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From SEO to AEO: Redefining Search for Business Success
Episode 8819th February 2026 • The One Small Change Podcast • Yvonne McCoy
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In this insightful episode of The One Small Change Podcast, Yvonne McCoy welcomes digital marketing expert Frank Buddenbrock to dive deep into the evolving landscape of being found online. Together, they explore the concept of Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), the importance of staying relevant in digital marketing, and the practical steps entrepreneurs must take to ensure that their services and content are visible in a rapidly changing environment. With actionable tips, real-world stories, and a mindset focused on experimentation, this episode delivers essential strategies for anyone looking to boost their online presence.

Guest Bio:

Frank Buddenbrock is the founder of a longtime digital marketing agency with 20 years of experience helping businesses get discovered online. With a background that stretches back to the pre-Google era, he’s an expert in website development, ad management, SEO, and marketing innovation. His entrepreneurial spirit drives his passion for teaching others how to adapt, stay visible, and thrive in the fast-changing world of online search.


Chapters:

00:00 "Small Changes, Big Impact"

04:07 Desert Survival Skills Dilemma

08:06 "Visibility and Staying Relevant"

11:31 Evolving Search Habits and Queries

13:26 "Curiosity-Driven Questioning in Messaging"

17:11 "Girl Scouts, Marketing, and Dad"

20:29 "Creative Email Strategy Insights"

25:50 "Scaling Google Ads Effectively"

29:36 "Learn, Connect, and Grow"

31:10 Entrepreneurship Is an Experiment


Quote from the Guest:

“But the point is, you still need to market. It doesn’t matter what you do, what you offer… even the big guys, the Fords, the Apples, the Microsofts, the Verizons of the world, they are running ads constantly. And there’s a very good reason why they do that.”


Link:

Receive a free AEO Assessment by sending an email to [email protected] with the subject line: AEO Assessment

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Welcome everybody to The One Small Change. And as always, I

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am so thrilled that you are spending your time with me today. And

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we are going to embark on a journey of exploration and

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transformation. And I'm your host, Yvonne McCoy, and I bring almost

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30 years of entrepreneurial experience. And I have a passion

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for discovering growth through the power of seemingly

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small change. And I want to thank you again for— I know

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your time is important, so I want to thank you again for coming,

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and I do this because I want to share with you

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people that I think will help you grow your business. And this week

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we are talking with Frank Buddenbrock and

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he is going to share with you how his story,

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how his life made a change in what he does that makes

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him really good at what he does. So

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Frank, thank you for being here. Thank you for

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sharing with my audience. Um, I know they're going to get

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a fistful of— what a weird thing to say, a

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fistful. They're going to get a handful. I think

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we're all in fight and flight right now. You're going to get a

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handful of information that is really going to help you grow your business.

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So tell us what you do and take it away.

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Sure. Again, Frank Budenbrock. I have a digital marketing

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agency for the last 20 years. We do pretty much everything

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and anything it takes to promote a business online, and that could be

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anything from website development to social media

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management. A lot of the work that we do now is, of course,

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Google and Facebook ads management, and then search

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engine optimization, and now the new AEO, or

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answer engine optimization. We also do a lot

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of email marketing campaigns for clients because Once we've

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driven someone to your website, you need to follow up with them.

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It's rare that they're going to have just an impulse

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buy, unless you're an e-commerce site, let's say. But if you've got a service or

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product that they want to do some research on, they're going to

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have to be educated and entertained and engaged.

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And, you know, you have to tell them why you have the best solution to

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the problem they're trying to solve. So before you go, before you go

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any further, because I'm not, you know, an

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expert in any of that, I've never heard of— what did you call it?

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Answer? Answer Engine Optimization, or

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AEO. Uh-huh. I don't even know what that means.

