what made me want to do something a little outside the box, right? I mean, we've got, you know, we've got a marketing company. I spend most of my time training sales people. That's my gift. That's my talent. That's what I love doing. And I thought, I'm going to change it up this weekend, man. I'm going to walk through how to utilize an online presence to boost your business, to boost sales, to gain more leads, to make sales, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And you say, okay, well, why this? Why now? Well, I've been thinking a lot about, I've been thinking a lot lately about skelling my business, the end of the year, 2021, into the future. I may even be coming out with a new company here soon. My brain's always moving, right? Who else is like, okay, I'm the idea man in my office, in my family. I'm always coming up with new ideas. My brain's constantly moving. Yep, that's me too. That's me too. Okay. So what I really wanted to walk through tonight is, what really got my attention is I started on YouTube in December of 2015. It's almost been five years ago.  Some people think, okay, he's been consistent and grinding for five years. Some people think, okay, it's an overnight success, whatever, right? So I wanted to kind of walk through kind of what has happened over the last five years, what we've done, what you can immediately do to replicate what we've done in your own business. What really got my attention on getting more attention, because I really believe that's the name of the game in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and beyond, Mr. Harless, the name of the game is attention. If you have more attention in your local market, you make more money, guaranteed, guaranteed. You have more attention across your state, like my father does when it comes to Medicare seminars, right? Boom, guaranteed to make more money. Your income will go up or you're just a really bad business owner, right? Which I have been in the past and I've had to learn how to like, you know, how to tweak my business along the way. Getting attention for whatever you're wanting to do, like Javier up here is wanting to, he's in pre-need and he's wanting to own that market in the US and have webinars and courses and all this other stuff, right? He's wanting to get attention and help people do what he's doing. You know, the dude's making hundreds, thousands of dollars a year, tearing it up and as several people are on here that I know. And what really got my attention was earlier this year, I was at 10X growth conference with Grant Cardone. Who's heard of 10X? Okay, good, good. It's almost like who has it nowadays, right? Because why? Because the dude's got so much freaking attention, man, right? So I was at his conference and he showed, I don't, I wish I took a picture of it. I think I did, but I probably buried it in my phone with 6,000 other photos. He posted something on the big screen that showed his Google trend compared to his income, right? His Google trend compared to his income and it was almost identical, the increase on his Google trend versus the increase in income for him. You say, well, how do you apply this to your business, whether you're trying to sell courses or sell an insurance or starting a YouTube channel, right? Or whatever. The key is, for you, because really the goal is, like if I look at our HubSpot account right now, we probably had 1,200, 1,500 agents come into our funnels last month saying, okay, I need help with something, right? And why is it important to you? Because when you can become what Coach Burke calls a person of interest and people can start reaching out to you and you have leads coming in every single day for people that want to do business with you, that have interest in your products and services, guess what? You aren't having to chase people anymore. People are chasing you, right? Which is a different place to be, and it's an amazing place to be as a business owner, by the way. So how do we help you get more attention, right? And I'm going to have some polls along the way and I want to get some feedback from you guys on, actually, you know what? Why don't we start with that now? Because I'm going to do some training, teaching. I'm going to talk through some different social media platforms, things we're doing. We advertise on a lot of stuff. We're growing by about 1,500 to 2,000 YouTube subscribers that are insurance agents every single month. So our YouTube channel is starting to take off. And I'm actually curious, when it comes to an online presence and boosting your guys' business and scaling, right, and increasing sales and scaling your revenue, I want to know what you have interest in, right? Is it websites? Is it your social media? Is it your, and I'd love to see and chat. Is it, hey, I want to start a YouTube and have people reaching out to me to buy insurance from me? Is it LinkedIn, right? Is it Facebook? Is it Instagram? Is it, I want to learn lead generation so I can generate my own leads, right? Maybe it's, maybe it's I want 10,000 likes on my Facebook page, right? Maybe it's I want, you know, I want north of 10,000 followers on my Instagram so that I can use swipe up on my Instagram account. And for those that don't know, right? That's, that's where literally you can post a link on a story and someone can be watching it and literally just swipe up and go straight to your landing page and buy it, right? Which is super valuable if you're promoting something, could be insurance for a lead form for a quote though, could also be for recruiting, right?   I'd love to spend some one-on-one time with your web team. Maybe it's hey, I want to send out 25,000 DMs on Instagram so that I can gain prospects reaching out to me or even recruits, right? Because you guys, you guys probably wouldn't believe it if I said that we've gotten about 50 leads this weekend to give us their phone number and email to talk to a sales person through Instagram this weekend alone, right? So, so how do you specifically do that? And I appreciate you guys jumping in the chat. I love that. LinkedIn, Mark, that's good man. That's actually something we're starting to put more attention to. I was watching a Gary video, Gary Vee video recently about LinkedIn and TikTok and how you can get start to get a good amount of organic traffic because of those things. Well, I put up a TikTok video, literally the money drop at 8%. This one and it has 36,000 views on TikTok this weekend. I put it up like Friday, right? That's insane. So the organic reach, Gary Vee knows this stuff, right? The organic reach on TikTok and LinkedIn is strong. YouTube and lead generation, good Jennifer, that's great. Web page, lead generation, better lead generation, social media lead generation, YouTube, Facebook, lead gen, Facebook, Instagram, lead generation is a very social media platform YouTube website to be known as a final expense guru. I love that, Michael. Dude, you've niche down, you've found your focus and there's no doubt that you can be that. YouTube and website, content marketing. Yeah, see, that's why I'm glad you brought that up, Aaron, because that's one of the things that a lot of insurance agents do not even realize is available in the market right now is if you want to be known as the person to go to in our industry for a certain product, it is available over the next 12, 24, 36 months for you to become that authority figure to where you have hundreds of people that reach out to you every single day, right? I mean, what's crazy is I'm going to share my screen and show some analytics of my YouTube channel and I'm going to show you the first year. I don't normally show the back end of our YouTube channel, but hey, you know what? Who cares? I'm going to do it anyway. That's why you sign up for intimate webinars, right? Let me make sure I select the right. Let's do this. All right, you guys can see this okay? It says in the selected period your channel got 21,000 views. Can you guys see it? Everybody can see that okay? Okay, good. So here's what I want to walk through. Okay, here's what I want to walk