980 – Do the basics: Tom talks Nix SEO


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Tom talks Nix SEO
Today, I'm going to give you another reason to nix SEO or search engine optimization.
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Tom talks Nix SEO
Today, I'm going to give you another reason to nix SEO or search engine optimization.
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Tom talks Phone Tips
Today is another phone tip episode, and we have tons of phone tip episodes that make you lightning fast using your cell phones and tablets. So if you want to look them up, you can go to screwthecommute.com/training and just do a search on the page for iPhone or phone. Just use phone because a lot of these tips will work on Androids.
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Tom talks Wise Credit Card Use
Today we're going to talk about wise credit card using for your business.
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Tom talks Great AI Prompts
Today, we're going to talk about great AI prompts. Now, I don't claim to be any kind of big expert, but I can tell you that the better stuff you put into AI, the better stuff you get out. So I'll give you a formula for that that I learned off of this other guy.
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Tom talks AI Hallucinations
Today we're going to talk about hallucinations. One of my favorite bumper stickers was I brake for hallucinations. But we're talking about today AI, or artificial intelligence, hallucinations and how they can get you in trouble and how you stay out of trouble.
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Tom talks AI Spicy Models
This is going to be a little bit offbeat from the my norm. It's still going to be money making related, but it's called AI Spicy Models. This isn't like technical modeling of something. This is spicy models, bikini, nude, things like that. So hang with me there because I'm not going to get real crazy on you here, but I'm going to tell you a method that's got people making money, some ethically, some not ethically. And I'll go over that too.
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Tom talks AI Phishing
Today we're going to talk about AI phishing scams, especially for YouTube creators. But this really affects any kind of phishing thing with all these deep fakes going around and craziness.
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Tom talks Easy Bonuses
Today, we're going to talk about a copywriting technique that absolutely increases sales, no question about it. And that is bonuses. And the title of this episode is Easy Bonuses. These are things that are going to be all digital. Other than one will take a little bit of your time. But I think I got about 16 or 17 of them here for you.
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Tom talks Visual Search Part 2
Today, we're going to do part two of Visual Search. 971 was part one and specifically was talking about Google Lens and how you can use that to find stuff that you want and what you need to do to your website to make sure people can find your stuff.
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Tom talks Visual Search Part 1
Today, we're going to talk about visual search. This is part one. I've talked about image search in the past that this is kind of an image thing on steroids.
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Tom talks Fighting Burn Out
Today, we're going to talk about fighting burnout, something that I've been doing for a long time, but I'm still very, very productive. So I'll give you a tip on how to to fight burnout in your business.
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Tom talks Sync Jacking
Today, we're going to talk about a really important security thing that you got to pay attention to so that people can't gain control of your all your stuff. It's called sync jacking. Sync jacking is the term for it. You'll probably want to look it up and go deeper than I'm going to go today. But what I give you today will pretty much keep you out of trouble.
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Tom talks Even More Phone Tips
Today, we've got even more phone tips this whole week 966 967 and today's 968 has been on phone tips to make you lightning fast and do all the cool things your phone will do. Although saying the word all is kind of ridiculous because it'll do thousands and thousands of things, so I try to pick out things that are very useful to you.
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Tom talks More Phone Tips
Today, I've got more phone tips for you. I think this will be a phone tip week because there's so many cool things the phone will do today. I've got some really cool stuff on calculators and hotspots and stuff like that.
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Tom talks Phone Tips
Today, we're going to give you some more phone tips and a lot of these things for Android is right behind or has a similar function. It's just I don't have an Android, so I don't know how to do it on Android, but you'll see some really cool ones on this one, including using Apple Intelligence and Visual intelligence.
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Tom talks Be Careful Who You Deal With
Today is going to be a little bit of a rant about people that will steal your money. You've got to be careful who you deal with.
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Tom talks Sound Effects
Today, we're going to talk about sound effects and how they can jazz up your recordings.
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Tom talks Cassette Gadget
Today, I'm going to do a cassette gadget review. And you say cassette? What's a cassette? All right, well, those of you old enough to have a bunch of cassettes laying around from the old days, I'm going to tell you what to do with them and how to save them digitally. Really cheap. And you can save them all from going bad.
