Building pandemic resilient businesses

29th

to 31st of may 2020 was when we had

planned

to conduct the biggest transformational

event of india

we had taken the biggest venue i had

moved into a bigger office and we had

hired more people

after all you need more people in your

team to pull off an event

like this more than 2 000 tickets had

already been sold

and we were in full flow unfortunately

kovitt 19 struck india was under

lockdown

and we had to postpone our event before

i go ahead i want to ask you

just like us which dream of yours which

aspiration of yours or which plan of

your

got halted because of covert 19.

i realized the one thing and that is

change is the only constant in life

after all who could have thought that

the entire

world could come to a standstill i am

rahul bhatnagar

and i am here to tell you how to convert

this kovid 19 situation

into the best phase of your life before

i go ahead

i want to clearly state over here that i

empathize

with the people who have lost their

lives with people who have lost their

loved ones

with people who have suffered from covet

19 and who are still suffering

from this disease i understand

that it has been tough but as human

beings we have always fought

and we are going to fight one more time

let me take you down memory lane and

tell you a little bit about myself

in the year 2012 i started with my

entrepreneurial journey

we used to make discount cards we used

to go from one house to the other house

one office

to other office one event to the other

event i was speaking at multiple places

trying to sell my discount cards but the

results were not coming our way

i realized back then that rahul you got

to change this

if you want to bring about a substantial

change in your life

and i took five decisions that actually

got me

the position that i am in today number

one

i delivered 50 consecutive speeches on

50 days

i traveled across north india went to

multiple toastmasters clubs

and gave my speeches that is a world

record the second thing that i did was

i lost a lot of weight went for the mtv

auditions

cleared the auditions and then i was

seen on national tv

on mtv that gave me a lot of recognition

the third thing was i went to singapore

to become part

of the crew of the tony robbins event i

saw about 15

000 people attending that event and i

realized that rahul you have got so much

inside you

to help as well as support a lot of

people

with your mentorship the fourth thing

that i did was

i went to us with my younger brother

please understand we did not have the

money we did not have the resources

at that particular point of time in the

first three years of our journey we were

only surviving

at 500 rupees per month whatever money

we made we invested it back into our

work

a lot of things had to be done in order

to meet our expenses

but we realized that we need to learn

and upgrade ourselves

to get the results that we really want

in our life so we went to us attended an

amazing event

learned a lot of new things and as soon

as i came back the fifth thing that i

did was

i took my content online so that i can

provide a lot of valuable information

support people online and get impeccable

results for myself

and the results are in front of you more

than three lakh people

have attended our online sessions more

than 10

000 people are a part of my enrolled

programs

i am the only person who has delivered

five joe stocks

with one of them being converted in

tamil so i’ve got six

joe stocks to my credit right now have

been seen on multiple platforms like

your story

forbes and all these beautiful things

happened in my life

i’m blessed with a wonderful family my

parents my lovely brother

my team here in goa and we are literally

killing it

you know why that happened because i

realized that rahul you got to

change and now let me relate it with the

kovit 19 situation right now

you know why were we hit so hard because

we were not prepared

because we were relying on just one

source of income because we were relying

only on our college education

and you know which businesses suffered

the most which required people

to be in close proximity to each other

cinemas malls sports matches classroom

learnings

hotels restaurants saloons all the

places that required people to be

together

and close to each other were the ones

that suffered the most

you understand that right you agree with

that now what we got to understand is

and that’s a question that i want to ask

you will a situation like covet 19

arise in the future as well well there’s

no surety

we can be hit by something like this in

the future

too this time we can say and we can give

the excuse

that we were not prepared but what if

something like this hits us again

will you again have that same excuse

will you again say that no no no no

we were not prepared or are you willing

to change your life

right now because what i’m going to do

right away is i’m going to give you

certain things

and changes and industries that you can

become a part of

so that if such a situation comes again

you would be leaps ahead of everybody

else

so the few things that you can actually

implement in your work are

number one email marketing now what is

email marketing all about

email marketing is when people

voluntarily give you their database

their name their contact numbers their

information and you are providing them

with a lot of information

over emails you are providing them with

a lot of value this is also known as

nurturing the audience so you can do

email marketing for your own products

your own services

or you can do email marketing for

multiple products and multiple

businesses

as well as clients and earn a lot of

money for yourself

number two if you are an impeccable

communicator

you can do sessions for a lot of brands

and become their spokesperson

you can become a webinar presenter for

them and actually you will be able to

generate a lot of revenue

let me tell you one more thing public

speaking is not just about speaking to

people

when you are surrounded by them digital

public speaking is also something that

you can pursue

if you are very good when it comes to

communication skills

the third thing is online sales online

sales

is a high income skill if you can

develop that high income skill if you

can sell your products online if you can

sell your services online

