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3-12-25 - LUNCH & LEARN ASPIRING AUTHOR MAGAZINE STYLE ....... SUPPORTING AUTHORS · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: La mandadad land lad Well.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome back. Welcome back, Welcome back.
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  Speaker 2: I want to welcome you.
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  Speaker 3: Guys to Hello Lunch and Learn series. Y'all.
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  Speaker 2: We are doing a lunch and learning series where we
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  Speaker 2: were trying to drop some nuggets for those authors though
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  Speaker 2: definitely those that are a part of the one hundred
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  Speaker 2: author movement, want to drop some nuggets and some resources.
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  Speaker 2: I have been on for the last two days. We
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  Speaker 2: were supposed to have a special guest that was gonna
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  Speaker 2: be on and dropping some nuggets on today, y'all.
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  Speaker 3: His topic today was going to be.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be talking about levigin how to leverage
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  Speaker 2: books for bigger opportunities. So, y'all, I'm gonna share just
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, just my little nuggets that I have
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  Speaker 2: for you guys. But before I jump in today, I
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  Speaker 2: just want to start off in prayer if y'all would
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  Speaker 2: just bear with me for a moment of prayer. So
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna go in prayer really quick, Father God, in
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  Speaker 2: the name of Jesus, Lord, I thank you for yet
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  Speaker 2: another opportunity that I can come before your people, Lord God,
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  Speaker 2: to share nuggats, to share resources, to share those things
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  Speaker 2: that you have made available to us, for God to
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  Speaker 2: help elevate us, to help take us to the next level,
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  Speaker 2: to help us walk in our purpose, to catch up
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  Speaker 2: with our destiny that you have already preordained to us.
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  Speaker 2: According to Jeremiah twenty nine and eleven, you said that
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  Speaker 2: you had a plan for us to prosper us, not
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  Speaker 2: to harm us, for us to have hope in the future.
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  Speaker 2: So Lord, we thank you for yet another day that
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  Speaker 2: we've never seen, a day that was not promised us,
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  Speaker 2: for a God, another day that we get an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to allow all those gifts and those talents that you
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  Speaker 2: placed on the inside of us to come forth, that
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  Speaker 2: we may share your goodness or God, that you may
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  Speaker 2: be glorified and the things that we do.
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  Speaker 3: Lord God.
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  Speaker 2: So Lord, I asked that you will move me out
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  Speaker 2: of the way, Lord God, and allow that that you
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  Speaker 2: will have me to share with your people on today
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  Speaker 2: to come forth for God and Father. May the things
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  Speaker 2: that come forth follow on those ears that need to
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  Speaker 2: hear it, Lord God, and Lord when it vibrates, When
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  Speaker 2: it vibrates, it down in their ears or God and
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  Speaker 2: their ear drums or God. May it go into the
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  Speaker 2: places and to the crepacies that it's supposed to go
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  Speaker 2: into God and may it at night something within those
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  Speaker 2: that hear it on today, Lord God, So Lord, I
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  Speaker 2: thank you for yet another opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: I thank you for this platform.
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  Speaker 2: I thank you for just having a voice and just
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  Speaker 2: being a willing vessel to be used by you. So Lord,
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  Speaker 2: move me out of the way and allow your spirit
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  Speaker 2: man to come forth that I may share what you
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  Speaker 2: would have me to share on today. A man a man,
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  Speaker 2: a man, and access and your son Jesus the same.
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  Speaker 3: Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just wanted to start off with a prayer
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  Speaker 2: on this afternoon. I also want to keep doctor Josiah
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  Speaker 2: and his aunt and his family in prayer.
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  Speaker 3: I think his.
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  Speaker 2: Aunt it's had a heart attack and was rushed to
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  Speaker 2: the emergency room and Josiah was Doctor Josiah was happened
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  Speaker 2: to be in the ambulance with her. So we definitely
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  Speaker 2: want to keep him in his family lifted in prayer
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  Speaker 2: and in our private time of prayer. But to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that we add him to our prayer list, we
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  Speaker 2: do have a five am prayer call every day at
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  Speaker 2: five am, so we are giving God our first fruits
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  Speaker 2: in the morning, we're giving it to him all that
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  Speaker 2: he has given us because he has been so good
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  Speaker 2: to us. Some of us don't even recognize or even
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  Speaker 2: can begin to even honor him and recognize him for
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  Speaker 2: all the things that he has done for us.
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  Speaker 3: But I tell you, he's truly been great to me.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and share what little
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  Speaker 2: things I have for you guys on today. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: be very brief because again, this was a topic that
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  Speaker 2: doctor Josiah was gonna share with you guys, and he's
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  Speaker 2: probably gonna come on another day and share with you guys.
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  Speaker 2: But I just wanted to drop these little nuggets in
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  Speaker 2: your spirit so that you can have them.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So the title of.
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  Speaker 2: This is going to be Unlocking bigger opportun leveraging your book.
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  Speaker 2: So are you an author that's looking to maximize the
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  Speaker 2: impact of your book Discover how to transform your literary
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  Speaker 2: achievement into a springboard for even bigger opportunities. So, first thing,
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  Speaker 2: you must establish yourself as an authority.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all, hold on just a second.
