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What does it really take to be oversubscribed—to have more demand than supply, on purpose? In this deep-dive with bestselling author and entrepreneur Daniel Priestley, we unpack the strategy behind creating demand-and-supply tension, building “with or without you” energy, and designing an official capacity that protects your customer experience (and your margins). We cover why great brands market before they launch, how to collect signals not sales (waitlists, applications, discussions) to manufacture demand ethically, and the four-phase cadence—planning, build-up, transparency, release—that turns interest into sold-out outcomes. Daniel breaks down niche vs luxury, pricing power (Rolex vs airlines), why “sold out” is a feature, not a bug, and how many businesses would earn more with fewer customers by focusing on the 10% who hold 60% of the spend.
You’ll hear real examples (Glastonbury registrations, Ferrari applications, CrossFit communities, Esther Perel’s premium positioning), plus practical math for working backwards from your ideal year to the conversations you need to create. We also hit mindset: redefining success across life stages, leading with integrity, and running campaigns a few times a year instead of marketing 24/7. If you want to launch better, price smarter, and create demand that lasts—this one’s for you.
About Daniel Priestley:
Daniel Priestley is an entrepreneur, investor, and bestselling author whose books—including Key Person of Influence, Oversubscribed, and 24 Assets—have shaped how founders position, price, and grow. As founder of Dent Global, he’s helped thousands of leaders build standout personal brands and oversubscribed products using clear, actionable frameworks for demand creation and sustainable scale.
About Brad Sugars
Internationally known as one of the most influential entrepreneurs, Brad Sugars is a bestselling author, keynote speaker, and the #1 business coach in the world. Over the course of his 30-year career as an entrepreneur, Brad has become the CEO of 9+ companies and is the owner of the multimillion-dollar franchise ActionCOACH®. As a husband and father of five, Brad is equally as passionate about his family as he is about business. That’s why, Brad is a strong advocate for building a business that works without you – so you can spend more time doing what really matters to you. Over the years of starting, scaling and selling many businesses, Brad has earned his fair share of scars. Being an entrepreneur is not an easy road. But if you can learn from those who have gone before you, it becomes a lot easier than going at it alone.
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There's a magical thing called with or without you energy.
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With or without you energy is I'm gonna be fine with or without you.
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And business owners that can get themselves into a place with with or without you energy, they tend to do well.
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In the digital world that's full of abundance, there is a hyper reaction to things that people can't have.
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Be sold out on things.
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Let people miss out.
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Hi, Daniel.
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I always start the podcast with what's your definition of success?
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Isn't that something that changes over time?
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Uh it can.
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It definitely changes over time.
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I was a very young guy, and I saw you uh in my hometown uh in the Sunshine Coast, and you had a yellow Ferrari.
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And at that point, uh that was my definition of success.
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But a yellow Ferrari.
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I remember that one.
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It was an F3 function, a Formula One list, and it saved a time.
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So that was the that was at one point the definition of the thing, dude.
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You're trying to make me feel a little movie.
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Yeah, you should claim that.
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That was a great car.
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Yeah, it was.
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Um yeah, obviously, look, today I got three beautiful kids and successors taking them to school in the morning, um, most mornings, and uh and and having a very happy home and having good food in the fridge and pricing it's having great activities.
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Well, I only take on 20 clients a year in a sensible way in a crazy world.
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Yeah, sensible way in a crazy world.
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How how did the definition shift for you?
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How did success sort of shift over time?
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Uh so for me, uh the big milestones obviously you know, you you get married, you have kids, all of those things.
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You become a completely different way.
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You know, you can't imagine what it's like to love someone more than you want to meet your wife, and then you can't imagine 10 to 20 years, it would be like to even go deep couples there and get other kids a hundred bucks for, you know, all of that.
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So kind of like you, you it's kind of like you're living in this in this house, and then suddenly you open up a door and discover there's this whole other side of the house, there's this whole other section of the house in there.
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Yeah.
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I think it's it's a wonderful thing how we as humans get to grow through our lifetime.
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It's it's really wonderful how we get to do that.
