I Started a Business But Forgot to Collect Data. What Now? How Can I Better Collect Data on My Customers?

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Pat Flynn

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4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Today's question comes from Tyron, who has a question about collecting data on his customers. How does he better collect data on his customers? What are some ways he can monetize that data? How can he start marketing to his list? What is the best way to serve his customers beyond his business? Tyron's website is at http://www.tigdress.com/. In this episode, I mention that we're in launch week for Smart From Scratch, my new online course created to help you validate your business idea. Learn more and sign up at http://www.smartfromscratch.com/. Do you have a question about data collection? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Today's sponsor is Freshbooks. Go to http://www.freshbooks.com/askpat and enter "Ask Pat" for more information. 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.
0:07.0	com.
0:08.0	Talk.com.
0:09.0	Askpats.
0:10.0	Hey, what's up, everybody, Pafflin here, and welcome to episode 811 of Ask Pat. Thank you so much for
0:16.0	joining me today. As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business
0:19.3	questions five days a week. We have a great question today from Tyron, but before we get to that, I do want to thank today's sponsor, which is freshbooks.com.
0:26.0	FreshBooks is an awesome service that allows you to easily manage and keep track of your business finances, from your income to your expenses, and especially your invoicing.
0:34.2	So if you do any invoicing for for anything, you bill anybody for anything,
0:38.3	you can do it through fresh books really easily. Literally within 30 seconds, you could send
0:42.7	people a very professional looking invoice. You are able to keep track of who opens those invoices
0:48.5	and be able to follow up when you didn't get paid on time either. So it's a great, great tool
0:52.8	that you can use for your business,
0:55.9	no matter what kind of billing you do.
0:57.3	And I highly recommend it.
0:59.0	You can check it out for 30 days for free if you go to freshbooks.com slash ask pat
1:01.5	and you enter Ask Pat in the How Did You Hear About Us section?
1:05.1	All right, now here's today's question from Tyron.
1:07.5	Hi, Pat.
1:08.3	My name is Tyron Giuliani. My wife and I started a wedding dress rental business in
1:14.1	Tokyo, Japan, TIGDress.com. We're actually ranked number one in Japan now, and we serve over 3,500
1:21.5	couples yearly. We were very poor at collecting data and really haven't monetized it. Reading recent articles,
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