Are you an entrepreneur who wants to channel your ADHD creativity for better sales in your business?
In this episode, I'm sharing some insights on how I'd approach it, using three of my former companies where I worked sales, as real life examples.
You're welcome for the free tips - Equinox Gyms and Cisco!
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Harnessing ADHD for Your Sales Strategy:
Hey there, Katie McManus here, and I've been mulling over this idea that really gets my brain buzzing – how can we, the energized, ever-innovative ADHD entrepreneurs, leverage our ADHD creativity to become more sales savvy?
I just wanna name that it's no secret that our ADHD brains are wired for creative bursts and out-of-the-box thinking.
But the real magic happens when we channel this into strategies that not only make our offers irresistible but also resonate on a personal level with our customers.
Today, I'm excited to take you on a journey through the weaving paths of creativity and sales, and all the unexpected places they intersect.
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Solar Power Sales: A Comedy Series?
So let's kick it off with solar power – it’s hot (pun intended), it’s green, it’s the future, right? But here's a pitch for you - solar panels and comedy.
Ok, hold up!
I mean, who says educating homeowners about solar energy has to be all stats and no fun?
Picture this, videos that make you chuckle while busting myths about solar power.
Plus, joining hands with businesses in the sector to spread the light (see what I did there?).
And I'm curious, how would you infuse humor into an educational talk about solar energy?
Let that thought simmer like the putty around your panels.
If that hasn't sparked up your ADHD creativity, I don't know what will!
Or choose your favorite app:
LinkedIn – The Personal Branding Powerhouse
Moving on to a platform that’s been my personal gold mine – LinkedIn.
It's more than just a resume showcase; it’s where I craft my personal brand.
Here's the inside scoop: share stories, sprinkle in some sales wisdom, and voilà, you're not just a profile, you're a brand.
Now, think about what quirky personal anecdote could spice up your LinkedIn presence?
There's a world out there eager to see the real, relatable you.
If you'd like some inspo from my own LinkedIn posts, here's my home on the 'din.
Empathy in Marketing: The Internet Security Tool Analogy
And speaking of relatable, let's chat about empathy in marketing.
Years ago I worked in a company promoting an Internet security tool.
Imagine positioning a product in a way that isn't about fear-mongering, but about understanding and alleviating genuine customer fears.
It's like saying, "Hey, I get it, the internet can be a spooky place – let's make it safer together."
Curious yet about how empathy might change your marketing message?
Give it a ponder.
The Regret-Reshape Strategy
Oh, the things I wish I had done – we’ve all got a list, right?
I've had that facepalm moment for not offering more entrepreneurial sales training in the past.
But here's a reframe for you: use those regrets to fuel new opportunities.
What if you looked back at missed chances not with remorse but as a blueprint for what you can offer now?
Go on, I bet there's a brilliant idea there waiting for you.
By the way, if you're reading this and you work for a corporate that's looking to ramp up your sales teams' efforts, book yourself in for a free initial strategy call.
The Power of Niche Networking
Now, let's talk about the golden goose – niche networking.
I host this fab Friday call where like-minds dish out sharp insights.
It's the kind of environment where ADHD entrepreneurs don’t just survive, we thrive.
Ever thought about the value of connecting with a community that truly gets you? The energy is off the charts, my friend.
Why not take a moment to consider who your dream networking group would include?
Social Media Strategy: Gym Goals to Business Wins
And lastly, let's flex our social media muscles with this one – think about a high-end fitness club like Equinox.
How would you sell that experience on Instagram or TikTok?
For me, it's about personal stories, hitting those gym goals, and showing your journey.
It’s this authentic sharing that helps build those deeper connections.
Curious how your personal fitness journey could level up your business game?
There you have it, my weenie warriors!
A walk through the vivid landscape where ADHD business strategy meets creativity in sales.
Each topic we covered today is a stepping stone towards not just growing your business, but creating a brand that's as dynamic as you are.
So now, think about how these ideas might fuel your next big sales move.
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Squirrel, squirrel, squirrel. In this episode, we're going to talk about
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ADHD, creativity and how you can channel it for sales
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savvy in your business. Hi, I'm Katie McManus, business
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strategist and money mindset coach. And welcome to the Weenie cat.
