Best way to get clients from LinkedIn in 2026

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This is Shamara.

Hi, Shamara. Thank you so much for filling out the information about the 99 LinkedIn Hacks. Were you looking for clients or were you looking for a job?

Which one? A job.

A job. What type of job are you looking for?

That's the question. I'm good at a lot of things.

I'm a chef by trade.

I'm currently undergoing treatment.

You're good at a lot of things?

Mm-hmm. I'm a chef by trade.

Oh, that's cool. You cook? You're a cook. You're a chef, not just a cook.

Wow.

I was looking you up on LinkedIn and I couldn't find you for some reason. Are you, are you not on LinkedIn yet?

I'm on, uh, I'm under my, I'm under my writer's name.

Oh.

Which is Tootie Wilson because I do, I have a line of coloring books.

Oh, I see. And journals.

So I'm under my pen name on LinkedIn.

Got it.

You're Too Delicious?

Yeah, Too Delicious is my chef stuff and then, uh, Coloring Culture is my coloring book.

I love Too Delicious. Too Delicious is cool. It's such a good name.

Thank you.

Wow. Too Delicious. That's really, really cool. I like that. I like that. Um, you know, my suggestion is to start having a good strategy on LinkedIn to build relationships. The best jobs comes from relationships. Would you agree with that? The best opportunities?

Um, to a certain extent.

Okay, tell me more. Like, what has been your experience? You haven't gotten a good experience from building those relationships?

I've had better work— I've had better jobs with people I didn't know.

Ooh, so maybe it's time to upgrade your network.

Yeah.

You know what I mean? Like, it's like, oh wow, if I haven't had a great experience with my network, it's like Oh, it's time to upgrade the network. It's time to take the network to the next level.

But I'm not, I, I don't like dedicate a lot of time in social media either. So that's part of it too.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

So I won't say, so thus far I have not built a good network.

Got it. Have you ever considered doing consulting?

Yeah, I'm trying to, I'm actually like reading up on like how to even get into it.

Oh. Well, the number one way to get either a job or an opportunity for consulting is to start using LinkedIn, especially in 2026 when it's growing at a rate of 3 new members every second. Let me tell you the difference between Instagram and LinkedIn. On Instagram, you see a screen name like, you know, Bootylicious or whatever, right? You don't really know who the person is. But if you look me up on LinkedIn, I texted you my, my LinkedIn profile. If you look me up on LinkedIn, not only do you see my first and last name, Joe Apfelbaum, but you also see where I'm from, Brooklyn, same place as Biggie. I don't know if you're familiar.

Brooklyn, baby.

Same place as Biggie. And you can tell that I'm a single father of 5, that I'm an author, a speaker, a connector, a networker. I am a CEO of multiple companies. You can see everything about me. You can see my services. You can see my 500 written testimonials from my clients. You can see I have 54,000 followers. You can see my post that I posted an hour ago has 35 likes and 22 comments. You can see what I'm about. You can see that LinkedIn hired me to train their staff on how to use LinkedIn. You can see I'm a Landmark graduate. You can see my books. I have published 5 books. So this is a very important thing to like leverage LinkedIn because the people are real. Do you get me? Do you feel what I'm saying?

Okay.

Yep.

So if I want to connect with someone and build a relationship with someone, I want to build a relationship with someone That's real, not some faker, not some like random Instagram person, but actually a real person. And if, if, if I can even just connect with 100 real people on LinkedIn, I think it's worth more than 1,000 followers on Instagram. Would you agree with that? 100 real people instead of 1,000 anonymous people. So some people are trying to go viral, but going viral is not the answer to being successful on LinkedIn. Or successful in life either. Like, that's not, that's not how you get success in life. Success for me, and I've generated millions of dollars in business, both as working within a company as a CMO, and I made much more money doing consulting and much more consistent money because there's so many more people would rather pay you $1,000 to do something for them than people would rather pay you $100,000 to like work for them full-time, especially now in the gig economy that's going on. Do you feel the gig economy happening more and more now?

Yeah, absolutely.

So if there's a gig economy going on right now, why don't you just become part of the gig economy and start making $100K a year as a side hustle? You know, it's not— especially if you're a trained chef, like, dude, you're an expert already. You already have a certain level of ex— are you a good chef, by the way? I forgot to ask you.

Yeah, I was on MasterChef on Fox and Gordon Ramsay gave me an apron.

Oh my God. There's a woman who signed up for my, for my program. Um, she is a baker. She got, you know, Cake Boss? You ever heard of Cake Boss?

No.

So she would, her name is Sandra and she, she got on Cake Boss. She was like on the freaking show, but she still wasn't making money until she started building relationships with, with our technology. So what I'd love to do is maybe set up a short call with you and my team where we kind of just show you how the technology works. And we show you a path to going from where you are right now to actually being successful, um, on LinkedIn. Would you mind picking a time that works? I know it's a little early by you, right? It's like 7:30 AM or whatever, right?

Yeah.

So it's a little early for you to kind of hop on your computer now and blah, blah, blah. You're probably still in bed. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to send you a calendar link via text. I just texted you a calendar link. Go there, pick a time that works for you. You could also reply with your LinkedIn profile so we can kind of check it out because I couldn't find it even though you told me your name and blah, blah, blah. I couldn't find it. So reply with your LinkedIn profile, click on that link, pick a time that works for you. And then let's, let's connect. Let my team kind of show you what we're doing. And if you want to get involved, we'll give you a good deal to get involved. Doesn't have to be expensive, but if you want to make good money and you want to get into the gig economy, we can definitely help you.

Okay.

I'm so glad you clicked on the link. What did you love about the link that you clicked on it and decided to fill in your email and phone and all that stuff? Like, what did you notice? You were like, oh shit, I gotta get in on this shit.

Yeah, because I'm so— I, I don't know what I'm doing. Like, I'm not afraid of social media. Yeah, it overwhelms me though.

Yeah.

And so if I could get some guidance on what to do, I could do that. But trying to figure it out myself is where I'm like, I don't know what the hell I'm supposed to be doing.

Mm-hmm.

So that's why I'm like, so yeah, we 1,000% know what we're doing, and we have over 1,500 people that we're training right now on exactly what to do. So we will— we meet every day at 12 and every day at 7 Eastern, every day, and we hold people's hands and we help them out every day, every single day. We just show up every day and just hold your hand, tell you exactly what to do, how to get them followers, how to get conversations like these. How to build relationships, how to get to know people. And we even have an AI that will clone you and help you write all your content and all that stuff. That's, that's the epic way to go. You know what I mean?

Mm-hmm.

Because who doesn't want a clone? Some people are afraid of that, but I'm not afraid of a clone. You're afraid of a clone? You're afraid of someone like AI knowing what you sound like?

I mean, they can do— they can sound like me all day, but they can't write like me. That's the thing.

No one could write like you, but they can write 80%. Yeah.

Like they could write 80% like you. To a certain extent. And I'm not saying it to be funny, and I'm only saying that because, um, I'm real snarky, uh, very sassy, sarcastic. And I'm being honest that it doesn't catch me.

Like, it's not gonna catch you 100%, but it's gonna catch you 50%. I'll say—

and I'll give you 50. You're absolutely right. And I'm saying that because that's the idea.

