How to follow up after a conference with LinkedIn 003 - Joe Apfelbaum Live 2025

Wow, we are live back. It's been a long journey, a long, long journey, and I'm really excited about sharing today how to follow up with 100 new relationships. The first thing that I like to do is I like to make sure that I have all the people saved inside Evvy AI. Most people don't know this, but if you're not leveraging artificial intelligence to help you be able to properly follow up, it's not going to work. Like, for example, somebody sent me a whole long PDF of their life, of what's going on in their life. I dropped that into this tool called Claude, and then I said, tell me what they said and tell me what I should respond. And boom, I was able to write a very rapid response within just a few seconds. I was able to get the gist of what he wrote in the entire PDF, and I was able to respond In just seconds. That for me is just a total game changer. It's just phenomenal to be able to have that rolling for myself and to be able to do that. I also have an enormous amount of photos that I've been able to collect, and I'm speaking to my video editor as we speak. Hey Megan, good to see you. Thank you for the comment. And I'm literally gonna go through all the photos. So the first thing that I do is when I'm, at a networking event with somebody, I take a photo with them to remember that moment. And then I go back and I ask myself, how am I connected to this person? Who is this person? How do I build a relationship with them? So for example, I have videos and photos of me and Tina. So if I see that I'm— I have videos and photos of me and Tina, I'm going to want to make sure that I organize her first. Okay. So I'm going to put her in the Marketers Cruise. I have a little list called the Marketers Cruise. I click on that and now she's organized. She's on my list. Okay. She's in a list inside Evy AI. Now that she's in my list, I need to strategize and identify, okay, she's strategic for me. Is she a person that's strategic? And yes, she has an audience. She's an MCTV host. We did some fantastic work together. And so now I want to go a little bit deeper. So the way that I'm going to do it is I'm going to connect with her. And so LinkedIn gives you the ability to connect. If the connect button's missing, you wanna make sure to click the more button to connect, cuz a lot of times the follow button's there and not the connect button. And so that's where it's hidden inside the more section. But if I press connect, I'm not sure what to tell her in the note. So I'm gonna press add a note here in the center. I clicked add a note. So I'm gonna use Evvy AI to help me be able to craft the perfect message. So my goal is, um, services. My tone is curious, and my persona is gonna be a friendly, common persona. Hey Tina, your work with natural weight loss and wellness caught my eye. I'm going to press insert. And then what I'm going to say, um, could we chat and connect more about me talking to your, to your audience? You see that? To your audience. Okay, so now I'm going to say, could we chat and talk about me talking to your audience? And now I'm going to press send. And I'm going to also, here I'm going to mention the Marketers Cruise. Loved meeting you at the Marketers Cruise. Okay, so I kind of just added that right there. So that adds a little more likelihood that she'll accept my connection request. Okay, so I'm going to press send now, and that sends her a custom connection request. Now it says, your invitation was not sent to Tina, please try again later. Let me check why. I'm going to click on my network, and I noticed that I have 30,000 connections already. So I'm not going to be able to send people connection requests if I'm at 30,000. So what I have to do is I have to remove a few people that I'm currently connected to in order to make room for people like Tina. So I'm going to go here and type in, for example, David. I'm just going to search like David because I know I have a lot of Davids. I'm going to go through some of these Davids. For example, this guy here, I'm going to click message. I notice he hasn't responded to anything for me in a long time. I'm going to click on these 3 dots and I'm going to hit remove connection and I just removed the connection. Okay. So I've already been messaging a lot of these people and some of them have not been responding to me like this person over here, David Meisenbach. He actually responded to me. So I'm not going to remove him. But I can easily go through these and identify the people that are kind of just like not even responding at all. And I just literally just removed them. Now this guy happens to be online because there's a green dot over here. So I'm just going to send them my demonstration video here. I have a little demo video that I can send them here just to kind of see what he does. But I'm also going to remove him because I don't need to be connected to every single person. This guy over here is the executive director of the, uh, the Jewish Business Alliance in New Jersey. It looks like he has, we have worked together. He hired me to speak at an event. This guy looks like he doesn't really have a, uh, an image here. So I'm gonna double check to see, and I'm gonna say, I'm gonna use Evie AI to say, um, just curious to know if you actually use LinkedIn, let me know. Okay. And I'm gonna press insert and I'm gonna press send. And I use my voice to talk. And then I typed it in, but I'm actually not going to remove him right now. Let's see if he responds to that. But I made room for Tina. That's the point. I'm going to go now. How do I find Tina? Where do I go to find Tina? So if I go to Evvy AI and I click on login on the left side, I'm going to be able to see all my saved profiles. You see that? I have all my saved profiles. Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on Marketers Cruise here and it'll show me all the people related to the Marketers Cruise, all the people that were on the Marketers Cruise. You see that, that I uploaded. You see, these are all the people that are in the Marketers Cruise. I can check to see if they recently posted. I can check their profile. I can check what other social profiles they have. So I'm going to look up Tina real quick. And now I have Tina over here. I'm going to go ahead and like her recent post from 2 hours ago. Now I'm also going to stay top of mind with her by leaving her a comment on her post. Hey Carol, good to see you. Hey Tina. Hey Megan. I'm going to click over here and I'm going to tag Tina. Right now, you see I'm tagging her and now I'm gonna say, how about you? What's your highlight been for your health journey? So you see, I, I basically just asked her a question, but I used my artificial intelligence to help me be able to do this. And by the way, if you're on the Marketers Cruise, I'm gonna give you guys $10,000 worth of training as a bonus for signing up to Evie AI Pro, if that's something you decide you want to do. So just hit me up and just let me know that you want the bonuses and I'll be more than happy to guide