Heyo! Welcome to the $100 MBA Show Practical business lessons you can count on. I'm your host, your coach, your teacher Omar Zen Home.

And today's episode is Q&A Wednesday where I answer a question from one of you,

one of our listeners. If you got a question you want to ask, one of our listeners.

If you got a question you want to ask, go ahead and email me over at omar at 100MBA.

Today's question is from Matt and Matt asks,

how do I sell my first product with no email list or following on social media?

No fear, Matt, I got your back. You have options.

And your problem is not unique.

Most businesses don't have followings before they start selling their products or services.

There was no such thing as an email list or a following 30 years ago.

Okay? So all the businesses that came before that, how to find a way to sell their product without any

contacts or emails or presence on social. It didn't exist.

I'm going to share with you some options that you can

explore so you can start selling your product, making some money while growing

your audience so that you can then use your organic audience, whether it's your email or through social media,

to start promoting your products and services, get free traffic, and conversions.

So let's get into it.

Let's get down to business. I want to start by saying that it's okay to have a product for sale and no following yet no

audience said no email list as long as you got a product that people want, then you can sell it and you can make money.

Having said that, it's always a good idea to grow your audience, to grow your email lists,

to have somebody to talk to and tell them about what you do.

Why? Because these forms of marketing, email marketing, social media marketing,

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