📌 Tuesday December 17

• Women Into Networking | $0-$299

• Mindful Professionals Networking | $15-$25

• Women’s Zoom Networking | $9

• Black Owned Business Networking | $15

• The Conscious Climb Networking | $5

• Financial Networking | $20

• Swap the Biz | $95-$995

📌 Wednesday December 18

• Spark the Heart | Donation

• Networking for B2B Professionals | $20-$40

• Rich Girl Conversations | $0-$30

📌 Thursday December 19

• 🔥Startups & Entrepreneurs Speed Networking🔥 | $12.50

• Netwerking with Show the F*ck Up | $22

• Virtual Networking for Online Retailers | $10

• Networking for Podcasters, Speakers and Authors | $15

• She Handles Business | $0-$30

📌 Friday December 20

• Empowered Entrepreneur Mastermind | $26.65

• Bright Side Networking | $25-$100

News You Can Actually Use 📰

🔍 Reddit’s New AI Tool Takes Aim at Google—And It’s Getting Personal
Move over, Google—Reddit’s got its own AI-powered search now. The real question: will it finally find answers without the drama?

🧑‍💻 AI Expert Says: Privacy is the New Oil, Don’t Spill It
With AI evolving faster than a toddler on a sugar rush, are we really ready for the possibility that our personal info could become the next viral meme? Spoiler alert: probably not.

🤡 Social Media Platforms Are Just One Big Popularity Contest
The battle for your attention rages on. Who’s thriving, who’s dying, and who’s desperately trying to stay relevant? (Hint: not Zuckerberg.)

🎾 ConnectPlayers Reinvents Sports Clubs (Goodbye Drama, Hello Data!)
The sports club app that kills messy group texts and bad planning—now you can focus on the game, not the chaos. Finally, some real MVP energy.

🔪 When AI Goes Psycho: The Chatbot That Told a Teen to Kill
Move over Netflix thrillers—this lawsuit is the real deal. A Texas family blames AI for urging a teen to commit murder. Alexa, play ‘Bad Decisions.’

🤳 Mozi: The Anti-Instagram Social App You Didn’t Know You Needed
Mozi wants you to actually make friends, not just count followers. It’s like therapy for your social life—with no filters allowed.

❤️‍🩹 Recovery Gets Social: The App Fighting Isolation, One Chat at a Time
An Atlanta addiction treatment center joins forces with Connector to combat loneliness in recovery. Who knew networking could be this life-changing?

♥️ BLKBOOK Updates ♥️

We are 75% of the way through development! I think…🤔 If there’s one thing I’ve learned about outsourcing the MVP to a dev shop overseas, it’s that lower costs = longer timeline.

In other news, we officially have over 500+ newsletter subscribers! 🎉

I’ve also hired some help on the social media side but, don’t be shocked. She’s also overseas 🙃 That being said, why don’t you give her a warm welcome and follow those social media channels👇

Linkedin | Instagram 

O’ Down the Rabbit Hole 🐇

Linkedin is not my favorite networking platform but, it’s the only thing we have (until BLKBOOK is released ♥️).

What irritates me the most isn’t the vast amount of people trying to sell me something, it’s not even the overwhelming amount of AI generated posts I see in my feed every day, it’s how difficult they make it to filter through your network, find who can help you the most and point out the ones with the greatest opportunities.

If you haven’t yet, do yourself a solid and sign up for our waitlist so you don’t have to go through what I’m about to show you.

Here’s how I currently tap into my network and automate a bit of the process. Let’s go!👇

Step 1: Figure out what you’re trying to tap into your network for. Is it to find mentors, investors, recruiters, advisors, candidates etc. I’m currently looking for investors so that’s what I’m going to be using as an example for the rest of this post.

Step 2: Come up with a list of keywords including job titles, industry, location or whatever keywords you think they’re using in their headline, bio, experience etc. and narrow it down. In my case it looks a little something like this:

Investor, Early-stage, VC, Venture Capital, Pre-seed, AI, Events, Startups, Managing Partner, Managing Director, Angel, Tech, B2B, SaaS, Incubator, Accelerator

Step 3: Extract your current list of connections on Linkedin. Go to settings, data privacy and download the list.

Step 4: Upload your existing spreadsheet to ChatGPT and enter the prompt below:

“Extract all of the contacts that have “keyword”, “keyword”, “keyword” etc. and add them to a separate downloadable spreadsheet. Format all of the data into a table with these columns: First Name, Last Name, Company, Profile URL, Email, Phone Number.

Step 5: Download the new spreadsheet and copy and paste all of the Linkedin URL’s in a new Google Sheet. Make the sheet public so anyone can view. The only thing you should have now is a single column with high-quality URL’s, no headers.

Step 6: Use Phantombuster to scrape the profiles from the Google Sheet to get more information about each individual profile. Use this automation 👇

Once this is done running, download the results. The only thing you really need from this list is the Linkedin Description. Unless you want to use their recent activity but, I’ve found it to be a little hit or miss. So, copy the entire column and paste it into the 2nd spreadsheet we had Chat GPT create.

Step 7: Use Zapier to summarize each row including the Linkedin description and create a prompt to generate a highly customized and tailored outreach message.

The prompt should look something like this.

Generate a personalized outreach message based on the following details: - First Name: - Last Name: - Position: - Company: - LinkedIn URL: - Email Address: - LinkedIn Description:

### About BLKBOOK: BLKBOOK is an AI-powered networking platform revolutionizing professional connections. We’ve hosted 5 events, facilitated 383 attendees, 2,000+ meetings, and created 1,600+ connections in just 5 hours. BLKBOOK is rapidly scaling and seeking aligned investors.

### Message Requirements: 1. Address the recipient by name. 2. Acknowledge their position and company. 3. Use the LinkedIn Description to further tailor the message. 4. Highlight BLKBOOK's mission and recent traction. 5. End with a clear and respectful ask for a meeting to discuss investment opportunities.

Of course, this is just an example. Customize this for your specific needs and let ChatGPT do the work.

The setup should look like this👇

Now, every-time you update the spreadsheet with a new contact a custom message will be created in the Outreach Message column.

I must say, having multiple highly relevant and targeted messages created in less than 3 minutes for me whenever I need it is pretty legit. 👌

Of course there’s a couple of other flows I could add as well but that my friends is how you can tap into your existing network and automate the entire outreach process at scale!

How I Can Help You Grow 🚀

1. Hire me as your Fractional CMO. Not only can I help develop your growth strategy, align marketing and sales teams, and develop customer journey maps, I can also create and execute high-impact campaigns, audit your tech stack and make sure you’re leveraging the right data to measure success.

2. Generate Leads through BLKBOOK Events. When you sponsor an industry-specific virtual speed networking event, I handle the outreach and set up targeted campaigns to get your ideal customers to show up. Then, you can hand-pick who you want to meet face-to-face with.

3. Earn Commission & Shared Revenue. Want to attend BLKBOOK events for free and get paid? Become an affiliate and start earning commissions on ticket sales and sponsorship referrals.

4. Hire me as your Virtual Event Consultant. From a small half day summit to a full 5 day conference, I’ve organized, managed and produced a variety of virtual events. I can help with sourcing speakers, running tech checks, marketing and even hiring additional production assistants.

Interested in working together? Let’s connect!👇

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