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So, this is how to hit 10 grand a month
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and never work a normal job again as
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step by step as I can. And before we
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dive in, let me just be clear, okay?
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This isn't about get-rich quick schemes
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or making promises I can't back up at
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all. This is literally the exact system
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I used to build my own income to that
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first 10K in real time. And before I
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hear it in the comments, too, no, I
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don't hate 9 to5s. I actually recommend
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them for all beginners. But if you're
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tired of that kind of just clocking in
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grind, feeling undervalued, or just
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literally want more money and freedom,
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this video is specifically for you. So,
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let's not waste any time. Let's get
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right into it. My first point, I want to
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hit on my story a little bit more and
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the 10K month kind of mindset shift that
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I needed way back when. And first, you
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need to understand that. Okay, so after
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a few years in the corporate world, I
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couldn't I just had no interest anymore.
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I was always knowing that at some point
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I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I don't
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know what the hell I was going to do,
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but I have nothing against jobs, but
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most are a means to an end, right? Or
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there's always some type of hierarchy.
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People backstabbing, people trying to
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grind up that corporate ladder, no
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matter how many people they have to get
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ahead of, right? I just got sick of it.
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I I honestly got sick of sipping the
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Kool-Aid. And I was like, listen, this
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is like the perfect time to do this
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thing. And I know I can. I knew I had
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the skill set, okay? And this is why I
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recommend everyone go through the 9 to5
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first and then, you know, start your own
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thing later. I need to talk about why 10
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grand a month is also the magic number
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in my opinion. Right at this level, a
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few things happen. I'm telling you this
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from experience. When you hit 10K
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consistently, I noticed three very
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immediate changes. First, the financial
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stress just completely disappeared.
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Second, I could actually reinvest in
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growing my business without feeling any
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type of pinch. And then third, I had
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actual time freedom, right? Not just
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evenings and weekends. Even when I was
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working like a dog in 2022, like 10, 11
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hours a day, I would rather do that than
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work 2 hours, 3 hours, 4 hours now in
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the corporate world. Just being totally
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honest. And the biggest kind of mindset
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shift that you need to make is stop
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thinking about hourly rates, right? The
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moment you detach your income from your
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time is when everything changes. This is
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a famous moment in stream where this
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happened where a guy was working Uber
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and like two other jobs. He was
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wondering why he couldn't get ahead. He
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was actually kind of getting angry and I
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was like, "Dude, the math is simple.
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Like at even 50 bucks an hour, you'd
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need to work 200 hours to make 10 grand,
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right? That's essentially impossible,
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especially in a sustainable way. But
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when you build actual systems or charge
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a specific high ticket price that
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generate revenue without your, you know,
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input all the time, everything changes.
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Okay, so before I get into point two, of
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course, this is a plug for console
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calls. that can help you map out your
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own why, give you, you know,
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step-by-step instructions to plug this
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into your own life. If you're
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interested, the link is below for 30
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minute or 1 hour option. If you have any
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questions on that, let me know. Let's
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get into point two. These are two very
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dead simple business models that can
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scale. And trust me, I've tested dozens
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of, you know, beginner business models.
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Real estate wholesaling, private equity,
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deal sourcing, freaking car flipping,
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forex trading, everything under the sun.
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Nothing beats these two. Okay? Okay. And
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this is what allowed me to consistently
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hit the 10K a month mark without actual,
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you know, real ongoing work. For
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beginners, sales, just selling other
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people's expensive products will take
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you so, so far. You can actually make
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more than 10 grand a month. Honestly,
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you don't have to worry about customer
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service, setting up your own LLC,
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business bank accounts, fulfillment, any
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of that stuff. You just sell and you
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close. That's it. It's a grind, but you
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can make a ton. For my more kind of
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middle level intermediate guys,
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freelance and agency services. This is
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obviously if you have more experience or
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a really even better existing skill set,
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you're going to need to know how to sell
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to make any of these work regardless.
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But this could be literally anything,
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right? Some great ideas that I'm seeing
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right now that if I genuinely had more
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time, I would pursue is like
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ghostwriting for businesses, copywriting
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and email marketing for B2B businesses,
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design or ad creatives, especially with
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uh ChatBT's image duration. Like there's
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so many opportunities here. Cold email
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lead genen, AI implementation for SMBs
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or people who have no idea what's going
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on with AI. Like there are genuinely so
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many ways to make this work right now.