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But to do it consciously is sort of a big challenge in this day and age to consciously think about your growth and plan your growth and plan that sort of thing.
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Probably never had to be more aware of it because there's so many distractions.
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We live in this world where you know the average person in two weeks scrolls the height of TikTok, uh sorry, the height of the Eiffel Tower on TikTok um with their thumb.
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Uh, you know, so like Is that is that that's a thing?
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That's a thing.
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Holy heck.
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So uh if we take the most famous Peter on TikTok in the UK, the height of the Eiffel Tower every two weeks, but 364 days of the year you can add your name to the registration.
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And then when they get about 750,000 tickets registration list, we probably won't even have those.
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And a lot of people miss out, but they're not selling.
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I've got the meta glasses, and and you know, I get on the phone with people and I say, Oh, here's where I am, and they're gonna keep running the IPM and all that different stuff.
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The world is changing fast.
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Marketing, let's go to marketing.
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A little bit of the way of the world of marketing has shifted and it shifts every week.
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Basically, the algorithms change and that.
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But there's some key principles that I think stay the same.
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And one of them is about and you use the word oversubscribed.
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Maybe explain that concept to people first, and then we'll dive into it.
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So if you go to economics class 101, first lesson, first day, they're gonna talk about demand and supply tension, and they're gonna say this really simple idea, which is that if demand is high and supply is low, there's room for profit in there.
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And if supply is high and demand is low, then you're probably gonna make losses.
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And they often use the example of bananas.
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If you've got a hundred bananas and only 10 people want bananas, you're gonna sell them cheap.
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And if you've got a hundred bananas and a thousand people want bananas, you're gonna put the prices up.
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Um, we as entrepreneurs, we forget this lesson.
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We we forget that demand and supply tension is everything.
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We think that we have to do all of these things to be a successful business, but ultimately all of it's for nothing if you don't have maintain some demand and supply tension.
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And a great example of this would be airlines.
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So, an airline is probably one of the most valuable businesses on the planet to society.
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It's probably the one of the most complex, capital intensive, risky businesses.
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There's a million things that have to go perfectly every single day, and yet their margins are 7%.
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So they don't get great margins, and they do everything right.
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Um, and then you get a bit a weird business like Rolex.
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And Rolex has a product that hasn't really changed much in 50 years.
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It's not something people particularly need if they don't, you know, you can live without a Rolex.
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Um, it doesn't particularly open up humanity to a whole different, you know, range of experiences.
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Um, they don't do great customer service.
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You know, if you've if your Rolex needs fixing fixing, they'll take it, tell you when it's ready, three months later.
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Um and yet they make 70% margins.
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Yeah.
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But they maintain demand and supply tension.
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Yeah.
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So uh this is one of the key ideas that I try and rev uh get into entrepreneurs' minds around their marketing, that the purpose of the marketing is to create demand and supply tension.
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And that's that's that's strategically what they're trying to do.
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I love, you know, I when I look at oversubscribed, I almost always go back to jobs.
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Steve Jobs, when he the guy was an absolute genius at creating a demand six months before they're even gonna give you the products.
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Oh yeah, you know, and people wouldn't I don't think people today that buy an iPhone understand that people would cue around the blocks for these.
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Two like two days, people would line up.
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It's like lining up for concert tickets, sort of.
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It was, yeah.
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Getting the iPad first, getting the the getting the phone first.
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He knew that he had to create that little bit of that moment, that tension.
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Um, he knew that that was everything.
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Yeah, that was that was so important.
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So let's learn the lessons right there, okay?
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Firstly, flipped it on its head, don't launch a product and then start marketing it.
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Oh, start marketing it.
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Like the movie business is probably one of the greatest examples of creating a demand before it comes out.
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Before it comes up.
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Tom Cruise Maverick.
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COVID hit, they decide let's not put it out, and then we've got another two years of to ramp up the excitement and that whole thing.
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How how do we get people to shift their thinking to a launch mode rather than a put it out there and then start marketing?
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Okay.
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So mindset number one is stop being supply-side focused all the time.
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Most entrepreneurs are just always thinking of supply.
