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The Money Moves You Can't Afford to Skip · All In with Allie

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  Hello. Okay, so I think we would all agree that right now,
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  we live in a world that is running rampant with opportunities for distraction, right
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  and when you're running a business, it can feel very confusing on where to
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  spend our time, where to put our time and effort into which actions Because
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  when you're running a business, there's a lot of actions to be made at
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  different times, but not all of those actions are created equal. There are
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  actions that are actually going to get you results, meaning money. I call
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  them money moves. And then there are going to be actions that are simply
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  a waste of your time or they can just be put on the back burner,
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  they can be handed off whatever. So in this episode, I take
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  this what can feel like a very complicated situation when we're like, okay,
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  what do I actually do? Like I have this amount of time each day,
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  what are the actual moves that I can take that are going to make
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  these results for me? So I'm going to make this super simple and break
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  down three categories of actions for you. We're going to talk about indirect money
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  moves, direct money moves, and non money moves. So this is going
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  to be a super simple, short and sweet episode. But hopefully very helpful
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  and enjoyable. Welcome to Aline with Ali, the podcast for online business owners
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  and entrepreneurs who are ready to create the life and business of their dreams.
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  I'm so happy you're here. What has been going on? It's been a
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  hot minute since I have given any kind of like personal update. I'm not
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  going to do that today because I think my phone's dying and that's how I
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  use my camera. I got a message the other day because I posted a
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  graphic of my past episode with Barry on Barry where we talked about cycle sinking
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  and if you have not listened to that, please go listen. I posted
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  a graphic and I got several responses on the quality of video. Shout out
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  to my podcast team because they have told me how to do this, and
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  you might be surprised to hear that I stream video from my iPhone, so
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  I do have a camera. I used to use a camera. It was
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  like a Logitech camera, and I use that for like coaching calls and stuff,
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  but it wasn't giving the best quality for our podcast videos. I want
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  it to be like a nice and crisp and beautiful for you. And turns
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  out that our phones are fantastic. You just have to have like a way
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  to set it up. So maybe we'll do an episode on that. I'm
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  like, what the setup is or something if that might be something that you're
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  helpful with. Where was I going with that? Wait a second, hmmm,
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  I said, I'm not gonna get Oh yeah, because my phone's gonna
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  die. That's squirrel. But anyway, I will say this when you listen
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  to this, I have turned another year older as I record this. My
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  birthday is tomorrow, and that's very weird for me because this has been the
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  fastest year of my freaking life. It just I mean, Rhett just turned
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  one. That makes no sense. Did I not just have him? He
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  just turned one? September is just wild in general. Let me tell you
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  the birthday situation in September for us. There's my son's birthday, my birthday
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  my dad is a day after mine. I have one brother's birthday, almost
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  two. I have a brother was born on August thirty first, so almost
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  two brothers. My grandma, my uncle, me and Chris have an anniversary
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  in September. September is lit in our family, and that just goes to
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  show that apparently New Year's Eve is a good time for you know, get
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  it because September is nine months from Okay anyway, so yeah, happy birthday
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  to me and turning another year older. I am. I'm happy to be
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  here. Okay, moving on. So oh, one more thing that I
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  have been working on that you will be interested in is I am hosting a
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  free master class. Now, listen real quick. When I say free masterclass,
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  I do. I don't do master classes like other people do master classes.
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  Some people do phenomenal master classes and I love them for it. Some
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  people do very fluffy master classes. Me. I treat my master classes like
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  a thousand dollars offer. I pretend, as I am creating the master class
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  that you are paying one thousand dollars to be there, if that tells you
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  anything. So when you hear free, I don't want you to do what
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  we all do when we hear everybody else's free master classes and assume that it's
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  fluffy and it sucks because it's not. And as a matter of fact,
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  eventually this is going to be a paid offer, but I'm hosting it right
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  now for free. So let me tell you about it, because it actually
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  goes hand in hand with this conversation because it's actually called the Money Moves Masterclass.
