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My background as a venture capitalist.

So what I started doing, I was Oh, we didn't know that.

He's a venture capitalist.

Wasn't he selling lawn care services?

Cold calling lawn care services?

He was.

He's a venture capitalist?

That is.

I'm not saying that about him, little tidbit.

Wow, I had no idea.

Wow.

He's a venture capitalist.

What qualifies you as that?

Yeah, you're a venture capitalist like I was a morning talk show host on radio.

I started looking at all of these platforms from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, you know, the Better Business Bureau, Google, Yahoo, Bing, Alignable.

I invested in all of them.

Bing.

The next episode of the Commercial Break starts now.

Oh, yeah, Cats and Kittens, welcome back to the Commercial Break.

I'm Brian Greene.

This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Kristen Joy Hoadley.

Best of you, Chris.

Best of you, Brian.

The best of you out there in the podcast universe.

How the hell are you?

Thank you for joining us.

We all are now going to go through another round of

fantastic hype and hyperbole as Taylor Swift has announced on not this podcast, but another podcast, that she will be releasing her 13th studio album.

Known as Showgirls.

I think that's right.

Showgirls?

Showgirl cover or something like that something having to do with showgirls and now the speculation the decoding see

taylor swift did something extremely smart early on in her career and i'm sure that she did this

i'm sure that she did this in little bits and pieces but then it became its own thing and now probably has much help with from a lot of different people Although I don't know.

Maybe Taylor does this all on her own.

I highly doubt it, but okay.

Taylor Swift has built an entire mythology around her music.

It's no, it's not just about the music.

To be a Swifty is to be a detective, a MacGyver of the coded messages that she's always sending, and this is and that's and the other things.

Yeah, and here's how I know that because I live with a bunch of Swifties, yes, you do,

and that's okay with me, I'm okay with that.

But here's how wild this goes.

You ready for this?

Yeah, she's on her boyfriend's podcast, uh, Travis and uh, Jason, Kelsey.

She's on their podcast.

It is

previewed a couple of days ahead of time in some reels, and then it's going to stream.

The podcast has already been recorded, but it's going to stream.

See, on YouTube, when you're a creator, you can put a video on and then you can put a countdown on that video.

You can say it's going to release at midnight on this night, and then the countdown starts.

It can start two hours, three hours ahead of time, I think.

We did this a couple of times.

And I was the only one waiting for the video to come on.

But supposedly, YouTube is supposed to like, you know, favor the algorithm favors it.

Not for people like us, but for people like them.

Yes.

And millions of people were waiting for the stream to come on of this recorded podcast.

It crashed YouTube's server.

So for a period of time, there were people who couldn't get on.

Yeah, anything Taylor does is just an event.

And everybody knew that she was there not for shits and giggles, but for a purpose.

And so she discussed how she bought her catalog back from Scooter Braun.

So she gave a little juice there.

But then she went on kind of like a soliloquy after being asked a question.

She announced her album.

That girl is booked and busy.

I mean, she doesn't stop.

Good for her.

Go, girl.

Listen, I think Taylor is a badass girl boss.

I think in order to be a badass girl boss, you got to step on a couple heads along the way.

I think she's done that.

I think she's legaled up.

I think she's PR'd up.

I think not everything is as it seems, but that is how everybody plays the game.

And so good for her, because there's no doubt about one thing about Taylor Swift.

By all accounts, it's her that's driving the bus.

Yes, exactly.

It's not some manufactured, I mean,

not manufactured.

She wasn't created in some lab like a lot of pop artists are.

She has been in charge of her own career.

And so for that,

there's no credit to be taken away from her.

I like Taylor Swift.

I think what she's done with her career has been quite amazing.

I do too.

And I think she represents that.

She lays it all out there.

Yeah.

And I think she represents a positive image largely

for girls around the world.

And having girls, I can't argue that they like Taylor Swift.

I'm like, okay, like Taylor Swift.

She's an entity.

She's a brand.

She's a business.

She doesn't, she's not out there, you know.

crashing cars and right you know she's just she makes mistakes like everybody else does and like I said, she's legaled up.

She's PR'd up.

She will sue you if you're on the wrong side of her.

Her team will go after you.

She is a business and a brand.

She is highly protected.

And in that sense, I think that there's some manufacturing that goes on.

There's some bubble that she lives in.

But okay, whatever.

That's not the point.

The point is she goes on some soliloquy.

And in that soliloquy, she starts explaining how she loves her shows.

She loves when people get together.

She says, you know, I always am trying to message the fans and let them know if you're paying attention.

You'll know that, you know, hey, you may not even be paying attention to the lights that are upside down, that are, you know, in braille or whatever I might be, you know, whatever it might be.

She's like,

she's just talking in assumptions.

She's not saying anything specific, she's just giving a conversation.

To which most people would just fall asleep at this part, not fall asleep like

I'm not paying attention to what she's saying, but you're just listening to her.

But because Swifties are Swifties and they know nothing is as it seems with the mythology of Taylor Swift, one person went out and said, why did she say that the lights were upside down and braille?

And they went and they took video footage of her concert.

And they found that at the very, very top of her stage, almost insignificant lighting, colored lighting, a little strip of colored lighting.

And that strip of colored lighting was just flashing random nonsense and colors.

And so they screenshotted all of those throughout the show.

They turned them right side up.

They put them into chat TCB and then they decoded them as if they were braille.

And what it came up with was a love note to Travis.

A love note to Travis that some people believe may be the track listing for her next album, which is unbelievable.

She also then.

God, she went that far.

And can I just say that whenever I was talking about these two two years ago?

Whenever they first moved to them.

Two, three years ago.

Yeah, yeah.

And I said, I hope they make it.

And they are really, I think they're doing a fantastic job of navigating the spotlight.

It must be so incredibly difficult.

