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AgoraPulse Interview with Co-Founder/CEO Emeric Ernoult: Social Media Success with Host Dimple Dang
Episode 90 • 4th December 2023 • Mesmerizing Marketing™ • Dimple Dang
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Speaker:

Welcome to the mesmerizing marketing

podcast, where we take a deep dive

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into the latest marketing trends,

tools, and tips, and provide you with

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the top resources you need to thrive

and make your marketing mesmerizing.

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And now here's your host Dimple Dang.

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For the audience, like tell us a

little bit, some personal information

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about you, because I think there's

so much information that's out there

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on the web that people can Google.

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But let's talk about maybe when you were

a child, were you always entrepreneurial?

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Like when did you get the streak to say,

okay, I want to start my own companies.

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Yeah, when I was a child, when I was

six or seven years old, my parent took

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me to, I was very agitated and very

hard to manage as a child, very rebel.

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And they took me to, I don't know how

you call that in English, but it's

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basically a guy who looks into your

eye, into the iris of your eye and based

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with like a microscope or something.

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Optometrist?

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No, it's iridologist.

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Okay.

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Iridolog in French, that's iridologist,

which it's basically there's, there,

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they have the science of looking at

your iris and reading what's in there.

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It's, yeah, it's, it's

not regular medicine.

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Let's call it, it's esoteric somehow.

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And that guy looked in my eye

and said, this young boy will

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never work for another person.

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That was like seven or eight.

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So you could say that it's rooted

back in my DNA and in my childhood.

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When I was in my, when I was in

my 12 to like 17, 18, I was a Boy

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Scout and it was a Marine Boy Scout.

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So we were sailing as Boy Scouts.

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And when I got to eight, when I got

18 and up, I became Boy Scout Chief.

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So I was leading the younger Boy Scouts.

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And at the time where everybody else

in my school were going partying

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on Saturday night and getting drunk

and coming home with girls, I was.

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Heading my boy scout people.

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So I, and I was like putting

projects together, organizing camps

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in Holland, the Netherlands and the

South of France with all the boats

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and thing, the car behind the boat.

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So I basically was already

doing some creating projects

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and always taking challenges on.

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So, yeah, it's, I think some people

have entrepreneurship in them.

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They may or may not realize it.

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I did not really realize what

it was because I studied law and

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started my career as a lawyer.

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But even as a lawyer, I was always

like, okay, how do I create my own firm?

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How do I create my own practice?

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How do I own my own thing?

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So it's always been there.

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And yeah, so like I, I studied law seven

years past the bar in Paris, started my

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career at the French embassy as a lawyer,

helping French businesses to be settled

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down in the U S start a subsidiary and

start doing business there and found

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a first job at a big Chicago law firm

called Winston and Strawn in Chicago.

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That's my hometown.

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Yeah.

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So Winston and Strawn is, I

think it's the largest firm in

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Chicago as far as I remember.

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Started to work in their DC

office, then moved to their Paris

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office and did that until 2000.

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And then had the

entrepreneurship itch came back.

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And I decided to start my first company

with my co founder who has been my

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co founder for the past 23 years,

Ben, who has been my CTO since then.

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And yeah, that's how I got started

on the entrepreneurship route.

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So.

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I love that.

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I love that.

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It sounds like you were, you had like

all the characteristics there because

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most entrepreneurs Are kind of rebels

like they don't conform to the rules.

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They're actually the

ones that make the rules.

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I feel like you were the one that's

like, let me create something.

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Let me do this.

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Let me lead.

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And they're also like leaders, right?

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Cause you were leading the boy Scouts

while other people are out just

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partying and doing those things.

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So.

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I think that what you're doing

today is perfect for that.

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Let's go back into when

you were a lawyer, right?

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And talk a little bit more about that.

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I know that you were telling me earlier

that when you were a lawyer back in the

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nineties too, you came up with a business

concept to actually, um, certain things

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you were doing and in terms of like blogs.

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So can you tell us more about that?

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Because lawyers are always like

curious on how they can do marketing

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better, how they can grow their

firm, how they can use their skills.

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Absolutely.

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So to, to give you a little bit of

context to understand it, when you're

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a lawyer in France, you are allowed,

and you work for a big law firm, you

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are allowed to have your own customers.

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You have your own clients.

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That's the rule.

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That's the basic rule.

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You're not an employee.

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You're kind of an independent

contractor to the firm you're working

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for, even the, even large law firms.

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Not everybody, but most

lawyers, uh, operate this way.

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So when I got back from DC and I had, I

learned this knowledge at the, uh, when

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I, at my job at the embassy, I knew how

to do visa for people who want to go and

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live in, in, in the U S and I randomly

stumbled upon French entrepreneurs and

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business owners who wanted to move to

the U S and start their business there.

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And I knew how to get their visa.

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So I started to do a

couple of visas for them.

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And, and it was a very lucrative work for

me because on top of my 10, 000 a month.

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Regular salary I was

getting from the firm.

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I was also adding on

top of that,:

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And I was basically charging

in the early days,:

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And then I move up to,

to, to 4, 000 a visa.

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And I got pretty successful because

I was billing it on success.

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So I was, it was zero if I didn't get

the visa and it was 4k, if I was getting

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the visa and people loved it, but I was.

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Kind of stuck with the volumes.

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Like I didn't have a lot

of prospects coming in.

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And one day I was, I've

always loved technology.

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So in the late nineties, I was among

the first having an email, having my

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own websites and building my own website

with HTML, CSS, it was ugly as hell.

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But I, at one point there was kind

of a beginning of the blogs and you

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could actually create content and

update your website with content on it.

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It was.

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It was probably the ancestor of WordPress,

what I started using in the late nineties.

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And I created a website where I

explained all the different types

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of visa and how all the forums,

you could download all the forums.

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I give you the roadmap.

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Okay.

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Step one, you do this step.

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Do you do that?

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Step three, step four.

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These are the things you

need to be careful about.

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If you, if you buy a business, this is

the kind of business you want to buy.

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Not that kind of business.

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Uh, you can put the money into escrow.

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Here's a list of escrow you can

work with, blah, blah, blah.

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It was basically the recipe of how you

get a visa to start a company in the U.

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S.

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And my colleagues at the firm,

they looked at me like I was crazy.

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I said, why are you putting

all your knowledge on the web?

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People are going to steal it and

they're going to do it themselves.

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And they're never going to pay you.

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I said, no, that's not how it works.

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People don't want to do that.

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Business owners.

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Other things to do than

creating, doing their own visa.

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They don't have time for that.

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They run a business.

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They make money with their business.

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It makes no sense for them

to learn that new skill.

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The only thing they want to know

and make sure about is that I

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know what I'm talking about.

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And when they see all that information

I put online, they're like, Oh,

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this guy knows how to get a visa.

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I'm going to contract him and pay him

and just going to get my visa and that

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That thing became incredibly successful.

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I think after the first year I made

as much money with my own customers.

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I work a lot on weekends, by the way,

because you still have to work eight hours

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a day for your firm, sometimes 10 hours a

day because firms like Winston and Strong,

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they don't let you do that very easily.

