Latest / Networking Unleashed: Building Profitable Connections / Networking Unleashed: An Interview with Arias WebsterBerry and Michael A Forman, Professional Speaker
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- 0:16Welcome back to Networking Unleashed, Building
- 0:19Profitable Connections. I'm your host, Michael
- 0:22Foreman, and today we're diving into the future
- 0:25of networking. What if you could use AI and automation
- 0:30not just to grow your network, but to monetize
- 0:33it, turning your connections into real measurable
- 0:37revenue? My guest today is an expert at doing
- 0:41exactly that. We're talking about scaling relationships
- 0:45without losing authenticity, using technology
- 0:49to deepen trust, and building a network that
- 0:52actually works for you. If you've ever wondered
- 0:56how to stay human in an automated world, this
- 0:59episode will change how you think about connection,
- 1:02influence, and income. So let's get into it.
- 1:06Arias. Let me just welcome you to the podcast.
- 1:10I'm so thankful to have you on. And why don't
- 1:13you give us a little about your background and
- 1:16what got you here today? Sure, Michael. Thank
- 1:19you for having me. It's an honor to be here.
- 1:21I really appreciate you've been teaching for
- 1:23years that this Know, Trust You framework. And
- 1:27that's something that I personally subscribe
- 1:28to. So I'm really happy to be here. So in terms
- 1:31of me, I have around the world and back again,
- 1:34I've been through trials and tribulations. But
- 1:36as we said before, we jumped on every day that
- 1:39you are on this side of the dirt and vertical
- 1:41is a gift. I'm just a kid from Dallas, Texas.
- 1:44I grew up in San Diego, California. So I always
- 1:47tell people that I get my heart from Texas and
- 1:49I get my brain and my hustle from California.
- 1:52And I'm just I'm in love with business. I love
- 1:55all things commerce. I love the free market.
- 1:57I love seeing entrepreneurs take their dreams
- 2:00and their hopes and build it into something that
- 2:03helps add value to other people's lives. Sounds
- 2:07great. That sounds like great. And it's a great
- 2:10beginning to this podcast since right now we're
- 2:13all about you. But let's start to go from relationships
- 2:17to revenue. You teach that a professional network
- 2:21isn't just a collection of contacts. It's a revenue
- 2:24generating asset. What's the first mental shift
- 2:28someone needs to make to start treating their
- 2:32network that way? First mental shift they need
- 2:35to make to start treating their network that
- 2:38way. I would say that you have to, we all know
- 2:42that the money is in the follow -up and in that
- 2:46follow -up, you need to look to deepen the relationship
- 2:50first before you ever start looking for money.
- 2:54There's no shortage of people that are out in
- 2:56your inbox, following you around on social media,
- 2:59calling you and leaving voicemails that are looking
- 3:01to get your money. But there's very few people
- 3:04that are honestly. trying to develop a relationship
- 3:07and figure out what it is that they may actually
- 3:10be able to help you with so when you are networking
- 3:13and you come across someone who wants to exchange
- 3:15information take the time to actually build the
- 3:19relationship first and the best way you can do
- 3:22that is by ensuring that you automatically follow
- 3:25up with them I cannot tell you how many times
- 3:28I personally, before I built the companies that
- 3:30I've built, would get a business card or put
- 3:33a number in my phone and I'm tired. I go to sleep
- 3:36and the next day I've got meetings and it's three,
- 3:39four or five days before I remember to follow
- 3:41up with them. And these days I realize I'm bad
- 3:45at it. So I put a system in place to make sure
- 3:48that the very next day an automated message goes
- 3:52out. And it's not me trying to pretend it's.
- 3:55me in something heartfelt. It's just there to
- 3:58get the conversation going, right? That message
- 4:00gets triggered, an email and a text message goes
- 4:02out so that I'm on their radar, they're on mine,
- 4:05and hopefully a conversation can ensue. Absolutely.
- 4:09And I'm a firm believer that the follow -up is
- 4:13probably more important than actually meeting
- 4:15the person themselves, right? Because the answer
- 4:19is in the follow -up. It's how quick and when
- 4:22you follow up. will determine whether or not
- 4:26you'll have success in that relationship. But
- 4:29we'll go into that a little bit later on. AI
- 4:32is helping people build networks faster than
- 4:35ever. But speed doesn't always mean substance.
