The Long Road to Becominga Webflow Community MVP

0:00Janne Parri: So I don't usually record separate introductions for my podcast, but this episode was a bit special and different. I actually did not know Sebastian before our conversation. I came across him on LinkedIn. I saw that he was active there. And of course he won the community MVP award at the Webflow Conf. What followed turned out to be really honest and super cool conversation. Sebastian came across as a ⁓ sincere, humble, very hard-working Webflow developer who has overcome some major challenges during his journey. The episode even got a bit emotional towards the end. He was prepared to spend an hour with me. We ended up spending two hours together ⁓ we chatted.

0:50Janne Parri: After the recording for a while, he gave me some good tips for my content creation. And yeah, I gotta say I was very inspired, very pumped so much so that I found it hard to fall asleep several hours after the episode. But hopefully you get a lot out of this one too. But without any further ado, here is Sebastian. Okay, Sebastian So you

1:15Sebastian Bimbi: Hello?

1:16Janne Parri: Won the community MVP Webflow award.

1:19Sebastian Bimbi: Finally.

1:20Janne Parri: So firstly Congrats for that did you know that it was coming and what does a recognition like that mean to you?

1:28Sebastian Bimbi: My man, thanks. Well, I want to be clear because I nominated myself. I was very, I don't know, like very try hard if we say. I wanted that award for sure. I was pursuing that for a couple, years. I didn't nominated last year. I wasn't feeling sure enough. But this time I said like, I just need to do it and it's my year, know, I just say it like that and somehow my community helped a lot. I asked them like, please vote, please do your work and we won together. So this award is not like...

2:27Sebastian Bimbi: Being the best developer is more like building a meaningful community that really got your back.

2:34Janne Parri: Yeah, yeah, totally. It is like that. Oftentimes with the awards, you kind of have to like pursue them intentionally. But I got to ask, did you have a big celebration with your community after the award?

2:48Sebastian Bimbi: I did more like a private celebration with my very close ones because they are the ones that... Brother, like we are here for many years, you know, and maybe these people that we met, four years ago or... Three years ago or maybe two years ago. They are from the beginning, you know, and I really have like a big heart for them and I really appreciate a lot. And the support that I have been receiving so far is more than amazing. And my man.

3:30Sebastian Bimbi: I'm just happy about this. It's like living my dream, you know?

3:35Janne Parri: Yeah, yeah, totally. There are always the ones that are there from the beginning and it's so fascinating and great to see when you get to some point and there are people who have rooted you from the start. But okay, we're already getting into all sorts of topics. We have to do little intros. So my name is Janne Parri. I'm a Webflow partner all the way from Finland and my guest today is Sebastian Bimbi. Sebastian, you are heavily involved with Webflow. So you are a global community leader. You are in the ACE program. You won the mentioned MVP award. And you of course have your own studio, Bimbi Digital, and you run the nocode.lat community.

4:30Janne Parri: But I found you from LinkedIn where you are very active. So I'm curious, what is like the timeline with all of this? Did you like first start your company and then started posting or were you active on social before that? And when did the community part come into the picture?

4:50Sebastian Bimbi: Okay, first, thanks for having me. It's a total pleasure and an honor to be here. Related to my journey, I started with a traditional path, if we say I become from a college, I studied computer engineer, and then I just... Try like go to the market and find any work I didn't got anything so I remembered about linking my friends told me about it and I was like do I really go there and try or maybe I just skip or

5:31Sebastian Bimbi: I was skeptical, you know? Like... I didn't thought about LinkedIn was something meaningful, if we say. And at that time I had like... I didn't even had a profile picture in my LinkedIn. That says all. So I think it was maybe 2022 and... After I was finishing the college and trying couple works, but not related to my career, like something more as maybe in the kitchen or in restaurants, things like that. I only thought, Bimbi, are you doing this forever or?

