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🛠 Tactical Tools To Try: Why Zoom's AI Features Are Worth the Upgrade

🤖 Automation of the Month: The Free Automation That Finally Tamed My Tabs

🌱 Smart Moves: How To Outsource Your Weaknesses

📚 Books to Build You Up: Failing Forward by John C. Maxwell

🎤 A New Chapter: Teaching My First AI Class... and What That Means For You

Chances are you already use Zoom. If you're like me, it's maybe even daily. But if you’re still on the free plan, the Pro upgrade is one of those quiet little investments that can seriously level up your workflow.

For about $160 a year (less than a ChatGPT Plus subscription), you get:

✅ Cloud recordings with 10 GB of storage (recently doubled from 5 GB)

✅ AI-powered transcripts and summaries that highlight action items and next steps

✅ Meeting coach feedback on pacing, filler words, patience, and talk-to-listen ratio.

That last one is a game changer. We’ve all been in those meetings where someone bulldozes the conversation. Not cool, right? But these types of insights help you communicate more effectively and make your meetings productive instead of painful.

Last Wednesday, Zoom's AI caught something I couldn't recall in an hour-long call: the investor needed a script for use in a marketing campaign and off the cuff, I gave them some great verbiage to use... but I couldn't remember my own golden words just a few hours later when I finished my stack of calls for the day. That one hack led to quite a bit of time saved for me and for the investor could translate to significant enhancements in their capital raise efforts this year. The Pro upgrade costs $160 this year. You do the math.

If you’re on even a couple of calls a week where takeaways matter (like what feedback your private lending prospect shares about your capital raise pitch), Zoom Pro more than pays for itself. And since you already know Zoom, upgrading is seamless.

Worth considering the next time you click “Join Meeting.”

BTW, bet you didn't know that I consistently speak at over 200 words per minute, did ya? Wonder how I know?

Zoom Pro told me so! 🤣

This one’s simple, powerful, and best of all... FREE.

I call it Zap-A-Link, and it’s a little automation that saves your browser tabs from multiplying like rabbits. Here’s how it works:

Get yourself a free Zapier account and log in thru Chrome.

1️⃣ Install the Zapier Chrome extension (free account works fine).

2️⃣ Set up a Zap that grabs the page you’re on: URL, title, and date... and sends it straight to a Google Sheet.

Next time you find a site worth saving, just click the Zapier button in your browser extensions area and trigger the Zap-A-Link automation with a click. Done. Tab closed, link saved, brain clear.

I’ve been running this for 3+ years, with well over a thousand links captured. It’s one of those “set it and forget it” automations that quietly pays off every single day.

If you’re tired of drowning in open tabs but don’t want to lose the good stuff you find, give Zap-A-Link a try. I’ll drop a link below so you can make it yours! 👇🏾

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​Reach out if you need a helping hand and we can help you get it running in minutes! ✅

As business owners, you've probably realized over time that hiring based on skills alone can often lead to funky fits and frustrations, quick! That’s why I want to share with you a new way to shift the focus to including an understanding of a candidate's natural behaviors using tools like Predictive Index and DISC assessments.

Consider this simple idea: most true extroverts will tend to be more likely to thrive in sales, while calm, steady people generally excel in more administrative roles like accounting and property management.

Getting a glimpse into how someone’s personality will likely fit a given job role makes a lot of sense when you think about it. Are you naturally aligned to own and operate every function of your business? Of course not!

This is why clearly defining each role’s expectations before hiring is the key to finding the right fit. It helps improve employee sat, reduces turnover and also allows you to outsource areas where "strengths are lacking" by assembling your own dream team with complementary skills & personalities.

So ask yourself, what roles are you being run by in your business? Which jobs would you quit today? Or fire yourself from? 🤔

Say to yourself, "What if I could just... replace myself in that role? And that one? And definitely that one?" See where I am headed with this??

Obviously be smart about it and use this wisdom intelligently. It's not intended to discriminate or be used for any other ill-intent, so direct any questions about all that to your own internal HR department.

What I'm saying is... this type of more strategic hiring approach can maximize the return on your hiring investments and build a more balanced, optimally-performing team of people doing what they naturally enjoy.