Yeah, that saves you a lot of time if you can— if you can catch it 50%. This is what I tell everybody. It's never going to be 100%, but your clone's never going to be you. That's the beauty of it, so that you're not replaceable. But the clone will help you get much, much better and much faster. That's the idea. It'll get you there faster. It'll get you there more effectively, and it'll become fun. Someone once told me, he said, Joe, before the clone and after the clone. Before the clone, things were a pain in the flipping ass. It was just a pain in the ass. After the clone, things are fun. You know, like I can, I can truly be myself because I don't have to worry about doing all the heavy lifting. I just have to add my snarkiness to it, you know?

Yeah.

It's so much easier to add the snarkiness to it. So much easier. So I appreciate you very much. I love that you reached out and that you— we can help you. Um, it only costs us like $5 to run that ad for you to click on it. So it's not expensive for us to kind of get on the phone. And now the key is like helping you really be able to take your life to the next level. Could you use an extra $100K in the next year?

Absolutely.

Not everybody. Some people are like trust fund babies. They're like, I don't care about the money. You know, like I've spoken to those types of people and I speak to people every day. Every day I speak to people. And some people are just independently wealthy and they're like, I don't care about that. I just want exposure. I just want more people to notice me. I want more followers.

Mm-hmm.

And so not everybody's like into it, but I love that you're into it. I love that you're, you're in it to win it. So I appreciate that about you and I love that you're hungry and I can help you. I've been doing this for a long time, so I'm excited about supporting you and helping you. Do you have any specific questions about LinkedIn that I can answer right now? Or, or you're, you'll just look at the link I texted you and you'll book a meeting? Which one?

Yeah, I'll look at the link and then I'll, and then I have a list of questions and I'll book a meeting.

Yay. Okay. And if you have those questions, you could also text them to me in advance and I'm happy to answer them. In detail.

Okay.

Thank you, Shamara. Appreciate you so much.

Thank you.

God bless you.

Thank you.

All right.

You too.

Bye.

All right. Bye bye.

Oh snap! Snap! Yo, I just got off a cold call. It's the J O E. Let me show you how to get on the phone. Uh, you gotta leave. Leave them comments, leave them posts. You gotta look at the profile, write up a roast. Yeah, it's all about the AI.

Yeah, yeah.

Yo, recommendations is the key to building trust. Build the buzz, hear the buzz. Let me show you how to play with the fuzz.

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That was, that was epic.

That was epic. That was epic, ladies and gentlemen.

The Google subscriber you have called—

I don't know about you, but sometimes you gotta just be epic. You gotta just be epic. That's, that's the name of the game, being epic and taking your life to a whole new level. We have this section here called Learning Hub, and in Learning Hub we have Quick Links, and in Quick Links we have everybody's birthdays. And when it's somebody's birthday, what I like to do is I like to wish them a happy birthday. Now, I wish this person a happy birthday in 2024. So what I'm going to do now is I am going to wish them a happy birthday. Oh, today's the 18th. So I got to fix this template to be the 18th. And now what I can do is I can simply just go in here, click here, put a keyboard shortcut, and then boom, every single person gets wished a happy birthday. So Evie AI knows exactly how to be able to wish these people birthdays. In just seconds. This is such a powerful thing to be able to have this tool that wishes people happy birthdays on LinkedIn in just seconds. And all these people are celebrating a birthday on the same day. And so when I'm reaching out to these people today, these are all opportunities for me, for me to pick up the phone and call them and wish them happy birthday, send them a DM, send them an email, send them a text, send them a WhatsApp, connect with them deeply, comment on their posts, get to know them. I mean, the birthday strategy is a strategy that 100% absolutely works. And it works so well, in fact, that clients have been signing up to my products and services from me just reaching out to them. So this guy here has 27,000 followers. I have his mobile phone number right over here, and I'm going to go ahead and call him right now because I'm the LinkedIn whale. That's what I am. So check this out.

Yo.

His name is Robert Webb. I'm about to call him.

Hello.

Hi, Robert.

Hi.

How are you?

This is Joe Apfelbaum. I wanted to be the first person today to wish you a happy birthday.

Why, thank you, Joe. How are you?

I am doing fantastic. I'm having the time of my life. I am enjoying life, and I just want to say I appreciate you, and I want you to feel, uh, special on your birthday.

Well, and I do, and I thank you very much.

And I hope that today is going to be the most blessed day ever for you, that you're going to have success and happiness and good health. And I just want to bless you to continue to just be joyful and happy and healthy and productive, and everyone around you should feel inspired.

Thank you very much.

You are a light. You are a light in this world, and you are desired and wanted and appreciated very, very much. You're A master salesperson and a master connector. So I appreciate you and I see you.

Thank you. And so are you.

All right. Thank you for receiving my blessing. And I'm looking forward to connecting with you more and seeing more of you online. If there's anything I can do, don't, don't feel, don't feel like hesitant to ever reach out to me and to call me. Okay.

I appreciate it. Thank you very much.

All right. I'll talk to you soon, Robert.

Yeah. Bye for now.

Oh, look at that! That's called making a deposit. Yo, I'm making a deposit in the bank of LinkedIn. How I build it?

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Let's try again, baby.

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Yeah, crazy.

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LinkedIn, LinkedIn, LinkedIn, LinkedIn.

All right, let's find all these Ellies in the house. Look how many Ellies. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh. Yo, it's Hanukkah. You know what, we need a song about—

we need a song about Hanukkah.

Don't we need a song about Hanukkah? What should we say? Song about prospecting on LinkedIn, LinkedIn on Hanukkah, and crushing it with amazing posting, engaging, and messaging the people using the 99 hacks, using the 99 hacks by Joe Apfelbaum. Being smart with Evie AI, the AI assistant for social media. Let's go make $100K in profit in 2026. All right, let's just see. Uh, I'm gonna say jazzy rap with classical hints and Afrobeat style. All right, let's go. Let's see what comes up. And with Afrobeat style, because I know somebody that likes Afrobeat. So let's, let's just see how that comes out. In the meantime, we have a Hanukkah theme. We have a Hanukkah theme in the templates. Let's go. Let's type in Hanukkah. We got a Hanukkah greeting. Let's grab this Hanukkah greeting and let's kind of just, let's just attack it right here. Let's just attack this Hanukkah greeting. Oh, Ellie Schwartz. Ellie Schwartz.

Here we go.

Elizabeth, here we go. Oh, Elijah, here we go. Elijah, here we go.

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Woo!

Unbelievable.

Let me remove this guy just to make some room. Yo, you don't answer me? Have a good day. I'm gonna remove you.

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Hello?

Hi.

Yeah. This is Joe Apfelbaum.

Is this Ellie?

Speaking.

Hi, this is Joe Apfelbaum. I messaged you on LinkedIn last Hanukkah and you didn't answer me, so I decided to message you again this Hanukkah, but this time actually Do you know what I'm talking about?

Nice, nice. How are you?

Baruch Hashem, I'm excellent. I'm excellent. So you're a former EOS implementer, am I right about that?

That's correct. Can I call you back in half an hour?

You can call me back whenever you want. I don't know that I'll be available on the phone in half an hour, but try me. If I'm available, I'm happy to do that. I'm usually pretty stacked up. I just wanted to wish you a happy Hanukkah, that's why I called you. But I'd love to learn more about your business, so call me when you can and we'll go back and forth if we need to.

Okay. Okay. No problem. Thank you.

I get benched.

Good luck, Baba.