you through how to get those $10,000 worth of bonuses. But check this out. I'm gonna go to Tina's profile now and I'm gonna hit connect again. And instead of me having to write up the entire thing that I wrote up before, I click on add a note. I click on this little Evvy AI thing and I just have the AI generate it. Now I'm gonna hit build rapport over here this time. Collaboration opportunities. And I'm gonna say, loved meeting you at the Marketers Cruise this past week. Looking forward to collaborating with you. And I'd love to speak to your audience about the power of artificial intelligence and LinkedIn. Okay. Now I'm going to copy that just so that I have a copy of that. I'm going to hit generate and see what it is. Hey, Anne, good to see you. Glad you got home. Loved meeting you at the Marketers Crew. Excited about the collaboration for your audience. Look at that. So it typed it up, made it much more succinct and much more organized, and it added her name and everything. And so I'm going to hit send now, and now it's going to actually send her that connection request. So there are 3 steps to building relationships. Step number 1 is you got to get organized. Most of you are just not organized. So write organize in the chat if you plan on getting organized. I get organized by using a series of spreadsheets and a series of CRMs. So for example, I have a CRM over here called GoHighLevel, which I give access to, to people that need access to it. We actually are a reseller of GoHighLevel. So as you can see, I have Bill Walsh over here. I have his phone number. I have his email address. He's somebody I met. At the Marketers Cruise. And we did several selfies and I met his wife and I met his wife's friends and I met his employees and his clients and so many important people. And so I'm gonna fill in all this information. I'm gonna write notable facts about him. I'm gonna put in his keywords, his education, how many followers he has on LinkedIn. I'm gonna have artificial intelligence actually fill all this information up. His street address, I could send him mail, his calendar links, I can book a meeting with him. the challenges he has with LinkedIn and all this other really great stuff. I'm going to be adding all that stuff and I'm going to use AI to help me with all that. In a matter of seconds, it's going to be able to fill in all the information. Now I'm actually going to tag him with Marketing Cruise. You see that says Marketing Cruise Gift over here, but I'm just going to do marketing because I'm going to be coming to the Marketers Cruise in 2026. So I'm going to do one called Marketing Cruise. You see that? I'm going to add a new tag. And now I tagged Bill Walsh as Marketing Cruise 2025. So any person that I meet, I'm going to be tagging them in my CRM. So if I want to email them all at one time, I'm organizing them all in my CRM. By the way, if it makes sense, put a dollar sign in the chat because if it makes dollars, it makes sense. And if anybody needs access to this CRM, I can give you guys a free trial of this and also teach you how to use it. But most of you already have access to GoHighLevel. You already have a CRM, but if you You need this, I'm happy to give you guys a free trial and show you exactly how to use it. So this technology here, this sales assistant will walk you through step by step on how to save these profiles. So for example, Christy Rufino, I had dinner with her. I had dinner with Christy Rufino. She is awesome. We had a great time connecting and building relationships together. And now I see she posted 2 weeks ago the last time, but the beauty is that I'm able to leave her a comment now in just seconds and stay top of mind with her. So how am I going to do that? I'm just going to generate a comment. Using Evvy AI. And now I just stay top of mind with Christie. You see that? I'm going to tag her as well by clicking on her name, putting an@ sign there. I'm going to click on this and I'm going to press comment. Now I'm also going to copy this comment over here, this mention over here, because I want to save the mentions of the people that I actually met. And I'm going to use our mention saver. I have something called a mention saver that allows me to mention people very quickly and it saves the mentions so I don't have to mention them again. I'm going to say, great to meet you at the Marketers Cruise. Marketers Cruise. I think it's spelled marketers like that. Okay. I'm going to press save content and I'm going to add all the people that I'm going to mention. I'm going to put them in here. And then later, if I want to be able to just mention them quickly with the mention installed, I figured out like a little hack with LinkedIn. That what you're able to do is you're able to mention people. You can like make a collection of people that you can mention, and then you can paste those mentions into LinkedIn. Like for example, I wanna mention Christy Rufino under this picture, right? So instead of me sitting there and having to mention her and pressing the@ sign, I just press comment now with that mention and the mention's already there, right? Wow. In the chat, if that's wow. Tina says, I'm a bit confused if you're using Evvy AI or GoHighLevel right now. I'm using a combination of different things. I'm using Evy AI as my sales assistant, and I'm using GoHighLevel as my CRM to track my leads and to track my relationships. Evy AI helps me be able to organize people into lists so I can see if they posted recently, and it helps me generate comments for their posts. Evy AI does 6 things really, really well. So if you go to evyai.com, that's E-V-Y-A-I.com, you can register for this thing for free. I'm gonna go in there right now. Evy, evyai.com. You could register with no credit card required to try it out, but if you do want to sign up and upgrade, I am giving a special deal for the people that upgrade to Pro Annual. When you buy Pro Annual, I'm going to give you $10,000 worth of bonuses, but just let me know that you're going to be signing up. Just write interested in the chat so that I know I include you in the limited amount of people that I can give those bonuses to. We have a common generator. We have a post writer. We have a recommendation creator. We have a messaging helper, a profile optimizer, and a connection customizer. And I just had a conversation with my video guy, and he's going to be taking all the photos that I've taken and all the images and everything and all the B-roll and organizing it for you guys. And he's going to be making videos that I could use To promote the 2026 event, so I'm just blown away by the amount of love that I've received from you guys and the amount of connection that I've been able to make through this cruise. And I'm looking forward to staying in touch with you guys. So check out an example video that my video guy made. So he's he takes my lives like the live I'm doing right now. He may turn it into a video as well. He's going to take elements of it and turn into video. But this is an example. You could be a billionaire and be miserable. It