Elevating Your Marketing Strategy with Staci Moore: The Power of Collaboration, Virtual Networking, and Personal Growth

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Welcome.

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Welcome to the Ready Set Collaborate podcast with Wanda Pearson and my guest, the operator, who is Stacey Moore.

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I'm so excited about Stacey being on my podcast.

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She's actually the one that created my intro and outro my voiceover.

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So thank you, stacey, you have been just a blessing.

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It's like when you're not experiencing different sections, you go get the experts, and Stacey is the expert.

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She is the operator.

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Thank you for being on the podcast.

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I appreciate you being here.

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Let me talk a little bit about Stacey and then she can tell us a little bit about herself.

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Stacey Moore, aka the Operator, is a visionary that rents the leaf until you can own it yourself.

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She is the voice for you if you don't have one, until you have the wisdom to know what to do.

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That is true, because that's what she did for me.

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So the operator is a virtual resource and certified relationship broker, connecting you to strategies to generate more revenue and relax just a little bit.

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She lives at the intersection of personal and professional development, understanding that they go hand in hand With a background in behavioral health and sciences and over 30 years in corporate.

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When coaching and teaching, she focuses on the unsaid and the untold.

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Stacey is a Gemini, a generator in human design and Gen X.

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She's a lover, a fighter, a leader and a bridge standing in the gaps.

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All right now, girl, I tell you you couldn't do better than that thing on bio A lover, a fighter and a leader, and a bridge standing in the gaps.

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I love that.

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Stacey, thank you for coming on the podcast with me.

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I appreciate it.

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Tell us something about you, stacey, that I didn't tell about in your bio and how you got started.

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Absolutely, and I want to say thank you to you for having me on the podcast.

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I know you've got a slew of people because of all of your connections and the way that you communicate and connections and collaboration is your thing Ready set, collaborate.

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I appreciate being part of this.

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I don't have a lot to say.

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I think that I'm at this point in my life I'm just grateful.

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I've spent a lot of time being grateful and sitting in that, which I wasn't before.

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Before I was doing so much doing and now I'm doing more being so, being able to receive so that I can give, being able to release so that I can receive.

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That's the state that I'm in right now.

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So I'm going through this art of the becoming the campaign that I can receive.

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That's the state that I'm in right now.

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So I'm going through this art of the becoming the campaign that I'm doing.

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But it's about looking at that personal and professional development point and saying where am I in both of these things again in life?

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And I'll be 56 in June, next month or depending on when this airs.

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So y'all June of 24, I'll be 56.

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So it is that point of reevaluating what do I want?

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What do I want out of the future?

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Do I still like some of the things that I liked before?

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Old friends and they say, hey, how are you doing?

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Are you still playing softball?

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Are you still?

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And you're going no, I'm not and I'm not that person still, and you're going, no, I'm not and I'm not that person.

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So, figuring out who am I right now, so that I can reintroduce the world.

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To that person and I want to say, yeah, it will be airing in July.

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I want to say happy belated birthday, happy birthday.

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So we're going to celebrate your birthday.

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Even when a podcast releases, it's still your birthday, right, that's right.

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I celebrate like a month or two months my birthday, but yeah, but we're going to celebrate your birthday because that's a blessing we're still here, which is a blessing.

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So thank you for being here with me here.

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So let's talk about some things about marketing strategy.

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So can you describe an overall marketing strategy that you use with your clients?

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First and foremost with clients is knowing who your ideal audience is, and that's important.

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That's important in your branding, it's important in your messaging, it's important when you go to market, because knowing who they are helps you know where they're going to be.

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Where do they play, where do they pay is what I like to say, and I'm always going to put human capital in it all the time.

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And people say human capital are the people that, so that person that has never bought from you before, maybe a family member, but they're willing to repost on their social or they're willing to by word of mouth at the next barbecue, they go to tell somebody about what it is that you do, as long as they know.

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So being clear is another part of it.