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That's like a 15 hour

day at a firm like that.

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I work a hell of a lot, but

at the end, after the first

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year, I was on top of the 10 K.

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I was making from the big law firm.

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I was making some, sometimes

seven, six, seven K a month on,

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on the visa stuff that was doing

just basically taking my weekends.

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And when you think about it and

you think about modern marketing

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in 2023, it is still the same base

provide amazing content for free.

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So people are like, Oh, this

guy's interesting, or this company

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is interesting or whatever.

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And based on that, you're going to

start creating a flywheel of prospect.

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We're going to come to you because

they recognize you as the expert

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who can solve their problem.

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So by creating amazing content,

you can position yourself as a

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thought leader in your space.

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So don't, you're, what you're saying

is don't gatekeep your best content,

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actually share it out with the world.

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Cause a lot of people think,

Oh my God, if I share it.

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Other people are going to steal my ideas.

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They're going to take it.

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So they have like the wrong mindset.

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So what you're saying is like, when

you have great content, share and

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share it freely, like you shared

all of that content about the visas

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very graciously and you didn't hold

anything back, but as a return.

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You got rewarded 'cause people viewed

you and your website as a thought leader,

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but they didn't want to do it themselves.

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What?

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They know that you were savvy

enough to do it for them.

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So it actually ended up

getting you a lot of clients.

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So that was brilliant.

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I love that story.

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Yeah, and what I, I didn't do any of that

back then because there, there was no,

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the concept of lead gen didn't exist.

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The concept of CTA and form and download

downloadables and all that stuff.

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If I had to do it again, I would

have still provided the content

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for free, but I would have made the

forms or the templates unloadables.

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Hey, leave me your email and take

the form or take the template.

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And that way I would have generated

leads and that kind of stuff.

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So, but it's still exactly the same thing.

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Marketing has not evolved that

much in the past 23 years.

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Yeah, exactly.

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So if you were to give three tips.

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To let's say, even like for lawyers,

because you have been in the legal

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industry, you practice law and all that.

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What would be three tips that

you would give out for lawyers

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in terms of marketing in 2024,

because:

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Well, I think the basics,

that basic is still the same.

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So first and foremost, think really

hard about what you're passionate about.

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In the field of law, what is it

that you're really passionate about?

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Because what, what's going to allow

you to create great marketing and to

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be a great marketer on top of a great

lawyer is that people are going to

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feel the passion and you're going to

be so passionate about the topic that

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you're going to want to write about it.

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You're going to want to

start a podcast about it.

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You're going to want

to do videos about it.

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You're going to want to

be spreading the news.

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There's this thing from the Supreme court.

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That's amazing.

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Look at the consequences for other.

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People have to feel that you

absolutely live and breathe your stuff.

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So think about what passionates you.

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If you're not passionate about

law, , we're not gonna be a

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good marketer about law, right?

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So think about that.

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Once you have your passion and you've

nailed it, and this is the thing.

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So for example, if you do m and

a, you can't just do m and a, you

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have to do a specific subset of m

and a, like FinTech, m and a, or.

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Tech M& A or medical, whatever

it is, insurance M& A.

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So pick a niche, don't go broad,

pick something very nichey.

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So you're going to speak very closely

to the ones who are very connected

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to that niche and a niche always have

specificities and it's going to help you

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adapt your content to people who are going

to react in like, Oh, this is exactly for

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me because I'm a tech, I'm a tech CEO.

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And this tech M& A is.

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It's speaking to my,

it's music to my ears.

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And, and once you've done that, then find

the media you're most comfortable with.

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Some people are fine on camera.

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Some people are shy and

they don't want to be seen.

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And they, whatever,

like it's very personal.

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But pick the one that you enjoy the most.

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Being on the camera.

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Do you enjoy talking?

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Then maybe a podcast is best.

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Do you enjoy writing?

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My co founder loves writing and reading.

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I'm not a writing and reading type of guy.

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So if that's what it is, do a medium.

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Start a medium blog, that kind.

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So identify what you enjoy

creating, whether it's video

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or sound or audio or writing.

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And then once you've picked that,

Start the practice like once a week,

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come up with a topic, come up with

something that you feel is exciting and

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interesting and create the content and

then start sharing it, it's going to be

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small in the early days, but it's, if

you do it consistently and you always

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think about how can you promote it,

to whom can you send it, eventually

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you will grow to something meaningful.

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Now, the promotion part obviously is key.

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So be strategic about that.

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How are you going to make

sure that this is being seen?

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When I did my stuff in the

late nineties, SEO was easy.

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I was probably the only person in

the entire French speaking countries

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who created content about visa.

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So visa, US visa.

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So I was.

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If you search for U.

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S.

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visa Etats Unis in

French, boom, that was me.

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Today, it probably wouldn't

happen, but you know what?

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I'm pretty sure there are still

opportunities even in SEO for a

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French speaking lawyer to create

content about French speaking business

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owners who want to go to the U.

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S.

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I'm pretty sure it is

still possible today.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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SEO is huge.

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I mean, especially for lawyers.

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I mean, that's how you're going

to get found online, but also

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social media is equally huge.

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So, I mean, thank you for sharing

your perspective on all of that.

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And before we dive deep into

Agora Pulse, my question is.

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Why is even like social media important

for lawyers, for business owners,

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for entrepreneurs, like, why should

they really invest their time into

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producing content, posting it every day?

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What's like the biggest advantages

that you see of doing that?

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And maybe even of not doing that.

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Cause there's people that

don't do it or they do it.

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They're not consistent with it.

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And I believe that part of

building a personal brand.

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Doing social media is that

you have to be consistent.

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So what are the biggest

advantages you see of doing it?

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And then also for people that aren't

doing it, what would you say to them?

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Yeah.

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So back to the promotion piece,

it all starts with the content.

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If you don't have any content

to share, having a presence on

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social media is a waste of time.

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What are you going to share?

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We had for breakfast or for dinner,

like nobody's going to be interested

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about your social media if you

don't have amazing content to share.

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So it starts with the content.

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So everything we, I, we we've said

earlier is valid and leads you to, okay,

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now you have the passion, now you have

the niche, now you have the content.

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How, where are you going to share that?

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How are you going to make people aware

that it exists and they can check it out?

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That's where social media is, is

probably in:

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channel that you need to leverage

and you need to, you need to seize.

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Web and SEO is one, but as web

and SEO, social media takes time.

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If you start writing content,

SEO is going to catch up.

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It may take a year and a half, two

years before you start having enough of.

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SEO presence to start getting

prospect in same for social media.

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It's the exact same thing.

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There's no shortcut, whatever you choose

as your main channel to distribute the

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amazing, the amazing content you're

creating, it's going to take time.

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But if the content is amazing, there

is no doubt people will come to it.

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If the content is amazing and you

constantly post on LinkedIn, for example,

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whether it's video, whether it's text,

people are going to start noticing and

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little by little, your followers are

going to grow and people are going to

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engage with it and thank you for that,

for sharing valuable content that's

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helping them and little by little,

it's going to, it's going to grow.

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What you can do to help it grow.

