How Can I Grow My Online Business?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2015

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Today’s question from Sean who is just getting started setting up his business. How can he grow his business? Where is the best place to recruit web support staff? I reference Smart Passive Income podcast episode 144 (http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/session144) and episode 99 (http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/99). Check out the Fulfilled by Amazon program (http://services.amazon.com/content/fulfillment-by-amazon.htm). I also discuss working with contractors on Elance (http://askpat.com/elance)and oDesk (http://askpat.com/odesk). Do you have a question about how to grow your business? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Thanks to today's sponsor, AWeber. Your email list is your most valuable asset—get started today. Go to http://www.aweber.com/askpat See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:04.0	AskPath.com
0:06.6	dot com.
0:10.9	What's up everybody, Pafflin here, and welcome to episode 266 of Aspat.
0:15.3	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:17.1	We have a great question from Sean all the way over in Ireland.
0:19.9	But before we get to that, I do want to thank today's sponsor, which is Aweber.com, the email service provider that I've used for years to help me set up email lists and be able to collect subscribers and, you know, collect their email addresses so I can send them emails later, not just whenever I feel like writing an email, but I can write emails beforehand and
0:37.8	take advantage of their auto responder sequence, which allows me to send out emails automatically
0:42.7	based off of how long people have been on the list, which is super cool and allows you to stay in
0:47.6	contact with people over time. So when you do send out those timely emails for promotions
0:51.4	and whatnot, your emails are more likely to be open,
0:54.6	and that's how I've been able to amass a 65 to 70% open rate, which is awesome.
1:00.4	For most of my emails, some emails do better than others because of the subject lines.
1:03.7	But anyway, that's up to you, but the email service provider I recommend is Aweber.
1:06.9	If you go to Aweber.com slash ass pat, you could give it a shot for 30 days for $1.
1:13.7	Aweber.com slash as Pat.
1:15.5	Sweet.
1:16.1	Now let's get to today's question from Sean.
1:19.2	Hi, Pat Flynn.
1:20.7	Sean McGuinness here from Ireland.
1:22.5	I have a few products I'm interested in selling online.
1:29.6	Mostly are for the nightclub industry,s things like Glazer Lights eBook on Facebook for nightclubs and also maybe a blog on
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