Networking Like a Pro: Building Meaningful Connections with AI

and you look together the same. I don't know if you know that, but I wanted to make sure our faces were the same, the same size.

We're the same. It's good to look like that you're even and equal and spatially.

Yeah, otherwise imagine if I'm tiny and you're big. I'll be an Oompa Loompa.

You'd be an Oompa Loompa and I would look, yeah, humongous. So it's as good. Joe, hi.

Hi, welcome to, welcome to your show.

Welcome to my show. Welcome and welcome Those that are watching right now, if you have questions, I know you're going to have them, be ready to put those in the chat. We're just going to have a great conversation. How does that sound to you?

It sounds amazing. I'm really excited about this conversation. I was looking forward to having a conversation with you because anytime I have a conversation with you, you never know what's going to happen. And that's what's fun about improv and about being in the zone and being authentic and being yourself and not having reservations around what people think about you or the opinions, you know, like just, just being yourself. That's really, really powerful to be able to just show up and be and exist.

I agree 100%. Uh, and not everyone's gonna like us.

Well, maybe they're not gonna like us, or maybe they don't know they like us. Maybe they do like us really, but their liking is hating because hate is a form of love.

Oh, I love it. There's gonna be so many more beautiful nuggets like that today. I'm gonna do a little intro because I feel like doing that. Can I?

Yes, yes, I do feel like you're taking away—

You just, you have so many beautiful accomplishments. We have, we have to get some of those out there so people know why the heck we're having this conversation. And we're going to talk about AI and how we can leverage AI as a networking tool. And there's 2 things that you're really good at. You're good at networking, you are like phenomenal at it. And then the second thing is that you have really grown passionate about how to use AI to leverage your business. So with that said, I I have you here, Joe Apfelbaum, and you are the CEO and the founder of Ajax Union, a B2B digital marketing agency that's located in Brooklyn. So we're neighbors. We're neighbors.

Yay!

You're a business strategist, a LinkedIn expert, a certified Google trainer, and you enjoy speaking and writing about digital marketing, professional networking, and personal development in the form of seminars, webinars, Articles, and here on LinkedIn and YouTube.

Yeah, I'm really excited about being on LinkedIn and YouTube. And by the way, I couldn't get it to stream on my LinkedIn Live because the title was too long. It said the title's too long. I don't know what that even means on Restream. You know, you have Networking Like a Pro: Building Blah Blah Dot Dot. I couldn't see how big the title was, but apparently it was too long for creating a LinkedIn event. And so I don't know what the length is for the future, like, you know, make sure it's the right length. And then, uh, for YouTube and for, for Facebook, it was the right length. So it worked out for YouTube and Facebook. I know it sounds really weird, but whatever.

Uh, I— well, you know what, you find out something new every time. And I, I feel like everything we do is a huge experiment, and some of it sticks, and then we learn things along the way. And so now I now know that. So shorter titles, everybody, just shorter titles. What do you think about that, Joe?

I think, I think the appropriate length is important, but I do too. If it's too long for LinkedIn, it's not gonna work. And so just making sure that the titles adhere to LinkedIn's best practices would be ideal. That's, you know, like, I don't know what the max length on events, but I'm gonna Google it right now. Max length on LinkedIn events titles.

I love it. Real time, real time search.

In real time, it says 75 characters. So you can measure, you measure the amount of characters you have right now. Because I know you're into characters.

I'm totally into characters.

Characters, welcome! Whose tagline is that?

Well, and here's the beautiful thing about AI, right? We can put it in AI, we can put it in ChatGPT and say, I need to have 75 characters or less for my LinkedIn Live that I'll be doing via Restream. And these— and/or find out what it is on stream, you know, it's gonna be the same on StreamYard, but whatever stream platform you're using. We have Shoko in the house, I just want to acknowledge, and we also have our friend Tina. Thank you both for being here and listening. And we just already gave you a great tip about how many characters you use when you do a livestream via LinkedIn, if you wanna connect that.

Are you livestreaming to your YouTube channel right now or not?

I am.

Okay, well, I see Meredith Grundy on YouTube and I don't see a live thing. There's no, there's 26 connections. Do you have it as something else?