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There are a lot of tactics about the

hashtags you can use and, and engaging

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with other people in your space who

then engage back and get to know you.

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So you can do engagement, you

can use those kinds of tricks.

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You can do listening, trying to listen

to questions on Twitter about your stuff.

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Like, let's say you're an MNA

lawyer in tech MNA, is there anybody

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talking about tech MNA on Twitter?

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Go run a tech M& A listening

search on Twitter to see if there's

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anybody asking, Hey, do you know

a tech M& A blah, blah, blah.

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And then you can go in and say, yeah,

I know someone here's a, I wrote a blog

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post exactly about that two years ago.

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Here's the link.

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You can read about it.

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Maybe it's helpful.

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So you can have, you can do a little

bit of that and are here and are there.

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And eventually.

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Your notoriety online on social media

is going to grow month after month.

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And up until you get to a point

where, Oh, you wake up one morning

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and you have thousands of people

reading your stuff every morning.

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And then you're like, okay, now I'm a,

now I'm a star in my space on social.

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And if you do that, you

always end up there.

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I have at least four or five friends

who have above 1 million followers on

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YouTube now, which is an achievement.

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This, they all started at zero.

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Like, like, like me today, I'm not the

YouTube guy, so I'm not big there, but

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there, there were, there was one day when

they said, okay, I'm, I'm totally in non

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existent on that social media platform.

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I want to be present there and I

want to have a big following there.

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Start with the content.

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Then go with the distribution and

do it consistently and use all these

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tricks to get the world to notice.

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And one day you wake up and

you've built an audience and here

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you are, let's be honest here.

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It is hard.

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It is not for everyone.

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Not every lawyer is going to be

a YouTube star next year, right?

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We, we know that, but if you are

passionate about that and you want to

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grow and you want to be a top notch lawyer

in your space, that's how you do it.

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Yeah, I mean, and you know what?

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Right.

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But it doesn't happen overnight.

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So, but what we see outside looking in,

when we see someone, they have a million

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followers on Tik TOK on YouTube, or

they have a huge following on LinkedIn.

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We don't see all the work and effort

that was put into it, but the person

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who's done it has, and sometimes that

could have taken them five years.

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One year, three years, 10 years.

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We don't see that part.

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And then I think one of the issues is

that when people start doing something

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in terms of marketing, whether it's

SEO, whether it's having a podcast,

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whether it is writing blog content

or doing reels on like TikTok,

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YouTube shorts, all those things.

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I think people give up too easily

because with social media, I think

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people look at it the wrong way.

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I think they think, Oh, I can just post

up for a month and I'm going to get

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all these leads and clients coming in.

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And you and I both know that's

not the reality of it, right?

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With social media marketing, if you just

start today, it can realistically take.

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A year or two before you get leads

coming in however I think the main

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thing is having that online presence

is so critical because when someone

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Is deciding whether they want to work

with let's say that attorney or that

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business versus someone else They

are going to look them up online.

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They're going to look at

their social media channels.

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They're going to look at their

website They're going to look at if

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they've been You know, mentioned in

the press or anything, and they're

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going to compare and contrast.

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And I think that having a social

media presence or having a podcast

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or having a YouTube channel, I think

it gives you instant credibility.

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And that credibility can be

the difference between losing a

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referral or gaining a new client.

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What are your thoughts on that?

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Yeah, if I was an M& A lawyer still

today, you know what I would do?

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I would start a podcast and a blog.

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I would basically do blog, podcast

and YouTube, the three of them.

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Um, I would do the video interview and

then that video interview would become

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the podcast, the video and YouTube, of

course, but also the podcast because

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you have the audio and I would have a

transcript become the medium blog post.

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And I would interview tech

CEOs who sold their companies.

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And I would interview them on, okay,

let's talk about the legal side of things.

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What went wrong?

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What was complicated?

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What didn't you understand before

that you now understand that was

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like an aha moment for you on,

oh, that's why I need a lawyer.

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That what are the things that the, the

other side tried to negotiate and stick

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into the contract that you refused.

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And it was the right thing to

do because those things are very

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risky and dangerous for you.

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Let's talk the legal aspect of the

deal and not the money and the,

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and the big PR and all that stuff.

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Nope, I don't know of anybody doing that.

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And I'm a tech CEO now, and

that doesn't ring a bell.

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So the day I need, if I have my

lawyer, good for me, but if I don't

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have my lawyer, who I'm going to

turn to, I'm going to turn to the one

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who is interviewing all these tech

CEOs that are being acquired, right?

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And you don't have to be their lawyer, by

the way, you can just reach out to them.

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Hey, I heard you just sold your company.

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I would like to interview you on

the legal aspect of your stuff.

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I would, that's exactly what I would

do if I was an M& A lawyer today.

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And I wanted to be known

for the tech M& A lawyer.

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That's the example.

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I love that.

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That's a great example.

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And it's a strategy.

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I think everything, when it comes

to marketing and social media,

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you have to have a strategy.

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A lot of people start doing social

media, but they don't sit down first

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to formulate a strategy that's going to

help them obtain their business goals.

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And they just start like haphazardly.

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Right.

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So I think you have to have a

strategy and that's really important.

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So let's dive into, let's start talking

a little bit about Agorapause like.

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What inspired you to start this

company and what was the problem in

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the marketplace that you were trying to

solve when you first started the company?

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Well, so when we first started

in:

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that went busted since then.

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And for 10 years, we failed at trying

to be successful at that first company.

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So the 2000, 1000, and.

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10.

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End of 2010, the company was named

Affinities and basically the ID

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behind it, it was a piece of software

online in the cloud that allowed you

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to create your own social network.

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So think about this, in 2000, in 2001,

we released a software that allows

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you to create your own social network.

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Facebook started in 2004, , so being

too early on the market is not a good

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thing when you're an entrepreneur.

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So that we pivoted that to.

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B2B white label technology,

and then kind of an agent

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build an agency on top of that.

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So it was really hard.

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And during all these years,

I almost didn't pay myself.

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I was minimum wage for

four years in a row.

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So it was really tough, especially when

you you've been paid really well by, by

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an American law firm in Paris and in 2011.

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We randomly stumbled upon someone

who wanted to do contests and

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promotions on Facebook, and we started

building contests and promotions

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on Facebook for that business.

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And then another business,

and then another one.

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And then we basically started to become

an agency that was running Facebook apps.

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And we saw a company that had.

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Done that, but in, in a SaaS way, in a

way that it was a platform that you go,

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you would go, you subscribe for 99 a month

and you could create all the apps you

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want and start them on your Facebook page.

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So that's how Agorapulse got started as a

platform that allows you to build Facebook

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contests and promotion on your Facebook

page in that was launched in:

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Today, this part of the product

does not even exist anymore.

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We don't run contests and promotion

on Agorapulse because we quickly

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realized that the business was very bad.

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It was high churn business.

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The customer would come, do a contest

and stay two months and then leave.

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And the money was churning constantly.

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So we said, okay, that doesn't work.

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This is not going to build

the business we want to build.

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So we pivoted that to.

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The social media, which is okay.

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We only have Facebook.

