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Welcome to the hair of the dog podcast.

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This is Nicole,

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and this is a special podcast episode,

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brought to you directly out of the hair of the dog

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academy. Inside the academy,

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our members have the opportunity to schedule laser coaching calls.

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And not only are these calls beneficial for them,

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but they get shared inside the community so that all of

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our other members can benefit from them.

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What we've done is we've taken the very best of our

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laser coaching calls.

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The ones that I know you guys have questions for as

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well, and we are bringing them to you here as some

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bonus episodes on the hair of the dog podcast.

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Now I'm not promising them every week,

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but periodically we'll be releasing new laser coaching calls out here

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on the podcast on Thursdays.

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So keep checking your podcast player and get ready for 15

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move forward in your business.

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We'd love to have you inside our pack.

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Now stay tuned for the laser coaching.

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And when I say laser coaching,

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is it just me?

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Or do you picture little cats with laser beams too?

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That would make this even more fun,

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but I'd aggress,

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no cast with laser beams,

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but some incredible business knowledge about to happen.

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Enjoy Welcome to the hair of the dog podcast.

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If you're a pet photographer,

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ready to make more money and start living a life by

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your design,

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you've come to the right place.

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And now your host,

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pet photographer,

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travel addict,

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chocolate martini connoisseur,

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Nicole Begley.

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Good to see you.

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Good. I Had them the podcast recently coaching,

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so that's good.

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Nice, nice.

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It's been good.

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I it's been like,

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yeah, I think the business has been going well.

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And with the projects that I've been doing,

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but I just wanted to ask,

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have another session with you.

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Cause I did the book project cause I was trying to

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automate everything.

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I got everyone except I accepted everyone,

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but I had a lot of people not even wanting to

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book for the ordering appointment.

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So I think I just needed,

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some type of advice to,

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get the clients that are actually going to buy writing.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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for the book project,

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did you already shoot all those?

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Yeah. Neely,

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I think I've got about 10 left.

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Okay. You could let's talk with Jessica for calendar conscious,

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which is kind of the same as the book.

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Like when people joined for something and they're not necessarily joining

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for a big session,

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but she started to basically have people that wanted to upgrade.

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calendar or the book session.

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It's like kind of a mini session,

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like a bare bones,

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easy for,

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to manage session,

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maybe back to back this or that with the one dog

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that qualified where if you want to upgrade to a full

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session, here's what that experience is.

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Like. Here's the benefits of that.

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you can include your whole family,

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we can create beautiful artwork or albums.

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full basically suite of products.

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bonus collections for them maybe that are better than your normal

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collections, but not like hugely discounted,

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maybe like extra digital files or,

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something that's still profitable for you.

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I included like a five by seven print,

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put the five by seven print as well,

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and I didn't want to get anymore.

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like you can at least gauge,

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who's really interested to like give more time at the session,

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because I think that becomes the most exhausting thing when you're

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beautiful sessions for everyone.

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man, And then the other thing is so like,

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is my process has been like actually not too bad.

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gets fun when I have too many pages.

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I don't have digital files on there.

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digital file packages.

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Cause I've had a few people asking me that possibly,

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I, I think people more and more want digitals,

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especially as our client base continues to become,

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a younger and younger generation.

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a survey of consumers of boomers,

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we were as gen Y gen Z.

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which I'm a little bitter about.

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hello, gen X is like the biggest exactly the people that

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have the most spending power right now.

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they're the ones working anyway.

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but both sides wanted digital files.

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even though they wanted artwork,

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they wanted digital files with them.

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but then the younger two generation.

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go and be like,

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okay, I guess I just sell digital files.

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it from a marketing perspective of,

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oh, what if I just priced my products in a way

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that it included the digital file that like when you get

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an art piece,

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it includes a digital file.

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it includes the digital files of the images that are in

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there or a certain number of them because we're already editing

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it's not any extra work on our end and it just

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builds so much more value there because I think they do

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but they want those digital files too.

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both worlds and they don't have to do,

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figure out where to print them and do all that on

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all my products include the digital files,

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which a lot of people don't market that way or can't.

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Cause it increased my prices as well because I've got to

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register for the goods and services back because I'm reaching the

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which means I have to start charging 10% tax BU and

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you guys Include that like basically in the sales price,

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right? Like you're here,

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everybody just knows the taxes added.

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So we market all of our prices without tax and people

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just know that they're yeah.

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but Not everyone have to pay that goods and services tax.

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from getting close to that.

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So it means that I have to like charge 10%.

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but not increase it too much so that Yeah.

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Stupid government and Texas,

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I wish I had a way to help you get out

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of that,

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but I don't.

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that's the thing I think I thought,

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why review my prices might be good to see whether,

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I include the digitals as a separate package or just say,

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too. And maybe it includes like a little image box with

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reference prints or something or a little album block,

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or even just like a couple prints or you know,

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something small and printed.