you would be in high demand all the time

and i’ll tell you one more thing right

now

ai might come a lot of technological

advancements might come

but if you are an expert in your

industry you will always be ahead

and that is something that you need to

understand the next thing that you can

do is

social media management for a lot of

clients please understand there are a

lot of businesses

who want to take their content online on

facebook instagram twitter

linkedin tick tock but they don’t know

how to do it

they don’t have the right expertise they

have a lot of money you can support

those businesses you can take their

content online

you can manage their social media pages

and generate revenue for yourself

wouldn’t it be amazing that you would

get the getting the opportunity

to work from your house itself get close

to those brands

and generate revenue the next thing that

you can do is

package all your learning together all

your content together

all the information that you have inside

you and present it to people

and you can monetize that too by doing

so not only will you be empowering a lot

of lives but you would also be

generating

lacks of rupees for yourself ladies and

gentlemen

the next thing that you can work upon is

health fitness and immunity

a lot of people have now become even

more aware that they need to work upon

their health

they need to work upon their fitness

they need to learn new things

they need to learn all these things from

their house itself

and you can be the facilitator of the

same from your

house you don’t even have to go anywhere

we have realized now right

that internet is a utility and it is not

something that was considered to be a

luxury probably this is also one more

thing that we have learned

because of the kovid 19 impact

i know that when i tell you that these

are the things that you can implement in

your work

you might be worried about rahul i’m not

aware about it neither was i

before 18th of april 2018 i had never

done a single webinar

in my entire life now i have done more

than 350 webinars

because i was ready to accept the change

e-commerce is one more industry that you

can be a part of you can sell products

online you can sell services online

you can buy product from a smaller

country and sell it to bigger countries

probably in the us or europe and you can

monetize that as well

you can also work as a virtual assistant

and render your services to clients

outside india

and earn in a higher currency the

opportunities are

endless provided we are ready to take

the action

one more thing that you can do is

facilitate a lot of transactions online

and when you will do that you will act

as a mediator between a lot

of buyers as well as sellers thereby

generating revenue for you

now i know that you would have probably

never thought that rahul how would i be

able to do this

i have an expertise in one industry i

will never be able to pull it off

well that’s what the message over here

is

due to covet 19 we have now realized

not to rely on single piece of income

not to rely on our college education we

have realized that the time that we have

upon this planet

is limited and we need to spend that

time with our loved ones

with people who matter the most we have

also got the time

to realize what was missing in our life

that we need to get rid of the rat race

i read

it somewhere and it wrote something like

this that after this

lockdown i know that some of you are

still working from your house

you are having your online sessions you

are having your online work and because

of that you have got a lot of time with

you

to learn new things and upgrade yourself

if after this lockdown if after this

particular phase

if you don’t come across as an upgraded

individual

if you don’t learn something new then

you never lack the time rather you lack

the

will ladies and gentlemen if i would not

have taken that different path in my

life

i would have always been doing the same

thing going from one brand to the other

looking for new opportunities

looking for them looking up to them to

give me a chance

but we changed it and that is exactly

what i want to do for your own self

that i want you to do for your own self

we have realized due to covet 19

that nature needs to be preserved we

have realized due to covert 19

that we are not good enough we need to

regularly constantly upgrade our own

self we have realized

that our health needs to work upon it

needs to be taken care of

and all these are the things that you

can actually implement in your work

go ahead and create so many more

opportunities for yourself

you know the biggest takeaway that i

have got from this phase is

that you got to take actions so very

fast i tell you what we did

in the month of april i realized that

now people need to have a lot of online

learning

i need to act as the person who is going

to support them and you know what we did

we increased our webinar plan from 3000

to 5000 people

now we were accommodating 5 000 people

in a single webinar of mine

and because of that not only were we

able to empower a lot of life

lives help a lot of people bring about a

substantial change

in the lives of a lot of people but we

also increased our revenue

and let me tell you that this phase has

been one of the most profitable phases

of our life again

the reason why that happened was because

we were ready to accept the change we

were ready to embrace the change we were

ready to implement the changes that were

required

we increased even more people in our

team so that we can facilitate and help

a lot

of people all the things that i told you

over here in a nutshell

i explained all of that during my

sessions during my webinars and we were

able to empower a lot of people

and let me tell you a lot of people who

were initially reluctant

to use these technological things in

their life actually did it

and that is the reason why they have

been able to bring about those changes

in their lives i’ll tell you one more

thing right now

think about it and tell me how many

brands are there how many individuals

are there

whom you only know because of technology

whom you only know because of internet a

lot of people whom you have seen

becoming successful

only because of the internet the right

opportunity is now available with you it

does not matter if you come from a

smaller city