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So just accept the fact that your job as an entrepreneur is to be manufacturing demand for what you do.
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No one will do that for you.
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You can't really outsource it easily.
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Um, you as the entrepreneur need to be hands-on with this.
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If someone could easily do this for you, they'd be doing it for themselves.
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Right.
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So that's a that's an important one to keep in mind.
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This the how to do it is things like waiting lists, discussion groups, um, pre-registrations of interest, all of those sorts of things.
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I'll give you some real examples.
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Um, so last year we launched a new software business.
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And rather than writing any code or doing any work on the product, we just simply launched a waiting list and said, we're going to be launching software.
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It does this.
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Here's what it, here's what it's up to.
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If you're interested in that, join the waiting list.
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So within a couple of days, we had, I think, about 750 people on there on the waiting list.
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To join, you had to say what you wanted to use it for, what outcomes you were looking for, what price you were willing to pay.
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All of those questions got answered.
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And we even had a question there, which is, would you like to see um the Angel Investor presentation?
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And about 130 people said, Yeah, I want to see the Angel Investor presentation.
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So a couple of weeks later, we ran the Angel Investor uh presentation with with certified angels.
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We had all the data to to show exactly what the software would do, what outcomes people wanted, and how much they're willing to pay.
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And then we basically said, We're gonna just gonna do a very small angel round.
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Um now we haven't done any lines of code, we haven't done any development on the on the UX or the UI or any of that sort of stuff.
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It was an idea, and a few weeks later, we've raised the money to get it launched.
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Uh, we've got a a growth by that stage we had 1,500 plus people on the waiting list.
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So by the time we launch, we've got all these people on the waiting list, we've got angel investors who are saying, I want to get in on this angel investment.
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We'd drawn a line in that.
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So we'd maintain demand and supply tension, and then we had a very successful launch with that software product.
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The word sold out, most business owners would let's say they got a restaurant, they'd squeeze another chair in if they've got another customer rather than saying I'm sold out.
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How do we teach people that sold out is actually a good thing?
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So there's a there's a word that I like to use called official capacity.
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And official capacity is the capacity your business has to leave people feeling delighted.
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So for example, if you're a restaurant, let's say you've got 50 tables and chairs in there, at that particular moment, you've got the capacity to have 50 people who are happy that they came to your restaurant that night.
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You start squeezing tables and chairs in, that capacity actually goes down, not up.
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So you think, oh, I'll know what I'll do.
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I'll squeeze 10 tables in now, I've got a capacity of 60.
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You don't have a capacity of 60 if you're measuring people who feel delighted that they made the choice to deal with your business.
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So your capacity to delight people dropped.
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So what we look for is protecting the experience, protecting the capacity uh of your business and being just owning it and saying my business has the capacity to look after this number of people.
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Now, the reason I say official capacity is because you should tell people.
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You should actually say the official capacity the capacity of our restaurant is 50 tables a chair.
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Um I know you want to come in.
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I'm really, really sorry.
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We're full.
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We'd love to have you in 10 days' time when we're not full.
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Um, let's book you in and we'll have a we you will experience what they're experiencing, which is a great night out.
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Um but our our we protect our customers' ability to have a great experience.
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Let's go into the planning of a launch marketing strategy.
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Okay.
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Uh you you just gave us an example of yours, but you've been doing it a long time, so it came second nature to you.
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Let's say I am launching a new product or a new program or a new service or something.
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How do I go T minus and start back at the beginning?
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Great question.
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So there's going to be a few phases.
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There's the planning phase.
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During the planning phase, you're going to map out your whole campaign and you're going to uh craft your official capacity and you're going to work out how many people do we need to get engaged in this in order for our official capacity to definitely sell out.
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So let's say your business can take on 22 clients.
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You say, okay, roughly speaking, we close one in 50 uh uh people who um who come through as a lead.
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So we're gonna need about eleven hundred people engaging there.
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So you're gonna have to basically that's the point where you hit demand and supply tension.
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That's where you go, okay, we've got 20 spots available, we've got a thousand people on the list wanting those 20 spots.
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It's it's a 50 to 1 ratio.
