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How to Launch a Community
FEBRUARY 1ST at 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET Join Pat Flynn live! Learn the essential steps to successfully launch and grow your community in 2024 — even if you don’t have a large audience! A community — no matter how big or small — can be a vibrant hub for ideas, content, connections, and recurring income for your business. The question is: How will you bring your people together? A business with a community is a business that thrives. An audience alone isn't enough — people crave connection.
Double Your Downloads: How to Make Your Podcast Better
JANUARY 11th at 10:00 AM PDT Join Pat Flynn live! Discover how to elevate your podcast in 2024 with more downloads, a wider reach, and business opportunities – all without adding more to your already packed plate! Double Your Downloads: Podcast Growth Strategies That Work Having a podcast is one of the most effective ways to build a highly devoted audience and grow your business. What podcasting strategies can you use to increase your show's growth in 2024?
SPI 741: Adding Profitable Physical Products to your Brand with Kerrie Fitzgerald
SPI 741: Adding Profitable Physical Products to your Brand with Kerrie Fitzgerald Kerrie Fitzgerald: People don't understand the importance of treating your customers well and how, if you treat your customers well, you take care of them, you involve them with your brand, they become obsessed with you.
SPI 739: Rapid Growth and Instagram Secrets with Zach Benson
SPI 739: Rapid Growth and Instagram Secrets with Zach Benson Zach Benson: Meta, you know, Facebook, Instagram, they want you to spend money, right? So they want you to run ads, and you can grow that way too. But what I'm teaching right now is more like, semi organic tactics and strategies to help give your Instagram a little boost. And to make it a little bit easier to grow and reach more people. It's like a win, win, right?
SPI 736: How to Build Your Vision with Jason Feifer
SPI 736: How to Build Your Vision with Jason Feifer Jason Feifer: I would write a story for a magazine and then I would move on and write another story for a magazine that had nothing to do with the first one. I was never accruing anything. I wasn't accruing audience. I wasn't accruing knowledge. I was starting from zero every single time. Entrepreneurs do not operate that way. They operate vertically.
A Week of Webinars with Pat Flynn
December 11th – 15th at 12:00 PM PDT With a year of successful webinars in the books, I'm offering one last gift to finish strong. Join me for a week filled with daily webinars, each exploring a new topic. Take a step towards achieving your goals and embrace the new year with momentum and inspiration.
SPI 733: Modern-Day Personal Branding Magic with Christine Gritmon
SPI 733 Modern Day Personal Branding Magic with Christine Gritmon Christine Gritmon:"Who am I to stand out? Who am I to talk about myself?" I really recommend turning the tables on that thought process and saying, "What is difficult for other people that comes naturally to me?" Because a big part of impostor syndrome is we think that the things that we're good at aren't important. Because they're not hard. Because we're good at them.
SPI 732: Don't Go It Alone
SPI 732: Don't Go It Alone Announcer: You're listening to the Smart Passive Income Podcast, a proud member of the Entrepreneur Podcast Network, a show that's all about working hard now, so you can sit back and reap the benefits later. And now your host, his daughter would be really upset if he shaved his beard. Pat Flynn! Pat Flynn: I want to share something with you that I recently shared in my Unstuck newsletter.
SPI 731: How to Make Money with Email Marketing (By Just Being You) with Liz Wilcox
SPI 731 How to Make Money with Email Marketing (By Just Being You) with Liz Wilcox Liz Wilcox: I personally don't like storytelling and email. It's a newsletter, not a novel. When we try to tell stories, suddenly, our 10th grade English teacher is behind us saying, don't forget the beginning, the middle, and the end. And don't you dare say anything that you didn't say in the first sentence, right? And so, instead of trying to write a story, just try to be relatable.
SPI 729: How to Quit Your Corporate Job for Good with Brian Luebben
SPI 729: How to Quit Your Corporate Job for Good with Brian Luebben Brian Luebben: So I made this online course. I was living in Brazil at the time on the island called Florianopolis in South Brazil, spent an entire month filming the course morning to night, 52-hour course. Like it was everything. It was a 12-week course. And afterwards, I sent one email out to those hundred people. I said, "Hey, I've got this course, I'm working on it.
