In this throwback episode, Alex (@AlexHormozi) talks about it's OK to make asks when growing and scaling your business. Make sure you give first and build goodwill, but never feel shame in asking for help. Welcome to The Game w/Alex Hormozi, hosted by entrepreneur, founder, investor, author, public speaker, and content creator Alex Hormozi. On this podcast you’ll hear how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, how to keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons Alex has learned and will learn on his path from $100M to $1B in net worth.Wanna scale your business? Click here.Follow Alex Hormozi’s Socials:LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Twitter | Acquisition
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Welcome back to the game. Today, I have a throwback for you. This episode discusses strategies for building a business without feeling bad about making asks. And so main points are how to give first and how giving first builds goodwill and brand value. And I'll translate that into more tactical stuff. How often to make asks back with actual data. So I think this kind of puts the debate at rest.
And then finally, how to ask when you know that that's what you need to do. So you wanna make money online, but you don't wanna feel icky or sleazy to the people who know and love you when you ask them to give you money. So there's a good way to do it, and there's a bad way to do it.
The good news is I can show you step by step how I got my first 20 clients posting on social media for my personal training business a decade ago, and how I've continued to use that in each company going forward. How you can build brand and goodwill at the same time.
And this is a sneak preview for my upcoming book, 100 Million Dollar Leads, which you can check out at acquisition.com forward slash leads. So there was a friend of mine a while back who had a podcast that blew up, like early days podcasts, like it skyrocketed. And very quickly he had millions of downloads and his business started to grow a lot.
And it was almost 100% from people who were listening to his podcast. And so he realized he made an ass during one of his podcasts, he made a lot of money. And what happened was he learned the wrong lesson. he thought, when I make an ask, I make more money. And so what I'll do is I'll just make more asks.
And so he did make more asks and he then made a little bit more money and then he would continue to make less and less and less until eventually his listenership dropped and dropped and dropped. And so then it got to the point where he didn't even feel like making them anymore, right? Because it wasn't worth it. Because he had lost the goodwill of his audience. And so,
The key point I'm gonna talk about today is mastering the give to ask ratio. Now, you obviously have to have an audience, which I talk about at length in $100 leads and other content that I make, so I'm not gonna get into that part. I'm just gonna talk about mastering how much to give versus how much to ask.
Gary Vee popularized the whole concept jab jab jab right hook right which is the idea of giving giving giving and then asking right not take but ask the good news is that this ratio has been incredibly well studied why because the biggest media companies in the world want to be able to ask on their platforms as much as humanly possible without losing viewership listenership audience on television for every 47 minutes
content there's 13 minutes of advertising all right so you think about that as it's almost like a three to one ratio between how many ads three and a half to one between how many ads there are and how much content there is if you look on Facebook Facebook it's every four posts there's one ad right so four and then one four and then one what I want to do is give you my slight tweak on the give give give ask concept
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