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Yep. Well, you're not alone. A lot of people are

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seemingly unfamiliar with it, though you've probably seen it every day of the

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week. Now, when you do a search for something,

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if you do a Google search for something, Google is going

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to return a page, what's called a search engine results

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page or a SERP. And at the very top of that page now,

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Google puts their AI overview. And

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that has a, like a summary,

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but it's at the top of the page and it's called the AI overview.

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And what that is, is the answer to the question that

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you've just asked in the Google search bar. I do. I saw that

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today. Yep. And so now the goal

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is to make sure that your product or your service, your

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business is one of those companies mentioned in that

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paragraph. And that's what the new answer engine

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optimization is all about, because most people now are

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finding the answer that they want there. And they're no longer scrolling

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down, so they're rarely seeing your ads. They're rarely seeing your

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website listed as one of the search results. So

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it's a, it's a very big deal. It's really changed the world of

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search. Well, you know, one of the things, one of the

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reasons I was really interested in having you come on was because

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we share something in common, and that is Be Found.

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So tell us your story and why you're good at helping people be found.

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Well, sure. Years ago, actually before the

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internet was what it is today, before Google was the search engine

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of choice, I was the president of the Southern California Land Rover

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Club, and we used to do a lot of exploring in the Southern

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California area, and that included things like Death Valley and the Mojave

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Desert. And it dawned on me that I should have somebody teach our

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members desert survival skills 'Cause there are times

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when you're out there in the desert and something can happen to your car, something

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completely not your fault, something you didn't do, but you may have a

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catastrophic failure in your vehicle. You're out in the desert and now what

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do you do? You're miles from the nearest road and what

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are you gonna do to survive? But again, this is way before the

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internet and trying to find that person, somebody to teach

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my members desert survival skills, was virtually

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impossible. I mean, they don't list themselves in the White Pages, if you

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remember those, or the Yellow Pages, if you remember those.

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And it was very difficult to find that person. But I

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heard about this thing, the internet, or the World Wide Web, as we called

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it back then. And I thought, well, maybe there's a website

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where that person might have listed themselves, some kind

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of a directory. And I, I searched high and

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low and couldn't find that person. And so I thought, well, you know

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what, there should be a website where you can find experts in any

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field. And so I decided I would build that website,

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and it was called findanexpertonline.com.

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And it took me quite a while to build it.

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WordPress didn't exist, Wix didn't exist, none of

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these platforms exist back then. You had

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to do things like Joomla for the directory part. I had to use

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a program called phpMyDirectory, and back then

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they barely could talk to each other. It was impossible to get them

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to integrate. Things like YouTube didn't

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exist back then, and trying to get an interview or a podcast like

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this again was very, very difficult. There was no delivery

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method back then. Nevertheless, I decided to make this

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directory. I did, and I started having experts

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subscribe or be members in this directory. And I

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tried to find one of my own experts doing a search,

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and I couldn't find them. And I said, well, that's not going to work. I

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can't charge these people money to be in my directory and then not have them

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be found. So I found out that there's this thing called

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search engine optimization. And I read both books

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at Barnes Noble on the subject at the time. I took

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a couple classes at UCLA and one at UC Santa

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Barbara. I put all this information together, made my own recipe for

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search engine optimization, and applied it to my own website. And

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then sure enough, there I am on the first page after about 5

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months. Actually, it took quite a while.

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So, um, back then Google again was not the search engine of choice. We had

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things like AltaVista Ask

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Jeeves, uh, AOL, uh, yep, and Dogpile. I always found that one to be kind

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of curious. But then finally Google came along

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and, uh, superseded everybody. They really came in

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with a phenomenal algorithm and set

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the standard. And so now all the other search engines at

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that time anyway would just license the data that Google was

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collecting. And that made the job a whole lot easier. So, and

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then— I'm sorry, finish, finish. Yeah,

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so, uh, in that process of building my website and doing the

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search engine optimization, as the internet started ramping up, it

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also dawned on me, hey, people are going to have websites and they're

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going to want to have them found, and the way to do that is through

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search engine optimization. And so that's how I started the