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Being clear about who you are and what you bring to the table.

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People want to know what's in it for me, so what are you bringing them?

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So then, that way you can show up in rooms when you're not there because people know exactly what you do.

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Human capital is also affiliate marketing and ambassadors.

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It means that for low to no cost upfront, you're able to get people to help you get the word out about your product or service to other people.

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So I'm going to say marketing it's online, it's offline, but almost all the time it involves humans, whether they're on the buying side of your product or whether you're allowing them to be on the distribution side and enjoy spreading the word about your product and service with you.

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Absolutely, and that is so true.

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The referral basis as far as and a lot of people remember you, especially if you have that passion that you know and they always refer.

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I got one of my clients referred this guy to me yesterday and I had somebody that I used to be a partner at Keller Williams and she said one of her clients to me.

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So I said really it's nice to have be in the room.

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You don't know who you're talking about, but if they remember you, that's how you can get those referrals and people can come to you.

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But it's so true, I love it.

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I love it.

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Which digital marketing channels do you prioritize and why?

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Like social media, email marketing, seo, which one do you actually get into and helping your clients with?

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The one that's best for them.

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Exactly Right.

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Yes, and that's important because we go back to who's your ideal client.

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If your ideal client likes to play on Facebook, like they're looking for the gossip, the stories and that nature and then.

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But they're on Instagram to see the quickies, what's there, or they're on TikTok to see what's the latest recipe or what's the latest, depending on product or service you have to know where your client is.

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So if someone tells you LinkedIn's the place to be because all of the executives are there or the decision makers are there, if your product is not appealing to them, then it does you no good to go over there and spend all of your time there.

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People also say be omnipresent.

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That means be everywhere.

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So use a platform to send out your social media manager so that you can show up in all of these places, but the information that you put out on each one of the platforms has to conform to that platform, meaning there are only so many characters on Twitter or X.

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So therefore, you can't put the same thing that you would put on LinkedIn with a long explanation and bullet points on Twitter.

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Where is your buyer?

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Are they on Twitter?

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Are they on LinkedIn?

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And that is to purchase or make decisions about their purchasing power.

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Also, the other areas.

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Let's look at email marketing.

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It's always good to have an email list, and why?

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Because that's outside of anybody else's platform.

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If Meta decides they're going to be down today, or another country decides that Meta is going to be down today, you have a way to communicate with your audience, your prospects, your leads and your longtime reading fan customers outside of the platform.

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You're not dependent on that.

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It may be inside of a community platform such as GoHighLevel and their white labels have a community area.

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You still have Facebook groups, but then you have Member Vault and you have Circle and you have school now.

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So having a community area where you can communicate prior to asking for a sale is a holding place, is important as well.

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And then one other would be text messaging.

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Many people on their opt-in forms don't want to ask for a telephone number, but we know that the open rate on text messages is between 87 and 90%, whereas the email open rate is about at 30%.

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And then on social media, your open rate is dependent on how the platform is feeling that day.

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So where is your most direct hit?

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It's going to be with text messages.

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So if you want to add something to your marketing.

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That would be the area to do it, so that you can get at least the open and give them the option to opt out or to stay with it, and at least they've seen it and you've got 21 patches to be able to get to a sale these days.

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It used to be seven when I started in 2018.

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And then by 2020, with the pandemic it started.

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It was like 11.

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And now we're at 21.

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So how many different ways can you put yourself in front of someone else, including being on podcasts and doing interviews, including doing a blog post.

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Maybe Pinterest is your place.

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You haven't looked at.

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Do you do graphics?

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Because that's a great place to triangulate for SEO.

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That's what we were talking about.

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Number two search engine behind the Google platforms and I'll put YouTube with that, even though that's the number two then, but you've got Pinterest right behind it, where people are looking intentionally.

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And that is so true because when I left corporate, I for some reason I got on Pinterest.

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I didn't know what I was doing but, I, put out on Pinterest and I was like wow, I'm still on Pinterest, but I guess I need to really up that game a little bit more on Pinterest.