Expert In Residence Fireside Chat on November 29th, 2023
NOVEMBER 29 AT 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET Prepare to make 2024 your best year yet by saying goodbye to old priorities, outdated habits, toxic mindsets, and more. Our Refocus Challenge is the way, and our new in-house Experts are your guides. Losing Focus Happens to All of Us We set some goals — probably too many and probably not defined well enough. Then we start doing the work to achieve those goals, but we lose sight of the goals along the way. We begin to confuse the work with the goal.
SPI 725: The #1 Way to Scale Up Your Business with Eric Partaker
SPI 725: The #1 Way to Scale Up Your Business with Eric Partaker Eric Partaker: The seven words that hold back founders more than any other seven words are, "It'll be faster to do it myself." If you're measurement of time is the short term, it will be faster to do it yourself. But it'll be faster in the medium and long term if you go through a bit of a time trough in that moment to provide the coaching, provide the training, provide the extra effort for the person.
SPI 722: Just... Why.
SPI 722: Just... Why. Announcer: You're listening to the Smart Passive Income Podcast, a proud member of the Entrepreneur Podcast Network, a show that's all about working hard now, so you can sit back and reap the benefits later. And now your host. Yes, he does have a couple of songs published on Spotify that he wrote himself. Pat Flynn. Pat Flynn: Why? Why? What am I talking about?
SPI 720: I Swore I Wasn’t Going to Do It, but Then I Did.
SPI 720: I Swore I Wasn’t Going to Do It, but Then I Did. Announcer: You're listening to the Smart Passive Income Podcast, a proud member of the Entrepreneur Podcast Network, a show that's all about working hard now, so you can sit back and reap the benefits later. And now your host, when he listens to music on Spotify, it's usually the same song on a loop for an entire day. Pat Flynn. Pat Flynn: Alright, I did something that I told myself I was never going to do.
5 Powerful Email Strategies to Level Up Your Business
October 23 at 10:00 AM PDT Generate more revenue simply by recommending the products to your audience. I'll show you how in this free training. I'm opening my Affiliate Marketing Playbook for you! Did you know you can earn substantial income simply by recommending other products? You can earn a commission just by being a connector between those products and your audience! This is called affiliate marketing, something that I've been doing since 2009.
SPI 719: Automating Some of Life to Make the Other Parts Even Better with Leo Babauta
SPI 719: Automating Some of Life to Make the Other Parts Even Better with Leo Babauta Leo Babauta: Listening to podcasts, I feel like I know the person. I really understand the power of that medium. I don't understand how to do it yet. So I'm still learning that part, but this year, I'm no longer willing to wait. This year, it's happening. And I had so many things have come up throughout the year, where I could have said, well, you know, I'll just keep putting it off.
SPI 717: Making Money in an Economy that Hates You with Chris Guillebeau
SPI 717: Making Money in an Economy that Hates You with Chris Guillebeau Chris Guillebeau: Asymmetrical risks, you know, where the upside is so much greater than the downside, I think that's something that people can start applying right away. You're constantly taking risks and making choices. How do I invest my time? What do I choose to learn about? You're always taking risks, but wouldn't it be great if you can take the kinds of risks where if it works, then it's going to be amazing.
SPI 716: The Moment I Knew Podcasting Was Going to Change My Life
SPI 716: The Moment I Knew Podcasting was Going to Change My Life Announcer: You're listening to the Smart Passive Income Podcast, a proud member of the Entrepreneur Podcast Network, a show that's all about working hard now, so you can sit back and reap the benefits later. And now your host. His wife, April, got to meet Michael J. Fox before he did. Pat Flynn. Pat Flynn: So this month of 2023, september, it's pretty crazy. It's crazy for a few reasons.
Power-Up Podcasting 3.0 — Learn to start your podcast now!
The best and most efficient way to launch a new podcast, build your online brand, and become THE authority for your target market, today. SPI’s #1 most popular program is now freshly updated with the latest podcasting information and strategies, including a brand new video podcasting module! If you do not have a podcast, you’re missing out on the biggest opportunity for growth and connection to your audience.
