#116 How to Get Your Team Engaged in Content, Google SEO Updates & Website Speed Hacks

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Hello and welcome to the 90 Day Website

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Mastery Podcast. It's the 36th episode.

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We're excited to bring you even more

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valuable insights and practical advice to

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help you enhance your website's

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performance. We want you to feel proud of

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your website. When someone says, what's

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your website address? We don't want you to

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have that pang in your stomach. We want

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you to shout it loud and proud and really

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be proud of your website. We are live,

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joining us on the replay on the podcast

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and it's brilliant that you're here as a

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listener. We really value it and we love

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the feedback that we get. Keep giving us

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feedback and let us know what else you

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want us to talk about. In each episode, as

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always, we have four segments. We have the

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You Ask, We Answer. We have website

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stories. We also then move on to the

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website engine room where we share an app

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or a piece of tech or a kit that me or

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Pascal have seen that is going to help you

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as a website manager or a website content

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creator have an easier life. And then, of

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course, we always finish with the website

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call to action, where we give you one

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small change or adjustment that you could

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be making to your website right now that

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is going to help you feel proud of your

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website. Pascal, you're with me, my

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co-host. How are you? I'm very well. And

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you know, you were just mentioning about,

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please keep those comments coming and

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those questions. Because actually, today,

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the entire episode is inspired by

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interaction I've had through

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masterclasses, and you were hosting a

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conference last week in Durham. We got a

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chance to see each other as well, which

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was absolutely lovely. But actually, for

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the first time, every single segment is

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inspired directly by a conversation or a

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query from one of our clients. Absolutely.

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Let's start with our first segment, You

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Ask, We Answer.

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Now you're going to love this, Donny,

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because this question was asked in so many

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ways twice this week. I'm trying to get my

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colleagues to help me more with content

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ideas and to contribute to our blog. It's

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not easy. Any suggestions or practical

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advice? How many times have you heard

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these questions and this kind of comment?

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Yeah, I mean, trying to get content is

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sometimes like getting blood out of a

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stone, is it not? And what you tend to

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find in most organizations is there's very

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few people that are waiting and like the

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idea of getting involved. and giving

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content but you do have the odd few gems

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and the way I found, the best way I found

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to try and get content out of people is

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actually depending on the number of staff

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you've got of course because I was about

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to go down the having some one-to-one

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sessions with your staff but of course if

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you've got lots and lots of staff then you

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just need to think about how you can work

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that cleverly. But depending on the number

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of staff you've got, and if I just think

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of an organisation I was doing it with

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only last week, they've got about 30 or 40

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staff, and I've done one-to-one sessions

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with every single one of them, talking

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about what their passions are, what

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they're interested in outside of work,

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what their hobbies, are they members of

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any associations, any business

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associations, any charity work and really

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try to understand them as a person and

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then try to sort of marry that with okay

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well what's perhaps some sort of internal

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goals on how you can business develop into

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the business, how can you help the

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business grow which in turn is going to

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help you personally grow as well and

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actually is there a bit of value in some

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personal branding here as well so you know

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perhaps let's have a look at your

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LinkedIn, what's it saying? And from all

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of that conversation, and I've sort of

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fast forwarded it a bit here, but from all

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of that conversation, you tend to find

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that some fantastic content comes out. And

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then it's about making it really easy. So

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it might be about then I might interview

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them to tease some stuff out and then take

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it away to write it for them. Or it might

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be that I, yeah, come up with questions to

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ask them to get them thinking. So yeah,

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I've gone off on a bit of a tangent there,

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but that's just one method that I use,

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which works really well. I like it. And

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oddly, nowadays as well, it's so much

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easier because you could record it, you

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could just put it in one of the audio

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transcriber on your laptop while you're

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having a conversation and have a lot of

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those ideas. But what you're creating is

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almost like access to freelance

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journalists and people that are keeping an

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eye out for what's happening in the

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industry. And I've kind of, like you,

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changed slightly. So I used to have

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content ideas meeting. In fact, in the

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previous episode, we suggested an agenda

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for a kind of formal sit-down content

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ideas meeting. But your point is, for the

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vast majority of your colleagues, this is

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not their day-to-day. The marketing

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communication is not what they would do as

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much as you would. And I take your point

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about sometime, it's just someone that's

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got appointed by the organization. You're

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good at communication, you do it now, and

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then they lack the support. So what I tend