6:16Sebastian Bimbi: Will you do your thing? Like you studied a lot of years. Your parents like invested a lot of money for your career. Like, are you just throwing everything just for making cash and just surviving? And I was like, okay, what I do then? Because I was very... Ashamed of being online and I don't know like my friends used to mock about me and well not friends if we say but other

6:47Sebastian Bimbi: People that haters if we say So I was very scared about starting my journey digitally, but I knew that I didn't want it to dance on TikTok, neither doing

7:05Janne Parri: You

7:06Sebastian Bimbi: Random posts on Instagram. So I said, what else I can do that is something decent that I might get work. So I said, okay, maybe LinkedIn, no one knows about it. Maybe no one will find about me. Maybe no one even figure out that I'm there, but I will just try. So after 2022 that I was still learning Webflow,

7:41Sebastian Bimbi: I took the decision to start posting on the LinkedIn starting in January and since then now we are over 1,000 posts if we say.

7:55Janne Parri: Yeah, that's a lot.

7:55Sebastian Bimbi: And Since then, what I can tell you, I learned a lot. I think I refined my tone, I refined how I was approaching other people. And I think the most important, I was understanding kind of the game, if we say. So my approach there was a little bit simple. I started collecting more about content instead of creating it but I was thinking more on...

8:34Sebastian Bimbi: Having a conversation with someone picking just an idea from the whole session and then it turned into my post. So it was easier to get ideas to post on the LinkedIn. And at that point, I mean, when you post like daily posting, you run out of ideas very quick, very, very, very quick. And also when you're starting, you might take like maybe a couple hours to create a decent post. And after all of that, you hit publish and you wait for.

9:18Sebastian Bimbi: Maybe someone to engage, but then one hour later you find out that you have like two likes, zero comments, and that's it. And your heart is like, dude, I'm broken.

9:34Janne Parri: Yeah, yeah, I've been there.

9:36Sebastian Bimbi: Yeah, likewise me. I have been posting maybe more than a year without getting many likes if you say. Maybe ⁓ five likes or 10 likes at the best. Maybe now the minimum is like 50 or something, but I'm still grateful with the whole journey. I think I learned a lot by sharing my experience, sharing what I was learning, my failures and

10:09Sebastian Bimbi: I was not very sure about the LinkedIn journey back then. I remember myself like fighting a lot. Even with me like saying like, what do I pose? What do I will say? People will like me. People will hate me. What's going on for the future? Will I will get work? I had so many questions to get answered. But now the maybe the Bimbi of the future can say. Bimbi, you did a great job and finally. You are getting recognition somehow. People are getting notice about you. And brother like for me.

10:58Sebastian Bimbi: Appearing on google was like

11:03Janne Parri: Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. But yeah, first of all, the LinkedIn can feel very, very weird when you first started out. But as you said, at first it's quite hard. It takes a long time to create a good post and your approach with the, like, collecting rather than creating is good. It's kind of what Gary Vaynerchuk always says like document don't create or something like that. So the idea is that you kind of try to lower the bar and so you get like more volume out, more of those posts out. But I'm curious, what's your system like right now? How do you?

11:54Janne Parri: How do you like create your content? I know that you are also a notion ambassador, so do you have a notion board for that? Yeah, what's your system?

12:04Sebastian Bimbi: Brother. I try a lot of things during the way and what worked for me was using a little bit of cloud and notion so I can structure my content calendar on the notion and I can validate my ideas with cloud. So in that whole workflow, if we say, I come to the chair, maybe start scrolling a little bit, read what's going on the day, what other people are talking, and then...

12:40Sebastian Bimbi: Maybe something interesting pop up to mind and maybe i read something that i like maybe i saw something maybe a picture or a meme even a meme is good you know and then I just pick that topic and try to elaborate like checking the whole scene about the topic and then try to approach by my own side. Like what do I think about it? And maybe did I had a...

13:24Sebastian Bimbi: Similar case of a study, maybe my community will resonate to this topic and if everything match I say like okay let's do this, start writing a little bit, maybe also get some help from LLMs to compose the post and then I refine by myself. Change the things, change maybe order, make it look beautiful. That's the most important on the link in formatting the text is super important. If you can catch the eyes from the beginning, you might get that viewer to read your whole post. The hook is very important.