SPI 715: Behind the Scenes of Landing a TEDx Talk with Julie DeLucca-Collins
SPI 715: Behind the Scenes of Landing a TEDx Talk with Julie DeLucca-Collins Julie DeLucca-Collins: My gosh, if we're going to make the effort, you might as well go for the home run.You might as well hit it out of the park as opposed to just trying to get to first base. And I think that that's the difference between success and uber success. Getting to first base is great, but then you're relying on somebody else to come again and get you to the second base.
SPI 712: The Creator Economy Middle-Class-Roundtable with Jason Feifer, Terry Rice, and Matt Gartland
SPI 712: The Creator Economy Middle-Class—Roundtable with Jason Feifer, Terry Rice, and Matt Gartland Jason Feifer: In my role, I get to meet some of the largest personalities A lot of them are miserable. And there are trade offs in achieving incredible success that may not be appealing to you once you understand what they are. But you know what? Most people actually find incredible success by being incredibly specific and niche. and then being a master of being useful to those people.
SPI 711: A Hidden Revenue Source for People Who Have Clients with Chase Buckner
SPI 711: A Hidden Revenue Source for People who Have Clients with Chase Buckner Chase Buckner: If you are talented, you can typically do a broad range of things. But just because you can do it, doesn't mean you should. I have seen a lot of folks succeed much faster than I was. And I would almost step back and be, like, "How's that happening? I know I'm smarter than that person." And it's because they just had such a focus of what they couldn't do.
Podcasting the Smart Way
SEPTEMBER 19th at 11:00 AM PDT Join Pat Flynn for a live webinar event to learn how you can start a thriving podcast that grows your brand in 2023. How to Start a Thriving Podcast that Grows Your Brand in 2023 Having a podcast is one of the most effective ways to build a highly devoted audience and grow your business, even if you’re starting from scratch. But where do you begin?
SPI 709: What Most People Aren’t Doing That You Should
SPI 709: What Most People Aren't Doing That You Should Dan Franks: That year that you keynoted was like our most stacked lineup because we had you and John Lee Dumas from kind of like that business entrepreneurship side of speaking. We had Sarah Koenig, the host of Serial. We had Mark Maron, who had just interviewed Obama. It was, like, a crazy lineup, and we lost so much money that year.
SPI 707: How to Skip the Build Phase and Buy an Existing Website with Jared Bauman
SPI 707: How to Skip the Build Phase and Buy an Existing Website with Jared Bauman Jared Bauman: Starting a website and getting traction with it takes time, six months, nine months, one year before you're really getting much organic traffic. And then maybe several years before you're getting measurable, substantial traffic. So buying a website that's already been established and already had a lot of that groundwork done, allows you to kind of fast track your way to the front of the line.
SPI 705: The Keys to Building a 6-Figure Niche Business in 2023-2024
SPI 705 The Keys to Building a 6-Figure Niche Business in 2023-2024 Mark Wills: Too many times I see course creators on the outside focus on the money and not the value. And they're trying to launch these $1,000 launches. And like, well, how come I only sold two? Well, I'm like, dude, your course is a thousand bucks and you've helped one person. And so you need to test and validate. Can my, information actually change your life? Can I actually get them to do what they want them to do?
SPI 703: How to Legally (and Genuinely) Use Other People's Content in Your Own
SPI 703: How to Legally (and Genuinely) Use Other People's Content in Your Own Emily D. Baker: What I want to make clear is fair use doesn't mean you won't have somebody reach out and try to strike a video, try to sue you. It puts you in a position to defend. And I've covered YouTubers getting sued over fair use. I've covered a YouTuber who won a fair use trial and that can still cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
SPI 701: How to Profit by Building Software (With NO Coding Experience) with Spencer Haws
SPI 701 How to Profit by Building Software (With NO Coding Experience) with Spencer Haws Spencer Haws: Software isn't as hard as you might think, or it doesn't have to be as hard as you think. I think it scares a lot of people off. They think, ah, you know, doing, you know, a course or some other digital product that is not software is just so much easier.
SPI 699: Real Business Talk, Tweet by Tweet with Matt Giovanisci
SPI 699 Real Business Talk, Tweet by Tweet with Matt Giovanisci Matt Giovanisci: When I started selling my own products, that is when it all changed. It was like I hit a button and money happens. Like it just does.