While it all seems, it all seems very,

you know, like it all seems very light and fluffy on the surface.

It must be incredibly difficult to be in the belly of the beast 24 hours a day, no sleep, no sunshine, always under the spotlight, never left alone.

That's got to be really hard.

Astrid and I know what that's like.

And

it's challenging.

It's taxing.

I'm surprised Astrid and I are weathering it as well as we do, quite frankly.

And you guys are doing a great job, too.

Yes, our next episode will stream at midnight tonight, and I expect all three of you will be watching.

Yeah, if our lights are upside down, it's just our mistake.

Yeah, our lights are upside down on purpose, on mistake, yeah, on purpose by mistake.

Yeah, um,

but one of the other interesting things that happened is that, and this was brought to my attention by Tom Papa.

Tom put out a reel where he showed a clip of Taylor talking about her new love of sourdough bread.

Ooh, yeah.

And sourdough bread is quite trendy right now because sourdough is called an old bread.

It's like one of the old yeasts that's going around.

I don't fucking know.

It's been trendy since COVID, really.

Everybody has sourdough.

Everybody has sourdough starter.

Yeah.

I love sourdough bread since the moment I tasted it.

Yeah, me too.

I love it.

First time I tasted it was I worked in a restaurant and they had it.

And I just, I'm all about it.

It's so good.

Yeah, I'll take it every time.

But San Francisco, of course, is the home of sourdough bread.

I think there were monks in San Francisco that used to make the sourdough bread and then they would sell the yeast, the starter yeast.

Guess where the next Super Bowl is going to be?

San Francisco.

And so Taylor started talking about that and then saying some other additional things like 49,000.

She dropped the number 49,000 for some reason.

And I guess this is Super Bowl 49 or something like that.

It's 51,000.

49ers.

49ers.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, 49ers.

And then she dropped another number, and it was the number of the Super Bowl that it was going to be.

She dropped a lot of hints that the Swifties picked up on, and there's whole reels that decode it, like, you know, putting the string together like the guy from It's Always Sunny, you know, just like decoding it.

And it appears that she's trying to allude that she's probably going to

be this Super Bowl

halftime entertainment show that's coming up January, which they have not announced yet.

Of course, Ludacris has been asking for a while to be the halftime show.

So sorry, Ludacris.

Yeah.

Not going to be you.

It's going to be Taylor Swift.

Anybody else will be bumped.

Who else?

Who else?

If Taylor's involved.

Name another artist that could bump.

Taylor Swift.

I don't know one.

I don't know of one.

Beyonce would be the only other one that I think is her caliber.

If Whitney Houston came back from the grave, I think that's the only reason that they would bump Taylor Swift, if I'm being real honest.

I think that's the only thing that Roger Goodell wants to see in any of the corporate sponsors.

And if she is the halftime show, then the dollar amounts for the advertising will be higher than they have ever been, probably by 15 or 20%.

And the viewership will be the highest that it's ever been, certainly for the halftime show, if not for the entire Super Bowl.

That will be the event of the century.

You know, listen, Taylor's does it again.

If I were Taylor's Taylor's PR people,

as I've discussed before in the past, I would take a break.

I would tell Taylor to take a break, take a year or two off, and then get back to it.

But,

you know, I'm not her PR people, and thank God I'm not because I'm the PR person for the commercial break.

It hasn't worked out all that well.

So she's a creative person.

She just keeps creating.

It's her high output time, and she's out there high outputting, if you don't mind.

13 studio albums, and she's only, what, 34 years old, something like that?

Yeah, something like that.

Yeah, wow.

that's a body that's a body of work and in the music

industry that's like putting together 900 episodes of a podcast it really is and before that she was just a songwriter so you know there's a lot of people that have sung her songs

I was just watching that last night, as we're recording this last night, there's a country artist called Kane Brown.

Not familiar with any of his work.

I just learned about him this second.

But he was playing a small club in Nashville, and she showed up last night to play songs

with Kane Brown.

And you can imagine the people who are in the audience.

Like, that's

a Mutterloe jackpot.

Yes, that's not 33 Willie.

Brian Green joins, you know, Corey Feldman on stage.

That's not Corey Feldman joins Limb Biscuit for the song.

That's unbelievable.

And I saw the video of it, and as soon as she came out on stage, you couldn't see her if you were in the crowd because all you could see is the phone of somebody else.

I mean, just I understand.

I totally get it.

I get in this circumstance, I totally get it.

But still, if I'm there, I'm probably wanting to see Taylor Swift.

Like, you know, I'm probably wanted to go, oh, can I watch her actually sing the fucking song?

But no chance of that.

No chance of that.

The second biggest thing that's happening in music right now is the Oasis

comeback tour.

I

had tickets to go see them in Chicago.

I gave them up because it just unfortunately, it wasn't going to work out.

I don't have enough money to go see Oasis in Chicago.

The hotel rooms are expensive, babysitters are expensive, flights are expensive, and we just can't take that much time off.

We've already taken three vacations already this year here.

It's a commercial break.

We can't take another one.

But I think that's happening in just a couple of days, actually, as this is being released.

Well, I know, had they already started back because they were starting back in the UK, right?

July 4th was the first one, I think.

Okay.

I think in Wimbley or Cardiff, one of the two, Wimbley or Cardiff.

And then they went over to Liverpool to do their hometown.

And last night they were in, they played Crikey Stadium in Ireland.

They played Dublin, which we tried to get tickets to also.

That was one of the venues we wanted to go to in Dublin.

I am really glad that I went to none of those because I've seen videos of them.

And it's just a sea of humanity.

And everyone is soaked.

And I don't mean soaked with the rain.

I mean soaked with beer.

At Wembley.

the first night they broke a record for draft beer sales at the Oasis show.

They broke a record.

They sold like, I forget what it was, you know, 1 million gallons of draft beer or something like that.