14:11Sebastian Bimbi: It should be one liner and you might need to also know that it's like it's the hook one liner and you can put a space and then another line and then it should be the more button. So you can play with that. You can maybe put a one sentence that it's a little bit large, might work, but you need to get the hook that it's interesting and maybe a little bit catchy. So you invite the user to read your post. That's the most important. Invite the viewer to read. Like get that hook. That's super important.

14:55Sebastian Bimbi: After you

14:55Janne Parri: Yeah, that-

14:56Sebastian Bimbi: Understand that, sorry to interrupt, but I will try to explain the whole linking game real quick so that people can really start and do something with this. The first thing that you need to do is to understand who you are going to talk. After you find your ICP, you always talk to them. So every post that you do must be intentional. You should be talking to the person who you want to become your client. So in my case,

15:35Sebastian Bimbi: What I was chasing or what I was trying so far were evolving because at the start I might be someone who were not as recognized as now and maybe kind of ghost developer if we say and I don't know, I was just trying a little bit, but I started my own companies after doing LinkedIn because it popped up to my mind, okay, how I can bring more authority to my LinkedIn game. So I said, this is something that might surprise, but

16:23Sebastian Bimbi: My first work was my own company hiring me. So... After that... I tried couple freelance projects and then showcased at least three good projects to these new people that I was trying to be my clients. And by that, I started getting new people because at least a company already trusted on me. But

16:57Sebastian Bimbi: What they didn't knew was that company were mine.

17:01Janne Parri: Yeah, yeah. That's beautiful. Yeah, it's a funny way that like structure or do your company for the LinkedIn and for the first client. But that's a great way to start. But yeah, a little LinkedIn detail or tactic I got to ask you about. I noticed that you sometimes repost your own post so does that like work do you get more views out of that? What's the idea?

17:38Sebastian Bimbi: Okay, I think I read it somewhere, but they said about reposting your own post after four hours, so more people can learn about it. Might be a myth. Might be working we don't really know but I still try because why not we don't we don't lose anything it's our profile

18:07Janne Parri: Yeah. Yeah, totally. And I got to, I have to try that out too. Firstly, I'll have to check my hooks and think about the persona or who I am like writing for. And maybe after then I can try the little stuff, but okay. We are talking about social media. We have to talk about your like a Webflow work. So I know that you call yourself a strategic Webflow partner. Of course, there's terms like freelancer and whatever else like terms. But what do you mean by strategic Webflow partner and how does it differ from a regular Webflow developer?

18:51Sebastian Bimbi: Be honest, I try to focus on enterprise level that have a certain kind of problems that I'm expert at so I can specific help them to solve this quickly. So not always our crazy task or impossible problems. Most of the times are super easy things like changing images, changing text, creating new landing pages, etc. But what is most important is to understand the business part, like what they are needing. If they are investing maybe on ads,

19:39Sebastian Bimbi: In google for example and they are paying 10 000 on the month for those ads and they maybe i don't know like checking the speed and they found that they are taking more than three seconds four seconds the bounce rate goes very high they say like, are we really good for investing this huge amount for the ads or we rather spend on invest, you know, on

20:17Sebastian Bimbi: Building a good site and having great performance so you can get a quick load time like under two seconds you might get a better ROI if we say because from I don't know like from 100 clicks maybe back then before like updating they got like 30 user in, but after they get like 60. So that's like twice. Maybe for us might not sounds very big, but for a company that is paying $500 for each click.

21:09Sebastian Bimbi: Into their side might resonate a lot so each click is a lot of money so we need to take care about it's second matter a lot at least on this level and when you can solve this kind of problems that are a pain for the company, I guess is where you start becoming a more specific or strategic growth partner for them because you can quickly solve just your webflow thing, but understanding the business side.

21:49Janne Parri: Yeah, yeah, totally. That is beautiful. You can like be the one who just changes the pictures or you can be the partner who knows how the sites can perform better. And as you said, like small changes might bring quite big results, especially if the company is like big, it like, let's say just 1 million, if you can, if you have a company that's revenue. Is one million and you somehow increase the revenue by 1%. That's like 10,000 already. My math might be right, but it's still quite a big sum.

