Are you looking for a mastermind group? Are you looking for a mastermind group near you
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Hi, my name is Mike Mancini, helping you market, simplify and impact your business. Now my main
business is as a Google ads agency owner. I help companies out with Google ads. I also have
a training course that does the same thing. Now one of the things that has helped me grow
my business exponentially is being part of a mastermind group. Now I am located in a
Metro area, so there are mastermind groups around me, but I've been in an experience
where I had to drive all the way across town to get there. So depending on traffic, it
might take me 90 minutes of traffic, you know, a 60 or 90 minute meeting and then 90 minutes
of traffic back. So essentially I could lose about half a day
just by, getting to the group and from the group. And that just really wasn't
acceptable for me. So I went looking for alternatives and this is where I met Joe Burnich. Now,
here's a picture of Joe. Joe is a marketing agency owner. He is in Missoula, Montana.
And Joe decided he wanted to start a virtual mastermind group. Now, I wasn't quite sure
how I would feel about that because I do want to get out in front of people. I want to meet
them. I want to interact with them because I am an entrepreneur. I'm, I'm, you know,
I loan a lot of the time I work out of my home office. I've got employees that I interact
with, but they're all over the world. Uh, so sometimes it's, it becomes a little bit
difficult. I'm looking for that interaction. I'm looking kind of in the isolation that
I have a working for myself. But when I started talking to Joe and, and hearing his idea about
virtual masterminds, I was very intrigued because the whole idea of a mastermind is,
is connecting with other people. Learning what you know, how they're solving their problems,
learning, you know, where they're taking their business. Do I have anything to offer them?
Do they have anything to offer? Me being able to go somewhere to help solve problems when
I hit them because as entrepreneurs, nobody teaches this stuff in school. You have to
get out there and you have to learn. You have to adapt, you have to be able to change things
on the fly and so Joe invited me to partner with him to start impact mastermind group
and what we do is each week we meet virtually. Here's an example of one of the groups now
in this example, Mallory who is a very successful online clothing designer, she has her own
clothing line. She sells products all over the world. She
has a very large following, but because of the situation with the Corona virus, she has
obviously taken a very large hit in her sales and she's asking the group on some ideas on
what she could do to get her product out there more even during these hard times. The best
part about it is in this particular group there are 10 other business owners who are
offering examples, offering ideas of what she could do, giving her suggestions on how
she can survive and weather these difficult times. Here's another one, our groups and
on that day we went in depth on what we needed to do to weather the storm. These are our
businesses, these are our children, our blood, sweat and tears. And while we obviously want
to be compassionate and understanding of the current climate, we also have to keep food
on the table. We also will need to keep our businesses alive
so that when the storm is over we are able to go back to work. So in this group we are
talking about the current climate. We are talking about how each one of us individually
is dealing with that. And also we're looking for opportunities. And I'm not talking about
opportunities in a negative way, you know, price gouging and things like that. I'm talking
about opportunities that each one of us that each individual entrepreneur has that maybe
they haven't thought of yet to help them weather the storm. So for example, Pamela is a photographer
and somebody came up with the idea of doing porch portraits so she could go to a client.
The entire family could sit up on the porch or go out in the backyard because obviously
it's a springtime. It's a beautiful time of year.
They could stand by a tree and she could safely take family photographs for that client without
getting within 20 feet. Some other examples are entrepreneurs that are starting to look
to get online because they realize that they can start taking their business online, not
just doing it face to face. They could attract a worldwide audience and they could expand
their business exponentially. Something they hadn't thought of doing before because they
were used to working locally, but these are just a couple of examples or a couple of ideas
that we come up with our mastermind groups. I personally was very unsure because I wanted
to meet these people face to face, but after being in the group for several months, these
people have now become family. There is not one of them. I would have an issue of picking
up the phone and giving them a call to ask them questions.
There's not one of them that I would not help. But we do this not only on having these round
table discussions, but we also do these during what we call our hot seats. In a hot seat.
One member will take the floor and say, here's my business, here are my struggles. Does anybody
have any ideas? Those can be so incredibly valuable. Another, as we do member workshops,
so for example, Megan who is an accountant in one of the groups, Megan actually got up
and did a presentation on budgeting and how to find hidden money in your business. Now
as a business owner, even though it's obviously imperative to my business, accounting is not
something I enjoy, but this workshop helped me identify $3,000 a year in my business that
was just sitting there that I had no idea about, that I was absolutely wasting and I
wouldn't have been able to do that without Megan's advice.
And we also do goal setting and wins each and every week. When we start off the meeting,
we go around and we talk about what was your big win? Are you on track or off track with
your 30 day goals? We bring a lot of positivity. We bring a lot of encouragement. We bring
a of accountability in a positive way to each and every member. Now, something I need to
be totally upfront about is yes, there is a charge to join our mastermind group that
charges $97 a month and it's once a week that we meet. Some of my frustrations when I was
looking for a mastermind group were one, the cost of those mastermind groups, $10,000 $25,000
to join a mastermind group for a year or whatever it might be, but it might only be once a quarter
at some remote location. It could be once a week, but some of the ones I talked to,
people who joined them were literally one person talking, so essentially it was an online
seminar. Every week I want interaction with other members.
I want to be able to speak to them, find out what their experiences are, find out how I
can help them. I want to have that back and forth. Another thing was there were a lot
of groups out there that were called mastermind groups, but really they were one or two people
who kind of monopolize the entire conversation. Nobody else really had a voice. There are
other ones out there that are just really harsh, you know, they, they'll stand up there
and rah, rah, rah and yell and, and be like, this is, this is why you're not any good.
This is why you suck. I don't need to hear that. I'm there to look for some positivity
and to see how I can help others and if others can help me. And we also wanted people who
want to be there. We've had free groups before that have 40
members, but on any one week, maybe five would show up. We want people who want to be there,
who are getting amazing value out of it, value enough that they're paying every single month
to be part of this group because they understand the value of it, they understand the value
it brings to their business and they understand the results it brings to their business. At
the end of the year, we want people who want to be there and we want people who want to
be around us. So if you're looking for a mastermind group near you or if you have questions about
mastermind groups, do me a favor, leave them down in the comments below. I'll try to answer
every single one. Or if you're interested in finding out more about mastermind groups,
do me a favor, go to impact mastermind group.com you can find out some more information.
You can hop on the phone with Joe or myself. Make sure that you're, it's the right fit
for you. Make sure it's the right fit for us. You can hopefully get some unbelievably
amazing knowledge, insight, and ideas for your business and we'd love nothing more than
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well as the top five reasons to join a mastermind. Thank you so much for watching. I hope I helped
market simplify or impact your business. We'll see you next time.