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We need to add Twitter and then

Instagram and then LinkedIn and

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then this and then that, and we

only do contest and promotion.

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We need to do message management and

publishing and measurement and reporting.

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So between 2012 and 2016, we spent four

years adding features and to move from,

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we only do contest and promotion to, Oh,

we do the whole social media management.

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360.

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Feature set and in 2016,

I think we were okay.

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And in 2019, we had a solid product

and now we have a very solid product.

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Like it's one of the best on the market.

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And what's, what, so if people

know over social media management

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software, they probably heard about

Hootsuite or Sprout social, those

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are our main competition, basically.

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And when you look at us versus them,

there's one thing that's us versus

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them that I'm very proud about.

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They both raised 270 million.

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We've raised zero.

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So our company is completely bootstrapped.

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We're 170 people across the world.

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We make 24 million of annual revenue

and we have never raised money.

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So that's something I'm proud about.

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So with the customer we

work with, we're basically.

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More like them, most of the customers we

work with, I haven't raised 200 million.

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They've built their business

out of sweat equity.

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Right?

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So that's one thing, but really the

thing I'm very proud about is that

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we build an ROI engine return on

investment engine that allows us to

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tell you where conversion and revenue

is coming from on social media.

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So if you do social media.

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Uh, if you do a lot of activities on

social media, but you're not really

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sure which one is working, which one

is not, we're going to give you a

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detailed understanding on what your

private message are doing well, your

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comments are doing well, so your Twitter

is doing well, your LinkedIn is doing

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well, so we can see Really give you

a hint on what's working and what's

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not at the conversion level, at the

business result, business impact level.

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So that's the thing that

separates us from the competition.

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Otherwise we do the publishing and

the engagement and the listening and

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the measuring the everything at least

as well as the others on some stuff.

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They're a little bit better on this.

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We're a little bit better,

a little bit better on that.

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We all do publishing.

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We all do monitoring.

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We all do listening.

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We all do reporting.

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Our own way.

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Some people prefer ours.

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Some people prefer someone else's.

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That's competition.

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That's life.

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Right.

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At the core, what separates us and what

makes us a little bit different is this

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measuring ROI and business impact aspect.

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Well, I think measuring ROI is so

important because you need to know

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if your marketing is working or not.

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And if you're taking the time to

post, let's say on LinkedIn and the

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content on LinkedIn might be different

than what you post on, let's say,

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Instagram and Facebook and so forth.

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So I think it's really key.

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to have the data because if something's

working better, then that you can invest

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more time and effort into say LinkedIn

and that's more where your target audience

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is because each platform is different and

different platforms also have a different

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:

target audience where for some businesses.

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LinkedIn, maybe where their target

audience hangs out for others.

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It might be Instagram for others.

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It might be Tik TOK or Facebook.

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And having that data, I think is so

instrumental in the success of everything.

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And then when you say like it kind

of tracks ROI, is it basically

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giving analytics of like, okay,

this is your, these type of posts

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got the most amount of engagement.

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How does it actually know

what turns into like.

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:

Sales though, or does it?

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Yeah, it does.

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If, if in order to measure that it, it,

it does, if you have a link redirecting to

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:

an, to an asset, to a marketing asset you

have on your site, that's a downloadable.

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That's whatever, that's a free trial

for us, for me, that's a free trial.

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:

So we measure how many free trials

we get or how many downloads we get

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or how many webinar registration

we get or event registration.

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So you have to have something to measure.

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Obviously there's nothing to measure.

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If you were to say, hello, good morning.

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And that's where your post ends.

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There's nothing to measure behind it.

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:

But as soon as you say, Hey, we're

releasing this event on like, we're

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:

having an event in December of about.

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:

Pinterest marketing because we're

releasing a new Pinterest integration.

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:

So we have Pinterest as a keynote

speaker, like it's a creative event.

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It's a virtual event.

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And so we're promoting that event,

but that event is just value for them.

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It's free.

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It's really, if you're interested about

how can I make Pinterest work for my

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business and you're an agency, it's also

for agencies, then that event is perfect.

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So when we promote that event,

obviously there's a link to register

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to that event and that link.

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What we do, and by, by the

way, I, I patented this.

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So I filed a patent with the USPTO

to patent the, how we do it, but

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we automatically turn that random

link that you're including, that are

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including in your post that's leading

to your event, for example, where.

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We're UTM izing it automatically.

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So we turn that link, that's a

normal link, to a link that's

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entirely tracked and that's minified.

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And when we, then we connect with GA4,

with Google Analytics, and we repatriate

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through their API, everything that

happened after that link was clicked.

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And we connect the dots between

the post, the link, and what

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happened after the link.

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So we're able to tell you, oh,

that post that you, James, posted

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on LinkedIn at 9pm last Tuesday.

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It got five registrations to our event.

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Congrats, James.

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Thank you so much for helping us.

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And we're adding this to our

employee advocacy feature.

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So if you have all the, all the

people in your firm promoting that

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event, and they're spreading that

on their own LinkedIn, we're going

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to track all of that as well.

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:

So you're going to be able to say,

Oh, all the employees among all the

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employees, these are the ones who help us.

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Share the news of that

event based on those.

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We got that many visitors on our website

and based on those visitors, we have

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that many registrant to our event.

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And at the end of the day, you're able

to attribute business impact to what your

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team is doing on social media with you.

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So that's, yeah, that's how we do it.

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And I'm super passionate about

that because I'm passionate about.

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Knowing what's working and I feel like

social media has been put in the bucket

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:

of the must do, but don't want to do

it kind of stuff by many businesses.

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Ah, we have to do social media

because like we have to have a

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website of the early 20, 2000s.

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Right.

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And I really want to change that.

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I want to say, yes, we have to do social

media because now we know it can work

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and we know we can measure it so we can

have a strategy because it's really hard

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:

to have a strategy, a marketing strategy

when you have no idea what's working.

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:

Exactly.

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I love that.

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I think that's an amazing thing

that you guys can track that because

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you have to know what's working.

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That's definitely key.

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:

Now let's talk a little bit about,

I would love to get your thoughts

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on AI because AI is big things like

chat GPT, open AI integrations.

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How are you incorporating

AI into Agorapulse?

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:

And what are your personal thoughts on

AI and where it's where it's heading?

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:

Because it's growing at a

very fast pace right now.

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:

Yeah.

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That's definitely the question

of the month, the question

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:

of the year, the decade.

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:

Probably my co founder recently told me

that we always overestimate the impact

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:

of a technology when it just got out,

but we underestimate it in the long term.

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:

So in the short term, we overestimate

what it can do, but in the

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:

long term, we underestimate the

deep impact it's going to have.

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:

Look at the impact of the web

and 20, 20 years, 25 years later,

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:

looking at the impact on mobile.

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:

10 years after mobile became

really ubiquitous, back to social.

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:

Like there, there are a lot of shifts

in our world that we overestimated

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:

when we first, they first got out, but

we totally under, we had no idea what

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they would disrupt in the long run.

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:

So I am humble and I think I have no clue.