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to do then is look at organizing a meeting

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to look at the wins. And so you're back to

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this idea of in your particular area of

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expertise or in a particular function in

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the business, This month, what have been

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the wins, and what I tend to do is split

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between operational wins, commercial wins,

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technological wins, and to your point,

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personal wins. And what you tend to do

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there is get people to reflect on the

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month that was, and add to that, as you

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well know, Johnny, and all of you, the

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gems are coming out. Because they don't

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necessarily make the link between

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something that to them is just normal, not

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particularly worthy of being mentioned,

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but you with your content marketing

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head-on and particularly customer

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relationship marketing head-on, you kind

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of realize that would be a good story,

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that's a good anecdote or something we can

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develop further. So I've done a trial for

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the last few months now with some of my

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And that's working really well. Also,

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oddly, it doubles down as a report back to

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the boss saying, well, across the

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different functions of operations

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management, as well as marketing, this is

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what's been happening. And that also has

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meant that people have had some much

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better company updates on their website as

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well. Yeah. Yeah, and the other thing that

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I've used is templates, so providing some

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kind of content template that can be used

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for simple blog posts or simple

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audio sessions. where you're just sort of

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prompting some key things.

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So for example, here's the topic, here's

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the theme, and one of the first prompts is

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what three things would our target

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audience be interested in? How would it

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help them? What difference could we make?

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What three pain points might our target

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audience have around this particular theme

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or topic? And so things like that can then

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lead into content generation as well. So

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there's loads of ways, but don't stop at

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the typical answer, which is, I don't have

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any ideas, and I'm too busy. You just need

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to gamify it, make it more fun, bring out

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their passion and make it feel like

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there's something, you know, be authentic

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in terms of actually there's something in

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it for them as well. I think that's

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important because they have to see the

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correlation, you know, that cause and

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effect. And for me, importantly, because

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I've heard back as well, you know,

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feedback from people saying, well, I gave

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the ideas or I took part in a meeting or I

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took part in a one-to-one, but then I

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never heard a thing after that. So be

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careful, you know, do make sure you send

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copies. Do show them, for example,

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reactions on social media. Do tell them

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that their anecdote was used at a

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conference by the MD. Kind of give them,

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make sure that they understand their

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contribution. has travelled and has had an

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impact on the business. For sure. I am

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very, very, very excited about our next

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segment, especially on this episode.

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Let's find out why. It's Website Stories.

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Now, typically for website stories, you

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and I would be researching an article, a

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podcast, a video, an infographic produced

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by somebody else and use it for a bit of a

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deep dive conversation on what it means to

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be a website manager in today's economy.

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But we're going to do something very,

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we're going to actually be talking about

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something that you and I have authored and

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produced. I'm very, very, very, very

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pleased to announce to all of you that

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Johnny and I have co-authored a book. We

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have. We certainly have. And it's very

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exciting. And for those that are watching

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and on the video version, I'm just holding

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it up to the screen right now. If you're

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on audio, you'll be able to click the link

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in the show notes. Don't you worry. And

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you'll be able to see what it looks like.

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But how exciting. We actually have it

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published. It's live. And it's very

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exciting. And what is interesting for all

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of you, let's do a bit of origins, you

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know, story, be like a Marvel Universe.

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But the idea started many months ago now,

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I must confess memories failing me where,

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you know, I thought, well, maybe we could

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do an ebook out of, you know, all the work

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that we do with regard to the webinars

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that started all of this, the program,

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kind of day-to-day with masterclasses,

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conferences, and so on. So we wanted to do

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like an e-book that would be a free

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download. But then eventually, it became

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quite a sizable e-book with everything

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that we wanted to fit in, because we

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wanted this to become the ultimate

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resource that would really answer all of

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your questions, but also give you lots of

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practical advice. And in a moment, John is

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going to give you a breakdown of the

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content of the book called We're Proud.