It was unbelievable.

And every show has been packed.

And I've watched now plenty of videos from those live shows.

I think a couple of them will stream from here in the United States, but I've watched lots of videos from those shows.

And those two guys sound like they did 25, 30 years ago.

They sound great.

They're tight.

They sound good.

They're putting on a show.

They're coming out hand in hand, like literally holding hands every night, giving each other away.

I'd like to see the brotherly love that's come back.

I think it's great.

I mean, it's

they're probably kicking themselves directly in the fucking asshole that they didn't, you know, get off their cocaine benders and make amends 20 years ago because they would have continued to make this kind of money over and over again.

But this really has made for some like high-drama, high value

reunion tour.

And I think it might go down as one of the best musical events of the year is did you go to the Oasis show?

Because when you watch one of their videos, you know, some people have managed to

cobble together most of the show.

And when you watch an Oasis video, you may like or not like Oasis, but if you grew up in a certain time, they were all over the radio.

And all your friends had the albums and you had the albums, you realize that Oasis has a lot more songs that you like than you think they do.

Champagne Supernova.

Yeah, Champagne Supernova is not the only one.

There is a.

They do.

I remember watching like a documentary on them before they did this whole tour of getting back together.

And I was like, oh, yeah, they sung that.

Yeah, that, and that, that.

Yes.

I mean, you know.

They're talented.

And these songs are anthems over in Europe.

They're anthems.

Like, people will break out.

I saw a video of a bunch of people waiting.

Ryan Ayers on strike or something.

Bad weather.

Ryan Ayer is on strike.

Bunch of people in one of the airports over there.

I don't think it was Heathrow, but it was one of the airports over in England, in the UK.

There's 500, 600 people crammed in this hall, like this big lobby, and they're all just sitting there going nowhere.

Some dude's got a boom box, right?

And he puts on an Oasis song, and all five or six hundred people

go from miserable to sing-along in 2.6 seconds.

It was like an unbelievable reaction.

Well, music will do that.

Yes, it will.

You know, it'll change your mood entirely.

Yeah.

And so for us here, Oasis is a great, you know, across the pond band that sang a lot of the songs that we love.

Over there, that's their guys, you know, and they love them and they're part of the fabric like a lot of, you know, like the Grateful Dead is here or something along those lines.

Or, you know, Billy Joel or John Cougar Mellon Camp, who I figured out is kind of an asshole.

I don't know if if you heard that of him.

Anyway, whatever.

I don't care about John Cougar Mellenkamp.

I don't want to talk about him.

He's old.

Where is John Cougar Mellenkamp?

Smoking cigarettes, voting for Trump.

I don't know.

Who knows?

But

Oasis is really part of the fabric over there.

They are.

And so they have been just on this incredible run of shows sold out after sold out.

As a matter of fact, in Crunky Park last night, there's an old television show that I've talked about before on this show years ago that I got onto during the pandemic.

And it was

a British show called The Royal Family, The Royal with an E family.

And it is a show about a family that largely takes place, 90% of it, in the living room of a very lower middle class family in the UK.

Dad is a cranky old man, but he's kind of funny.

He's like, he's sweet in his own way, right?

And the mom is a doting mother of two children, one an adult woman, one a teenage son.

And then the adult woman, the daughter, is getting, you know, is getting engaged to another guy who's also a character in the show.

And then one of the mothers is, is the mother of one of the wife of the show.

Anyway, it's like this very small cast.

It's, and largely what they do is they sit around, smoke cigarettes, and watch television.

And the interaction, the interplay between them is the show.

There's not a lot of plot.

there's not a lot of drama, there's not a lot of action, there's lots of funny moments, but all this sudden, you are involved and invested in the show.

And it went down as one of the great, like the top five television shows of all time in the UK.

It's called The Royal Family.

It was back in the 90s.

The theme song to that is one of the first Oasis songs that ever came out before they were famous.

And it's called Half a World Away.

And the song goes, you know, I love and I shade and I go away

half a a world away

half a world away.

It's the theme song.

Yeah.

Ram,

but it's just acoustic.

It's just acoustic.

That's it.

But they bought this song from the brothers early on.

And they and it was their theme song for the four seasons.

They only, it was only on for four seasons, for the four seasons.

And Carkey Park last night.

Outside of the actual stadium, there's probably 30,000 people.

and Oasis is inside singing this song and 30,000 people are up and down the streets crammed singing the song along with them because it's a theme for them.

It's one of their favorite television shows.

It's a theme for them.

Like if someone broke out, you know, I don't know, friends.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

And it was just unbelievable.

It's like

that, that's...

That's that, there's power in that.

That's unbelievable, you know?

It really is.

Yeah, it's like if we could get all our fans here in this room,

which is about how many fans we have, seven could fit additionally in this room and then you know south georgia sean was outside sing you know singing the theme song along

i love it it was great it was fantastic well good for oasis

good for oasis they're killing it keep going boys you know stay off

if you can just avoid a bender for a couple more months you will have pulled it off you will have pulled it off um i don't think they're sober i don't think anybody they're yeah they've got adult children now too i wrote a whole article of those four Yeah,

their Twitter feeds are some of the.

I'm still calling it Twitter, by the way, Elon.

I don't care.

Their Twitter feeds are some of the funniest.

Like, they're really witty.

Yeah, they're sharp.

They're witty.

Yeah, they're smart kids.

You know, they may be poor bumpkins from the wrong side of the tracks, but no one's ever claimed that they were stupid.

They've done very well for themselves.

Yes.

Speaking of poor bumpkin from the wrong side of the tracks, about two years ago, Chrissy and I reviewed a couple of sales training videos from a guy named Paul.

And Paul gave us

cold call Paul.

Cold Call Paul gave us this very famous drop that we used for a while.

Oh, wait, hold on one second.

That's his laugh.