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:

Of about the level of disruption AI

is going to have on everything 20

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:

years from today, but I think that

today people's expectations are too

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:

high and the technology is not ready

yet to meet those expectations.

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:

Anyhow, what I see in the next,

I don't know, two to three years,

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:

it's hard to see further than that

is that AI is going to disrupt some

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:

industries and some businesses.

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:

Businesses that are providing a

service that you can actually go

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to chat GPT and ask something, and

they're going to give it to you.

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:

And it's almost the same.

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:

Those businesses are going to suffer.

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:

The best example of

that is Stack Overflow.

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:

So Stack Overflow is a place where

you can go and ask questions about.

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:

Co pieces of codes and stuff like that.

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:

ChatGPT can build a piece

of code for you now.

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:

So people don't go to Stack Overflow

anymore and they go to ChatGPT and

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:

Hey, you write me a JavaScript piece,

piece of JavaScript that does X,

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:

Y, and Z and boom, and here it is.

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:

And you have it.

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:

So you, the, the traffic on Stack

Overflow, I think I've gone down by like

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:

50 or 60 percent in just six months.

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:

It's crazy how disrupted

this business is by AI.

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So that's one example of those

who are going to be disrupted.

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:

And then for many others, AI is going

to be an add on, a companion, like a,

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:

a, a vitamin, if I may say, that you're

going to add a layer here and there.

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:

And I think we are one of those.

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:

So for example, AI can help you

improve the content you create.

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:

So you type in something and say,

make it shorter, funnier, longer,

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:

formal, more of this, more of that.

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:

So that we have already, we've

integrated that on the content.

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:

I think very soon we're, AI is going to

propose content based on past content

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:

that you've posted that was successful,

got a lot of engagement, lots of

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:

clicks, content from your competition.

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:

Like look at this guy and this guy

and that guy and propose content

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:

that looks like them, or look at

their best content in the past for

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:

AI is going to be doing all of that.

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:

Proposing, suggesting, keeping

you in control because at the end

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:

of the day, you have to stay in

control about your voice, right?

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You have to, I don't believe for a minute

about you putting a bot, turning it on

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:

and moving on to something else and coming

back to your social presence four months

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:

later, just to realize that your bot has

been praising Nazis or anything silly.

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:

Oh my God, what happened

on my social profile?

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:

So you have to stay in control and you

have, it's, it has to be your voice.

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:

Yeah.

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:

That AI is going to give you so much

more inspiration and curation, and that's

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:

going to help you be a lot more efficient.

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:

That's for sure.

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:

It's going to improve efficiency for sure.

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:

So when you reply to people like,

Oh, you could reply this, like

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:

suggesting a reply, it's already kind

of happening in many support tools and

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:

it's going to get better and better.

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So you're going to be

faster, more efficient.

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:

And, and this.

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Keep your own voice, but tell

it, tell it better, basically.

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:

So that's what AI is going to do

in our, in my industry for sure.

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:

And it's going to find

insights into your analytics.

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:

It's going to do a great two extra X,

basically going to look at a lot of

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:

data out of this massive amount of data.

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:

This, and that is what you need to

know, and that's what AI is gonna do.

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:

So making sense of a lot of the things

that today we're, we don't have time

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:

to check and audit it basically.

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So that's how I see AI in our industry.

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:

But beyond that, I have to

admit that, I don't know.

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:

It's quite exciting being an entrepreneur.

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:

I'm more excited than afraid.

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:

I'm more looking forward to it than, yeah.

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:

Than being scared by it.

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:

Yeah.

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But it's gonna be, you're,

you're embracing ai.

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:

And I think that's what I

always tell people like.

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You can't ignore it anymore because it

is here to stay and it is not, it's not

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:

a trend, it's not a fad, it's here to

stay and it's moving so fast that if

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:

you don't start embracing it now, this

is like what I do, like I'm a marketing

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:

and AI strategist, but my head's

spinning every time there's something

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:

new that comes out and it's changing so

quickly, but people that are more old

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:

school and they're resistant to it, I'm

going to say they need to start paying

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:

attention because it is here to stay.

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:

And every platform I look at for

social media management, all Even

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:

website design, they're all have

incorporated some element of AI built in.

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:

And that's why I was asking you as well,

because I was going to, I already knew

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:

the answer is going to be probably, yes.

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:

I just wanted to know what exactly it is.

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:

And with AI, like you have to put in

your own human intelligence into it.

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:

That's what I say, but really you have

to, you can't just like, yeah, turn it

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:

on and then that's it, but you really

have to put in your own intelligence

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:

because what you put in the input.

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:

Is really essentially the output that

you're going to get, if it's going

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:

to be good content or bad content.

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:

So I think it makes a big difference in,

in how you prompt AI and how you even like

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:

now with chat GPT, you can set up your own

custom GPTs and custom AI agents and bots.

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:

So I've actually set one up for myself.

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:

I set one up for lawyers.

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:

I'm setting up a couple of other ones

and you can program it to literally.

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:

Right.

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:

Content and the tone that you want,

the style that you want, the, it's

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:

going to know your brand voice.

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:

It's going to know all those things.

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:

And this is something that

it's like, it's here already.

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:

Right.

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:

So as the future evolves, right.

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:

What are, or is there anything that

maybe it's top secret, you can't

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:

disclose it, but is there anything

new and exciting besides maybe, or you

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:

can elaborate on the Pinterest one of

any integrations or any new features

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:

that you're adding into Agora Pulse?

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:

Oh, we're adding a ton of stuff in the

next 12 months, but really the one I'm

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:

the most excited about is the advocacy we

call, we used to call it the ambassador.

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:

It's still in beta right now, but

it's going to be, I think they decided

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:

on, they settled down on advocacy.

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:

So it's going to be advocacy feature.

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:

It's basically when you're a small

medium business and your social media

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:

presence is not that great, like

it's okay, but it's not that great.

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:

It is hard.

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:

And again, you remember my passion is

attributing success to social media.

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:

It is hard to create success out of

organic social media on your own.

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:

It really hard.

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:

And that's something we discovered and

realized as we were helping our customers

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:

with our social media ROI feature.

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:

If you cannot do it alone, ask for

help and ask, create an influencer

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:

program or work with influencers or.

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:

And we can call them

influencers or ambassadors.

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:

Find people who are excited about

your business and your company,

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:

and you are okay to be your

voice in the outside on social.

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:

Work with your employees

if they are okay with that.

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:

And don't be alone trying

to be successful on social.

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:

Do it as a team.

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:

And that feature is allowing

businesses to do that.

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:

And as a business.

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:

I can tell you that I

am excited to use it.

746

:

Like, let me give you one

very simple, basic example.

747

:

We share job openings for our, for all

the jobs that we have, we offer right now.

748

:

And there are jobs that

are pretty hard to feel.

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:

Web developers are one of them.

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:

Product managers or product

designers also quite hard to recruit.

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:

When you have a bunch of web developers

and product managers and product

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:

designers in your team, and you encourage

them to, Hey, here's a job opening.

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:

Can you share it on LinkedIn?

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:

Can you help us spread the word?

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:

And so, so first you get colleagues

that you enjoy because they're

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:

part of your network and they're

your friends and you know them.