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That that that means there's definitely gonna be a moment where people miss out.
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So we've got a plan by knowing our numbers right in the beginning.
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That's the that's the beginning.
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Okay.
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Next phase is called the build-up.
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And the build-up is essentially we're going to campaign for signals, not sales.
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So rather than signals, not sales.
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Okay.
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So rather yeah, teach me that one.
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So rather than saying there's something for you to buy, there's not something for you to buy, there's something you can signal interest in.
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So uh let's go back to the Ferrari dealership.
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So you can't walk into a Ferrari dealership and say, I'll have that one.
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So I'm sorry, that's not that's not for sale.
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You can signal your interest in that one.
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You can actually say, I would like one when one becomes available.
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So they will get you to join a waiting list.
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They will get you to fill in an application, a registration.
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So that's called signal collection, not sales.
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Um, if we take the most famous music festival in the UK, it's called Glastonbury, you can't buy a ticket, you can only register for a ticket.
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So for 364 days of the year, you can add your name to the registration list.
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And then when they get about 750,000 people on that registration list, on one day of the year, they make 136,000 tickets available.
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And a lot of people sadly miss out, but they're not selling, they're signal collecting.
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So on the build-up phase, we're just marketing for signals, not sales.
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We're not actually trying to get people to buy anything, we're just getting signals for for the interest in buying something.
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Discussion group, they could join a discussion group about it.
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Um, they could fill in a uh a wait list, they could uh join a um they could fill in an online uh assessment or a scorecard that says they need it but can't have it.
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So that's online assessment selling.
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So these are all things that you can get people to do as a strong signal of interest.
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Joining a webinar um would be, you know, that they downloading an e-book.
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Uh exactly any way that says I'm interested in this.
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I'm interested in something I can't yet have.
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So this is where we signal build.
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And but that can't yet have is massively important.
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Most people are like, well, if I've got them, why don't I just sell?
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That's it.
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But that's and and are most people profitable?
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No.
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So so we want the signal collection and we want the build-up phase.
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What we're trying to do is we're trying to build up to that point where the demand and supply tension is unbearable.
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There's now a thousand people who want 20 things, something like that.
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So at this point, we now need to create transparency.
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Transparency is the demand and supply transparency.
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It becomes uh apparent that there's plenty of people who want a limited number of things.
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So this is how do you do that in a way that's not, you know.
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Ethic.
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Well, how do you do it ethically?
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So there's a couple of ways.
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On social media, there's a lot of transparency.
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So for example, if uh if you saw a business coach who has 19,000 followers and everything they post is is thousands of people engaging, um, and they and you know they can only work with 20 customers, you would go, okay, that's that's a business coach that transparently is in demand.
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Um, I once saw a business coach step up on stage in front of a room full of about 300 CEOs, and at the end of the presentation said, if you're interested in working with me, here's a QR code.
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Um, fill in the application and I'll let you know exactly how that that works.
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And about half the room pulled out their phone and took a photo of the QR code.
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Now, the coach had said, I can only work with 12 clients here.
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And now there's 150 people in an audience with their phone out on the QR code.
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That was a moment of transparency.
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That was transparency of demand and supply tension.
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So uh now what you can do if people have been signaling using an online form is just simply tell people and be honest about it, because we you've got to be an ethical business person.
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So you say we've had 435 people uh who have registered.
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This experience is for 45 people.
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Um, unfortunately, some people are gonna miss out.
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Um and don't don't ever lie about that because it you will look like you've got egg on your face if if you then don't sell out, if you if it doesn't go.
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So you need to, but you can actually just tell people.
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You can just say, hey, look, uh some good news and bad news.
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It's a really popular launch, it's a really exciting time for us as a business because so many people, this many people have have registered, but we do only have to have this many people who can come in on on the on the next intake or whatever it is.
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So you in some way you need to be able to create a moment of transparency of demand and supply tension.
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And it can it can be subtle, um, and it can totally there's a dozen ways to do it very ethically.
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Yeah, I feel it's like okay, we're telling you in advance that some of you aren't going to get into this thing, sort of thing.
