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I then asked if everybody
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I was like, guys,
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want, you know, to
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get the word out.
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I would love it.
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If everyone could please
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share this email with
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five friends that you
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think might be interested.
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so I didn't have
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to do a thing.
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I sent two emails and
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I had my first 200 or
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so people on my list.
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Pretty good start.
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You probably wouldn't
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believe me if I told
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you that I went from
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zero to 20, 000 plus
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email subscribers in
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my very first year
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of business without
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spending a cent on ads.
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But it's true.
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And inside
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this episode,
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I'm going to
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tell you exactly
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how I did it.
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Hey guys, it is Kate
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here from Hello Funnels
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and welcome back to the
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Doing It Online podcast.
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Today, we are talking about
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your funnel's best friend,
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and that is the power of
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building your email list.
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Now, I'm not going to get
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into the the email versus
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social media debate right
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now, that's a whole other
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episode, but I'm going to
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assume if you're listening
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or watching this episode,
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then you're on board with
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just how important it
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is to have an email list
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and not just important
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across the board, but
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it is never more important
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than right at the
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start of your business.
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And I'll tell you why.
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Because the thing is, when
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you are in the beginning
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phases of business, when
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you are still trying to
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figure things out, you
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need to be able to test.
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lot and get feedback.
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what is working and
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what isn't working.
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be setting fire to
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money to do that.
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to spend Again and
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again on ads, just
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to get feedback maybe
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something isn't working.
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It is so, so much easier
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to nail your messaging,
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to make amazing products
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and to really be able to
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set up, you know, a sales
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system and a marketing
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system that allows you
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to grow even faster.
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pool of people that
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you can use to get that
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feedback from without
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having to pay for it.
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pool, that first 500
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even of people on your
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email list, that is the
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hardest ones to get.
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most important and a lot
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of people get stuck
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here because you don't
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know which one of the
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10 million different
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strategies you should be
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focusing on to get that
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initial boost forward.
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to help you with today,
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because my very first
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business, which I started
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back in 2007, guys.
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on social media then.
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much of a choice, but
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to build an email list.
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It also was an email
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based business.
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with my focus, but
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you know, I was so.
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lucky back then that I did
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stumble across a couple
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of strategies that worked
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really well and that
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allowed me to not just get
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first 500 or even first
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couple of thousand, but to
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get over 20, 000, I think
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it was almost 25, 000.
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what it was called.
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It's a, it's a.
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Email system that doesn't
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even exist anymore.
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get the exact, like, get
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the exact numbers, but
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000, like, maybe a little
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under a little above,
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um, in that first year.
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and I, the reason I
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know it's that number is
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because Like, we had to
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go up to the next plan
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and I was like, Oh my
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gosh, it's too expensive.
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it is when we go up
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to the next plan.
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but anyway, that's another
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story for another day.
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super lucky and not
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everyone is so lucky.
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to walk you through
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exactly what I did today.
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these are short
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episodes, guys.
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They're quick.
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They're snackable.
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They're designed to, you
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know, to get in, tell
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you what to do so you
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can go and implement.
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a bit more of a step
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by step breakdown,
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including a bunch more
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list building strategies,
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because it's been a
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little while since 2007.
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I've actually put
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together a totally free
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guide called 0 to 20k.
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I'm able to go deep.
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It's like 46 pages long,
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Of list building strategies
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that work and there are
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a couple of paid ones
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in there, but most of
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through in that like what
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I did in that first year,
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as well as all of the ones
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that I've picked up along
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the way in the last like
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17 years of list building.
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you wanna grab that guide,
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like I said, it's totally
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free, super value packed.
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Instagram account, uh,
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which is at Hello Funnels.
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We'll pop a link below
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and then just DM us.
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20 K.
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So that's two zero K
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and we will send you
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the link and you can
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grab it all from there.
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the audio version, that's
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what we're here for.
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all right, let's dive in to
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the three main things that
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were able to really kick
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off that list building and
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then took it to the next
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level and the next again.
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as I said, that
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an email based business.
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email newsletter.
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to send that to nobody.
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I took every email address
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that I had that I knew
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of all of my personal
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contacts and I put
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them on my email list.
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me my first, what?
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email that I sent
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out, I let them know.
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I'm like,
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Hey guys, I'm
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creating this thing.