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Tom talks Fish Branding
Today, we're going to talk about fish branding. What the heck is fish branding?
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Tom interviews Mike Stewart
I am so psyched today. I'm with my old buddy Mike Stewart, and we go way back at least 25 years that I can think of back in around 2000. He's the one that got me started doing audio stuff and taught me how to do it, got the equipment for me, dumbed it down so a dummy like me could understand and here we are again today, 25 years later. If you're a Beatles fan, you're going to love this. But even if you aren't a Beatles fan or you've never even heard of them, maybe you're two years old and never heard of them. This entrepreneurial journey for a product that's technically a product, what we're going to talk about today that Mike created out of thin air.
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Tom talks Short to Long
This is our last video in the YouTube shorts series starting at episode 944. We're going to show you how to grab people's attention and then move them into watching more of your stuff.
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Tom talks End Screens
Today, we're going to talk about YouTube end screens and how it can really help you out. This is part of our YouTube Quick Tips series starting on episode 944. And you really want to catch all of these, because all these little techniques add up to really lots more views and watch time and and more promotion for your YouTube channel. So check that out.
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Tom talks Scheduling
Today, we're gonna talk about scheduling on YouTube videos and why it's so important for you how to do it, when to do it, when not to do it, all that stuff. This is part of my YouTube series on quick tips that can really improve your YouTube channel, get you more watch time, more views, all that good stuff. And this series started at episode 944.
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Tom talks Shorts Remixing
Today, we're going to talk about shorts remixing. This is part of my YouTube Short Tips series, starting at episode 944 that tells you little things, little tweaks you can make, and they all add up to way more traffic to your YouTube channel. Way more views, way more watch time, all the good stuff that comes from doing these things.
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Tom talks Blocked Words and Links
Today, we continue our series on YouTube short tips that you can implement immediately that will help your YouTube channel. Today we're going to talk about blocked words and links.
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Tom talks Channel Descriptions
Today, we're going to talk about YouTube channel descriptions. Now, these didn't really do much in the past, but now there's a big change that you need to know about. This is all part of my YouTube tips series, very short tips that you can implement immediately to improve your channel. And remember, any one person that sees your stuff can spend money with you and multiply that by 100, 150, 200, 1000 people a week. And you're going to change the nature of your business.
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Tom talks Channel Keywords
Today, we're going to talk about channel keywords as part of our YouTube series that's starting on episode 944.
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Tom talks Watermarks
Today, we're going to talk about watermarks for YouTube videos. This is part of my YouTube series starting at episode 944.
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Tom talks Feature Eligibility
Today, we're going to talk about feature eligibility. This has to do with our YouTube series starting with episode 944. And this is going to open up a whole bunch of cool things for you just by verifying yourself a little bit more with YouTube.
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Tom talks TV and Movie Clips
Today, we're going to talk about jazzing up your videos using TV and movie clips. And I don't want you to get in trouble for this, but it's certainly a great way to jazz up some videos.
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Tom talks Subscription Confirmation
Today, I'm going to show you how to get tons more subscribers and this is called the sub confirmation link. I'll tell you how to do it and it's not that hard.
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Tom talks Watch Time
Today, we're going to talk about Watch Time. And this is part of my YouTube series where we give you little short tips on what you can do to improve your YouTube channel, and some of them can really make a big, big difference.
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Tom talks Playlists
Today, we're going to continue our YouTube series of quick things you can do to increase your success in YouTube. So this is 948 and we're going to talk about playlists.
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Tom talks Not For Kids YouTube Setting
This is part of our YouTube series with quick little changes that can really either keep you out of trouble with YouTube, or help you get more views and watch time.
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Tom talks License And Distribution YouTube Setting
This is part of our YouTube series on lots of little short, little tiny corrections you can make to increase your views and watch time, and all the good stuff to get you the best you can out of YouTube.
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Tom talks YouTube Chapters
Today, we're going to talk about YouTube chapters. This is part of our YouTube series, a bunch of tips and tricks and settings that will make your YouTube channel better.
