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What's up, everybody, Pafflin here, and welcome to episode 684 of Aspat. Thank you so much for joining me today.

As always, I'm here to help you by answer your online business questions five days a week.

We have a great question today from Jason, but before we get to that, I do want to mention a free

resource that I have for you that I created to help you with your email marketing. You know,

there's a lot of strategies and tips and articles and podcasts specifically about growing your list,

and obviously it's a popular thing to do

and it's important to grow your list of course but what do you do with that list after you've grown

it um so what happens when a person subscribes what emails do they get well that's what email

the smartway dot com is all about a completely free guide to help you with figuring out figuring out like what

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short but very very powerful again email the smartway dot com all right now here's today's question from Jason. Hi, Pat. This is Jason

at the soundguiseinvisible.com. First, I wanted to thank you for sharing your expertise and knowledge

with all of us. You've inspired me and my son to really pursue our own businesses, and it has brought us

closer as well, so I really appreciate your part in that. My question today involves what happened after I put my first opt-in sign up

on my blog. About a week after putting up my opt-in, I suddenly had 27 subscribers to my blog.

After I stopped high-fiving everyone in sight, I took a deeper look, and after looking at Google Analytics and the new

accounts themselves, I realized they were not legitimate accounts. So here's my multi-fold question.

Is this a common problem, and what would be the purpose in someone creating spam accounts?

Is this something I should be worried about and or spend a lot of time fixing?

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