It's the end of my Monday, and I'm making it a habit to share the journey here. Honestly... this lifelong game of business can get lonely if you let it. So this is me not letting it. Last week I volunteered 5 hours of my sleep time for a worthy cause. It ain't much, but I promise my heart was all in. It was for @Eshara K (who I swear has a heart bigger than mine). She's on a journey to help B Lab verified businesses (businesses committed to positively impacting the planet) get access to the grant money they deserve for the hard work they're already doing for our communities. Saying she's making an impact would be an understatement. Any hours I can invest in her mission make the world a little better for our kids. Definitely, worth giving up my time for this. But I didn't want this to be the last time I did something like this... So today I want to end that day with an idea Mr. Rogers himself would promote. I call it Collab for Cause. The seed idea actually came from @Pedro Gomez . His idea hit me so hard I had to revisit it. In case you missed it from the AIS plus community, it was this: what if we paid each other instead of big tech companies like Google? Inspired, I ran with it. Problem is... I took it a bit too literal. My first version: I'd figure out what you build, then dig through my own relationships to find someone who'd actually want it. And it worked beautifully. You can ask @Joshua F. Lewis , @Mohamed Bah , or @Denis Patru ... for each of them I found a lead genuinely interested in their service. But it only got us so far. Truth is, I spread myself so thin hunting those diamond-in-the-rough leads for everyone that I accidentally disappeared on giving the value to the great relationships I made along the way (shout out to @Tanya Maslach , @Matthew Sutherland , @Crys Wood and the rest of the amazing folks I've had real conversations with... you deserved better than my silence).

After following Nate and the general AI industry for the past year, starting to build and practice and do the coursework, I finally locked in my first client!! I can't claim victory on an amazing sales strategy as that part was a God thing but the preparation and skills offered through a lot of Nate's content made it possible. I'm 38. I have a full-time job and a toddler and it was still possible. You can do it!!!

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Hi everyone, just starting out with AI! my short term goal is to automate small Real Estate processes and long term goal is to create an AI Platform for real estate. Is there anyone who's had experiences or pain points within this niche? Appreciate all the help I can get 🙏🏽

These are some of the responses I got just from linkdin outbound. I have been doing linkdin outbound for more than 6 months now. and I have realised that it's 80:20 rule, 80% responses will be negative but 20% will the positive ones. (also depends on offer/industry) So in order to have enough of positive ones, one must consider doing outbound in volume so that you have ample of interested leads. Dm me if you want me to handle your linkdin/outbound or generate leads for you or any kind of help.