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  Speaker 2: So first you must establish yourself as an authority, position
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  Speaker 2: yourself as an expert in your field, not all over
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  Speaker 2: the place. But in your field, that thing that you
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  Speaker 2: are passionate about, that thing that you research, that thing
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  Speaker 2: that you know about a published book as credibility and
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  Speaker 2: opens the door for speaking engagements and workshops.
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  Speaker 3: Also, you can do some consultant.
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  Speaker 2: The second thing that you need to do that you
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  Speaker 2: can do to leverage a bigger opportunity. Grow your network,
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  Speaker 2: leverage your book. Connection with industry leaders, influencers and other authors.
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  Speaker 2: Attend book fares, literary events, online forms to build meaningful relationships.
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  Speaker 2: It's all about building relationships, building relationships, grow your network.
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  Speaker 2: You can't keep saying that you're gonna move in silence,
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  Speaker 2: that you're gonna stay to yourself. The number two thing
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  Speaker 2: for growing past and opportunities for a bigger, bigger opportunity
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  Speaker 2: for your book. The number two thing is grow your network.
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  Speaker 2: Number three, create additional content. So expand your reach by
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  Speaker 2: turning your book into webinars, podcasts, courses. Not only does
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  Speaker 2: that diversify your content, but it also attracts a broader audience.
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  Speaker 2: So you may have a children book, but your children
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  Speaker 2: book may teach leadership. Your children book may teach teamwork,
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  Speaker 2: It may teach a lot of things that we as
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  Speaker 2: an adult can pull from it, and it can. It
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  Speaker 2: could kill two birds with one stone, because now you're
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  Speaker 2: getting parents involved with their children and involved in reading
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  Speaker 2: to their children. So you can utilize your children book
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  Speaker 2: with your adults as well. So you got to find
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  Speaker 2: ways to take your content, turn it into additional content.
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  Speaker 2: Broaden your horizon. If that means you need to write
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  Speaker 2: for magazines, write for blogs, even if it's just a
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  Speaker 2: guest feature in a magazine, y'all, try every chance you
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  Speaker 2: get to allow your content to be seen and heard.
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  Speaker 2: Number four, Media and publicity. Use your book as a
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  Speaker 2: tool to pitch stories to media outlets, to secure interviews,
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  Speaker 2: to guest blog opportunities, podcast features. All of these things
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  Speaker 2: will increase your visibility and reach. Number five, and y'all
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  Speaker 2: know this is one of these things that I am
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  Speaker 2: so stickler about. Number five is, of course, collaboration and partnerships.
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  Speaker 2: Partnering with brands and other authors for joint promotions, book projects, events, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: These things could amplify your exposure and create mutual benefitual opportunities. Y'all,
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  Speaker 2: we can do more together as a team that we
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  Speaker 2: can do individually. And I say this too, those that
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  Speaker 2: are part of the one hundred author movement. There's forty
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  Speaker 2: three authors already connected to this movement. Yeah, we need
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  Speaker 2: fifty seven more, but we have forty three authors already
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  Speaker 2: connected to this movement. There should be so much action
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  Speaker 2: and so much stuff going on inside of these chats,
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  Speaker 2: inside of these individual groups. But I'm telling you, if
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  Speaker 2: you walk through that y'all, y'all would probably think you
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  Speaker 2: was at a funeral. So I'm calling out all of
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  Speaker 2: these authors out here that are looking for opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: share your brand, to host events live and virtually that
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  Speaker 2: want to come off the social media, that truly want
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  Speaker 2: to tell people their stories, to share their message, to
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  Speaker 2: share their brands, to host workshops. Now, there's so much
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  Speaker 2: talent within this group right here. Like nobody should be
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  Speaker 2: looking to attend nobody else workshops. They should be looking
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  Speaker 2: to put on their own workshops because amongst these forty
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  Speaker 2: three amazing individuals, there's so much talent.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm gonna let it go.
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  Speaker 2: Collaboration and partnership, y'all. Number six, Engage with your community.
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  Speaker 2: I know a lot of us don't like to be
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  Speaker 2: on social media. I know a lot of us work
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  Speaker 2: down the fires. A lot of us got families. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of us do a lot of other stuff besides
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  Speaker 2: amplifying our brand and truly pushing our brand and doing
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  Speaker 2: the things that it takes to take our brand to
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  Speaker 2: that level that we wanted to go to. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we have dreams, we have hopes, we have desires, we
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  Speaker 2: have these things that we want to round in our brands,
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  Speaker 2: our books, our legacy. So it's up to us to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that we're in place and that we're doing
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  Speaker 2: the things that is needed. When there's opportunities for you
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  Speaker 2: to be on podcasts, to be guested on in magazines,
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  Speaker 2: blocks whatever, y'all should be taking these opportunities. Now, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going through a list of things that can help you
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  Speaker 2: take your brand, your book to the next level. Number
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  Speaker 2: six is engaged with your community. Y'all host book signers,
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  Speaker 2: virtually host Q and a's, join book clubs, work with
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  Speaker 2: book clubs, engage directly with your readers. Y'all should be
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  Speaker 2: going live talking about your books.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody have a YouTube. If you have a Gmail, a
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  Speaker 2: Google account, you have a YouTube, Go set your YouTube up.
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  Speaker 2: Not only do you have a YouTube, you have Google meets.
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  Speaker 2: You can do lives in Google meet as well, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: There's so many platforms where you can go live and
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  Speaker 2: share your brand and talk about your brand and connect with.
