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Hit It & Quit It with Oginga Carr, Debbie Allen, and Brynne Tillman · The SmallBizChat with Melinda Emerson

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  Three, two, one, zero.
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  Ignition.
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  Lift off.
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  Ending small business failure.
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  Welcome to the Small Biz Chat podcast with the number one small business expert, Melinda
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  Emerson.
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  Now here's your host, the small biz chat lady herself, Melinda Emerson.
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  Hi, everybody.
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  Welcome back to the Small Bitch Chat podcast.
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  And now we're gonna do one of my favorite segments that we call hit it and quit it.
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  Okay.
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  Now here's what we're gonna do.
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  Each of my guests is back.
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  We have Ojinga Carr, Debbie Allen, and Brent Tillman.
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  And what's gonna happen is I'm going to ask each of them the same question.
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  They only have thirty seconds to answer and if someone takes your answer, oop, you gotta come
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  up with another answer, okay?
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  And you can't go over thirty seconds.
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  If you do, you're going to get the cowbell and I don't want to give you that.
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  So, alright.
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  So, first up, we're going to bring Ojenga back first because he is the one who's been on ice
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  the longest and then Debbie will come to you and then Brynn will come to you.
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  So, my very first question is, what is your favorite podcast?
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  Oh, it's gotta be Small Biz Lady podcast.
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  Right?
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  Gosh.
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  I mean, I'm I'm a I'm a loyal listener every every time.
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  So that that hasn't been.
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  So that that's what it is.
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  I mean, I I can't wait to listen to this one and hear myself on it.
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  So it's gonna be great.
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  Well, thank you.
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  You're very sweet.
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  Debbie, what is your favorite podcast?
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  Okay.
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  I can't use the same.
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  So I would say, because this is good.
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  This is really good.
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  Project Me with Tiffany Carter.
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  You gotta be able to take the F bombs because she throws them out, but boy, she really gets
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  in your face and talks about business and nails it.
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  And I'm always entertained because she's kind of out there.
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  Love it, love it.
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  All right, Bren, what's your favorite podcast?
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  Sales gravy podcast.
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  I get a takeaway every single time.
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  I love Jeb too.
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  He's great.
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  I love that podcast.
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  And my favorite podcast is actually membership geeks.
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  I'm these two guys out of Johnny Old England and they are hilarious talking about, they'd be
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  like, you wonder why ain't nobody joining your membership site?
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  We'll tell you.
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  It's like, they get all up in your business, but I love them and they've been a great
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  inspiration to to me.
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  All right.
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  Second question.
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  Is your favorite business app?
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  Debbie, I'm coming to you first, then you, Brynn, and then you, Ojango.
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  What is your favorite business app?
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  Well, is going to sound weird.
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  Because TikTok is where I get some of my business ideas.
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  That's where I found Project Me with Tiffany.
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  I hired her as a coach and paid a lot of money.
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  So I think it's just where I have like attention span of little videos.
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  So I want little bits of information and find out what inspires me.
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  Then I follow those people.
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  Got it.
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  Well, I hope it stays around.
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  We'll see.
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  Brynn, tell me, what is your favorite business app?
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  So I'm going to share, I wouldn't say favorite, but it's probably the best one to offer the
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  audience, which is BigView.
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  BigView is, and you can go to socialsalelink.com/bigview, B I G V U.
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  It is an app that's on your phone that you can put a teleprompter in, put your words in, and
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  you can record for TikTok or YouTube shorts or LinkedIn, but it has you can record it on your
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  phone, click a button and edit it on your laptop.
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  That's hot.
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  I actually have never heard of that.
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  So you're dropping a new one for me.
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  That's good That's amazing.
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  That sounds like good stuff.
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  Good stuff there.
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  All right, Ojingeh, what's your favorite app?
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  So I'd have to say Kajabi is my favorite app.
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  I run my entire business through Kajabi, and so running running the different courses that we
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  run through it as well as, like, with our our book writing program.
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  We run our authors use use Kajabi as far as to be able to sell their books through and
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  everything along those lines.
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  And so I really love it.
