Launch Like a Pro: Simplify Your Program Launch with Elisa Bogarts

Welcome back to the Guy Who Knows a Guy Podcast! I’m your host, Michael Whitehouse, coming to you live from Podapalooza 15. In this episode, I sit down with launch manager Elisa Bogarts, whose expertise in project management and technical systems helps coaches execute flawless launches. Elisa breaks down how to take a complex 300-task project and turn it into a series of manageable steps, ensuring that every launch runs smoothly—even when chaos seems inevitable.

Key highlights include:

  • Why launching isn’t just about the idea—it’s about execution.
  • How breaking your launch into clear, actionable tasks can prevent last-minute scrambles.
  • The importance of building relationships and starting your promotion early.
  • The critical insight: Give yourself more time than you think you need.

Guest – Elisa Bogarts:

Host – Michael Whitehouse:

Tune in for an engaging conversation filled with practical strategies to help you launch your next project with confidence and ease!

Transcript
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Welcome once again to the guy who knows a guy podcast.

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I am your host, Michael Whitehouse, the guy who knows a guy himself,

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and we are recording live to tape at Potapalooza number 15.

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Over the past five years, I've had the privilege of meeting and learning

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from thousands of entrepreneurs, experts, and awesome people.

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And now I leverage that knowledge to help my clients cut through the junk and focus

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on what they need to achieve their goals.

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Now I'm excited to introduce our next guest, at least, uh, Hoogertz.

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Did I say that right?

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Bogarts.

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Yeah, I even knew that because I've known Elisa for a while and she's

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corrected me and then I recorrect myself away from the correct Bogarts.

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It's the easy pronunciation, not the weird pronunciation.

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Yeah, it looks like Boogarats, but

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I'm, I'm drawn to the weird.

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Um, but so Elisa is a launch manager.

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So she helps coaches launch their programs, events with ease.

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They can focus on scaling their business.

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So she does the technical stuff.

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With her experience in project management and coaching to get

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her clients ready to launch.

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And so she does all the techie stuff.

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So, you know, I do the networking stuff.

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She does the techie stuff and, uh, there's a natural synergy there.

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So Lisa, welcome to the show.

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Hey, Michael, thank you so much for having me.

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Great to be on here.

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I love that we're doing this.

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Yeah.

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Considering how long we've known each other, it's great to.

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Do a podcast exchange, which is awesome.

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Absolutely.

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Uh, and of course we met in person recently at the marketer's

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cruise down near the Caribbean.

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Also very cool.

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I was looking at the map.

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I think technically we're in the Atlantic because the Caribbean

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is south of the islands.

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And North of the islands would be the Atlantic, but in near, I don't know,

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change the names of everything anyway.

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So, so tell me a bit about what you do as a launch manager.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So I, like you were saying, I work with, with coaches, like to work with coaches

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specifically and help them launch.

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I it's, it's really so that, you know, I, and I work with people who also have.

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Teams and I help them, like I make sure everybody's on task.

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I'd like to do like strategizing with the coach and planning and then

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making sure that everybody's doing what they're supposed to be doing

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when they're supposed to be doing it.

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Because usually the coach wants to be out speaking and selling and coaching and

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not really worrying about, you know, is everything getting done for their launch.

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Um, and I do this because I was, uh, in my corporate career, I was a project manager.

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So I was a project, I've been in project management now for about 15

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years and decided to bring all of those skills into the coaching world.

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Cause I know that, you know, that's not something that everybody has.

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And, uh, you know, I feel like so many coaches are, you know, such a visionary

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people or like ideas people, or they just want to creatives or healers,

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you know, but they're not the best at being organizing, planning, you know,

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structure, all that kind of stuff.

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And that's really, that's my wheelhouse.

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So I hope to bring that into the world and I really feel that it helps Kind of calm

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the chaos of launching because, you know, launching, there's, there's a lot to do.

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Well, you know, I mean, you do summits all the time.

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Like it is a lot of work, all the wrangling, though you have an amazing

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tool that you use, but even with that, there's still a, you know, a

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lot of work to be done and it can be really overwhelming for people.

