All right. What's up, my friends? Welcome to the Art of Online Business Podcast. I'm Rick Mulready.

And on today's episode, I wanted to share with you a new, a whole new revenue model that I've

added to my business here in 2022. And I thought I'd

share this episode with you because I want to share, not only share this revenue model with you,

because it's something that you potentially could add to your business, but also I want to

share some insights that I've gleaned from embracing this revenue model this year. And I want to kind of

start this off with, so in April, I think it was April. Yeah, April of 2022. So April of earlier this

year, Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income. For many of you know who Pat is, Pat's been on the podcast several times here.

Pat is my best friend.

And I've known Pat.

He's one of the very first people that I met in the online space.

So back even when I was in the corporate world, I had Southern California as part of my territory.

I was selling online advertising.

And I was coming down to San Diego.

I lived in L.A. at the time.

And I was coming down to San Diego for, I don't know, I was calling on some agency or something down here.

And so I reached out to him and asked him if he'd be

open to having coffee. And he was like, you know, yeah, this is back when, you know, he would say

yes. And he was like, yeah, let's set, you know, let's meet up for like 20, 30 minutes or whatever.

It turned into like two and a half hours or something like that. It was, it was awesome. And so

we became friends after that. It was, it was awesome. And so we became friends

after that, but we, we got a lot closer when I actually moved, my family moved into the same

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