22:31Sebastian Bimbi: Definitely. It's a lot of money from... Like when you are making volumes, even half percent is a lot and might be the difference. So when we are in the enterprise level, we need to take care of every detail and we need to be very minutious and try to... Be like x-ray eyes, if we say. Because we need to find everything, every detail. We need to do the best work possible. We are not just doing a Webflow project. We are doing a long term partnership. If they grow, you or the growth partner will do more money, you know?

23:20Janne Parri: Yeah, obviously.

23:21Sebastian Bimbi: So ⁓ that way, I think you also put on the t-shirt of the company and you also want them to grow because if they grow, you grow.

23:32Janne Parri: Yeah, yeah. And that's the most like, yeah, most beautiful

23:35Sebastian Bimbi: Beautiful.

23:36Janne Parri: Type of type of partnership. And it's a win-win situation. But I have to ask about the tools. Have you tried or do you use like the Webflow analyze and optimize? Because those are the tools for A/B testing and optimization.

23:53Sebastian Bimbi: Yeah, we use it any kind of webflow tools overall. The most recent were the webflow cloud and also the collaboration, but now I think they released to the public. So at that point that were on the beta for us were like amazing things and it helped a lot during that time and still now it's helping a lot I can say that

24:26Sebastian Bimbi: The more that we use Webflow, the more we can just focus on just one tool. Because nowadays they are evolving into a bigger picture. Even now that they just released the AOE, I think that's the name, about AI. And now you can even generate schemas and you can generate a lot of things from the AI. So I think it will be a bright future.

25:02Janne Parri: Yeah, it is fascinating and I have talked a lot about Webflow's future in this podcast and Webflow is like growing and evolving and there are like multiple different like features and people are like specializing to one like Webflow feature for example, localization or let's say animations or interactions and so on so that is that is cool to see and of course there's all the upcoming AI features I'm not sure what I think of those. I'm excited about the schema thing you mentioned and the alt text generation but there is a lot of these developer features you mentioned the webflow cloud I believe so

25:53Janne Parri: What do you think Webflow is wanting to do with those? Do you feel that it might even complicate the whole Webflow bubble, if you may?

26:05Sebastian Bimbi: I think Webflow is about to become a developer platform. And finally that because back then were more like a design thing and nowadays we can go more deeply into the development side. So I'm truly happy. I have seen the whole evolve if we say. From, I remember this webflow designer that it's very old gray and

26:39Janne Parri: Yeah, I guess.

26:40Sebastian Bimbi: Very box thing. My man, I, wow, like it just pop up like those images in my head and priceless because I remember maybe learning from Flux Academy or Timothy Ricks, and I was like very young. I remember those were like very good memories for me, I think. But the future now after seeing those years ahead, I can say that Webflow is really investing

27:16Sebastian Bimbi: On the company and try to make a beautiful future for the whole community. They are investing on contests. They are investing on hiring new people. They are like really pushing on the, on the side. Maybe as you say, the webflow bubble might increase a little bit more with more tools and more skills that the whole developer community needs to include to their stack. But I think they are not complicating my work. They are boosting it. Might not be for beginners, but

28:04Sebastian Bimbi: That's the point where we separate from beginners to strategic partners because like we are in this game for so long. We know about every kind of webflow problem that can exist. So adding a new thing, it's just like going to the school and learning a new topic.

28:27Janne Parri: Yeah, yeah. I'm with you. I think the same. Of course, in the past, Webflow was a bit more beginner friendly. Nowadays, it's quite complex. And I'm glad that I learned Webflow started learning Webflow way back. When it was simpler. If I had to start right now, it would be a big task. And yeah, of course, when a Webflow is growing, the clients are growing. Like many of us are like finding bigger clients. And as you said, you are focusing on enterprise clients. I believe that it would be hard to do that with let's say easier.

29:13Janne Parri: Smaller platforms like Squarespace or even Framer. Webflow is a really serious tool, especially geared towards like enterprise clients. But you also mentioned the community that Webflow is investing in community. And I feel the same way, but I know that you have a unique point of view because you founded the nocode.lat. Or.lat, however you wanna call it. I'm curious, how did it start and where is it at right now and what's the future for nocode.lat?