757

:

So can you help us do that?

758

:

And if they do that, and

you can know who did it.

759

:

And you can know how many applications

you got from who in the team.

760

:

And you can celebrate that.

761

:

And you can go on the all hands meeting on

Wednesday and say, guys, this is amazing.

762

:

Jenna, she shared her, the job opening

on LinkedIn, and we got three applicants

763

:

who are this guy and that guy, and

we are actually in the final process.

764

:

Jenna, so much for helping.

765

:

How do you think she's going to feel?

766

:

She's going to feel amazing.

767

:

And you're going to feel amazing.

768

:

And everybody's going to like,

Oh my God, that's amazing.

769

:

That's great.

770

:

I love that story.

771

:

I love that we can be a part of

the success and have an impact.

772

:

And.

773

:

Stories like that cannot exist with

you in a vacuum trying to promote

774

:

your own business on your own.

775

:

It has to be based on you leveraging

the teams or team of employees or

776

:

a team of external ambassadors.

777

:

So that feature for me is exciting

because I can see how I can use it.

778

:

I can see how I can make it part

of our plan to succeed on social

779

:

and not do it on your, on our own.

780

:

Thank you for sharing that.

781

:

I love that.

782

:

I love that.

783

:

So a few more questions about Agorapause

in terms of who it's ideal for, is

784

:

it more ideal for specific types of

businesses or like meaning, like, is

785

:

it better for solopreneurs, small to

midsize, like who's the target audience?

786

:

Yeah, we're not, we're not

targeting solopreneurs.

787

:

I'm not going to lie.

788

:

We used to, that's how we got started.

789

:

But today, the.

790

:

Solopreneurs can find enough in

the free native Meta platform and

791

:

oh, they go natively on LinkedIn.

792

:

So like solopreneurs are very careful

about how they spend their money.

793

:

And when you tell them,

oh, this is 49 a month.

794

:

Oh, that's expensive.

795

:

Well, 49 a month is not expensive.

796

:

This is nothing for me.

797

:

It is absolutely nothing,

but for them it is.

798

:

So there's a mismatch between the value

we provide and how they value that value.

799

:

And for them, that's

not good enough because.

800

:

The level of complexity they have

to deal with is not that great.

801

:

So they don't need so much of a complex

tool to deal with their own problems.

802

:

So we're more like SMBs

of 50 plus employees.

803

:

I would say something like

that and mid market businesses.

804

:

So if you think about.

805

:

If you think about a law firm,

like we discussed earlier, if

806

:

you're a solo lawyer on your own,

you probably don't need a tool.

807

:

You probably want to do it on your own.

808

:

And before you even consider a tool,

build a presence, build a content, get

809

:

some level of success, and then you'll

understand how a tool can use you.

810

:

But don't start with the tool.

811

:

It probably doesn't make sense.

812

:

If you're a 50 people law firm with

someone in charge of marketing, and

813

:

it's, it is something really, you've

already invested in and you want to

814

:

make, you want to keep investing in it.

815

:

It's working, but you.

816

:

But it's a bit messy and chaotic,

then a tool is probably a good idea.

817

:

So I'd say the four agencies, we

usually say it's 10 people plus, so

818

:

more than 10 people in the agency.

819

:

And for businesses, it's

probably about 50 people.

820

:

But you know, it depends if you're

super, super active on social,

821

:

maybe a 30 people company can see

value in using a tool like ours.

822

:

And you have a lot of

profiles and a lot of people.

823

:

Involved in the social media work,

but I'd say if you're a small,

824

:

you're probably better off going

native and using the native tools and

825

:

figuring it out without learning a

tool or spending money on the tool.

826

:

And yeah, we, our, our self service

plan started 49 49 a month when you pay

827

:

identity or 69 a month, if you don't.

828

:

So they're still very affordable, but.

829

:

What I've noticed is the smaller

they are, the more immature they

830

:

are in how they market on social,

the less value they see in the tool.

831

:

So they tend not to buy it or not to stay.

832

:

Yeah.

833

:

Thank you.

834

:

Yeah, that makes sense.

835

:

And the thing is there are so

many platforms out there already.

836

:

I mean, they can use buffer for free,

things like that, but it's more so like

837

:

Agorapulse is tailored towards companies.

838

:

That really need analytics.

839

:

They want to know data, right?

840

:

They want to know like what's working,

what's not, so they can do more of that.

841

:

And they're really doing

things on a larger scale.

842

:

So that makes, that makes perfect sense.

843

:

And then what about in terms

of Agorapulse, how did you

844

:

and your co founder grow the

company throughout the years?

845

:

Because one of the hardest things about

having company and when you start out, it.

846

:

Doesn't always work.

847

:

Like you said, the other company

you had, it failed, right?

848

:

But part of entrepreneurship is not

giving up and trying things differently.

849

:

So what are some things that

you've experienced along the

850

:

way and maybe some tips you can

provide to other people that are.

851

:

On their entrepreneurial

journey on success.

852

:

Yeah, we could make an entire

podcast interview just on that alone.

853

:

It's been a day on it.

854

:

It's a loaded question.

855

:

There's a lot, there's

a lot there for sure.

856

:

If I summarize to the key pillars

of what you have to keep in mind,

857

:

when you start a business, the

first thing that's really important.

858

:

So you mentioned not giving

up is important, but not being

859

:

stubborn is important as well.

860

:

So not obsessing about.

861

:

Not giving up on something that doesn't

work is you should give up at some point.

862

:

Like knowing when to give up is

also a skill is also important.

863

:

So I would say don't give up too fast,

but make sure that if you're not giving

864

:

up, what you're creating is going up into

the right in some way, shape or form.

865

:

So if what you're doing is going

up into the right in a way like it,

866

:

yeah, the business is increasing.

867

:

It's only 500 a month more.

868

:

But it is 500 a month more.

869

:

And my goal now next quarter is to do

a month, more than:

870

:

You have to go up into the right.

871

:

You have to feel that you have

to get that feeling of progress.

872

:

If it is progressing.

873

:

And it's probably worth not

giving up and keep working on it.

874

:

So that would be the first thing, but do

give up if there's no progress, if there's

875

:

no progress and you don't pay yourself and

you're miserable, and it's been a year,

876

:

it's probably worth giving up now and

not hurting yourself, obsessing about it.

877

:

That would be the first thing.

878

:

The second thing, which is kind

of linked to the first thing is.

879

:

Be ready to adapt quickly.

880

:

Be ready to change, be okay to change our,

when I look at the first business pivoted

881

:

three times in 10 years, so we did, they

were entirely different three times.

882

:

And Agorapulse pivoted probably twice.

883

:

So the product we have today

has absolutely nothing to do

884

:

with the product we had in 2012.

885

:

Nothing is completely different.

886

:

And.

887

:

The business who succeed are the one

who adapt the best and the fastest.

888

:

So be always on the lookout.

889

:

So who do I need?

890

:

What do I need to change?

891

:

And if the change is small, that's fine.

892

:

If this change is big, that's fine too.

893

:

If you have to make big.

894

:

That changes, like go ahead and do them.