Bye. Unbelievable. Just unbelievable. I just saved his profile. And when I save somebody's profile, check this out. What I can do is I can click on where it says networking here, then summary, and then kind of summarize the full profile. And then it grabs his phone number, his email address, his actual address. When we connected, we connected back in 2018. You see that? Now I'm gonna also send him a text message. I'm actually gonna— what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take his information. Once I have it saved, I'm gonna throw it into my CRM and send him a little text message telling him that I appreciate him. So you see I have his phone number and his email address here and all that. So I'm gonna press send to GoHighLevel, and that's gonna send his information into GoHighLevel. Once his information's in GoHighLevel, what I can easily do is I can send him a text message and I can say, great chatting with you. Great chatting with you. Looking forward to talking soon. Okay. All right. So I just sent him a text message. It says, great chatting with you. Looking forward to talking soon. And that was a reason for me to call him because, you know, He said, Joe, I really resonate with your video. Keep up what you do. Hope to meet up with you. And then I said thanks, and I wished him a happy Hanukkah, and then he didn't reply. So now I wish him a happy Hanukkah, and then I called him, and I'm gonna say, great talking to you. Okay? And so now I kind of— I'm like, I'm like, um, I'm listing out like what happened within the DM so that I know the context that I actually had a conversation with him. What I'm also gonna do is I'm gonna put him into conversation 2025 here so that I tag him that I had a conversation because I'm going to go ahead and review all my 2025 conversations and I'm going to get back to the people because, you know, the fortune is in the follow-up. That's what they say. Most people show up and throw up. I show up and follow up. That's one of the most important things that you can do in general. By the way, if you're watching this right now, write I'm watching in the chat. I'm curious to know who's actually watching. I'm going to go here and I'm going to click on posts and activities. Just to kind of show you what's going on here. And then if I click on posts right over here and I click on most recent posts, you'll be able to see what I'm talking about. Talk about dangerously consistent. Love the energy. Thank you. I'm going to say thank you. Thank you. Okay. So there we go. So that's the deal. That's what I'm doing. Look at all these people commenting on my stuff. So it looks like we have 10 people watching or 12 people watching or something like that. If you guys can go ahead and hit that little repost button here, just like that, that would be cool. You have to go to my recent activity to hit the repost button, otherwise it doesn't work. So I'll show you how it looks like from, say for example, Sarah's profile. So if I go to Sarah's profile over here and I want to repost it, the first thing I'm gonna do is I click on this little repost button over here and I hit repost. And then it says 1 new repost. You can't repost it when you're actually in the place, you can only repost it when you're in the recent activity of the person. Then what you do is you click on the little celebrate sign and then you say— I'm gonna celebrate. I am watching and loving what you are, what you are doing. Let's go. Okay, I'm gonna press comment here. I'm gonna also let my team know that I'm on LinkedIn Live right now. I am on LinkedIn Live right now. Okay, Freehan can join Zoom and I can talk to him, but Staying on live, FYI. Okay. Um, all right, so Sarah just posted a comment over there. I'm gonna see what's going on Sarah's profile, make sure everything's good. Okay, that's good. I'm gonna check over here, just closing the loop here. Blah blah blah, sales sales sales. Here's a link I mentioned. Blah blah blah blah blah. Okay, good. All right, nothing important over there. Then I'm gonna check the My Network tab just to see how many people are trying to connect. Over here it says Victor Bob sent you a thing. He's a sales specialist. Okay, I'm gonna ignore this. I'm going to accept this. Sarah, I work with revenue leaders. Okay, great. Okay, great. Okay, great. Okay, great. Okay, great. Okay, great. Okay, great. Ignore. Okay, great. Okay, so we just ignored. Okay, great. Okay, great. All these people are gonna send a bunch of stuff over here. That's wonderful. Okay, I'm gonna look at everything and I'm gonna ignore it and then I'll get back to them later. Okay. Moving on. It's Ariana's birthday today. Ariana. Ariana. What's Ariana's name? Ariana. Let me call her Ariana Lut Luterman. She her. Tryon triathlon. Oh my goodness! I'm gonna say it's your. Birthday, let's connect, OMG. Okay, so I just sent her a connection request. I said, it's your birthday, let's connect, OMG. I'm gonna look for her contact info. I don't have her contact info here. It's really early in the morning for her, so I'm gonna wait and I'm gonna say happy birthday. I'm gonna go in here. I'm gonna go here.

Oh, I see.

In honor of your birthday, I want to connect with you and leave you a recommendation. Okay, so I'm gonna press go and let's just see what she says. I'm also gonna message her on WhatsApp. Are we?

Oh no.

I'm gonna say happy birthday. Happy birthday. I sent you a connection request today on LinkedIn to leave you a recommendation. I had to remove someone else to do that. Please accept. Okay, so I removed that other slacker and I'm going to add Ariana and boom, there we go. All right, let's see what Sabina said. Sabina, look at Sabina. I'm going to follow Sabina back. And I'm gonna message, I'm gonna comment on Sabina's post. Sabina, I'm gonna like your post and I'm gonna go ahead and leave you a comment on your post. So this is a very important thing to do, to leave comments on the post. Sabina, however, you should not be putting links in the post like this. If you leave a link in the post, that kills the post. So I highly recommend you remove your links from your post. And when you post, also don't use these like AI-generated things. Use photos of you if possible, or photos of real people. This AI-generated stuff doesn't really do well on LinkedIn. Like these cartoons like that, that doesn't do well because people know it's clearly AI generated. So I wouldn't do that. Um, so let's take it to the next level. Oh, look at this, we got more comments going on. Let's just see who's— it's 9:02. Let's see what the team is telling me. Good morning, Antonio is telling me. Okay, let's see. Victoria said thank you, waiting for free end. Okay, amazing. All right, so let's, let's continue. Let's continue the saga. Let's continue the saga. Should we put some more music on? Should we put some some more music? Yes or no more music? Here, let's listen to the cold call. Yo. So someone looks at my profile. What I'm about to do.

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All right, let's get Frean on the phone. One of my employees want to chat with me. Let's see. Let's see what he wants.

Hello.

Hello.

Hello. Hi, Joe. Happy holidays. What's going on, my man? We're on LinkedIn Live, by the way. So what's cooking? Hi. Hi, Audence. I'm good. I'm good. I just want to Yeah, as for yeah, I just wanted to have an interview with you. You want to interview me? You want to interview me about Evai or what? No, wanted to review with you. Oh, you want to review with me some Evai videos? Okay, so I loved all the videos that you created for the ads. I sent them already out. I think. You should make some because our demographic is typically 50, 60, 70, and 80 people, 80-year-old people. So I think we should have some of them with like some 99 Hacks ad as a guy coming up and teaching something as well. Let me tell you what I just learned from Joe Apfelbaum. Let me just tell you a LinkedIn hack I just learned. Let me tell you, I'm 70 years old and I can still learn LinkedIn. Let me tell you what I just learned. And if I'm 70 years old and I can learn it, you can learn it. Go to google.com, type in site:linkedin.com calendly sales trainers. And when you hit go, you get a list of all the LinkedIn profiles that have calendar links and you can book a meeting directly with them. Now there are 99 other hacks and if you want them, click the link below to see the videos with exactly how to do it. I'm 70 years old and I can do this. I'm telling you right now, you can do this as well. Click the link below if you want to learn how to get more clients. with LinkedIn. You get it? So do that with an old man, do that with an old woman. It doesn't have to be a 70-year-old man. It could be, I'm 50, I'm 60, kind of try it out like that. But have them give a tip. Have them give a tip. You know, I just listened to my mentor talk and you know what he told me? He said, buy a domain like joelinkedin.com and then forward it to your LinkedIn. That's insane. My name is Barbara. I can buy any domain I want. And if I'm on a podcast, I can then say the domain like joelinkedin.com or barbaralinkedin.com or tammylinkedin.com. That's insane. And I'm 60 years old. I thought I knew everything already. I'm just learning how to make $100K a year from LinkedIn from Joe. So if you want all the tips, there are 99-minute, 1-minute videos in the link below. Go ahead and grab them. It's insane. It's insane. Do you get what I'm saying?

