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Every blog post, guide, video, podcast episode and course is designed with one thing in mind – to help entrepreneurs develop themselves and grow their online business.

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Cutting edge content for online entrepreneurs

On the SPI blog, you’ll find in-depth guides, how-tos, success stories, interviews, reviews, special announcements, promotions, and much more, all designed to help you succeed.

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Success Stories

Success Story: Benjamin Yeh, Who Helps Stuck High Performers Tap Their Intuition

A vision led Benjamin Yeh to make a huge shift into business and transformation coaching.

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Video Marketing

5 Inspiring Podcast Episodes to Get You Amped for Success on YouTube

Get motivated to tackle YouTube through these interviews with five incredible video creators. (And a sneak peek at our newest course!)

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Email Marketing

How to Improve Email Deliverability

Here are the four keys to making sure your emails end up in your subscribers' inbox—not the spam folder.

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Podcasting

Top 10 Tips for Conducting an Exceptional Interview—UPDATED 2022!

Conducting a good interview is a great skill to have as an entrepreneur—for your website, for your blog, for your podcast, and so much more. Find out why!

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How to Start Freelancing (And Get Your First Client!)

Business Development

How to Start Freelancing (And Get Your FIRST Client!) [Updated May 2022]

Freelancing is the number one way to get started with online business. Here's why, plus how you can make more money doing it and transform your side hustle into a full-time, scalable business.

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Email Marketing

Deleting Cold Subscribers from Your Email List Using ConvertKit

In the third and final post in our series on cleaning your email list with ConvertKit, we’ll show you how to delete cold subscribers from your list.

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Podcasting

Podcast Topics: 101 Ideas for Things to Talk About

Having trouble coming up with podcast episode ideas? In this guest post, Alban Brooke of Buzzsprout shares four great tips to help you find compelling episode topics.

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Community

How to Know If You’re a Fit for SPI Pro

If you’ve been on the fence about our private membership community for entrepreneurs, SPI Pro, let us help you make the call.

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Email Marketing

How to Create a Reengagement Campaign for Cold Email Subscribers & Automate It

Cleaning your email list? Here's how to set up a reengagement email sequence in ConvertKit to make sure you're only deleting cold subscribers!

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Insightful conversations with online business pros, industry experts, and more

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  • Smart Passive Income Podcast with Pat Flynn

Smart Passive Income Podcast with Pat Flynn

Weekly interviews, strategy, and advice for building your online business the smart way.

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Top iTunes Business Podcast60+ Million Downloads

Latest Episodes:

  • June 29, 2022

    SPI 589: I Interview the Other Pat Flynn – Talking Business, Sharing the Same Name, and Generalism

  • June 24, 2022

    SPI 588: Entrepreneurship Is an Energy Game

  • June 22, 2022

    SPI 587: Keenya Kelly update on TikTok for Business

  • June 17, 2022

    SPI 586: Excuses

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  • AskPat 2.0

AskPat 2.0

A weekly coaching call on online business, blogging, marketing, and lifestyle design.

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Top iTunes Business Podcast12.5 Million Downloads

Latest Episodes:

  • June 30, 2022

    AP 1228: Who Should My Next Hire Be?

  • June 23, 2022

    AP 1227: I'm a Coach, So How Do I Get PASSIVE Income?

  • June 16, 2022

    AP 1226: How Do I Grow My List and Sell My Membership?

  • June 9, 2022

    AP 1225: How Do I Best Package and Share My Knowledge When There are Too Many Options?

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  • The Community Experience

The Community Experience

Whether you’re facilitating an online community based on a brand, fandom, niche hobby, or something else, you’re in the right place. Join host Jillian Benbow for weekly insights from folks on the cutting edge of community building.

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Latest Episodes:

  • June 28, 2022

    The CX 046: From Burned Out Teacher to CEO with Daphne Gomez

  • June 21, 2022

    The CX 045: Your Enemies Are Not Your Enemies with Dr. David McMillan

  • June 14, 2022

    The CX 044: Productivity Propaganda Is Toxic; Build Your Business around Your Needs with Sarah K Peck

  • June 7, 2022

    The CX 043: The Freemium Model Doesn’t Work in Community with Tatiana Figueiredo

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We host some of the smartest minds in business:

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Author , podcaster, and perpetual experimenter

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Finance expert and author

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Motivational speaker, health expert, and podcaster

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Productivity and leadership coach, author

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Online marketing expert and podcaster

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Gary Vaynerchuk

Investor, entrepreneur, and media expert

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Courses

Premium courses to help you master the online business strategies and skills you need to thrive.