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It's it's it's that way.
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And it's like again, uh there's a nature of business people to fight that though.
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How when you're coaching something through that fight, how do you get them to realize just how important it is to stick to your guns and not go, well, we got a thousand, why don't we just sell a thousand of them, you know?
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Oh, yeah.
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Well, the the magic is in designing the year that they want, that they really want.
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Because I often start with the idea with business owners, I often start with how many customers would you need in order to have a really great year for you to have for you to look back on this year and say, This was great, we grew, we were profitable, what's the number?
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Um, so we might do that.
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We we essentially uh we you know, we start with that.
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The other thing we can do is at a later date we can expand capacity.
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So the official capacity is not set in stone forever.
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Um, you know, depending on what kind of business it might be, we might do a launch special, that is for the first 300 customers.
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And then once those customers are on boarded, we might do the next campaign, which could be for 1,500 customers.
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So when I do software, obviously software is the type of product that as many people as you want can sign up, but we always have a beta group.
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And the beta group are our first 300 testers, and the first 300 people, and we're gonna give them special support and contact, but we can only do that for 300 people.
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So anyone beyond the 300 misses out.
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But though they will get to see what's happened with the 300, they'll actually because we we then share the results of those 300, and then more people come to the next uh next bit.
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Now you keep using a word that's one of my favorite marketing words only.
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You know, and I think a lot of people miss out on the fact that, well, I need two customers a week.
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Well, you can only accept two new customers a week.
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It's a bit great reframe.
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I love it.
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There's a there's a magical thing called with or without you energy, right?
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With or without your energy is I'm gonna be fine with or without you.
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Got it.
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And that's and business owners that can get themselves into a place with with or without your energy, they tend to do well.
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Fantastic.
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So we've we've done the planning, we've got the signals.
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Yeah.
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So we get transparency.
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Moment of transparency, and then the release.
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So the release is you give people a moment to act.
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This is where you say, uh uh the tickets go live, uh, or you can now apply.
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Count down to that.
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Do you just do it?
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Well, you can you well, if like for example, Glastonbury says tickets go on sale at 5 a.m.
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on Monday morning.
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Um, people wake up early, they set an alarm, they hover their finger over the over the the button, um, and they're I know, I've done it on different things.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Super excited.
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I've literally had two of my assistants sitting there ready to buy things.
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Yeah, like there's all of us are on different computers making sure we get that the those Disney tickets, they're wild.
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Yeah, when it's for your kids, trust me, you've got everybody involved to try and get that thing at uh yeah, craziness of of the world.
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So we go live.
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Yeah, we we do but that's not the end of it though.
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Well, you know, with many campaigns, look, the perfect result is that it all goes smoothly and everything goes off without a hitch.
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Um, nine times out of ten, that doesn't happen.
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What mostly happened is you get a great result, but you don't complete everything.
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So what's nice is that you've got the signaled interest list, and then you can elegantly go back to the list and say, um, hey Brad, I noticed that you've got uh that you signaled that you're interested.
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I've actually got most of those uh things that are available have gone, but I do have a couple available uh and we wanted to reach out to you first as someone who we know would make a great uh fit for this product.
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Um I just wanted to give you the opportunity.
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You may not have seen the the live, but I can give you an opportunity if you'd like to come through or not.
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So you can do some follow-up sales.
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Um that's a great way to do one-on-one.
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And that way that you know, a nice result might be hey, we we said that we had 90 spots available.
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We 71 people uh have already selected that they want to go ahead.
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We've got a few spots available.
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Do you want one of them?
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Um and you can also, once again, you can signal demand and supply tension.
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You can say we've got 18 spots left, but we do have about a thousand people on the waiting list, or a thousand people had signalled interest.
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So I'm just gonna go through and and uh you know it's totally fine with or without your energy, right?
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It's totally fine if you want to go ahead or not.
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Um, but uh we do have some spots available.
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So a little bit of sales follow-up at that point um typically completes the campaign, puts the icing on the cake.
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Marketing planning wise, I I my challenge when I teach this to people is that it's changing from you've got to be marketing all day, all day, all day, all day, all day, to no, you don't need to market all year round.