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digital marketing agency that I have today. So there are a couple

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of things. Some of these are kind of high level, but the first thing I

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think is, and this is what I believe as

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well, is people, you know, people

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need to be found. You can have the best product, you can have the best

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service, the best process, the whatever, but if nobody

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can find you, it doesn't matter. So that's the

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first thing. The second thing that I think you hit on kind

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of unintentionally is The way to be

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found is constantly changing. So

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if you were doing something that, you know, you used to come up and, you

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know, ask Jeeves, that's not going to help you now. So you have to

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stay relevant. And I think as entrepreneurs, that's probably one

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of the biggest mistakes that we make,

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is that we think we fixed a problem and then we don't look at

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it again. Do you know, you know, I— and one of the things

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that I say all the time is people are practicing to be perfect, practicing

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to be perfect, practicing to be perfect, and when they think

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they finally nailed it, that thing doesn't exist

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anymore. So you gotta be imperfect and jump in right

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away. And then I think the third thing— there was a third

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thing— so you got to be found, you got to be found in

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relevant places, and I don't remember the

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third one, but it'll come to me. So go ahead. You know,

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yeah, no, you're absolutely correct. We tell

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clients it's not a set it and forget it situation at

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all, especially with the internet. I mean, literally

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Google changes things almost on a daily basis. I mean, it is, it is a

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moving target, you know, and it, it makes it interesting, makes

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it frustrating. But it keeps us on our

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toes, keeps it very fresh in our minds, you know, and

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what worked maybe next week doesn't work this week, you

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know, the paradigm changes all the time. And now,

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like I said, with the AEO, 6 months ago

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that barely existed, but, you know, a week ago

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it's now very, very, very much at the

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top of people's conversation. What, what, what would you

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say are the other misconceptions that people have

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about being found on the internet or in internet

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marketing? Well, I think a lot of it, again, for being

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relevant, that's very important. Now with the

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AEO, it's all about answering the questions that people have.

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So now the process, rather than just targeting

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specific keywords, right, if you just had a particular keyword that you

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were targeting, and hoping that people would type that in

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and your page would come up on that first page of results. Now

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the thing is that people are answering questions, answering questions, or asking

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questions. They're much longer phrases, you know, what is the

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best project management software? You know, so it's a whole

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question. And so now the challenge is making content on your

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site that literally has that exact question maybe in

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the title tag, maybe at the H1 tag or the title of that

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page, and then answering that exact question through the content of

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your page. So that's, that's very, very

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critical. So this never dawned on me, but

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it— so for instance, we used

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to say, give me management software,

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give me management you know, what's some management

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software? And now we're asking more to get

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a qualitative answer, like give me the top

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10 or give me the best. I never thought

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about that before because I actually, I mean, and

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it's funny because I did a search today. I wouldn't even tell you what it's

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on because it's really weird, but I went in and

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I originally put in the phrase of the

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thing And then I was like, that's not really— I mean, I, you know, that's

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not really what I want. What I really want is this. And so it's a

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much longer question. So that's an interesting thing because I think

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some of us— there are some ideas that I

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think we are attached to, like you have to have the right

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hashtag, you have to have the right words, you have to— but it

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again, it's evolving. Oh, yeah. Very

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much. And I think a lot of it is driven by the

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smartphone. One's on my desk here somewhere, but because it's

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now going to mobile, right, on your smartphone, and

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people don't want to necessarily type in an entire

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question, so now they're using voice search. And that's how

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Google is seeing where the intent is. So people are no longer

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just typing in project management software., but

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now they're using their voice command and they're asking Siri

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or Google, you know, what is the best project management software I can find

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for my company? Well, nobody's going to type that in, but now that you can

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do it by voice, now that phrase is an entire question,

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right? Or a whole sentence rather than just targeting

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a keyword. And I think a lot of that has come from that

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ability to do. That type of search. And, and I think maybe, you