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One of the fears a lot of new business owners have is that if they
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quit their job, if they quit working for a company, go start a
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business and decide not for them, that they're never going to
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get hired again, and that the skills that they'll spend
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all this time and money and energy learning to start this business
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won't be applicable back on the job market. And I'm
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here to call bullshit because hindsight is 2020 and
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I'm constantly thinking about if I knew what I knew now
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from running my business, from learning how to attract clients,
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using social media and different ways to promote my business, I'm
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constantly thinking about ways I could have used this in my past
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sales roles. And not only would
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these strategies help me be more successful, help me make more money
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for myself and the company that I work for, but it
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would give me an outlet for my creativity, for my ADHD brain
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to thrive in these jobs that I formally
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felt were a massive misfit for
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me, where I felt like I had to constantly burn myself out in
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order to reach quota. So really quickly want to debunk that
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belief. If you leave your job to start a business and decide it's not for
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you, there will always be someone who's willing to
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hire you back. I mean, unless you light the building on fire on the
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way out and really tear them down on social media,
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at that point, you probably won't get hired back. But
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excluding those circumstances, if you start a business,
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that in itself is not a disqualifier for you to get hired into a job
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again. In addition to that, the things that you learn through starting a
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business will make you that much more valuable as an
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employee. So if you're worried about that, stop it. This
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is the end of that fear. Okay, deal. Episode over. Just
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kidding.
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So with this episode, I'm actually going to be showing you some behind the
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scenes of how I come up with different
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offerings in my business that help me grow into different
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verticals. One of the things that I regret about my sales career
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is that I didn't have the entrepreneurial skills that I have today
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with what's available to us through social media and what
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I've learned about self promotion and enrolling clients.
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All this could have been applied to all the sales roles that I had in
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the past. Now, I didn't know any of this shit back then. I
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couldn't use all this back then because, quite frankly, TikTok did
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not exist. Reels did not exist. LinkedIn was a
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completely different environment ten years ago than it is today.
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But with that regret, that shoulda, coulda, woulda, oh, my God, I wish I'd known
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this back then. Comes an idea of, oh, my God. This
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is an offer I could do now. So I'm going to walk you through
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how I'm applying the learning I've had in the last six years in starting my
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business and growing my business, and how if I had this knowledge
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back then, I would apply it to these kinds of jobs, and I would show
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you how I would kind of frame everything up. And from that, here's how
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I develop a new offer. Here's how I roll something new out that I
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know there's need for because I needed it back
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then. And as you're listening to me walk you
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through, here's this one job and how I would have utilized
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these types of social media platforms to gain more business
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there. I want you to be thinking about what are the skills that
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you've learned in the recent years that you could have
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applied to you ten years ago, that ten years ago,
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you like. It would have been a game changer for
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them. Because I guarantee you there are still people in the
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world who have that same limitation that
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ten years ago you did, and you in the here and now
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can develop a program that will help them
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overcome, that will help them be massively successful in
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whatever it is that you do. One of the things that's really challenging about being
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a business strategist is my brain works really
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fast connecting the dots, and it's not easy
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for me to explain how I come to the conclusions that I come
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to to help my clients, and because I just
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recently went through this and broke all this down for myself and figured out this
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new offer. It's fresh in my mind, and I am so excited to share it
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with you. And I'm curious, at the end of this episode, if
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you come up with an offer that you're super excited to
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offer your audience, then I would love it if you were
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to dm me and tell me about it, because conversations like
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this are where successful businesses are born. Even if that
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conversation is happening in your own head while you're listening to me talk at you,
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here are the things that I wish I had known back when I was in
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sales for all these different companies. And that would have
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made work so much more fun. That would have helped
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me build deeper relationships with my clients. That would have helped me
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build my personal brand and make me a more viable
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candidate when I was ready to move on. And that might have
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had a really awesome impact on my
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workplace, allowing for everyone in my role to
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be able to utilize their creative Adhdness
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in different and exciting ways. And when it boils down to it,
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it's essentially building a personal brand that's aligned with the company.