through. This was from December of 2015 through December of 2016. My very first year on YouTube, 21,000 views, 2.4 thousand hours of watch time, 369 subscribers. Literally, we went from, we went from, like these were, these are view counts by the way that I'm hovering over, zero, one, three, five, three, eight, right? Then it starts to grow, 20, 30, 50, 60, 14, 80, 100, 200, right? It starts to grow. And this is literally, we only got 20,000 views total in the first year and a total amount of subscribers of 369 people. That is it. That is flipping horrible, by the way. And I wish I knew then what I know now, right? And I know we've all been there, we're like, dude, I wish I would have known this a decade ago. And I wish I knew all this a decade ago, right? Back when I was 20, I'd be a lot, a lot farther along than I am now. But I show you that, to, to, I show that to encourage you. And the way that it encourages you is I'm drinking some e-fuel electrolyte hydration mix, drink mix, because I just finished an Iron Man a week ago. And I'm like, dude, I need, there we go. There we got Coca-Cola in the house. I'm like, dude, I need, I need some, I need some, you know, I need, I gotta say hydrated, right? Because I got dehydrated on that Iron Man, that 70-mile Iron Man. I show you guys that because you cannot do any worse than me. Don't, I mean, whether you listen to me or not, right? Whether you do anything with us in any way, I'm telling you, you cannot do any worse than I did. First year, garbage. Second year, a little better. Third year, a little better. Fourth year, a little better. Fifth year, a lot better. Right? It takes time for all this to start to grow. And for those, and I show you that too, because there is a massive opportunity in the insurance industry for someone to start producing content and to get known and to boost yourself in the marketplace for final expense, Medicare, annuities, because there's not many people doing that, right? It doesn't matter. I mean, P and C, right? It doesn't matter what you're doing. I promise you, if it was a goal of mine for me to become the number one Medicare person online, that the prospects are reaching out to online, right?  I know enough now that literally in 36 months, I could be the number one dude at that. Why? Because of simply what I know now. Okay, so let's go ahead and keep going. The amount of new ways to get prospects is amazing yet intimidating. Yeah, it really is. It really, really, really is. And I'm doing this and you guys signed up for it, right? Because you're like, okay, I want to boost my online presence. I want to start to grow this thing. I want to, so I want to gauge your interest level in comments before I start to go through each different social media platform and give you some specific ideas on what really is intriguing to you. Who in the chat does not have a website, but is like, okay, I realized to boost my business, to scale my revenue, to become a player in the market, to become a person of interest, I need one. I need one, right? Who out there is like, okay, I don't have one, but you know what, I kind of need one, man, you know, and maybe it's nobody, maybe everybody has one. Tati, okay, I appreciate the honesty. I don't have anything. Well, you know what, you can't do any of it, you know, right? Once you start, then you've got it all. Jerome is working on one now. That's awesome. I've been doing some good luck on Facebook groups. I like that grow more hits via website, LinkedIn, Jamie, Bonnie. Good. Good. I need to add a blog. Yes. Apps are freaking literally great. I love that. Working on it's about a domain. My only, my only like recommendation and some of you are going to think this is a little bit self-serving because I have a marketing company, but I'm saying it for a reason. Please don't build your own website. You say, well, okay, well, why?  And that's not your fault because I built my own. I'm speaking from experience, by the way. The one I built was the, it was the old SecureAgeMetro.com one back in 2016 was the worst website you've ever seen. It was, it was, it was total garbage. Laura, love that. That's good. My arrest. So should we have a personal website and an agency website? See, I actually believe that's a phenomenal question, by the way, because that because who out there is watching thinking, okay, I don't know whether to have a personal website, whether to have an agency website, or how do we even structure any of this stuff? Should it be business focused? Should it be personal focused? Right? I believe that you should have a personal, nowadays, I believe you should have a personal brand, my Ruluna, for example. And then from there, they can, you can help prospects. You can recruit agents. You could even get to where you had a personal brand that offered training, coaching, consulting, courses, funnels, webinars, etc. Right? And so, so because of that, okay, good. Laura's got a husband that actually masters in IT and can build websites. That's phenomenal. That's a big help. Patty likes hers. Okay, good. Perfect. I did not like mine, to be honest. I really didn't. And Nostalgia's right. Your time is better spent actually actively seeking customers and closing deals. Because what do we get paid? We get paid to drive revenue to make sales. And at the end, make money. Yeah, good. Good. Okay. Now, next question. Who is on here now saying, okay, I would like to start a YouTube channel and become known on YouTube and have people reaching out to me on a daily basis because I consistently post educational videos to help a specific niche. And you're right, Tatiana, it's way too much. A lot of people, it's way too much. Yes, Erin. Okay, good. So this is YouTube related. And I'm telling you, this is a game changer, by the way. Right?  When you start to actually grow, I want you know, the podcast game. I love that. That's good.  Like if Michael Harless is like, Hey, dude, I want I want people reaching out to me to buy final expense. That would be the first place I would start from a long-term content play for sure, even before blog, by the way. Because why? Because every because our industry is so far behind, everyone's blogging, but nobody's posting video content, right? Because I don't know what to say when they post that when they start the video, they're like, okay, start and I don't forget it. I'll do it later. Right? Or they, or they take 80 takes because they're like, well, this is going to be horrible. Right. I'm not any good at video yet. Trust me. If I like, if you go back and look at my first video from, from, from December, if I show, actually, I'm going to show you guys real quick. If I sort by oldest on my YouTube channel, it's, it's not good, by the way. First thing is training, which what screen are you guys seeing? Can you guys see the YouTube video? There we go. You go work carriers, different carriers, resources, how to run quotes, where to get quotes, whether it be on an app. It's, it's a diff, it's like a different human being is sitting there talking to you guys. Like, right, Mark? I mean, Mark's laughing, man. Dude, it's not like, it's, but, but the point is start somewhere, post it anyway. Right? We always say, we'll do whatever it takes, do it anyway. Right? Do it. The good news is I've stayed consistent for five years. I'm no better at YouTube videos than anybody else. Now, have I gotten a lot better over the years? Sure. But did I, the key was I started. Step one, show up. Right, Reesey? Step one, show up. Step two, keep showing up, man. Keep showing up, right? The difference is I keep showing up. Most people fall off a wagon and quit far too soon.  