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You might need to market three times a year or twice a year or whatever it is to become full, or even once a year.
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Yeah.
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I I with my business coaches, I tell them, listen, I want you to do marketing twice a year and fill yourself up.
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And then you don't need to, you don't need that tension of doing marketing for the next.
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Yes, you're gonna do your social proof marketing and keep the social media running and keep the content, keep that key person of influences you teach uh going.
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But your real marketing for customers doesn't have to be 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Especially for a business like coaching.
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You know, a lot of the best coaches, they don't have huge capacity.
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You know, they might like what are you what would you say is the a typical coach who's making great money, how many clients can they juggle at any time?
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20 is a big number.
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Twenty is a big number, right?
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So it's like I was thinking somewhere between 10 and 20.
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So realistically, if you did the right speaking engagement in the first half of the year and the right speaking engagement in the second half of the year, you're not gonna be able to take on any additional clients.
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Correct.
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You could literally be in front of a couple of hundred people twice a year.
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And but even like the clothing business has changed, selling in drops rather than you know, you know, you produce a thousand of that sweatshirt.
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That's it.
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That's it.
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Be sold out on things.
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Yes.
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Let people miss out.
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Yeah.
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People want what they can't have.
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In the digital world that's free that's full of abundance, there is a hyper uh reaction to things that people can't have.
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It's it's it's so rare in today's world for something to exist that you can't get hold of.
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But we see it now with burger chains.
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They bring a certain burger back for one month and then it's gone.
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And that's it.
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And and you're like, but I want that burger again.
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Well, you'll have to wait till next time we bring that burger back out.
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I think there's a lot of businesses starting to get the understanding of sold out.
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Now, what you can do with a bigger business is you can have your always available range and then you can sit drops on top.
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So you can have special offers and special things.
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We call these spotlight campaigns.
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So it just puts a spotlight on the business.
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Um, you can buy, let's say, like a Ralph Lorenz, you know, you can buy the Ralph Lorenz shirts any day of the week.
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You can get your the standard line of Ralph Loren, but there's certain things like this jacket or this, you know, coat or whatever, you know, that there's certain things that happen that do sell out, and that creates that same energy for the business while also having a day-to-day line that you can sell.
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Yeah, it's crazy that we still are in a world where it's it's sell as much as you can.
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Like you would get this.
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I ask the question to business people all the time: how many customers, like if they're doing a marketing plan, how many new customers do you want that you can handle and sustain on a daily, weekly, monthly basis?
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If we know how many customers you need to buy, we also know how many conversations you need to create.
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You can work backwards from there.
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The other thing that's a real head flip for a lot of business owners is that their business would make more money with less customers.
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Yeah.
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You know, so we did some research into um audiences and buying power within the audience.
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And essentially, to to oversimplify it, if you imagine like a your audience, the top 1% of people in your audience have 15% of the spending power.
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The next 9% have 45% of the spending power, which means 60% of the available budget is just 10% of the people.
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And then the uh remaining 90% of people have 40% of the budget.
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So where most entrepreneurs and business owners make a big mistake is they go for the noisiest, largest group of people who have the least money to spend, rather than having systems and processes for identifying the Cinderella in the ball, you know, that one in a hundred who is actually got 15% uh of the budget.
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Brings me to the question, pricing.
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Why does everyone do cheap?
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I mean, it it annoys me that people go for the, you know, they think they've got to be cheaper than the others.
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Why does that happen?
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And then how do we get to the other side?
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Yeah, I think it happens by default.
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It's kind of like why do everyone work on walk on the earth?
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Because that's kind of where gravity, gravity moves you there.
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Um, and and it takes a bit of planning to get off the earth, you know, it takes a bit of planning to to to get above the clouds, but but it can be done.
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So um, you know, so it's a it's beating market forces.
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You have to beat market forces.
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Market forces want price at zero.
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You know, that's that's where markets want you to price yourself at nothing.
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So ultimately you have to uh beat the market forces through planning.