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know, again, this is my opinion, but You know, one of the

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changes that I've been making is to ask

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a question, you know, because I think people—

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there's a curiosity factor, right? You know, and if

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the question, you know, is one that it's like, oh, I had that thought before,

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you know, and the same thing, you know, part of when

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I'm working with clients, I tend to have them

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start with what's the situation that your client is in

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instead of like, do you find yourself, you know, that this is happening and this

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this is happening, versus I am so-and-so, I do this, this,

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and this, I've taken many courses, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, because they

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don't care, right? You know, if you, if you're not going to deal with the

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issue that I have, what do I— why do I need to listen, you know,

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any further? And what you're telling me is that that lesson

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is true for the internet as well, right?

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Right. And, you know, the big difference between just doing a search and getting

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a result in the answer engine optimization is that if you type

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something in and you just do a search, for example, Google is just going to

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say, here are 10 results and your answer is probably in one of

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those 10, right? But now with the answer engine optimization and

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that AI overview at the top of the page, they're saying, here's

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the answer that you have and I'm certain of it. So you don't have to

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start looking around for things. My wife has given up on Google.

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She just does ChatGPT. That's her search engine. And

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she'll ask that question, you know, where, where can I find

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the best recipe for sourdough bread? You know, and then

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boom, here, that AI overview is going to present the answer

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to that question, or at least citations or sites

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that she could visit that have that answer.

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So she doesn't have to filter through all those 10 different search

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results. To try and find the answer because a lot of them are advertisements, a

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lot of them are not very

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relevant. So here, boom, just saves so much time and

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aggravation too. What other things are we doing? Do

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we have misconceptions about or.

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Doing wrong? Well, again, I think the set it and forget it, that's probably one

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of the biggest problems that we see. Even

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with, again, going back to the search engines or even the answer

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engine optimization, those algorithms, they want to see

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fresh content. So you need to, even if you've got a blog post from 5

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years ago, you can go in there and refresh it, right?

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Depending on your, your market or your industry, probably things have changed in the last

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5 years. It could be last 1 year for all I know, but

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it's a wonderful opportunity to go in there and refresh your

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content And then that improves your likelihood of being again one

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of those search results that Google is going to present to answer

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that question. When you say refresh, do you mean just

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post something on it so it comes up, or do

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you mean repurpose it? Well,

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I would say, like I said, that there's probably new

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information, right? So in the last 5 years, for example, there

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may be a lot of innovations in software right

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now. Software is functioning at a different level because of, because

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of AI. So here's an opportunity for you to just— it doesn't have to be—

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you don't have to rework the entire blog post or article, but you want to

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give it some brand new information. And then now when the search engine

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comes— update it. Update. Okay. Update

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or refresh. Exactly. Because I have some posts that

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I consider classic posts. You know, and so, and I

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post them once a year, and each year I take a look at them

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and see if the message is relevant, see if the call to action

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still makes sense, do you know? And I just did one

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of those recently. I always do one around the time Girl

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Scouts are selling cookies, right? And the post is,

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what does, what does Girl Scout cookies, my dad, and

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marketing have in common? And it's, you know, when I was a Girl Scout,

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my dad used— I was always the highest seller because my dad used to take

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the cookies to work with him and he would let people have one

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cookie for free. Right. And then when they came back, you know,

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it's like they didn't know they need a cookie until they saw it.

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Right. And when they came back, you go, oh, I have all these varieties

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for sale. And that's kind of what we need to do. A lot of times

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our people don't know what it is that they need. So,

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you know, right. So that's good. I'm glad I'm doing that right.