So glad I started and didn't stop, man. Yeah, personal branding can be a little bit intimidating, by the way. I completely agree. It's, I'm in FE2, our older clients, even on YouTube, you'd be surprised. You'd be surprised if I searched on Neil Patel's Uber Suggest, which is a SEO keyword finder. Let me show you guys this real quick. This is powerful for like, okay, is there a market? Is there something available? Can you guys see my screen here? I'm colorblind, but I think we've got a bunch of orange going on. If we search burial insurance in the United States, this keyword is not showing up at all. Well, I promise there's some, maybe it's want me to buy it or something. Let me try a different word or it's just not showing me. Well, it ain't working and showing me anything today. So maybe, maybe don't use Uber Suggest, but normally, and you can check it on your own or later, maybe I used it recently.  And burial insurance is a super highly searched term and only seniors would be posting, would be searching that. So the answer to the question of Patty, yes, the answer is yes. I'm concerned about learning how to edit videos. Here's what you here's what I would do if I was you to start. I wouldn't edit at all. I wouldn't edit at all. Right. I would pull out my camera. I would click start and then you can trim the beginning and the end on the free YouTube editor. Right. So you click start and you're watching because you want to know the seven reasons why you need to buy final expense life insurance. And I'm going to give them to you right now. Step number one. Right. And you just do that. You just have like something like that. Right.  So that because that's, if it was for, if it wasn't, if editing got in the way, I would have never started either, by the way. I didn't edit anything for like the first couple of years, by the way. Court board was nice. Dude, so nice. Such a sexy looking thumbnail, man. So nice. Uh, that's awesome. Video is so scary. You go blank. I did one of the videos for eight percent and you said, you said only 30 seconds and holy cow. It was nerve-wracking Bonnie. Yeah, it can be. It can be, but, but the key is right. Aaron saying it consistency is key. How long should the videos last? For those that don't know, YouTube prefers that videos are at least eight minutes. And most people on YouTube, even our industry, don't even know that. Why? Because YouTube cares about watch time. Why does YouTube care about watch time? Because they play ads on people's videos. The more people watch, the more ads they can show, the more money they can make. So they're not going to promote your 60 second, 90 second, two minute videos. Also, if you look at our YouTube channel now, I go back to my channel and walk through this with you. This is some of the stuff that, if you were doing like a session with my video guide, this is what he would be going over, by the way. We just hit 26,000 subscribers. I think either yesterday or today, by the way, I think we just hit, we were at 25,000 pretty soon, but you can see this is the only video, this two minute one is the only one that's less than like 10 minutes, 940, right? And that's in the last like two weeks, three weeks, 21 videos, 18 videos. And the reason is it's watch time. And you say, okay, I'm kind of worried about talking to a camera for eight minutes. The key with this too, is you got to think about how do you, like the same thing for me when I'm on a webinar, how do you keep their attention during the whole video? Here's a question you should ask yourself before you start the video. What do they want to learn? And what am I going to teach them? And if it's always focused on, because everybody's all everybody's favorite radio station, Laura is WIIFM. What's in it for me? Make it about them. Make it about them. The whole time it's all about them. And I'm focused on delivering content in a way that is good for them. You don't have fancy TVs. You don't have to like you could literally be doing it right there, where all you guys are sitting. No joke. You could be shooting videos exactly like that. Okay. I have my channel by adding to the story. That's right. Grace, I love that. I've been doing live educational events, this AEP, which has certainly boosted my confidence for more personal branding. Good. Good. That's a big key. If you can do that in front of a group of people, trust me, video is easy. Video is easy. Public speaking is tougher than video content. Now that some people do struggle with it, even after speaking a lot live, but the key too is it's easier to keep their attention in person. So you got to think about when you're on video, you got to, you don't have to move faster, but you have to find ways to like keep their attention. Right? And so for me, I've had to learn some of those things over the years. Burial insurance search volume, 9,900 SEO difficulty, 47, paid difficulty, 89, cost click, 1682. Thank you, Brian. That's awesome. I don't know why it would work for me. And there's probably other final expense, funeral. There's probably others that have way more. And I think that's every month by the way. So there's 10,000 people going on and searching burial insurance every single one. And that didn't include all the other search terms they could be using. So that's phenomenal. All right. Who else is like, okay, you know what? I want to know how to grow my Facebook and Instagram following to where I'm actually gaining followers, likes, right? Because I'm asking you guys this stuff because if you look at our Kodiaskins.com website, it has, it has came a long way over the years, right? But, but we get hundreds of agents to go to this website every single day now. Okay. And then if we go to the YouTube thing, right? I'm simple. I'm, we've got, we just hit 26,000 subscribers and we're posting video content almost every day. We try to shoot at least five, we try to post at least five videos a week. Now that's a lot, but I've got a full-time video, two full-time video guys that can help do that in the studio and everything else. Now we look at Facebook and Instagram who would love to be able to gain more attention of people in your marketplace that care about your serve products and services, and you can start to engage with them through social media. Who's like, okay, who's thinking, okay, who's watching and saying, I would love to have 10,000 likes on my Facebook page. And it's not as hard as you think, by the way. There's some things that I can do to specifically help you get there, by the way. Because right now we've got 13,000 likes, 14,000 follows on Facebook, right? If you go look at Instagram, which I use even more now, way more, we're at 25.2,000 followers on Instagram, okay? I guess I had it too close. And we are posting content on Instagram every single day, right? But it's a focus of ours, okay? But Buddy says, okay, because there's some things that you can be doing to where whether you want to gain prospects or recruits, you can do it through social media platforms. Grace, that's good. Perfect. All the above, I love it. And Risi, okay, good. Good, good, good. I'm missing anybody. Anybody saying, okay, you know what? This is what I would like to learn, okay? Okay, good. Now what about what about lead generation? Where, okay, I would like, Cody, I would be open to spending time with you to learn how to start to generate my own leads. I think this is going to be a big one. I think most people are going to respond, yes, this is me. Simply because this is something that most people don't know that they need to know. Especially because it's something that no matter what investment you invest, it's always going to come back in the future. We've spent about $15 million on online, well, maybe more now, but this was a few months ago, on online advertising over the last probably four years. And I can tell you the investments that I've made to learn and to get better and to soak it all up has absolutely came back thousands fold because of all that we know and all that we're doing online, right? Leads to the life of this. That's exactly right, right? If we don't have people coming to us, then we got to start hitting up our warm market again. We got you're asking for referrals, we got to start cold calling, cold door knocking and I really don't believe anybody on here like loves to cold door knock or loves to hit up the warm market. Let's be honest, right? I did, that's the only three things I did by the way as a brand new agent when I was 20, cold calling, cold door knocking, warm market that I find better ways and easier ways to make money, clearly, because I'm not still doing it. However, I didn't know, I didn't know any better. I was a brand new agent. Some of you are like, dude, I'm brand new to the business and I don't know what to do, but maybe I could do that, right? Maybe I could do that, okay? Okay, also I want to ask, I want to go a little deeper into that Legion question though. Who's watching and saying okay, I want to know lead generation, right? I see that, I see a bunch of answers, but do you want it to be Facebook, YouTube or Google AdWords? Facebook ads, YouTube ads, Google AdWords or all three by the way? Because some of us don't, some of us aren't, right? Some of us aren't totally sure. Shannon says all three. Okay, good. Aaron says Facebook and YouTube, which are phenomenal by the way. We're getting some killer traffic from YouTube with ads and Javier, you're exactly right.  