Well, I have several, I have several YouTube accounts, so maybe that's part of the problem.

Oh my God, the one that I'm looking at is, Um, youtube.com/@meredithgrundy.

No, that's my acting one.

That's your acting one. So what's the one you're using for this?

@grundycoaching.

Ah.

I'm loving this. I'm gonna ask you a question. Can I ask you a question to get this party started? Because I know that people are just hungry for AI tips and how to use that for networking. So I'm gonna start off with one question.

Go for it.

Can you multitask? I have a feeling of all the people in the world that you're very good at it.

I'm good at multitasking. I just wanna see how long your thing is over here. Okay, go ahead. Yeah, what's the question?

Okay, so how can you use AI to help individuals build and maintain professional networks effectively?

Well, the most important thing you need to do to build professional networks is to connect with people based on who they are. You wanna connect with Tina Larson, connect with her based on who she is. But how are you gonna connect with her based on who she is if you don't really know who she is unless you review her profile, which takes a lot of time? Mm-hmm. And so AI can do the research for you. It can tell you who Tina Larson is. So for example, if you use this tool called Evy AI, which I'm very fond of, evyai.com, because it's my little baby.

Mm-hmm.

And, um, you can just go to Tina Larson's profile, click on summary, on save her profile, click on summarize profile. It'll summarize her whole profile. Now I know who she is. Now I can build a relationship with her because until I know who she is, I can't build a relationship with her. The other thing is if I wanna connect with someone on LinkedIn, I need to write something called a connection note with up to 300 characters. How are you gonna write your connection note on LinkedIn? Well, you can write it manually and put in the person's name and probably misspell their name and blah, blah, blah. But AI's never gonna misspell Tina Larson's name. It's always gonna get it right. I always misspell your name because Meredith is, does it have 2 Es? Does it have 1 E? Does it have 2 I's? Does it have 3 I's? I don't know how many I's you have.

I blame my mother for that, Joe.

Anyway, but it's different because every time Meredith is spelled different. Bottom line is AI is never gonna misspell Meredith. It's gonna spell it exactly the way it's spelled. spelled in your profile because it's pulling it straight from your profile. It's not— doesn't have dyslexia unless you program the AI to be a dyslexic AI, which by the way is not a terrible idea. I have a drunk AI, I have a male Barbie AI, I have a dog AI. I have so many different AIs, you know. So that's the idea.

Okay, so here's my question for you. So let's just say that you, you use AI, and I think it's a powerful tool to leverage all those things. But there's that thing that we're starting to notice now that more and more people are using AI tools, which is that they start to sound the same. So can you talk to us a little bit about how to help differentiate yourself and it not sound like you used AI to make that initial connection?

Yeah, if you don't want to sound robotic— so AI by default will sound robotic, just so you know. AI is a robot and it's going to sound robotic because it's programmed to be a So if you just use AI as a robot, it will sound like a robot because it was programmed to be a robot. So it's gonna sound like a robot. Whoa, really? Oh my God. People's like, oh, I tried to use AI, sounds like a robot. Duh. Did you tell it not to be a robot? Did you tell it to act like a drama queen? Did you tell it to act like a yenta? Did you tell it to make you a klezmer song? If you didn't tell it to make you a klezmer song, you should try it. It's amazing. I don't know why I sound like an old bubbie right now. I don't know either. But I sound like an old bubbie. I suddenly, I became a bubbie. But you can tell AI what to act like and it will act like that. If you want AI to use specific words or not to use specific words, tell it not to use those words or tell it to use specific words. Here's one that I like to tell AI. I say, be conversational and don't use corporate jargon. Corporate jargon is all the words that AI is trained to use by default when you're not giving it anything. And so it sounds terrible. And it says, unlock the power of unleashing synergy with your mother's, whatever, like what? Why are you unleashing synergy? What are we doing here?

Delve into the unknown.