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So I helped one of my superpowers is to make things this sort of

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big, complex, you know, project or launch, which could have, like, I

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have a project plan that's like over.

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It's almost 300 tasks long.

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And so if someone's seeing that, they might be like, so, so, but I

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helped them get this big complex thing and just bring it down to

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these really easy manageable chunks.

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And they just say, okay, focus on this right now.

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This is what we're going to do.

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Trust the process.

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We'll get there and it'll get done.

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So, and I've done all my own programs, gift giveaways, summits, book,

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podcast that I've launched myself.

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So, uh, and I've meticulously planned all of them.

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So

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yes, there's a. There's a concept and it's probably from some book that I

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don't know, but somebody mentioned the idea of visionaries versus integrators,

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um, which is also the CEO, COO dynamic.

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So the CEO is the visionary, the, you know, here's what we're doing.

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It's a five year plan.

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And then the COO is the one who says, okay, well, we're going to

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need to hire 300 people for this.

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So we're going to need a warehouse or a new ship or any, you

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know, whatever the tools are.

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So some people may be hearing that and be, and say, okay, yeah,

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I kind of get what, you know,

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But let's, let's look at the contra example.

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So if somebody doesn't have you, what can go wrong for not

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having Elisa on their team?

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Uh, well, I think it can get a bit chaotic and I think that things

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can get missed as well sometimes.

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And also I think that people don't start early enough, like, especially

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with, you know, if you're going to, um, as part of your launch, if you want

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To help promote the event that you're doing, you know, you want to start

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building those relationships with those, you know, that could be JV partners

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or promotional partners, affiliates, whatever you want to call them.

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Um, you want to engage them early and so some people don't

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start thinking about that.

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Like, oh, my launch is in 6 weeks time and they think that's good enough.

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But like, if you go to your partners, that may not be enough time.

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Their calendar may be full already.

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So then you won't get, you may not.

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And because of that, you may not get enough people.

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To your event in which to pitch your program to.

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And so I think things like that, like not starting early enough and not

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knowing all of those pieces and, and the order in which they should be going.

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Um, because then I think, yeah, a lot of stuff can get missed.

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And then if things get missed, then, um, you know, yeah, maybe people don't show

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up or, uh, you know, the launches isn't as successful as it could be, because

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you didn't think of all those pieces, you didn't think about, um, the order

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in which they should go and, uh, yeah, and starting early To get it all done.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I'm, I'm always amazed when people reach out to me and say, Hey,

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yeah, my launch is in three weeks.

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Can you promote it?

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And I'm like, well, I mean, now with my resource letter, I'm, I can say, Oh,

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I can put it in the resource letter.

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Sure.

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But, you know, you want dedicated promotion, uh, or, or people who they're

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at an event and say, I have a, I have a launch coming up in three weeks.

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I'm looking for a promoter.

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She's like, good for you.

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That's a nice to have dreams, but no stranger is going to promote your

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launches coming up in three weeks, unless they're really, really impressed by you.

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Right, exactly.

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And you really want to build that relationship with people.

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And, and yeah, because even with me, like I had a, someone I met in a networking

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event and then they came to me later, we, we met up and it was like, okay,

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yeah, maybe we could promote each other, but then kind of didn't work.

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So they weren't ready for me yet or something.

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And then like, Oh, well, could you just promote, like sell this product for us?

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And I was like, actually, no, because I don't know you.

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I don't.

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And I was actually speaking to a JV manager, not even the coach itself.

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So I was like, I've never met this person.

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I haven't seen their work.

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I haven't, you know, so no, I don't feel comfortable in

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selling your product quite yet.

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And so you really need to take that time to build a relationship that,

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you know, let people see what you're all about, even come to your event,

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you know, give them a free ticket to something so they can see what you're

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all about and then, then they'll want to, then they'll like, you know, they

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will know, love and trust you and want to promote you and, uh, And, and, you

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know, share your wisdom with their people.

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Yeah.

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And I like you said there about, you know, your event is their first taste of

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getting the sense of working with you.