29:53Sebastian Bimbi: Sure. I started this project before I was new in what I was about to do. I started even before the... No, not before, maybe after posting, I think. Because when I try to apply for jobs and get rejected so much... I did this like opening nocode.lat to be the company that I would be the Webflow expert at. So other people started thinking that I might be good at Webflow and they can trust on me, you know? I was very young at the time.

30:38Sebastian Bimbi: I didn't knew that it was going to be something. It begun in my early days at as a maybe just as a random idea. But nowadays is the community that helped my whole journey and what really changed my life, if we say. But it started just from a good heart idea that I wanted to share my perspective with other people and wanted to also help for free. I think there are many people that might not have the same

31:25Sebastian Bimbi: Opportunities and might be harder for them to maybe jump into a no code or into a code journey because it's not easy to be honest. Mean, it took me a while to understand maybe a couple years to understand the webflow in a proper way to kind of start working with clients. So I think... For the people who are hearing this and are on this journey starting and thinking, will Webflow be my thing? 100 % will be your thing, brother.

32:09Sebastian Bimbi: Just trust the process and learn about the tool, be that. Top 1 % in the tool and try hard, like try to be the best around. And that's it. That's what I tell to my mentees in the community. I just try to share that they need to start at some point because no one is going to come and say like, hey baby, come to work.

32:41Sebastian Bimbi: And no one will say that, you know?

32:43Janne Parri: Yeah, yeah, definitely, but the starting is the hard

32:46Sebastian Bimbi: You

32:47Janne Parri: Part but of course after you start you have to like continue you will not become a webflow pro in a day well, maybe not even a year

32:57Sebastian Bimbi: No, no, no, no, no. For me, it took me at least two years of daily, maybe four to six hours a day practicing. After that, I was thinking, okay, maybe I'm sure that I can do good work. And somehow it work now but back then I was chasing maybe 100 $ website and I was super happy about it and maybe now I can do 100 $ in an hour you know

33:33Janne Parri: Yeah, yeah, we have to, we all have to start from there. And I know that many people who do content say that never work for free, but like most of us have done something for free, at least their mom's website or something like that. We all have that past with us. But I'm, curious, of course, getting the first client is a, is a challenge that every one has. But in the no code lads, if I understand correctly, there's like mostly Latin American developers. So are there like any specific challenges for that group?

34:11Sebastian Bimbi: Definitely there are more hard part if we say because we don't really have much content on Spanish and most of the things are in English. So that's a kind of big barrier for us in Latam. So when I was learning Webflow, I remember that literally no one were talking in Spanish about it and I said why maybe I don't just do something and try a little bit maybe kinda be like an evangelist and get the word to the people and say like hey this is Webflow learn with me and

34:56Sebastian Bimbi: It resonate with them and I just try to help, you know, because I don't really get paid to mentor or to help the people in the community. I just do for free for myself and to keep learning what is the trend and what is going on with other people. What kind of problems they have. And it's more like an exchange, you know? I don't really need to always be collecting money. I can also be collecting journeys and maybe tips or secrets. Anything is good.

35:38Janne Parri: Yeah, yeah, that is that is beautiful and I believe that when you give generously like you contribute to the community, of course, it might be hard work, but at some point, at some point, it will come back to you.

35:54Sebastian Bimbi: 100 % because back then I give everything to my community and after a couple years they helped me to won the community MVP award so this is both sides helping I'm more than grateful with them and I just think that it's a beautiful relationship that we build together so we are both happy.

36:24Janne Parri: Yeah, yeah. I got to ask a little specific question about no Code Lads. Like what kind of platform do you have? Do you have a Slack group or some sort of other platform? And do you ever meet like in person in real life?

36:39Sebastian Bimbi: We have a Discord group for the whole community, but that's the global community. And then I also have a private site on Slack for my more related people, if we say. Like maybe... People or developers, designers, freelancers, contractors that I can rely on. So whenever I have a certain topic or task that they can handle, I just post on the group and like on the general channel and say like, hey guys, who's ready to take this? Raise the hands. And here's one.