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I've invited you
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to it, slightly
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against your will.
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if you don't want
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to keep hearing
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from me,
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here's the link.
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that was fine, but that
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got me my first bunch.
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that I did, which I'd
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still would put under
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this same category was I
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then asked if everybody
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would mind sharing it.
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I was like, guys,
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passionate about this.
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want, you know, to
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get the word out.
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I would love it.
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If you, if everyone could
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please share this email
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with five friends that you
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think might be interested.
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bit of those, you know,
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those old, um, chain letter
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vibes that you used to get.
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pass this on to.
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35 people.
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When you're 30, you'll
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kind of inspired by
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that, but it worked.
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about 200 or so people.
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did help that the
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emails I was sending,
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they were short,
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they were entertaining,
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they were value packed.
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happy to get them.
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All right, let's move
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on to the second thing
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I did because I stayed
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stuck at that 200 ish
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number for a while.
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So I was like, okay,
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I've kind of exhausted
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my existing network.
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What can I do now?
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I want to go bigger.
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I had big dreams
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like this in my head.
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This was going to be
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a multi million dollar
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company in like 18 months.
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be retiring on an
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Island very soon.
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I love the naivete
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of someone in their
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early twenties who's
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creating a business.
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so the next thing I did.
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Was, and this was, again,
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I was using really the
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context I had and the
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experience I had, cause
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I was a journalist.
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I was like, well, when
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brands want to get
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exposure, they come
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to us and they ask us
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to write about them.
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So I want other people
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to write about me
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or Maybe I can go and
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write for other people.
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So again, I was a writer.
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I had, you know, that
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definitely was a help,
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but I went out and did a
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bunch of guest blogging.
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Now that's not really that
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much of a thing anymore.
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It still is a bit, but I
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would say the modern day
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equivalent of that would
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be going onto people's
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podcasts and going and
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doing a podcast tour.
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So, finding podcasts that
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have related audiences
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coming up with a couple
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of really killer topics
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you think their audiences
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might love and reaching
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out to them via email.
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Yes, it's a bit
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time intensive,
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but, this is the
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number one focus.
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This is so,
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so important.
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And so it's worth it.
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So that was the next thing
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I did that gave me like
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another dump, but it was
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a bit of a slow burn,
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a bit of hit and miss.
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So the third
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thing I did was
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what I would call a joint
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venture or, you know,
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something that, you know,
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when you're looking at
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the different types of
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audiences, you've got
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paid, you've got owned,
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which is like your email
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list, Or borrowed, which is
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other people's audiences.
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Um, and, you know,
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it's also called
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a joint venture.
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So this JV opportunity,
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someone emailed me and
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they said, look, we're
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creating this big giveaway.
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I feel like it was
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maybe for Mother's
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Day or something.
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There was definitely
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like a theme to it.
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but we're getting a bunch
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of online businesses.
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We're all going
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to get together.
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What we all did was
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actually we put in money to
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create this amazing prize.
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So it was like a really
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juicy prize and then we
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all committed
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to promoting it
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to our email list.
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The legalities of that
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exact set up back then,
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it was a bit more the
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wild, wild west, right?
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Like, things have tightened
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up a lot since then, um,
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but, you know, comparable
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today would be someone
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doing a bundle or a summit
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or yes, a group giveaway,
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but you probably set it
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up slightly differently.
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but yeah, this big
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competition ran some of
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the people who were part
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of it had massive lists.
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Some of us had
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smaller lists.
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Um, no one really seemed
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to mind because it kind of
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got this big momentum of
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its own It was definitely
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over 10,000 people,
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who opted in from that
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one activity alone.
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And it was so many in such
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a short period of time that
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my email service emailed
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me and they're like,
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Hey, are you a spammer?
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Is this, you know, we're
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not going to allow you
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to add Half of them.
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So a bunch of them,
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I wasn't actually
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even able to add.
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Uh, so that gave me a
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really big boost and it
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also showed me the power
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of teaming up and working
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together and collaborating.
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And so I did that a few
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more times at different
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scales with different
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people and each one
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of those gave me a big
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bump and by the end of
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the year, you know, my
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email list, I said it
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was 20, 000 plus people.
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And I hadn't spent a
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cent, like even if I had
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wanted to spend a cent,
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Facebook ads weren't really
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even a thing back then.