Exactly. It's so ridiculous. You want it to be conversational and you don't want to use corporate jargon because corporate jargon sounds like a bunch of BS words. I was listening to the COO of LinkedIn talk about revenue leaders in his company and blah, blah, blah. And he was talking corporate jargon and he was saying a bunch of fluffy words that Like, didn't really have meaning to me. Like, I was like trying to hear what did they talk about? And he talked about nothing using a bunch of fluffy words. And I was like, wow, that's where AI learned it from. It learned it from all these people that are reading scripts and just speaking corporate jargon. And it's fine if you're the CEO of LinkedIn because you wanna be very safe. But if you're a regular human and you wanna sound authentic and you wanna speak to an audience of people and you wanna really sound like yourself and be unique, You need to train AI to sound like you by giving it your own sentences. Like literally give it an example. If you don't give AI an example email, it's not gonna know what an example email you write. Like even the, even the way I just said that sentence, I said it grammatically incorrect. That's fine. You know what? Tell AI not to worry about grammar and instead to worry about sounding like you, and it's gonna give you grammatically incorrect sentences. that sound like you because you speak in a grammatically incorrect way, and that's how you want to sound. And this way it's guaranteed not to sound AI. As a matter of fact, sometimes I'll tell artificial intelligence to purposely put in typos, and people will be like, why the hell would you do that? And the answer is because there's no way people are going to be like, this was AI because it has a typo. And you know where I learned that from?

Where?

Scammers. If you ever see scammers, they always have typos in their emails. Why do they have typos in their emails? They have typos in the email so it doesn't look like it's a robot. They purposely mistype words so that they sound authentic. Isn't that interesting?

It is interesting, though I would say scammers, from my experience, have kind of a mix of both. There's like these weird typos, and then it also somewhat sounds like a robot at the same time.

Yeah, they really tried to mix it all up in there.

And it's like, you know what? Less is more, people. If you want to scam me, less is more.

Less is more. Stop doing all the different tactics altogether.

Now I get these WhatsApp scammers who are like, hi.

Oh my God, I get them all the time. I get it on Instagram. I get it on WhatsApp. I get it on regular text messages. They're like, how have you been?

And I'm like, oh, you missed golf yesterday.

I'm like, yeah, but Susan, you looked really good in that dress today. I'm like, what? I had no idea I changed my name to Susan.

You did. You did. Oh my goodness, I love it. Okay, so you mentioned EvAI, and so I'm just gonna put right here for people, if they're watching right now, to scan this QR code. You use your phone to do that if you don't know that already. This will take you directly to Joe's, uh, website, which has EvAI on there. It's one of his babies. He's created it. Support Joe. Uh, so let's talk a little bit more about how we can leverage AI, and you just already gave us a lot of really great points, which is we have to train it, otherwise it's going to sound like a robot. So if you're making these connections on LinkedIn using EvAI, for example, that you would train it so that it sounds like you. And then we just talked about typos, we talked about, uh, not having to be grammatically correct all the time, which I find fascinating because I also do TikTok videos, Joe. And I will not forget, there was one that blew up that went viral, and I started off with You've got to stop, right? And I had at least 5 people in the comments say that wasn't grammatically correct. And those people, I, I feel, are just— well, if you're gonna pick me apart because of the beginning of a TikTok video, then maybe you're not my client.

Wow, that's a big— that's a big thing that you want to realize, that People that will pick you apart about things are not your ideal client. They might be your client, but they might not be your ideal client. So like, some people will be like, oh, you know, they, they, they, they, they chose to judge me based on the way that I show up instead of who I am. You know, like they chose to judge me based on my grammar just to kind of correct me because they weren't even listening to the message. But some people have those childhood wounds. I mean, that's the wounds that they have. They're not trying to be hurtful. They say hurt people hurt other people. I want people to realize that other people's opinions are none of your business. And if you can get out of your ego, if you can get out of your identity, if you can get out of you trying to look good all the time and instead focus on making an impact, focus on other people, focus on making a difference, focus on being yourself, focus on being authentic, then what's going to end up happening is Sure, people are going to hate on you. Some people are going to be like, oh, you look too Jewish, you sound too Jewish, you smell too Jewish, you know, like all that stuff. I should really throw away the Jewish cologne, the lox and cheese cologne, you know. But what I want people to know is like, you just have to be yourself. If you are yourself, you will connect with the 10% in the room that really love you, and 10% will hate you, and the other 80% doesn't care anyway. So the key is to focus on the 10% that love you And then some of the 80% will convert to lovers, some will convert to haters, some will kind of switch around and have their multiple personality disorders. But what I want you to know is that you need to love yourself. You need to show up for yourself fully. And if you can show up fully and you can train the AI to know who you are, then you're much more likely to be successful. There's a woman that I recently was chatting with and she said, Joe, Evie AI is great. I love it, but I can't get it to sound exactly like me. And I said, is it you? And she's like, what do you mean, is it me? I was like, it's not you. It's not exactly you. You wanna train it to sound like you, teach it, give it examples, tell it what you sound like, tell it what you don't sound like, tell it what to do, tell it what not to do. But it's never gonna be exactly you. AI is not gonna be exactly you. That's why it's gonna get you to 80%, and then you do 20% of the work. You still have to do some of the work.