  • Power-Up Podcasting 2.0
  • 1-2-3 Affiliate Marketing
  • A to Z Webinars
  • Amp’d Up Podcasting
  • Build Your Own Brand Free
  • Email Marketing Magic
  • Heroic Online Courses
  • Smart From Scratch
  • YouTube From Scratch
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Power-Up Podcasting 2.0

Create, launch, and market a podcast that grows your income and impact online. Step-by-step setup, and how to get found too (even on launch day). Thousands of students have enjoyed this course. Now it’s your turn!

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by Pat Flynn

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1-2-3 Affiliate Marketing

A 3-Step System to Learn How to Generate an Income Online by Recommending Products and Services That Already Exist in Your Marketplace.

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by Pat Flynn

$599
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A to Z Webinars

Learn how to make webinars part of your growth strategy to bring in more email subscribers and sell more products.

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by Pat Flynn

$499
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Amp’d Up Podcasting

Automate, Market, & Profit So You Can Get Time Back, Grow Your Listenership, & Earn More

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by Pat Flynn

$999
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Build Your Own Brand Free

A Free 5-Day Challenge to Help You Build a Brand and Website You Can Be Proud Of

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by Pat Flynn

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Email Marketing Magic

Grow your list, make more money, and automate like magic with this course on establishing an email marketing program.

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by Pat Flynn

$499
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Heroic Online Courses

Learn how to create an online course from scratch. Refine your idea, outline your course, and create a sales page that gets results.

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by Pat Flynn

$499
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Smart From Scratch

Learn how to find a winning business idea and land your first customer.

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by Pat Flynn

$199
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YouTube From Scratch

Learn how to start a YouTube channel and create valuable video content that attracts the right audience and generates revenue (even if you’re scared of video). YouTube From Scratch will teach you how to get your first 1000 subscribers, so that you can qualify for YouTube's monetization program.

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Our private community for online business owners

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The fastest way to learn something is from others who have been there and done that. We built SPI Pro to be a safe space for online business owners to connect with, learn from, and support one another.

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Every quarter, we help match SPI Pro members into small, curated mastermind groups based on their business focus and needs.

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This is a place for serious, committed entrepreneurs. We screen every applicant to ensure that this is a place where you can connect with other high-quality business owners.

Special Deals and Discounts

SPI Pro members get our absolute best pricing on courses, workshops, and even access to special pricing from some of our partners.

Live Events

We host live events on a weekly basis. These feature subject matter experts, members of the community, and other meetups just for fun and networking.

Access and Support

Inside SPI Pro, you'll have access and support from the entire SPI team, including monthly challenges and AMAs hosted by Pat.

Exclusive Content

Besides our live events, SPI Pro members get complimentary access to Premium feeds and content from the SPI Podcasts, behind-the-scenes looks at how we're building our business, and more.

Don’t take our word for it…

I love SPI Pro, it’s my go to community every morning and at the end of the day. It’s an inclusive, safe space, to ask any questions about growing my online business."

SPI Pro is by far the best business community I've been a part of, from the masterminds to the workshops and monthly expert Q&As. Being a member has helped me focus on what I need to do to move my business forward."

SPI Pro is one of the best investments I've made in my business because it helps me to grow professionally and personally—which enables me to help others!

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workshops

Get Hands On with Pat at an Upcoming Workshop

  • Click and Convert Workshop
  • Pricing For Profit
  • Video Podcasting Playbook
  • Productivity With Purpose
  • Podcast Advertising Made Easy
  • Traffic Booster Workshop
  • Making Of a Membership Community Free
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Workshop

Click and Convert Workshop

Learn to capture attention, increase engagement, and grow your business with this workshop from Pat Flynn and guest expert Darrell Vesterfelt.

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Workshop

Pricing For Profit

A pro workshop to help you learn and apply smart pricing methods to optimize your profit and grow a healthy and sustainable business.