895

:

That the second thing, the third

thing is find a way to learn fast.

896

:

Like you have to learn fast.

897

:

When you start a business, nothing,

it's as, as if when you exit law school

898

:

and you start working for a law firm, I

remember me, nothing, you're absolutely,

899

:

you're clueless and then you go, you

take, you have your first job and then

900

:

you learn, Oh my God, like at such a

speed, like the amount of stuff you

901

:

learn by doing the work is tremendous.

902

:

Building a business is the same thing.

903

:

On day one of building a business,

you have no clue what you're doing.

904

:

And you, you have to find, you have to

find all the ways you can to learn this.

905

:

By doing and by surrounding yourself

with mentors and peers and people

906

:

who are, who have done it and

are a little bit ahead of you.

907

:

And so read books, get people who are

a little bit ahead of you and invite

908

:

them to lunch once a month and ask

them question, I had this problem.

909

:

What do you think?

910

:

Be part of clubs or network groups that

are locals to you so you can see them

911

:

and meet with them on a regular basis.

912

:

Be ready to learn fast because you have

to be aware that you know, nothing, and

913

:

you don't know how to build a business.

914

:

And you don't have no, you don't

know how to grow that business.

915

:

And you will have to

figure it out on the go.

916

:

So I keep telling, I mentor

a bunch of entrepreneurs who

917

:

are tech SaaS entrepreneurs.

918

:

And the one thing I keep telling them

is like, you are not the right person

919

:

to take your business to the next level.

920

:

You're not yet that person.

921

:

Now it has to be your commitment

to become that person.

922

:

So what are you doing

to become that person?

923

:

What's your plan?

924

:

And every entrepreneur should be

asking themselves that question.

925

:

I am not the right, we

are 23, 24 millions now.

926

:

I am not the right person to take

this business to a hundred millions.

927

:

I know that.

928

:

What am I doing to become that person?

929

:

You're becoming that you're going to

do what it takes to become that person.

930

:

You're going to adapt and continue

to learn and being willing to pivot.

931

:

Yeah.

932

:

I think those are such great tips

and advice for entrepreneurs.

933

:

And I appreciate that.

934

:

So thank you for sharing that.

935

:

And is there anything else

about Agorapulse that I didn't

936

:

ask that you'd like to share?

937

:

No, not really.

938

:

I mean, we, we are, despite us

being based in France, we are

939

:

a truly international company.

940

:

We have half of the

companies outside of France.

941

:

We have 30 people in the U S

almost 20 people in Canada.

942

:

Now we have people in Mexico,

in Argentina, in Ireland, in the

943

:

UK, like all over the place and.

944

:

It's an amazing team.

945

:

So if you ever get in touch with our

salespeople or support people, asking

946

:

them questions, you'll see how caring they

are and how helpful and kind and smart.

947

:

You can only know that for sure once

you've had interactions with the team.

948

:

But if you, if any of the listeners ever

have a chance to talk to any of my team

949

:

members, they'll probably feel that.

950

:

Deep level of care and

expertise and willing to help.

951

:

So that's something I'm very proud and

happy about when you build a business.

952

:

I think the, the top of the pleasure

as a business owner and an entrepreneur

953

:

is to wake up in the morning and

start interacting with your team

954

:

and feel like I love that person.

955

:

That's amazing.

956

:

This conversation we just had was so

fulfilling and constructive and helpful.

957

:

And when you feel that day

in and day out, you're in the

958

:

best you're, that's happiness.

959

:

That's what it is.

960

:

People look for happiness.

961

:

That's exactly what it is.

962

:

It's the people you spend your days with.

963

:

You absolutely love doing it with them

because they are a plus in your life.

964

:

Yeah, I love that because it

always comes from the top.

965

:

Right.

966

:

And if that's the culture

that you are promoting, right.

967

:

As the leaders of the organization, I

think the employees see that because

968

:

when you have a support staff, that's

rude or they're lazy or they're whatever.

969

:

And it's a reflection of like top

down like the management because

970

:

they're not being trained properly

or they're not being told like,

971

:

Hey, this is how we operate here.

972

:

This is our culture.

973

:

This is how you treat people.

974

:

This is our mission statement,

our values and what we stand for.

975

:

And that should be

instilled in every single.

976

:

Employee globally.

977

:

And that's like, when you like, for

example, you take the example of Sam

978

:

Altman and the recent open AI development,

or you've heard about all the madness.

979

:

It's like a literally

like a tech soap opera.

980

:

And what you'll notice is like his team

and his staff, they literally have been

981

:

so loyal to him that they all said they're

going to walk out and quit if they don't.

982

:

Reinstate him.

983

:

Right.

984

:

And I actually just did a podcast

episode on that two days ago.

985

:

And because it tells you like that person

is a great leader because he actually

986

:

has the ability to influence people and

to lead them to take action and that

987

:

his team and his staff respects him.

988

:

And I think when you are

leading a big organization and a

989

:

company as CEO, whatever it is.

990

:

I think that it's really important that

your team and your staff respect you

991

:

because if they do There's going to be

more loyalty from them than if they don't

992

:

I think they're not really going to take

pride in the work that they do but it goes

993

:

to show like if you treat your team with

respect and All of those things, they're

994

:

probably going to show it back to people.

995

:

And so that's one piece of advice.

996

:

Treat people the way

you want to be treated.

997

:

That's always a good rule.

998

:

And by the way, sometimes, sometimes that

means that you expect a lot from people

999

:

because I expect a lot from myself.

:

00:49:42,271 --> 00:49:46,121

And when my board comes to me and

is like giving me challenges and

:

00:49:46,121 --> 00:49:51,121

giving me high goals and pushing me

to go beyond my comfort zone, I'm

:

00:49:51,241 --> 00:49:54,441

it's discomfort, but at the same

time, like, okay, that's their role.

:

00:49:54,441 --> 00:49:56,211

And I'm going to, I'm

going to push for that.

:

00:49:56,711 --> 00:49:57,531

And I also.

:

00:49:57,876 --> 00:49:59,226

Do the same thing with my team.

:

00:49:59,226 --> 00:50:02,036

And I think they appreciate

that when they're being pushed

:

00:50:02,566 --> 00:50:04,876

outside of their comfort zone,

because that's where they grow.

:

00:50:05,366 --> 00:50:07,696

So like you, you have

to give them that too.

:

00:50:07,696 --> 00:50:12,116

It's not only being nice, but it's also

being that person is going to push them

:

00:50:12,146 --> 00:50:16,175

to become the best version of themselves,

which sometimes means that you have to.

:

00:50:16,436 --> 00:50:17,316

Push them a little bit.

:

00:50:17,436 --> 00:50:17,666

Yeah.

:

00:50:17,716 --> 00:50:22,086

I think people confuse nice and

being a good leader and being a

:

00:50:22,086 --> 00:50:24,046

good leader is not only being nice.

:

00:50:24,056 --> 00:50:25,846

Sometimes it's also pushing a little bit.

:

00:50:26,516 --> 00:50:26,906

Yeah.

:

00:50:27,126 --> 00:50:27,646

I like that.