Yeah.

For example, if I make you a whole meal, you still have to eat the meal.

Yeah.

Like, you still have to do some of the work. You still have to— if I bring you the salad and I give you the dressing in a separate container, don't complain that I didn't put the dressing in the container, right? Like, add your own dressing in the container. I went and made you the salad yesterday, and I made— if I would've put it in, it would've been soggy. And so make sure that you put the dressing right before you're gonna eat it, and it'll taste amazing. But you have to do some work, you know? Like, you have to walk up the flight of steps to get into the house. for the party. I'm not going to go down and carry you unless you weigh like 80 pounds, then I'm fine, I can carry you. You saw where I went with that?

I, I, I— this is great. And if, if we ever have dinner together, I— and you just hand me the salad dressing, I promise I will just— I won't say a word. I'll understand what my role is.

Okay. Yes, just mix the salad dressing, and while you're mixing it, I'll carry you up the stairs.

That's, that's fabulous. That's fabulous. This is networking at its best, Joe.

She's like mixing the salad while I'm carrying I'm gonna go up the stairs.

This is fun. Uh, so we have a couple of people that have made some comments here. So Kai, I hope I'm pronouncing your name right, um, she said, perfect collab I've seen today. Thank you so much for that, Joe. Thank you. Um, Rosario, there are a lot of people who aren't ready for the new ways of social media networking and consider us to be influencers. The only thing we are looking to influence is change to adapt today's society? What are your feelings about that?

I think that it's not so much about change, because the more things change, the more they stay the same. Personally, it's about making a difference to the people that you are talking to. You're not talking to everybody. So many people try to talk to everybody.

Yeah, and you can't.

You can't talk to everybody. You can talk to— you can talk to the dozen people that are going to be listening. You're going to talk to the 2 dozen, the 3 dozen. My goal is to touch 1,000 people every day. So if 1,000 people see me 1,000 times, that's powerful. By the way, in the comments, let me know right now, how many people would you like to inspire on a daily basis? Is it 20? Is it 30? Is it 50? Is it 100? If it's a million, it's not likely that you're going to be able to inspire a million people every day because even a guy like Gary Vaynerchuk doesn't do that. You look at his posts, he might have 5 million followers, but he only has about 1,000 likes or whatever on his posts or whatever. Sometimes he only has 30. 30 comments or whatever. And so what I would recommend that you guys do is set a goal for how many people you actually want to inspire. It could be some people say they want to just inspire one person, but in the comments, I'd be curious to know how many people you actively want to inspire on a regular basis, and maybe who is the target market. I know for Tina Larson, her target market is co-op and condo board members in New York City. For you, Meredith, it might be coaches and consultants that are struggling to just be themselves. Everybody has a person that they want to target. And so making it clear who your avatar is, making it very, very clear who your avatar is and making sure that you're communicating to them based on their pains, their goals, their dreams, their fears, their needs, their asks. Like, what are the questions that your ideal clients even are asking? And are you writing about those things? I know Meredith, some of your clients are interested in networking like a pro.

Yeah.