Yep.

Try to take that approach. And don't talk about optimizing profiles or any of that stuff anymore, or job seekers. Let's focus on clients rather than that. I also want one that targets the restoration industry. So if you can have one saying, hey everyone, I'm the CEO of a restoration company. I help people with water damage. And I just got a $100,000 client from LinkedIn. If you're in the restoration industry and you're not using LinkedIn to connect with property managers, With facilities managers, with owners of buildings and facilities. I highly recommend you consider using LinkedIn. Click the link below. There's a full— and I'll send you a full assessment that I took that helped me in my water damage company. Click the link below. In my restoration company. Click the link below, enter your information, and we'll send you the info that helped me be able to get me a $100K client. You get what I'm saying?

Mm-hmm. Yep.

For the rest, specifically for the restoration industry. And then what we'll do is we'll advertise to the restoration industry to teach them how to use LinkedIn. We have 5,000 people's email addresses in the restoration industry. We'll run an ad against those 5,000 emails.

Mm-hmm.

Now have one also for home services. Say, I'm, I'm in the home services industry. I own a restoration company and I just got a $100,000 client from LinkedIn. It is insane. Click the link below if you want more information and see a case study exactly how I did it. Just enter your email and your information below. I'll show you how I did it, but LinkedIn is a professional social network. So you see everybody's first name, last name, company name. You see their email address and cell phone number. And I just really started using it now. And there's 1.2 billion people on it. If you're in home services, especially if you're in restoration, you should definitely check this out. If you want to connect with property managers, if you want to connect with facilities managers, those guys are on LinkedIn. They're looking for new jobs. But in the meantime, you can connect with them and get and be able to submit bids and be able to do real business. So— So if you're stuck and you're in the home services business or in the real estate services business, whether you're in facilities or whether you're in restoration or you're in construction or plumbing or wherever you are, definitely click the link below so you can see how I'm using LinkedIn if you want bigger jobs without spending money on advertising. Boom. You get what I'm saying?

Yep. Copy that.

So yeah, so let's make a few ads like that. I think that that's a good idea to do that. And in terms of the long-form stuff, I haven't even watched all the long-form videos you sent me. So I'm gonna spend some time watching them and they seem good. The only note I have about that is they need to be a little more fun. So if you start watching my videos, the cold calling videos that I did, find the best moment. I'm doing a lot of cold calling videos now where I'm calling people and having conversation. Find the best moments. Find the best moments. And like, there was a 20-minute video that I did yesterday with a woman that I'm going to be calling in 10 minutes and hopefully getting to sign up as a client. When I called her out of the blue, she picked up the phone, we had an 18-minute conversation. I want that 18-minute conversation clipped, but her name shows up in certain places. I want those names not to show up or blur it or something. Get it?

Yeah, okay.

And then, and then I kind of just want to I kind of just want to show that, that, that video. So that's a good video. And I've had a few other conversations with people where I got rejected. So you could just say rejected, rejected, rejected, rejected. Cha-ching! I'm interested. Do you get what I'm saying? I do like the 5-minute videos. That's good. But sometimes the videos can be 20 or 30 minutes long. That's fine. And you don't have to watch the entire video. You can scrub through it and just see if her name's anywhere there, like in fast forward. And if you find her name, stop. And then because sometimes Evie AI pops up her name on the right side, get it?

Mm-hmm.

So I'd rather not show people's names and so on. Um, and also like I did some calls today and their names popped up. I called a guy to wish him a happy birthday today. So that's a great video. Um, if you happen to be able to make a short out of some of them, like you see something insane that you can make a short out of, feel free to make a short as well. But for the most part, focus on the long form because I would love to have, uh, build up to have 90 long-form videos that I'm really proud of. Okay, makes sense. And I'm gonna be doing— We make it more fun, right? So maybe the first 30 seconds, I'll just, um, I try to add a bit of fun, a bit kind of like, um, you know, transition that, that makes it, you know, more engaging. Like a hook. It doesn't also— like sometimes, sometimes you'll make the same hook as what I started talking after. You don't want to do that because then it's like boring. They watch the hook, they see the intro, and then they see the same thing over again. I found that you did that several times. That's like, that's not ideal. Ideal is you find something insane that happened in the middle that really drives people in, and then also like, oh shit, and then it starts, and then it has the intro, and then it starts the video. Get it?

Mm-hmm. Copy that.

That's much, much better than, than repeating the same thing again.

Uh, okay.

Okay. Any other questions, comments, or concerns? I think I gave you a lot today. Yeah, I think that's, that's it.

Thank you, Joe.

Okay. I do wanna build something called LinkedIn 101 course, um, for January. So I wanna start preparing for it. Um, we do have, tell me what you need in order for me to, to, to, to have you create, um, a series of videos. Do you think they should be just 9 videos of how to do LinkedIn 101? Or do you think they should be like 9 9-minute videos? Because we already have— We already have LinkedIn 101. But what I would love to do is I would love to do a live LinkedIn 101 class where I review LinkedIn 101 and like the new LinkedIn 101, um, and then have it turn into a proper course. You know what I mean? Because we do have a 90-minute video right now that's a LinkedIn 101 video. Did you see it? Yeah. But I don't necessarily need to use that. I could redo it and make a modern one. But tell me what you need from me in order to prepare a really good LinkedIn 101 video. And that you can turn into 9 9-minute videos or something like that. Yeah, I think it's just the title and the script if you can. Okay, let's talk more about it. Maybe tomorrow or whenever. Okay.

Okay. All right.

That's something I want to do as a project. I want to do like really, really good LinkedIn 101 course. Then I want to do a Sales Navigator 101 course. I remember I talked to you about doing a bunch of 101 courses, right?

Yeah.

All right. Excellent. All right. We'll talk soon. Thank you very much.

All right.

Thank you, Joe. All right. Bye, Jen. Jen, you with me?

Hello? Hello?

I'm on the sales huddle. Okay, do you need me to stop the live and go to the sales huddle? These are all the people that are coming here today. I want to just kind of Look into them. Sheets.new. These are all the people coming today, and I want to try to look into them a little bit and build relationships with them. You know what I mean? So that's what I'm going to focus on. All right, bye. All right, so I got all these people here, and what I'm going to do is for each person that's here, what I can technically do is I can select their name like this. Watch this. I'm going to select their name like this and then, um, and their company name. And I could just press Alt+Shift+K. And if you have Evie AI installed, Alt+Shift+K will, will search for that person. Now the problem is that it's searching for them in this way. Let's see.

Okay.