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Um the the thing to know is that there are three but going back to that audience size, we call those three audiences the mass market, the niche market, or niche market, depending on which side of the pond, and the luxury market.
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So the luxury market responds to pedigree, uh exclusivity and experience, and then the sky's the limit.
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Um but it's very hard to tick those boxes.
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You can't just say, Oh, I've got pedigree.
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No, you've got to win the major awards.
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You have to have the Emmy, you have to have the the BAFTA award, you have to have been referred to by you know Tatler magazine or whatever it is.
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So you have to have the pedigree.
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Um, and you have to be able to live up to the experience and all of that sort of stuff.
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So a few companies can do luxury, but one thing that all small businesses can do is niche or niche.
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Um and that is where you're looking for a particular type of person who is so interested in a thing that they would attend an event, join a discussion group, read a book, follow a guru, uh, join and subscribe and watch videos on YouTube.
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They're there's they're they're actually irrationally engaged in this, they're passionately engaged.
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I'll give you an example.
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There are normal gyms and then there's CrossFit gyms.
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And CrossFit is just basically doing gym stuff to music and faster with a group with a group.
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You know, but it's for some reason it's 300 bucks a month, you know, to join a CrossFit gym, and all the other gyms are$33 a month.
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You know, and it's kind of like, well, why?
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Because they're just doing it's the same footprint, it's the same equipment, it's the same stuff.
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Like, why is it 10 times more expensive?
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Because this is a group of people who want to join a group, they want to be part of a community, they want to have an ideology, they want to watch videos, they want to follow Instagram accounts.
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So they've figured out a niche market.
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A great question that all uh uh entrepreneurs, business owners should ask is who gets the most value from what I do?
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Now, this is not what do I need to do to provide more value, it's who gets the most value from what I do.
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Great example, Esther Perel.
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So Esther Perell was a couples therapist.
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She was in Belgium, then New York, and she started to notice that most people wanted to pay about$100 for a uh couples therapy session.
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But the uh ultra high net worth individuals, they placed a disproportionate value on what she was doing for them.
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So she was doing the same couples therapy for them that she would do for anyone else.
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But when she would ask them, was that worth it?
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They would say, Well, you just saved us millions and millions of dollars.
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Like we were about to get divorced.
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That was going to cost us two million in legal fees, and that was going to cost us five, fifteen, twenty million in capital destruction.
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And then they go, you know, you're you're you saved us from this million.
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So then she ended up pricing accordingly and saying, Well, I only take on ten to twenty clients a year and it's a quarter of a million per per client.
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Um, and she said, It's not that she does anything different, she just runs a campaign to say I exist for this type of person.
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Um, and she makes two and a half to five million a year with 10 to 20 clients doing couples therapy that other people pay a hundred bucks for.
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Yeah.
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You know, yeah, she's definitely at that luxury end that needs to be a good thing.
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She's at a luxury end.
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Yeah, it it's interesting because I look at at for us, and there's a lot of business people out there that that need coaching and need assistance, but we get we give the most value to families, you know.
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When it's a husband and a wife and uh and they have kids, and you know, if you're a business person and you have kids, the value of a coach goes up.
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It it doubles and triples because your value is I now get my time back.
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Yeah.
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And I can actually go to my kids' game or my kids' recital or I'm not risking the most important thing in my life.
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Yeah.
00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:53.920
So it's very much a thing.
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So this is this goes to this idea of ICP, ideal customer persona.
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Ideal customer persona is really important.
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It's basically who has the most to gain.
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Um, one other quick example was a health and safety guy that I worked with, um, and he he did health and safety in manufacturing environments.
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I asked him, is there any particular manufacturing environment that's particularly dangerous, always lawsuits?
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He said, Oh yeah, this type.
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And I went, okay, why don't you run a campaign to position yourself as the health and safety for that type?
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Uh his rates went from two grand a day to 20 grand a day.
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Yeah.
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Um, just simply same stuff, same posters on the wall, same training with the team, but he made a few little adjustments to be number one for that type.
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Um, and his value went through the roof, not because he changed what he did, but he changed who it was for.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it's that old joke of you know, a bottle of water is 50 cents in the in the grocery store,$2 at the thing and$7 at the airport.