- 4:39How do you balance efficiency with genuine human
- 4:43connection? That's a hard one. It's all about
- 4:49how do you keep relationships personal. How do
- 4:53you keep it from being robotic? And that's a
- 4:56fine line. You want the efficiency and the speed
- 5:00and accuracy of automation, but you still want
- 5:03it to be you, for lack of a better term. And
- 5:08that's a fine line to walk. It's something that
- 5:09we do all the time. Actually, currently, we are
- 5:13building out models to handle incoming inquiries
- 5:17and a lot of people on social media. So we have
- 5:19multiple social media accounts. I don't know,
- 5:22maybe 100 to 200 people having conversations
- 5:24through those accounts every single day. It can
- 5:27get daunting unless I want to hire an army of
- 5:29people to handle those conversations. So it is
- 5:33the best way that I can say instead of giving
- 5:35you some generic answers is you need to figure
- 5:38out how to distill down your brand voice. You
- 5:42have terms that you use. You have a background
- 5:46and a story and an origin that makes you uniquely
- 5:49you. There's a certain way you speak. There are
- 5:51certain terms that you go to and reach for automatically.
- 5:55You have to figure out how to take those things
- 5:57and put it into a document so that if, let's
- 6:00say, an AI agent is responding on your behalf,
- 6:03it sounds like you. But you also need to put
- 6:05some limits on its abilities. It doesn't need
- 6:09to pretend. that you need to be honest with people,
- 6:12have integrity. If it's an AI agent, say so.
- 6:15But you can make a joke out of it and say, hey,
- 6:17but I've got all of Michael's best qualities
- 6:20and none of his worst ones. So it is trying to
- 6:24pull as much of your personality in lending this
- 6:27to AI as possible while also maintaining integrity
- 6:31and using the best parts of its efficiency and
- 6:33automation. That sounds great. When you go into
- 6:38a... networking event i i coach i mentor i teach
- 6:44but i always tell them to go in with a servant's
- 6:48heart to not expect to receive anything but expect
- 6:53to give when i have them at a table or something
- 6:58and i'm speaking with somebody i use another
- 7:01form situation like that but After I'm active
- 7:07listening to them and I listen to what they have
- 7:11to say, I say that I like them. I like how they
- 7:15do business. How can I make you more successful?
- 7:20How can I be a good referral source for you?
- 7:23And they're like blown away. They used to say,
- 7:25Mike, you know what? I don't even know what the
- 7:27hell you do yet. And you're already trying to
- 7:29make me better. Yes, I'm trying to make you a
- 7:32better version of yourself. So if you go into
- 7:35a networking event with that, you take all the
- 7:38pressure off and you go on your way. All right,
- 7:42enough about me. Indeed. When someone automates
- 7:47outreach or follow -up, how can they keep from
- 7:51sounding robotic or transactional? Yeah, I think
- 7:58it's all about authenticity. Authenticity comes
- 8:01from... relevance. And you being able to, one,
- 8:07know what is relevant for that person very much
- 8:10to what you just said, go in looking as to what
- 8:14you can add rather than what you can get out.
- 8:17Staying in and making that the core objective,
- 8:21or at least one of them, when you're building
- 8:24out some of these automations in AI, makes it
- 8:27so that it takes that with it. If you set the
- 8:32core objectives of, hey, get some contact information,
- 8:35book a call, sell them on something, then that's
- 8:39the language. That's the basis. If you go in
- 8:42and you infuse, hey, how can you figure out what
- 8:45it is that they need? How can we add value? What
- 8:48pain points are they having? What are they struggling
- 8:51with? How can we pair maybe some of the things
- 8:53that we offer with those pain points? And even
- 8:58something that most people don't think about,
- 9:00telling it to back off. Hey, if you don't see
- 9:04an actual need, something that we can actually
- 9:07help with, it's okay for you to end the conversation.
- 9:11Again, that integrity, that authenticity of taking
- 9:15that good part of you and lending that to these
- 9:19AI models, right? They're just like children.
