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Pat Flynn

Nascido: December 06, 1982 – New London, Connecticut, United States

Pat Flynn is an entrepreneur, podcaster, and author focused on online business, entrepreneurship, and audience building. He is best known for Will It Fly? and Super Fans, as well as Smart Passive Income, a platform and podcast whose resources and episodes have reached millions of aspiring creators and digital entrepreneurs.

Biografia e Jornada do Autor

Pat Flynn’s public career began far from online business. He studied architecture at UC Berkeley and expected a conventional professional life, but the recession broke that path. On June 17, 2008, he was laid off from what he has described as his dream job as an architect. In the months around that upheaval, he turned a study site he had created for the LEED exam into Green Exam Academy, then transformed his notes into paid study materials. The result was both financial and philosophical: within months, the project was generating meaningful revenue, and in less than a year it was earning more than his former salary. That early success taught him a pattern he would repeat for years: find a specific problem, serve a narrowly defined audience, and build from usefulness rather than image. ((https://www.smartpassiveincome.com/download/transcript-SPI001.pdf))

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On June 17th, 2008 I was laid off from my dream job as an architect, and although I didn’t know it at the time, it was the best thing that could ever happen to me
-About
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Transparency is a huge part of this blog, as it is with everything I do online
-About
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The best and worst things in life are usually the things that happen unplanned
-About
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The right path is the one you make yourself that leads to your version of happiness
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Being empathetic, and sharing the knowledge you have with the goal of helping other people
-I Appreciate You
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A simple act of honest appreciation can go a long way, and so I try to embrace that in all things
-I Appreciate You
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You don’t need to change the entire world to build a successful business; you just need to change someone’s world
-Superfans
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A lack of proper validation kills more businesses than anything else
-Will It Fly?
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A sign that working online and earning a passive income is what I was meant to do
-Nevermind. I Just Got Laid Off
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Because although they were automatic, they were not 100% passive income. Nothing is
-I Sold Two Businesses Last Month. Here’s Why

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"Authenticity has a face, and it’s Pat Flynn"

Entrepreneur

"I have seen the future of marketing. And it is Pat Flynn"

Mark Schaefer

"Pat Flynn lays out actionable steps to help readers understand how and why nurturing relationships elevates both your purpose and your bottom line"

Chalene Johnson

"Pat Flynn of The Smart Passive Income Blog has parlayed his everyday-guy persona into a six-figure income supported heavily by podcasting"

Social Media Examiner

"Pat Flynn gives you powerful, actionable advice for how to attract the attention of your own greatest fans"

Michael Hyatt

"If there’s anyone who knows how to attract and build a tribe of loyal, raving fans using the internet, it’s Pat Flynn!"

Chris Ducker

"Today that same Pat Flynn is one of the most trusted voices in digital entrepreneurship"

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