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What's up, everybody?

Pafflin here and welcome to episode 365 of Ask Pat.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

Hope you're doing well.

And as always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week. All right, here's today's question from Joel.

Hello, Pat. My name's Joel Hiscuit of Look Like a Local, a Travel and Tourism podcast,

where we interview local residents of travel destinations to find out where the locals go to eat,

play, shop, etc.

And one of the easiest aspects that I thought of this, you know, idea would be to contact the recommended businesses of the podcast and get them to share the podcast within their

network.

So, for example, if someone recommends Bob's Barbecue on the podcast, I would contact Bob's

barbecue through Facebook email or, you know, phone or whatever and say, hey, you were

recommended.

Would you like to share it with your network?

And they would say, of course, because it's free advertising, it's word of mouth advertising.

And I'm finding a 10% success rate.

I've done it through Facebook, email.

I've called them.

And I get a positive reply like, hey, yeah, that sounds great, but rarely do they actually share it with their network.

And I was hoping that you would have some ideas where I could up that success rate to try to get the word of mouth advertising about look like a local out there so that I can grow my

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