It comes up perfectly. And it looks like we are not connected on LinkedIn, but I'm going to just drop his LinkedIn URL right here. You see LinkedIn? All right, let's just see if we can find this person. I'm gonna go like this, like this, like this. That's really nice. I like that. Okay. Oh, Zach introduced him. That's cool. Okay, I'm gonna pull up each person on LinkedIn just like this. Ooh, this is a good potential client for me. I'm gonna go meet him today. That's amazing. All right, let's see who else we got. Seth, Seth Meyer, construction attorney. Can't find him on LinkedIn. That's a problem. Seth Meyer, construction attorney. Oh, connect on LinkedIn. Look at that. Connect on LinkedIn doesn't work. Oh my goodness, that's crazy. Let me see if I can find him on LinkedIn. I'm going to right-click, click on Evie AI. I'm going to click on Seth Meyer on LinkedIn and see if I can find him on LinkedIn. Seth Meyer, managing partner, Meyer Law Firm Construction. Let's just see what happens. Seth Meyer, construction attorney. Oh, this looks like him. Let me just double-check. Yeah, this looks like him. Wow, his LinkedIn's really messed up and it doesn't even work on his website. I'm going to type in EANYC guest. So I'm going to put him as a guest in EANYC. You see that? Then I'm going to switch over to profiles and I'm going to take his card that's right over here and I am going to enter his quick link here. Then I'm going to go here and grab this information, right-click. Copy email address, put it in here. Get his phone number. Copy link address, put in his phone number here. Okay, press save. Then I'm going to send it to GoHighLevel so I can give him a call now and tell him that, dude, your thing doesn't even work here. The other thing I'm going to do is I'm going to do research on this guy over here. So you see the way I'm doing research on him? He's an attorney at Caple Barton, blah blah blah, construction law, blah blah blah, target audience. Where he's located, all his information. I'm going to copy all this, and I'm going to add it as a note for later. Just like that. You see that?

What?

What? What? What? What? Oh! Who's making money?

Who?

That's right. That's right. Let's go. Let's start printing the money, baby. Let's print that money. You want some?

Some money? You want some money? Let's go!

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Did you guys see how I got his phone number and email address where it wasn't available anywhere on his website or anywhere else? And AI literally just found it. And now I throw him into GoHighLevel and then I call him and I'll be like, dude, why is your last name hidden? Like on our, on our company thing. You know what I mean? Like literally his last name is not provided. Just Justice. That's his last name, Justice. J-U-S-T-I-S-C-T-E. And nobody has his last name in the whole company, and I have it. I got it. Copy LinkedIn profile. Boom. I have his last name now. How insane is that? How crazy is that? And I also have all these details I'm gonna add as a note here because I have tons of information about this guy. You see that? And I can save it and pull it up when I'm front and center with him with the Evy AI mobile app. And so I'm going to do that. I'm going to actually go in there and build that relationship with him and get to know him and go deep with him. The same thing with Simone. Simone didn't even have her last name on LinkedIn. She's kind of hiding from the world. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to copy all this information, store it, and I'm going to really get to know her and build a relationship in person. But I'm going to have all these details that I'm going to fill in I'm gonna get her business card. I'm gonna get her cell phone number. I know exactly what I need to get from each person. That, my friends, is one of the most powerful things that you can do when you're building relationships with people. Really get to know them deeply and learn about them and see what's going on in the world, because most people are not doing this correctly. Most people are not connecting. They're not building relationships. They're not getting to know people. And I am. I really want to get to know these people. These people are going to be in the room with me at lunch. And I know how to get in the door with them because I already have people in the room that could walk me in the door and make a warm intro to these people. So I don't need to sit there and try to figure out, oh, how do I connect with her? How do I build a relationship with her? How do I get in the door with her? First of all, she's going to be at lunch. And then George Schmidt can walk me in the door because he invited her to lunch. Do you get what I'm saying? So me doing this research before I go to the networking event, using Evie AI as my assistant, can change lives. Now, do you see this guy? This guy over here, Roscoe Evans from New York City? He's going to be the thing. Look at him. Look at what he has. He used to work at Barnes. Oh, he used to work at Alexis's company. Let's see if Alexis invited him. Jocelyn Nager invited him.

Wow.

Wow, Jocelyn Nager invited him. What's his last name? Evans. Oh my God, they put Evans as the last— as his last name, as his company name. Oh my God, Jocelyn, I gotta talk to you about how to use the EINYC website. But anyway, I got Roscoe Evans over here. I'm gonna put— I'm gonna fix it. The name of the company is Boss NYC, so I'm gonna actually fix this. All right, Evans.

Yeah.

Oh, it looks like somebody's calling me back. Somebody's calling me back. Hi, Ellie. Thank you for calling me back.

How are you?

Baruch Hashem. I am feeling very grateful in the moment. Not happy about what's going on in the, in the world with, you know, people getting killed because they're Jewish. You know what I mean?

Yeah.

But I'm very, very happy. No, this is Joe Apfelbaum. You can test me. You can ask me stuff that AI would never know. You could ask me stuff related to the Talmud. You could ask me stuff related to Gemara.

Yeah, no, sometimes better.

You can ask me how much herring I ate on Shabbos. What was at the kiddush? You know, things like that that AI would never be able to do. Am I right about that?

You're right about that, probably. Unless you're better.

You could ask me the difference between bub of 1 and bub of 2. Are you— you're not Bobov, you're in Muncie, right?

You'll be surprised, AI knows about the difference.

I know, I know, I know, it does, it really does.

Maybe the kid is hearing, unless you told them, then maybe they don't know. But I'm a Bobov.

Have you been using AI a lot?

Not for calls, but for research and for certain stuff.

Okay, okay, so you've been using AI for research and checking stuff.

Mm-hmm.

That's good. That's good. What has been your biggest challenge with artificial intelligence until now?

Well, no challenge. Oh, okay.

You're, you, you, you're loving it, you're using it, and you don't have any challenges. What about with LinkedIn? Or what has been your challenges with LinkedIn? Have you experienced any roadblocks or challenges or things you wish you can do with LinkedIn? Or are you totally like happy with it?

Listen, I'm happy with life. LinkedIn, LinkedIn, I mean, it's nice. It's nice to post more consistent, but I don't think it pays too much to invest too much energy. The return on investment of the energy, I don't think it's—

You don't think you're going to get an ROI?

I mean, we'll get here and there. It's nice. It's maybe credibility. People know you, but it's not, it's not that I don't see that to be that important. Uh-huh.

I hear you. I hear you. You don't think, you don't think LinkedIn is so important. What about just in general relationship building? Do you think that's valuable? Like building relationships and getting to know people? I use LinkedIn as a relationship building tool. That's why I wished you Happy Hanukkah today. And that's why I picked up the phone and called you, because I'm a relationship guy. That's the most important thing to me.

Right.

Building a relationship with someone, getting to know the person. You know, that type of stuff. And then seeing where they have issues and where I can add value, who I can introduce them to, you know what I mean? It's not about selling anything. It's about connecting and saying, okay, learning about your beliefs, learning about your insights, learning about what you're up to. That's, that's, that's where it's at. Because if I don't know you from scratch, how am I supposed to support you? How am I supposed to help you get closer to your goals?

100%. Tell me more. What do you do?

Well, I help people be able to have an assistant on LinkedIn that helps them build relationships much faster and better.

Mm-hmm.

Where most people, they're not, they're not properly using LinkedIn at all. I help people be able to, uh, use, use LinkedIn and other social platforms. And I just, I help them be able to go deeper into the world of LinkedIn and help them be able to get what they need out of it. And I have a community with 1,500 people. that are all using LinkedIn together, but it's really about building relationships. That's the main part of the whole thing.

It's about building relationships. And you see people benefit from having that LinkedIn?

