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

Is It Okay to Sell Without Providing Free Content?

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

4.9638 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Today's question comes from Kevin, who asks about providing free value vs. paying for traffic to sales pages. Kevin's site is http://hyperlush.com/. I share my thoughts on businesses built around cold traffic. Do you have a question about marketing your products? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.

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0:00.0

AskPath.

0:07.0

Hey, what's up everybody, Patflin here, and welcome to episode 587 of Ask Pat. Thank you so much for joining me today.

0:17.1

All right, here's today's question from Kevin.

0:20.7

Hey, Pat. I've been listening to your show, and it's been freaking awesome.

0:24.1

You provide so much value in each show, so thank you for that.

0:28.2

I'm the creator of hyperlush.com, which is a blog where we tell incredible stories about

0:32.6

entrepreneurs.

0:33.8

And recently, I created a course over building your brand over Instagram.

0:39.3

And my question is about conversion funnels.

0:42.7

So on your site, you always preach, you know, giving free value.

0:48.4

You give free ebooks.

0:50.1

You give, you know, a bunch of lead magnets all over your site.

0:54.5

And then obviously you sell products to your list and your software and things like that.

1:00.5

But there's a lot of other marketers who simply buy traffic to land pages that they create

1:05.5

that have like a video sales letter and then optimize their funnel.

1:09.7

And they don't really provide much free value

1:12.3

except in the form of a sales pitch or a sales video. This is done by a lot of people who make

1:17.5

tons of money such as Evan Pagan, Brian Moran, Brian Leveck, and et cetera, et cetera. So this is an approach

1:23.9

that seemingly it takes less time to adopt this approach and it seems like they're

1:28.7

making a lot of money with it. So on your end, I just want to know what your opinion is on this

1:33.7

and why you think your approach is better or maybe you don't think your approach is better

1:39.3

and maybe you think their approach has certain pros and cons. And just sort of talk about this.

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