Paul would cold call people live on, not live, but he would record himself cold calling people on YouTube.

And we found whole videos of him doing this.

And these people obviously didn't want to buy anything from him.

And he would manage to like squirrel them into some agreement.

And he'd say, it's closed deal.

Yeah, I closed it.

He was really funny.

Can I go ahead and see that contract?

That's a close.

Yeah.

He has to see the contract.

That's a close.

You're closed.

It's a closed deal.

He was really very optimistic about his abilities.

And he's continued to push out sales training videos, Chrissy.

I just checked in on him while we were on a break from one of the episodes.

I checked in on him.

I thought, well, I think it's time two years later that we check on

Called Call Paul and see exactly what he's up to.

I found a video where he's talking about how he uses the power of social media to convert leads into sales.

I'm excited to see that.

As he calls it, martial arts sales.

So let's do this.

Why don't we take a break?

We'll shift gears from music to sales and we'll see what Paul's up to.

I like it.

We'll be back.

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Hey, one more idea.

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We'll put our smoking hot merch on.

We'll take a picture and tag at the commercial break.

Cause daddy loves a free thing or two, and I hear they might give away some additional merch.

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Now, do me a favor.

Put your credit card down for the bar tab because they don't take Dogecoin here.

Then I'm a little short on the long scratch.

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humble little abode here, our own royal family living room here.

Yes, you're watching us watch TV, essentially, is what's going on in this show, too.

And let's take a listen to what he has to say about

sales training or sales on the internet, or as he likes to call it, martial arts sales.

Let's do this.

Wait, welcome to the martial arts of sales.

Are you excited?

If you're not excited, I encourage you to watch this video and you're going to be excited after that.

What I'm going to talk about.

Wow.

What a

you got me riled up, Paul.

I'm ready to go.

He is full of energy.

He is full of energy.

Not an infectious kind of energy, but in a kind of energy, like, why am I going to be excited, Paul?

Today, it's a five-part series, but part number one, it's laying nothing gets you excited like a five-part series in sales training.

Nothing quite like

I'm on part one of five parts.

Okay.

The foundation is how to use my social media investment strategy to convert more leads into sale.

This is the kind of sales trading Chrissy and I went through where

we would have to go to the bathroom five minutes in and we'd come back on the following Tuesday.

Yeah.

I had a meeting.

I had to go check and see if the dry cleaner was ready to close.

And you know what they said?

Two weeks from now, they're ready to sign.

Now for the introduction.

Now for the introduction?

Oh, God.

He's got algebra up there or something.

He's got flying letters.

Yeah.

He's got flying letters.

Here's the video.

Let me set it up.

Let me set the scene for you.

Blank

beige wall whiteboard with a lot of words on it that probably

that already spell boredom.

That's an introduction?

Oh.

That's loud.

You got to pump him up to get them started.

Wow.

Yeah, that's the worst intro I have ever seen on YouTube.

Gosh, that's like Kadamas Cause a Caesar.

Yeah, that's terrible.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome to the martial arts.

Hello, everybody.

Hello, kids.

What are you doing?

Smoking the cigarettes?

Let me get in on that.

Sales, I hope everyone's doing well.

I had a great day yesterday.

It was my first workshop seminar.

It went really well.

I had a good turnout.

You know, some mistakes are made.

That happens when it's your first event.

Some mistakes were made.

I forgot to rent a space or or get lunch or tell people what time it was started.

But some mistakes were made.

But nothing major.

And I'm happy about that.

And hopefully that people left with something to think about that could help their business.

And if you're watching this on the YouTube channel, just hit the subscribe button below.

If you like it, smash the like button and do share with others.

Why does everyone over 60 say the word smash?

Now, I have a five-part series on how to generate more leads and convert more leads into sales.

And why do we keep our tie below our belt?

That to me is like fashion faux pas numero uno.

And I don't claim to be leisure vuitton, Chrissy, but I think it just looks bad to have your belt to have your tie so long.

It looks like maybe he lost weight.

Yeah, he certainly does.

Maybe it was a little up

before that.

Maybe it was over his belly previously.

On social media, we're going to start with the foundation.

And I started this system about a year and a half ago.

It's working, and it could also work for you.

So, I'm ready to put it in.

It's just not working.

Yeah, it's working mildly

in the sense that I figured out how to start the campaign.

And here's the best part about it: it has nothing to do with Facebook ads or Instagram ads or even boosting.

This is about raw,

real

sales right in front of you that i'm going to show you how to pull them together okay

great

anything it's i don't have to do anything on any of the social media platforms to invest in my social media strategy i like where this is going if you're saying to me paul if what you're saying is true let me repeat what you said

to use your social media strategy You don't have to use any of the social media platforms currently available to us.

I like this.

I like where he's going.

Yeah, I know.

This is around.

Yeah, this is the commercial break kind of social media strategy.

Don't put anything on any

social medias.

Now,

how to use my social media investment strategy to convert more leads into sales?

I'm going to tell you how I came up with that strategy.

When I first

got into social media, I was resisting it, but I was persuaded to do it.

And what I decided to do is like I always do, I do my research, I do my homework.

I was persuaded by a 22 year old brazilian to send her some money to set up my social media and after her mom and her cousin and her uncle also additionally convinced me to spend some money i figured out that they were not in fact real and now i have been persuaded to start my own social media account that was the research yes i look into it i start to dissect the analysis or the data and then i come to a point where Is this worth doing?

Is there opportunities there?

Can I create a solution to the major major problems that are happening on social media when the answer was yes oh wow he's created major problems able major he's created a solution to all the kids having trouble with their self-esteem on social media all the bullying he he identified an opportunity after dissecting and analyzing the data looking at the data yes that's exactly what we do here at the commercial break also

Then I knew I had something.

So I had to create a strategy that I can implement to be able to one be successful.