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One mistake that, that I see a lot is if you just see your

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event as a sales opportunity.

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And in other words, You know, if I'm a salesman, we get

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on a call and you don't buy.

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We just both waste our time.

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And so if you make your webinar or your event or whatever, like that, that it's

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all pitch and it's not about making connections, not about providing value,

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teaching, uh, making them better off, then people are going to leave your

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event and say, I just wasted my time.

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And if they come back to, if I promote it, they come back to me and I say, Hey, yeah,

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how was, you know, how was Joe's webinar?

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And they said, eh, I didn't, I don't know.

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Did you learn anything?

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Not really.

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It was really very pitchy.

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I'm never promoting it again.

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Because I am, I am asking my audience to pay their time to attend this event.

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And time ain't free.

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Time is the most expensive thing you got.

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Yeah, 100 percent agree with you on that.

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And I hate that too.

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Like I hate when I go to something and think like, like that kind

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of, yeah, that wasted my time.

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And, and, um, and then we always get taught, I found in a lot of coaching

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programs, you know, that if you're going to do like a webinar or something

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to only teach the what, but never the how, and I don't love that as well.

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Like, I don't think obviously you don't need to teach someone.

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Everything about the house is like, why would they then buy your program?

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But you can still give them exercises.

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You can still teach them some things.

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You can teach them maybe things around what your program's about to

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still really provide value with that.

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And yeah, that even as you are doing that event.

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You know, it all kind of leads to what you are selling, but you

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don't need to constantly be in it.

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And that's why I created this program.

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And that's why I created this program.

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You don't need it to be constantly pitching about it.

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I think people will kind of get it because that'll be like the natural flow.

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Yeah.

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Um, yeah, I even had that with, uh, one of my partners recently were thinking

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of doing something together and she gave me an outline and I was like, Oh,

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that just sounded entirely pitchy to me.

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There was like no, no value to it.

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Yeah.

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And her, um, kind of viewpoint was that, well, we don't want to overwhelm people.

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And I get that.

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I think that there's a bit of a balance between, you know, but you still want

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to provide value and you want people to leave with something because if you

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don't give them anything, why would they think that they're going to,

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why would they pay for your program?

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If they don't think you're actually going to give them anything, if you

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never give them anything to start with.

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I think there's a benefit in overwhelming done the right way.

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So, like, if you were to do a workshop and you were going to, and you

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were to say, I'm going to teach you everything that goes into a launch.

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You know, if you have a 300 item, yeah, your workshop would be nine hours long,

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but , but you do it in, in categories.

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You're basically like, all right, so here's what you

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need to know to find partners.

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Here's what you need to know to set up the copy, and here's what you need to know

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for this, and da da, and, and you know, at the beginning you tell 'em, you can drink

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outta the fire hose gonna be intensive.

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And they're like, okay, yeah, I'm ready.

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I got my notes.

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And then you, you just fire hose them.

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And then at the end they're like, whoa.

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Then you say, so do you want to do that yourself?

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Or would you like to hire me to do it for you?

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And they're like, uh, you, you should do it, but you, you know, you delivered

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everything that they asked for.

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Um, yeah.

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And I, I think for, for most, I think this myth, a lot of coaches have

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that they have some secret sauce.

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You read the same books I did, and you watch the same YouTube videos I did.

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There's no secrets to us.

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There's only one secret to manifestation.

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There's only one secret to business growth.

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And usually it's get in front of the right customers, offer them

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a valuable product, and deliver.

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Like, that's the model of business.

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There's no secret.

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We've been doing this for thousands of years.

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And so it's rarely the information.

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It's usually the implementation, the transformation.

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So you can teach them everything.

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Like if you teach them everything, you know, they'd be

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like, Whoa, you know, too much.

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That's what I do.

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When I, when I talk about running so much for people, like I'll tell you

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everything, you know, to run a summit and you don't want to do it because

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knowing everything I'm going to teach you, you're still gonna have to screw

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up 10 times to get to the point I'm at.

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So you're gonna have to run 10 summits wrong and then you can do it yourself.