or if you belong to a metro city it does

not matter a lot of people are always

afraid about their looks

a lot of people are always worried that

i don’t look good and things like that

all that does not matter it does not

matter whether you have a godfather or

you don’t have one

all that matters is that you are willing

to learn something new

put it across people get the results in

your favor and bring about a substantial

change in your life ladies and gentlemen

i know that the kovit 19 struck us

really hard

but has it not given us the time to

reflect upon what was missing in our

life

mend all those things put the broken

pieces together and then march ahead

well if you ask me the answer is yes if

you ask your own self the answer is yes

if you look at it you would be able to

bring about the change that you have

always desired but were never able to

get the time

now ladies and gentlemen you have the

time available with you

but you know what the harsh reality is

that even after listening to this

just two percent of you are ready to

take the action

you know why things have become normal

restaurants have again restarted saloons

have again restarted

people are now going to the restaurants

going to the saloons

they’re wearing the mask some of them

are not even wearing the mask we are

traveling with the mask

everything has become a norm to us and

you know what

all the people who are working in the

industries where there’s a close

proximity

will also get accustomed to this new

norm this is what it is said

so everything will pass by and after

some time when we will have the

covet vaccine some of us will take it

some of us will might not get vaccinated

but we will again get back to our normal

routine life

and at that particular point of time we

will again forget

that we need to bring about a

substantial change in our life

and that is what has been happening with

us since the past so

many years we knew that we have to

accept new things we knew

that we have to bring about a

substantial change in our lives but the

fact is that so many people

are not going to do that you know so

many people enroll in my programs they

are so motivated

they are so pepped up they want to bring

about a substantial change in their

lives but the reason why they are unable

to do it

is because they are not ready to go and

work with consistency

that is one more thing that you actually

need to do number one

choose one of the options that i gave

you number two work upon your

actions work upon the things that you

know upgrade yourself implement all

those things in your life

number three you need to be consistent

and number four

you also have to be patient the results

are definitely going to come your way

but it is going to take

time it is going to be challenging it is

going to be difficult

it will take a lot of toll on your mind

you might think that i am old enough or

young enough to learn something new in

my life

a lot of people think on similar lines

but the ones who are

who are able to bring about a change are

the ones who embrace the change

and implement all the learnings in their

life

you know what ladies and gentlemen i

have always heard and believed in this

quotation and that is

opportunities are the gifts of god but

these are only meant for those people

who grab the opportunities when i was

applying for that mtv audition or for

the tony robbins team i never thought

that i would be able to pull it off but

what i thought was

rahul just give it one try maybe you

will be able to do it

i was the person who was least

interested in technology i did not have

a smartphone but i started implementing

those things

and i was able to turn things around for

myself why will you not be able to do it

the only thing that might prevent you

from doing this is if you don’t take

adequate action right now

everything is available to you all the

things that you need for you to become

successful

is right now in front of you believe me

all that matters is

are you willing to put your head down

and do the work are you willing

to bring about the change that is

important

a few years ago there was a friend of

mine i gave him a business opportunity

and you know what he said that rahul i

will consider it i will consider it

he said that i don’t have money i don’t

have resources

two months later he was coming to goa

and he spent more than 35 40 000 rupees

in goa and i told him you said that you

don’t have money

and he said you know what rahul you

don’t come to go

often right now when i had come i

thought that i should live my life

and that is what we do we waste our time

money energy and resources

on things that we don’t need rather than

investing on our own self

invest on your learning implement all

the things that i have told you

choose something or the other and then

go all in and believe me you would be

able

to bring about a change that you have

always

wanted and desired i know the kovit 19

phase

has been challenging i know that it has

not just hampered us physically but has

also hampered us mentally

i have been interacting with a lot of

people who are now saying that rahul we

have found it really tough we are

getting anxiety

attacks i know that everything has been

tough but it is rightly said that there

is a silver lining in every dark cloud

and the silver lining over here is that

you can turn it around and you can make

this face the best phase of your life

we are doing it i’m not just doing it

for my own self for my team members for

my family members

but for a lot of my other mentees and i

want to do it for you as well

because i know that it is possible if i

can help you in any manner in your

journey if i can support you in any

manner in your journey reach out to me

and i’ll be more than happy to do it for

you but ladies and gentlemen do not miss

out on this opportunity

it is rightly said that we live just

once but if we give it our best shot

once is enough choose implement

take action be persistent and

mind-blowing opportunities

are going to come your way to conclude i

would like to say one thing right now

when we are born we are born without a

name

but when we die and we die with the name

that name should be remembered forever

this is the time to put your head down

and make

the most of it do it ladies and

gentlemen for yourself

for your family members and your loved

ones thank you so much

signing off bye