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