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You'll be great and do everything I do.

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Oh, by the way, it takes me about 10 hours.

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Plus I have a network.

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Do you have a network?

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No, you don't.

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Okay.

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So you're going to need to build that.

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That's going to take about 500 hours.

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So yeah, I'll teach you everything.

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Do it yourself.

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Go for it.

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It'll take you a mere.

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600 hours and you'll be exactly where I am.

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So no, you want me to do that?

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You sure?

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Yeah.

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I've even done that too, where some people are like, Oh, I don't know if

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I'm like ready to work with you yet.

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And I was like, okay, well, you know, if you want some help with it, you can,

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I have like my sort of project plan, my launch plan, or even have a summit plan,

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you know, and it's like, it's basically a Google sheet because that can be like used

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for everything, you know, not everybody.

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No, it was no Shan or Asana or whatever, but everybody can access Google sheets

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and it's got all these different tabs.

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And then I've had people come back to me being like, your plan is too crazy for me.

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I need your help now.

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And I was like, yeah, I mean, it literally tells you every

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single thing you need to do.

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Um, but then just looking at that, they're just like, what?

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Okay.

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Now, now I need some help.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And that, and that's, and that, that's key.

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And I think that's powerful in the, in the initial sales process.

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When you take them through everything they're going to need to do.

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Um, now there might, there might be certain things that you hold back.

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If it's like a formula or an investment strategy or something like that, they

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said, okay, that you learned in the program, but the rest of it, usually

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you can just teach them everything.

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And, and then they're going to look at it.

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I actually, I haven't published it yet, but I've written a book on everything.

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I know about collaborations and partnerships.

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And it's 57, 000 words long and I haven't finished.

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So it'd be like 60, 000 words.

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So that's 250 pages or something.

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Um, and when I publish it, I'm published two versions and one of them be

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whatever I'm going to call the book, you know, the guide to partnerships.

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And the other one, the cover is going to be something like this book is too long

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and you're not gonna read it anyway.

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It's just hire me to do it for you.

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I'll mail it to people.

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And that's what the cover will say.

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Everything I know is in here, but you don't want to read it.

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Just hire me to do it for you.

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And I love what you said earlier too, about the mistakes

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that you make along the way.

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And I think that that's something that I sort of both of us bring,

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like we already had the experience.

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So therefore we know the flow.

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And even the way that my brain sort of works, like when I was first launching

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my podcast, yes, I took a course.

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I knew what exactly what to do, but I remember sitting there and being like,

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okay, I actually take the time to sit down and be like, what is the flow here?

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And I don't think that many people do that.

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You know, I actually think, okay, if I. And bringing a guest

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on what information do I need?

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How am I going to get that from that person?

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Like, you know, and if I'm publishing it, okay, what information do I need?

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And do I need to get that first, you know, and actually like going through it step

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by step and like tweaking and changing all the different steps as I go to really like

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piece it out and, um, Yeah, so I think that that's something that also one of

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my kind of superpowers that sort of that process and really just taking the time to

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and I, I tell people to do this, you know, to sit down and do it, but I just don't

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think everybody's brain works that way.

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And so you can kind of kind of trust and same with you, right?

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You've done that with the summits.

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And so you can trust like, you know, I know this whole process.

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I know it step by step.

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I know the right things and I've tweaked in and continually

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improved every single summit.

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Yeah, and I think that's key there, too, that not only is it going to

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be a headache for you if you don't collect the headshots, or you don't

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collect the this, or you don't have the copy, but also, this may be

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someone's first real impression of you.

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You know, I've met someone, and, because there's so many people I've basically lost

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professional respect for promoting them.

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Because, you know, I met them.

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I believe they're ethical.

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I believe they are attempting to provide value.

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They're good people.

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But then I say, yeah, sure.

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I'll, I'll promote you or I'll speak on your stage.

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I hardly ever speak in anyone else's stage.

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Cause they all drive me nuts.

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Um, and because, you know, I'll be like, yeah, sure.

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I'll promote you or whatever.

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Everybody.

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So do you have the copy?