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You could basically just flip a coin and
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say, "Okay, great. This is the business
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model I'm pursuing because I know
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there's crazy money to be made here.
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Just do it. Pick one model." Obviously,
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if you have an existing skill set within
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one, do that for sure. And if you don't,
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literally just choose one of these
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blindly. It doesn't even matter. Point
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three, your revenue math and how to get
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clients. Okay, let me break down exactly
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how you can charge to hit 10K
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accordingly. If you absolutely must, I
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would literally work for free just to
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get case studies and to be able to
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market those case studies. Those are
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worth more than the retainer that is
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worth a,000 or 2,000 bucks, even $3,000.
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Because if you get one, ideally three to
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five, but just even one good local,
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someone who's legit person telling you
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that what you do for them is great, that
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is going to be insane. That will take
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you so so far, right? So, if you've got
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to be flexible here as a salesperson,
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this is dead simple, right? Just take 10
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to 20% commission of every high ticket
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close that you sell. For freelance
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basis, I always do a retainer, typically
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like 1 to two grand a month minimum, and
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then backfill with what value I have to
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provide for that amount of money.
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Whether it's a certain amount of leads,
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whether it's a certain amount of
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creatives, whether it's a certain
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campaign to be set up, whatever. There's
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a million ways to do this. For say
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copywriting, for example, you could do a
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lower retainer and then a percentage of
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campaign revenue that you write. For
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example, I know this is really famous in
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e-commerce brands, right? I've seen
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crazy like5 to $25,000 a month from just
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a few clients this way. These guys are
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working like part-time or they outsource
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it eventually and it's a crazy crazy
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method, right? And client acquisition,
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it's actually very easy. I'd focus on
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the dream 100 outreach in the beginning
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where it's like you just pick your top
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100 clients you would love to work with
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that you know are qualified. Reach out
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to them by hand. I don't care how you
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have to get their attention. But also
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just try to get the first handful of
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clients. I don't care if it's local
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small businesses. This just helps you
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get your rep in. Gets your reps in. And
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also just, you know, work that way. So
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there's no right or wrong answer here.
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Obviously I'm biased, but do cold email
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and cold calls by hand. You don't need
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fancy softwares yet. None of that is
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worth it. You don't need any of that
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stuff. Just a simple landing page with
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your offering. A professional domain
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does help for sure, but it's not 100%
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necessary. I've literally closed clients
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with a Gmail domain before and literally
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no landing page. Okay? So, it's, you
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know, good, but it's not necessary, so
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to speak. Point four, build systems, not
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just income. This is a huge mistake, let
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me tell you. I I sold as a freelancer.
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You're going to naturally have to do
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this. People have you have an advantage
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as a freelancer, right? People like
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working with someone who, you know, they
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don't have to train, they don't have to
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manage, they don't have to pay a crazy
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in-house salary. They could just bring
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you on. But the issue with that is
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they're going to demand your time. You
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almost have a bunch of bosses at that
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point versus you positioning yourself as
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an agency. You risk, you know, being
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perceived as like, oh, is this guy
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really running a legit company, a legit
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operation? But you also don't have the
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clients breathing down your neck at
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every time because you position yourself
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as like, hey, I'm the owner. I'm going
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to be handing, you know, off to an
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account manager or a CSM. So, you don't
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really need to worry about this right
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now, but you know, build that
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perception. Build that it's like, hey,
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this is a legit corporation. I'm here
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for when you need me, but I'm not going
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to answer your questions 247. Okay? So,
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just be very, very careful with that.
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And then the real secret, it's not just
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making money, right? It's creating this
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stuff that you can make money without
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your input. And this is why I now have
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client acquisition systems. So, I have
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automated cold emails that get me
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consistent leads. We use instantly
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software and built with. We have an
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application funnel that pre-qualifies
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prospects. We have a booking system that
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schedules calls only when I'm actually
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around and available, right? We use
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Calendarly for that. And then delivery
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systems, so like SOPs for every service
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that we offer, project management
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systems like Air Table, which our team
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follows and our team uses to track all
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our leads and appointments. And then
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just general QC, general quality control
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that don't really require my
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involvement. My team kind of handles
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that part for me, which is amazing. And
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then of course the team structure, which
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is eventually what you're going to have
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to do is you're going to need a
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bookkeeper once things start getting
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complex. you're going to need uh some
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type of fulfillment, some type of
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appointment setter or someone uh to take
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the fulfillment off of your agency
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stuff. So, I had a VA, I had an admin
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who handled all of my like back office
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bookkeeping stuff for 600 bucks a month
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and it was awesome. And then eventually
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like a content manager and then
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eventually like an appointment setter,
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right? This is all stuff that you can
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delegate, get off your plate so you can
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just focus on closing customers. That is
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your only only goal right now is to get
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cash flow through that door. Okay, key
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insight. I spent like literally just 3
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months documenting everything I did,
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recording everything I did on Loom, and
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then I gradually slowly started handing
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off tasks to future employees, which
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really, really helped me. Point five,
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this is what I call the freedom
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timeline. This is the most exciting
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part. Let me be just brutally honest
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about how long this stuff really takes.