- 9:22If you teach your children a curse and you teach
- 9:24them to not respect their elders. By your actions,
- 9:28they're going to mimic that. And these automated
- 9:30and AI models are very much the same in that
- 9:33whatever you feed it, they're going to obey and
- 9:35mimic. Absolutely. And really what you're talking
- 9:40about is so spot on. But you have to realize
- 9:43that when you back away from a situation, from
- 9:46a problem that they're having, knowing that truly
- 9:49that you cannot solve that problem, because after
- 9:53all, we are. problem solvers. So if we can't
- 9:57solve the problem because of all your networking,
- 10:00you know somebody who can. So you can then put
- 10:05those two people together. I'm in my area known
- 10:09as a super connector, right? Because every week
- 10:12I try to find two people, one with a problem,
- 10:15one with the solve to that problem, and I put
- 10:18them together and I back away. I say, look, I
- 10:22don't want anything from it. I'm just putting
- 10:24you two together. So that's what enables you
- 10:28to do exactly what you said. You can say something
- 10:31you're best off if I don't help you, but I know
- 10:35someone who can. Again, that integrity is what
- 10:40draws people to you. You may not be able to help
- 10:42them today, but they'll remember the fact that
- 10:45you didn't try to sell them something that they
- 10:46didn't need. And when they do have a need for
- 10:49your services. They are wide open to you because
- 10:52you live with integrity. And they trust you.
- 10:55And that's the biggest thing. Know you like you
- 10:57trust you, then they'll do business with you.
- 11:00So you've really gotten right to the point. All
- 11:03right. Everyone talks about building at scale.
- 11:08What does scale with integrity look like in networking?
- 11:15That's a good one. What does scale with integrity
- 11:18look like? I came up with a couple of good ones.
- 11:22Actually, I think it's what we just spoke of.
- 11:24I believe that it is utilizing your taking the
- 11:30integrity and the honesty that you have as a
- 11:34business owner and just as a human and putting
- 11:37that into your system, but using the system and
- 11:40making sure that you are doing the same thing
- 11:43every time. My networking. took off when I had
- 11:47the ability to no longer have to take a whole
- 11:51bunch of business cards and go home and try to
- 11:52enter it into my system and then put it on my
- 11:54call sheet for the next day and figure out what,
- 11:57hold on, what was it that guy said? Was that
- 12:00Tuesday he said to call or was it Wednesday?
- 12:04I've had 40 conversations over a few hours. It
- 12:07can get hard to keep them straight. Setting up
- 12:11a system. So in my business specifically, what
- 12:14I do is I have a form and a QR code. So it's
- 12:18a funnel of sorts. So the first page is a QR
- 12:20code. So when I meet someone, I say, hey, we'll
- 12:22scan this. When they scan it, it takes them to
- 12:25the next page, which is just a simple form. Name,
- 12:28phone number, email, and maybe the name of your
- 12:31business or your website. Once that happens,
- 12:34it immediately sends a text and an email. and
- 12:38then it puts it on my pipeline tomorrow to follow
- 12:42up. And then it also has an email and a text
- 12:45message set to trigger 9 a .m. in the morning.
- 12:48So it then frees me up to really engage with
- 12:53them, knowing that I don't have to try to, okay,
- 12:55what was the guy's name and all these different
- 12:57things. And then what I do at the end, at the
- 13:00end of the night, I usually try to go through
- 13:02and make some notes if I can remember them. And
- 13:05then that way I go to sleep, I wake up tomorrow,
- 13:07I forgot most of the conversations I've had,
- 13:10but maybe I have a couple quick notes that I
- 13:12can enter in reference. So I think that's it
- 13:15at scale. And then if you have a follow -up sequence
- 13:20that's already built, an email follow -up sequence
- 13:23that's not just that first email, maybe the conversation
- 13:26stalls or goes cold, maybe over the next few
- 13:29weeks, you send a few more emails that are value
- 13:31-based in order to rekindle that conversation.
- 13:35That's exactly right. If I could just add something
- 13:38to what you said. You said at the end of the
- 13:41night, you're going to write down all these notes.
- 13:43My suggestion is after you take their business
- 13:47card, write down the date, the name of the function,
- 13:51and something you spoke about. Write on that
- 13:53card right after your conversation. Because really,
- 13:58a three or four hour event, you shouldn't talk
- 14:01to more than... 15 or 20 people, because that
- 14:04meant that you have that relationship with those
- 14:07people. But if you write down those notes, as
- 14:11soon as you get back that evening or the next
- 14:12morning, you have it all right. Oh, that's right.
- 14:15That was that guy. Oh, that's right. Oh, that's
- 14:17right. He's the one with the big nose. Oh, yeah,
- 14:19I know. I got it. But it's something to make
- 14:21you remember. And then if you include something
- 14:24in your email about what you spoke about, he
- 14:27will remember you. He or she will remember you.
