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.