Number two, that it can help people.

Could we have put the whiteboard in front of the one fire alarm on the entire wall?

Or could we have centered it to the camera?

Yeah.

Yes.

Why are we off to the right here?

This is driving me crazy.

And why is he a power director?

I don't know.

Or is that the now?

It does say power director in the bottom right.

Power director.

At least the letters quit.

Is that like power bottom?

Power top?

Yeah, power director.

For small business owners, entrepreneurs, and then salespeople to get more leads on social media and convertible.

Before we get into it, I want you to understand this.

There is more opportunities today

to generate more sales than ever before.

There are more qualified leads right now than ever before.

Said every sales trainer ever.

Yes.

And it's just not true.

Yes.

Way more than there were before.

way more than there'll ever be.

Today is prime time, Chrissy, for sales conversion on places like Facebook and Myspace.

Right in front of you, right next to you, left to you, right behind you, above you, all over you, all around you.

Yeah, yep, yep.

There are opportunities.

My job is to show you, to identify those opportunities and take advantage of it.

So by laying down the ground, why is he wearing a suit with the hat?

Well, you know, guys of a certain age sometimes, Chrissy, they start thinning up top.

And rather than go full, you know, nutsack like I did,

they put a cap on.

And why not put a Mercedes-Benz?

It looks like a Mercedes.

Yeah.

Service advisor hat.

That's what a service advisor wears at Mercedes-Benz.

I recognize that.

My background as a venture capitalist.

So what I started doing, I was

going to know that.

He's a a venture capitalist.

Wasn't he selling lawn care services, cold calling lawn care services?

He was.

He's a venture capitalist.

That is.

I'm about to

wow.

I had no idea.

Wow.

He's a venture capitalist.

What qualifies you as that?

Yeah, you're a venture capitalist.

Like I was a morning talk show host on radio.

I started looking at all of these platforms from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, you know, the Better Business Bureau, Google, Yahoo, Bing, Alignable.

I invested in all of them.

Bing.

I was a major investor early on in Bing.

I convinced Andrew Andreessen Horowitz to spend $12 million on Bing.

Name it.

To me,

they're all modern day pages, except Twitter might be today's modern day telephone.

But it's still a yellow pages.

What is he saying?

This sounds like a this honestly sounds like a search optimization speech from 2002.

How do I know?

Because that's what I was doing.

That's what we were saying, not 2002, 2005, 2004.

Why do I say that?

What do they all have in common?

They have information, whether it's a website, other social media outlets, telephone numbers, emails, names, numbers, name it.

It's there, right?

So for me, that's more advantageous.

I'm following none of this.

Are you following none of this?

It is advantageous to have the phone number, I guess.

Yes.

Business, but huh.

Huh.

But how does that make it?

How does that make those leads more qualified?

And how is Twitter the telephone

of the social media?

Can you call anybody on Twitter?

Can you call anybody on Twitter?

I can't.

About it, it's a different story.

So that's how I look at it.

The second part I look at is every platform,

I look at it as a stock.

Anyone who owns a mutual fund, understand it's just a bunch of stocks in a mutual fund.

So I take a social media mutual fund approach to doing business on social media.

All right.

And I buy real estate on each platform.

And to do that, I met another woman from Brazil

who's selling social media stocks.

And now I have 50 million shares of each of the major social media telephone platforms, including Bing and

what's the other one, Chrissy?

Vine.

Yeah.

That's why I named it social media investment strategy.

You have to take it as an investment.

It's organically and it's automated.

I do the organic, which complements and offsets whatever you can't do on the automated.

It offsets what you're doing?

Yeah.

Shouldn't this be additive?

I don't know much about accounting, Chrissy.

But I do know that one plus one is addition and not subtraction.

Now,

Let me show you how it works.

Great.

Yes.

Break out your phone.

Let's see.

Oh, nope.

Go to the whiteboard.

That's more instructive.

First thing you have to do to lay down the groundwork for the social media investment strategy is you must identify who your customers are.

I know you probably hear that all the time.

Yes.

Yes.

It's like 101 sales trading.

Yes.

But are you doing it?

Here's what I mean by that.

I know people and I have spoken with people that have hundreds of thousands of followers.

No, you don't.

Don't lie.

Come on, Alva.

A lot of it is bots.

And they're not really converting leads into sales because they're looking at becoming popular, which is a necessary thing on social media.

He takes time into stairs.

Because he doesn't know what he's talking about.

He's trying to make up the next thing he's got to say.

But if your target is 100,000 thousand people let's just say in your industry that's your target

why would you target a million people

i don't know what he's saying

if your target is a hundred thousand people why would you target a million to get to those hundred thousand yeah i don't know yeah just as a guess

it makes no sense All you're doing is wasting time, especially if you're advertising and paying for it.

So what I've learned to do, let me target who my audience is on social media

and let me make sure that my services fits their needs or their wants.

Or if they have a problem, that I have the solution for them.

Isn't that just marketing 101 now?

Advertising and marketing.

Yeah, like if you're selling, you know,

retirement living, you don't target 24-year-olds, right?

Maybe you target 40-year-olds whose parents are getting older and whatever.

You get what I'm saying.

But that's pretty basic stuff.

But still, that's marketing, not sales.

Yeah, I mean, you've always had to identify who your customers are,

because what else do you do?

There's no general message that just goes out.

Yeah.

Use my business.

Unless you're McDonald's, and you're doing branding, but that's not sales.

Branding is not sales.

Okay.

All right.

So I'm trying to follow you here.

I'm trying to.

Doing my best, Chrissy.

That's what I mean about identify who your customers are.

I know who my customers are, and I target them all the time.

And how do you

give us the example?

Yes.

Once you identify who your customers are and where they're at,

the second thing you do is now you strategize the right content.

That's correct.

So, this again is advertising.

That's what I want.