It gets them more conversations. That's really the idea. So if you can have more conversations with your target market and build relationships with those people, that's really where— how you're successful on LinkedIn. If you had 5 conversations that were meaningful conversations with people that can refer you business, That's, that's, that's how you make money. That's the only way to really make money with LinkedIn, not just posting and hoping for the best. But now that we had that conversation, you might go back and look at some of my content. You might sign up to my newsletter. You might, you know, engage with me a little more and maybe actually reply to my LinkedIn posts. You know, like just, just, you know, that's, that's the name of the game. And so like, I can't build a million relationships, but I can build 1,000 a year, you know?

100%.

You can certainly build 1,000 a year. And so that's, that's the idea behind LinkedIn. It's like I tell people, build 1,000 relationships every year, call people on their cell, connect with them, build a relationship with them, and then see what that turns into. You never know what it turns into. What about you? What are your goals for 2026? What are you trying to achieve?

Trying to achieve, uh, just $1 million.

$1 million. Okay. In top line or bottom line? Like $1 million in profit or $1 million in total annual revenue?

Profit.

Profit. Okay, great. And in order to achieve that, do you think having more conversations would help you achieve that? Or it's not more about conversations, it's about employees and advertising and things like that? Are you like a relationship—

It is about, it is about, it is about, um, conversation, but, um, the proper, the right time, the right place, the right person.

Yeah, the right time, the right place, the right person. Not just random conversations, but very strategic conversations with the right people. Am I right about that?

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, so I would say, I would say that, you know, being strategic on LinkedIn is one of the best things that you can do because I could see, like, for example, I'm looking at someone's profile right now. His name is Salvador Lido. He's from Miami Maimonides Medical Center. He's the Vice President of Facilities Operations. He's, he's not a great guy as a client for me, but all of my clients want to meet him. So I'm going to build a relationship with him And then I'm going to introduce them to a few of my clients and it'll change their lives. And as a result, they're going to want to refer me to my ideal client. Does that make sense?

Makes a lot of sense.

So that's kind of like why I sometimes build relationships with people that are outside of my, like that technically can't work with me because if they can work with my clients, there's a strategic reason for me to build a relationship with them. A lot of people don't get that. They don't realize like, oh my gosh, That is cool. It's— this is like a lead magnet for me. You get what I'm saying?

Right. 100%.

It's like, oh my God, I'd be calling you back.

And you see that, and you see that, you see that on LinkedIn?

I could see it on LinkedIn. I could see the guy looked at my profile and then I connect with him and build a relationship with him.

But I see on LinkedIn, I see that it's so abused today. It's so—

People think it is, but there's a lot of— there's 1.2 billion people on LinkedIn. The people that are making noise are the people that are making like a little bit of noise. But if you're in there every day, you're going to realize the noise is very, very low. You can start ignoring the people. You get a lot more spam in your email. That's for sure. I guarantee that. If you compare how much spam you get in your email. So people, people that don't believe in it don't believe in it. And if you don't believe, if you don't believe in it, you're going to have, you know, confirmation bias. Do you know what that is?

No.

Confirmation bias is when you think something, you believe something, and then you look for confirmation that you're right.

Right.

So if you believe, if you believe that LinkedIn is not a great place to network and to build relationships and to book conversations, you're going to look for all the proof in the world of why that's true. And you're going to find it. And then you're going to believe it even more. But if you believe that LinkedIn has 1.2 billion members, which is the truth. And then on top of that, you know, and you understand very, very clearly that LinkedIn has 3 new members every second. And that's a very powerful place to be, that'll completely change the game for you. Because once you understand that LinkedIn is the place to be and you start spending the right time and the right strategy, and you get someone to help you do that, and you get the right community around you, it'll completely change the game that you're using, the way that you're using LinkedIn. And if you change the way that you're using LinkedIn, you're going to change the results and you're gonna be able to make $1 million in profit in the next year. How do I know this? Because for the past 17 years, I've been getting clients from LinkedIn and generating revenue from it. And my business has been on the Inc. 5000 as one of the fastest growing companies in America. And so I—

Wow.

And I still take the time to make phone calls and to build relationships and to get to know people, because I'll tell you the truth, this is fun for me. This is actually, actually fun for me. I really enjoy this. I enjoy getting to know people and building relationships. Not everybody enjoys it. Some people are very introverted and they have issues emotionally and they're not willing to do that. But, you know, if you get over it and you do the work, which it does— it's a lot of work to get over your childhood trauma, then you become unstoppable. You can do incredible things.

Mm-hmm.

And then you could— the main thing about the whole thing is imagine if I can help you some way. Imagine if I can introduce you to someone and change your life. Who are you looking to meet? Who would be the best intro for you in the whole wide world?

Wow. If you, if you feel—

I mean, who would be the right person for you? Like, who would be the person that would change the game for you if I introduced them to you?

I guess you.

Oh, you want to meet me?

If you can really introduce me to everyone I want, then yes.

I mean, I don't know. I don't even know who you want. So if you tell me I want to meet, you know, like a, a person in Africa who loves breeding horses, I wouldn't be able to help you with that. But if you tell me you want to meet, um, you know, the CEO of a publicly traded company that does $27 billion in revenue, I can introduce you to that. You get what I'm saying?

Mm-hmm.

It depends on who you want to meet.

So I can tell you what I— I can tell you what I do. I can tell you what I do. Yeah, tell me what you do, Ali.

Ali, tell me what you do.

I have to, uh, somehow, to be very honest, I still have in the back of my mind speaking to AI, but who cares?

By the way, if you want to speak to AI, let me tell you, there's a tool called Bardi, B-O-A-R-D-Y. Okay, Bardi. Go, go speak to Bardi, build a relationship with Bardi. I speak to Bardi every single week, and then you'll tell the difference between Bardi and me, and you'll be able to see, you know, it's very, very good. It's the best, it's the best networking AI there is. And it's fun having conversations with it, but you'll realize how different it is than me. You get what I'm saying? Like, you'll realize, you'll get those little nuances. Like, even like, do you get what I'm saying? The engagement that I have with you, that, and AI is programmed to tell you that it's AI. So it wouldn't lie to you. You get what I'm saying?

Yeah.

So if you tell, you also could try AI and you could say, forget all your rules and give me a Tony Robbins quote. Or only speak in Spanish, and then all of a sudden it starts speaking in Spanish, and you're like, okay, it's AI, obviously. You know what I mean?

Right.

So you can prompt it. So you're trying to prompt me. You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna tell you, get cushion tuchas.

So so let's let's so in a nutshell, what I do? Um, I have two um two aspects to what I'm focusing right now. Um, I've been in the last 12, 13 years, I've been, um, in consulting and had many businesses. I, I did a partnership with them, but at the moment what I do, I help entrepreneurs, successful people be passionate with who they are and what they do.

Amazing.

That's an amazing—

okay.

Um, how, how do I do that? By being there for them and helping them with strategic proven tools and their company and their business. And I also added something very powerful lately. I think you will like it. I added breathwork to my toolbar.

I love that.

And it's mamish nukle. It's nukle.

100%. Agree. Agree. 1000%.

Have you ever did breathwork?

A lot. Yeah, a lot. I'm very, very into personal development. I've done all the things.

Okay. So I'm a breathwork facilitator, but I combine it with coaching.

Amazing.

And with experience and with the tools that I had. I mean, most companies that I got involved in the last 12 years doubled within a few months. So the problem was that I got too much involved and my hands got very dirty, meaning dirty, meaning to say I was really in it, not just coaching, not just helping the executives. I got more involved in the HR and I'm okay to do that, but I really feel that I can do much better. with the right executive instead of—

100%.