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Then I did Alignable.

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Yes, the different platforms that I've already been on, it's great, but the Facebook and LinkedIn and Instagram.

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What I like about Facebook, though, is actually it carries over, like when I do reels or my marketing manager reel, it goes over to Instagram, which is nice.

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So you actually got two platforms in one.

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You put it it on one but it actually carries over, but you have to click that little switch to say, yeah, share it to Instagram.

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So I love that and you're right.

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I tell you, I do text messaging.

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I really need to get that program too.

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I open up a text message before my email and my email is loaded, I have three emails and I say, okay, which email did you send it to?

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You don't have time to go through all of that, so I appreciate you sharing that.

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That makes a lot of sense.

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So let's talk about content marketing.

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So what role does content marketing play?

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in your overall strategy.

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Content marketing for an online business mogul right?

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Because, to be honest, my love is face-to-face.

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It's really face-to-face as opposed to online.

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So then you talk about there are some avenues with the content when you're face-to-face as well is having those topics that you can move into when you are at a networking event or when you're at a conference and you're being intentional about creating relationships, having those things that you do within your business, knowing what's in it.

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For me, the WIFM or W-I-I-F-M as some people say, having those things up front when you're face to face.

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That's most important, because people don't want you coming blurbing out all this is I am and I do this, and that's talking about you, unless they've asked you Right, and even then, if you can lead with what you do for others first and then talk about yourself after that, that's important.

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So that is that content that you need to have on that.

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Go ahead and speak to that, I see, because, again, that's your arena.

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Absolutely.

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I'm the networking queen, so I like to do that face-to-face, because people see your passion, they see what you do and they remember you more face-to-face.

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Yeah, your passion, they see what you do and they remember you more.

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Face to face, yeah.

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And then when COVID happened, we had to do Zoom and thank God for Zoom.

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But just being that person for them to see and say, oh okay, you're Stacey Moore, oh, you're Wanda Pearson, it makes a difference and that's how they remember you.

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And now what I do, even though you see my QR code, I have that, but I also have my business cards that have my picture on it.

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So they remember that, they saw me and they remember who I am.

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So that makes a big difference.

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But no, thank you for sharing it.

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So can you share a story of how a particular piece of content significantly impacted your business, made you make your business get out there even more?

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business get out there even more Absolutely.

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I know that people always want to tell the positive story, but I'm going to be that one because this is my season.

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Let's talk about something that went wrong.

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We get prepared for these launches.

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Let's say we're having a product that's coming out or an event that we're going to put on and we have worked with a coach or we've looked up and the system says the SOPs say I should be marketing 21 days before.

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I need to have graphics, flyers that fit for all the platforms, right.

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I want to have something that fits for LinkedIn and something for X and something for Facebook and IG.

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I want to be able to send out emails.

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So I want all of this collateral.

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If it's an event, then do I want to personalize the domain so that I have it specific and I can really brand it, so that people, as you said, remember they remember the name of it.

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So back in 2020, I actually did an event called Activate your Vision Not your Average Vision Board Party and I got the domain and I was so excited about the domain and I had everything branded in advance and we started promoting 22 days out I was a day ahead of time sneak peek and all of that.

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And then two days into the campaign, when I am omnipresent everywhere I was so proud there were 22 speakers that we were able to blanket all of the platforms we started realizing that people weren't able to click on the link, or that people were able to.

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They clicked on a link and it was taking them to space, or it said that there was an error and that was on certain platforms.

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And so then we're going what's wrong?

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We go back and we reconnect the link thing Maybe it was an error in the platform and we're not getting anywhere To finally find out four days into the campaign that domain had been blocked by meta.

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It was campaign season and we had made the actual domain extension was vision.

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The actual domain extension was vision.

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So I had done activate your dot vision as a.

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I'm like, oh, this is so cute, this works.

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It didn't work.

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It was a political year.