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Tom talks YouTube Automatic Concepts
Today, we're going to start a series of very short episodes on YouTube and things that you probably never heard of that are hurting your YouTube channel. So today we're going to talk about Automatic Concepts.
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Tom talks How CSI Hurts You
Today, I'm going to show you how CSI is hurting you. What's CSI? It's not what you think it is.
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Tom talks Branding Pros and Cons
Today, we're going to talk about branding pros and cons.
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Tom talks Facebook Auto Clipping
Today, we're going to talk about a brand new feature on Facebook called Facebook Auto Clipping. Now it's so brand new, even the instructions to do it on Facebook were hard to understand, and I'm sure it's going to evolve over time, but it's going to be a really good thing that helps you out a lot. It's called auto clipping, and it's going to allow you to create clips and reels and vertical videos from your horizontal videos. Plus, you can let other people clip your stuff and share it on Facebook. But again, it's so brand new, I don't have all the details but I want to let you know about it.
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Tom talks Phone Tips
Today, we're going to talk about phone tips. And you know what I've done? I don't know, 10 or 12 episodes on phone tips. And I'm going to give you the numbers here. During the course of this podcast. And it'll be in the show notes. And I'm telling you, if you just went and used a portion of these tips, you'd be so much faster on your phones and tablets doing stuff. And you know, I use iPhone, but a lot of these same things will work on Android. You just have to Google on how to do it on an Android. But the ideas are solid.
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Tom talks Logos
Today, we're going to talk about logos, and I'm going to say good things and bad things about them, depending on where you're at in your business life.
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Tom talks Celebrity Endorsements
Today, we're going to talk about celebrity endorsements. This is part of my very short series on not talking about politics, but talking about politics as an example of some of this stuff.
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Tom talks Pay Attention
Today, we're going to talk about paying attention to your market. If you don't do that, you can have the best products and services. But if it's for the wrong people, you're screwed.
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Tom talks Profitable Coach Summit
I'm here with Roberto Candelaria, and we're going to talk about the Profitable Coach Summit that's coming up this week. And if you happen to be listening to this year's later, go back and check the replays. Roberto has been known as a sponsorship expert, but I know he and Warren, his partner, have been doing a lot with community building.
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Tom talks Why I Don't Waste Time With Shopping Carts
This is part of our series on why I don't waste time. Today is the last part of the series, why I don't waste time on shopping carts. If you want to hear the entire series and how this series from episode 929 to the present could save you, I mean thousands of hours into the future wasting time on stuff if you would just if somebody just taught you what to do.
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Tom talks Why I Don't Waste Time Podcasting
This is why I don't waste time on podcasting. What? What do you mean you don't waste time on podcasting? 934 episodes. You've been wasting a lot of time, Tom, on episodes. No, I haven't, so I'm going to teach you about that today on why I don't waste time and how. Of course, this thing has made a lot of money, probably a couple million dollars over the past couple of years. And I don't waste time on it, though. And that's what I want to teach you.
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Tom talks Why I Don't Waste Time On Social Media
This is part of the Why I Don't Waste Time series. This is 933 Why I Don't Waste Time on Social Media. 932 was web design. 931 was customer service, 930 was writing books, and 929 was artificial intelligence.
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Tom talks Why I Don't Waste Time On Web Design
This one is why I don't waste time on web design. This is part of my why I Don't Waste Time series. 929 was artificial intelligence. I don't waste time on that. 930 writing books. I don't waste time on that even though I've written 25. 931 was customer service. That's all about autoresponders, so I don't waste time on customer service, even though I'm a customer service freak. And upcoming is why I don't waste time on podcasting.
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Tom talks Why I Don't Waste Time On Customer Service
Today is part of our series Why I Don't Waste Time on Stuff. Today's is why I don't waste time on customer service. Now, don't even get an inkling in your mind that I'm not a customer service freak. I am totally. There is nobody at my level that gives this good a service as I do. I'm accessible and I'm helpful, but I don't waste time on it. And that's what this episode is about.