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So there wasn't, there
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wasn't many options.
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I was just kind of going
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with what was there,
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but funnily enough,
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all of those things 17
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years later, there's
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still the things that
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I would recommend.
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Like if you're getting
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started and you don't
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have a budget, obviously,
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if you do have a budget
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and you want to speed
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things up, get a killer
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lead magnet and run
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some low cost ads to it.
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that can be definitely
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another way to do things.
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But a lot of people in
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the beginnings, they don't
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have a big budget or,
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you know, that budget's
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needed for other things.
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So there are ways
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that you can get big
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bumps quite quickly.
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And that was the sort
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of the steps that I did.
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So if this sounded like
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something that you want
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to give a try, if you
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want a bit more of a step
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by step breakdown of it,
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guys, don't forget you
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can grab that totally
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free zero to 20 K guide.
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All you need to do
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head on over to our
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Instagram account at hello
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funnels and just DM me
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the word 20k.
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So two zero K.
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and we'll send it
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straight to you.
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So guys, if you have
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found this useful, if
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you are going away with
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at least one, aha, one
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thing to get done, I would
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mean the world to me.
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If you could go old
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school, you know, 20.
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2007 style and share this
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with at least one other
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person in your network
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who you think could get
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some value out of this.
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It helps me to get
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the word out there.
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Um, and you know, as
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I said, it would mean
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absolutely the world to me.
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So thank you again
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for joining me guys.
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I hope it has been helpful.
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and I will see you all
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same time next week.
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Have a lovely nerdy week
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and I'll see you then.
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Bye.
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I then asked if everybody
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would mind sharing it.
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I was like, guys,
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I'm really, I'm
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passionate about this.
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You know, I really
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want, you know, to
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get the word out.
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I would love it.
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If everyone could please
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share this email with
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five friends that you
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think might be interested.
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so I didn't have
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to do a thing.
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I sent two emails and
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I had my first 200 or
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so people on my list.
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Pretty good start.
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You probably wouldn't
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believe me if I told
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you that I went from
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zero to 20, 000 plus
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email subscribers in
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my very first year
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of business without
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spending a cent on ads.
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But it's true.
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And inside
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this episode,
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I'm going to
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tell you exactly
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how I did it.
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Hey guys, it is Kate
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here from Hello Funnels
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and welcome back to the
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Doing It Online podcast.
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Today, we are talking about
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your funnel's best friend,
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and that is the power of
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building your email list.
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Now, I'm not going to get
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into the the email versus
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social media debate right
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now, that's a whole other
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episode, but I'm going to
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assume if you're listening
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or watching this episode,
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then you're on board with
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just how important it
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is to have an email list
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and not just important
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across the board, but
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it is never more important
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than right at the
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start of your business.
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And I'll tell you why.
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you are in the beginning
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phases of business, when
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you are still trying to
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figure things out, you
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need to be able to test.
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lot and get feedback.
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what is working and
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what isn't working.
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You don't want to
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be setting fire to
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money to do that.
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to spend Again and
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again on ads, just
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to get feedback maybe
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something isn't working.
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It is so, so much easier
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to nail your messaging,
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to make amazing products
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and to really be able to
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set up, you know, a sales
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system and a marketing
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system that allows you
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to grow even faster.
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When you have that initial
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pool of people that
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you can use to get that
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feedback from without
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having to pay for it.
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I'm talking about.
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pool, that first 500
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or a couple of thousand
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even of people on your
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email list, that is the
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hardest ones to get.
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most important and a lot
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of people get stuck
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here because you don't
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know which one of the
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10 million different
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strategies you should be
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focusing on to get that
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initial boost forward.
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to help you with today,
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because my very first
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business, which I started
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back in 2007, guys.
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on social media then.
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I didn't really have
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much of a choice, but
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to build an email list.
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It also was an email
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based business.
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So that kind of helped
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with my focus, but
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you know, I was so.
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lucky back then that I did
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stumble across a couple
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of strategies that worked
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really well and that
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allowed me to not just get
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first 500 or even first
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couple of thousand, but to
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get over 20, 000, I think
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it was almost 25, 000.
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It was in I can't remember
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what it was called.
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It's a, it's a.