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  So here is the gist and you can decide if you want to be
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  there or not. But I want you to imagine learning a fail proof process
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  for monetizing whatever you want and mapping out a business model that can generate anywhere
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  from an ex one thousand dollars a month to literally millions of dollars. Okay,
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  this is not fake, this is real. This is not just like
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  sexy marketing real life. Okay, this can get you anywhere from an extra
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  one k to literally millions of dollars. Now, I want you to imagine
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  learning how to do that, the process and the mapping out the business model
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  in ninety minutes and for free. Okay, that is what the Money Moves
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  Masterclass is. I'm walking you through that. We will do this together.
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  So anybody who wants to make money online but you're like I don't even know
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  what I would sell, or maybe you sell something but you don't love it
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  and you want to pivot in some way, or maybe you do love what
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  you sell, but you want to figure out new ways and opportunities to bring
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  in more money into your business and to serve your people in other ways this
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  masterclass is for you. So, in the span of my career, my
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  business has generated over two million dollars from monetizing my own genius via online offers,
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  and that's what I'm teaching you how to do here. So I was
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  journaling the other day and I don't know where this came from, but I
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  was like, I want I need like a goal for myself. I need
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  something more than a money goal. Like I'm big on money goals, that's
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  great, but I need like a value goal. I need an impact goal.
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  And for some reason, the first thought that came to me is I
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  want to help one thousand women successfully begin to create real money via their business
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  online. Okay, like start generating money online by the end of twenty twenty
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  three. So this masterclass is one of the ways I aim to do that.
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  I don't know why I decided to do this by the end of twenty
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  twenty three, considering that's in three months, but here we are. So
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  hey, we're going to go for it. We're going to shoot for the
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  stars, and I would love for you to be there. So we will
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  link all of the information in the show notes. It's going to be a
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  great time and I've decided if we get a thousand people signed up, we're
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  going to add an extra day and it'll be like a coaching day where we
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  can like do Q and a's and stuff. So if you want to share
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  this with your friends, if you want to share this with your audience and
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  get more people in the room, it will serve you because then we can
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  go back and forth and I can actually give you some coaching on your business
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  model and your ideas. Okay, all right, so let's get to our
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  conversation today. Actions that have an indirect or a direct result in earning you
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  money aka money moves. So I mean it's pretty obvious, right, but
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  I get it, and I mentor a lot of people through this shit.
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  I mentor myself through this sometimes because I think social media kind of complicates this
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  because we see other people posting things like you should be doing this, and
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  if you're not doing this in this way, then you're behind. And you
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  know, there's a lot of mixed messaging out there that can have you feeling
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  like you're not doing enough or you need to do things differently in order to
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  get a result that somebody else is getting. And there's just a lot of
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  noise. But when I was thinking about this, and when I get caught
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  up in a little bit of overwhelmed with this too, I bring it back
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  to Okay, truly, what are the results? I'm sorry, truly,
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  what are the actions that actually make me money? And when I tell you,
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  this list is three things long? Three okay, three, and there's
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  some indirect for sure. The indirect is a longer list, and we'll we're
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  going to get into it. But when I remember that, I'm like,
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  Okay, if it's not one of the if I'm not making time in my
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  day to do one, if not all of three these three things, what
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  am I doing? Do I even want to be in business? So I
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  get it when maybe you're newer in business and you feel overwhelmed because you feel
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  like there's so much to do, or maybe you only have X amount of
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  time each day away from the kids or even with the kids and you and
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  every single minute matters. This is where it's like, Okay, what what
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  should I actually be doing? What are the moves that are actually going to
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  bring a red turn in terms of revenue in my business? I got covered.