- 14:31And so it goes back and forth that way. So it's
- 14:33good. Okay. What are the signals that tell you
- 14:38a relationship is ready to move from connection
- 14:41to collaboration or from rapport to revenue?
- 14:49Signals from, okay. I would say that they are
- 14:53asking for the details once the you have explained
- 14:58what it is that you do. Maybe some of the features
- 15:01and benefits. Once they start inquiring about
- 15:04cost, more of the features and benefits, does
- 15:07it do this? Does it integrate with that? I've
- 15:10tried something like this in the past, and the
- 15:13issue that we had was XYZ. We're not getting
- 15:17into the weeds. of your actual offer, your product,
- 15:20your service, that's when it's time to turn up
- 15:23the heat a little bit and really get down to
- 15:25sitting at the table and figuring out if this
- 15:27will actually work for them. Your goal is not
- 15:29to push people into the sales environment. It's
- 15:33to gently guide and nudge. And once they start
- 15:38asking more questions and they start inquiring
- 15:40more, you've got them in a buy state of mind.
- 15:43If people are interested, they're going to make
- 15:45it clear. They're going to ask lots of questions,
- 15:48especially the more high ticket you're offered.
- 15:51And if they're not doing those things, you're
- 15:52talking to them, you're pitching, you're emailing,
- 15:54and the responses are dry. They're short. They're
- 15:58not asking any follow -up questions. That tells
- 16:00you that they're either not interested or you
- 16:02have not come to the point where you've explained
- 16:04the benefits to them adequately. Absolutely.
- 16:08Absolutely correct on both sides. So I can't
- 16:11even add anything to it because you were spot
- 16:14on. You said it exactly the way it is. Okay,
- 16:17so AI thrives on data, but people thrive on emotion.
- 16:25How do you bridge that gap when using data -driven
- 16:28tools to deepen relationships? How do you bridge
- 16:34that gap when you're using... AI is data and
- 16:39people look for emotions. So you're trying to
- 16:42bridge the gap between the data and the data
- 16:47-driven tools to deepen the relationships. How
- 16:51can you do that? Yeah, I was a salesman and a
- 16:55sales manager for many years. And that was the
- 16:59secret sauce, if you will, of the great. salespeople
- 17:04that I've met, their ability to get down to the
- 17:07emotional parts. And after you have so many conversations,
- 17:11you realize that you kind of have a script or
- 17:15you have a talk track, some points that you hit
- 17:17in your pitch. And typically people only have
- 17:21a few answers. They fall into a few categories.
- 17:24And when you start realizing those categories,
- 17:27then it makes it very easy for you to figure
- 17:30out what those responses to their response is
- 17:33going to be. What is your rebuttal? And what
- 17:35are those emotional triggers and pain points
- 17:38that fall in that particular part of the conversation?
- 17:43When you start to figure those things out, that's
- 17:47the data. Once you've had 10, 20, 30, 100, 200,
- 17:511 ,000 conversations, you've collected an enormous
- 17:54amount of data about how this thing typically
- 17:56goes. And if you're paying attention, then it
- 17:59allows you to navigate the conversation. When
- 18:02you hear those key phrases or things come up,
- 18:06you know what they're really saying. what they
- 18:08may not be actually saying. You're able to read
- 18:11between the lines. That data allows you to personalize
- 18:14it. It allows you to strike a chord with them,
- 18:18get them into an emotional state. We all know
- 18:20that when people are buying, if they're in an
- 18:23emotional state, it's more likely that they will.
- 18:26When it comes to networking, I always tell everybody
- 18:30there are three words that will help them succeed
- 18:33in networking. Practice. Because the more you
- 18:38go out and practice, look, the first time you
- 18:39go out, you're going to suck. That's horrible.
- 18:41But move on. You're going to find out. But when
- 18:44you get your answers, as you said, when you're
- 18:47talking to them and they're giving you data back,
- 18:50and if it's not landing, you have to go back
- 18:54and say, okay, they said this. I said that. But
- 18:59that was probably wrong. You have to get the
- 19:02answers. to those questions so the next time
- 19:06when you go networking somebody will give you
- 19:09those same questions you'll have a better answer
- 19:11practice absolutely okay most opportunities are
- 19:16lost in the follow -up funny we're just talking
- 19:19about that how can ai help professionals stay
- 19:23consistent without coming across as pushy or
- 19:27keep it short Keep it short. One of the things
- 19:32that we've learned is most people, when they're,
- 19:35especially in text, in more informal modes of
- 19:39communication or social media, they're not really
- 19:41long winded. And AI is. It is lengthy. It decides
- 19:46it wants to give a whole diatribe on a simple
- 19:49hello. I would focus on trying to keep it short
- 19:53and simple and sweet. Try to boil down that.