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It's the same bottle of water, it's just different different people you're putting in front of in a different environment.
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So let's actually just then look at the we we touched on being more expensive.
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How does one go about actually raising their prices in an in a normal day-to-day business?
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Because we've got to know how.
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Yeah, demand and supply tension, you need a bigger audience.
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So you you you you know it's very, very hard to like ultimately things are priced based on demand and supply tension.
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Um the markets there is no intrinsic value, there's no objective value, it's totally subjective and it's it's based purely on market forces.
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Um, why is a Bitcoin worth what a Bitcoin is?
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Because demand and supply tension says so.
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Um why is a diamond worth what a diamond is?
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Demand and supply tension.
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The answer to everything around price is just demand and supply tension.
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Uh my prices went through the roof when I got on some big podcasts.
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And I'd done nothing different.
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I just more people knew who I was.
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Um so you know, it was just one of these things of demand and supply tension.
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So you've got to be in front of more people, you've got to be in front of the right people, and you've got to have a way of uh detecting who is uh who is the person who's got the budget to go to a higher price.
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So in um in the story of Cinderella, uh, you know, he's looking for Cinderella, he's got this device, this glass slipper, and he, if the shoe fits, that's Cinderella.
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So you've got to figure out what's your criteria that if someone meets those criteria, that's my Cinderella client, that's who I can charge a higher price to.
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So a real life example, uh, I know someone who works with families and uh and they set up an online assessment about kids' behavior.
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And one of the questions they threw in there is, does your family have a nanny?
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And it's no nanny, part-time nanny, full-time nanny.
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And it was very simple.
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All of her top-paying clients have full-time nannies, all of them.
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So when people fill in the online assessment, they answer all the questions, they get a great response, they get a report.
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But if they ticked a box that says full-time nanny, they get a phone call straight away.
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Um, and guess what?
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Prices went up.
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Yeah, yeah, wonderful thing.
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Uh, always finish with this question.
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Best advice you ever got on success, and who was it from, and and why was that the best advice to you?
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There's been so many best advices uh along the way.
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I like um environment dictates performance as a really good one, um, which uh is this idea that we tend to behave uh in accordance with the people we spend time with, the places that we show up, um, the environmental cues.
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Uh I do a bit of work with uh young men in prison who are coming out.
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Um we go in and we, you know, we talk to them before they're coming out and all of that sort of stuff.
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And one of the things that we know about young guys who deal drugs, for example, is they're young entrepreneurs, they're entrepreneurial people, but the only entrepreneurs in their environment are drug dealers.
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So when they're shopping around their network and saying, hey, I want to make money and I want to do something, I'm really energized for getting ahead in life, their their environment channels them towards this particular opportunity.
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And when we have that conversation with them and say, look, if you go back to that environment, you're gonna re-offend.
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You're going to have to get yourself around a different group of people who run legal businesses.
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Um, and that is one of the biggest things that we can change with in their life.
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If they can spend time with landscape gardener, they go, Oh wow, this guy's making just as much money as some dealers I know, you know, and they go, but he's but he's not having to go into jail for it.
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Yeah.
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So they they go, oh, okay, I get it.
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Um I find, you know, I actually had a feeling of this when I saw you yesterday.
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Um, we were talking about some of the things you've achieved and all that sort of stuff.
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I find that often I'm the most successful entrepreneur in a room, of a group of entrepreneurs, right, by by revenue or by profit number of businesses.
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And then I'm sitting next to you having a conversation, and immediately I can feel the energy in me rising, going, okay, like I just there's just a natural tendency to go, I can up my game a bit because I'm I'm I'm around someone who's doing a bigger thing.
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And we had Gary V in with before there, and it was like, okay, Gary's dragging all of us to this.
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Yeah, well, he's he's saying, you know, I'm pretty proud of the fact I'm posting on social media once a day.
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Gary's saying three or four times a day is normal for me.
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Like, okay, all right, you're dragging me upper upper gear.
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So environment dictates performance.
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Really, really good um one to play with.
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