Now, they're easier when you have people watching your videos because then you can target video viewers, right? Which makes it easier. Okay, good. No Google. I see that, okay. Well, it's a little, that's a little more complicated, a little more expensive. The most high intent though, haven't even thought about Google AdWords, but definitely, yeah. I mean, I would start there before I moved to Google. Yeah, retargeting. One of the, yes, I love that because a couple of things that we do is like Facebook, for example, if they watch our, if they watch our video, we're building an audience through our pixel to actually retarget people that have watched a certain amount of our video. Like if the video's 60 seconds and you want to retarget people that have watched half, right? Or people that went to your site that didn't fill out the lead form and now you want to get in their face. Hey, why didn't you fill out the lead form? Come back. Okay. YouTube. One of the things we do well is really well now compared to most, probably most people in our space is we, we've had 3 million, I could be off with that. Oh, actually no, 3.5 million. So 3,507,597 views, 3.5 million views on our YouTube channel since December of 2015. We can target all of those views with an ad so that when I show up, like who's seen my YouTube ads, by the way, where you're about to watch a video and I pop up. Okay. The nice thing about the video views is you post organically, you grow that up. And then once you have an audience of people that have watched your videos, thousands of people, in our case, hundreds of thousands now, you can retarget that audience with another video of your face. So there's some facial recognition, which gets, they're more likely to listen to you and actually take action later. That's why the organic piece, most people try to do it without or the organic piece. You can do it, that's fine, but it works better if you have the organic piece working first. When organic, I mean, okay, actually, I have a YouTube channel, I'm posting videos, I'm putting out content, I'm trying to get viewed by people in the marketplace, and then I'm gonna hit them up with an ad after they've watched, after they've, after they're, you know, familiar with me. If I have more confidence in my video presence, I would say YouTube. Okay, good. Yeah, I mean, it's important for sure, for sure, for sure. And it will totally, it will totally pay off. That's the nice thing about everything that we do ad-wise is it will eventually pay off. Okay, good. All right, here's a few of the things that I wanted to go over, which is, before we get to questions. So if you have questions, like Erin's, thank you for that, throw them in chat. Okay, I want to spend another 25 minutes or so answering questions. So go ahead and start throwing questions in chat. Here's a few things that we've learned.  Okay. What we've learned after spending, it's definitely north of 15 million, because we managed some clients, but then you got to think about all of our team that's actually managing everything for us too. So it's different. I've learned that being a person of interest, right, some people don't want to use the word influencer, you know, but I'm 30, so maybe I'm old now, maybe I can't use that word either, but I promise you, it's better for people to be coming to you than for you to be going to people. It just is, right? That's what we've learned. Okay, it's easier. It's easier to close the deal, by the way. Do you want to have to use the no-call-back close and like put them in a freaking headlock and, you know, take them down? Or do you want them to be like, yeah, dude, I saw your video and I want to buy life insurance. Like who would like that freaking lead? Like that's a rare freaking lead, right? That's a lead. That's not it. I mean, that's a high intent lead, because most of us already hate like all the leads in the marketplace anyway, because we never know if the lead's like ready to buy or not ready to buy, or like I just wanted the free guide, you know, you never know, right? Well, those, that's like an eight, nine, or a 10. Like they are ready for a quote, right? Which is, which is unique. I love it when the random calling comes on its own. Exactly, exactly, exactly, exactly. Other thing we've learned is the first five seconds of everything you do matters. The first five seconds, by the way, okay? Simon's up there taking notes, man. I love it. Good to see you, buddy. It's all about, not the same Simon's in the UK, by the way. Is that you? Or a different one? Yes, love it. Okay, good, buddy. Good to see you, man. Appreciate you being here. It's, I don't know what time, what time is it over there? Oh, I can't hear you. I guess I could look, but 21 36. Okay, you see you're nice. So nine. Okay, so six hours ahead. Okay, love it. Love it. That's awesome. That's commitment, man. Almost 10 o'clock at night. This dude's like, I'm in. I'm committed. I want to win. We've learned the first five seconds matters. Attention is everything. And when I'm doing something, here's a little secret. When you're putting out videos, you just want 70%. I paid to learn this, what I'm about to teach you, by the way. Some of you are going to leave saying, ah, he didn't teach us nothing. Well, there's been some nuggets. This is whether you heard them or not. Okay. Okay. When you're shooting a video, you hope that 70% are still watching after 60 seconds. That's your goal. That's your target. Now that's a hard target to hit. And I don't always hit it. And you guys know me. I jump out with some freaking energy at the beginning of a video. And it's gotten even wilder now, but it's authentic. And it's me because people can see through you not being real and raw. Right? Like if I was one way on a video, and a different way here, it kind of be weird. Right? It can be weird. First five seconds, imperative. First 60 seconds, the next most important. And what you're doing is I spend those first five seconds, aggressive, controversial, something to get in their face, something to get their attention. Right? Bert says, if you don't have a message that repels half the audience, you're never going to attract half. Okay. And in those first 60 seconds, I'm telling them what they're going to learn and why they should keep watching. And then I'm diving into the content. Like that's the outline for me. That's the check. That's the boxes that I'm checking as I'm jumping into a video. Right? Okay. And then the third thing that we've learned is I can't do it all on my own. I can't do it all on my own. Because why? I'll probably fall off the wagon every once in a while. Now I may get back on 30 days later, but I see people on YouTube that start, they post videos, and they take three weeks off. The YouTube algorithm does not like that. Facebook, Instagram, whatever you're Google, whatever you're using, they do not, they do not like that. Right? They want consistent, creative, constant content that is caring that people care about. Right? Those are all the C's that I, that check our, that we check off the boxes for. Right? Is it creative? Are we consistent? Do we care? Are we giving them what they