SPI 697: How to Build a Thriving Community Online with Heather Angel
SPI 697: How to Build a Thriving Community Online with Heather Angel Heather Angel: You know, a community is fluid. It needs to ebb and flow. It needs to experience change. If you cannot test and pivot and adjust, then you're really hurting your community. And so, I think keeping an open mind, not taking everything personal and responding with kindness, it always wins. Pat Flynn: You know what's really cool?
SPI 695: The Secrets to Working with Anyone with Michael Bungay Stanier
SPI 695: The Secrets to Working with Anyone with Michael Bungay Stanier Michael Bungay Stainer: What is most powerful about having this type of conversation, is not actually the answers you get in the moment, as helpful as those are, what's most powerful is that it gives permission to have another conversation about how it's going.
SPI 693: Inside a Passive Income Print-On-Demand Business with Christina Umerez
SPI 693: Inside a Passive Income Print-On-Demand Business with Christina Umerez Christina Umerez: I remember, like, just sitting there like I was starting to lose sleep from that corporate job. And I was like, I need to make this side hustle work. So I went like crazy and designing, crazy and listing.
5 Powerful Email Strategies to Level Up Your Business
Level up your business with email marketing! Email marketing is a great way to promote your business's latest products and services, and build your brand story directly with your audience. When done right, this powerful digital marketing channel can accelerate your business growth and generate a substantial amount of income. Email marketing has become an integral part of the business at SPI and directly for Pat Flynn, who has generated over $3,000,000 in online sales.
SPI 691: How to Grow Your Small Business NOW with Donald Miller
SPI 691: How to Grow Your Small Business NOW with Donald Miller Donald Miller: A lot of small business owners don't want to admit they just, they need cash. But the sooner you admit that and you reverse engineer a successful economic outcome, the more stable your business actually is. I've never laid anybody off. Everybody has dental insurance. You know, and I explain that to my team all day long.
SPI 685: Commit First: The Leap to 7 Figures with Sagi Shrieber
SPI 685: Commit First: The Leap to 7 Figures with Sagi Shrieber Sagi Shrieber: So you have the actions which are equal to or smaller than the ambitions, and you have the results which are equal to or smaller than the actions. Most people in life have low ambitions. And, therefore, they take mediocre action. And, therefore, they have mediocre to low results. Therefore, they have low self-esteem. That's why I don't believe in like the status quo in terms of confidence.
How to Launch a Community live webinar on May 23rd
Launch your community the smart way! Are you thinking of building — or are in the process of building — an online community? Want to make sure your launch strategy is bulletproof? Communities are all about bringing people together. No matter what your community is about, identifying people who will make your membership thrive is key to a successful launch. In this webinar, Pat Flynn will show you a step-by-step approach to launching a community for the first time.
SPI 679: Becoming a Family-First Entrepreneur with Steve Chou
SPI 679: Becoming a Family-First Entrepreneur with Steve Chou Steve Chou: The four burners theory states that your life is composed of four burners, work, friends, family, and health.In order to excel at any one thing, you have to turn off at least one burner, and if you want to be really good at something, you have to turn off two. So if you want to be really good at work, in this case it would be a business, then you gotta turn off one, maybe two burners.
SPI 677: How Gesche Haas Accidentally Created the Best Community
SPI 677: How Gesche Haas Accidentally Created the Best Community Gesche Haas: We tell everyone, like, once you apply, like you are committed, essentially. And then you submit your payment info as part of the application. And they don't get charged, but as part of the application. But if we make it very clear that once they get accepted, that day, they get charged. And the thing is, like, we want people who are committed, right?
SPI 675: The Two Teachers That Became Millionaires - An Update!
SPI 675: The Two Teachers That Became Millionaires — An Update! Shane Sams: You know, it's not just the money, it's not just replacing our income. It's not just giving our kids a better future. It's, we are all equipped with God-given gifts that only we have. And there's a group of people out there that only we can help and they don't get help until we cast our stone and cause the ripple, man.