And so you brought in The networking maestro Joe Apfelbaum, who wrote— who wrote the book High Energy Networking. I don't know if you've ever read the book. I don't know if you've ever read the book, but so many people have read the book and they loved it. They called it the Bible of networking because I actually have the 10 Commandments. I, I wanted to make the 10 Crack Commandments of networking. Have you ever heard that song before by Biggie? He has like the— you ever heard it, the 10 Crack Commandments?

No.

Okay, you haven't—

you're gonna have to send it to me now and then I can say yes the next time we have a call.

Okay, okay, I'll send you the 10 Crack Commandments. But anyway, if you guys haven't heard— does anyone know Biggie? Write Biggie in the chat if you've heard of Biggie. But what I want you guys to know is that there are specific rules. There are specific rules to this game. If you want to play the game of networking, there are specific rules. And part of that is really getting to know people. I like leaving comments on people's posts that I have a relationship with. Like whenever I see your post online, I make sure that I leave a comment on your post. If I see a post of yours, there's no, I'm not gonna pass by a post, whether it's on Instagram or whether it's on Facebook or whether it's on YouTube or wherever it is. I'm a big fan of yours. So anytime I ever see any of your posts, I will go ahead and leave a comment. The problem is, is that leaving a comment can sometimes take time. Yeah. And so that's why I use Evy AI, evyai.com. To leave comments because if I wanna leave a comment for you, boom, I just click a button and it generates the comment for me in seconds. And because I customized my persona and I trained it to sound like me, now it sounds like me. You know?

I think that's terrific. And so I, I would highly encourage people, 'cause you have a free trial, right?

That people could try it out. Yeah, you could sign up, you could try it out. There's no cost to try it out. There's no credit card required. Right. So I do recommend people go to evyai.com. And by the way, if you guys are watching this, Hit that repost button. If you're watching this video, hit that re— and the reason I want you to hit the repost button is because when you repost this video, your connections, just a few of them, maybe 5 or 10, are gonna see this.

Yeah.

And they're gonna benefit from the rapport that me and Meredith have, and they're also gonna benefit by this message and help them out. So go ahead and hit that repost button. And by the way, I can see who reposted it. So, so far we have 2 reposts on this post and Both of those reposts are who? Are me. Both of those reposts are me. So if you haven't reposted it, go ahead and repost. I would love for you guys to find that repost button. And if you did repost, just write reposted in the chat. And I'm also looking for people to leave multiple chats. So if we have 10 people right now that are watching this and all of you leave 10 comments, we're going to get to 100 comments. So if you're in, just write I'm in. And I would love to see The more the merrier. I would love to see the most engaged people. So hit that repost button, give it a like, give it a middle finger if you want, I don't care. And then just— or a thumbs up, you know what I mean? Like, give it one of the— give it something.

I like the middle fingers. It starts a good conversation. Bring on the haters.

Bring on the haters, bring on the waiters, bring on the see you laters. Bring them all.

Bring them all. Okay, so I'm gonna switch gears a little bit with you here because I want to ask this question too, because I know that a lot of people talk about AI and there's all the talk about taking over jobs and how can we incorporate the human with the AI and all the things. So talk to me a little bit about what do you think some of the ethical considerations that people should be keeping in mind when using AI for networking and relationship building?

I would say the number one thing is don't lie. Don't tell people that you wrote it if you didn't write it. If AI wrote it, don't lie. Don't say that, that you wrote it. That's number one. Number 2 is AI tends to make things up. So if you're looking for facts, probably don't rely on AI for a fact. Try to figure out where they got that fact from, you know, because they're gonna— AI is definitely gonna make things up. Um, and it does make things up all the time. And so you wanna be careful and make sure that you're not relying on it as a, a valuable source of information that's validated per se.

Mm-hmm.

Because chances are it's not really gonna be validated by, you know, by the, the powers that be.

Right.

So I would recommend making sure that, you know, you do your research. And also, like, it's sometimes it's just gonna not be accurate. Like, besides not be factual, it's just not gonna be accurate. And so I would recommend making sure to double-check everything and making sure that you read what you're posting. So a big pitfall is people just create something and post it and have a good day. They trust it. Don't just trust it. Forget about even not being real. It might not even be accurate. It might not even be what you wanna say. It might not even be related to what you wanna say. Because sometimes you give it a prompt and you gave it a crappy prompt, and so it produced garbage for you, and then you just posted it, and then you look like an idiot, and people read that, they'll be like, I'm never gonna trust this person again.