You have to have the right message.

That's number two.

Right content is this:

you should be original, authentic, and be sincere.

Did you learn that as a venture capitalist?

I know.

I love you.

You threw that in.

Yeah,

he went from Paul to Frankie B overnight.

Buy them.

So you should strategize it.

Don't just post to post.

Because remember, your branding is pose to post.

Oh, baby, let's pose to post.

Does that make sense?

No.

Go.

Number three is you have to understand each platform.

Okay.

All right.

So, okay, now tell us.

We're getting rid of all the basics here.

But I think we're getting close to a message here, Christy.

I think we're getting close to letters that are flying.

There's letters that are flying.

Yes.

There's a number in there.

Yes.

PowerPoint 1989 is

sending in some random letters.

It's Taylor Swift.

It's decoding a message.

He knows how to do it.

You got to have a mythology behind your brand.

There's a strategy to everything.

And I'm talking about not worrying about Facebook ads or boosting or Instagram ads or boosting or promoting.

I'm not talking about any of that.

I'm talking about simple fundamental where you have to take the action.

I'm from the old school.

I take the action.

I'm from the old school.

I don't pay for any of my advertising.

I reach all two of my followers by posting on a yearly basis.

So you have to understand.

Understand each platform.

If a platform is not working, what I do is I let it go, especially for my customers.

What?

Before your customers?

I know.

Oh, he lets it go before his customers.

He wants to be ahead of the curve.

See, if his customers are on Facebook, but it's not working for him, he lets it go before they jump off.

He's like, well, I got off first.

Yeah.

he's a trend set, he doesn't remove yourself, yeah.

And then he posts about it.

I'm getting off Facebook before my customers do.

You got to adjust to that,

don't fall in love with it, don't allow social media to control your time, but use social media as a toilet.

There's a toilet flushing in the background.

Sorry, Paul, I had to take a mean shit.

It is after lunch.

Yeah, well, you know,

full.

Paul, you got any wifey?

To generate your business.

And guess what?

You don't have to wait a year like most people, two years.

One to two years for what?

One to two years to post?

What?

I don't understand.

And why do most people do that?

You don't have to wait one to two years like the commercial break did to get to 300 followers.

You can start now.

Take out.

Just feel free.

I waited a year because I was laying down my strategy.

Oh, he's laying it down my street.

This is why he,

we were all clamoring for Paul's Instagram page, but he had to lay down the strategy.

That's that's it's a long, he's playing the long game here, Chrissy.

He's doing his research.

Willy-nilly, getting an account and making a post.

Yeah.

He's strategizing.

A year.

That's right.

He's getting to understand where his customers are, and he's leaving them before they can leave him.

And then he's going to be original original and authentic.

But first, he's got to figure out how to be original and authentic.

He's going to strategize on that.

He's got to pretend to be

original and authentic.

And I still did some business.

Not as much as I would have liked to, but I knew the commitment I had to make and the sacrifice I have to make in order to build this strategy.

And it's here now.

And it's going to blow your mind away.

Things are popping up.

Blow our minds.

Well, big promises coming from Paul here.

Let's take a break.

We're almost at the end of part one.

We haven't even gotten to it, so I'm going to have to load up part two here.

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Yeah, because we would have been like, what is this guy talking about?

The back of the room having fun.

All right, we're back with Paul as he teaches us social media investment martial arts strategies.

And VC

culture.

The kung fu

VC investment strategy on social media.

And it works.

And it works.

Now, number four

is you ask.

I thought that said erection.

It says erection.

I wish it did.

Thank you.

The call to action.

But you didn't even tell us what we need to do.

I know.

I mean by that.

Once you.

What do you mean by that?

Identify your customers.

You have the right strategy.

You understand each platform.

Now you put a strategy together and you execute it and you take the call to action means

you comment on the clients you're talking about.

Oh.

He wants you to comment.

Don't worry about posting anything.

No, just.

I don't want you to post, Chrissy, because your clients are...

They're going to leave in a minute.

I want you to comment.

Did you leave Facebook yet?

Call me.

I'm going to tell you about a new social media platform where I'm getting a lot of leads.

Next door.

You know, Paul's on next door.

Oh, yeah.

You know, he's pitching his services somewhere on next door.

He's probably most of the posts we talk about.

This so far is not a

sales training.

Really, what it is, is it's a collection

of buzzwords.

There's no meat to these potatoes.

You start a dialogue with them.

You follow them.

You like them.

You basically scare them into buying.

I thought we were supposed to post authentically.

Yes.

But okay, but then you comment.

Before the restraining order and after you jump off social media, before they do, you have to follow them, comment, dial their phone number, get their address, dox them.

All those things are important.

It's your responsibility to take the first call to action.

And I'll leave you with this.

Everyone is trying to sell someone something.

There's nothing wrong with that.

I just know this.

I'm not going to target a company that I know I don't need their services.

Well, I will.

Wait.

You know you don't need their services?

Are we selling our rebots?

I hate both.

I don't know.

I thought this was how to get more sales leads, not how to buy something online.

Huh?

Maybe we got a, maybe, maybe we got on the wrong sales trading here.

But I know that they're going to need my services more than I'm going to need theirs.

And you got to identify that.

Oh, okay.

Oh, Paul.

Maybe I will.

I'm not going to comment.

Well, maybe I will, but they need my services more.

I'm going to follow a company.

I don't need their services.

They're going to need my services.

What the fuck is going on?

I'm on social media trying to identify people who need me more than I need them.

Okay.

All right.

Hey, listen.

I didn't have a whole lot of success in saying that.

Maybe this is why.

You weren't listening to people.

Yeah, I needed to be at more strip clubs telling those girls, you need my dick more than I need yours.

Because in their mind, if you're calling them, that means you're interested in their services.

You see my point?

So

what about acting authentic?

Yeah.