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So, yeah. And again, that kind of goes to the email marketing we were talking

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about earlier too, because people have so much going on in

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their life and you've got to be in front of those people, try and stay

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top of mind, right? And show them that you have the best

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solution to the problem they're trying to solve. So, so this is one

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of the things that I see with clients a lot, and I know I

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struggled with it. And it's like, I don't want to

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fill somebody's inbox up. I don't want to post too many

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times. I don't want to, you know. So, do you have any thoughts on that

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or any suggestions? Yeah, I think a lot of

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us think that we're that special, I guess, maybe that

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maybe we shouldn't be in their inbox so much. But I don't know about

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you, but I follow quite a few different

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industry leaders across the board. I've probably worked with 100 different industries over

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the years. And I'll subscribe to their newsletter. And I mean,

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there are some of those gurus, if you will. I get

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an email from them every single day, you know.

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And if it's good, if it looks interesting, if the subject line catches my

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attention, I'll open it and read it. Otherwise, it's just hit the

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delete button, you know, and let it

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go. But I think you still need to be in front of people.

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I mean, you know, who doesn't know Apple? Who doesn't know Coca-Cola? Who doesn't

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know Ford? But they're doing commercials every day, every day,

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every day. So, you know, people get distracted,

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have things going on in their life. And if you've got a

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product or service to sell, you've got to stay. In front of those people. I

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also think that, like you said, we've got

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so much going on. But I, you know, I mean, a really simple

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thing is You know, if you just send one post, by the time the person

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decides they're going to read their email, you could be on the third page and

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they never even see it. Exactly. You know, and

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so I— the first thing that I say to

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clients is be consistent. If you're going to send

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your newsletter out on Sunday, then like I do, send it

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out on Sunday and be consistent. So it's better not

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to bite off bite more than you can chew. It's better to build up

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so that you can stay consistent. And one of the

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things that, you know, that I did, it was like, you know,

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was I discovered I can resend the people who

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didn't open. It's like, oh, they didn't open, so they didn't see it. So I

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will, you know, I won't be bothering the other people. I will, you

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know, but it, it, you know, I started out with

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like, oh, twice a week seemed like a lot. And now I'm

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up to at least like 5, really

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every day but Monday, you know, but it's

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a different variety of kind of things. So, you know, Sunday

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is my newsletter, Friday is the

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podcast, right? Tuesday and Wednesday are my posts, Thursday there's

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a quote, you know, and, and so there's a variety of things

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for people to look at and to see. And I've kind of saved

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Monday as as when I have like a personal message that I

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get, like, you know, yeah, my thought that I, you

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know, that isn't necessarily, you know, it's

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like one of the ones that I do is

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this is political, you know, delete if

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you're not. But when I get like, yeah, yeah. That

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kind of thing. Yeah. Well, you're right on

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about being consistent. 'Cause if they like your

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stuff, for example, your Sunday newsletter, people are gonna

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start looking forward to it if you're consistent, if they know, oh, okay, Yvonne's

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newsletter comes on Sunday. Maybe at the end of the day after I've had

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the weekend with the family or kids or friends, whatever, and I'm sitting in front

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of the TV with my laptop or iPad, oh,

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wonder what Yvonne's newsletter is today. And people will kind

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of look forward to that. So being consistent is, is

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really critical. One thing we found interesting when we— we've done quite a

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bit of marketing for personal injury attorneys

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and mostly on the Google Ads side of things, right? Because they want

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to be there when people go looking for an attorney, right? So Google Ads is

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one of the best ways to do that. But they also would like

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to have blogs written for them again so that they can come up in

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the search results because they've got constant fresh new content to

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their website. And, you know, that's one of the things that we'll offer them as

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one of the services. And they say, oh no, we'll take care of it. And

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we go, okay, sure, right? So first month they're

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right on, second month they're right on, third month

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they're maybe a week late, and then by the fourth month it's done. It's almost

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like a gym membership, you. Know, everybody's really gung-ho at the

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first year. Yeah, but by, you know, by March you can find

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a parking spot in that parking lot at the gym without. Any trouble at

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all. So the other thing that I tell people

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is, you know, rather than keep changing what you're doing and keep moving the

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way that you're— you know, it's like the person that sees you on Monday and

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goes, oh, I need to come back to this, or I need to find them

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again, you've moved. I said it's like having a mobile store that you move every

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day and sell something different. By the time they're ready that,

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you know, you're doing something else, and so you're really

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losing sales. Um, before we run out of time, there's one other thing I wanted

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to ask you, and that had to do with— we

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were talking about being

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consistent, um, repurposing.