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Meta decided that domain was too open for interpretation and had blocked it.

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Black labeled that domain was too open for interpretation and had blocked it.

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Black labeled that domain.

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So, then I had to go back and redo all of the marketing that had that domain on it, which was everything.

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So with that I'm going to say you've got to have a plan B, you've got to have a plan B.

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So if you're saying I'm going to do meta because I can go to the meta business suite and I can do that, it's going to be organic, it's going to get me the most reach, and if there's a problem with the domain, then you're going to have to be ready and prepared to pivot and you have to have all of that marketing, all of that content in one place so it becomes easy to go through that process.

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So then we're going to keep backing it up.

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So, organization where are you holding these documents?

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So if you paid somebody the first go around to create these documents and its content, maybe you can't afford to have them go back through it again.

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That's not in the budget.

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So do you have the documents somewhere where you can get to a Fiverr person or somebody on Thumbtack to easily go in and make those edits and changes?

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Is it stored in a place where it's not easy to access?

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If you had it on Canva, it's easy to have someone else go in and edit it.

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But when you pay big bucks and you have a designer do it on Adobe and they're doing it in Photoshop or InDesign, then you're looking at more money.

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So just be prepared so that you're not saying, oh my gosh, I don't know what to do now, I'm not going to be able to have my event and then make sure that you are putting yourself in position to be able to do other kinds of content the emails, the text message going live in order to support the event or the product or service that you're launching.

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So that's important is where are you keeping it?

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Are you ready to pivot if you have to because there's a conflict?

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People have had conflicts with trademarks and they've gotten cease and desist letters after they've put a name out for something.

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So are you prepared to change it?

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So is your content stored in a place where it's easy to pivot?

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Probably going to be my touch point for this one that's a good one here.

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So you always have to have plan b because you just never know what can happen, especially with technologies.

00:21:19.105 --> 00:21:24.886
And that makes sense, because I actually did the same thing while doing the podcast that I was doing with this guy.

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He said wanda, get your brand.

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So I actually did a brand podcast to wanda pearsoncom.

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So so I created it on GoDaddy and I told my daughter, because she's my website designer I said, okay, I got it here, but what do I do next?

00:21:39.805 --> 00:21:43.945
She said, mom, you already have WD Pearson Associates, why are you doing another brand?

00:21:43.945 --> 00:21:47.549
I said, okay, so how do I merge it?

00:21:47.549 --> 00:21:52.530
Because I wanted it to be a podcast, but actually my podcast is all on my WD Pearson Associates.

00:21:52.530 --> 00:21:55.567
So, to be a podcast, but my, actually my podcast is all on my wdp's associates.

00:21:55.587 --> 00:21:56.632
So she said you're duplicating what you have.

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I said, okay, I just did what this guy said.

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You know it's best to do, but anyway, I, I get it.

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I get it as far as that.

00:22:01.086 --> 00:22:02.130
Let me ask you another question.

00:22:02.130 --> 00:22:05.507
We're winding down, hey, girl, the time goes by so fast so I gotta have you on again.

00:22:05.507 --> 00:22:07.112
Could you give me some great tips here?

00:22:07.820 --> 00:22:20.202
so can you share innovative ways to improve customer experience through your marketing this is going to go against the grain again, but I think that's what I'm here to do today.

00:22:20.690 --> 00:22:23.778
Exactly, you got to show a share of what you know, yeah.

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What you experienced Introducing AI.

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Now people are saying that's counterproductive, that AI takes the human aspect out of things, right, that it sounds so robotic, and I can tell you that I'm fortunate, because I went to Catholic school.

00:22:40.064 --> 00:22:44.837
I was an English major for a while, and so my AI sounds like me.

00:22:44.837 --> 00:22:48.304
But there are ways to train the AI.

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But the point is to speak to that is, allow the AI to be the experts in the areas where you're not, and for the least amount of money.

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The return on investment is huge.

00:23:03.634 --> 00:23:04.655
So it's not.