Yeah.

So make sure that you're, you're, you're reading it, make sure that you're editing it, making sure that you're modifying it, that you're researching and making sure that it's accurate. And then, um, and then have fun with it. And again, don't lie about it. Don't say that you're not using AI if you're using AI, but you know, just be real and, and be okay with using technology. I know so many people. Even in today's day and age, you know, there are people in some tribes that don't use any technology at all. They're against using lawn mowers and they're cutting grass with their scissors. Could you imagine? Yeah. Could you imagine sitting there and like sitting there cutting grass with your scissors? What do you call that? What do you call when someone cuts grass with their scissors? What would you call that? I know lawn mowing. I don't know what you would call cutting grass with your scissors.

Um, uh, meditative clipping.

Clipping. Let's call it clipping for a lack of a better word. If you're cutting grass with scissors, it's called clipping.

It's clipping.

That's amazing. That's so good. That's perfect for a stand-up routine. You know, there's mowing and then there's clipping.

Then there's clipping. Where do you stand? Um, OCD. We have some— thank you, Kirsten, Michael, uh, uh, Antoinette. Shoko, thank you all. Tina, for reposting, that's terrific. You had some great points about the ethical use of using AI as a tool, which is just don't lie about it, right? And also that I feel I'm going to add on to the fact-checking piece, which is because I'm helping people with their talks and present and speak to audiences, you've got to fact-check any of those startling stats or quotes that you're pulling from other people and/or that research that you're doing. If you're using AI, like, check the sources. I, I have used AI to kind of get started on things and ask the questions and ask, like, is there any research that's been done? And then can you provide that source for me? And then it takes me to other places. So I feel like that's a great way to use that tool as well.

Yeah. And look, we have a circle that meets Um, every single month for 3 hours where we review how to use AI for 3 hours. We like sit there for 3 hours and we go deep into it. It's evergreen.com/aicircle. Tammy just posted a link to it in the chat.

Amazing.

And you know what I want you guys to know is that like you can do so much with AI that's extremely powerful. Like for example, yesterday I was on LinkedIn Live and I spent 2 hours and 47 minutes just kind of like exploring what you can do on LinkedIn. And I figured out that if you click on My Network and you click on your connections, you can see who's on LinkedIn right now in the moment. Like, you can actually see who's on LinkedIn right now. There's like a little green dot by their name if your settings are set up correctly, that you can actually see out of your— let's say you have 1,000 connections, you have 5,000, but let's say you loaded 5,000 or even 1,000 of your 5,000 on that page. You scroll down, scroll down, scroll down.

Mm-hmm.

It loaded 1,000. You can actually see who the green dots are. But let's say I wanted to filter out and only see the green dots because I only wanted to message the people that are using LinkedIn while I'm using LinkedIn.

Mm-hmm.

What would I do? And so I wanted to be able to filter that out. And so I did a little bit of research with an AI called Claude, and I built a Chrome extension that will remove all the people that are not currently live and only show me the people that are currently online on LinkedIn while I'm on LinkedIn.

Mm-hmm.

And then if I wanna push another button, it puts it into a spreadsheet for me. So later I can, I can go back to it. Like, and then I could just connect with those people cuz those people are actually active on LinkedIn versus the people that are not active. And so you think about the power of AI and networking and building relationships. You wanna network with someone when they're available, right?

Yep.

Don't you wanna network with someone when they're available? And so I personally use AI to help me not only leave comments, And some weeks I'll leave 250 comments in one week. Like, think about this. What is your goal for how many comments you want to leave each week for your connections? Meredith, what do you think your goal would be?

Oh, my goal has been all over the place, but I'm going to give you an answer. I'm going to say a week.

Did you say? Yeah, in a week. How many comments would you like to leave in a week?

I would say at least 50.

Right. So if you want to leave 50 comments a week, that's— let's say you're only working 5 days a week. That's only— that's 10 comments per day. How long would it leave you to— How long would it take you to leave 10 comments?