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So there are three companies that I want to acknowledge as I'm
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breaking down my shoulda, coulda, woulda's of how I would
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utilize my entrepreneurial skills in a sales role. And
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the reason I've picked these three companies is that they're very different.
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One was Equinox, which, if you're not familiar, is a high end fitness club
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where people would pay for membership and buy packs of personal
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training. Another one was solar energy,
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where people were choosing to have solar panels put
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on their roofs to reduce their energy costs. And the last
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one was a SaaS company, Cisco, where they were selling
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software as a service to other businesses who needed their service.
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So let's start with Equinox, shall we? Let's acknowledge the
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limitations of the job, right? So if you're a sales
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advisor at a fitness club, you're
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limited by geography. Okay? It's not like you're selling memberships for a club
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in San Francisco. It doesn't mean that you can sell to someone in Boise, Idaho.
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That's not going to happen. That's too long of a drive to go and work
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out. Okay? So one of the things that I would
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do is I would get on social media in a very
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intentional way where I was geotagging different places in the
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neighborhood. And actually, as I think through this, back when I worked at
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Equinox, Instagram didn't have reels. There was no such thing as
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TikTok. God, do I feel old. But let's assume
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that I worked at an equinox in the here and now,
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where reels are a thing and TikToks are a thing. Here's how I would
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build my personal brand on those platforms to
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attract more people to buy gym memberships from
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me. Honestly, I wouldn't do a hard sell. I would
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probably set up an account on TikTok and have things repurposed to
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Instagram, where I was doing a lot of day in the
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life, right? So day in the life of a membership
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advisor at a high end fitness club, I would probably
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talk through me picking out my outfit for the day.
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Because how you pick out an outfit to work at a fitness club is you
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pick out an outfit that, like, halfway through the day, part of it will work
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for your workout, and then you can change into another outfit. There is a
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costume change in the day. I would talk through
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the healthy things that I would eat and the not so healthy things
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that I would eat. I would do a day in the life of here's where
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I go for my coffee in the morning. I would talk about what I do
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when I first get into the office. I check my email, and then I get
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a call from the front desk. There's someone who's here for a tour. I'm sharing
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these things because I'm allowing my followers on this
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hypothetical account to see the kinds of things that I
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like to get a sense of my personality, to see what
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my routine is a little bit. All things that they wouldn't know
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unless we were friends and slipped in there. There would be
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things like, I can go for a tour of the gym if I'm curious about
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membership. Oh, here's Katie working out with
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her personal trainer. Oh, here's Katie doing deadlifting and getting a
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personal pr of 180 pounds, which I did once. I'm very proud of myself.
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I haven't gotten back up to there since the pandemic, though. Let's not talk about
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it. I'm a little sensitive about it. Oh, cool. She's working with different
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personal trainers who have different specialties. Interesting.
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I'm curious about working with one of those personal trainers.
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I might talk about. Oh, my God, I'm so excited. I get to go for
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a massage and a facial later today. I'm so lucky. I work in a
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place where on your lunch break, you can go and get a massage and a
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facial. Or after work, you don't even have to leave the building, and you get
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a massage and a facial and slipped in there occasionally. If
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there was a membership drive, if I was asking for referrals, I would say, hey,
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by the way, you know me on here because I do a lot of lifestyle
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stuff, but here's what I do for work. And if you live in this geographic
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area and you're curious about membership, when you come into the club, ask for
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me or dm me and set up a time to come in for a
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tour.
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Another element of what I could do if reels existed and I were on
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TikTok and I had these accounts is I would make very strategic
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partnerships with different businesses in the area that
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were complementary to belonging to a high end fitness club.
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So clothing boutiques and nice
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restaurants. I could potentially line up some sponsorship
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things for my account if I had a certain amount of followers. And I was
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saying, hey, I'm going to this restaurant. Here are the three best things on the
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menu. And I was driving new clientele there. That's one way
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to get the employees of a business to start talking about
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you, is to say, oh, we were actually featured on that. Katie McManus
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TikTok. She's an influencer. She does this. She has a lot of lifestyle
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stuff. Her favorite things on the menu are this. If you've ever
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thought about signing up for that gym, you should go talk to her. In
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addition to a social media strategy, one of the things that I wish I had
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thought of back then was to make a meetup
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list of all of the different people, of all the different clients that I had
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signed up for membership. And I would make this a separate email list.