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by Matt Gartland

$99
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Video Podcasting Playbook

This pro workshop will help you to effortlessly turn your podcast into engaging video content that grows your audience and influence.

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by Pat Flynn

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Productivity With Purpose

This workshop helps you get the right things done and bring balance to your life and work.

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by Pat Flynn

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Podcast Advertising Made Easy

This workshop teaches you how to find great podcast sponsors, write compelling ads, and create fair contracts that protect your work.

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by Pat Flynn

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Traffic Booster Workshop

Learn to increase your exposure and grow your business without paying for ads with this 90-minute workshop from Pat Flynn. Learn strategies you can immediately put into action.

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Making Of a Membership Community Free

This free workshop walks you through the process of launching a membership community.

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  • Click and Convert Workshop
  • Pricing For Profit
  • Video Podcasting Playbook
  • Productivity With Purpose
  • Podcast Advertising Made Easy
  • Traffic Booster Workshop
  • Making Of a Membership Community Free

Your audience is distracted. Learn to get their attention.

Click and Convert will teach you how to write titles, headlines, and subject lines that get clicked, increase your impact, and help scale your business faster.

Don’t set your prices based on guesswork. Learn a smart system optimized for profit.

Pricing for Profit covers a gamut of valuable pricing wisdom and examples. This smart approach to pricing will help you drive sales, generate revenue, and make a healthy profit in your business.

Video podcasting is growing in popularity. Lead the trend and grow your audience with this new workshop.

In Video Podcasting Playbook, I will show you how to make the transition from audio to video for your podcast and share the strategies, tips, and techniques you can use to create a video podcast and promote it.

Does your to-do list feel overwhelming? Learn to focus on what matters.

In Productivity with Purpose, I will teach you specific strategies, tactics and tools you can use, as an entrepreneur, to stay focused and get things done, even when you're strapped for time.

Your podcast could (and should) be making money.

Podcast Advertising Made Easy will teach you the ins and outs of making deals with sponsors, crafting winning ads that compel listeners to take action, and making money through podcasting.

Your people are online. They just haven’t found you yet.

Traffic Booster will teach you proven, time-tested ways to get traffic without paying for ads so you can start building your email list, growing your audience, and grow your business.

This free workshop walks you through the process of launching a membership community.

I was joined by a few key SPI team members, including COO Matt Gartland, to share our strategy and successes, (plus a few things we wished we would have done differently). The response to the live workshop was incredible—and you can get the replay for free.

Now you can use it as a tool to help you build a successful membership community for your business.

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Free guides for online business essentials

Our in-depth guides teach you the fundamental concepts, strategies, and principles you need to succeed online.
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The Success Mindset for Entrepreneurs

Pat Flynn

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How to Create and Sell Online Courses

Pat Flynn

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Ethical Affiliate Marketing

Pat Flynn

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Email Marketing Essentials

Pat Flynn

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Branding Basics for Beginners

Pat Flynn

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Business Fundamentals for Beginners

Matthew Gartland

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Ethical Affiliate Marketing

Pat Flynn

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How to Start and Grow a Podcast

Pat Flynn

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How to Write and Publish Your Book

Pat Flynn & Janna Maron

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Tools

Recommended tools and software

The most successful professionals in any industry use the best tools. Here are the ones we use, like, and trust
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Buzzsprout

We love Buzzsprout for its ease of use, product-centric ethos, care for podcasters, and concentration on the fundamental features that actually matter.

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ConvertKit

ConvertKit is our go-to email marketing platform because it has been thoughtfully built to the exact needs of creators building online businesses.

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Teachable

All of our online courses are housed on Teachable because they make it so darn simple to configure content, manage settings, and sell to students.

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Circle

Circle, the power behind SPI Pro, is the modern community platform for creators—and the easiest way to set up a premium community experience.

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The SPI community of like-minded entrepreneurs comes together and comes alive most through our email subscription. We’d love to have you join if you haven’t already. It's forever free, filled with exclusive content, and always optional.

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Turn my workflow from unorganized to a streamlined content calendar

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Started a podcast and created online platform

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Launched first podcast

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400% channel growth in 2020

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Took podcasting skills and network to another level

SPI was founded by Pat Flynn as a personal blog back in 2008. Since then, it has grown into a dynamic, media-based education and training company. Our team members are the real heroes that make everything possible here at SPI.

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