If I was using AI?

If you were not using AI, how long would it take you?

I could sit there and hem and haw over 10 comments because I want it— yeah, for— it would take me like an hour, maybe.

An hour. An hour. If you used— if you used AI to leave 10 comments and you thoughtfully read each one and you modified them, it would take you not more than 5 minutes to leave 10 comments. That's a savings of 55 minutes. Now my question to you is, How many pieces of grass can you clip in 55 minutes now that you saved that time in that meditative clipping?

Oh my goodness, the amount of grass I could clip is enormous.

And how much grass could you smoke while you clip grass?

A lot.

So think about that, guys. Think about how much time you would save if you just used AI to start leaving comments in your voice on LinkedIn. And if your goal is 50, write 50 in the chat. I'm curious to know what your goal is. My goal on a weekly basis is 250 comments. And I don't know if you know this, there's a place that can show you how many comments you left each day, each week. Do you wanna see that? Should I share my screen and just show you?

Sure. We're gonna have to wrap up here too, Joe. So let's have this be the last and then the last thing. Yeah. And then I wanna, I want, you to leave your information again for people so that they can find you.

Let me just quickly show people how to do this, 'cause people are super curious. If you go to your own profile, can you see my screen now or not yet?

No, not yet. Let me bring it in.

Okay. Okay. This is what my profile looks like when it loads. Okay. So this is my profile. Do you see where it says analytics here?

Where?

On the bottom it says analytics right here.

Yes, I do. I see it right there. Okay.

Everybody has this analytics. When you click on show analytics, it takes you to linkedin.com/dashboard. You could see so far this week I wrote 2 posts cuz it started today from October 7th. I wrote 2 posts and I did 11 comments and I did 0 contributions.

Okay.

If I want, if I wanna leave comments on the feed, okay, so this is how many comments on the feed I left. I click on comments on the feed. It takes me to linkedin.com/feed. I click on comment and now I'm able to leave a comment. In this case, I'm gonna share an opinion. I'm gonna sound whimsical and I'm gonna use the persona of Joe Apfelbaum. Todd, your insights on emotional discipline and long-term strategy resonate deeply. It's crucial to focus on blah, blah, blah.

Okay.

I press insert, I press comment, and now I just left comment for Todd, one of my clients. I just commented on his post. If I go back to my profile, Meredith, I go back to my profile. I click on my profile again and I go back to my dashboard under analytics. I click on show analytics. It's now gonna say I left 12 comments on the feed. Do you see that? So I wanna leave 50 comments every single, uh, 250 comments every single week. That means I'm gonna be leaving 50 per day, 5 days a week. So in order for me to leave 50, it's gonna take me, you know, 20, 30 minutes to do that with AI, but that'll help me stay top of mind with 50 people. That's extremely powerful. If anybody wants to reach out to me, I'm very accessible. You could just go to linkedin.com and You just look me up, Joe Apfelbaum, A-P-F-E-L-B-A-U-M. You look me up and then in my profile under about, you click on this little more button here, the show more button. You'll see my cell phone numbers here. You can WhatsApp me. You can join all of my resources here. If you wanna join the AI circle, it's right here. If you want your LinkedIn AI assistant, you go to evviai.com. If you wanna join our AI automation community that meets 6 times a month and I teach you how to do LinkedIn automation and build AI agents and all that type of stuff, you go right here. So if you wanna be able to do any of that stuff, you just go to my about section on LinkedIn. That's where you can find me. And if you wanna check out eviai.com, I highly recommend it. It'll change your life. Thank you very much for having me here. I really appreciate it. And, uh, I'm gonna stop sharing my screen.

Uh, you are amazing and I knew you would draw— you would drop a lot of different nuggets of wisdom. And thank you for this conversation. And, uh, I look forward to clipping Glassdoor. Grass, grass with you, um, and eating salad.

Oh my God, clipping, clipping grass and eating salad is so good while being carried up the stairs. Could you imagine?

While being carried up the stairs. There, that is the power of yes and, my friend.

Yeah, that's the power of yes and. And if anybody wants to join your session, how does somebody join your session? Yeah, people can learn how to be a podcast host like a, like a, you know, like a smoking roast.