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  It's a great all in one space to be able to use where you can where you can have a CRM and and
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  it's all in one space as well.
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  So yeah.
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  Alright.
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  Good stuff.
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  Good stuff.
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  Alright.
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  Next question.
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  Bren, you're gonna get this one first this time, then you, Ojinga, then you, Debbie.
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  What is your favorite old school marketing tip?
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  Marketing.
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  Oh,
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  my favorite old school marketing tip, I think, would be make sure you have one call to action.
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  If you have on any of your blog posts, your content, your emails, if you have more than one
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  call to action, you confuse your audience.
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  Love it.
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  Love it.
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  All right, Deb, what's your best favorite old school marketing tip?
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  Shamelessly successful self promotion.
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  So there is an art and a science to it.
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  And if you don't have a lot of money, you got to market yourself.
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  You got to market your ideas as an entrepreneur.
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  I was a shameless self promoter very early on, but I learned the art and the science of it and
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  mastered it and did keynotes around that for a long time, wrote a book on it called
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  Confessions of Shameless Self Promoters.
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  So that's a great way to start.
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  If you don't have the money, even then you gotta put yourself out there.
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  I love it.
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  I love it.
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  All right.
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  Ogenio, what's your favorite old school marketing tip?
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  It's all about showing up.
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  So it's the book Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook.
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  So it's about showing up and being able put the content out there, put the content out there,
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  not being overly salesy like we talked about, but really and then actually making offers.
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  We have to make offers in order for people to buy something from you.
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  They're not gonna show up at your house.
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  We gotta make offers.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  If you don't ASK, you want GET.
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  Right?
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  Alright.
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  Damn.
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  Alright.
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  Last question, you guys.
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  And, Eugenia, I'm coming back to you for this one and then you, Debbie, and then Brent.
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  What is the best business book you have ever read?
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  Best
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  I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say I'm not gonna say one of yours again because, mean, I I mean,
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  that that's that's I mean, you know, I mean, know, it's it's be your own boss.
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  I mean, that that that's it.
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  But I really I really love I I really love your books, but probably I'm I you see, have books
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  all all behind me as far as with that of being able to do so.
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  But I do I do love your books.
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  Switch is a great book as well too.
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  And so it's about really switching your mindset and and being able to move forward with that.
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  So, yes, absolutely.
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  That is a good book.
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  I like that book.
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  Yeah.
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  That's
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  good.
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  Alright, Debbie.
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  What do you got?
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  What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?
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  What would you do if you knew you couldn't And the reason that one is, it's a quote, a metal
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  plate on my desk I look at every day because we're all going to run into challenges and
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  we're all going to go through obstacles.
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  But what I learned in business, you got to do whatever it takes to get on the other side.
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  So I always live by that.
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  I love it.
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  I love it.
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  All right, Brynn, what's your favorite business book?
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  So I have so many different favorite business books and it fluctuates all the time.
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  But, oh, what am I gonna say that I'm gonna say my current favorite business book.
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  I'm gonna go old school, good to great.
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  I'll go back.
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  Good to great.
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  And then I'm gonna tell you what my favorite business book will be in, in September, which
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  will be the LinkedIn Edge by Jeb Blunt and Bryn Tillman.
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  All right.
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  We're gonna have to get you guys back on here.
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  All right.
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  My favorite book is 10x is Easier Than 2x by Dan Sullivan.
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  That's excellent on audio too.
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  Oh, it is good.
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  I've listened to it and I've read it twice.
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  It's an excellent book.
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  It's amazing because he says, look, if you have to do things that make you transform, if you
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  don't, you're wasting your time.
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  Anyway, all right.
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  Well, listen, thank you all so much for being a guest on the Small Bitch Chat podcast.
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  You guys are amazing.
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  Thank you so much to Bryn Tillman.
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  Go check out her new site, askssl.ai.
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  If you're interested in using AI to present a book for yourself, go check out what Ojenga
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  Carr is talking about at ojengacar.com.
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  And if you wanna know how to position yourself as an expert in the marketplace, please go and
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  check out Debbie Allen's expert market positioning dot com.
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