Episode 3 - The Power of Networking
Created Coach V’s email assignment for the email follow-up sequence for the 5 day lead challenge
Updated my personal website to include the websites and funnels I’ve made for Coach V
Main website
Empowerment to Success Website
Lead Funnel: lead magnet, squeeze page
List Building Secrets: How to Build email lists by Russel Brunson
Pretty similar to the 5 day lead challenge
Goes into detail about how to build an email list and why it’s important for business
It’s the life line of any business
Marketing Math: $1/month for every email on your list
The way to increase that number is by improving the relationship with customersHow to build an email list:
Squeeze page featuring lead magnet
Customers exchange their email for lead magnet
Send customers follow-up emails for a better relationshipAlso found out about FunnelFlix, filled with courses and training materials
Kinda like the Netflix for learning
Met with a mentor: Max Skidmore
Helped me with applying to internships and gave me a lot of info about cold emailing
I’m creating a comprehensive walk through on exactly what and how to do it
Planning on creating a lead magnet out of that to build my email list
Potential business idea: sell a course that teaches college students how to network
Lead Magnet would be how to cold email
Upsell into course of exactly how to do every step
Potentially build the email list then use affiliate marketing to generate revenue
The only issue is that college students are broke
Met with Kaeokalei Alo, started ROADD Therapeutic Services
Talks a lot about mental health, can’t wait to work with him in the future love his mission and goal
Wish I could help him right now, but I’m not ready to take on more responsibility, if I wasn’t in school I would definitely help him
Said to visit the diversity office
Connected him with my sister
Met with De teaching me the operational side of business, Mana Ecom
Using definely be helpful in the future HubSpot
Told me to look into setting up accounting software
Found two major software: QuickBooks and Xero
Easily integrate into Hubspot, then connect quickbooks or Xero with Ecom business using A2X
In the army you can’t “jump the line”
Life is about motivation and incentive
If I can identify incentive, I can serve better
Networked with people who wanted to start a business
He’ll support anyone on the team
People knew him and built trust
Reaches out to business owners
Meets with them about buying the company
Mentors a lot of businesses
Invests in deep tech companyTook an Econ midterm that I ACED, took a math midterm feel good about
Stayed up for hours working on a CS project
Need to write a philosophy paper