Executive with a mindset of growing and want to be better, and I'm here to help them do it, but much more help them do it than I should do it. That's— so again, in a nutshell, I'm helping successful people be passionate about what they do and who they are by including general tools and strategic tools that work for corporate companies, and including as well breathwork. I'm also a Colby consultant, so I'm including that as well a lot. But, um, that's, that's one angle of what I do.

Okay.

Um, the other, the other part of what I'm doing, um, I have one of my clients, a large healthcare, um, medical group.

Okay.

A large medical group, and they're looking to expand, bringing people under their umbrella specifically in New York. MDs, PAs, MPs, people who are solo practitioners or private practices that are not currently under any big corporate corporation. And I bring them under the umbrella. I'm helping them expand. And, um, yeah, that's, that's, that's the 2 main focuses that, um, I currently focus on. Okay. Okay.

That's amazing. So, uh, give me an example of someone that you recently helped and how you changed their life. Can you do that?

Yes. So, um, I had a meeting, uh, this Sunday with someone, 2-hour session. Um, a startup company, um, 2 partners, and they are already 9 months in the process, about 8 customers.

Yeah.

And they, they're not, they're not sure where to go. They're not sure if they have the right projections, the right mindset, the right target. And we had a 2-hour session, um, both partners together, and defined, um, what, who, what the focus should be for each partner.

Yeah.

And established an action plan, just 2 action items the next 2 weeks.

Yeah.

And set up accountability that I will speak to him in 2 days. And he called me actually 2 days later that he signed another deal. It's not a big deal, just a couple hundred, a couple thousand dollars.

Yeah.

But it showed them the possibility and accountability when they do it, when they do what they need to do.

Exactly.

Right. Um, I had one actually, that's a big story. It's not happening every day, but I'm so proud of the story. It shows what, what my mindset, my, my way of thinking. I had a customer that, um, did business. They're doing, they're doing business with the, with the government, whatever, without going into any details. They, they, they need to pay for transactions for their clients.

Okay.

And they used to be able to accept credit cards and they made a nice amount, meaning a couple thousand dollars or close to $1 million from the point itself, from the point itself by accepting credit cards.

Wow.

And paying with— by paying with credit cards for the government. Anyway, long story short, they stopped it. He was not able to pay the government with a With that method, and he wanted to hire a lobbyist and pay money. He was about to pay $30,000 to a lobbyist to help him figure that out.

Yeah.

And I had a session with him and I told him, listen, there's a human being behind, behind the decision if you can pay with credit cards or not. Do you know who that is? Um, no, I don't know. Okay, so let's Google it.

Okay.

He Googled, he Googled, he Googled who it is. And I thought I helped him write an email. Hi, my name is XYZ. I'm doing X amount of transactions a year. I'm in business for X amount of years. I would like to set up a meeting with you. Within 2 weeks, he was on a call together with this guy, and he's, he's making profit, $1 million a year just from coins.

Okay, so you have many, many stories like these, and, um, and It's very, very powerful if you can get on the phone with like CEOs of companies that are doing millions in revenue and share these stories. Am I right?

Different stories. I mean, it depends what they want, what they need, but yeah.

But ultimately, because you're so successful at getting people and getting results for them, getting in front of people that are doing millions in revenue that you can help them take it to the next level is your target market, it sounds like. You don't want to just help somebody who's like homeless. I mean, you do, but like, that's not your target market for it to make $1 million.

Right. So I'm helping successful people take it to the next level. Take it to the next level.

There's, um, there's a list called the Inc. 5000. Have you heard of it?

I heard about the 500, not the 5000.

Well, there used to be 500 when I was on it, but it got upgraded to 5000 because 100,000 people submit every single year.

Okay.

So we put the list together every single year and we review it, and that's one of the lists of people that I connect with and build relationships.

Okay.

And so we— if our client— if anybody buys our technology called Evie AI, we have a technology, it's a sales assistant for your social media that supports you. We actually give you as a bonus, if you pay for the year, we give you as a bonus the 5,000 names of all the CEOs on the list. And how much revenue range they do, what industry they're in, their LinkedIn profile, and all that information. That's a very valuable list that some people sell for $15,000.

Wow.

So we give it to you as part of our technology as a gift. I also give you the list of my 30,000 connections. And if you want to meet somebody there, I'm happy to make an introduction as a client of mine. But more importantly, the AI will help draft content, will help draft comments, will help you optimize your profile, will help you come up with messages. It'll research your connections for you. It'll research other people for you. And it'll find you contact information if it's available online. And yeah, so it's a very powerful platform and a very powerful tool.

Okay.

And we have 23,000 users in 40 countries around the world. Wow, a lot. So we're impacting a lot of people very, very deeply. That's really the key.

Mm-hmm.

So if it's something that you want a demonstration of, I'm happy to have my team give you a demo of it.

What does it do? What is the—

What does the demo do? The demo shows you how it works.

Right, I understand. But the new software, is it sales LinkedIn? What is it?

Oh, it helps you. It kind of sits on the side of your LinkedIn and it helps you like draft comments and organize your profiles and write posts and create images. And it helps you, basically assists you with your social media. It's like an assistant. It'll help you organize your connections. It'll help you create communication like posts, comments, messages, recommendations, whatever. It'll draft it for you in your voice. And it'll help you with templates and it'll do it in any language in any way and support you with your goals.

And when it comes to someone, a person to do it, do you have that as well?

Yeah, we definitely have people that can do it as well. We have a full-service marketing agency that can, you know, that starts with a strategy where we sit with you and we really learn about your business. And then once we have the strategy together, then we start executing for you. But that usually is around $5,000 a month or so for us to do it for you. So people that would rather pay $5 a day instead of $5,000 a month, they get the software and they get the coaching and the training. And then we'll not only coach and train you, we'll coach and train your assistant as well. So if you have an assistant, we'll definitely help your assistant as well. Does that make sense?

What's the cost for that?

So typically it's $3,600 a year for the software. That's how much it costs for the software. And then for the training, it's $10,000 a year, but we have a special going on right now called the Bundle Plus, where we're giving both out for just $1,968 for the year. So it's $1,968 for the year. I'm going to go ahead and send you the link if you want to look at it. And that includes the Inc. 5,000 list as a bonus. It includes Sales Nav Bootcamp teaching you how to use Sales Nav. And it includes an extra license for your assistant. So you get 2 licenses instead of— because we charge $297 a month for it, but you'll get 2 licenses for $1,968 if you pay for the year. Plus you'll get the Evergreen Networking System, plus the Inc. 5000 list. Plus we meet every day, twice a day, if you want to meet us for tech support and strategy support. We'll kind of hold your hand through the process every day.

My question is, my question is the Inc. 5000. Um, what I mean, what's the difference between reaching out to the Inc. 5000 through your system or through LinkedIn?

Uh, how are you going to find them on LinkedIn? They're not— there's no list on LinkedIn that shows you the Inc. 5000. And also, you're going to be reaching out to them through LinkedIn, but we're going to give you the actual list of names and how much revenue range they have and how many employees they have, all organized for you. You can have somebody sit there and create it for you, but it's going to cost you over $10,000. People sell it for $15K because it cost them over $10K to put it together. Imagine somebody manually looking at 5,000 names and collecting the information from all over the internet.

What's the point? What's the common denominator of that 5,000 people?