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I know, I, I got it. Okay, I'm having these—

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for the, you know, for those that are listening, you notice I'm kind of

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glitchy lately. When should somebody start thinking, I'm ready

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to pay.

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For ads? Well, as soon as possible, really,

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because the longer you wait, the more

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opportunity your competitors have to come in and take those clients

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away from you. But again, you

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know, there are.

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Money issues. Sure. And also, if you're— all right, so I always say you

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have to have clarity about what you're doing. You have to be really

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sure, you know, pretty, you know, clear about what you're doing,

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because obviously if you're fuzzy about what you're advertising, your results are not going to

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be good. And it's going to be— so there's a certain place, a certain timing

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in your business that you go, okay, I've got some clients,

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I got some cash coming in, I'm pretty clear about what

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I'm doing. What are the things that people should start saying, or what should

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they be aiming for to say, this is where I need

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to get before, you know, I need to have a certain

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amount of money to, to be able to

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be out there enough to get results? Sure. I mean, running

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one ad won't do it. No.

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Yeah, you'd have to have a campaign. Well, again, it depends what's your, what's your

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objective., right? Are you just looking to maybe have people sign up

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for your webinar? That, that's one objective. If you've got a product

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that you're selling, that's another objective. If you've got a service that you're

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offering, maybe it's a brand new service or a twist on

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an old service, then you want to get the word out there that this is

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available for people. All right, so nice thing with— go ahead. So if we were

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gonna— if we were trying to get people to sign up for a workshop.

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Workshop or webinar. Mm-hmm. Yeah, again, if you've got a good

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list, that's always a good thing for on the email side of things. But

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what's nice too, with that email list, you can import that into your

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Google Ads account and show Google these are people that we

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want to target, and Google will now present those ads in

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front of like people, right? So that, that's

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a really nice feature that Google offers you to do that. The

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nice thing with Google Ads or Facebook Ads is you can start small,

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you can scale. You don't have to go out there and spend $5,000. You

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know, you may not have that, it may not make sense. So you might

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start out small at a $500 a month campaign

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and see how your responses are and then scale it up,

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right? As, as new leads come in, as money comes in, now you scale it

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up and scale it up and scale it up. And then as long as it

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keeps on working, you do that. And if it's not working, then you need to

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go in and tweak things. You need to change maybe the offer that you

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have. Maybe your, your headline isn't grabbing them. Maybe the landing page

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that you're sending them to isn't converting because it's not

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very compelling. So it's a whole process. It's not just the ad. For me, the

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ad is just like the very first exposure

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to a company, right? But now you bring them to a landing page, and that's

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where you really get a chance to educate those folks. And show them why you

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have the best solution to the problem they're.

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Trying to solve. We're running out.

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Of time. Okay, I got, I got into it, you know. So here's the thing,

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we talked about a couple of things. One is, um, that

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entrepreneurs can do. One is to be consistent. One is to

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update and be relevant, you know, don't just set it,

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you know, do it set it and leave it. Um, and

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you've got a gift, so you haven't talked about that yet, so

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let's do that. Yeah, if people are interested in how they

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are appearing in that AI overview, I'm

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offering a chance to have an

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AIO— AEO assessment. So what you could do is email

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me at frank@canyoufindmenow, and I'm sure you'll put it in the show notes

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here. But they could email me with their URL

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for their website and of course their name and maybe some of the keywords that

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you'd like to be found for. And then

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we'll do an AEO assessment to see

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how your website is doing as far as answer engine

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optimization is concerned. Guys, this is

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a fabulous gift. If you're trying to build your business, I don't know why you

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wouldn't do this. So, okay, here's where I'm going to put you on the spot.