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Anytime I was going to be going to the food truck
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park with some friends, or that I was going to go to an outdoor
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yoga class, or that I was going to go to the Union street
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fair, I would say, hey, I'm going here with a whole bunch of people.
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If you want to meet some other members of the club and get to know
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some folks, then you should come along and here's how you can find
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us. Imagine the above and beyond service of cool. I've
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joined this membership, maybe I just moved to the area from New York City and
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I'm new in San Francisco. I don't know anyone. I'm going to sign up for
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a gym. Oh, my God. The membership advisor is inviting me
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to hang out with a bunch of other people who also have an interest in
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fitness, in a social environment where it's not weird for me to go up
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to them and be like, hey, how much are you lifting there? Hey,
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I noticed that you're running really fast on that treadmill. Let me run fast next
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to you and hopefully we'll talk. No, you're out of breath. Me too. Okay, never
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mind. Hey, we're both in the locker room together and kind of naked.
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That's kind of awkward. But imagine you're new in an area, or maybe you just
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don't know a whole lot of people and someone is making it easy
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for you to enter a social engagement where they know you and they can
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introduce, you know. Think about that. Think about that added
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element of customer service and relationship building.
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A member who becomes friends with a membership advisor when
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they tell people, when they refer people to join the club with them. They're not
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just saying, go and talk to anyone. They're saying, hey, go and talk to my
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friend Katie. She will sign you up for membership. Go and ask
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for her and tell her that I sent you because they got a referral
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bonus in building this list. I would also want to have
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some different fields where I talk about what people do, what
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their expertise is, what they're interested in. So when
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a new member joins and say they're looking for a job, and I know that
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one of my other members is hiring for a job, I can connect
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them. Or if two people have the same interest, say they both want to learn
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how to knit. If I see a post about a new knitting class, I could
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send it to them. It would just be that extra touch of relationship
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building, the kind of thing that you do with friends. If TikTok
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and Reels existed and I somehow were still
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working at Equinox, which, thank God, I'm not, these are all the things that
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I would absolutely be doing to bring in more business.
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Now, the one thing that I would want to be conscious of would be my
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safety. Obviously, I'm a woman on the Internet. I would want
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to be very intentional about not sharing things at the time I was
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there. So I'd be creating a lot of content and filming a lot of
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stuff and then posting it after the fact, because my job would be at
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a location. But I would want to make sure that if someone
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wanted to bump into me at coffee in the morning, they wouldn't really know when
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I was going to coffee or if I were out to dinner with friends. I
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wouldn't want them to show up while I'm out to dinner with friends. A lot
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of this would be scheduled after the fact. If you
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are on social media, be very conscious of how much
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information you're giving people about where you are and when. But unfortunately,
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there are just some weirdos out there that you have to be careful of. Be
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smart people.
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Now, the next company, there's no
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chance in hell that I would ever want to
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work for this company again. It has now merged with Tesla. If
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you work for Tesla, if you've worked for Tesla or any Elon Musk
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company, my heart goes out to you. It's awful. They sell you on the
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koolaid of doing something good for the world, and then they treat you like garbage.
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It is the worst. So for the sake of me not
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wanting to vomit while talking about this,
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I'm going to refer to it as a solar company. If I were working for
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a solar company. And I knew what I knew. Now
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I would again want to build up a following on social media.