:

00:50:27,646 --> 00:50:31,486

I love that pushing them because you're,

you have to push them to do better and

:

00:50:31,486 --> 00:50:36,186

to want more and to set like a higher

bar and higher standards for their

:

00:50:36,186 --> 00:50:38,526

work and for everything that they do.

:

00:50:38,526 --> 00:50:39,396

So I love that.

:

00:50:39,656 --> 00:50:43,366

So I'm sure you have one or two of

these, but do you have a favorite quote?

:

00:50:43,876 --> 00:50:47,356

That you like to live your life

by or that has really inspired

:

00:50:47,356 --> 00:50:48,346

you throughout the years.

:

00:50:50,441 --> 00:50:54,611

I don't really have a quote or a

philosophy of how you live your life.

:

00:50:54,891 --> 00:50:55,181

Yeah.

:

00:50:55,181 --> 00:50:59,591

But the, well, how I live my

life definitely is passion and

:

00:50:59,591 --> 00:51:00,981

the stuff that passionates you.

:

00:51:01,381 --> 00:51:04,751

All of this and any job, by the

way, if you're a top lawyer in a

:

00:51:04,751 --> 00:51:06,731

big firm, your job is hard as hell.

:

00:51:07,281 --> 00:51:09,390

Any job, creating a business.

:

00:51:09,881 --> 00:51:11,401

Life is tough.

:

00:51:11,451 --> 00:51:12,061

It's hard.

:

00:51:12,881 --> 00:51:17,111

If you're not passionate about doing

it, you give up because you're sane.

:

00:51:17,331 --> 00:51:18,231

You don't want to be hurt.

:

00:51:18,281 --> 00:51:19,441

You don't want to feel pain.

:

00:51:19,461 --> 00:51:22,881

So you're not going to do something

that you don't absolutely enjoy doing.

:

00:51:23,181 --> 00:51:27,121

So having the passion for it

and being genuinely happy.

:

00:51:27,336 --> 00:51:29,496

But what you do is absolutely crucial.

:

00:51:30,886 --> 00:51:35,366

Recently, I've been telling my marketing

team a lot about, we've been talking a

:

00:51:35,366 --> 00:51:39,776

lot about marketing attribution, and I

had a lot of pushback of people who said,

:

00:51:39,776 --> 00:51:41,526

yeah, but you cannot measure everything.

:

00:51:41,536 --> 00:51:42,636

You cannot see everything.

:

00:51:42,706 --> 00:51:43,846

What you see is.

:

00:51:44,051 --> 00:51:45,631

Just the tip of the iceberg.

:

00:51:45,641 --> 00:51:49,631

There's so much happening in dark

social and in going, people going to a

:

00:51:49,631 --> 00:51:54,241

mobile on Safari, and then they go to

their desktop on, on Chrome and then

:

00:51:54,251 --> 00:51:56,151

the tracking doesn't work this way.

:

00:51:56,151 --> 00:51:57,011

So you lose it.

:

00:51:57,021 --> 00:51:58,581

So you're never going to

get the attribution, right?

:

00:51:59,151 --> 00:52:03,841

So my, my late, my list, my latest quote

on that was like, yeah, I understand

:

00:52:03,841 --> 00:52:06,951

that tracking is only giving you the

tip of the iceberg, but you know what?

:

00:52:06,981 --> 00:52:07,701

There's no tip.

:

00:52:07,711 --> 00:52:08,771

There's no freaking iceberg.

:

00:52:08,786 --> 00:52:11,196

So you'd better track something.

:

00:52:11,196 --> 00:52:14,456

So at least you can see something and

make decisions based on what you see.

:

00:52:14,836 --> 00:52:17,186

If you see nothing, there's

probably nothing going on.

:

00:52:17,486 --> 00:52:21,986

So if you cannot see the tip of the

iceberg of your marketing and the result

:

00:52:22,006 --> 00:52:24,216

you get, there's probably nothing there.

:

00:52:24,266 --> 00:52:25,616

It's probably not working.

:

00:52:25,626 --> 00:52:29,046

So that was, yeah, if there's no

tip, there's no freaking iceberg.

:

00:52:29,336 --> 00:52:29,936

I like that.

:

00:52:30,806 --> 00:52:31,076

Yeah.

:

00:52:31,551 --> 00:52:32,191

That's perfect.

:

00:52:32,211 --> 00:52:33,161

I love that.

:

00:52:33,191 --> 00:52:33,781

I love that.

:

00:52:34,031 --> 00:52:35,261

This has been amazing.

:

00:52:35,261 --> 00:52:38,661

So we will link, of course,

Agorapulse and the show notes, but

:

00:52:38,661 --> 00:52:42,571

tell the audience where and how they

can connect with you or any other

:

00:52:42,571 --> 00:52:44,431

things that you wanted to promote.

:

00:52:44,431 --> 00:52:47,791

If you have any special promotions

coming up or anything that you

:

00:52:47,791 --> 00:52:50,011

wanted to let everyone know about.

:

00:52:50,541 --> 00:52:50,771

Yeah.

:

00:52:50,871 --> 00:52:54,301

Well, connecting with me the best is

LinkedIn because that's the social

:

00:52:54,301 --> 00:52:55,691

network I'm the most active on.

:

00:52:55,751 --> 00:52:57,881

I'm not so active in the others anymore.

:

00:52:58,606 --> 00:53:04,026

And so you can find me at Emre Garnou,

E R N O U L T E N E R I C on LinkedIn.

:

00:53:04,056 --> 00:53:07,206

And when you invite me, please

add a note to the invitation.

:

00:53:07,206 --> 00:53:09,176

Say, hi, listen to your podcast on X.

:

00:53:09,676 --> 00:53:12,686

That way I know that's a legit invitation.

:

00:53:12,716 --> 00:53:17,676

Cause I get like, I think 25 to 30

invitations a day and I go through them.

:

00:53:17,676 --> 00:53:20,736

But when I don't know them and there's

no, I disregard because otherwise

:

00:53:20,736 --> 00:53:21,806

my LinkedIn is going to be a mess.

:

00:53:22,581 --> 00:53:25,371

And I'll happily accept the invitation.

:

00:53:25,371 --> 00:53:29,571

And if you have any ask for me, I'll re

I'll reply to every invitation that I

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00:53:29,581 --> 00:53:31,801

haven't asked that's that I can help with.

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So that's the way and on, on promotions,

like we have this, we have this Pinterest

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event, so it's for agencies only.

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So it's probably not going to be that

interesting for most people, but if

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you're an agency and you're wondering

how you can leverage Pinterest to.

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You better business on social media.

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This does that event coming up mid

December, that may be interesting if

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the podcast get released before, I

don't know, actually, yeah, actually

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it will, so I'm going to ask you to

send me the link to that so I can

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actually put it in the show notes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I'll send it to you.

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Promise.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Well, this is a pleasure.

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Thank you so much for being on the show.

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It was a pleasure too.

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Well, I, and thank you for working

on Black Friday, which is, which is a

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testament of your dedication to your work.

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So you probably have a passion

for what you do as well.

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I do.

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And have a great weekend.

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