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  That is what we're going to talk about. So let's talk let's start
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  with the indirect list. Let's start there. Okay, So when I say
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  indirect, these are things that, like immediately likely is not going to bring
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  in revenue in your business, but it's damn close, right, It's probably
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  going to get you closer than a lot of other actions that you could be
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  taking. And we'll explain some of these a little bit, but these are
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  indirect money moves that you can take or you can make space for, and
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  in a lot of cases, would be a wise move if you're wanting to
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  attract in and bring in more money into your business. Okay, so top
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  of the list. First thing that came to mind is hiring a mentor or
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  taking a program that's going to help you learn a process faster, or in
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  this list, could be like a therapist or somebody to help you with your
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  mindset. Like if you know that you have a lot of blocks that are
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  keeping you stuck, or that you know there's some self worth things going on
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  that has you in a chokehold of some sort, these would be indirect money
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  making activities because if you learn a skill faster, you can do that skill
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  and make the money from that skill. If you are confused on how to
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  or you need a certification. This could fall in this category as well,
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  but that's obviously indirect money making activities. Indirect money moves. Next, indirect
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  money move Hiring somebody to support you as a team member or a VA somebody
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  to take off some of the other things on your list that are not direct
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  money making activities but that still need to get done at some point. Creating
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  a passive funnel. Okay, so I have a client right now and this
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  is her thing. She helps you or she teaches how to create passive funnels,
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  like a one to many digital offer that you can put a system into
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  place so that you can lead people into the funnel and start making passive money.
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  This would be like the creation of that would be an indirect money making
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  activity, very close to direct, like once it starts going then that would
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  be a direct, But the creation of it, those sort of moves,
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  those sort of actions making it would be indirect. You see what I'm saying.
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  But Bree Groves, if you don't follow her, go follow her because
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  something is coming in a couple of weeks that you're going to be very very
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  happy about. But she has a whole process. She has a playbook,
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  I'll link it in the show notes and it is fantastic. She will walk
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  you through how to do that. Setting up a simple process to literally be
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  able to accept money would be an indirect money making activity, you know.
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  So like in order to sell your thing, you need maybe a business PayPal
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  account or Stripe or Kujabi. These would be indirect money making activities because otherwise,
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  how are you going to get paid unless they're going to mail you a
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  check and no next thing. Collaborating with somebody to cross market each other's audiences
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  would be an indirect money move. Getting on podcasts or getting other press opportunities
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  for yourself. That's something that I eventually would hand off for sure, but
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  that is an indirect money making move. Intentional networking So I don't mean just
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  like showing up to a coffee shop and calling that networking. But if you
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  know that there's a conference in your town or in a city, and you
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  want to go to it because there's going to be a lot of potential clients
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  and customers, that would be an indirect money move. Creating your next offer
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  to share with the world is a very smart indirect money move. Posting on
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  social media intentionally to build a trust and credibility. That's a good one too.
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  Anything that helps you get your mind right for the day, like working
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  out, prayer, journaling, meditating. I would follow these under indirect money
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  making moves because sometimes you just got to get your mind right. And of
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  course, so those those fall under that category. And then finally, an
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  indirect money move is rest because we are human, because why else are we
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  entrepreneurs if we don't take the time to actually rest. I realized there are
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  seasons, but rest is productive. Okay, So that's what I have for
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  indirect money moves. Here is that big, lengthy list of direct money moves.
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  Are you ready selling on social media, selling in emails, selling in
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  person, however you sell? Selling in general? Direct money move, hosting
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  masterclasses that lead to a sale or this could also be a podcast, or
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  speaking on a stage, anything that is going to directly lead to a buying
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  opportunity, direct money move, and finally, giving your current clients and customers
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  an incredible experience because that will lead to repeat customers and referrals. Direct money
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  move. That's pretty much it, guys. Okay, So if you're not
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  doing again one or all of those things every single day, what are we
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  doing, what are we doing? And those things probably wouldn't take you that
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  long, Like every day. I wouldn't say every day, but when I'm
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  launching something, which I'm often launching something, I'm going to be posting that
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  day like that is my It's honestly kind of insane how easy it is to
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  make significant money online. Really, my to do list is post, send
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  an email stories. That's pretty much it. And now obviously there's other things
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  on the to do list, like if I have a call that day or
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  whatever, like back end stuff too, but direct money making activities, post
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  email stories, selling in all of those things. That's it. That's how
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  easy it can be. Now, it's so easy because I've done a lot
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  of those indirect things, right, I've built an audience that trusts me.