was a story about a guy who had a genie, and he asked the genie, "Make me a billion." Please make me a billionaire. The genie's like, your wish is my command. The guy landed in Colombia. Everyone's trying to kill him because he's a drug dealer. So he's hiding all his billions in the bushes, and the entire world is trying to kill this drug dealer, and he's a billionaire. What kind of life is that? So our connection to people, if we really do the work of personal development— Jim Rohn said you can only grow your business as much as you grow yourself. You think you're not good at networking? You think you're not good at LinkedIn? Show up as a human. And watch what happens. So that's me promoting my next webinar. You see that? So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to download this. I'm going to download this video here. So this is a great little video. By the way, did you guys like the video? Say I like the video in the chat if you like this cute little video that I made about the Colombian drug dealer. I'm going to go, um, I downloaded the video from my spreadsheet here that I have organized, and all these videos are going to go into my social scheduling tool. Oh, let's see. Let's see what Carol— oh, Cameron says, Carol, register. Thanks for joining. If you sign up for annual, be sure to let Joe know. Thank you, Cameron. I appreciate that. So check this out. I'm going to go in here. I'm going to click on Post Writer. You see, I clicked on Post Writer. Now I'm going to click on the goal. The goal is going to be like a little bit of an educational post, and it's going to be somewhat motivational. And then I'm going to choose a persona. I have lots of different personas, and I'm going to be training you guys on exactly how these personas work. So important. Now I'm gonna click on this little microphone on the top right corner here, and I'm gonna say the following. I'm gonna say, create a post about how important it is for you to set the right intentions and the right goals, because some people wish that they wanna be a billionaire, but do they really wanna be a drug dealer in Colombia that the whole world is trying to kill them? It was a genie, a story about a genie that made somebody have that wish, and he became a billionaire, but he became a drug dealer in Colombia. And so make sure that you Know exactly what you want. Be human, connect with people, and build those relationships. Okay, so now I'm gonna hit generate and it's gonna turn this into a hook, main points, call to action, and hashtags because I don't have the patience to sit there and start writing a post in the way that I need to do it. So it says, what if I told you that the path to your dreams could lead you to a place that you never intended to go? Imagine wishing to be a billionaire, but you find yourself tangled in a web of danger as a drug dealer in Colombia. Sounds absurd, right? Yes. That's the essence of setting the right intentions and goals. If we don't, um, if we don't clarify what we truly want, we risk manifesting outcomes that don't align with our values and aspirations. So now I'm gonna stay top of mind with people by copying this post. You see that it has the reflect, align, connect, and act thing here. Everything is so quick and so organized and so beautiful in my voice. So I'm gonna go to LinkedIn. And I'm going to click on media here, which is going to take that video that I just downloaded. Um, did I download the video? I don't even know if I downloaded it. Let me go find the video again. I thought I downloaded it. Did I not download it? Being a billionaire, but being miserable. Okay. Let me open this again. Let me click on these 3 dots over here and click download. So hopefully that'll download that video now from— it's scanning for viruses, it says. Okay. It'll download that video. Once it downloads the video— oh, there it is. It's downloading. All right, there it is. It downloaded it. Now I'm going to click on upload from my computer and there it is, Being a Billionaire. Okay, so I'm going to press next and then I'm going to paste in the text from Evy AI. You see that? Now I can automatically pull it in with this little purple button, but I just wanted to show you, you don't need the Chrome extension or anything if you— or you could do it from your phone as well. Go to evyai.com from your mobile browser and you can write a post in a few seconds. on your phone. So I'm going to press post and I just posted on LinkedIn. When I post on LinkedIn, my connections see it. So I connected with Tina, right? I'm going to click on my network. I'm going to click on connections. You're going to see, I, my latest connection is Tina. You see that? Right. I connected with Tina. Now Tina's going to be able to see that post because every connection becomes a follower. Anne says, can you download other people's videos from their posts with Evie AI? Yes, you can. Yes, you can. I love that. I love that you asked that. Let's find Anne Landstorm here, 'cause Anne's already my connection. So I'm gonna search Anne in here. Let me just find, see if she has any videos. So I'm gonna click Anne Landstorm. I think she's my connection already. Maybe not. Land. Oh, there, there she is. She's my connection and she has the green dot. That means she's using LinkedIn right now. So I'm gonna save her profile. You see that I'm organizing. I just met her at the event. I didn't know her before the event. I, I, I didn't even know that she really existed. I'm sorry to say that. I didn't know that you existed. You have thousands of followers on LinkedIn. You're an amazing, beautiful human being that I consider you a friend now. I have friends in San Diego now, but I didn't organize you. So I could have just allowed you just to exist and me not organize you, but now I'm organizing you into my list. and I'm going to put you on the cruise list. You see that? The Marketer's Cruise List. Now you're in the Marketer's Cruise List. So I'm going to go through the Marketer's Cruise List and I'm going to do that. Now I could also search for you in other places. I'm going to click on search profile. I want to find you on Facebook, on Instagram. I want to find you on X. I want to find you on TikTok, dare I say, if they're back online. I want to find you on YouTube. I'm going to press search. And it's going to automatically open up To try and find you everywhere. So you see over here, you're in Leap to Success. I could start watching all the videos of all the different things. I can subscribe to your YouTube channel now. You see that? I'm gonna hit subscribe. Oh, I'm gonna switch from Evy AI's YouTube channel to my YouTube channel. So I have 1,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel. I'm gonna hit subscribe now. And look at that, subscribed. By the way, say OMG in the chat if you like that strategy to connect with people on all the platforms. If you're Truly friends with them and you like them. If you're truly friends with them, you probably want to stalk them a little bit. Yo, I'm gonna stalk you a little bit. I'm gonna go ahead and stalk you