Yeah, well, that's a very good question. So I have Engage Your Audience with a Powerful Hook. I have this workshop coming up on October 21st at 12 PM Eastern Time. You can scan that QR code. You can follow me here on LinkedIn. I will be posting about it every day this week. And I'm also going to be giving you tips about how improv can help you in communication. And this will give you a sense of what it's like to work with me. And so, for example, Tina is a part of the group that meets every Wednesday from 4 to 5 PM Eastern Time. And this is just one way for you to get to know me, get to know the work that I do, and how we have a lot of fun.

If you guys want to learn more about improv, just write the word improv in the chat and make a little smiley face. I don't know if you guys know this, but when you hover over the like, you can do a thumbs up, a middle finger, you can do a hand, a round of applause, you could do a smiley face. So go ahead and put in a smiley face there. If you guys don't have the middle finger option, hit me up privately. I'll teach you how to set it up. Um, but, but go ahead, put a smiley face there and write improv in the chat. This way Meredith can send you an invite to connect with her And then she'll be more than happy to send you information about how to do improv and how to improve your authenticity on stage and off stage and have more confidence in your communication. So Meredith, thank you for having me here. Thank you for being such a gracious host. Thank you for allowing your audience to learn about AI and insights and networking and building relationship. I wanna leave people with one piece of advice, which is that the secret to living Is giving, which means don't worry about what you can take from people, but instead focus on what you can give, because you're going to feel better when you are a giver.

Yeah, right. Hands, hands, hands, guys.

If you agree, just write I agree in the chat. The secret to living is giving, not faking and taking, unless you're waking and baking. I think that's what I said last time, and it worked out really well. I think that's what I said last time. But if you, if you guys ever want to do stand-up comedy and you want to get good at stand-up comedy, focusing on first doing improv and then pulling good nuggets out of that will help you become better at everything that you do. So being in the zone, I like rapping in the zone, but if you're, if you get into that zone and if you're in a non-judgmental place where you can really connect with someone like Meredith, like she creates this beautiful environment where you can not feel judged and you can really be yourself and that's how you can shine. That's why if you watch her podcast, You'll see how many people are actually themselves when they show up with Meredith because Meredith creates that safe space. So Meredith, thank you for creating that safe space. And look how many people said they're interested in improv. We have Tina.

I know, it's brilliant.

Tina Lansley, uh, Rick, Rick Clote, uh, we have Kristen, we have Roseanne, we have— we just got you so many leads. You see, if you don't ask for it, you're not gonna receive it. And so maybe in your future episodes, you can make this at the very, very end where you tell people, do you agree, do you don't agree, write the word improv, whatever. Even if you're going to send them the QR code, some people don't even know how to use it. Nobody went to a restaurant during COVID you know, like the comeback of the QR code.

Uh, Joe, you are always just so much fun to have these conversations with and to learn from. Thank you. If you're not following Joe already, please do. Please follow him on LinkedIn. He has so much wisdom. He has really helped out a lot of people and their businesses. And I love all of this knowledge and your obsession and your passion for AI and how we can use that to work better, uh, and to create more time to cut the grass, clip the grass.

Clip it.

Clip it.

Clip it. Meredith said you are Wonder Woman. Can you put on a Wonder Woman costume?

I am Wonder Woman. I am.

Like, do you have a costume?

I have a Wonder Woman t-shirt.

I wore it yesterday.

A t-shirt.

Okay, good. I have a Wonder Woman sweatshirt.

You do? Okay, we're gonna wear those out. We're gonna have a networking event in Manhattan one of these days.

Amazing. Amazing. I wonder what, like, what are some phrases that Wonder Woman typically says?

Good. I have no idea. I just do the triple turn and then I stop like this and I bounce bullets from my wrists. That's usually—

from your wrists?

That's— yeah, I don't, you know, with my cuffs. And I—

I would imagine you bouncing bullets from your eyes.

That too. I can do all of it, Joe. I have mad skills.

It's like laser vision.

Yes.

Yeah.

Yes. Um, you're awesome. Thank you so much. Uh, everyone have an amazing week ahead.