want? Right? What's in it for them? I'm a professional at falling off the wagon. Well, the other alternative is being a professional at not falling off. Branding through content marketing is certainly what I want to do more of, but of course this takes time. So what is the fastest way to immediately start generating leads post AEP? I would think Facebook marketing. Yeah, I would agree. I would agree. I've decided what my goals are, but I found myself, found myself overwhelmed in the amount of ways to get there. I'm trying to decide which avenue is more me and then dive in. It's overwhelming, but I think once I decide, yeah, I think, I think I would agree too. I've also got something I want to walk through with you guys real quick that we are, that we have not promoted other than the mentorship program. Very few people know about this and I'm going to reward you guys for showing up right now. Okay. This is a, for those that are like, okay, this is very overwhelming. I don't know what to do. I don't know how to start. Can everybody see this? Okay, by the way. Okay, this is called our business boost. It's got nearly $75,000 worth of value in it. We charge an onboarding fee to do this, but for the first five that see it tonight, we're not going to charge an onboarding fee. And what this looks like is it's a 12 month program. The first month, you're getting access to strategize with my team. Okay. And if you're like, okay, I'm curious. I want to read more. You can go to kodiaskins.com forward slash deals, forward slash deals, and you can throw that in the chat. Also, second month is a social media kit with our social media coordinator. Third month is a YouTube starter pack. Right. I want to start my own YouTube, but I don't want it to look poor and I want to use your team.  And then we're going to blast it out to our 50,000 YouTube subscribers, 50,000 subscribers on our email list. Okay. Fifth month, that's where we're actually, well, I'm, you're spending time learning Facebook advertising through our courses and our team, to where you can get some online support from them so that you can actually learn how to do your own lead generation. Sixth month is all about increasing Facebook likes. I can show you how to get to 10,000 Facebook likes. No doubt about it. Seventh month is video coaching and consulting.  Eighth month is increasing Instagram followers. I can definitely show you a ways to increase your Instagram following very quickly, by the way. Ninth month is a web, a brainstorming session with my guide, Brett, that's my main web guy, on ads, click funnels, webinars, courses, and more, whatever you want to learn. He will spend time showing you what we do for me and how it can apply for you. Tenth month is Instagram DMs. This is a way for you to actually send 25,000 direct messages through Instagram that we use and we do. And that's how we got 50 to 60 new leads this weekend by sending those out. Those can be for prospects or recruiting, by the way. And you will have people literally messaging you saying, like, I had people messaging me this weekend with the word agent because they wanted to learn how to increase their closing rate by 30 to 40%. They were coming to me, not the other way around. The eleventh month is actually where I'm at.  How do we take it to another level?  And then the twelfth month, that's where you actually come to the office. We have lunch. You have some studio time with the team to actually start recording some content as well. And we can actually promote and create a video from your visit.  So this is a business boost program. This is a total value of $75,000 over the course of one single year. We're only charging $497 a month. We were normally going to charge a $2,000 onboarding and setup fee, a $2,000 onboarding and setup fee that I am not going to charge for the first five people that want to jump in on this specific program and spend time with me and my team on boosting your business and helping you and teaching you over the next 12 months how to get really good at all of this. This is my vision board to do by the end of 2021. I love that. That's awesome. One of the questions was what aspects of building a brand via content marketing? You should ask someone to pay someone to handle. That's dope. Thanks, Javier. Appreciate it, buddy. Yeah, this is, this is the, my team thought I was nuts for pricing it at less than 500 bucks a month because of how much like knowledge and access is in that. My team was very surprised. But you know what? We'll start here. We'll help, we'll help, you know, a handful of agents and we'll see where it goes from there. I think the best way too is to brand via content marketing is to pay someone for, if you weren't going to do something like this, would probably eventually be a, probably eventually a video editor just so that it scales up the perceived value of the brand, right? Because if our website's nicer, if our YouTube channel looks better, if it's actually got some social proof and credibility, like it's actually got followers and likes and people are watching our stuff and the content looks good, then people perceive you differently by the way. They just do, right? They just do. And a lot of people nowadays don't realize the brand perception that they're putting off with what they're putting out in the market. Like we don't put stuff out anymore that looks poorly, or if we do, we yank it down quick because I'm like, that's not okay, right? It's a reflection of me and it's not good. I love this mentorship program and the other deals teach so much more than I've learned in six months with my company. Wow, thank you so much. That's good. Is this one-on-one or a master class? Jennifer, this is one-on-one. That month 11 is a one-on-one session with me. Month 12, you'll actually be one-on-one with me. I'm here at the office. That's not like a group thing. And then some of the team sessions along the way are all just with you, right? So it's not a master class. It's not a group thing. It's a lot of individual attention. We've got a project manager that's actually going to manage and communicate with each and every person every single month to make sure that they are delivering. Because one thing I do not like to do is to offer anything to the marketplace that I am not over-delivering on and that I can't over-deliver on, right? That's just a personal core value of mine. How many YouTube videos should I film before making the channel public? One. One. Yep, just one. You could actually put up the channel and then post the video later, by the way. You could. I think one of the things most people make the mistake of when they start a channel like that, by the way, is their channel art or their little profile header circle look cheesy or look poor. Not that they look poor, just that the quality of the content looks poor. So that's the stuff I would hire out or I would join a business boost program like this for $4.97 a month. One a week, is that something feasible? Absolutely. I think it's a great place to start. Unless you one video a week, man. I think it's great. I think it's a phenomenal place to start. I really do. I really, really do. I also had, I decided my goals, what my goals are, but I found myself overwhelmed by the amount of waste to get there. I'm trying to decide which avenue is more me and the diamond is overwhelming. Yeah, that's for sure. I've loved this. Okay, good. Good. Any other questions? Any other questions? And who's watching saying, you know what? I'm not all the way committing, but I have a little bit of interest in your business boost program after I'm seeing it. I'm not saying I'm committing or saying yes tonight, but I have a little bit of interest and I would like to talk a little bit more about it. And that's not me holding you to it. That's just you saying, hey, if you can help me in my business, it's worth, you know, a measly 497 a month to start to elevate a little bit, right? And to have someone, Mark says, okay, good. Good. Appreciate you guys. Thank you. And again, that's just, that's just, hey, it looks intriguing. I don't