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  Speaker 3: Like minded people just like yourself.
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  Speaker 2: If you are not using substat y'all, that is an amazing platform.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how I slipped on them, Like I've
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  Speaker 2: been a part of that platform since like twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: and I think I may have posted a couple of
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  Speaker 2: times back in twenty twenty one. But I can't believe
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  Speaker 2: I slipped on that platform because I am so at
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  Speaker 2: our right now. I thank God for sending me back
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  Speaker 2: over there, because now I have an opportunity to really
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  Speaker 2: tap into some amazing individuals. You can build up your
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  Speaker 2: description through your email, you can build up your email platform.
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  Speaker 2: It's so much that you can do over there as
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  Speaker 2: well as go live. It's an app on your phone,
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  Speaker 2: then you can do it on your computer. There's so
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  Speaker 2: many different options, and with everything, y'all, there's pros and cons.
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  Speaker 2: As we talked about that yesterday when we talked about
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  Speaker 2: Draft to Digital. There's always pros and cons to everything
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  Speaker 2: that we do and everything that's gonna come across our path.
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  Speaker 2: But that is number six y'all. Number seven is new
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  Speaker 2: revenue screens. Consider merchandise, Consider audio versions of your book,
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  Speaker 2: even consider making workbooks to go along with the books
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  Speaker 2: that you have, anything that would relate to the things
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  Speaker 2: that you already have. You want to be able to
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  Speaker 2: diversify your offerings. You can do two, you can do hats,
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  Speaker 2: you can do pins, you can do pencil you can
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  Speaker 2: do notebooks, you can do all types of things. You
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  Speaker 2: can even make little gift bags, you can make a
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  Speaker 2: little different things.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever you think your.
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  Speaker 2: Community may like, your audience may like. It's all about
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  Speaker 2: you making it personal. And again, if you would go
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  Speaker 2: through it's seven steps that you could take that will
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  Speaker 2: help you to take your book opportunities to the next level.
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  Speaker 2: You can unlock bigger opportunities and truly leverage your book. Again,
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  Speaker 2: how do you do that. Establish yourself as an authority,
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  Speaker 2: grow your network, create additional content, media and publicity, collaboration
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  Speaker 2: and partnership, Engage with your commun unity, and create new
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  Speaker 2: revenue streams. So those are seven ways that you can
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  Speaker 2: leverage your book for a bigger opportunity. So another thing
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  Speaker 2: that I think doctor Josiah wanted to talk about, and
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  Speaker 2: it was I think the importance of having your own funnel.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna dive into that and we're gonna attempt
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  Speaker 2: to talk about that. Yeah, I dibble and dabble, So
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  Speaker 2: that's what we're gonna I'm on, I'm on, I'm on
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  Speaker 2: share from what I know and from my perspective. And again,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, Josiah is definitely probably gonna be coming
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  Speaker 2: that and sharing with you guys. So I did prepare
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  Speaker 2: a couple of notes for you guys when I found
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  Speaker 2: out that Soosia was not going to be able to
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  Speaker 2: be on, so that I could be prepared because I
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  Speaker 2: like to be prepared.
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  Speaker 3: So this is what I have for.
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  Speaker 2: You guys, and it is titled Unlike a Success, the
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  Speaker 2: importance of having your own funnel, and today's digital age,
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  Speaker 2: having your own sales funnel is no longer a luxury.
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  Speaker 2: It is a necessary. It's a necessity for maximizing growth
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  Speaker 2: and success. Whether you are an entrepreneur, an author, or
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  Speaker 2: an entrepreneur, a business owner or crafting, a well designed
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  Speaker 2: funnel can transform how you connect with your audience and
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  Speaker 2: drive results. Here's why having your own funnel is crucial.
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  Speaker 2: Screamlining your your customers NY is one of the major
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  Speaker 2: reasons of having a personal funnel.
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  Speaker 3: It guides potential.
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  Speaker 2: Customers seamlessly from awareness to purchase. A tailored funnel ensures
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  Speaker 2: a smooth and engaging journey, increasing conversion rates so number two.
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  Speaker 2: Targeted market marketing. A personalized funnel allows you to segment
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  Speaker 2: your audience, delivering a tailored message that resonate with a
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  Speaker 2: pacific customer need and preference.
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  Speaker 3: Three. Data driven insight.
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  Speaker 2: Analyze user's behavior and their interaction within your funnel to
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  Speaker 2: gain valuable insight. Use data to refine strategies and improve
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  Speaker 2: customer engagement and boost sales. Number four increase sales and revenue.
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  Speaker 2: Optimize each stage of your funnel to capture more leads
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  Speaker 2: and close more sales. A strategic funnel keeps a potential
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  Speaker 2: customer engage and moves them towards making a purchase. Enhance
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  Speaker 2: customer relationships, provide value in every stage, building a trust
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  Speaker 2: in loyalty. A well crafted funnel nurches relationships and encourages
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  Speaker 2: repeat business scalability and growth.
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  Speaker 3: A functional funnel.
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  Speaker 2: Supports business expansion by automatic automating process by friend up
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  Speaker 2: time to focus on strategic growth and initiatives. If you
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  Speaker 2: haven't built your own funnel. Yet now it's the time
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  Speaker 2: to start harness the power of the digital marketing and
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  Speaker 2: watch your business growth. So how do you create a funnel?
