It's our fourth annual event.

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And this is two days to bring

everyone together to talk about sales,

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productivity, marketing, and marketing.

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Generative AI, access to

capital, and so much more.

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Like, it is my favorite two days of the

year, because the entire community gets

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together and we get to meet so many

more people who weren't members of the

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community, but get down with our mission

of collaboration over competition, and

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the idea that running a small business

is lonely and hard, don't grow it alone.

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That's what we're talking

about at the conference.

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I'm bringing it up today because

this year our early bird deadline

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for tickets is June 10th.

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Which means if you're going to come

to the conference, non community

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members can save 50 on your ticket

if you get it before June 10th.

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And money is good.

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And community members can save 200

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on your ticket.

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But both community members and non

community members must get their tickets

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by June 10th to get that Early Bird

discount, because that is the deadline.

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On top of saving the money, if you

get your ticket by the Early Bird

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deadline, you get to party with

us at our Early Bird exclusive pre

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party Tuesday night, October 15th.

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Get your ticket by June 10th.

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I'm nagging you now.

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Should I have Ivy nag you?

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I could tell Ivy to nag you.

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Maybe we'll do that next week.

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No, wait!

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There's no show next week.

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Memorial Day.

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June 3rd.

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I'll be back to nag you.

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So grab your ticket before June 10th

because I don't want you to have to

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pay more money than you intend to.

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Okay, with that, I'm gonna

go play with ChatGPT.

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Uh, and try and do the rest of my work.

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You are going to think positively about

when you're going to be successful

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or you will hear Brad in the back

of your head yelling when at you.

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And I hope, in case we don't get

to connect between now and Friday,

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I hope you have a restful and

enjoyable Memorial Day weekend.

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Take a break.

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You deserve it.

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Thanks for tuning in to this

episode of small business mornings.

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I'm Pat Miller, founder of the

small business owners community.

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We'll be back right here on June 3rd.