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Now, for solar, I would probably want to be more present
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on a platform like Instagram. The reason I would pick Instagram
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is because the average user on Instagram is a bit older than the average user
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on TikTok. And we want to go for older users because
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they're more likely to own homes. And the only people who can be your clients
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are people who own homes because you can't put solar
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panels over your window from an apartment building. The other cool thing
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about Instagram is you can tag different locations. The other thing
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I love about Instagram for this kind of promotion is
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geotagging is really common. So you can post something and
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say that you are in a certain location, and it's more likely to show that
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post to people in that area because it's relevant to them. It's kind of like
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using hashtags, right? So if you're in San Francisco and you
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say, this is the location of where I'm posting, this is San Francisco, people in
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San Francisco are likely to see it than people all over the
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country. I would want to do some day in the life so that people felt
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like they knew me, but I wouldn't want my day in the life to be
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as personal as it would be for working in the fitness
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club. I would want it to be a little more focused on
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the work that I was doing. Like today I'm designing a system for
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this new client I have. We're seeing if solar panels will even work on
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their roof. Today I'm going to check in on a client who's
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having their install today. And here's the little giftie that I'm
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bringing for them. Or today I have
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four back to back assessments, and I'm driving
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from here to kingdom come. And here are the podcasts I'm going to be listening
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to while I'm on the road. Those are the kinds of posts that I would
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want to do so that people felt like they knew me enough that
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they could connect with me. Like, people may be curious about what you do,
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but they're not going to ask you about what you do if they're not ready
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to buy. But if you're sharing something like the podcast that I'm listening
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to, they may say, oh, if you like those podcasts,
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here's three others that I love. I think you should try them. And that
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gets the conversation started. I'd give people enough information for them to have
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that in. I would also want to have a really strong vein
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of edutainment where I'm educating people on
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solar energy, on how they get solar panels
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on their roof. And I would want to entertain them at the same time. So
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I might make it funny. I might dress up like a solar panel
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and hang out by the pool on a lounge chair and soak up the
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sun and have a voiceover explaining how solar panels work.
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I would probably do some edutainment around stupid questions that people ask about
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solar and make it funny so that people don't feel
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ashamed about asking them. But it also debunks them before I get to talking to
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them. And just like I would with Equinox, I want to make strong
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partnerships with businesses in the area. And again, I would want those businesses to
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be adjacent to the work that I do. Okay? So instead of going to
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restaurants and clothing boutiques, I would probably want to go to paint
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stores and different home improvement, maybe some
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interior designers, engineering companies,
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landscapers. I'd want to connect up with them and feature
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them in some way, shape or form on my instagram to
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send business their way. Because here's how that works. You send business to
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someone, they're appreciative, the next time they get a request for solar
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panels, they're going to send them to you. And again, like
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with working in the fitness club, I would want to make sure
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that I'm doing this on a delay because I wouldn't want people to know where
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I was and when I was there. Everything would be, oh, a few days
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ago, here's where I was and here's what I did, and here's what my day
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in the life looks like. And while a lot of this content would get people
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comfortable with who I am, make them feel like they know me, and
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educate them about how they could get solar on their roof,
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I would have a consistent call to action. If you're a
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homeowner and if you're spending more than x amount of dollars on
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energy every single month, and if you're curious if solar would
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work for you, then here's a link to book a virtual consult with
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me and we can assess if this is actually going to be a good fit
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for you. I mean, barring some incredible natural disaster that
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makes what I do now not viable. I don't know what that natural disaster
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would be, but thank God. Thank God I would
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never have to do this again. And I'm sorry. If you really like your job
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in solar, more power to you. Get it. More power to you. That
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was not an intentional pun, but I always love a good pun.
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More power to you. Okay, moving on.
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That wasn't even a pun. That was like a really bad dad joke.
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And last but not least, if I still worked for
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Cisco or a tech company that offered software as a
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service, screw Instagram. Forget TikTok. Where
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I would be spending most of my time would be LinkedIn.
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Now I love LinkedIn. LinkedIn is one of my favorite places in the world.
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If you had told me ten years ago that I would derive this
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much enjoyment from being on LinkedIn, I would have thought you were on drugs or
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crazy or both. But LinkedIn is honestly one of the most magical places.
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And I'm not even being facetious with this. I have grown my business
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exponentially by being on LinkedIn. I have developed
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actual, real, honest to goodness friendships
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and business partnerships through LinkedIn. For instance, my
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podcast producer, Neil Valio, I met him through
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LinkedIn. He was a content creator, and
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I started noticing him about a year and a half
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before I hired him. There was a point about six months into
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us being connected that I was like, this is the guy. When I'm ready to
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start the podcast, this is the person I'm going to work with. And
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it took about a year for me to settle into that. Being ready,
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but not ready. And when I contacted him,
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I basically had to tell him, shut up and take my money
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because I had built this trust with him over the last year and a
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half. LinkedIn is a magical place. If I
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worked in a SaaS company, I would absolutely be building
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my personal brand there and attracting clients through it.