know what I'm doing. And let's have a conversation about it, you know, which is huge for a lot of people, because some of us just need, some of us need someone to help hold us accountable. That's what the great thing about this program is. I didn't even mention that it comes with a monthly live Q&A with me. Like I'm going to be holding you accountable over the next 12 months. And I wish I would have had someone to help me hold me accountable for those first 12 months, because the first 12 months are the hardest. Once you start seeing 300 people are on and you're getting tens, you're getting tens of thousands of views in six months, 12 months, then it's easier to keep moving because the snowball, it's a snowball, right? It builds, it grows, which is cool, which is, which is that's one of the neatest parts, by the way. It's awesome. Good, Aaron. I love that. Yeah. Either way, buddy, there's some, there's some amazing things that Security Marketing can do from a, from a full content perspective where you don't have to touch nothing, right? A little more expensive. However, we can literally, our whole team can edit, post, right? All those type of things. We also have a new mini website builder called a seed site to where you can actually start out with a website, an initial website that you can add to and grow later, just like, okay, I want something up that looks pretty. And it's called initial seed site for only 500 bucks. It's like a starter kit for someone that has no website at all.  Land and priced it. I'm not saying I agree with the pricing, but you know, it's cheap. So there you go. Farron's just totally interested in it already. Appreciate the honesty. And so for a lot of us, it's like half the year free by waving the onboarding. That's exactly right. That's one of the big reasons we're doing that is because we want a few to, we want a few to jump on and we want to get to the 12 months so I can go to the office for a visit. That's right. Laura, I would love that. That'd be fantastic. Totally agree. Thanks, Jennifer. That's me, Cody. I just feel like all too overwhelming for me. And although I know this is where my attention is going, I don't know how committed I can be. That's the thing too. Once you commit, I hold people accountable. I will not let you fail. However, it can't help you till you commit. I just can't. Timing is right for me right now. I'm going to just put you down and say, okay, I have interest, but it's not a good time. Overwhelmed right now, I'm very tired. It's a lot of people, it's easy to get that way when you feel like you're having to do it all by the way. That's where not having a team and feeling, I used to feel extremely overwhelmed. And most of you would think with all the stuff that I'm doing and releasing and all the YouTube videos and all the social posts and all the webinars and the conferences and the events and the marketing company and the two sales teams, yada, yada, yada, right. Most people think that I get exhausted or that I've got like, or that I get overwhelmed. I really don't because we have a team that manages everything that I don't want to do.  Now that don't mean I wanted to really do an Iron Man. That was just more of a challenge to my personal challenge to myself to get to get in crazy good shape. So I still wake myself up everywhere. Everyone's small for sure. Do you say there was another program planned for 197 a month or is this I couldn't see it in your deals page? If there is, I don't know what it is. I'm not saying we don't have something like that. I just, if that's the case, I don't know what it is. That's probably our sales system, I'm guessing. Very dope, but 12 months is too long. I'm running already. Also, you've taught me a lot of this. It's true, buddy. Yeah, we've, Javier is doing some one-on-one coaching with me. He's actually paid for Legion Consulting and then came back and paid for some additional one-on-one consulting. The success sighting membership. That's true, Laura. That's true. Yep. I get overwhelmed by the cost of things, but I realized it's to make me the best agent I can be investing in myself. I have a lot of my plate, family-wise, financial-wise, switching companies-wise, so I can feel everyone's pain. Totally agree. All been freaking amazing. Thanks Javier. Appreciate that, buddy. Yeah, Javier, I would love for you to answer two things real quick, buddy. One, what you are trying to become in the marketplace. And then two, you've paid for some of the things that we do. And I would love for you to share your honest thoughts and opinion of what you've paid for. See if I can find them. The pre-need machine. Javier, are you there, bro? Is it letting you unmute? Yo, yo, can you hear me? And? Can you hear me? Yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay, repeat the question. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm curious. What your intentions are and what you're planning on doing and trying to become in the marketplace and how you're going to get there, right? And then two, because I think it's special to talk something into existence and put it out there. I think a lot of people, that's how you help yourself commit, by the way. And then two, you mentioned that you have paid for some things that we do. And I would love for you to comment on that and how the response has been. Yeah, sure. So to answer the first question, you know, straight up, I called Cody. I said, Hey, I want to be the Cody askings of pre-need. I'm in pre-need currently.  There's not enough people like Cody out there. So that was my goal. And I pretty much paid for, paid to narrow that 12 month program down to a few weeks. For the most part, I've paid for the lead generation. And as of right now, I run my whole agency on that knowledge. You know, all of the Facebook knowledge I learned from Cody, I'm now able to scale that and run my whole business. I've got a, I mean, I've got an agency of about seven people only, but, you know, we all use that knowledge. So it's been the value's been, you know, I can't even put a put a number on it. That's awesome, buddy. Thank you. Appreciate that. He's obviously doing some special stuff. He's a good dude. He's out in Cali, soaking up the sun and selling funeral plans left and right, man, left and right. That's right. And Cody's the man. I love it, buddy. Thank you, bro. Appreciate that. All right. Yes, Jennifer. Absolutely. We can definitely do that.  I'm supposed to play basketball later tonight. So I'm going to hang out at the office till then. Any, what questions do you guys have for me? Any questions, right? If there's something that's been on your mind, okay, Cody, why do you do this with social? When it comes to YouTube, how did you do this, this, this and this, or why this, why the conference, right? Why the masterminds, why the retreats? What's the best way to generate leads? Like if there's a question that you are going to leave here tonight saying I wish I would have asked, now is the time to ask it. Okay. Now is the time to ask it. Okay. What do you see? When do you see a return for your investment? I know it's long term. When do you see a return for, and Jennifer, are you referring to business boost? Are you referring to just putting out content? Are you referring to how do you pick your topics for videos? Great question. That's one of the things Dylan's going to go through in the video coaching and consulting with you. However, I'd like to, I like to list out all the things that are important to the people that are watching. So if you're targeting Medicare beneficiaries, what do they want to learn? What do they need to know and map out your first 10 videos, 25 videos, right? Like I've done that before and I've mapped out a hundred different videos before because I'm like, okay, what do they need to know? What do they want to learn? And then put out that content. Now, once you have an audience, then they start putting out comments telling you what they want you to do videos on, which happens all the time to us, all the time. So then we use that to start to help us put those