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Everybody thinks you're talking about copy and everything all the time, but no, let's say you have the copy, you have an idea and you want to write a blog or write an article, but you can't get the bullet points together or you need some details, you need some research, you want to add some stats.

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You're going straight to AI and you're asking it and then you're going to check that.

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Go back, put it in Google and see if it comes up, because we want to check our facts too.

00:23:30.890 --> 00:23:34.153
But use it to be the expert for you.

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Use it for personal things that help you get out of your head so that you can show up as your best self for your clients, meaning I have a AI bot who actually is my medical assistant.

00:23:51.029 --> 00:24:01.493
So with some of the things I know, as you get older you start to have these creeps and feels and fevers and itches and hair losses and all kinds of things, but we can't think of them all the time.

00:24:01.493 --> 00:24:08.701
Some people are really good about jotting down, so when they go to the doctor they can take notes, but I've actually got a bot that's recording that.

00:24:08.701 --> 00:24:10.734
So when I'm having a feeling I put that in there.

00:24:10.734 --> 00:24:21.291
That leaves my mind open, where I know I've documented that and I can move on to show up for a live and not be going and saying where am I going to write this down?

00:24:21.291 --> 00:24:29.741
Am I going to remember when I let it do some of the easy things let it order through Instacart for you for that dinner that you're saying, oh, I've got to figure that out now.

00:24:30.430 --> 00:24:37.859
Let it, pull up a recipe for you, let it go to Instacart and order Instacart it for you and it's on its way.

00:24:37.859 --> 00:25:02.875
So the thing do the work for you so that now you're free I'm about that Just relax a little bit, because that's how you then have room to show up for your clients from your overflow and show up at 100%, because you're not bogged down in your mindset and in your mind with those things that keep you tied up and not showing up and being present with your clients.

00:25:03.636 --> 00:25:15.391
I love that because actually I do use AI for some ideas of what I need to do and it does help me to focus more on okay, what can I do, what kind of questions can I ask?

00:25:15.391 --> 00:25:17.634
Or, like my newsletters I do newsletters for my clients.

00:25:17.634 --> 00:25:26.032
What ideas can you give me to talk about on my newsletter, so that that helps me a lot, because otherwise, like you said, you're wrecking your brain.

00:25:26.032 --> 00:25:27.135
Okay, what can I do here?

00:25:27.135 --> 00:25:34.362
So it does help a lot, even though a lot of people say, all right, but you got to put it in, tweak it into your own personality as well.

00:25:34.362 --> 00:25:34.769
What?

00:25:34.789 --> 00:25:41.542
you would say, and then people that say that those are the same people that turn around and ask for Siri and Alexa all the time.

00:25:41.542 --> 00:25:46.595
I know, right, they are AI, you're using it, you just don't know.

00:25:46.595 --> 00:25:53.984
Yeah, it's incognito to you because it hasn't been brought to you in the form of images or content.

00:25:53.984 --> 00:26:05.262
But, it's going on in the background everywhere, the doctor's office, all kinds of place, these telephone calls that you're getting now, that talking to a human, all of that is AI.

00:26:05.750 --> 00:26:07.316
Yeah, yeah, it really is.

00:26:07.316 --> 00:26:16.833
And I tell you I love it and I get mad at Siri sometimes because she'd be saying I didn't say that, I didn't tell you to call this person and Alexa, alexa is so smart.

00:26:16.833 --> 00:26:18.594
I was telling you, oh my God, that's another thing.

00:26:18.594 --> 00:26:19.993
But you're right, that's all.

00:26:20.315 --> 00:26:20.474
AI.

00:26:20.474 --> 00:26:31.079
And think about, in the case of an emergency, if you had a car accident and all you could do because your hands were occupied, was say hey and to that device.

00:26:31.079 --> 00:26:36.702
I'm not going to say it loud because mine is going to answer right, but that could save your life.

00:26:36.702 --> 00:26:38.984
Yes, that one tool.