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I was in a very unique scenario to where
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I got to 12 grand a month in the first
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like 30 days, 45 days, something like
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that. But your first month or two is
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just building your offer, testing market
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demand, which I'm telling you is there,
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but just build the offer, craft that,
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get messages out there as quickly as you
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possibly can. Month 3 to four is
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creating your systems and then content
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to make you look like a legit legit
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person. Get on camera. Who cares what
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they think, right? Just get that, you
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know, uh, voice out there. Show that
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you're legit. You're not someone hiding
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behind a computer screen. And then
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months five to sixish is like really
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scaling acquisition. At this point, you
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should have 100% 3 to five closed
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customers, probably even more. And
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you're slowly starting to build your
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team. You're slowly starting to delegate
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where it's like, okay, I'm capped out.
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What is the highest leverage task that I
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can get off my plate right now so I can
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focus all my time on acquisition? That's
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what you focus on. And then months 6 to
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12 is just optimizing what's working,
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increasing your margins, you know,
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keeping costs as low as possible because
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I see people invest almost too much. And
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at this point, you could probably start
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paid ads. you could probably start as
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long as you're I'd say above 25 to 30
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grand a month. That's when you can
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really start running ads. That was a
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huge mistake of mine was I relied too
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much on cold emails and referrals and
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now we're trying to make that time back
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up. So the most kind of critical pivot
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point for me at least was month five
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when I raised my prices by I think it
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was like 25 30% and got even more
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clients because of the perceived like
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value increase and because I could
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backfill and be like no I can
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confidently charge 25% more. this isn't
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freaking 2020 anymore where I have to
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offer my old boss's pricing, which is
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what I did, right? So, just be very
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careful. Think about that long term. And
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then maybe some warning signs like what
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not to do. If you're working more than
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30 hours weekly after 6 months,
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something is genuinely wrong with your
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system. If you're working like 50, 60
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hours a week, you got clients all up in
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the air. This is where a lot of
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freelancers get stuck. They even hit
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that 10 grand a month mark. they either
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can't keep it consistently or they just,
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you know, they're constantly going from
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six to 12 to four to, you know, x amount
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of grand per month. You want to keep a
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consistent benchmark. And I'm telling
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you, I know this joke is kind of flying
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around where it's like it's the flying
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private joke. Once you fly private, you
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never want to go back to economy, even
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business class, right? I'm telling you,
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you're going to feel this way when
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you've hit your first 10. You just need
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to focus on getting there because then
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you you realize it's like I can't I
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can't dip below. There's no way I'm
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going to make sure that I've hit 10
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grand a month every single month for the
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rest of my life. And that's how I've
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done since March 2022. Like I said, I've
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talked about this before, but I haven't
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had a month since March of 2022 that I
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haven't done minimum 20 grand in profit.
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And that is a a feeling that I wish
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every single person watching this video
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can get to. And to kind of end things
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off, if you will, to conclude this
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thing, 10K months without a normal job
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isn't just about the money. This is
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something I want to drive home. It's
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about freedom and building a life on
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your own terms, right? That's the whole
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thing. I I'm a big car guy and I'm I've
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told this story before, but my freedom,
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my time to just do whatever the hell I
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want, wake up when I want, go to the gym
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when I want, eat what I want, is worth
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more than a 100,000 Lambos. I don't
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care. That is worth It is priceless. I
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I'll put it that way. It's priceless.
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And the stuff I've outlined today aren't
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theoretical. This isn't some Ponzi
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scheme. This isn't some woo woo stuff.
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This is happening right before you. and
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they're exactly what I did to go from
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honestly just annoyed with the
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nineto-ive world to financially
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comfortable, time rich, and you know,
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building my first liquid million. So, as
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always, if you've made it this far, I
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want to see you win. Comment below if
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you have any questions. We'll see you in
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the next one.
