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Newbie Week: How big does my list have to be before I start making money?

How big does my list have to be before I start making money?Hey folks! Welcome to Short and Sweet Newbie Week, where I’m answering a bunch of questions from business beginners! My goal is to answer each question in less than 1000 words. This is profoundly difficult for me, but I like a challenge.

Our first question:

How big does my list have to be — before I start making money?

Great question. There are a lot of VERY big numbers getting thrown around in this industry, and it’s hard to find information for beginners. Like, “yeah, I’m so happy that you bought a yacht with your launch proceeds, but my blog has precisely three posts on it, and I wrote them four years ago, so how does that help ME?”

I’ll see what I can do. :)

I’ll give you the short answer, and then I’ll give you the details…

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Naomi Explains… Urgency

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Naomi Explains... UrgencyIn a recent episode we discussed AIDA, the four stages a prospect goes through from “who are you?” to “here’s my Visa”. We said that the action phase is trickiest because, well, getting people off their asses can be tricky. We mentioned three traditional approaches to spurring action, and those were scarcity, urgency, and objection reversal. In our last episode, we tackled scarcity, and there were kittens. Today, urgency. No kittens, but I do have blueberries.

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Naomi Explains… Scarcity

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Naomi Explains... ScarcityIn our most recent episode we discussed AIDA, the four stages a prospect goes through from “who are you?” to “here’s my Visa”. In it, I said that the last phase – action – is usually the one business owners find the most challenging because people are inert, and getting them off their asses can be tricky. We said that there were three traditional approaches to spurring action, and those were scarcity, urgency, and objection reversal. Over the next few episodes we’re going to cover each of them in turn. But today, give me 10 minutes, and I’ll explain… scarcity.

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Naomi Explains… AIDA

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Naomi Explains... AIDAYou might have heard of AIDA, but like all marketing acronyms, we can be pretty hazy on the details, and how it all applies to, well, us. In today’s episode, I’ll explain this important framework for your customer or client’s journey.

What are the stages? What do they look like? How does it apply to your business? All this, and more, will be revealed. Give me 10 minutes, and I’ll explain… AIDA.

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Naomi Explains… Early Bird Pricing

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Naomi Explains... Early Bird PricingEvery time you turn around, somebody’s offering “early bird pricing”. It’s ubiquitous. But is it necessary? Is it good? Are there downsides? (No, sometimes, and yes, respectively.) What actually IS early bird pricing, and is it a good idea for your next promotion?

In today’s episode, I’ll explain the upsides and the downsides, and I’ll give an easy to use protocol to decide if early bird pricing is right for you, your business, your launch, or your event. Give me 10 minutes, and I’ll explain… early bird pricing.

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