- 19:58four sentence response to one to one and a half
- 20:04so that it seems more natural it seems more human
- 20:10and it's not overly verbose sure that that that's
- 20:19probably the best advice that i can even think
- 20:23of is because listen i tell my wife all the time
- 20:27why Do you explain things in three paragraphs
- 20:30when you can do it in two sentences? Right. But
- 20:33I don't say that too often because it's hard.
- 20:37Okay. But that is the way that I'm used to going.
- 20:41Let me give it to you in a few short sentences
- 20:43and just tell me what you think. So that's really
- 20:46what you're saying that AI is turning into for
- 20:50you to start your conversation. AI won't replace
- 20:53your conversation, but they can help you start
- 20:56it. Absolutely. Absolutely. So as AI begins to
- 21:01predict who we should connect with, what role
- 21:05will intuition play in future networking? I would
- 21:10say that the savvy entrepreneur is learning to
- 21:13niche down. And you can go into networking events
- 21:18just looking to connect with everyone, or you
- 21:22can have your antennas up. to find people that
- 21:25are in maybe a specific industry, specific vertical
- 21:28that you can help. If you can tailor your solutions
- 21:32to provide specific solutions or to solve specific
- 21:39problems for that industry or that vertical,
- 21:41now your intuition is that antenna. You're in
- 21:45the room and you're looking for this particular
- 21:47type of person. And not that you can't interact
- 21:49with other people, right? You want to add value
- 21:51to everyone. You can have just a good conversation
- 21:54and that's okay. But knowing who your archetype
- 21:59is, who your persona that you're looking for,
- 22:01the specific person that you can most likely
- 22:04help. And also on the flip side, those that you
- 22:07can't, right? Knowing that asking those strategic
- 22:10questions about where they are in their journey
- 22:13to say, hey, you may be a little too early. in
- 22:16your journey for you to be a good fit for me.
- 22:18But you know what? There's a smaller company
- 22:20that does something similar to us that only works
- 22:22with people that are where you are. And maybe
- 22:24I can connect you. I think that is going to be
- 22:28something that in networking is going to help
- 22:31you. It's going to help you filter the list of
- 22:34people that end up in your database in the first
- 22:35place, which then allows AI to give you better
- 22:38results. That's right. And I'm going to revert
- 22:42back to what I said before. Because the more
- 22:45you practice, the more you're going to see more.
- 22:48When you walk into a room, you're going to say,
- 22:50OK, that's the person that I want to talk to.
- 22:53That's not the person I want to talk to. And
- 22:55the only way you're going to get there is to
- 22:58practice, practice so you can get the answers
- 23:01you're looking for. OK, there's a fine line between
- 23:05automation that serves people and automation
- 23:08that manipulates them. How do you keep networking
- 23:12technology ethical and authentic? How do you
- 23:19keep tech from manipulating people? That's essentially
- 23:26what the question is. I think that it comes down
- 23:30to something we touched on earlier. One. It's
- 23:34okay to let people know that you're using some
- 23:36automation. It's becoming common practice. So
- 23:38don't lie about it. That's actually probably
- 23:41the best way to lose a connection with someone
- 23:43is to be dishonest. I would say that overall,
- 23:47I've seen a lot of that. And a lot of people
- 23:49that are using AI for the first time, especially
- 23:51when it's personal, they feel like it makes it
- 23:55awkward. So be honest about that. But I think
- 23:59that the... The way that you can keep it from
- 24:03manipulating people is giving it very tight parameters,
- 24:06telling it what is off limits. If you don't have
- 24:11a guarantee of certain things, or maybe you do
- 24:14have a guarantee, but they're looking for 10x
- 24:17what you know you can deliver, say that. Put
- 24:20that into the model. If you know that 2 out of
- 24:2410 times your product or service doesn't work
- 24:27for someone. Built that in. Hey, we've got an
- 24:3080 % effective efficacy rate. Just try. These
- 24:34are things that you know because you've been
- 24:37doing it for a long time. But when we're taking
- 24:40these systems and we're deploying them, many
- 24:42times we forget these little nuances, these little
- 24:45pieces that we've collected over time of doing
- 24:49this time and time again. So it's about taking
- 24:52all of that. infusing it, making sure you put
- 24:54some guardrails on, making sure that you are
- 24:57regularly analyzing its responses. Don't just
- 25:00set it and forget it because it can just have
- 25:02all kinds of wild conversations on your behalf.