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  I show up consistently when I share something, when I host something, when
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  I sell something, I provide good value, right like I'm legit, I
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  know what I'm talking about. I give my all, I make things right
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  if I don't right. So there's again a lot of indirect that leads to
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  the ease of the direct, but the direct still is a very very small
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  list. Now, notice what is not on the money move list. Okay,
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  here are money moves that are not money moves. Here are non money
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  moves, okay, getting to inbox zero. No rebranding your website that nobody
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  cares about. No overthinking if you should or shouldn't do something. No searching
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  for a new preset for your Instagram m m. Scrolling other people's content,
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  judging other people for how they should show up on the Internet while you're not
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  showing up, pulling your audience on what they want next from you, pulling
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  your audience on anything, asking friends advice who haven't succeeded at the thing that
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  you want to do. Family falls in that category. Two. Creating a
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  vision board. I love vision boards, but they are not director in direct
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  moneymaking activities. Spending hours on a piece of content that doesn't ask for a
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  sale. At some point, what are we doing? Worrying if you are
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  selling too much, worrying if you're too much or too long, worrying what
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  so and so thinks of you, worrying at all? Not a money making
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  activity. Making your bed. Let me say that again. Making your bed
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  is not a money making move. I don't care what y'all say. You're
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  wasting your time listening to podcasts other than when you are doing a multitasking activity
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  like driving, working out, cleaning, getting ready for the day, et
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  cetera. Taking another course instead of implementing what you have already learned, the
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  creation of Excel files for anything, organizing your desktop. Okay, you get
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  the gist. Not money making activities. So if you are not making a
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  level of revenue that you are happy with or that is keeping you in business,
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  and you are spending your precious time on anything on that list, you
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  are asking for it. You are doing this to yourself. Go back to
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  the direct or the indirect money moves list, not saying they will work instantly,
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  but sometimes they do. And there is a compound effect with these things.
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  So the more consistent you are at those money making moves, the more
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  money you will actually be making. Okay, So again not to say that
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  there's not a time and a place to do the things that I just shared
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  on the non money making list. There of course, there are times like
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  if you want to make your bed, make your damn bed. But it's
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  being smart about your time, right. If you are not making a certain
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  amount of money and you have only x amount of time to work and to
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  generate money, and you are spending that time again pulling your audience, overthinking,
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  listening to podcasts, doing coursework material, anything like that, versus or
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  you know, at least if you haven't done the money making list, then
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  we got to stop. That something needs to We got to stop. That's
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  just the best way to say it. Okay, So it's really easy to
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  let those tasks monopolize your time. Also, it's really easy to let those
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  tasks buffer you and take your mind off the things that you should be doing.
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  I realize sometimes it's not easy to sell, especially if you're not used
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  to selling. I realize sometimes it's not easy to look at your bank account
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  when the revenue isn't where you want it to be. But by wasting your
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  time and buffering on crap that's not going to actually generate revenue, instead of
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  focusing on the things that are, you're just digging yourself in a deeper hole.
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  So I hope this was helpful for you. It really can be so
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  easy if you let it, but consistency is key here. The compound effect
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  is very, very real when it comes to online business. Okay, So
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  let me know if you've enjoyed this and don't forget free masterclass. This is
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  happening. I believe it's September twenty fifth, So if you're listening to this
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  live, it will be next week. Of course, if you cannot be
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  there, we will get you the recording, but you have to sign up,
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  so we'll put the link to show link in the show notes with that
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  information for the Money Moves Masterclass. I love you and I will see you
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  here next week. Bye,