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And again, my approach here would be a little different,
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right? Because you have to focus on different things depending on the platform and who
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your ideal client is and what you're selling. So if I worked
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for Cisco and I were building my personal brand on LinkedIn,
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I would be sharing some water cooler
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content. Like, here's what I'm doing on my vacation, and here's
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the restaurant I'm super excited to go to when I go to this
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conference in February. Light personal branding stuff.
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I wouldn't be sharing the vulnerable things that I share on
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LinkedIn now. That's part of my personal brand. I wouldn't be
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making a post about sales by telling a story about a bad date because I
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would be representing the company. It wouldn't just be me that I'm
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representing. I'd have to walk that line. I would want to
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position myself as a sales leader. I would want to talk about best
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practices in sales. I would want to talk about my philosophy
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about building relationships with potential clients. I would want to talk
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about what my steps were and why I do them and what makes them
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good. I would want to teach good sales through my
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platform. Now, this would do a few things. A, this would show
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that I know what I'm doing and that my clients should trust me because I
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have a process and I'm going to be supportive of them, and I'm going to
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be ethical. And also, this would line
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up other jobs for me if ever I needed to
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transition into another industry or another role at another company. And
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the beautiful thing about LinkedIn is that only 1%
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of the people on LinkedIn are actually creating content.
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So it's really easy to stick out, even if your stuff is a little boring.
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I mean, if I were talking about sales all the time, I'd get kind of
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bored. Another big part of what I would be posting about would be about the
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ideal client for what I was selling. I wouldn't be talking
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about, like, here's a feature that we do, and here's a thing, and here's a
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button that you'll discover in the dashboard, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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That's boring. I would talk about the thing that someone was
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crying about when they finally got on the phone with me to buy the
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thing. When I worked for Cisco, I sold a tool for
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Internet security to msps, and MSP stands for a managed service
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provider. A managed service provider is basically a company that
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is outsourced tech for smaller companies that can't afford
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or do not want to house their own tech department. So
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msps are contracted by companies like law firms or
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accounting firms. So I want you to imagine you're an MSP. You're a managed
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service provider. Your system just got hacked. So that means all of your
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clients just got hacked. That's painful. That is something that is really hard
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to come back from. It violates trust with your clients,
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and it guarantees some really bad reviews
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online. Right. So one of the things that I would want to showcase is like,
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oh, my God, I just got off the phone with an MSP. I would never
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name them, but here's what they were really upset about. Here's what
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happened, and this is heartbreaking. And if you had a
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tool like the one that we offer, here's how it would mitigate the
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risk. Now, there's no guarantee it would work 100%. We can't guarantee that
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these people are smart, but here's how it
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could add an extra layer of protection. Now, the tricky thing with
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marketing for a thing like this is like if the product is working,
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just nothing bad happens, right?
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It's kind of hard to paint. Like, here's what success looks like, because it's just
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like nothing bad has happened.
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So I would want to lean into the empathetic marketing model
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that I've developed and that I train to all of my clients to showcase. Like,
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here's where you are now, and here's what's possible. Here's the peace of mind you
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could have. I'd want to create distance from how they're feeling now and how they
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could feel. And I would want to consistently invite people to
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networking chats, even though I don't do those right now. If I were still working
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for Cisco, I would have a link on there two times a day. A
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networking chat with someone who's either an MSP or
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works in an adjacent industry. I would
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regularly create a short two
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to five minute video talking about a
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struggle a lot of my clients have and how my product
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could solve for that. And I would send that out to every single damn
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lead on my list. Another thing that I wish I had done
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back then. What am I going to say next? Well, you'll have to keep listening
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to find out. But first, squirrel, squirrel, squirrel, squirrel.
