It's never a linear path forward. I had a couple of setbacks in the past week or so, but new opportunities shine through. My first sale wasn't... yet! They they asked for an invoice and knew the numbers. Since then, they haven't replied, even though I've tried calling and emailing. I'm planning on going to their office tomorrow to get an answer one way or the other. Lesson... Get the deposit at the meeting. Second... The BNI chapter that I applied for rejected my application. Their loss. HMMM That's two steps backward... BUT... This week... the wins. 1. I am closing a GHL account with 2 months free and a healthy ongoing. This will be a big client long-term, with full CRM functionality. 2. I met a grant consultant who NEEDS bots and some workflows and automations that I already created a couple of years ago. Meeting again next week with him and his IT director to close the deal. 3. Met a web designer who was referred by a BNI contact. The designer's main target clients are home service and construction companies with $2-10 Million annual sales. Not only did he love the idea of offering what I do to his clients, he is introducing me to his company's CEO to get set up themselves. Cha Cha Cha!!!

I got rejected by the local BNI chapter. No, they don't give a reason for the rejection and, by BNI company policy, are not allowed to. To say this was a major slap in the face is a huge understatement. As many of you know, I understand how BNI works more than a vast majority of members and I love the rules that were laid out by BNI corporate HQ. Plus... I'm a big referral source and major contributor to the past chapters I was in. Now that the shock is wearing off, and I start unpacking. what happened, what did I do? I got on the phone with the people I met at a different local networking group earlier this week... the one I exhibited at on Tuesday. As a result, - I made a great start with a potential power partner who owns a cloud-based PBX platform, that he developed in-house and is already configured with Voice AI, international call routing and so, so much more. The first thing he said when I called was "You were next on my call list". The synergy is off-the charts. - I had a web developer email me last night, asking for pricing for one of his clients. I called him as soon as I got the email and this morning sent him a ballpark estimate for a company that wants a Voice AI bot that can handle about 2500 inbound calls per month. - I had a VA agency, based in Toronto with VAs in India book a meeting with me yesterday. His agency VAs start at $5 CAD ($3.75 USD) per hour. (I'll keep everyone posted on this one). - A Coworking company with 3 locations in and around Toronto booked a meeting with me for March 16th. She wants to talk bots and Exhibitor Follow Up Pro. - A government grant consultant wants a demo of a snapshot designed to help him guide his clients through government application processes (I built this 2 years ago... my first GHL project). That's on Monday. The BNI group has lost out big time and it's a pebble on my road to success. They'll never know what they lost out on. I have IRL friends in this group who are angrier than I am, and I was plenty pissed off... for a few minutes, at least.

I have an electrical contractor client who wants two separate calendars. One for service calls and one for site visit quotes. They use Knowify for project management and is asking if possible to connect everything through Zapier. I told them to keep it simple and use Google Calendar as the hub since GHL connects to it natively. But now the question is whether GHL can route to two different calendars cleanly. Can the AI book a service call on one calendar and a quote request on another based on what the lead says? Has anyone set this up before? Does it work well or does it get messy?

For the month of March, for every week day I will make 100 calls. I will run a webinar once week. If anyone wants to join me in challenge and we hold each other accountable just comment below. I plan to make minimum £3k/m recurring.

The bride and I went to the local Home Show at our convention center this weekend. Spent a bit of money on fudge and the usual treats. Bought some handmade goat soap and alpaca bag for my MIL. Made lots of connections with roofers, and window installation companies. And made 2 stellar connections with a new home builder and his lovely wife, a doctor.... And the big connection is with the local builders association.. We have been invited to join their upcoming meeting and talk about AI .... It is in a couple of weeks, so we are pretty excited...