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Email system that doesn't
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even exist anymore.
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So I can't go back and
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get the exact, like, get
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the exact numbers, but
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it's around about 25,
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000, like, maybe a little
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under a little above,
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um, in that first year.
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and I, the reason I
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know it's that number is
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because Like, we had to
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go up to the next plan
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and I was like, Oh my
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gosh, it's too expensive.
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I don't want to pay
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60 a month or whatever
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it is when we go up
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to the next plan.
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but anyway, that's another
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story for another day.
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So, I was just
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super lucky and not
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everyone is so lucky.
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And that's why I want
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to walk you through
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exactly what I did today.
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these are short
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episodes, guys.
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They're quick.
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They're snackable.
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They're designed to, you
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know, to get in, tell
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you what to do so you
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can go and implement.
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But if you would like
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a bit more of a step
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by step breakdown,
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including a bunch more
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list building strategies,
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because it's been a
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little while since 2007.
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Let's be honest.
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I've actually put
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together a totally free
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guide called 0 to 20k.
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I'm able to go deep.
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It's like 46 pages long,
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Of list building strategies
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that work and there are
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a couple of paid ones
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in there, but most of
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'em are totally free.
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Um, so we're gonna go
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through in that like what
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I did in that first year,
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as well as all of the ones
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that I've picked up along
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the way in the last like
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17 years of list building.
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So all you need to do, if
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you wanna grab that guide,
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like I said, it's totally
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free, super value packed.
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Just head on over to our
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Instagram account, uh,
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which is at Hello Funnels.
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We'll pop a link below
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and then just DM us.
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20 K.
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So that's two zero K
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and we will send you
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the link and you can
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grab it all from there.
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But yeah, if you'd rather
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the audio version, that's
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what we're here for.
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all right, let's dive in to
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the three main things that
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were able to really kick
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off that list building and
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then took it to the next
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level and the next again.
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as I said, that
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business that I was.
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Launching and building was
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an email based business.
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email newsletter.
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So day one, I didn't want
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to send that to nobody.
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was I went and this is
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probably slightly illegal.
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you do this, but basically
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I took every email address
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that I had that I knew
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of all of my personal
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contacts and I put
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them on my email list.
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me my first, what?
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100 or so.
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email that I sent
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out, I let them know.
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I'm like,
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Hey guys, I'm
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creating this thing.
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I've invited you
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to it, slightly
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against your will.
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if you don't want
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to keep hearing
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from me,
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here's the link.
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And that was, you know,
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that was fine, but that
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got me my first bunch.
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that I did, which I'd
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still would put under
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this same category was I
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then asked if everybody
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would mind sharing it.
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I was like, guys,
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I'm really, I'm
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passionate about this.
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You know, I really
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want, you know, to
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get the word out.
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I would love it.
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If you, if everyone could
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please share this email
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with five friends that you
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think might be interested.
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bit of those, you know,
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those old, um, chain letter
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vibes that you used to get.
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Like if you don't
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pass this on to.
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35 people.
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When you're 30, you'll
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get hit by a truck
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or something random.
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kind of inspired by
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that, but it worked.
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about 200 or so people.
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So I didn't have
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to do a thing.
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I sent two emails and
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I had my first 200 or
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so people on my list.
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Pretty good start.
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I was pretty happy and
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it didn't help that.
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Well, sorry, it
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did help that the
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emails I was sending,
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they were short,
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they were entertaining,
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they were value packed.
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happy to get them.
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All right, let's move
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on to the second thing
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I did because I stayed
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stuck at that 200 ish
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number for a while.
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And that was no fun.
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So I was like, okay,
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I've kind of exhausted
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my existing network.
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What can I do now?
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I want to go bigger.
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I had big dreams
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like this in my head.
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This was going to be
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a multi million dollar
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company in like 18 months.
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be retiring on an
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Island very soon.
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I love the naivete
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of someone in their
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early twenties who's
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creating a business.
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so the next thing I did.
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Was, and this was, again,
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I was using really the
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context I had and the
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experience I had, cause
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I was a journalist.
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I was like, well, when
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brands want to get
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exposure, they come
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to us and they ask us
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to write about them.
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So I want other people
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to write about me
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or Maybe I can go and
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write for other people.
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So again, I was a writer.