37:25Sebastian Bimbi: Get it, I guess, or maybe the first one who might match the task, you know? Yeah, we just try to make it a little bit fun and a little bit familiar, if we say, related to in-person groups. Recently, we started... A little bit more, but with notion doing in real life events. So I also did the jump into speaking at events and maybe now I did already like five events, I guess.

38:02Janne Parri: Okay, that's nice.

38:03Sebastian Bimbi: Yeah, I was very scared because I'm a very introvert person. I don't really like to be with many folks around, at least not in person, you know? I can chat a lot in my computer, but I am a very lonely guy. I don't have a lot of friends. I'm very... If we say, and I just try to keep my things like that. But when we go to these kinds of events, it's like, hey, maybe can you take a picture with me? And I was like, yeah, sure. Why not?

38:48Sebastian Bimbi: It's like another feeling, maybe like a rockstar thing. I didn't want it to be like this, but. I just try to keep inspiring other people, try to be the one who they can follow. And I just keep trying to do good things and keep raising my skills. I'm not the best developer around. I'm just someone who were consistent over the time and after years got recognized somehow. But...

39:23Sebastian Bimbi: That's it. I'm not super genius. I'm not like an alien or... I'm just a folk from Peru. Very small country that have very large amount of monthly payments. Maybe we in here like... The minimum wage is like maybe $300 or $400 a month for a full-time work. And brother, nowadays I can do that in one day or something like that, you know? I think

40:03Sebastian Bimbi: Like, dude, how it changed that much because... Years ago I was really charging like $10 an hour or $5 an hour and then when I started linking in Skyrocket.

40:24Janne Parri: Yeah, yeah. But as you said, there was the initial period when no one liked the posts and you had to work hard and believe that something better is coming.

40:34Sebastian Bimbi: I believe a lot of myself that much that I created my own company to believe in me because I was I were my first believer man I was my first fan I believe it in myself that much that I said dude just do it do it do it do it because you have only one life you have no more chances is this is there or never?

41:02Janne Parri: Yeah, on top of that, yeah, you have one life, but also with the internet and everything, like everything is right at your fingertips. You can read about everything. The knowledge is out there. You just have to use it. Of course, there's a lot of it and it might be overwhelming and it's too much possibilities and it might passivate one, but it is all there. But okay, if there is someone someone like struggling with their social media or Webflow or learning new stuff, what would you say to them? Like what kind of advice would you give to them?

41:42Sebastian Bimbi: Maybe try to be more specific so I can give a better answer. In which step? Like when they are starting

41:51Janne Parri: Maybe when they are starting and they are like doubting that will this ever work out? Will I ever get a good client or am I stuck with the $100 websites and so on?

42:05Sebastian Bimbi: Okay. This might be a tricky question because as you said, some folks, they tell that you don't need to give your work, but brother, like be yourself, be you, be human. That's the most important thing around the internet. Being human. Connecting with the people that's meaningful and when you understand that how do I say, like...

42:36Sebastian Bimbi: Nowadays we think about... Our network. Maybe we think about our net worth too. But in these years, I think they are equal or they are matched somehow or tied. Because the more people that knows you, the more money that you can generate for yourself. So when I click with that, I thought, okay.

43:10Sebastian Bimbi: If one million of people knew me, maybe they can give me one dollar each one and I can be a right? So that was my starting idea. How to become millionaire somehow. Because I'm on the way. I'm not yet, but I want to be there sometime soon. I hope. But first, I think we need to create the systems to become that. And you also need to build your... Your person.

43:51Sebastian Bimbi: To become that human that can hold one million dollars. If you can... Like value yourself. I always think like... You can give your own value to the market and no one else can tell you what you are worth. At the beginning, I thought that because I was from Latam, I could not get a good hourly rate, but I was very grown.

44:23Sebastian Bimbi: Because my early rate ladder were like this I started free doing my projects trying testing like just my start, know, like nothing fancy Dummy projects trying here and there trying to help other people but zero income. Then I said, okay, maybe I can get $5 an hour in my country. That's like a good amount. Maybe I can work a little bit. I can stay safe. Okay. But I say to myself, five.