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a funnel? So we're gonna talk about
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  Speaker 2: how to create a funnel and what's the funnel? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: because if you're like me, you probably wanted to know, well,
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  Speaker 2: what is a funnel? So first we're going to start
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  Speaker 2: by understanding what is a funnel. A funnel, in the
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  Speaker 2: context of marketing and sales, is a systematic approach to
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  Speaker 2: god potential customers through different stages of their buying journey,
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  Speaker 2: from the initial awareness to the final purchase and beyond.
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  Speaker 2: It is visually representing the customer's journey, aiming to convert
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  Speaker 2: visitors into leads and leads into lawyer customers. The funnel
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  Speaker 2: is typically divided into stages, and here are your stages,
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  Speaker 2: and it's usually five stages. Six stages, y'all, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 2: it's six stages. The first stage is awareness. Potential customers
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  Speaker 2: become aware of your brand and product. So for all
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  Speaker 2: those that say you're gonna move in silence, that you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be quiet, that you're not gonna do this You're
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  Speaker 2: not gonna do that if don't nobody know who you are,
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  Speaker 2: if they don't see you, if they're not aware of you,
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  Speaker 2: then they cannot become your potential customer. So you want
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  Speaker 2: to bring awareness to your brand. Second, interest once they
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  Speaker 2: show interest by engaging with your content or offering. So
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  Speaker 2: if people come to your page and if they post
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  Speaker 2: to comment, they like, they share that, they engage just
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  Speaker 2: the least a little bit, y'all, they're interested? Did these
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  Speaker 2: are These are statistics. These are things that people use
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  Speaker 2: to build their their their brand and to build their
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  Speaker 2: So once that interest is peaked, now it's time for
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  Speaker 2: you to truly engage them with your content in your offerings.
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  Speaker 2: Next it's gonna be the consideration phase. Once they evaluate
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  Speaker 2: your product against their needs and possible alternatives, they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: start thinking and considering if they gonna come and be
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  Speaker 2: a part of what you're doing. So now you've got
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  Speaker 2: to keep bringing awareness to your brand. You got to
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  Speaker 2: keep putting your brand out that you got to keep
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  Speaker 2: allowing people to know who you are so that you
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  Speaker 2: can pipe that interest. And then once you see that
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  Speaker 2: people are interested in what you're doing, you got to
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  Speaker 2: make them really consider you. How you make them consider you.
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  Speaker 2: You got to stay before them. You got to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that your services, your product, your content is at
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  Speaker 2: the best level that it can be at. That is
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  Speaker 2: providing that thing that can help somebody. And then the
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  Speaker 2: next step, the fourth step is conversion, y'all.
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  Speaker 3: Conversion.
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  Speaker 2: Once they decide and they make that the purchase, say
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  Speaker 2: they join your anthology, or are they join your podcast,
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  Speaker 2: or they joined the magazine, they have made that purchase
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  Speaker 2: or they have taken that desired action to inquire. Because
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  Speaker 2: you may have people that want acucitation and they just
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  Speaker 2: want to ask questions, they just want to know.
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  Speaker 3: A little more.
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  Speaker 2: That that is a step towards conversion as well, because
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  Speaker 2: you've gotten them to consider you. Now, once you've gotten
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  Speaker 2: them to step forward the conversion, now you're going to
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  Speaker 2: move on to the retention. During the retention phage, you
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  Speaker 2: want to continue to engage, and you want to engage
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  Speaker 2: repeatedly so that they will repeat purchase and it will
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  Speaker 2: foster loyalty. You know, you want those people that would say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I buy your book if it ain't got nothing but
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  Speaker 2: blank pages. You want that person to say, I'll show
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  Speaker 2: up at your workshop if if don't nobody show up
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  Speaker 2: with us, because I know it's gonna be a good time.
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  Speaker 2: You want those loyal individuals and supporters so that you
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  Speaker 2: can retain them. And once you're able to retain them, y'all,
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna come advocates for you. They're gonna start talking
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  Speaker 2: about what you're doing because guess what, you satisfied their need.
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  Speaker 2: You satisfied that that they came for that, whether it
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  Speaker 2: be a product, whether it be a service, you've satisfied
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  Speaker 2: that customer's need. And now they're willing to promote your
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: brand to others, to tell people about you, and that leads.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: To other referrals.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: So if somebody has done something for you and you're
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: not telling everybody about them and telling them how they
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: could be helping you, y'all, if somebody is doing something
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: great for you, don't keep it in, don't hold it in,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: don't sit down on it. Share it out because you
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: never know what the next person may be in need of.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Say you got an awesome book review by Patrise, but
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: you ain't told nobody, So how do people know that
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: they can go over and get a book review from Patrese?