00:26:39.144 --> 00:26:42.205
So just think about that, yeah, it makes a lot of sense.

00:26:42.205 --> 00:26:45.448
So let me ask you about your future plans.

00:26:51.537 --> 00:26:54.047
What new marketing strategies or tools are you excited to try in the near future?

00:26:54.047 --> 00:27:00.911
Absolutely so.

00:27:00.911 --> 00:27:01.291
In my near future.

00:27:01.311 --> 00:27:05.125
I'm going back to blogging and articles because people are looking for information and they're looking for the stacks and the facts to go with them.

00:27:05.125 --> 00:27:12.923
Now, especially because AI is out here and because people have gotten to the point of kind of McDonaldization again of things.

00:27:12.923 --> 00:27:14.291
They're going quick.

00:27:14.291 --> 00:27:16.939
Everything's passing, they're throwing nuggets out here.

00:27:16.939 --> 00:27:18.310
You don't know if it's true or not.

00:27:18.310 --> 00:27:27.821
So the blogging and the articles allows me to put out information on the topics that I feel my audience wants to know, because I've done market research.

00:27:27.821 --> 00:27:46.404
I'm going to go back into Pinterest again too, because when you look at triangulating your information, that's a great way to have it be visual and then still lead to the blog or the article for them to get the long form if they want it and then speaking.

00:27:46.404 --> 00:27:47.910
So that's big on the plate.

00:27:47.910 --> 00:27:53.340
To finish out this year and for next year is to get in front of people.

00:27:53.340 --> 00:27:59.519
One of the things I know that as the operator, I have a lot of knowledge about a lot of things.

00:28:00.261 --> 00:28:16.820
And so the best way to be able to do that is to allow myself to be on podcasts without having people say I thought you were doing marketing, but I thought you were an AI, but I thought you did ambassadors but I do and that's why you're the operator.

00:28:16.961 --> 00:28:18.585
I love the name that you because you do.

00:28:18.585 --> 00:28:24.195
You have so much experience in all different range of what you do, so that's the best way that I'm an operator.

00:28:24.369 --> 00:28:30.438
I can do anything you want me to do, so that's right, and that is that eight was placed in there for you to see.

00:28:30.438 --> 00:28:40.551
The infinity of it works two ways, because while I can find you an answer for what you're doing, then what you're doing may be the answer for somebody else I know.

00:28:40.551 --> 00:28:48.193
So we just keep it going through infinity until I stop, which is till the day I die and my dash is complete.

00:28:49.517 --> 00:28:50.137
I love that.

00:28:50.137 --> 00:28:50.798
I love it.

00:28:50.798 --> 00:28:52.462
So last question here.

00:28:52.462 --> 00:28:57.101
So what advice would you give a small business or a startup looking to improve their marketing efforts?

00:28:59.612 --> 00:29:02.702
or a startup is looking to improve their marketing efforts.

00:29:02.702 --> 00:29:11.282
I would say, go to Stacey, she knows I'm going to take it back to the ABCs and get personal.

00:29:11.282 --> 00:29:16.991
So the ABCs are your avatar, your ideal person.

00:29:16.991 --> 00:29:26.038
It is your branding, which is not just the logo and the colors, it is your value statement, your mission, your vision, the pillars that you stand on, the emotions that you want your clients to feel.

00:29:26.038 --> 00:29:28.163
That's all part of the branding.

00:29:28.163 --> 00:29:35.203
And then the C is communication, which is your messaging or your content, those three things backing it up.

00:29:35.550 --> 00:29:43.635
Anytime you get stuck and you're saying I'm not converting or I just don't like the way things look or people don't know what I'm doing.

00:29:43.635 --> 00:29:51.079
Take it back to those three ABCs of the avatar, the branding and the communication, and you can always start over.

00:29:51.079 --> 00:29:53.790
And then that's that's why I say I'm living in.

00:29:53.790 --> 00:29:55.153
That's the professional side.