a little bit. Just write stalk in the chat if you like the stalk strategy. The stalk strategy. The stalk strategy. I'm gonna stalk you. Um, you see I have zero followers. I'll be your first follower. Look at that. Damn. Damn. I'm your first follower. And I also Google you and I could see you're more popular on Instagram. You have Anne Photography 1, and then you have the other Photography 1. This one's 3,000 followers. Let me click on this one over here. And I'm gonna follow you here as well. And as you can see, I'm starting from LinkedIn as my base, 'cause I know that means you're real. And then I'm moving off to all the other things. So I'm gonna go here, click message, and now I'm gonna just say, Love you because I love you because I love you. I'm gonna click love you, and now I can also go through this later and check it out. But again, it's in my Evie AI, so that's like my base. My base is my Evie AI. I want to make sure that I'm also connected to her here on on Facebook. So I'm gonna go ahead and send her a connect thing, and I can pull it up later because it's all from LinkedIn. It all came from LinkedIn. That's like the first the first connection. It's coming from LinkedIn. So I'm gonna click on. See recent activities from Evvy AI, and it's gonna show me all of her recent posts on LinkedIn. So now you see she has a video here from a month ago. I wanna download that video. So write download if you wanna learn how to download this video using Evvy AI, because when you right-click on the video here, I can't, it doesn't do anything. I right-click here, it doesn't do anything. How am I gonna get this video? How am I gonna steal Anna's video so I can repurpose it? Let's first watch it real quick. Hang on a second. Oh, that's so cute. Oh my God. Oh my God. I knew he was gonna hate me. Oh my God. That's such a good video, Anna. So I do want that video. I want to take that video. I do see I need to delete some accounts I don't use that showed up. Okay. Download. So let me teach you how to do this. The first thing you want to do is you want to get the URL. of the post. So how do you get the URL of the post? You click on the 3 dots and then you copy the link to the post. Do you guys see that? Copy the link to the post. And then what you do is you go into Evie AI on the left side, you click on Learning Hub. Now this is only for pro users. This is, this is, you know, there's a little thing here. It's for people that upgrade to the next level of Evie AI. You click on Quick Links. And then you go down to the bottom where it says V, Video Downloader. You see that Video Downloader here? I click on Video Downloader and then it says, get your favorite LinkedIn videos with this video download tool. So now I'm going to paste her video, her image, her whatever, the video, the link to the post that has a video in it. And it's going to say downloading. So what this does is this goes into our technology and downloads the video. Now I have this video. I can take this video. And post it on Facebook, on Instagram, on YouTube, on wherever I want, or I could post it on LinkedIn. So if you find any videos that you like on LinkedIn, you know, you can search for a particular video. So for example, let's say you're like Paul Brown and you're into water. I'm gonna search water or into water wells. I'm gonna search water and then I'm gonna click on posts and you can actually find video posts related to water wells, like this water well video here. Okay, so this is a good video for an example, but you can search posts and then I can also search content type and I can actually just search through videos. Do you see that? I could filter for videos only and I can find videos that I like and then I can download those videos using Evie AI. By the way, if you're getting value in the chat, just write value so that I know that you guys are getting some value out of this conversation. But this conversation's about How to organize your contacts in a way that— how to organize your follow-up in a way that you'll actually start generating revenue. Because it's not just about spraying and praying. I believe it's good to pray. Prayer is beautiful. It's a beautiful thing to pray. But if you really want to be able to take your life to the next level, you need to also strategize. Not just pray. Okay. You can't just pray. So I have, for example, a list of all my Marketer Cruiser friends over here. These are all the people that have been on the cruise. And what did I do? I first took the directory. This is my little directory over here, and I'm going to be adding more people to the directory because I know a lot of people are missing, but these are their page numbers. You see that? Yeah. They have page numbers, their first name, last name, website, LinkedIn URL, their title, their intro, their bio. I have tons of information about each person over here, and this is called a JSON. And then I had artificial intelligence go through this also and go to their LinkedIn and pull tons of other information like their image, their industry, and lots of other details about all these people. And then I organize it all, and then I'm able to custom put this into my, into my, um, into my CRM in a meaningful way for every single person that was attending the event. So this saves me a lot of time using bots to help me be able to do this. I also had another bot be able to download all the members of the Facebook group. So these are people that have been on the Marketer's Cruise over the course of, let's say, the past 18 years. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to capture each directory and tell me which one of these people were on each year, and then I can personalize the message. One of the key things to do if you want to get people to respond to you is to personalize your messages to people. So for example, I'm going to go to my DMs just to kind of show you what's going on over here. Let's see what this guy says. This guy said, have you ever used idealclient.ai? I'm going to say no. I send a message to Rhonda and I said, here's the link to the Marketers Cruise. It's a group of online marketers, expert coaches, professional consultants, and entrepreneurs that all have online audiences in 20 countries around the world. Some are very advanced and multimillion-dollar businesses. Some are just getting started. By the way, if you're very advanced, write advanced. If you're just getting started, write just getting started. I'm curious to know where you guys are. Paul says, did you set it up before the cruise, organize the directory? Yes, I set up it before the cruise. And so I believe in organizing things before, during, and after. Before is figure out who you want to meet. During is meet those people and take selfies with them. At least for me, that's my style. And after is organize, strategize, and prioritize who you're going to be building a relationship with. And so I use this tool to help me organize because I can save profiles to lists. So every time I go, I'm part of any community. So I'm in a new community. I didn't know anybody in the Marketers