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And so off he went, and we went from

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e-book to book. And that was quite a

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learning curve. I mean, I always had a lot

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of respect for my fellow consultants and

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advisors out there that have gone ahead

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with writing books. And that kind of

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respect has been renewed tenfold because

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it was quite a journey, but delighted with

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the result. Yeah, I mean it's been two

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years in the making. We've spent a lot of

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time and it was just that realization that

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we have a lot of tactics and strategies

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that work to producing a website that

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people can feel proud of. And, you know,

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how can we not document this? How can we

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not, you know, even just for our own

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sanity and put it all together? So we've,

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the Strapline is the five-step roadmap to

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feeling proud of your website. Again, it's

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called WebProud. There's a five-step

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roadmap in there. Step one is all about

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the website health check. Step two is

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about building trust on your website. We

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have step three, which is attracting the

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right website visitors. Step four is

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converting visitors into inquiries. And

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then step five is becoming proud of your

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website. And then we've got some bonus

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materials as well, have we not, Pascal?

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And a lot of that's from all of the

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podcasts that we've been doing. This is

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the 36th episode, and we have four

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segments in each episode where we give

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tons of value and tons of tips away. And

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we've taken all of those and consolidated

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them into some really, hopefully, you tell

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us, insightful, good value that's going to

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help you feel proud of your website. And

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the driving kind of remit that we gave

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ourselves, you know, brief that we gave

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ourselves was to be super practical, and

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really, with a view of you taking action.

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So the five steps are captured into five

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executive briefings. But each briefing has

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two checklists, one from Johnny, one from

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me, has two action plans, one from Johnny,

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one from myself. You also have, which I

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think is lovely, the concept of this being

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like a field notebook. You have a dot

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journaling section, which I'm going to

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show quickly on screen, this idea of

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doodling and putting kind of boxes and

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arrows and whatever. You have also a

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10-day, 30-day, 90-day action plan

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template. And you also have, which I think

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is important, a tools and AI solutions

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kind of ideas capture. So what are you

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going to do? What tools are going to help

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you achieve those? And what AI solutions

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should you be testing right now? Times

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five. And that's for the full action. And

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as you mentioned, we also included the

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bonus section for inspiration, for

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imagination. You've got four different

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bonuses, but if I may say so, the one that

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I'm particularly proud of is a year's

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worth of websites amends and websites

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actions taken from our now world-famous

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website, Call to Action. But literally,

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we've captured the top 52 actions that you

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should be undertaking in your website. And

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you can go through the list one by one, or

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you can open this particular bonus section

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randomly and go, this week, we're going to

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work on that. And I think really from the

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point of view of as a reader, we've had

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obviously people checking it. We've had

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some beta testers, you could argue. And

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they said, you know, they love the tone.

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They said they could imagine and they

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could hear your voice and my voice whilst

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we're reading the book, which was actually

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a compliment they said. But they

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absolutely loved, loved the checklist and

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the action plans. Super, super useful.

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Yeah, and we've enjoyed putting it

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together. The idea, like on this podcast,

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is for you to feel proud of your website.

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And by following this simple guide, as

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we've said, really practical, lots of

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actions. We're sort of there with you

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throughout the journey to ultimately

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creating that website that you can feel

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web proud. That's as simple as that. So

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what a great website story this episode.

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Indeed. We'll obviously put a link to the

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book. It's on Amazon. We'll put the link

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on the show notes. We'd welcome feedback.

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We'd love feedback, in fact. And if you do

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happen to buy it, please do leave us a

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review, because ultimately,

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I don't think we're going to be

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millionaires from releasing a book,

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Pascal, but at the same time we do want it

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to reach people, we want it to reach the

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right people and we want it to ultimately

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create better websites online. That's for

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sure. It benefits all of us if websites

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are easier to use or easier to navigate

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that work on mobile that convert and you

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know how can that be a bad thing so you

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know help us get it out there and reach

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the right people. On that note let's move

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to our next segment the website engine

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room.

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Now, in this part of the show, we select

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and shortlist and recommend two apps or

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software solutions that can make life

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easier as a website manager and content

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creator. And some of them actually made it

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into the web pround book that we just

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announced a moment ago. But Johnny, what

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is your selection for episode 36? So I've

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been talking a lot about cold email

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recently. And one of the things about cold

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email is that it's a numbers game. And so

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for you to be able to send mass emails out

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one at a time, what you need to do is, the

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only way to send so many out at the same

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time is to have multiple email addresses.

