1 00:00:01.830 --> 00:00:04.530 Sean Murray: You know, people ask, Why are you putting on an event 2 00:00:04.530 --> 00:00:07.890 because we've been in media for quite a while. And the reason 3 00:00:07.890 --> 00:00:11.880 is, you know, I've been to a lot of conferences over the last 10, 4 00:00:11.940 --> 00:00:16.620 11 years, started in the MCA industry back in 2006. And every 5 00:00:16.620 --> 00:00:20.700 event I've ever been to, I felt like I was an outsider. You 6 00:00:20.700 --> 00:00:24.000 know, there was the people visiting someone else's 7 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:28.740 conference, there was no conference for our group. And 8 00:00:28.740 --> 00:00:32.430 somehow, all these years continued to be that same way, 9 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:37.860 right. So starting now, deBanked is going to be doing events, 10 00:00:37.860 --> 00:00:43.320 this is our first one. And in May, May 14 2018, we're going to 11 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:47.370 be putting together a broker slash ISO, whatever you guys 12 00:00:47.370 --> 00:00:48.870 call it, event. 13 00:00:50.160 --> 00:00:53.010 The new guys call them brokers, in my day they were ISOs. 14 00:00:55.530 --> 00:00:58.800 We're gonna be putting together a Broker/ISO centric event in, 15 00:00:58.980 --> 00:01:04.830 in Brooklyn to build out Brooklyn, right? You got to go 16 00:01:04.830 --> 00:01:07.620 to where the ISOs are, we're all here. They're all in. They're 17 00:01:07.620 --> 00:01:11.430 all in Brooklyn, all in New York. So we're gonna have an 18 00:01:11.430 --> 00:01:14.910 event at the William Vale hotel. It's in Williamsburgh, I don't 19 00:01:14.910 --> 00:01:18.600 know if you guys know it. We're gonna make it focused around 20 00:01:18.630 --> 00:01:24.090 three central themes going to be education, inspiration, and 21 00:01:24.090 --> 00:01:27.180 opportunities. And if you're a company out there, and you're 22 00:01:27.180 --> 00:01:30.900 like brokers, why why are we making it around brokers? I hate 23 00:01:30.900 --> 00:01:35.220 brokers, right? brokers can be tough to deal with. And even if 24 00:01:35.220 --> 00:01:38.490 you don't work with brokers, and you go direct, you do things 25 00:01:38.490 --> 00:01:43.440 your own way. At the end of the day, brokers have an impact on 26 00:01:43.440 --> 00:01:46.200 what everyone here does, right? Because they all talk to your 27 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:50.100 merchants. And so if they're doing it wrong, or saying the 28 00:01:50.100 --> 00:01:54.300 wrong thing, that could hurt how you talk to them later on. All 29 00:01:54.300 --> 00:01:58.200 right. So we want to make sure that they have all the right 30 00:01:58.230 --> 00:02:01.980 tools, education and training to do the right things. And then we 31 00:02:01.980 --> 00:02:04.920 want to inspire them. We want to make them better closers, right? 32 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:09.330 You want sales reps, who can close, everybody wants that, we 33 00:02:09.330 --> 00:02:12.300 want to give them opportunities. We want them to meet the funders 34 00:02:12.420 --> 00:02:15.330 and the lenders. So they don't send all their deals to 35 00:02:16.410 --> 00:02:24.000 fundme@gmail.com. Right. People actually go again, Sean I sent 36 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:29.820 my deal to this guy at gmail, and it's the files gone, you got 37 00:02:29.820 --> 00:02:33.990 to do something. I don't know what you want me to do. But if 38 00:02:33.990 --> 00:02:37.560 you send them the file, right, I think at broker fair, we will 39 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:40.530 have the opportunity to meet all these brokers, and have these 40 00:02:40.530 --> 00:02:42.210 brokers, you know, the funders, the lenders, and hopefully 41 00:02:42.210 --> 00:02:46.290 put a face to the names, ou know, everybody does good 42 00:02:46.290 --> 00:02:50.280 solid, fair business. That's really my goal, you know, hopefully 43 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:55.710 do a few of these things a year And beyond that, I'd like to, 44 00:02:55.920 --> 00:02:59.010 by the way, the website right now is broker fair.org. If you go 45 00:02:59.010 --> 00:03:01.620 there, it's just a placeholder page. If you're interested in 46 00:03:01.620 --> 00:03:04.110 sponsoring and/or attending it, just put in your email address 47 00:03:04.110 --> 00:03:06.540 That's all it is right now. It will be a full website with 48 00:03:06.540 --> 00:03:11.700 sponsorship and ticket information later in the month. And 49 00:03:11.700 --> 00:03:15.570 then, yeah, definitely check that out. And then beyond that, 50 00:03:15.570 --> 00:03:18.780 anyone who came here, I want to thank the sponsors for 51 00:03:18.780 --> 00:03:21.780 helping put it together. you clap for that? Okay 52 00:03:28.440 --> 00:03:32.640 SOS Capital, so they had a really cool logo on the shirts here. 53 00:03:32.730 --> 00:03:35.550 That was one of the big expensive items. So thank you SOS Capital 54 00:03:41.310 --> 00:03:45.060 I want to thank my event planner Sarah over there who 55 00:03:45.060 --> 00:03:46.380 helped me do all this. 56 00:03:52.170 --> 00:03:54.720 I want to thank my wife, Ruby, who's actually here today 57 00:04:01.500 --> 00:04:04.440 to do more work. Thank you.