out. Okay. Okay. Content social media. Yeah. I started to see a return. I would say it's going to probably take six to 12 months. It's probably going to take six to 12 months when it comes to specifically social. When it comes to YouTube and content, probably going to take it at least a year for being honest, right? But think about this, November 29th, 2021, where would you like to be? That's the real question, right? That's the real question, Mr. Vic. I'm sitting here, January, November 29th, 2021. A year later, what did I accomplish? How did I move my agency forward in a positive way? What did I do over the last 12 months? It has been a brand left. What have I changed? What have I implemented? Or did I just float through and do the same thing and be in the same spot as I was a year ago? Because I know nobody really wants that, by the way. Just to make you think a little, we're approaching, we are approaching our summer and have 60 days to prepare for the tough 2021 to concentrate a media plan, what program within CA should my company take? What would you like to learn, Mark? What would you like to learn? Can I speak? Yeah, please, please, buddy. Yeah, please. We are a pretty large company. We are a wholesaler in which we lead over 500 agents from all different niches, one that do life insurance, other PNC, corporate business, small and medium accounts. So I would love to develop, I'm the commercial, the chief commercial officer for the whole group, and I would like to develop a program for all of them. Like a sales training program or something different? Right. Also, including also train, yeah, also. Okay. How to lead everybody specific in each, in their niches? Yep. Good. I think the one thing that most people need is constant. They need sales training, but they need, most people forget how often you need to re-enthuse your sales team and how much you need to re-motivate them. So for me, we've got a bunch of companies that are not only on our CA sales system, which is daily sales training for a team, but we also have companies that I actually come on once a month, twice a month, or just for a quarter or whatever, 90 days, to actually motivate and enthuse their team and jack them up. And so a lot of times me, with your company, with your team, with those 500 agents, I promise you they will think bigger and different in 2021 after we spend some time together. Yep. Great question, buddy. Thank you. That's where I see a lot, by the way, of companies doing now. What do you do to pick your target market to prepare for beginning, beginning for your marketing ads or videos, et cetera. That's a phenomenal question. That's a phenomenal question. I think that I typically like to recommend that people do pick the niche that they enjoy doing the most, that they're going to more likely see it through to its conclusion, right, to the end. Oh, Brian, you had your hand up, by the way. I don't know why I just now saw that. Did you want to jump in at all, man? I just raised it when you said, is anyone interested in the coaching program for boosting the business? I'm sorry, I shouldn't have typed it. No, perfect, buddy. That's awesome. Thank you. Thank you. I'll make sure I put you down. Make sure they got you down. Thank you, man. Appreciate that. That's an easier way to do it. Just raising the hand. I like that. I like that. I'm going to remember that next time. Good to hear from you, buddy. All right. How different is YouTube ad creation from Facebook ads? It is a little different. I would say that it's more focused on the actual video itself pertaining specifically to the audience that you're targeting and then the landing page of where you're sending them to. Or what's like most people, you can put together a decent video. I can give you scripts and ideas and that's what the business boost is all about. But if you think about it, what does that look like? Where are you sending them? What's the end goal? And does it look really professional and really good? And I think that's where most people forget they send them to their website. You don't want to send an ad to your website. You can send them to a page on your website maybe, but the biggest mistake I made was I was sending people directly to the home page of my website.  I made that mistake for a while, by the way, but when I first started using Google AdWords. Instead, you need to be sending them to a landing page or whatever page they're specifically interested in. That's the biggest piece that most people forget about. It's easy to do, by the way, easy to do. That's I love Myra's question. How do you handle the trolls or negative comments? To be honest, it used to bother me, but you get used to it. You get used to it. I mean, what's hilarious is you guys want to hear something. I had on that on that on that on that TikTok, I put up, I had some comments and one person said, this is why my insurance premiums are so high because of this cash dropping from the ceiling, which makes zero sense, but who cares? They charge 5,000 a person for people to get in. People are calling for money. These people are definitely involved in a Ponzi scheme. All these ridiculous comments, right?  You really do. I guess to the honest opinion is you just get used to it, but also, I don't ever feed back to them. When someone is a negative comment, I'm just going to be nice back. I'm not going to feed in to them trying to ruin my day. I think a lot of people get caught up in that, I got to defend myself. You really don't. You really don't. I have a personal brand name and logo about to be done. I want to start the podcast. I'm struggling with things to talk about. I have two directions, educated about PNC life or educated on how I see them sales. We need a second option, but I want to get business from this. I don't know if insurance 101 only videos would cut it.  Also, it could be about a totally different topic that's a hobby of yours, but you're known as the insurance lady or something. It doesn't always have to be what people think. I think that's one thing that can help. For example, I had a fantasy football radio show on the local ESPN radio station here in Springfield, Missouri, for like three years. We used to get recruits and sell policies because of that radio show. We got insurance leads, but we talked about fantasy football. Most people don't realize the benefits that come from that. For me, it also helped me from a local personal brand standpoint. I was in 20 minutes away, about to walk into the pool the other day to go swim at six in the morning on a Saturday. A guy that I didn't know was like, hey, CA. I'm like, no clue who this person is. I'm in my local city. We don't really focus on our local market, but everything you're doing will end up helping in other ways. That's a good point. Are the elderly always going to be more locked into television? Would you ever do TV commercials? TV commercials are good, but I would buy them from someone. That would just buy TV leads from someone that's already doing commercials. I wouldn't pay for the spot unless you did it through, for example, Justin Brock spends a bunch of money on TV. Scourage and marketing actually manages his TV for him, but you need some budget. You've got to have thousands of dollars a month to even consider that. Great question. On a personal brand, what happens when it's a couple that owns the agency? Oh, I see what you're saying. It could be a company. It didn't have to be always be a personal brand, or it can be a combo, or each person has their own. That's a tough one to answer actually. Let me think about that one. Thanks, Pavir. I want to learn the quickest way to get my business to point where I am forced to hire more producers. I currently have one producer and we are in the Medicare and Health Insurance Market, awesome. We're primarily Medicare. Quickest way to get my business to a point where I'm focused to hire producers. If you were automating your prospecting part of the business, then you'd have to focus on that and you showed up and had appointments on the books and you were focused on actually building the other side of the business while just selling. I think that's kind of where my mind goes. It's like, okay, how do we leverage your time so that you're spending your time on the best use of your time so that you can start to actually start to grow and hire more producers? Now, hiring producers is not as easy or fun as people think. However, it's not bad either, though, so it's not bad.  