45:07Sebastian Bimbi: And I was good with that. Then I started rising the prices maybe to 10, 15, 20, 25 and more. But when I joined an agency, that's where I raised my prices. But how I get into agency life, is because of the LinkedIn, because I were posting daily. I were like saying, hey, I'm here. I'm here to help. I'm your guy. I'm your Webflow guy. Hello. Every day,

45:47Sebastian Bimbi: Every day, every day saying the same, hello, pick me. I'm the best. Webflow around. Try me, try. And somehow I got the DMs from an agency in the US and they wanted to work remote. So I say like, yes, this is my best opportunity. I started as a contractor with them. We worked for maybe eight months or almost a year. I learned a lot. They gave me my first

46:23Sebastian Bimbi: Big project, I was amazed. It was a very good journey, but at some point I got replaced. And I said, dude, what? I thought that it was going for years. I was saying like maybe getting $30 an hour back then. Was like, maybe thinking I was the best. But then when I got fired, I was like,

46:55Sebastian Bimbi: Dude, and now what is next? And then again to the loop, finding work, freelancing, try to go to agencies, blah. At that point, I was not very active on the LinkedIn because I was feeling stable on this agency because they were paying me good. I was... Comfortable and I kind of forgot about the link game and then when it hits the fire I say like okay but

47:30Sebastian Bimbi: What I do next and I came back to the LinkedIn and came back to posting again posting and until something happened that was a DM that they told me hey, do you want to create a sponsor post for us and I was like dude, can I make money from writing? And I was like, yes, sure. At that point, it was Weglot that they contact me. They were the first one,

48:04Sebastian Bimbi: The first partner that took the chance to me. And I'm eternally grateful to them and especially with Walter. He's the best. And after that, we did the sponsor post. It went great. The people loved it. It started getting more people to my profile. And maybe like the next month, I got another DM like from Webflow. Hey, do you want to collaborate? And I was like.

48:40Janne Parri: You

48:43Sebastian Bimbi: I

48:43Janne Parri: That's beautiful.

48:46Sebastian Bimbi: Remember this guy named Pat I also have a good feel of that time because he was also the first one inside Webflow who trusted on me and nowadays he don't work anymore at Webflow, but I still have a good connection with him. I think the most important is to build the relationships, you know, because even all the time, maybe they can jump into other companies, but you are still friends. You can still connect and you can still collaborate at some point. So that's the most important and the most beautiful thing.

49:27Sebastian Bimbi: After I started collaborating with Webflow, we did our first official post. They tagged me from their company page on the LinkedIn. And I received that notification. Was like, dude, this is no f****ing real. And

49:45Janne Parri: You

49:47Sebastian Bimbi: I was like, what? How? How me? Like, A random guy from Latam, maybe a ghost developer around there, like no one give a care about him. We're in the front page of the company page. And I was like, dude, wah! I was so excited. I started crying a lot, I remember. I told my girl, babe.

50:17Sebastian Bimbi: Finally we did it! I don't know man... I get very emotional to be honest.

50:25Janne Parri: That is a beautiful journey and beautiful story and it just goes to say that you have to work and you do not know what's ahead of you. Those are beautiful moments that one cannot predict and I'm of course thinking that what the future holds for you. What will be the next surprising DM in your inbox, which again, blows your mind. And as you said, we are all kind of in this journey. Of course, we have goals. You want to reach the million dollars. And it's the thing that

51:10Janne Parri: We have to go through many steps and we cannot like jump to the end and it makes the starting quite hard because you see all the people who are already performing like on a high level, but every one of them have done the work have like spent years, of doing that. So people should,

51:37Sebastian Bimbi: It takes a lot of years to be honest and ⁓

51:38Janne Parri: Remember, yeah

51:40Sebastian Bimbi: What I can tell you man is when you become from zero it feels better to get succeed and for me, brother, ⁓

51:49Janne Parri: For sure.

51:50Sebastian Bimbi: I literally come from minus one if we say.

51:54Janne Parri: I'm like I'm

51:55Sebastian Bimbi: Literally, started with no money, just a big dream, and... Man, now we are here!