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Uh, no, we don't have it yet.

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Well, you're expecting me to start mailing for this in a week and a half.

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I'm writing my emails for then.

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Now I'm going to need that copy.

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Now, because I'm not just cutting and pasting your copy, so I'm

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going to need that material.

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Do you have the sales page?

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Oh, no, you can't click on the sales page until it's the sales page is

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locked until the day of the event.

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I'm like, okay, do you have anything I can use?

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And I'm chasing around for this information and.

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I'm like, if I'm going to do this much work, I'll sell my own program,

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right?

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Yeah,

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that's the other, that's a really key thing is make it easy for them.

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Make it so easy.

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Give them one place where it has the graphics that has the swipe copy that

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they can just use and make it available early on so that they can do it.

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Yeah.

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I have that with one of my clients who's just like, oh,

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we'll just do it just in time.

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Oh, do we really need to give it to them a week early?

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I'm like, yes, we 100 percent do.

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We need to work on that right now.

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Like I needed that last week because actually I wanted to send

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it today, but we haven't even started writing this by Floppy yet.

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And so, um, yeah, so I think that some people just kind of,

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they don't really think that way.

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And I think they, they don't, um, maybe consider how other people work, right?

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Like you were saying, I like to, Take your copy, make it my own.

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And I like to schedule my emails a week or two in advance.

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And some people do it the day of, you know, so everybody

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kind of works differently.

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And I think that you need to consider that when you're getting things ready,

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which is part of the launch plan, right?

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When you're working with your JVs, it's not only like interacting

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with them, but also getting that swipe copy and everything ready

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so that they're good to go.

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And then also, you know, reminding them being like, Hey, promo starts today.

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Remember to send your email.

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The irony, of course, is sometimes, as I've worked with some of these

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people too, where they're going to get the copy out the day before.

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But if you reach out to them and say, hey, could you promote my event in six months?

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Oh, sorry, our calendar's full.

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So you expect me to jump for yours, but you're planning 14 months out

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for, for promoting other people.

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Got it.

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Okay.

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Sure.

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Yeah.

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Um, because they don't even, they don't even doesn't occur to them

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to think about themselves on the other side of the same situation.

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You know, could I, I've met so many people who could not

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promote a mirror of themselves.

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They would not be a good partner for themselves because, you

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know, they, the materials they need, they wouldn't have in time.

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Um, yeah, something I was on my summits is, it's, it's always funny

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when people ask me, so what's the promotion window for the summit?

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I'm like, you have a link now, but the summit is three months from now.

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Like, okay, that's up to you.

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But because I always felt this as if, if it's an event, you know, when

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I, when I ran sci fi conventions, you would announce the next one

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at the end of the previous one.

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Right.

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tickets right there for a year later.

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Because you're blocking this time out.

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So if you're running a three day event, what are you doing?

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Announcing it eight days in advance?

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Who's going to just have three days time available.

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Well, you know, broke people do people who don't really have a business

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and a professional summit attenders.

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They got time for that, but

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people are going to be

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dropping 10, 000 in a program.

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They got they're busy.

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They got businesses like they, they, they need to know about

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things six months in advance, especially if it's really an event.

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So,

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yeah.

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Yeah.

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And if it's an in person one, even like sooner, like that's like a good, at

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least eight months of planning, I would say, and you want to get people in that.

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And I think what, with retreats too, you want to give people as well, eight, 10

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months, if they, if they're going to be traveling somewhere and it's a retreat

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and it's like a week or something, you need to be giving them a lot of time.

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Yeah.

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I remember the first time I realized that people will go

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to a live event within 30 days.

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I'm like, people do that.

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Really?

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Yeah.

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Like, wow.

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Like, I, I, it's always kind of in my head, like, well, obviously you need at

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least four months to get a plane ticket.

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Right.

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The fact that you can go out, you can buy a plane ticket

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for, you know, next Tuesday.

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Is possible.

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Oh, I guess you can.

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You can.

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Yeah.

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Might cost

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you.