- 25:05Check in on this thing regularly and make sure
- 25:07that it's still on track. It's not saying things
- 25:10that are not accurate. And it's not being dishonest.
- 25:14Again, just like a human, if the conversation
- 25:16goes a certain way and that's a place where you
- 25:19haven't set guardrails or it's a question that
- 25:21it's never been asked before, who knows what
- 25:24it could say? The more conversations it has,
- 25:27the better it's going to get. But if you're regularly
- 25:29checking on it and making adjustments, it's going
- 25:32to get better and better. Perfect. Perfect answer.
- 25:36Okay, so I'm going to bring this podcast full
- 25:39circle. And I'm going to ask you the last question.
- 25:42If we fast forward five years, what do you think
- 25:47a top performing networker will look like? Someone
- 25:52who truly masters both human connection and intelligent
- 25:56automation. Five years from now, what does a
- 26:01master networker look like? Yeah, I think that.
- 26:07That looks like someone where you can't tell
- 26:10where they begin and the AI ends. I think that
- 26:14it's a seamless transition and we're getting
- 26:17pretty close to that right now. On my social
- 26:20media, a lot of times people will reach out.
- 26:22Sometimes I respond because we've got time periods
- 26:26and or sometimes it'll say something and I'm
- 26:29like, oh, I got an answer for that and I'll cut
- 26:30it off. But they are none the wiser. And that's
- 26:33the goal. The goal is for it to. have the versatility
- 26:37to answer whatever you throw at it, but also
- 26:43allows you to bring your unique personality to
- 26:48it. And that's not going to be done in one day.
- 26:51It takes a long -term commitment to you training
- 26:56and educating and developing and tweaking and
- 26:59filtering with this technology so that it truly
- 27:03becomes an extension of you and your brand. Absolutely.
- 27:08I 100 % agree with you because we don't know
- 27:12where AI is going. Okay. We have a good idea.
- 27:14We don't know, but we know what networking can
- 27:17do for you and how you can do it. So as you said,
- 27:21when it becomes seamless, that I think is the
- 27:24perfect networker five years from now. So I'll
- 27:28tell you how I do in five years. Okay. All right.
- 27:32So, Arias, let me ask you a question. If somebody
- 27:35wants... to get with you. They want to talk to
- 27:38you about networking, about AI or both, or have
- 27:41you coach them or whatever the case may be. What's
- 27:44the best way that they can get hold of you? Sure.
- 27:47I'm not hard to find on the internet. If you
- 27:50look up Arias Webster Berry, A -R -I -A -S, last
- 27:54name is Webster like the dictionary, and then
- 27:56B -E -R -R -Y, all one word. My personal sites
- 27:59and social media comes up. But if you're specifically
- 28:02wanting to talk about how maybe you can use AI
- 28:05in your networking, how you can create some systems
- 28:08that help you do more faster, do so ethically.
- 28:11Then Ignite Funnels, one of my companies, is
- 28:14amazing. We are developing omni -channel AI agents,
- 28:18which means that they can have conversations
- 28:21across social media, email, text, WhatsApp, live
- 28:25chat on your website, and keep all of those conversations
- 28:28straight and know that they're coming from one
- 28:30person. If you're looking to maybe deploy one
- 28:33of these things and you don't want to break the
- 28:34bank in the process, ignitefunnels .com is your
- 28:38best bet. Go there, set up a demo. Me or someone
- 28:41on my team will be more than happy to speak with
- 28:42you and see if we can help. Perfect. Thank you,
- 28:46Arias. I can probably talk to you for another
- 28:49hour because you are so in tune with what you
- 28:52do and from the sounds of it, you do it very
- 28:55well. So I implore everybody who's listening
- 28:59to give him a call and just give him a shout
- 29:02and just say, hey, I'm trying to do this. How
- 29:06can I do it? So I want to thank you for coming
- 29:09on the podcast and we'll talk soon. Thank you
- 29:13for having me, Michael. Well, hold on, folks.
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- 30:15for sharing such incredible insights today. And
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