Throw that out the window.

Yeah.

And step four, throw everything away that I just said.

Now you're buying something

to get them.

You're pretending.

You're pretending to buy something, and then you say, but touche, what if I had something you wanted more?

That's what I mean about understanding your customer, having the right strategy.

So that's what I do.

Okay, all right.

I think this is the wrong strategy.

Yeah, no wonder it's taking you years.

Yeah, years to convert.

Get onto social media because you were laying down that strategy.

Yeah, you were commenting.

Yeah, finally it's working.

Call them and I follow up with them.

I'm going to have a conversation of how I can help them.

Hey, did you see my comment?

Yeah, hey,

I just commented on your wife's photograph of your kids.

And I just called to say, you need me more than I need you.

How can I help them convert more of these into sales?

That's my job.

That should be your job.

And that's my social media investment strategy.

This is just the simplicity of it.

There's more to it than that.

I like how his eyes dart left and right.

He's like, what do I say next?

And I'll go further into it in the next video.

Oh, you better.

Oh, you better.

Part one or part one of part five.

Part one of part five.

Okay.

I want to thank you for watching.

I hope this has been helpful to you.

Again, if you're watching me on YouTube, it's been confusing.

Hit the like button.

I think we've understand less now than we did before.

But okay, we're going to give you the benefit of the doubt.

Let's roll into part two.

Oh, Chrissy, I could see us spending the entire week on this.

This is really funny.

All right, here's part two.

We're not going to get a whole bunch into this, but we'll get on.

Oh,

he changed.

He took off the hat.

Yeah.

Oh, he did change his whole outfit.

Yeah, he changed his whole outfit.

Stay too.

And by the way, that's not the same hair he just had.

He had a hat on.

But he had long hair in the back, and it's gone.

Okay.

So was that a wig under the hat?

Or what's going on?

It was one of those mullet hats.

Yeah, that's true.

You know, it makes you look a little younger.

Guys, welcome to the martial arts of sales.

This is part two of a five-part series on how to use

my strategy called social media investment strategy to accomplish three things.

Number one, get the right leads on all of your social media platforms.

They're there and they're ready to be closed.

Number two,

apparently not.

It's increasing your conversion ratio.

Wherever it's at, my strategy is going to help you increase your conversion ratio.

Number three, it will help you increase your monthly cash flow.

Part two is the art of cold calling on all of your social media platforms.

Okay, here we go.

Here we go.

Okay, finally, we're getting into something we can use.

The art of cold calling.

It's cold calling on your social media platforms.

Nothing like picking up the phone and dialing through Instagram.

Exciting.

Now, for the introduction.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh,

no, no, no, no, no.

That's too loud and obnoxious, and it gives me a headache.

All right, I'm going to move through.

Sorry.

hello everybody.

How's everybody doing?

Are you excited?

I'm excited to share what I've learned over the years, to share with you so that you can increase your revenues in

your business.

Welcome to the martial arts of sale.

This is part two of a five-part series.

It's gonna be absolutely exciting.

Now, what I'm gonna ask of you is this.

Are those dress pants cargo pants too?

Yeah.

She's got something attached down on either leg.

I think those are pants for his nighttime security job

I don't know.

Is that a gun or a microphone?

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I want you to keep an open mind part two.

You may resist a little bit, but keep an open mind on it.

I don't know how much more I can resist from part one, but okay.

It's the art of cold calling on all of all of your social media platforms.

That's right.

You didn't hear wrong.

The art of cold calling on all social media platforms.

Now, before we get into it, some of you know that I've been cold calling for 30 years.

I thought you were a VC.

Yeah, no, he started off VC, but that didn't work out.

It didn't take.

All right.

I get it.

Sometimes you're a VC and you like to get back to your roots.

You want to get away from the yachts

and the, you know.

And the money.

Yeah, the threesomes and the money and the cocaine and get back to cold calling in a rented office in Miami.

And I challenge myself and people have challenged me saying that cold calling is obsolete and that cold calling doesn't work on social media.

I'm here to tell you that that's a bunch of BS.

I don't even know how you call someone on social media, but okay, more opportunities to do.

Is it commenting?

Yeah, I think it's commenting is what he's trying to say.

And get more quality leads and deals than ever, ever, before.

Ever, ever?

Ever, ever, ever.

Ever, ever, ever.

Ever, ever?

Forever, ever, ever.

So keep an open mind.

Co-calling on social media.

I'm going to give you the five steps you need to understand so that you could be successful.

Co-calling.

What makes this martial arts

his cargo pick?

Yeah.

He's wearing a black belt.

Yeah.

Meaning platform.

Let's go to work, guys.

one is

you have to have a plan of attack oh gosh okay what do i mean by that one things that i've learned is i'm always a strategist i'm always strategizing before i take action strategy

i need to know the direction when you have a plan of attack on social media you have to understand this a lot of people that on social media and pay for great content and graphic design and things like that have a lot of followers they're very well educated on social media they have a lot of followers and comments and likes and shares not me not me i go the opposite direction i say the less followers the better they understand the intricacy you look like a bot yeah that's what that's what i'm i'm all about that i like to follow you comment on your media i like the ai girls with big boobs talk nasty to me a lot of views a lot of likes but a lot of them are not really generating business because social media is more about a long-term play and and it's really more about becoming popular and recognized and being influential.

But most of the time, you're not making money.

For me, I'm not waiting a year or two years.

You just said it takes one or two years.

Popular or anything like that.

I don't care about that.

What I do care about is the strategy and executing that strategy so I could generate revenue.

Because at the end of the day, would you rather wait a year to make a sale or would you rather make sales every single day and every single month?

Boom!

That's a comment.

Boom.

Comment.

Follow.

I guarantee you, if they respond back to him, that's a sale.

That's a sale.

That's a sale.

You know,

you don't know how many of those AI girls respond right back to you.