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: You just kept it to yourself. You shared it a
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: couple of times, but didn't nobody know who did it
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: because you didn't tell nobody. Y'all, we grow from sharing stuff.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: So next, now that we know what a funnel is,
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: how do you create a funnel and how do you
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: create a sess for funnel? It involves several steps. Number one,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: you must identify your target audience. Understand who your ideal
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: customer is. If that means you got to do a
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: little bit of research, and if you need to identify
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: their needs, their preference, that their pain points. If you
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: know your audience is grief, then you need to reach
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: You need to reach those people. And it's not just
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: always death, because you have people that have lost stuff
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: that mean so much to them. You got people that
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: have memories of people that are going on that they
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: that they lost in a fire, they lost in these
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: different things that have happened here lately that they cannot
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: be replaced, so they're grieving the loss of those things.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Some people be on these jobs for a long time
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: and then they get fired and they grieve that loss.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Grief can come in many different forms, So being able
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: to identify what type of grief you're dealing with and
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: who you're dealing with. It is one of the things
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  Speaker 2: that you need to do Step one, Step two you
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: need to identify your goals, established clear objectives for what
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: you want your funnel to achieve. Number for example, do
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: you want to generate leads? Do you want increasing sales?
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Do you want building customer loyalty? You have to identify
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: what your goal is for this funnel and then once
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: you have identified your target audience, you have identified your goals,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: then you can go on to create create awareness. How
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: do you create awareness? You use content marketing social media
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: and you use your SEOG strategies to attract attention and
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: drive traffic to your website and to your landing pages.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: How do you capture leads? You offer and this is
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: number for y'all. You offer valuable content and in sentitives
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: example ebooks, free trials. If you're offering a course, a training,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: a workshop, a seminar, you can offer a thirty minute
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: trial or or something that whatever you're offering, give them
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: a hint of what they're going to be getting. Even
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: if you want to give them an ebook, you can
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: just you can give them fifteen pages and that can
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: just like incite their curiosity to to make them want
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: to go and purchase that book or to download the
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: whole book. So make sure in the exchange each for
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: your contact information.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: You want to make sure that you're able.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: To get content information as you're giving out those things
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: as well, so that you can use those as lead magnets.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Opt informs are effective as well. Also, you want to
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: nurture prospects. You want to build relationships by providing valuable
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: content such as newsletters, webinars, blog posts, personalized communication that
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: maintain interest. Y'all, I'm telling you that's why I think
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: subs that would be a great one, because now you
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: have a platform that you can utilize to just a
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: pacific audience. If it's a pacific audience of authors, then
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: you can go to your author page and you can
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: post something just for authors. If you are a podcaster
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: and you want to hit your podcast community, you can
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: have a page for your podcast community and you can
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: share it on your podcast community, and then if you
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: want to tag your other pages, you can tag. It's
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: a great platform. So if you're not over there using subset,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: y'all need to go use it because it will be
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: something great that you probably can incorporate in creating a
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: lead funnel. So while you're nurturing your prospects, number five,
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  Speaker 2: Number six is convert, y'all, and we are alone today.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: We may get this hour end today. Convert leads to customers,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: use compelling call to actions CTAs, and optimize landing pages
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: to increase conversions. Simplify the purchase process for a seamless experience.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: You got landing pages that can go straight there. They
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: can purchase what they gonna get, and they got to
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: be wondering what else they got to go. They ain't
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: got to be going through nothing. They go straight to
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: that page. They can purchase what they want. So landing
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: pages are great, and it's designed just for that particular topic.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: You can have a landing page for so many different
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: things that you're doing, so that everything has its own thing,
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: so you can send people to that, and if you
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: got several people that got to be a part of that,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: then they got to go to all of the different pages.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: They just gotta connect. And then once you provide that leads,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: you have to follow up and retain Number seven. Keep
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: in touch with your customers through post purchase follow ups.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Exclusive offers, loyalty programs provide excellent customer service, y'all. Excellent
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: customer service. Like I tell people all the time, if
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: you ever come across this platform, you're always connected. We're
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: never gonna lose contact. And unless you disconnect, because I'm
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: never going to disconnect because I see if you tag
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: me and your stuff, I'm gonna share it. I'm going
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: to keep continuing to get you out there, and if
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: I come across opportunities, I'm going to share those opportunities
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: with you.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: I have individuals that have.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Been with me since twenty twenty when I came back
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: to Facebook, and we've been doing this. We've been doing
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: this and many other projects since.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Y'all.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: We're in this to see each other. When we are
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: that village, we have that village mentality. So make sure
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: that you're doing follow up, make sure that you are
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: making that connection, make sure that you are getting to
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: know them and when you do that, and while you're
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: doing that. Number eight, encourage admathacy. Encourage satisfy customers, supporters,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: family members to become advocates by sharing reviews, testimonies, referral rewards, incentives. Man,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you so much that you can do Number nine,
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: and I'm almost done, y'all. This is the last one.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Monitor and optimize, use your analytics, use all your tools
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: to track performances at each state of your funnel.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Y'all.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Use the data to make inform adjustments and improve effectiveness.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Y'all.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a lot of work. This is a
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: second job. If you are working a nine to five,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: when you get out your nine to five, that's just
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: like coming home and doing another nine to five. I
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: often tell everybody, and now I'm gonna keep saying it
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: until I can't say it no more. A lot of
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: us we know that we have eight hours that we're
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: going to work. That's a that's a given. That's not
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: something that we debate about. We know that whatever time
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: we're scheduled to go to work, that we're going to work,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: and we're gonna work for those eight hours. And we
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: know that that is what we're gonna be doing for
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: those eight hours. And we know some of us have
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: scheduled eight hours for sleep, so we know that we're
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: gonna be doing sleep for eight hours or how many
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: hours you have scheduled for sleep.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: For y'all.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Those other hours that you have left, now you got
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: that's sixteen hours gone. So you got eight more hours.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: What have you strategically intentionally set aside in those eight hours.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: You know, a lot of us we make excuses when
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: there is no excuse because we're too in c we
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: we're too competent. We we we know how to adjust,
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: we know how to adapt, we know how to to
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: to to just f flow. So there's no reason why
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: we should not be doing those things to elevate us,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: to take us to the next level. But yet we
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: are just allowing life to continue to happen around us.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: You know, we should be knocking down doors at some
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: of these events. We should be knocking down doors to
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: be in these magazines, We should be knocking down doors
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: to be a part of some of these different virtual events,
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: these podcasts that these individuals are hosting. Not just on
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: the Crew podcast. I'm not just talking about over here
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: what we're doing, y'all. It's so many other people out
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: here in this world that are doing the exact same thing.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: And guess what if I know them, I'm pushing them
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: and I'm sharing their stuff too, because y'all, I can't
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: reach everybody, and the Crew podcast can't reach everybody, And
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: there may be somebody on our network that follow us
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: and support us, that need to hear from y'all. But
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: if you don't come forward, if you don't tell us
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: of the things that you're doing, if you're continue with
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: to move in silence, if you continue to just sit
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: there and just continue to allow things to happen, then
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: guess what life is gonna continue to happen around you?