Cruise before. So I have lists of different communities that I'm part of. You see, I have lots of different lists of communities. And by the way, some of these people were not even in the directory. So I'm going to add them to my version of the directory. And I'm going to have a version of the directory inside my CRM that is my personal directory, my personal directory for people that I met. Like, I don't care about the people in the directory that I don't know. So many times we focus on the people that we don't know because we don't want to miss out. And we miss out on building relationships that we, for people that we actually know. And then I'm gonna wanna add them all to this Conversation 2025, because I'm gonna wanna book a conversation with all the people that I built a relationship with. Because a rela— a conversa— one conversation is not enough. You need to have multiple conversations. The other thing that I'm gonna do is I'm gonna set up group meetings with people that are likely to do business with each other, cuz I wanna be a conduit of blessing. Write blessing in the chat if you also wanna be a conduit. Blessing. a conduit of blessing for other people. How did you get past directories? Through my relationships, I got past directories. So this is how I got past directories. I went to the Marketer's Cruise and I wrote in the Marketer's Cruise, I said, and you can see everything that I've done in the Marketer's Cruise. So I'm gonna go here, click on my own name. If you click on any— Yeah, he live it. 10 toes in when we standing on business. I'm a big stepper. Underground with the gods. I'm not yours, get the most. Okay guys, so that's that's what I'm doing over here. I am building these relationships, but as I go through here, I'll ask questions. I'll say something like, "Did you register for the 2026 marketers?" So you go through. So I can go through all of the different things I'm here done. I'm gonna go through through all this, and I'll and I'll go through this. I say. Um, what year— let me see, let's see what I wrote. I wrote something like, what year did you go to the directory? What year did you go to the cruise? Hey, this is Joe. Let's see. Um, and you can go through all these and, you know, just comment on them and like them and kind of be part of that conversation for each thing that I posted. I said, I have an idea. What years were you on the cruise before 2025? And then I have people that have told me what years they were on the cruise, and then I build a relationship with them. And then, like, for example, Tevye, you know, if Tevye was there in 2022 or in 2024, I say, hey, Tevye, can you send me the 2024 directory? And then Tevye sends it to me. If Joe Casper was there in 2009, I build a relationship with Joe Casper and I say, hey, Joe, can you send me the directory for 2009? Do you have a digital directory of it? And he'll, he might say, no, I just have a regular directory. Maybe they didn't have it back then. But that's the idea. The idea is getting the older directories so that I can make sense out of them. And maybe I'll talk to Lou about it and see if he has a copy that he wants to give me. But that's, that's the idea. Building relationships with people. You see, this person has a pending request from me. Anyway, so yeah, so I want to figure out who's who, who was in each year, and kind of make a resource available in artificial intelligence to be able to do that. Anyway, that's that's my thought process, and that's and that's what I'm that's what I'm doing here. And so yeah, so building a relationship. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go back here, and I'm gonna go through all the names of the people that have communicated with me throughout my trip, and then go, and I'm just gonna organize them. Okay, so I'm gonna take people from one place and pull them to another place. You're a man on a mission. Thanks for connecting your connections, helping you establish blah blah blah. You see that? And so I'm just, I'm just connecting people and building relationships. And that's kind of like what I do. I'm part of other organizations as well, like the Joint Venture Mastermind Group, JVMM. So if you're interested in learning more about JVMM, just write JVMM in the chat. Who is Megan at the— I'll be more than happy to do a personal intro. Again, it's by invitation only, so it's not for everybody. Um, that's how I even found out about the Marketers Cruise, by the way. I don't know who Lisa Thomas is, but let me see if I know her. Was she on the cruise? I don't know if she was on the cruise. I don't remember seeing her. Maybe she was, maybe she wasn't. But again, don't for sure remember. So I'm gonna not necessarily accept yet. I just wanna make sure that with Facebook, 'cause I have limited to 5,000, that I'm actually connecting to real people. All right. Yeah, so what did you guys learn so far? What did you guys learn so far? Did you learn anything new? Are you gonna be implementing anything that you learned? I'm gonna go through and try to— Scan through the comments of what you guys have been saying over here, just so that I get an idea of what what what what you guys been saying. And by the way, have you used LinkedIn Live in the past, or is LinkedIn Live new to you? Curious to know if it's new to you or you've used it in the past. At one point it was new to me, but now I've used it. Oh, and by the way, you know what I can do now? I just thought of another idea for like follow up is make a small group. Of people that want to like and comment on each other's posts that were in the cruise that are all on LinkedIn. Well, that's a good idea. I like that idea. I like that idea. So let me teach you guys how to do that. So you go and you guys can create your own little custom group of, let's say, 5 or 10 people that can support each other because there's 400 people on the cruise. So you for sure have your 5, right? How many people would you say you can add to a little group of people that you would want to invite to a little room? Would you say 5, 10, 20, 30? I would say 44 for me. I have 44 people that I know that I want to deeply follow up with. But do you have 5 or 10? Give me a number in the chat between, let's say, 2 and 400. How many of them do you think you would be able to follow up with over the course of the next, say, 6 months? Okay. How many, how many people are you actually realistically going to follow up with in the next 6 months between, between 5 people and 400 people? Well, let's not say 400. Let's just say 300 because half of them were spouses. You're not gonna follow up with them. So not half of them, but 25% of them were spouses. So you're not gonna follow up with the spouses, but let's just say you're gonna follow up with a few people. Is it gonna be 5, 10, 15, 20, 30? I'm gonna follow up with 44, which I think is a big number for me based on all the other follow-up I already have. But the way that I'm gonna do this is I'm gonna click messaging and I wanna see your numbers in the chat. I'm gonna click messaging. Carol said 50, which is a big