Think about that.

When someone says comment on the post below, and I'll send you a link to my free training,

I get a hundred percent close ratio on having a conversation.

So I'm going to give you a little twist.

The plan of action is this.

You must know who your audience is.

You must know how to target them.

You must know.

That's not a twist.

That's not a twist.

No.

No.

They need your services and your products.

You have to understand.

That's a roundhouse kick.

That's a roundhouse kick to the sales face.

Whoa, I am.

You have to know that you need their services, but they need yours more.

Czar on social media,

whether it's on their content, whether it's the right 3DI, whatever it is, it's your job to know that when you take action with this follower or this person that actually likes your content.

Oh, well, now we're going back to the following

who's following you?

Paul.

We just watched the video one minute ago.

You might want to watch the, unlike the commercial break, you might want to go back and actually figure out what you were talking about.

Comments on it, no matter what the case is, if you're going to go after them for potential business, you better know who they are, you better have a plan of attack, always have a plan of attack.

Why?

Because, number two,

you have to make sure once you have that plan of attack and you take the action, that when you get a hold of them, that you have value.

do i have value

hit that whiteboard

smack it these are literally words on a whiteboard buzzwords on a whiteboard and he's trying to connect the dots there is no strategy about this whatsoever i've been to a lot of sales trainings some of them pretty bad but this is air this is literal thin air he is giving no i love you paul you're my brother no he's lovable you're lovable you're a lovable guy but this is gobbledygook This is really gobbly gook.

Because it's easy to like something.

It's easy to like you, but it's harder to want to buy anything.

You want to comment on it or follow it or share it.

There's no skin in the game.

There's no emotional attachment to it.

But the minute you take that action from the plan of attack and you start to pursue business to a whole different ballgame, you're going to get a lot of resistance.

Yeah, I learned that.

What is he doing?

He's like swaying back and forth, looking left or right.

Yeah, a long time ago, when I was getting into social media,

you know, I was telling people, I said, Listen, why aren't you going after a long time ago when you were getting into social media, you said you just got into social media

business because they were waiting for business to come to them because they have everything automated.

For me personally,

I don't really consider myself automated.

I think what he's calling automated is paid.

Yes, paid.

Yeah, automated.

Like, but yeah, you're running where they run the ads.

Yeah.

But what I do concern myself about is going out there and grabbing business,

attacking it.

That's the martial arts.

Grabbing it by the balls.

But I want to make sure when I do that, that I am value.

I have value to offer when I do that.

Because if I have example, I know I'm dying to say that.

That's the problem is that there's no actual there there, if that makes sense.

The other thing is this: you also have to understand that the people you're going after, you're targeting, they're going to want to sell you their services as well.

Nothing wrong with that.

Sometimes you what?

No,

I've never been in a sales call, maybe once at a dealership, but I've never been in a sales call where someone tried to sell me their services.

Oh, that sex shop one time that

bought a deal.

For me, I look at it this way.

I look at it this way.

If I'm going to buy something from you and you're going to buy something from me, let's make it of equal value so we both benefit the same amount of money out of this

action.

Their product,

but I like what they're doing.

I'm going to like them.

If I believe I can help their business grow and I have a service that can help them, I'm going to go after them.

They may not be able to sell me what they have

because I may not need it, but most people need what I have.

Most of you out there, you're small business owners, entrepreneurs, and salespeople, I have something that you guys need.

As this riveting sales trainer, cargo pants,

that's why I go after it.

Because I have value.

I make sure of that.

Number three.

He's not proving it.

Yeah, no.

Video demonstration.

He's got to give one example.

Five part.

Yeah.

You know what I've found about teaching just in general?

And I'm not, I don't think I'm a world-class teacher of anything.

But one of the things that I've found about teaching other little humans and other people how to do stuff, you must be instructive.

You must have details.

You must give an example.

You must connect the dots with something something you did in your life so you can give them something they can sink their teeth into when they're trying to do it on their own.

Like, oh, Brian told me that story about how he went out and did this, how he took these people to the strip club and then bought a lot of cocaine and then had them sign the contract at the end of the night.

Yes.

You have to make sure

that you understand the customers you're going after and targeting, that they have a problem that they may be aware about or that they don't know they have, but you better make sure

that you have the solutions not hypothetical not giving gibberish

what you're doing

that is rich coming from you my friend a real solution to their problems

because if you don't you're not different

exactly

always be authentic always be genuine and sincere except when you're pretending to like except for when you're pretending to be a vc

who has a master's degree in social media,

and you're trying to sell your sales training services

based on no sales experience whatsoever.

I mean, we've seen him cold call people, so we know he at least knows how to do that.

I can't say with what degree of success because, you know, you can pick and choose which phone calls you put online.

But let's put it this way.

If Paul has put the best he has to offer in cold calling on his YouTube channel,

then I'm not sure the skills are there.

I'm not sure the skills are there.

Oh, he was trying to sell.

Remember that one video we did?

Oh, yeah.

He was trying to sell someone.

It was lawn something.

Yeah, the lawn care.

But then the next one, he was trying to sell someone like

a listing on an online directory.

Yes.

Yes.

A website for $10 or something for $500.

Yeah.

Hey, listen, you got to admire the hustle.

I do.

You got to admire the hustle.

At the end of the day, I appreciate anyone who's trying to do it.

Even if you don't have much success.

We know how that feels.

We know how that feels.

Fucking commiserate.

Been there, done that.

All right, maybe we'll follow up on that.

We could probably get through all five videos this week and just have fun with it because this is funny to me.

This really is.

And if you've never been in sales, I think you can even still understand.

We've all been in sales.

We've all had to sell some idea.

To some degree or another.

Sell a husband on you being his wife.

Sell a girlfriend on you being his boyfriend.

You know how it goes.

It's all, we've all been that.

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