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There's no way around it. Because

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otherwise, you have a huge issue with spam

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filters and trust signals and so what we

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do is we warm up email addresses to have

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multiple email addresses. Now there's a

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cost of setting those email addresses up

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and there's a cost and time wise there's a

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lot of technical aspects from you know

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setting DNS up or working with the likes

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of Microsoft or the likes of Google. It's

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not the biggest most difficult thing in

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the world but when you add the time up and

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the cost there is now a company out there

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that does it for you. So it's

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MailScale.ai, it automates email account

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creation much faster, much cheaper and

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within minutes you could be creating 50 to

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even a thousand email accounts within just

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a few minutes on several domains. So they

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do the whole thing for you, they manage

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the whole thing and it's set up within

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minutes and it's a lot cheaper and it just

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makes the whole barrier of one of the

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barriers of cold email campaigns just so

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much easier. So that's mailscale.ai is my

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recommendation for this episode. Yes. And

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you mentioned it on that. That's where

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you've been talking a lot at the

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conference that I was able to join. And

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the conversation that inspired today's

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selection for me was with customers where

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we're busy working on their campaigns.

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We're busy working on the customer

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journey. As you know, I've got this little

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kind of model called the visibility,

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credibility, and interactivity kind of

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workflow where you kind of chunk your work

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into three key areas of customer

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experience. But people are saying, I can't

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quite imagine it because we've not done

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visibility to the degree that you're

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describing. So I remembered a way to

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visualize that customer journey from they

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don't know you exist all the way to they

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become a loyal and very fervent champion

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is called pretty funnels. So this side of

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the sales funnel, but what is lovely about

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the the interface. It's a drag and drop

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with different kind of icons, different

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way to symbolize, you know, the different

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stages and steps and interaction, which

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could include indeed receiving an email.

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And printed funnels is a lovely way to

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visualize what you think your customer

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journey is all about, but also spot maybe

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gaps or spot ways in which you can get

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more value from that interaction. And what

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I liked about it, it Because it's visual,

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everybody can understand it and it's

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probably more engaging than bullet points

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or an attempt at mind map or an attempt at

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using PowerPoint with boxes and arrows,

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trying to connect different things. So if

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you want to find a way to visualize your

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customer journey as you're building your

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campaign, you want to share it in a way

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that is meaningful to others, I highly

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recommend Pretty Funnels. Yeah, I've done

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a lot of journey mapping and customer

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journey mapping, that was the phrase I was

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looking for. And what is apparent

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very quickly when you map a journey out is

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the optimizations you can make and how one

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little change in one little step of the

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journey can have such a big impact. So

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brilliant, now a tool that we can use that

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helps us map that out a bit more, but also

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makes us think about the content as we're

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at each touchpoint. I highly recommend

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mapping a journey out, however big or

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small your organisation is. really

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understanding it from the customer's point

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of view where you take them and so many

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times what you tend to find is that they

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come for your funnel, they perhaps say no

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to a quote and what you do, you put them

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right in at the front of the funnel again

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and speak to them as if they've never ever

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spoken to you before. and sort of take

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them on exactly the same journey again.

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Well, that is the straightaway at

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optimization and gets you thinking. So

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yeah, brilliant. What was that? That was

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prettyfunnels.com. Excellent. We shall put

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that in the show notes as we do with all

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of these. So let's move on to our final

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segment, because of course, every piece of

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content, including our podcast, has a call

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to action. This is the website call to

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action.

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Now this is about the one change, the one

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adjustment that's gonna make a big

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difference to your website and for you to

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feel proud of your website again. Johnny,

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what is your call to action? Go and buy

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the book. No, okay, I'm only joking, I'm

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only joking. If you wanna feel proud of

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your website, go and buy WebProud. No, my

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website call to action for this episode is

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lazy loading for faster pages. So

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depending on the content management system

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that you have or depending on how your

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website's been built, Sometimes it's a

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click of a button, sometimes you need to

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get a developer to write some code. But

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it's the idea that images or elements on

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the page do not load until the user, for

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example, interacts or the user scrolls to

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that part of the website. So it increases

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the speed of your website because instead

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of having to load everything at once, the

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website only loads elements as the user

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gets there or as the user starts

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interacting. So it improves user

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experience and absolutely improves search

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engine optimization as well because that's

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one of the big metrics that Google is

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looking at is page speed and that can have

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an influence on your ranking factor as

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well. So lazy loading for faster pages

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would be my website call to action. This

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is incredible because that's the

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conversation I had only two days ago with

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a client about the way in which actually

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even Google and Touch Console are making

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suggestions about things like this to kind

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of take the pressure off. So mine is

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actually, again, inspired by a

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conversation I've had with customers where

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one of the other reasons that people are

