Pat Flynn
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147 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Pat Flynn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Let's give 50 million away and 100 million.
Oh my gosh, he's playing games, that's for sure. Squid games. He's a master at it, by the way. Oh, completely. Yeah. If that starts to happen, I will find the fun. That's it.
So I started my podcast in 2010. And at one point, we started inserting questions from the audience at the end of those episodes. And they were really great. We even used a tool called Speakpipe to collect those voicemail questions so people could hear other people like them at the end of the show. It was really fun.
The problem was it was just random questions that had nothing to do with the podcast. So I wanted to start a second show to house all those questions and just have a show of me answering and essentially coaching people. And that was called Ask Pat. Yeah, that became Ask Pat. Although I said, well, it takes me forever to create one episode a week. How am I going to do five a week now?
I need to go to somebody who does... like a daily show. And we know a guy named Johnny Dumas who has a daily show. And I literally took him out to coffee and I said, John, coffee's on me. Tell me how you go daily. And he literally told me he recorded them all in one day. Tuesday, I think he records an entire week's worth of episodes. So he batch processes.
So he wakes up on Tuesday and he just knows he's going to grind for eight hours and get all those hour long episodes out as Pat was going to be much shorter. So I was like, OK, I think I could carve out a day. What else do you do? What else? I have an assistant who then takes those voicemails and like edits it for me. Oh, cool, tell me more about that. So I got the system.
I found it from somebody who had done it before. So I didn't have to invent anything, because somebody had already done it. And that Ask Pat show turned into, I think, $2.5 million worth of sponsorships, and of course, leads coming in for the courses and memberships and such. So that is one example of a 20%. Interesting. The SwitchPod, which is a travel tripod that my videographer and I invented.
We had no business inventing something. A physical product. A physical product. We had never done that before. But we saw a problem, and I wanted to scratch that itch. I itch a lot, I guess, is what I'm realizing after.
We did a Kickstarter. 2017, we went to VidSummit. Everybody was using those GorillaPods, you know, those things with the balls that kind of like do this. And we were like, there's got to be a better way. We didn't know where to start, but we knew that we had to figure out like a shape that people would like to hold.
And the idea was the legs could fold together to turn into the thing that you can hold. And then you can like open it up and put it back down. But again, we didn't know how to do that. So we made it out of cardboard. And then we gave it to YouTubers. And we just said, hold this. And they're like, what is this? And I'm like, open it up, open it up. Oh, that's kind of cool.
So it's like a tripod that opens and closes really easily. And we're like, yes, okay. What do you like about this? Is it too big? Is it too small? We just, we removed the guesswork. We just let the people who were going to eventually buy this tell us how it should look. And once we got the prototype, we were like, okay, cool. Perfect shape. Where do we go from here?
So we asked somebody and they said, well, you should probably 3D print this. Oh, you could do that? Yeah, go to that place at the end of the street. They 3D print things, just give them a file. Okay, so we did that. And we had the thing actually working and putting cameras on it now. And then eventually, again, learning as we go, just in time, information, right?
And eventually we're like, okay, we're gonna sell this thing now, but how do we sell this? Well, Kickstarter could be cool. We can get a whole community behind it and crowdsource this thing. Okay, cool. How do we do a Kickstarter? Mm-hmm. But we know it's possible.
So we went to some of the people who were going to an event, who were speaking on stage about a physical product that they had sold on Kickstarter. So we made sure to go to that same event, to pay the extra money to go get the VIP tickets so we could spend some time with them.
And we eventually exchanged names and numbers and we were able to have a 30 minute call with them, which was one of the most helpful 30 minutes of my life to just go over what you need to know and mistakes that they made on Kickstarter. And eventually February, 2019, we launched this thing. We had a Kickstarter goal of a hundred thousand and we hit that in 11 hours. Wow.
What did the whole campaign do? The whole campaign did $415,000 with 4,836 backers. It's amazing. And we had never done that before, but we were learning as we went. And now this product is just automated on Amazon. It's a 3PL or a third-party logistics company handles the fulfillment after Amazon gets the purchase order in.
I'm spending two hours a year on it.
Gosh, I think we're in the 300 to 400,000 per year range.
I mean, I have a teammate who does take care of more of the customer service stuff. And, you know, again, I've been able to do what I want to do with it. And they do what they want to do. And, you know, it's doing its thing. And, you know, right now we're in the middle of potentially... finding a buyer for it, who knows, we'll see.
In 2013, I had two friends who launched WordPress plugins. These are like premium software things that you can include in your website. And they come with a payment. Usually plugins are free. These are premium ones. And they cost like $37, $99, whatever. Two separate people. They didn't know each other.
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