52:01Janne Parri: Yeah, your story is so inspiring and I'm like pumped about your future and all the things you already have. But I'm, yeah, I gotta ask what.

52:12Sebastian Bimbi: Brother, the future is bright. Can know ⁓ what is becoming for me or for my people. What I know is that ⁓ Every day I try to raise my skills. I try to learn something new. I try to learn how to make more money somehow and get better clients. My man, we have our time very limited and we cannot trade any more time for money. We need to do something more meaningful. Mean, I'm here to change lives, to change other people minds and to inspire them. Like I try to become the person who I

53:02Sebastian Bimbi: Wish I had when I started my career.

53:06Janne Parri: Yeah, that is so, so beautiful. And that goes to say that you are really, really helping. I believe everyone should aim for a meaning like that and helping others. Yeah. I'm like speechless. Yeah.

53:21Sebastian Bimbi: For me that's what fills my heart and I think the most I can share the most my heart feels better.

53:31Janne Parri: Yeah, yeah. And usually that also works. At the start, we talked about that when you give to the community, you end up getting something back. So I totally believe that works. It is in a way like this karma situation. When you do good, you get good and so on. And I believe that everyone should,

53:51Sebastian Bimbi: You know what's the most beautiful?

53:53Janne Parri: Yeah, bring it on.

53:54Sebastian Bimbi: The best thing that I can see in my career is to see the people who I mentored two years ago and now they're having good clients and they're chasing better life. I know that it's hard because I also come from that. I was in the trenches. So long,

54:18Janne Parri: Yeah, it must have been hard and you are like the best person to help those people.

54:26Sebastian Bimbi: Yeah, just give me a second, brother.

54:27Janne Parri: No, no problem.

54:29Sebastian Bimbi: Yeah, it's hard, my man, it's hard. I am very emotional guy and... Just have a lot of feelings for my people because I remember like all days when were talking about the future and now we are in the future already and it's like just...

54:49Janne Parri: Yeah, and it's beautiful future. Man. This is so, beautiful.

54:57Sebastian Bimbi: My god.

54:58Janne Parri: Are I'll have to let you go and do your, do your thing and so on. Are there like, last things you want to say to the, to the audience?

55:10Sebastian Bimbi: I just want to say that you don't really need a ⁓ traditional path. I didn't go to a very fancy school, neither a fancy college. I built everything from zero, without money, without ⁓ anything. I just had a big dream and a good goal, if we say. I had a good discipline. I need to thank everyone who were in my journey, just rising me and helping every day.

55:46Sebastian Bimbi: They really mean all to me. And their communities show their feelings to me and they really help me to become what I am now. Whether you are building a business or a community or a career, you need to know that consistency and discipline beats everything. I probably did post for more than 1000 days overall and we might stay for another 1000 more posts.

56:26Sebastian Bimbi: I don't know, brother. I just want to say that Everyday action compounds into an opportunity that you cannot imagine today. And don't do it alone. Try with your friends. Ask for help. Lift other people. The awards, the clients, the success. It's outcomes when you focus on serving other people. And that's what worked for me. That's what I'm trying to build for my future. And I just want to say that Webflow really changed my life.

57:05Janne Parri: Yeah, yeah, that is so beautiful. I cannot add anything to that. But if people wanna hear more from you or maybe contact you, where should they go? Obviously into LinkedIn, but are there any other places?

57:21Sebastian Bimbi: My man nowadays, they can find me either on that TikTok or LinkedIn or my personal page, is bimbi.co or maybe they can go to nocode.lat. They can go to Bimbi Digital. We have a lot of pages now. We try to be everywhere and try to... Like be more active online if we say we just try our best we did a very good rebranding recently of my personal brand and i like it a lot i want to thank Has9 for that and my brother just

58:06Sebastian Bimbi: Let the people who is hearing this and watching this to start. Please start. Please start. Please start. I won't say it anymore, but do it today because no one is come to save you. That's it, brother.

58:24Janne Parri: Yeah, that is it. Just start.

58:27Sebastian Bimbi: Bye bye and hello.