00:29:55.153 --> 00:29:59.318
And then the personal side is do you want to do this?

00:29:59.318 --> 00:30:01.722
What is your passion?

00:30:01.722 --> 00:30:03.990
How do you feel about it?

00:30:03.990 --> 00:30:09.762
Does it drive you enough to do it on Monday morning or when you don't want to do it?

00:30:09.762 --> 00:30:11.232
Is it doing that?

00:30:11.232 --> 00:30:22.178
And if it's not, it's time to pause and reevaluate and do a short reevaluation every 90 days, because we shift our revenue or what we're focusing on in our business.

00:30:22.178 --> 00:30:24.297
We check our finances and all of that.

00:30:24.297 --> 00:30:31.019
Do the same on the personal side, so that way you don't get way off track and say how did I end up way over here?

00:30:31.019 --> 00:30:35.598
Because you've been checking your own self every 90 days.

00:30:36.602 --> 00:30:37.083
I love it.

00:30:37.083 --> 00:30:38.414
And what are those ABCs?

00:30:38.496 --> 00:30:44.934
again, the ABCs are your avatar or your ideal audience that you want to speak to.

00:30:44.934 --> 00:30:46.539
Where are they, All of those things?

00:30:46.539 --> 00:30:47.642
What do they look like?

00:30:47.642 --> 00:30:49.193
What are the buying habits?

00:30:49.193 --> 00:30:51.622
And then the B is branding.

00:30:51.622 --> 00:30:59.761
So that includes the vision, the mission, the values, the emotions, along with the color, the logo and all of that.

00:30:59.761 --> 00:31:06.811
And then you have C, which is communication, which is your messaging, which includes your bios on the platforms and your content.

00:31:07.433 --> 00:31:08.096
That's awesome.

00:31:08.096 --> 00:31:09.138
That's great to listen.

00:31:09.138 --> 00:31:13.740
I was going to ask you for some tips, but you already gave us the tips.

00:31:13.740 --> 00:31:20.742
I hope this audience has listened to it and taken some notes on all of this information that Stacey, the operator, is sharing with us.

00:31:20.742 --> 00:31:23.471
Stacy, I appreciate you, uh, coming on the show, but I wanted to.

00:31:23.471 --> 00:31:27.241
How can people get in touch with, and what upcoming events do you have that you can share?

00:31:27.241 --> 00:31:31.826
I know it's going to air until july, but you got something in july it's all right.

00:31:31.906 --> 00:31:34.090
no, so I'm going to say to follow the journey.

00:31:34.090 --> 00:31:50.166
Um, you can find me as the operator t-h-H-E-O-P-E-R, the number 8-T-O-R on any platform, that is, linkedin, facebook, instagram, even Clubhouse.

00:31:50.166 --> 00:31:52.457
Still, I'm not over there a lot, but I'm there.

00:31:52.457 --> 00:32:02.954
And then, as far as email, the same thing S-I-M, which is my initials, at theoperatorcom, and then theoperatorcom is my website.

00:32:02.954 --> 00:32:22.746
Stay around for the journey, because whether you're looking for information on personal development or professional development, I'm going to be dishing both of those out for the remainder of the year through training in a community and speaking, maybe live or near you or virtual.

00:32:22.746 --> 00:32:25.179
So just follow me there and follow the journey.

00:32:25.179 --> 00:32:26.596
I bet I've got something for you.

00:32:26.596 --> 00:32:28.237
I can connect you to something.

00:32:29.611 --> 00:32:32.076
And yes, you can, because she's the operator.

00:32:32.076 --> 00:32:34.622
Yes, thank you so much.

00:32:34.622 --> 00:32:37.075
This is awesome, the tips that you gave.

00:32:37.075 --> 00:32:37.758
I'm learning some.

00:32:37.758 --> 00:32:41.960
I wish I had time to take notes and stuff, but I'm going to go back and listen to it and take notes on here.