Online Courses for Absolute Beginners
Join Pat Flynn to learn how to start your course What do I create a course about? How specific (or broad) should my content be? How do I know if it’s going to sell or not? What if I create a course and then nobody buys it? Creating an online course doesn’t have to be difficult, and selling one doesn’t have to be sleazy. Following a three step roadmap of creating an online course people want, selling that course to those people, and automating it for profitability are the keys to getting started.
SPI 669: Antonio Centeno on Mastermind Groups
SPI 669: Antonio Centeno on Mastermind Groups Antonio Centeno: When you're starting a mastermind, if you don't feel you can get anyone to join, just get one person to join. And getting back to a good party, what makes for a good party in college is it you bring in the right people at the start, what makes for a conference, you've just got those keystone speakers or those keystone personalities that other people wanna be in the same room and hang out with them.
Book Writing LIVE AMA with Pat Flynn Webinar
Don't miss this opportunity to get the real scoop on how it all happens! Pat Flynn, author of Will It Fly? (WSJ Bestseller), Let Go, and Superfans, has a ton of knowledge and insider tips to share, and wants to help you fast-forward your way to becoming an author, and hopefully a bestseller, too! RSVP above so you don't miss out!
SPI 659: The Perfect Funnel for Community Growth with Liz Faircloth and Andresa Guidelli
Today's guests have built something absolutely incredible. They run a community of over 14,000 members and generate passive income from in-person meetups. That's right—their event system is fully automated! The key to all this is an exquisitely designed funnel and the podcast that started their inspiring journey. Liz Faircloth and Andresa Guidelli help women in real estate achieve financial freedom.
SPI 657: How to Leave Your Job and Start a Business with Amy Porterfield
SPI 657: How to Leave Your Job and Start a Business with Amy Porterfield Amy Porterfield: If you're staying in your nine to five job and you start creating this business, you're not going to have a lot of time. But you also have to ask yourself, how bad do you want it? How bad do you wanna call the shots? How bad do you not wanna work on someone else's time or someone else's dime? Getting clear on your why, what you want, like all I wanted was freedom.
10-10-10 Podcasting Challenge
A free community-based challenge Make podcasting easier, faster, and funner (er…more fun) SPI has partnered with the best in Podcasting: Alitu, Podcast Hawk, and Fusebox for the 10-10-10 Podcasting Challenge! In just ten business days, you'll learn how to grow your show, inside and out.
If I Was Starting a YouTube Channel Today...
Join Pat Flynn to learn what he'd do differently Starting and growing a YouTube channel can be incredibly overwhelming and confusing. When done right, however, a successful YouTube channel can help you grow an audience, launch a new business, generate an income and even change your life. And you don’t need millions of subscribers or views to do it. Thankfully, understanding how YouTube works doesn’t require rocket science.
SPI 655: How to Build Stories That Sell Big with Dr. J.J. Peterson
How much is a good story worth? In marketing, it's priceless. Crafting your message to capture attention and create an emotional connection is absolutely vital; it can make the difference between no sales and more sales than you can handle. But how do you tell the right story? How do you find the exact formula that can take your brand to the next level? This is the focus of today's conversation with Dr. J.J. Peterson of StoryBrand and the Marketing Made Simple podcast.
SPI 653: She Retired Her Husband on Podcasting—Sophie Walker and the Journey of Australian Birth Stories – Smart Passive Income
Starting from nothing and working hard to build a business is relatable. But what happens when you finally “make it?” The inevitable social dynamic shift catches many entrepreneurs by surprise. You see, parents at your kid's school don't want to hear about the $150,000 deal you turned down for ethical reasons. But where can you find a safe space to talk openly without offending anyone? Essentially, how do you navigate success with grace?
SPI Community Roadmap – Smart Passive Income
Join Pat Flynn and our SPI Community Managers Community needs are not “one size fits all.” What you need right now depends on where you are with your business. We understand that, and that's why SPI has three different entrepreneurial communities, so that we can help you with the stage your business is a now, and help you grow to the next stage.
How Creators Make Consistent Income with PAID Sponsorships – Smart Passive Income
Getting that first paid sponsorship is one of the most rewarding moments you’ll ever experience as a creator. It’s also the first step in your journey towards financial freedom and building a life that you’re excited to wake up for.
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