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So they still get something tangible.

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w you also wanted to talk about the getting like marketing

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for the coming months,

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right? That's right.

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Cause I've got June,

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book in early July,

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but I need to start marketing and like I've done.

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So I did a model call one just to like,

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yeah, I did a model call,

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but then I found that a lot of the people that

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applied yeah.

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My previous clients yeah.

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On the streets for those clients who just wanted to get

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the free right.

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Free shoe and yeah.

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Like I was just looking at all of them and it

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yeah, yeah,

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yeah. I hear you.

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I don't know why that oversaturated that.

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Cause I've got also my competitor,

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who's a studio photographer.

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We use the same business coach,

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same, pretty much similar campaigns.

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she's on quite a few campaigns.

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So I'm just wondering we've over-saturated now how Many people,

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how many people live in your,

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I know probably have An area,

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so you're good.

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You're good.

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No, it just takes a different,

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maybe just another,

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a different way to approach it a little bit.

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I like my favorite.

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I mean I love charitable marketing.

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I will do that all day every day,

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but first let me back up.

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You have an email list.

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Yeah. Good.

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Okay. If I ran out,

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I was pretty sure you did,

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but just want to,

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double-check all of you guys out there.

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If you're watching this laser coaching,

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make sure you have an email list.

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That's my number one question.

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When we talk marketing anyway,

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you have your email list.

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So let's find some different ways to,

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again, to add some leads to those and also book some

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good sessions.

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I have always had really good success with charitable marketing fundraisers,

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where I partner with the rescue or some other type of

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charity, you know,

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it could even be,

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it doesn't even have to be a local charity.

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It can be like a bigger charity that you partner with

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a local for-profit business.

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And then it,

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it has that kind of charitable component.

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But I found the,

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you know,

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you can do the big,

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we have like bigger rescues in our area that are like,

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you know,

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kind of either they're still usually privately run.

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They're not usually the city and county run ones are usually

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pretty hard to work with.

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Cause they're strapped really thin because their budgets are non-existent,

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but there's some bigger private ones that are still good to

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work with.

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But I found the sweet spot has been those smaller rescues

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that are like,

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I guess,

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kind of medium sized rescues.

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So they're fairly,

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well-known in the rescue community and the neighbor in the,

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in the city of,

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you know,

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they're actually getting some work done.

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It's not someone that just like created a nonprofit and it's

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like, I rescue five dogs a year and it's just me.

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Like they actually have a little network of volunteers and people

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that really support them.

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And you know,

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I have found working with them to do something where it

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is. I create a special offer.

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That's either like a mini session or I've done full sessions

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in the past too.

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And it is say my session fee was two 50.

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Maybe the session feeds a hundred dollars and it includes,

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you know,

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like a product credit,

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like a $200 product credit in a $50 donation.

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That's the one that I've always been super successful with.

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And it works really,

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really well because I'm still going through like my normal client

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qualification process.

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So I'm still talking to them,

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telling them they're probably going to spend over a thousand dollars.

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These are my prices,

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these are my things.

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So I'm still out the people that aren't really a good

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fit, but it gets so many people,

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you know,

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connecting with that charity.

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They then know like,

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and trust you.

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And they're like,

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oh no,

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this is great.

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And it also gets them off the butt because they have

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a better offer and it's an offer that's helping something they

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care about.

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And those medium sized charities like the,

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the bigger rescues,

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but not the really big community ones.

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Like if I can make a couple hundred dollars donation to

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them, that's a much bigger percentage of their budget than like

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the really big private ones that,

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you know,

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get tens of thousands of dollars in donations where this is

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like, what I could do would be a small drop in

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the bucket.

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So they will still kind of promote it.

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But the,

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those medium size small to medium sized rescues will really promote

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it hard because it's such a bigger,

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it's a more impactful donation to them than it is necessarily

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to the bigger ones.

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So yeah,

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those, I mean,

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it works really,

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really well in the academy,

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in the templates.

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There are charitable marketing templates in there.

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Yep. Okay,

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cool. Go and look at that.

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Yeah, But it's great too,

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because it gets you like,

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if you,

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you could do a new,

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new rescue,

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like every month or at least every quarter and you know,

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they're then promoting you to their people.

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You're getting your name in front of all these other people,

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you know,

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and you could even do,

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you know,

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you could do a full one,

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you can do a special like mini session.

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Of course.

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Yeah. I did that.

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I mean,

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especially in last year and they call it a mini session.

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Yeah. It did go quite well.

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Yeah. So I'll do that again for the national dog day.

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Yeah. Nice.

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I love Minute sessions,

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Megan and I just did a podcast episode on many.

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That was good.

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Then I was like,

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I'm trying to find that or else the call it rather

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mini-session yeah,

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yeah. For sure.