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But it was, it was just such a, you know, because of me for a live event,

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if I'm traveling to it, I'm planning six months out, eight months out.

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And, you know, to look at their marketing, oh, we don't even tell people

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the date of it until three months out.

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What?

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It's like, it's like a, like a secret, uh, you know, secret speakeasy or something.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Um, yeah.

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So that's, I

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think it does make sense.

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Yeah.

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And I think depending on the launch, the promotional period is different,

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you know, if it is just like sort of like a 60 minute webinar.

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Yeah.

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You know, if you get somebody to sign up months in advance, they'll

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likely forget and not show up.

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Yeah.

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Um, so that kind of can be shorter.

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That can be more like 10 days, seven days.

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And even sometimes people join the day before, you know, they'd

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be like, Oh, that's tomorrow.

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Okay.

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I got time at nine o'clock.

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That's fine.

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I can, you know, squeeze in an hour, move things around in my schedule.

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So that's, that's a little bit easier, but yeah, if it's an in person or requires

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travel, um, or it's a multi day, you got to give them more notice for sure.

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Yeah.

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I was talking to Chuck Anderson a while ago and cause a lot of

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people say, well, we promote late because the show rate is higher.

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And he says, that is true.

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That data is absolutely correct.

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Okay.

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But the data most people don't measure is closing rate.

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So the show rate is higher.

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The later someone promotes later, someone signs up.

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But the closing rate, like the percentage chance they buy is higher.

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The earlier they sign up.

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Oh, interesting.

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So if someone signs up five weeks in advance, the chance they're

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going to show up as much lower.

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But if they do show up, the chance that person's going to buy is

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much higher because they're busy enough that they need to do it.

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And they're organized enough.

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Like if I sign up for an event in two months from now, I'm

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putting it on my calendar.

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I don't forget it's on my calendar.

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I mean, I do forget you'd tell me the next day.

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I don't remember what I signed up for.

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I don't know tomorrow, let alone next week, but my calendar knows what I'm

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doing because, you know, I, I didn't just sign up and say, Oh yeah, I'll do

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something on the April and you know, it goes on the calendar so I could

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sign up for a year from now and I'm not going to forget it's happening.

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It's on the calendar.

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Yeah.

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The fact that people forget a webinar, they sign up like, how'd you forget?

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Didn't you?

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But all I put on a post it note, like, so you don't have a

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business as you're telling me.

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Got it.

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Um, the people who, who, you know, need to be reminded the day before probably

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aren't great prospects because how big can their business be if they're

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running on post it notes and, and ideas.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yes, this is essentially this conversation that reveals the, the interplay

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between the tech side of a launch.

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And the network side of a launch because bad systems will ruin relationships.

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Very good point.

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Not necessarily like,

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I don't like you anymore, but like, I don't promote this person anymore.

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It's too much trouble.

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And, um, or they can't convert, you know, people I've sent them, send them 50 opt

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ins and no, and no money comes back.

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I'm like, I sent you 50 people, but I've had, I've had people tell me that,

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yeah, we, we find that if we, uh, People tell me that industry average is two to

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three percent of total opt ins convert.

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Okay,

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right.

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Which sounds terrible.

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It does sound terrible.

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If I send you 50 people, zero to one conversion, um, which means a decent

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chance, if I send 50 opt ins and I get zero dollars, that seems like

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less than the number of dollars I was hoping for that amount of effort.

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Mm hmm.

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Yes, that's true.

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And I'm sure you find it as well, like, in terms of, you know, I'm Working with

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people, especially when a summit, I find that as it's kind of like a, you're

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sort of herding the cats and getting all the information from the speakers.

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And then you have people with like their links don't work at all.

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And I'm like, it drives me kind of crazy sometimes.

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I think just give me a URL.

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All I need is the title of your gift.

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In the URL and you should click it and it should work and it should be so simple.

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And so sometimes when I have to, you know, like as the, the organizer, the

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project manager, I've had to go back and forth with someone like 10 times to

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get this work linking, uh, working link.

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Um, I may think, you know, I don't know if I want you in my next summit just because.

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This, this cost me a lot of time

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to get your link.

