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

What Should I Do When My Competitor Joins My Email List?

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

Pat Flynn

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

4.9636 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2016

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Today's question comes from Sarah, who has noticed that a few competitors have joined her email list. What should she do, delete them? Keep them? Sarah's site is http://thefreelancenaturopath.com/. Do you have a question about email marketing? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Today's sponsor is Freshbooks. Go to http://www.GetFreshBooks.com 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.

0:04.0

AskPath.com.com.

0:09.0

What's up, everybody, Pafflin here, and welcome to episode 608 of AskPath. Thank you so much for joining me today.

0:16.3

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

0:20.0

Now, before we get to that, I do want to thank today's sponsor, which is freshbooks.com.

0:23.7

FreshBooks is an awesome company that helps us manage our business finances.

0:26.7

They help me.

0:27.2

They serve over 3 million other small businesses.

0:30.1

They make it really easy to keep track of your finances, but not only that, if you do any invoicing,

0:34.1

if you have any clients or students or you do any consultations with any other businesses and you want to get paid and you bill them, well, there's no better way to do it than

0:41.8

with FreshBooks because they make it easy on both sides of the equation. So if you want to

0:47.1

check out FreshBooks for free, head on over to FreshBooks.com slash Ask Pat and enter Ask Pat

0:51.6

in the How Did You Hear About a section? Again, that's FreshBooks.com slash Ask Pat, and you'll get a 30-day free trial from there.

0:58.6

Okay, so here's today's question from Sarah from the UK.

1:01.6

Here we go.

1:02.8

Hi, Pat.

1:03.6

I hope you can help me with a question about my newsletters and my email list.

1:15.1

I've been reading with interest the really helpful information you've had in your recent newsletters. My question really is about my subscribers. I've noticed

1:23.7

lately that a couple of people who are or who could be considered to be my

1:28.5

competitors have signed up for my email list, which is cool because I sign up to other

1:35.0

people's email list to see what they're talking about and, you know, what they're reading.

1:42.2

But I was just wondering what to do with them. Is there a way that I can

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