number. Cheryl says, okay, I learned how to properly pronounce your name last time using the audio feature. I'm going to say nice. Tina says, I'm happy to connect. Todd says, okay, going to try out. Now, so in the top right corner over here, on the top right corner, there's a little box. You see that box with the little pencil? That's a new message box. So I'm going to put in Moshe. If I'm connected to Moshe, Hello. Moshe, Moshe Gott. So I can only add people that I, that I'm actually connected to. So I'm not connected to Moshe yet on LinkedIn, so I can't add him. Um, I'm not, I don't think I'm connected to Paul either, but I, I can connect. I can connect. I can, um, add Anne Landstrom, and then I could also add Cameron, Cameron, Cameron. Cameron Bailey. Camera, camera on, camera on. A, maybe we're not connected. Okay, I'll have to look into that. Cameron Bailey. I'm gonna search Bailey. Yeah, I don't see you. I don't think we're connected yet on LinkedIn. Okay, so let me type in Carol Register. Carol Register. Okay, so Carol Register is in. And then Megan Sch— no, I'm not connected to Megan, but I did connect with— who else did I just connect with? I just connected with someone with, um, let's see, I connected with Tina. Tina McDermott. Yep, there it is. Okay, so let's just say I'm gonna start with these 3 people for now, and I'll also add Cheryl. Um, I'll also check to see who I recently connected to. So the way that you check who you recently connected to on LinkedIn is you click on My Network. You see it says My Network, and then you click on, um, Connections. Let's see what Jason says. Jason, I miss you. Looking forward to the reunion. Okay. Um, oh, Jessica Lahenas. Of course I'm gonna add Jessica Lahenas to it. So you see Jessica Lahenas is there. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna, where was that? I was just here. I was just here, okay, so I'm gonna add Jessica Lahaynis, Jessica Lahaynis, okay? And let's see who else is there that I can add. I'm gonna put this next to this. Okay, so there's Carol Register, Christy Ruffino, so I'm gonna add Christy Ruffino, Christy Ruffino right here. And then I'm going to add, let's see who else. Doug McGurk. He's the, the, the lord of rock. Doug McGurk. Um, Laurie Osbourne for sure. We had a great conversation. Laurie Osbourne. I'm gonna add her. Um, Stephanie Crowey. Oh, Majka. Majka, Cal, whatever her name is. M-O. Majka, right there. Majka. Let's see who else we have here. We have him I met at the San Juan Social Club, so I'm not going to add him. He's not kind of part of it. Here's Katarina. Definitely add her and Elisa. Katarina. Katarina. Elisa. What's Elisa? Elisa. Let's see who else we have. We have Hersh. Hersh Refoun. Hersh Refoun. Remember Hersh, guys? Right here. Hersh Refoun. Oh, Iman Aghey. Iman. Iman Aghey. I definitely met him. I've known him for several years now. Julia Gold, Mona Das, Wendy Barr. Let's add Wendy Barr. I misspelled Wendy Barr. Okay, Wendy Barr. We had dinner together. Okay, so I'm just gonna add these people for now and I'm gonna call it Marketers Cruise 2025 Engagement Group. Okay. I'm just going to call it Marketers 25 Engagement Support Group. And then I'm going to use Evvy AI to help me type up what I want to type up. I decided to create this little group on Facebook. That's a messaging group that can help us all engage with each other. If you met somebody on the cruise and you think they should be part of it, we're actually limiting this to only a few dozen people because LinkedIn does have limits on this. So if you actually met somebody and you know them well and they're active on LinkedIn, feel free to add them to this group. I'm going to add a few more people. And if you have a post that you want us to comment on, feel free to put it in the comments here. Boom. I'm going to press insert and you see the way I typed up this whole thing. I'm going to press send. And now it created a group message. Give me a boom in the chat if you like what this looks like over here. Now I can't add everyone to it. I can only add people that I'm actually connected to on LinkedIn. I can't add everyone to it. I can only add my connections. And you could add your connections too if you're in it. So you click on these 3 dots and anyone that's in it— so I'll show you how you can see who's in it. You click on the 3 dots and you click on add or remove people and you can see who's in it. Jessica Lahaynis, Doug McGurk, Wendy Barr, Laurie, Christy, Hersh, Iman, Katarina, Tina, Anne, Elisa, Cheryl Mushka, and then Carol. These are the people that are in it right now. Okay, so Tina asked me, Joe, how did you create the spreadsheet? This is how I created the spreadsheet. I went to Claude and let's see what I did. It was networking questions, formatting, extract all. I went to Claude and I uploaded the sheet. I think it was Claude or ChatGPT, one of the two. Let's see. Landing page, formatting JSON, popular connections, transformations. Let's see what I did. Maybe I didn't do Claude. I think it was too big for Claude. I think Claude couldn't handle it. I think I used ChatGPT for that. Let me go to ChatGPT and see. Let me see if I did it in ChatGPT. 400 pitches in a wrap. Let's see. Oh, LinkedIn collaboration inquiry. Jill Katzenberg. Let's just see. Networking growth directory search. Cruise attendee directory. So this is what it was. Cruise attendee directory. Okay. Okay. So this is how I did it. This is how I did it. So let me show you the prompt that I used to create the spreadsheet. Are you ready for this, Tina? Are you ready for this? So this is what I did was I said, here's a table with the fir— I said, help me create a table with the people attending the 2025 cruise. And this was back in, I don't know, whenever I did this, November, uh, whenever I got the dir— as soon as I got the directory, I wasn't, I was in, I was on the beach. I was on the beach. And I purposely got myself an Airbnb that was a little off the beaten path because I just, I wasn't ready. I didn't know anybody at the event, right? So I didn't wanna just be at the Hilton trying to meet people when I, I need to kind of get organized before and plan for like what I wanna do. And so, uh, as soon as I got the directory, dropped it in here and I said, help me create it. Um, help me create a table with the people attending the directory, whatever attending. And so it started a table and then I said, okay, well make me a numbered table with the people attending. Give me the first name, last name, email, website, and LinkedIn URL. So it kind of, it kind of wasn't able to find the people because it was looking at the first couple of pages. Remember the pages that has all the, um, that has all the everyone's website. So it would look through that and it would just basically put them in there like that from the pages that had their websites. It didn't, it didn't actually go through deeper and look through it deeper. So later I had to do a little bit of a deeper look. into it and it would search the whole directory. But this basically just took it off the first few pages