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When was the last time you did. Something new for

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the first time? Oh, good question. Something new for

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the first time. Well, you know, I like to, like

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to cook, so I'm always looking at new

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recipes. So I've come up with a

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new recipe for lemon pound cake. My wife is

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just enamored with lemon pound cake, so I've I've tried a new recipe.

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I've got to tweak it. It's not perfect yet. So

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I like to do that. I used to own a restaurant years ago

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when I was much younger. Yeah, it was a submarine sandwich shop.

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You are, you are

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a multifaceted individual. My husband, my husband goes on YouTube all the time to

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find, to find recipes. And so we eat really well. He's retired, so he

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likes to cook too. So that's a good thing. All right. So I got to

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do the ad before we run out of we run out of time. And so

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I hope if you like this, everybody will take the time to

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subscribe and to share the podcast and to engage with this

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on social media. And the reason I did this was I meet

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so many interesting people, and I want you to be able to learn

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from them and supercharge your business and give you a chance to connect with

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people that maybe you wouldn't have ordinarily have come up with. And it's

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my way of giving back, and it's my, you know, my hope

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that you will use the information to grow and

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have impact. And so I hope that you will continue to join me on the

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One Small Change. And, you know, as we go along, I'm making

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changes, I'm learning things, and you, you know, I can't wait to

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share it with you. The other thing is, if you have never listened to the

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first episode or any of the Clarity

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Check podcasts that I've done, you might want to do that too. So, Frank,

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before we finish, Tell me, you know, your words of

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wisdom. What are your, what are your, you know, a favorite quote or what you.

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Want people to remember? Well,

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if it's about business, you know, you really have

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to concentrate on marketing. I think it

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was what David Ogilvy said, you know, half the money

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I spend on advertising is wasted. I just don't

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know which half. And I've always found that fascinating. But

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the point is, you still need to market. It doesn't matter what you do, what

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you offer. As I said earlier, even the big guys, the

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Fords, the Apples, the Microsofts, the Verizons

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of the world, they are running ads constantly.

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And there's a very good reason why they do that. So take

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that to heart. The other thing that, not to jump on your last words,

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but I think one of the things that's

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really important is I think the best thing that ever happened to me

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was learning that entrepreneurship is an experiment.

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Do you know, you never, you never get closer to your goal until

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you do something. And that doesn't mean, you know, and you learn from

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your failures. And I think, and, you know, marketing, I mean, I think all

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the time of like some of, you know,

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Coke's big fiascos, you know. So if a really big company with a

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big, you know, marketing department and stuff can make mistakes like that, I

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shouldn't be surprised that I, you know, would make a mistake.

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And you just, you know, and some of the best things you— some of the

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best things that you learn come from just

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taking action and seeing what the response is. You know,

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because you want people to engage, you want people to respond to

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what you're doing. Anyway, sorry, I got— yeah, that's one thing we do

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all the time is test, test, test.

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Because if nothing else, people just have advertising fatigue.

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You know, after they've seen your ad 3, 4, 5, 10

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times, they're kind of done. So now you have to come up with something else

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so that they can stay interested in what you.

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Have to offer. Variety, but with

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a specific

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focus. Absolutely. Okay, um, we're gonna have to cut this short.

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Um, well, thank you. I have learned so much, so I hope everybody

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that's listening to this has learned stuff as

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well. And so what I want to remind you is that

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change can be simple, but it isn't always easy. I

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mean, it requires courage and resilience and a willingness to step outside

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your comfort zone. I know for myself, if I don't

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have some butterflies in my stomach, it means that I'm not, you know, I'm

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not interested enough. So, you know, that's a good feeling. It's not

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fear, it's excitement. So I hope you will continue to join me on the one

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small change as we embark on this journey together. And until the

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next time, stay very, very

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curious. Bye, Frank. Thank you.

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