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I had, you know, that
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definitely was a help,
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but I went out and did a
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bunch of guest blogging.
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Now that's not really that
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much of a thing anymore.
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It still is a bit, but I
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would say the modern day
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equivalent of that would
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be going onto people's
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podcasts and going and
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doing a podcast tour.
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So, finding podcasts that
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have related audiences
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coming up with a couple
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of really killer topics
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you think their audiences
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might love and reaching
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out to them via email.
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Yes, it's a bit
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time intensive,
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but, this is the
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number one focus.
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This is so,
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so important.
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And so it's worth it.
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So that was the next thing
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I did that gave me like
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another dump, but it was
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a bit of a slow burn,
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a bit of hit and miss.
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So the third
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thing I did was
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what I would call a joint
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venture or, you know,
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something that, you know,
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when you're looking at
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the different types of
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audiences, you've got
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paid, you've got owned,
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which is like your email
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list, Or borrowed, which is
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other people's audiences.
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Um, and, you know,
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it's also called
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a joint venture.
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So this JV opportunity,
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someone emailed me and
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they said, look, we're
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creating this big giveaway.
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I feel like it was
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maybe for Mother's
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Day or something.
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There was definitely
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like a theme to it.
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but we're getting a bunch
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of online businesses.
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We're all going
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to get together.
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What we all did was
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actually we put in money to
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create this amazing prize.
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So it was like a really
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juicy prize and then we
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all committed
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to promoting it
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to our email list.
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The legalities of that
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exact set up back then,
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it was a bit more the
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wild, wild west, right?
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Like, things have tightened
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up a lot since then, um,
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but, you know, comparable
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today would be someone
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doing a bundle or a summit
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or yes, a group giveaway,
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but you probably set it
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up slightly differently.
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but yeah, this big
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competition ran some of
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the people who were part
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of it had massive lists.
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Some of us had
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smaller lists.
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Um, no one really seemed
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to mind because it kind of
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got this big momentum of
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its own It was definitely
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over 10,000 people,
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who opted in from that
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one activity alone.
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And it was so many in such
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a short period of time that
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my email service emailed
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me and they're like,
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Hey, are you a spammer?
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Is this, you know, we're
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not going to allow you
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to add Half of them.
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So a bunch of them,
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I wasn't actually
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even able to add.
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Uh, so that gave me a
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really big boost and it
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also showed me the power
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of teaming up and working
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together and collaborating.
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And so I did that a few
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more times at different
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scales with different
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people and each one
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of those gave me a big
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bump and by the end of
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the year, you know, my
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email list, I said it
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was 20, 000 plus people.
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And I hadn't spent a
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cent, like even if I had
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wanted to spend a cent,
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Facebook ads weren't really
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even a thing back then.
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So there wasn't, there
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wasn't many options.
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I was just kind of going
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with what was there,
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but funnily enough,
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all of those things 17
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years later, there's
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still the things that
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I would recommend.
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Like if you're getting
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started and you don't
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have a budget, obviously,
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if you do have a budget
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and you want to speed
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things up, get a killer
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lead magnet and run
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some low cost ads to it.
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that can be definitely
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another way to do things.
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But a lot of people in
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the beginnings, they don't
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have a big budget or,
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you know, that budget's
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needed for other things.
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So there are ways
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that you can get big
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bumps quite quickly.
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And that was the sort
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of the steps that I did.
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So if this sounded like
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something that you want
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to give a try, if you
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want a bit more of a step
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by step breakdown of it,
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guys, don't forget you
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can grab that totally
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free zero to 20 K guide.
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All you need to do
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head on over to our
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Instagram account at hello
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funnels and just DM me
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the word 20k.
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So two zero K.
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and we'll send it
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straight to you.
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So guys, if you have
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found this useful, if
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you are going away with
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at least one, aha, one
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thing to get done, I would
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mean the world to me.
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If you could go old
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school, you know, 20.
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2007 style and share this
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with at least one other
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person in your network
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who you think could get
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some value out of this.
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It helps me to get
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the word out there.
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Um, and you know, as
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I said, it would mean
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absolutely the world to me.
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So thank you again
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for joining me guys.
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I hope it has been helpful.
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and I will see you all
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same time next week.
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Have a lovely nerdy week
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and I'll see you then.
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Bye.