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: And then you're gonna look up, and then people are
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: gonna be gonna elevated and going on to another level,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: and you're gonna be still right there in that same place,
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: hoping and wishing.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Y'all.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: It's the season where you have to utilize those that
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: you are connected with, know those that label amongst you.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: That should be no reason why you are connected with
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: over twenty something people and chat rooms are not jumping,
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: private groups are not jumping. That should be a showcase
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: every week of authors that that should be shoutouts every
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: day of authors, like everybody should know that we are
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: all connected and that we are a family, that we
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: are the one hundred author moving even if we.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: Don't have the one hundred authors.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: When are you gonna truly show up for yourself and
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: say that you truly showed up.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: A lot of us.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: We talk a good game, but when it comes to
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: time to show up, we're making excuse for everything.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: God.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: We're even making an excuse to why we ain't folding
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: the tower, Why while we're not getting in the car
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: right while we're not doing we make excuse about anything, y'all.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: It's time out for that. God didn't make not one
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: excuse when he sent his son Jesus to walk on
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: this earth for all of us, not for some of us,
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: but for all of us, that we may have the
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: right to eternal life, that we may have the right
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: to walk into those things that he said that we
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: should have Genesis Genesis two and seven. He said he
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: breathed the breath of life into us. All these things
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: that I've been sharing Monday, Tuesday and today, these nuggets
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: that can help you take your book to the next
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: level if you just listen and just do them.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: Like everybody want.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Every time I post about the different places that I
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: have my books in, these different places and the different sites,
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: you know, everybody want to know how they can do it.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Yet I shared it with them. But yet I never
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: see anybody go over there and say, oh, I went
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: I did this I did that, like y'all feedback. That's
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: why reviews are very important, so that we can know
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: where we're airing and where we know where we're succeeding
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: at so that we know that we can move forward
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: or if we need to stay here a little longer. Again,
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: if you are an author, or if you are aspiring off,
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: if you have a book that's coming out before the
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: end of twenty twenty five, you can join our one
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: hundred author movement.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: Everybody want to know when is the last that it joined.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: I said March.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: But I'm not going.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: To cut it off until we get a hundred authors
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: because there's a reason why he said a hundred. That's
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: a reason why he dropped a hundred in my spirit,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: So I'm not gonna stop until I get a hundred.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Is anybody else sharing it with their friends that are authors.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know that. That's not my concern, but I
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: know I'm going to continue to share. I'm gonna continue
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: to promote those that are promoting themselves within the group.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: If you're not even promoting yourselves, I'm not gonna waste
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: my energy to even promote you. And if you're not
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: being a team player, I'm not gonna use my energy
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: to even promote you. All those that are being a
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: team player, I see you, All those that participate in
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: the challenges, I see you. We have some that have
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: never come in in the group chat, have never posted
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: a video. They're not they have not even turned in
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: their form so that they can have their blog features.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: And y'all, I'm gonna ask you probably about ten twenty times,
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: and after that twentieth time, I'm not gonna asks again,
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: because if you don't care that much for your own brand,
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: I can't make you care for it. All I can
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: do is drop the nuggets. And all I can do
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: is lead you. I can guide you to the water,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: but I can't make you drink it. I can I
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: can put a food on the table in front of
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: you all day long, but I show can't make you
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: eat it. So it's up to you and you have
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: to decide. What is it that I want for my brand?
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: What is it that I'm missing? What is it that
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: I can do more? Because if we truly look at
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: what we're doing, what we haven't done, what we could do,
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: there are a lot of things that we could be doing,
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: but a lot of us are operating in fear, and
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: he's already told he not give us the spirit of fear.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: But because we have nothing down on the inside of us,
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: when things come up, we allow these things to attack us.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: We allowed this social media to get to us. We
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: allow the number forty seven to get to us. We
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: allow all these different things that come to get to us.