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not feeling proud of their website is that

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they feel a little embarrassed about and

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find that they have a website to-do list

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and they're just not making enough

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progress with it. So every time we have a

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meeting, every time they discuss things

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with their colleagues, it's that kind of

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dark cloud looming of all the things that

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I know I should be doing but I haven't

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done. So my recommendation is actually to

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go back to that to-do list and only select

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the actions that are going to make the

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biggest difference this time of year. And

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you could almost say that the rest on the

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list, give it to someone like Pascal or

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Johnny, and we'll be the custodian of that

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to-do list. But you should, as a business

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owner, as a marketer, pick the handful

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that are going to really, really make a

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difference to your business. And then

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you're going to relax. Then you're going

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to feel proud of your website, and you can

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tackle the rest. For inspiration, in terms

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of website call to action, if maybe your

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to-do list is very light and well done

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you, a couple of things you could do. You

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could access our website and go on to the

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Action Randomizer, where we've captured

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the top 25 kind of calls to action for the

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previous series. and you can do one action

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at a time. Or, as Jonny mentioned, ingest,

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but actually, sincerely, do get a copy of

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WebPrime, because as I mentioned a moment

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ago, we have a year's worth of calls to

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action for you to kind of make those

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adjustments, very small ones, very

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practical ones, those will make a big

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difference to you, to your customer

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experience, and as a result of which, you

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can breathe a sigh of relief and feel, do

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you know what? I don't mind sharing my

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URL, my website address anymore. So in

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episode 36 we have helped you, hopefully,

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get your team engaged in content. That's

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around some of the things, some of the

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strategies, some of the tactics that you

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can do with your team to try and get them

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more engaged, whether that be templates,

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whether it be understanding their

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passions, whether it be just talking to

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them and asking them what do they think

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that they could add in terms of value, in

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terms of content, or pain points of their

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target audience, of their customers, and

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perhaps it is sometimes sharing some

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ideas, first of all, just to get that

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conversation going, but there's no, what

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we are saying here is that there are easy

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ways to get help from the team in terms of

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producing content, and it's just about

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really engaging them and making them

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understand the value that they get out of

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it. That's the important bit. It's about

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them understanding the value that they get

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out of this as well. We talked about

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website stories, which was the most

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exciting one for this series, really. The

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book, Web Proud, it's launched. We've

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spent a lot of time on it. It's the

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five-step roadmap to feeling proud of your

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website. Again, it's out now on Amazon.

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And you please do pop along and have a

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look. The link will be in the show notes.

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We've given you some tools that you should

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be looking at. MailScale.ai to help with

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your email account generation if you're

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looking at doing cold email. Brilliant app

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for making things a lot faster and a lot

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cheaper for setting up email accounts.

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PrettyFunnels was Pascal's.

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PrettyFunnels.com, an elegant way to

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visualize and plan and optimize your

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digital funnels and any customer journeys

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which, you know, we recommend you do and

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find those optimizations. And then for the

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website call to action, we finished on

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lazy loading for faster pages and review

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your to-do list, review your website to-do

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list and give yourself a few small

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victories to end the year and focus on

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some of the sort of bite-sized things that

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you could start implementing right away.

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Another great episode, Pascal. Thank you

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very much indeed. And it's been a pleasure

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as always. No, thank you very much. And

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listen, you know, as you mentioned when we

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started and actually at the very core of

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today's episode, it's all your questions.

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It's all your reactions, all your

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comments, all your doubts and concerns.

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There's a great source of inspiration for

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us. And I find it very helpful and really

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thinking I'm approaching now 30 years in a

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world of digital and probably 30 years of

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thinking through a website experience

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that's going to make a difference to you,

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your colleagues and your clients. And it's

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just an absolute delight to have the

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different platforms from the podcast to

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the webinars, to the masterclasses, to the

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book, to share that knowledge. For

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absolute sure. Listen, that is a wrap for

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episode 36 of the 90-day Website Mastery

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Podcast, your audio companion. to the 90

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Day Website Mastery Program. For more

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information, visit

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90daymarketingmastery.com where you can

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book a discovery call with either myself

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or Pascal. It's goodbye for now. Enjoy the

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video and audio montage whilst you review

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your notes and action steps. And we will

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see you soon and look forward to your

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feedback. And please do like, share and

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leave a review. I'll speak to you soon.

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Take care.