of the directory, and it basically organized it like this into a spreadsheet. And it showed me that it only had 270 names. That's how I knew how many names it was. And then I basically said, okay, tell me who's male and who's female. So that's how I knew 70% of you guys were females versus 30% were males. And I did kind of research like that as well. And then I actually asked it, I said, could you create me a rap-style elevator pitch that will make heads turn? Yo, I'm Joe, the CEO, bringing Evvy AI to the show. If you're stuck in your biz, let's make it grow. AI so slick and your business sidekick. Elevate, automate, profits click. Got leads to capture, funnels to build? Evvy AI's got tools, your dreams fulfilled. So if you're ready to win, leave stress behind. Come find me and let's unlock the genius in your mind. So I didn't feed it the PDF of the directory. What I did was instead I created something called a custom GPT. So here on the left is you can create a custom GPT and I'll show you what the custom GPT programming looks like. So I click on this 3 dots and I click on edit GPT and I'm going to be talking more about this, the details of how custom GPTs work today for 3 hours. I do a training. Let me show you where that is. So if you go to evergreen.com/aicircle, And by the way, thanks for asking me, um, all these questions. I love these questions. Um, every month I have 3 hours of training that I do, so I'm gonna have to wrap up to prepare for the training. But every month I have 3 hours of training that I do on how to use AI for business development. And today, and I think Anna and you came to the last one in San Diego. I did that one on Zoom and then, um, Your friend who is Rhonda, who's a client of mine, she's both a LinkedIn client of mine, an Evvii AI client, and she's also bought this program. Um, and this program gives you a monthly mastermind where we meet for 3 hours and we talk about strategies on how to use artificial intelligence specifically for business development. So unrelated to LinkedIn, if you want to learn how to use AI and go deep with me, for 3 hours a month, every month for the next year, then you join this program here. It's all-inclusive community. It has an incredible tool vault. And we basically just go deep for 3 hours and we kind of, so I'm going to be talking about custom GPTs here today for 3 hours. And I have a 3-hour example video here, just so you get a feeling for what it feels like. So if you do want to join this, you get the last 40 hours of training that we did as well as replays. If you wanna really go deep and learn everything that I know about AI. Um, and I've spent over 1,000 hours learning AI myself, so I'm not, I'm not an expert. You know, Molly will tell you this, everyone will tell you I'm not an expert, but if this is something that you want, just go to evergreen.com/aicircle and you can join that right now. And then you can attend today's session. Um, and if you can't afford it, then you don't have the money to join session, the session, just go watch that 3-hour video that I put in there. So I'll put Um, I'll send the link to whoever's interested. Um, so just write interested in the chat and I'll just, uh, or just write AI, I wanna learn AI or something like that. And I'll send you, um, I'll, I'll, I'll just drop the link for you guys so you have it. And I'm, again, I'm happy to teach you anything and show you anything. It's just a matter of how much time we have. And so I, just to make time more efficient, I do a 3-hour session and then we just basically do a mastermind every month and we go deep into like how to use AI for your business and how to use AI for business development. So let me just, and thank you Tina for putting the link to Evergreen in the chat. That's exactly it. That's the one we're talking about. So I'm gonna go in here and paste the link in my latest post. And then I do have a set of templates. So Evie AI gives you tons of templates. So let's say for example, I wanna quickly comment with tons of stuff. I wanna give you guys resources. I wanna link to, to, the Evergreen Networking Circle or whatever. So I can easily find the Evergreen Networking Circle as one of my promo templates and then use the Evergreen Networking Circle link and then just kind of like paste it here. If I want to promote, let's say for example, my book High Energy Networking, I could just grab the template from Evy AI with a click of a button and I have the template. If I want to promote my YouTube channel, I can just promote my YouTube channel just like that. You see that? So I'm a very big fan of Making sure that you guys are, um, are using everything that you can in the most efficient way. And as you can see, the way I'm just dropping, I'm just dropping templates into the chat here so you guys can see that. So if you wanna learn artificial intelligence and really go deep with me for 3 hours every month, then, um, again, this is not a short-term thing. You go one month, it's not gonna help you. You need to be with me for some time and like go deep into using tools like make.com. And really understanding the nuances of like GPTs and how they work and all the different AIs. We go through Perplexity and we go through how to create landing pages and Chrome extensions and we get a little technical sometimes. So for some people it might be a little overwhelming, but that's okay. That's why we have the replay and that's why I do it for 3 hours every month. So anyway, that's the answer to that. But just to show you real quick about this custom GPT. So you name the GPT. You put in the description, you put in some instructions, conversation starters, and then you put in the knowledge, and then you put in your capabilities, and then you can add new actions and stuff like that. And then once you have this available, I actually made this available on page 30 in the directory. So if you go to page 30 in the directory, it'll take you to strategy.joeapplebaum.com. Um, but this is specifically for, um, for people that attended the cruise. And then you scroll down here. I have a 2-hour example LinkedIn strategy session. I have the custom GPT here available for you, and I also have a plan for yourself or who you wanna meet on the cruise, which I created with AI. So if you put in your first name, last name, email, you put in your cell phone number, who you're looking to meet, and your ideal client, your learning goals, your business topics, and your success— what success looks like, and you hit find networking matches, it'll actually go ahead and tell you who within the cruise. you should connect with and build relationships with. And so I'm gonna optimize this more. I did this quickly, like on the go, but I highly recommend that you guys, that you guys think about that. Yeah, that's the idea. Yeah, any other questions that you by the way was this fun? Write fun in the chat if you guys enjoy this live. I'm going to be doing this a hundred times this year. I'm pretty serious about educating and inspiring and motivating, and my voice is a little shot right now from talking so