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Another thing that I wish I had done back, because it would have been
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possible we had the tools back then, even if all this other
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stuff didn't happen. I wish I had hosted a networking
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call for all of my clients because they all had
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the same kinds of problems, they all had the same kinds of goals, and
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it's really helpful to be in a room of your peers. And the beautiful thing
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about hosting a networking call is that whatever smart thing
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gets said in that room gets attributed to you because
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it was your space. I can't tell you how many times
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people come to brave biz labs. The Friday call that I do on the fourth
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Friday of every month. If you want to come, there's going to be a link
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in the show notes. You can go to weeniecast.com
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bravelabs,
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but I can't tell you how many times I've had people in brave biz
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labs. Someone else says something really smart,
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succinct, to the point, and is massively helpful, and a couple of
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days later I get quoted for having said it. Now, I usually try to
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correct people because I don't want to take credit for smart things being said. That
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didn't come out of my face hole. But that's what know
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if someone gets a solution or builds a relationship it always refers back to,
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oh, it was on Katie's call, oh, it was on Tiffany's networking call,
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oh, it was on Bob's networking call that I was able to figure this out
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or build that connection. Now, of course, knowing what I
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know now, I do have regret that I wasn't able to do this back
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when I was in these different roles. But here's the cool thing about regret. You
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can either have it and let it waste your time, or you can do something
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with it. So one of the things that I'm really excited to be rolling out
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in my business is a new offering for companies
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that want their salespeople to be trained on
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entrepreneurial sales to learn how to create their
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own pipeline through building their own personal but company
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aligned brand on social media. Now, this offering
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is time intensive on my behalf, so I will only be accepting two to
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three clients per year for this offer. But instead
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of just kicking around like, oh, man, I wish I had done that. I'm
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excited to create something with it. And I share that because I know there are
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lots of people who have this kind of regret. Like, oh, God, I wish this
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thing had been around back when I was doing XYZ. That could be a
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business. If there's something you've learned now that could be
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applicable to former you, I guarantee there are
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plenty of former yous in the here and now who could use your help.
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My ADHD self who would have so benefited
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from having an outlet for her creativity, for having
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something that allowed for her brilliance to come out. I
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wish that I had this back then. There are so
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many ADHD professionals who have to force
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themselves into a mold that's handed to them. Here's how we do the job,
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and here's how we've always done the job, and you have to do it exactly
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the way that we're teaching you how to do the job. It's why people with
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ADHD are so prone to burnout in nine to five
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jobs, because we don't think like neurotypicals. And that's a very
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neurotypical way of approaching business. We're not linear.
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It would have given me that ability to go outside the box
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and try things and get excited about new
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opportunities and learn. I'd be constantly
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learning. One of the things that I ran up against in every one of these
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jobs is I'd get a year in and I'd be so bored of the same
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conversation over and over and over and over again. There was nothing
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that was adding any judge to my day. This could have been
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that thing that kept my head in the game. It could have made so much
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more money for the companies I worked for. It could have helped
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me win awards and accolades and all that stuff, but
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it didn't. So hopefully, through this new offer that I'm
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doing, it will help other ADHD
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entrepreneurial salespeople overachieve in a way that
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showcases their talents, that uses all
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of their ADHD brilliance to create new business, to develop
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relationships, to build their personal brand.
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If you're in corporate and you happen to listen to this podcast
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and you're curious about bringing this kind of program in, then I invite you to
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book a generate income strategy call with me. Now, of course, it's going to be
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a little different than my normal generate income strategy calls because we're not going to
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be talking about building your business. We're going to be talking about building
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the business of your salespeople and how
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they can really step into entrepreneurship in their roles
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to benefit themselves and the company. And to book that, I want you to go
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to weeniecast.com strategycall.
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And for my ADHD business owners out there who are thinking
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about what you want to offer, what's the thing you wish you
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had ten years ago? Because while the world evolves quickly
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in this digital landscape, it doesn't evolve that
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quickly. There are a lot of people left behind
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and a lot of skills that I'm sure you have learned in the last ten
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years that could benefit people who are still living. Ten years
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ago,
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I didn't even realize Luna was over there. Luna, you done? Are you
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done making noise? Squirrel, squirrel,
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squirrel, squirrel.