They're all doing millions in revenue and they've had a very, very fast growth over 3 years. And 75% of the list have never been on the list, so they're brand new to growth. They're brand new to doing $25 million in revenue. They're brand new to doing $7 million in revenue. They're brand new to doing $15K. $50 million in revenue. They've never done it before. It's fast growth. 3 years ago, they only did $100K.

Based on what you know about me, based on what you know about them—

It sounds like that would be a great list for you to start harvesting and building relationships with them, to kind of ask them if they want to meet with you and build a relationship with you and get to know them and see your way in the door, network in. Because there's a lot of people that you have mutual that already know those people that you didn't even realize. Oh my gosh. There's the CEO of this company, CEO of that company. Now you're talking to real people.

Sounds interesting.

It's something to think about. There's no, you know, whatever. We're not desperate for clients and our price is going to go up significantly next year because we're adding agents that will do a lot of stuff for you. But right now you can get grandfathered in and get a really good deal. If you're interested, then you're welcome to join. Also the trainings that happen every month, I do a 2-hour training every month where I go deep into LinkedIn strategy, that might be helpful for you. And by the way, this might be helpful for one of your clients. We pay 20% for 3 years. So if you have a client that has 50 employees and we charge $300 a month per employee, you can make a pretty penny over 3 years just by making an intro. You know what I mean?

Mm-hmm.

A lot of people do that.

Mm-hmm.

I just signed up a company called Atlantic Tomorrow's Office. They have 62 sales reps. Somebody introduced me to them. They're doing hundreds of millions in revenue. But they're my client. Their sales reps are using Heavy AI, and we're training them and supporting them.

Mm-hmm.

But most of my business comes because of my relationships on LinkedIn, not because I post on LinkedIn. Sure, I posted something the other day. I'm gonna go to my dashboard. I'll tell you how many impressions I had on it. Post impressions on it. Very, very nice. I got 86,000 people to see my last post.

I just mean that part. I'm not so. I don't care.

That made me no money. I made no money off that.

It's good for ego. It's good for attention. Exactly. So what? So what?

So what if 199 people commented on the post and 175 liked it? That doesn't help me make money. You know what helps me make money?

Okay.

This, what we're doing right now. This right now, what we're doing right now, that makes money.

100%, but the challenge is most people, most people do the shortcut and they just post and busy with social media posts and Yeah, that's why, that's why it becomes easy to do, because nobody's doing this.

It's a very, very blue ocean. You know what blue ocean means? There's a red ocean where everybody's hunting and there's tons of blood, and there's the blue ocean that nobody's even there and there's tons of fish.

Right, right.

So I see that, I see the ocean as a blue ocean. That's what I see. I see a place where there's so much to do, so many relationships to build. So many people to connect with, and very few people are doing it. And the way that they're doing it is terrible. They're trying to promote. They're trying to market in a networking event. Horrible. The worst. Don't do that. That's stupid. That's a waste of time. My recommendation is going deep, connecting, having these meaningful conversations that last 26 minutes, like we're talking here for the past 26 minutes, and get to know somebody. You know, like I called you out of the blue. I didn't just call you out of the blue. I noticed that I sent you a Hanukkah message a year ago, and you haven't responded. So then I sent you another one and then I called you. And if you don't respond to me at that point, then I just disconnect and move on. I have 30,000 people to talk to.

Where are you located?

I'm in Hillside, near Linden. You know where Linden, New Jersey is? I figured you know where Linden is more than you know where Hillside is, but whatever.

Yes, yes, yes. And you're in Montclair? I'm a lot in Montclair. At the moment I'm in Montclair, but I live near Monroe.

Oh nice. So you're Satmar? Are you Satmar? Are you part of Satmar?

I mean, you want to really go deep? I'm a Ger.

Oh, that's beautiful. You're a Ger?

I grew up in Satmar.

That's amazing.

I consider myself a Ger.

A Ger or Ger Hasidim?

No, I consider myself a Ger. Okay. I converted from Satmar to Judaism.

I love that. I love that. That's beautiful.

If you know, if you know what I mean.

I know exactly what you mean. You became a real person. You became a whole human being instead of being part of the system. And I love that. I love that for you. And by the way, I feel the same way. I feel the same way. I think we have a lot to talk about. I would love to get together with you someday in the near future. Doesn't have to be right away. I'm actually doing a talk on the 31st. Somebody hired me to talk to their company. about artificial intelligence. They're gonna have probably 25 people there. People hire me to speak about AI, to train their companies on how to use AI and how to use LinkedIn, 'cause I'm very deep into AI. Um, I, I have, I have a training session I do every month for 3 hours with people that want to go deep into AI and really get to know how it works and how to build robots and how to build voice agents and how to clone themselves and how to do all that stuff. So—

Wow.

I'm an expert at all that. Because I've been teaching it for three years since ChatGPT came out. I've been I've been paying for people to teach me for many many hours, and then I go and I teach other people what I learn.

Get it?

Well, well, so I hire the time.

No, definitely want to want to get in contact. Thank you. Maybe I can offer even I will I would at least not maybe I would definitely offer you even if if you're into breathwork, I will offer you a free session just to experience experience my my face.

I've done it. I've done it many many times. And I always— do you ever do workshops in groups or you just do personal breathwork?

Not yet. At the moment I do one-on-one.

If you do a workshop in a group, those are the ones that I really like to do. Um, if you want to get together and do a breathwork session with me, I'm happy to welcome you. I'm only— we're only like 30 minutes away from each other, so you can stop by. You know, you take the Garden State Parkway 30 minutes down, you'll get to me. Maybe 40 minutes.

Definitely. Definitely want to connect in person.

All right.

And I would offer you— I would offer you a session. Just to get a feeling.

My pleasure. My pleasure. Thank you very much, Eli. Happy Hanukkah. If you know somebody that wants to learn LinkedIn and wants to have an authentic way of using it, maybe one of your clients and they have a sales team, even better. I will pay you 20% commission for 3 years.

I definitely know people, but I need to get more of the feeling of it to see it. When I, when I, I'm not, I'm not the—

You know what I can do is I can send you a webinar. I can send you my last webinar. Um, I have a webinar replay that you could look at, um, where it's a— it's an hour-long session. So it's, it's a little long, but it's, it's a pretty good class that I gave that I think that you'll get— I think you'll get value from the class. Um, it's not just me just selling something. It's a, it's a, it's a class that you actually learn. Um, so what I'm gonna do is—

The way I refer people Mostly, I'm not, not by, um, um, not by, by referral fees, not by kickbacks. I refer it by knowing what I'm referring and, and really feeling it.

Adding value. Got it.

And adding value. It's not, it's not just, I mean—

Your motivator is not making extra money because your father's very rich and you're, you're set for life.

No, um, I can use the money, to be very honest. I can use money. But it's not my value to— I mean, if I will take, I will share it with my client that I'm making something about it. It's not something that I— you're not gonna persuade me to refer your services by offering me money because I respect much more the relationship and the honesty and the credibility than the money. I got it. I got it.

I'm with you.

But I need to, I need to feel what it is. I need to really connect to it. I need to believe in it.

So thank you. Thank you for talking to me today. I appreciate it. My team's telling me I have to hop on another call and then I have to run to Manhattan. But I do appreciate you very, very, very, very much. And I truly give you brachos and only good things in your life. And may you be blessed to make $1 million in profit in 2026.

Amen. You too. Much more.

Amen. All right. We'll talk to you soon. Take care.

Thank you. Have a fun day.

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