Managing and training sales teams is basically what I do within these four walls. That's it. I promote every, I just promote and manage the sales team. This is a former promotion, by the way, educating in hopes that someone wants to do business with us. It's a webinar. For your business, you can be doing the same thing, by the way. It didn't say the webinar model works well for me and it can work well for you, but it's got to be an off title that still relates to what you're going to be talking about or what the end goal is. Besides coaching, how much should I spend with ads, etc. per month? It really depends on the goal, the target, how many leads you want, what your budget is, how much income you bring in. I would say if the goal is to drive leads, you're going to spend at least, gosh, I would say at least 12 to two grand a month minimum, and that's pretty low, by the way. If it was my husband and I, I would make it competitive between you two publicly. That's good. Whose tips do you like better structured around your relationship? That's fun. Nostalgia, that's a great idea actually. I really like that. That's really good. Good, good, good, good. All right, any other questions for me? Appreciate you guys being here. We are recording this, so I'll make sure that we get out a copy. By the end of the day, this was all about, okay, how do you get more attention in a marketplace so that people come to you so it makes the sales piece easier and then you're able to scale your business in a systematic way that delivers results. Like I know now how many leads we're going to get, how many people are going to come into our funnels, how many subscribers we're going to get on YouTube this month. Like when you start to know the numbers, it becomes much, you can start to plan ahead and it becomes a much more systematic and strategic. It really, really does, right? But it all, it wasn't always that way, but it took some time. You have a program about training admins and salespeople. Yes, if it fits, if it fits in some regards to sales, yes, we have a CRCA sales system that would do exactly that. It would do exactly that. So, okay. All right, appreciate you guys being on. Thank you for joining tonight. This morning, late tonight, wherever you're at, around the world, Argentina, UK, etc. Okay, actually, one more quick. Best tool to get, so my team would say build brand to be known. Would they want to work with me? Use indeed. Facebook jobs indeed. And you need to be very, very active at posting content locally so that you start to attract other people that want to work with you. Because I get people every week that want to like take me to locally, the one like take me to lunch or they want a job or something. Why? Because they see me putting out content and talking about everything constantly. And people are attracted to energy. By the way, energy is attractive. Energy is attractive. Okay. You got it. Great question. Okay. Appreciate you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.  Let's go boost your business. Let's go scale your business. Let's go dominate 2021. Have a great year 2020. Appreciate you being on and we'll talk soon. Okay. Thank you guys so much. Hey, if you enjoyed this, I got another one you're going to love. It's right there. Click on it. See you in there. I have four boards up here. We don't have that much time today. I love to talk. By the way, talk all day.


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Usually, you're expected to identify and analyze the arguments made in the readings you do for your courses and assignments. In this video, we'll give some tips on how you can do that effectively. Let's start with how to identify arguments. An argument is a formal way to make a point in academic writing. When reading, you'll need to identify arguments to properly understand the main points the author is making. There are two ways you usually do this. First, in many paragraphs, there's a topic sentence that states the main claim or argument of the paragraph. This is normally the first sentence. Other sentences provide more detail, reasons, and evidence to support the argument made in the topic sentence. Here's a sample paragraph. In this case, the first sentence, reflective writing can help students become better thinkers, is the topic sentence and states the claim or main argument for the paragraph. The next sentence expands a little on the argument, and the last sentence provides support by setting a research study. If you can see that the writer is using topic sentences, you can get the main arguments by reading the first sentence of each paragraph. Not all paragraphs have topic sentences, though. If not, you have to work a little harder to figure out what the main argument is. First, you need to identify what the important ideas are, then look at what they have in common, then summarize that to get the main point. Here's an example. It's a short paragraph that doesn't have a topic sentence. Instead it has two sentences, each of which makes a claim. The first claim is that people who live near coal-fired plants are exposed to more radiation than those living near nuclear plants. The second is that nuclear energy production results in fewer yearly deaths than coal production. What these have in common are examples where nuclear energy is safer than coal-fired energy. In summary, the main argument of this paragraph, then, is that nuclear energy is safer. The papers you read will have arguments at every level. First there will be the thesis, or main argument of the paper. Then there will be different sections, each with one main argument that supports the thesis. Each section will have paragraphs, each with the main argument that supports the argument of the section. It's important to get a sense of the bigger arguments being made, as well as how the smaller arguments contribute to them. Once you've identified the main arguments, you're expected to analyze them. To analyze arguments, you need to look at the supporting evidence presented to you. Look at the evidence critically and ask questions. Is the evidence sound and convincing? How does it compare with other arguments and evidence you've read? Is there a different explanation possible based on the evidence? People can make very different claims and support them with similar evidence, so it's important to think about their reasoning. In our first sample paragraph, support is given by citing a study that found that students who wrote in journals weekly could analyze course material better. This appears to be a credible study based on original research, and the findings logically connect to and support the main point, which is that reflective writing helps students to be better thinkers. In our second sample paragraph, the author mentions a paper in the journal Science but doesn't give any details or citations. That means we can't evaluate how sound the evidence is. Without more detail, we can't be sure that this evidence supports the claim effectively and can't know how sound the argument is. In summary, to effectively analyze arguments, we need to understand how well the supporting evidence backs them up. That's how to identify and analyze arguments in your reading. You can also use these tips though in your own writing to improve your papers. Make sure you have a main point for each section of your paper, and state it clearly in a topic sentence. Then make sure you support your argument effectively with good evidence from sources. You can find out more about creating arguments and supporting them in our other videos at library.wlu.ca slash help slash tutorials. If you have any questions, ask us at library.wlu.ca slash help slash ask us.