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: When we have.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: A journey, we have a task, we have a plan.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: Are you truly aligned to it? Because if you are,
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: then you would be being intentional about those things that
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: he called you to. Like some of y'all got books
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: that was supposed to have been out in twenty twenty four.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: You haven't even thought about starting a book yet, and
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: it's finn to be halfway through the third month. When
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: are you gonna do that book that he's told you
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: to do, whether it's a children book, an inspirational book,
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: or a fictional book or urban fictional book, whatever whatever
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: it is, When are you gonna do it? When are
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: you going to allow him to allow that gift, that talent,
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: that thing that he's trying to pull forth out of
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: you so that he can take you to the next level.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: See a lot of us we say we want to
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: be elevated. We want to do this, we want to
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: do this. We got all these goals, we got all
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: these aspirations. We say we got faith, and we say
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: we're doing the work, But are we really doing the
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: work because some of us we just go through the motions.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: We help people because that's what we think we're supposed
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: to do. So we're helping a lot of people do stuff,
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: and then some of us we do it grudgingly. We
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: don't even do it in a spirit of gratitude, a
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: spirit of hope or encouragement. So why even do it?
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna get on off for here. I thank
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: you guys for jumping on and sharing your lunch with
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: me doing this.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: Lunch and learn series. This is day three.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: We're gonna be doing this the entire rest of the
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: month of March, Monday through Thursdays from twelve until no
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: later than one. I've been going thirty minutes because I
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: know normally people's lunch is only thirty minutes, and I
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: want you to come listen, to eat your lunch with
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: me while I share with you, or whoever come on
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: and share. But every day we're dropping some nuggets that
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: can hopefully help you consider alternatives, and consider things to
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: do with your brand, and consider things to do with
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: these books and these different things that we have. Y'all,
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: don't sit down on your gifts and your talents. Allow
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: him to let them come forth and make room. Because
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: he said he will make room for your gifts. So
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: allow him to make room for you and allow those
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: gifts to come forth. So again, I thank you guys
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: for tuning in. I will be back on tomorrow. I
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: don't know what I'm gonna be talking about tomorrow. Maybe
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: I would do a recap on everything that we have
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: talked about this week so that we can truly get
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: we have talked about Draft to Digital.
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: Draft to Digital has been one of those platforms that I.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: Have utilized to be able to tap into a lot
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: of different platforms, ingram Sparks. It's another platform that you
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: guys may want to tap into. They are one of
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: the largest distribution platforms. A lot of the library systems
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: use them. And if you go back and check check
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: out the replay, or just go over to draft to
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: Digital and just do the research yourself and find out
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: a little bit about them. Again, I want to thank
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: you guys for tuning in. For the Lunch and Learn
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: series again. I hope that I have been bringing you
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: some things that will help you to elevate your brand
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: and will help you take your brand to the next
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: level and come outside of this box. Y'all have a
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: great rest of your afternoon. I appreciate you guys for supporting.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: If you know.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: Authors, encourage them to join the one hundred Author Movement.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: We have fifty seven more spots available. It is a
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: group where we share resources. We say, we share things
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: that work for us, things that didn't work for us.
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: We just share. We believe in.
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  Speaker 2: Being our brothers and sisters keeper. We believe in encouraging.
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  Speaker 2: We've had individuals that have been writing books and got
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  Speaker 2: that they they they got writer's block, and we have
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  Speaker 2: individuals that give them information, give them suggestions, gave them
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  Speaker 2: some things that help them. So we're sharing wisdom, knowledge,
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  Speaker 2: what worked for us, what didn't work for us. That's
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  Speaker 2: what we're doing. It's not a competition, it's not an
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  Speaker 2: award show, but we are over there sharing some award
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  Speaker 2: shows that you can be a part of. We have
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  Speaker 2: the Distinguished Guild Awards. You can definitely get your book
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  Speaker 2: signed up to be a part of that, we also
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  Speaker 2: have several other individuals that have various platforms that you
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  Speaker 2: can attach to South Carolina book Gap. She's one of
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  Speaker 2: the hosts here on the Crew podcast. She has an
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  Speaker 2: amazing platform that does books reviews and a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: around books. If you're looking for opportunity to get a
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  Speaker 2: professional book review, a professional feature on the website on
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  Speaker 2: a lot of different things, you you you have it
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  Speaker 2: right there. Again, you have different individuals over here that
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  Speaker 2: does interviews and host workshops and hosts different virtual conferences
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  Speaker 2: and different things. So there are a lot of ways
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  Speaker 2: that you can connect with these amazing individuals. Trevida is
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  Speaker 2: going to be hosting Matters of the Hearts Part two
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  Speaker 2: coming up in May. It's going to be that first
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  Speaker 2: Saturday and May May the third. She is looking for
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  Speaker 2: some hosts, some individuals that want to come on, some
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  Speaker 2: guest speakers, I mean not host but guest speakers that
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  Speaker 2: would like to come on. She has one guest speaker
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  Speaker 2: that's coming on to talk about re but we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about Matters of the Heart. H is healing, E is empowering,
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  Speaker 2: A is alignment, R is resilience, and T is trauma
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  Speaker 2: no More and God always attend to the things of
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  Speaker 2: the heart, so we're attending to the heart.
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  Speaker 3: May the third.
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  Speaker 2: We're looking for some more speakers to come out and
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  Speaker 2: share with us. If you missed part one, you missed
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  Speaker 2: an amazing opportunity to hear from some amazing speakers. We
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  Speaker 2: had Schanet, we had SHANEI y'all. We had Black Diamond,
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  Speaker 2: Apostle Kimberly, and we had Minister Alma. Of course, Trevida
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  Speaker 2: was our host and she's going to be hosting it again, y'all.