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The name,

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an alternate name for it.

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Yeah. Limited Edition.

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I liked her was a collectors collectors session.

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I was like,

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okay. Yeah.

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Cool. And then,

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yeah. And then I've got like,

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I do have a stole this weekend at an event as

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well, which is run by charity.

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So I think I got a special offer.

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Yeah. And make sure you do everything in an event.

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Like for me,

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I mean,

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I'd love to book sessions in an event,

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but I really want those leads.

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So I really want those emails.

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So make sure you have a contest for gathering emails.

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You could also do,

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you know,

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other contests just to keep getting more leads in with other

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for-profit businesses.

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Like, you know,

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give away a little mini session at a place that's convenient

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for you because someone or might not be qualified.

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And you know,

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I like to do like an album block cause it cost

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me 40 bucks and it has 10 images.

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So it's like high value to them,

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but low cost to me.

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So that way I get more people entering,

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but you know,

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you can just do a,

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Hey I'm giving away this and it could be send people

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to a page on your website.

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You just make a,

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a lead page essentially,

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where it's just like,

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you know,

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introduction your logo,

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the other businesses logo enter to win something from you,

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maybe something from them and,

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you know,

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put your email and whatever here by the state.

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And we'll choose a winner,

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you get all the leads,

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you pick a winner and then you can also create a

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little special offer for those other people that didn't win where

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I've in the past said,

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okay, so-and-so,

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you know,

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Mary Smith won our grand prize,

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but don't worry because so many of you guys,

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I love seeing so many incredible entries or doing a second

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giveaway. So that one was a $500 voucher.

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This one's a $200 voucher or something.

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It's a little bit less Awesome.

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A questionnaire.

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Yes. So I did for the second one.

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So the first one was just email and name and it

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was kind of like,

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there was no qualification.

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The second one was,

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if you want to enter to win this $200 voucher,

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fill out this form.

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So you get them to fill it out.

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So then it kind of becomes like the model called form,

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you know,

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where it's,

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you're asking.

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And I asked questions like,

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you know,

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have you ever gotten your dog photographed?

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Have you ever worked with a professional photographer?

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Would you be interested in,

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you know,

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while our albums prints and just kind of,

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you can kind of gauge,

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who's more interested based on how much effort they put into

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that, Do call them and ask all of those or just

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basically you Can call.

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It depends how much time you have and how much you

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really want the,

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this podcast.

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So go ahead and take a screenshot.

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You could also do like a video message,

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video, email PRI you know,

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a personalized one.

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I would probably do that because I still feel like calling

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can be obtrusive.

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But if I did the video one,

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I would always,

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whenever I contact them,

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I always let them know my phone number and let them

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know. You're welcome to get in touch with me via phone

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or email,

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or we can schedule a zoom call.

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Like I,

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I let them know all the time.

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These are the ways you can reach me,

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jump on over to our account.

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And we Can use kava in the video message saying,

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this is what I do.

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This is how the session works.

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I would just be,

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Hey, you know,

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congratulations. You know,

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it depends,

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you can have it as like,

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they need to get back to you.

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Like basically,

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like I'm picking five winners and you are one of our

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first winners.

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Please get back to me in the next three days,

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72 hours to claim,

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you know,

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to claim your session.

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Or if you're not interested,

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let me know and I'll give it onto the next person.

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And then you can even say in 72 hours,

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but I haven't heard from you,

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I'm going to give on to the next person.

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But I would do that in the follow-up.

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I wouldn't say the like maybe three days later,

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two, three days later,

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I would have a follow-up and say,

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Hey, I really need to know,

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you know,

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if you're not interested fine,

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but that,

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you know,

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I'm going to give the spot to somebody else in a

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couple, whatever timeframe.

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Awesome. Thank you.

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But yeah,

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yeah, It would just be a video of congratulations.

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You won.

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Here's what the process,

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where is like,

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I would let them know that,

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you know,

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you have whatever voucher that you won and you know,

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no additional purchases,

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you know,

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obligate Tori,

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there's nothing required.

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I can't sleep,

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but most clients spend a usually choose to spend about a

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thousand dollars in the session or whatever,

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that kind of 500,

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whatever, that price point that you kind of throw out to

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qualify people.

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I do make sure I put that in that you one

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video so that I'm starting to qualify only the people that

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will be worth my time And is that after they do

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the questionnaire And then I send it to like the best

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ones in the questionnaire first,

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the best answers.

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Okay, cool.

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Yeah. Great ideas.

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I love It.

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Cool. You're welcome.

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I'm on this.

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Full-time a fruit juice one day of my full-time jobs.

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I love it.

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Congratulations. That's awesome.

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Thank you.

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Thanks Nicole.

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It's been great chatting to you as always.

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Yes, You too.

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