much. My voice is shot from talking so much. If you guys want to join me live right now, and you want to kind of attend my Zoom meeting. I'm gonna do some coworking privately, and you guys can join me privately in my Zoom if you have questions. How did you feed it the digital directory? I just uploaded it here where it says knowledge, upload files. You see that? It says upload files. But if you wanna cowork with me on a couple things, then join my Zoom. It's highenergyzoom.com. It's highenergyzoom.com. Again, this is just for people who wanna cowork with me. And have questions for me. I'm gonna be coworking for the next 40 minutes. So if you do wanna join, uh, me and just ask me questions and just chill with me while I work, we can work together. Um, I do that on Mondays for an hour and we're 20 minutes into it. I'm realizing now, um, my assistant is not in today. So, um, I'm a little, I'm a little behind on some of the things that I have to do. So I do have to cowork and hop. But I do appreciate you guys. I look forward to having you be clients of Evie AI. That's very meaningful to me if you decide to sign up for the year, um, for a Pro Annual. So if you, um, if you sign up for Evvii Pro Annual, I'm going to be giving you guys $10,000 worth of bonuses. We have 2 options. We have the Premium and we have the Pro. When you pay for Pro Annual, I will throw in $10,000 worth of training and bonuses and so on. So if you want to join me on Zoom, I'll be on Zoom for the next 40 minutes, 40, whatever, for the next little time. Um, just chilling there and working, and we can co-work on whatever in chat while I'm co-working. But I do have to hop off this live so that I could do things that I wouldn't share on live that might be a little more private, but I don't mind sharing it with you guys. I do have a calendar of events inside our community. So if you go to skool.com/eviai, you can join our community. You'll see we have the business, the AI Business Development Circle here. We have co-working here for our AI automation community. And then tomorrow we're doing a full AI automation training as well at 1 PM. And then at 10 AM, we're doing a posting party on Wednesday that you guys are welcome to join. Everyone here is welcome to join. And then we're doing a webinar on Wednesday as well at 12 PM. And then we're doing Evie AI onboarding. So if you sign up before the onboarding, we'll be able to get you onboarded on Thursday. So excited to get you guys onboarded. And, uh, yeah. Um, let your fellow friends know about this replay. Send them the replay as a resource if they want to learn how to be able to kind of get organized. And, um, and yeah, I'm going to provide everyone a list once I get everything organized, which is going to take me a few days. I'm going to provide everyone like a proper list of all the people that I met and everything I know about them. Um, so that, you know, people can kind of really get to know each other because I know a lot of people in the directory weren't even there. So like, I just need to make sure that. You know, people are real, and then I'm able to find them, and there's not like a random name there, you know. Like, I found some random names in the directory, and I was like, I never met this person, never saw their photo, I have no idea who they are. I'm not just gonna email randos, you know. But that's the idea. Just to show you some stats in terms of like where I'm up to right now, about what I'm up to, let me see. Um, I'm again, I'm up to 30,000 followers again. I have to, I have to remove some people. Um, but, um, you can see your stats right here. So I have 4,000 people that looked at my profile recently. You see that? And then I can see who these people are. So for example, Moshe just looked at my profile, so I can go to him and then I can connect with him. And he definitely looks like he needs some help with LinkedIn. So he only has 36 followers. I'm definitely going to help him out and hopefully he'll sign up to EvAI Pro and I'll be able to guide him for an entire year on how to get clients from LinkedIn. But as you can see, Cheryl also checked out my profile and we've been having a conversation and so did Carol and Megan and all these amazing folks. So I'm gonna definitely follow up with all that. But if you take a look at some of my other stuff, like let's say for example, you go to Evvy AI real quick. I'm just gonna go here and show you this and you click on Learning Hub and then you go down to where it says LinkedIn Dashboard. Let's see, it's LinkedIn D— LinkedIn Dashboard. You can actually see how many comments you left. So, so far today's Monday, it resets on Monday. I left 21 comments today. My goal is to leave 50. So I'm gonna go ahead and leave another, uh, 30 comments today on people that like me, know me, and trust me, people that are in the position to do business with me. Um, so we're working on a side panel for Evvii just to make it easier. This is the Evvii side panel that we're making available for pro users. So if you click on, let's say for example, it's the same thing as here, but it's kind of like on the side of LinkedIn. And then I'm gonna just do, let's say for example, EA NYC, which is a group I'm part of called the Executives Association of New York City. And these are companies that are over $5 million in revenue. These are the CEOs of those companies. And so I just wanna stay in front of them so that they remember me and they refer business to me. So I can literally just click on see recent activity on any of these CEOs. And now I can, it'll load up all their posts. So you see Robert, I already commented and liked on his post. They're not super, super active, but they're pretty active. But I always see Ryan Spear from 3 days ago. I was on the ship and I missed his last post about, oh, cruising into 2025 with the Royal Caribbean Association. So, and I'm talking to Ryan about creating my own cruise because he's, you know, I want to chat with him about it. Sounds like an amazing trip, Ryan. Cruises seem to be the perfect way to keep everyone entertained. I'm curious, did you have your favorite spot on the ship? Okay, I'm going to press connect and now I just had a conversation with one of my important contacts that are in the position to refer business to me, Ryan. I'm— same thing with Vincent. I'm gonna do it this way as well, um, and stay top of mind with him. So I'm gonna do this in, in, in Zoom and just kind of work through this. Um, and it's only gonna take me about 10 minutes or so. And you're gonna see my, my dashboard all of a sudden, instead of saying 21 comments, it's— and this is from 3 hours ago, Vincent posted. Um, it's gonna say 50 comments, and that's my goal for each day. Now I tell people just, you know, comment at least 5 times a day. Most people are just not even commenting 5 times a day, but if you're able to comment at least 5 times a day, you're much more likely to be successful. Anyway, thanks for being here with me. Appreciate you guys. And there's going to be a lot more of this. So hopefully you got some value out of this.