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  Speaker 3: So if you.
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  Speaker 2: Deal with healing, if that's your expertise, if that's your niche,
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  Speaker 2: if that's your passion, that we would love for you
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  Speaker 2: to come and be a part of Matters of the
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  Speaker 2: Heart Conference May the third. It's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: virtual conference right here on the Crew podcast. We're also
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  Speaker 2: looking for someone that your thing is empowering. We want
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  Speaker 2: someone to come on and share about empowering aligning. If
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  Speaker 2: you talk about alignment, please come share. Resilient, it's already
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  Speaker 2: been taken. We have an amazing queen out of Texas
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be coming on and Grace and the
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  Speaker 2: virtual platform and sharing with us. And then if you
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  Speaker 2: are a trauma coach or if you've been through trauma
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  Speaker 2: and want to talk about it, we need you trauma
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  Speaker 2: no mo come and talk about that, because trauma is real.
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  Speaker 2: You know, people don't understand that babies are born every
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  Speaker 2: day in this world into trauma. They come in this
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: world having endured trauma because of what they mother may
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  Speaker 2: have been through during her pregnancy. So know that it's
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  Speaker 2: real and that that nobody told me something that I
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  Speaker 2: read on documentation myself. Matter of fact, one of Shanaria,
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  Speaker 2: one of the Prayer Warriors, one of my prayer besties,
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: her son was born with severe depression. He was diagnosed
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: at three days old. It's documented on paper. Nobody told
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: me this. I read it on a medical form, So
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: I know that this is real and we got to
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: understand that this is real. You know a lot of
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: these babies come into this world into trauma and they
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: didn't asked to come into trauma. They was born into
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: it and then they go through trauma, don't know what
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: it is, and parents not sure what it is because
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: they don't know what They didn't realize that the baby
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: endo it trauma. When you don't know, you don't know.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: But now that we are coming into the knowledge. We're
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  Speaker 2: getting this research, and we know this because we know
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  Speaker 2: that people that have been through this. We've seen documentations,
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: we've seen the documentary, we've read books, we've seen all
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: of this. So y'all get involved in all of the
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: stuff that we got going on that is helping you
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: become a better person, y'all. That's what it's about, y'all.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: My whole desire is I just want to be the
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: change that I want to see in this world. That's
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: what I desire to be the change that I want
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: to see in this world. I want to leave this
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: world better than I found it. I want to say
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: that those that are coming after me, that they're better
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: off than I was, that they have a better opportunity
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: than me, that they have a chance to do greater
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: because just as the words say that that goes for
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: every generation, not just our generation, everybody coming after us
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: gonna do greater works. So y'all, we got to put
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: them in position to be able to do those greater works.
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  Speaker 2: So I give honor to my ancestors, those that pay
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: the way. You know, somebody made it. Come in and
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go, y'all, somebody had made it come in
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: on something that I posted, and I said that we're
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: not our ancestors. I mean that we're not our ancestors.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: And they said all that they did for us, Yeah,
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: they did all that so that we could have better.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: They wanted better for us, and I should hope that
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: that's what you want for those that are coming after you.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: So I would hope that this dash from your birth
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: until you leave here, I would hope that this dash
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: that you have has been something that has been for
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: the betteran of this universe and for those that are
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: coming after us, just as our ancestors did for us,
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: all those that went through Savory, because y'all, we didn't
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: have to endure that, but somebody did, and they endured
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: it for us. They endured it so that we could
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: have better. So every every every generation should be evolving
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: and going to the next and wanting better for the
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: next generation. But we got disconnected somewhere and this now,
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: this this, this, this now ministration is really trying to
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: disconnect us. But us as people, we gotta make that connection.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: That's why I'm hard on those proses, y'all. Connection, collaboration,
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: create in community. I ain't letting it go. I love y'all.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: I appreciate y'all, and y'all, we all we got, We
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: are all we got. So let's come together. If you
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: are a part of the one hundred author movement, if
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: you are a group group leader, it's time to truly
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: step up. Lead your group, show them what it's like
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: to lead, y'all. It's time for us to be having
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: virtual conferences, virtual summits, virtual whatever. Y'all.
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  Speaker 3: It's too many.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: It's forty three of us. If we just show up
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: for ourselves, we show unity, we show camaraderie, and we
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: show support. But if we're not showing up for each
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: other and people are seeing that, we're not even showing
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: up for ourselves. But I thank y'all. I enjoyed, y'all. Patrice,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for stopping in. Everybody that stopped in, Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for stopping in. Those that will hear this ass
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  Speaker 2: and replay.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Share this with somebody, y'all. Don't don't just let these
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  Speaker 2: they may be blessed. You may not be looking for
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  Speaker 2: a way to funnel your stuff, but somebody may be
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  Speaker 2: looking for a way to to start a a a
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  Speaker 2: a coaching course, or a online course, or or or
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  Speaker 2: or something.
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  Speaker 3: Share it with.
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  Speaker 2: 'em, y'all. I appreciate y'all. Have a great great rest
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  Speaker 2: of y'all afternoon, I'm out.
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  Speaker 3: By patrist