00:32:41.960 --> 00:32:44.994
But thank you so much for being on my ready set.

00:32:44.994 --> 00:32:47.221
Collaborate podcast audience.

00:32:47.221 --> 00:32:51.519
I want to make sure that you follow because I have a lot of podcasts on here.

00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:52.363
This is great edge.

00:32:52.363 --> 00:32:53.367
I have great guests.

00:32:53.428 --> 00:33:05.241
They can actually teach you a lot of different things, a lot of my friends have already been on yes make sure you go back, because this is how we got connected if you watch the journey of her podcast series thus far.

00:33:05.241 --> 00:33:12.112
So if you're listening in my podcast, I need to go back to the beginning and find out how I got here, which we didn't talk about.

00:33:12.112 --> 00:33:19.664
But those people I let's see at least three of them were part of my journey to getting to Wanda Pearson.

00:33:19.910 --> 00:33:22.111
So make sure you listen, this is.

00:33:22.111 --> 00:33:26.101
She is the queen for Ready Set, collaborate for a reason.

00:33:26.101 --> 00:33:30.701
Y'all, we're staying connected and it's going to continue, thank you, thank you.

00:33:30.849 --> 00:33:36.343
And she is the voice that you hear in the beginning of my podcast and how she puts my information out there.

00:33:36.343 --> 00:33:38.657
And this is where collaboration comes in.

00:33:38.657 --> 00:33:44.442
You just never know who that actually can help you, because actually Edelaine said, well, go to Stacey, she can do all that.

00:33:44.442 --> 00:33:45.465
I said, oh yeah, stacey.

00:33:45.465 --> 00:33:48.974
So she actually helped me out of that bind because I couldn't figure out the music.

00:33:48.974 --> 00:33:50.038
I put the intro, outro.

00:33:50.038 --> 00:33:51.515
She does that for you.

00:33:51.515 --> 00:33:56.433
Definitely connect with Stacey more the operator and get connect with her.

00:33:56.433 --> 00:34:01.038
But, yeah, definitely follow, subscribe, share, ready set.

00:34:01.038 --> 00:34:02.558
Collaborate with Wanda Pearson.

00:34:02.598 --> 00:34:06.583
I'm on all podcast platforms Apple Podcasts, spotify, stacey.

00:34:06.583 --> 00:34:07.603
I'm even on Audible.

00:34:07.603 --> 00:34:08.563
I didn't know I was on Audible.

00:34:08.563 --> 00:34:09.724
I'm on iHeartRadio.

00:34:09.724 --> 00:34:12.007
I was like, oh wow, I didn't know I was on all these stations here.

00:34:12.007 --> 00:34:17.418
So you would say, if you Google, you would actually find the podcast there.

00:34:17.418 --> 00:34:21.434
So definitely share it and make sure that you listen to Stacey, because she got some great tips to give to us.

00:34:21.434 --> 00:34:26.677
Thank you so much, stacey, for being on our podcast and I truly appreciate you always.

00:34:26.677 --> 00:34:31.050
And this is what friendship, partnership and collaboration does.

00:34:31.050 --> 00:34:32.614
Yes, I love it.

00:34:32.614 --> 00:34:33.275
I love it.

00:34:33.275 --> 00:34:35.039
Yes, thank you again.

00:34:35.039 --> 00:34:35.860
I appreciate you.

00:34:35.860 --> 00:34:37.811
Thank you so much, thank you.

00:34:39.313 --> 00:34:43.161
Thank you for tuning into this episode of Ready Set.

00:34:43.161 --> 00:34:44.103
Collaborate.

00:34:44.103 --> 00:34:54.920
For more information about the host head to WDPearsonAssociatescom and that's P-E-A-R-S-O-N.

00:34:54.920 --> 00:34:56.472
Want to connect?

00:34:56.472 --> 00:35:10.563
Send an email to Wanda at WDPearsonAssociatescom and, as always, stay tuned for the next episode of Ready Set Collaborating.

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