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I'm a big fan of what I call tactical, tactical, tactical laziness.

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So identifying what is important, what is not important.

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Like, I don't check the links of any of my speakers.

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They put a link in, there it is.

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If someone in the event says, hey, this link isn't working, then I'll say, hey,

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you should give me a link that works.

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Because the gift not working isn't my problem, it's their problem.

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Yes, I've already got the opt in.

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That person already

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opted into my summit, I've already got their email address.

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You want their email address, you better make your link work.

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And if you have a link that's not going to be good six months from now when, you

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know, someone who's in my inner circle that gets access to the old VIP pages.

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Well, that's a you problem, not a me problem and, and same thing, but

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yeah, yeah, I've some definitely have some speakers who, um, yeah,

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I, I am not interested in spending a lot of time with a speaker.

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Um, I want you to get, you know, put in the application, get on

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the same, same thing, the podcast.

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When I, when I do the podcast, when it's not Potapalooza, I have a calendar link.

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It's, everything's there except for the headshot, because you can't do

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that.

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So everything's there.

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So it's all right there.

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If they fill out the application, they don't include a bio.

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I canceled the meeting.

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Like, I don't have the information.

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So you don't get a time until I got your info.

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Um, and so a lot of it's just, you know, preloading.

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It's funny when I get on someone's podcast, they say,

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yeah, okay, now I need this.

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Now I need that.

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I'm like, didn't I already send you that?

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Why are there extra steps?

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I fill out the application.

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I show up and say smart things.

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I go home.

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That's the podcast process.

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If there's more steps, it's really quite that simple.

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It was on cartridge, eight page long application, and then the validation

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field for the phone number would not accept anything I could think of.

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It wouldn't accept all numbers.

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It wouldn't accept dashes.

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It wouldn't accept, like, I couldn't figure out how to get it to accept

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the phone number, which means it wouldn't accept the entire application.

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Well,

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And I emailed them and I'm like, uh, yeah, I, and I said, I need to

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know the validation format for the phone number, which I was hoping

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that understand what that meant.

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And of course they didn't.

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They said, Oh, I'll check with my tech team.

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It's carter.

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You don't need a tech team to set up a form.

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You should understand how your form works and tell me what I need to put into it.

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So I can put it in so I can hit submit.

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Like, Oh, we'll get back to you all

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the seven pages.

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And I'm like, well, I'm not filling this out again.

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Like, Oh yeah, I'll let you know what is fixed.

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My good.

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That'll help for your next guest.

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Cause it's not going to be me.

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I've already invested more time in this podcast than it

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is worth making it easy for me.

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So

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absolutely.

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Speaking of time, I need to let you go so you can get on the next show.

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Um, so final thoughts and of course, how do people get in touch with you

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and learn about your techie stuff?

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Yeah, so my, um, well, final words is, you know, kind of thinking about what

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we're doing today is really take the time to make sure that you, you know,

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do things right when you are launching, because it can take a lot of work.

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So make sure to be kind to yourself and give yourself enough time to do

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everything that needs to get done.

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And yeah, you can find me at, my website is inspirationbyalisa.

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com.

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So it's, it's all one word inspiration by Elisa and Elisa is E L I S A dot com.

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And in there, yeah, you can get links to my podcast as well, which

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is authentically Elisa, which I'm going to have Michael on soon.

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And, um, and yeah, and, and, uh, information about my services.

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Fantastic.

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It says inspiration by Elisa.

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It's like Lisa on the internet.

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E Lisa.

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Inspiration by Elisa dot com where you'll find all of Elisa Bogart's

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things and I said it right this time.

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You did.

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very much.

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But right now I remember, um, And yeah, I love, you have all

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kinds of great concepts in there.

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Very important, simple, but powerful tools.

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Give yourself more time than you think you need is probably the most important

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thing that you said right there at the end, because however long you think

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it's going to take, it will take longer.

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It will

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really good stuff and great to have you on.

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I look forward to being on your show.

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Thank you so much, Michael.

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It's great being on your show.

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Thank you.

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