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Tom talks Why I Don't Waste Time Writing Books
Today is part of the Why I Don't Waste Time series, and this is going to be why I don't waste time writing books. Does not mean I don't write books. 25 that I last count. So listen up and I'll tell you. I'll show you how to do it fast so you don't waste time.
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Tom talks Why I Don't Waste My Time On AI
Today, is the beginning of the Why I Don't Waste Time series. I don't even know how many parts it's going to be to this series, because I don't want to waste time figuring it out before I do this episode. Okay, so this one's going to be why I don't waste time on artificial intelligence or AI.
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Tom talks Done For You
Today, we're going to talk about done for you programs more appropriately called Done to You programs. All right. So you can see I'm not in favor of these things. They try to rip you off.
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Tom talks Wasting Time and Money on SEO
Today, I'm going to try to encourage you to quit wasting your time on search engine optimization, because it could cost you a lot of money and waste you a lot of time where you get nowhere. Now, don't think I'm not in favor of certain parts of SEO, but let me tell you about it in this episode.
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Tom talks Three Prong Attack Part 3
Today is part three of the three part series we've been doing on the three prong attack to a seven figure income. It's something I developed back in roughly 1996, and it's with minor adjustments. It's still valid today. It's designed to help you stay on track to create the digital part of your business. So this is part three, Products.
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Tom talks Three Prong Attack Part 2
This is part two of a three part series on the three prong attack to a seven figure income, which I created back around 1996 and is still valid today with some changes. Part one is website and shopping carts. That's what you would have heard on episode 924.
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Tom talks Three Prong Attack on a Seven Figure Income Part 1
Today is part one of a three part series of a concept I developed around 1996, called the three prong attack on a seven figure income. These are the three things that, after all, the students I've had were having trouble with. So I boiled it down to three major categories of things you need to work on to have a successful online business, or even if you're not doing an online business so much, but a successful website.
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Tom talks Employees vs Contractors
Today, we're going to talk about employees versus contractors or independent contractors. And you know, you're going to need help in your business one way or the other. And either because of the volume of the work you have that you know how to do, but there's just too much of it. Or you may have specialized needs that need taken care of. So how do you get those people and is it better an employee or contractor? What's the pros and cons?
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Tom talks Self Sufficiency
Today, we're going to talk about self-sufficiency, where you don't have to wait for people all day long and spend a fortune to have them screw you over. How about that?
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Tom talks Specific Sells General Doesn't
Today, we're going to talk about specific sells and general doesn't. I've been seeing all kinds of stuff coming into my email for years as examples of this.
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Tom talks Benefits of Digital Products
Today, we're going to talk about 11 benefits of digital products. And whenever I say 11, I don't really know for sure. It sounded like a good number. You have more than that for sure.
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Tom talks Sneakiest Way To Sell Stuff
Today, I'm going to talk about the sneakiest way to sell stuff, especially big stuff. Before you get too freaked out there, you know, I'm all about ethics and so forth. So none of this is fraudulent or mean spirited or cheating or ripoffs. But it is sneaky. It's really powerful.
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Tom talks Cell Phone Automation Tips
Today, I'm going to come back with some stuff I've been doing over the years on phone tips and tablet tips to really increase your productivity. And yes, I use an iPhone, but a lot of these things, if you just look up the same tip for Android on how to do it, they're going to have it too. So don't worry about that. And I'm going to give you a big list of back episodes. If you listen to all these episodes and implemented this stuff, you would be so lightning fast on your cell phones and tablets out there, I'm telling you. No doubt about it.
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Tom talks How To Lose A $179 Sale
Today, we're going to talk about how to lose $179 sale. Basically, we're talking about service reviews today and why I didn't spend 179 bucks when I could have.
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Tom talks Surveys
Today, we're going to talk about surveys and how you can get media attention from them and improve your business and make money with them. How about that?
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Tom talks Audio Editing
Today, we're going to talk about audio editing and why I think it is so simple for you to learn, and can save you so much time, effort, and make you sound better than you ever sounded before. And also give you a sample of how I edit this podcast.
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Tom talks Video Eye Contact
Today, we're going to talk about a massive, massive breakthrough in video eye contact. And you might think, well, I just look into the camera. Well, there's a lot more going on than that I can tell you about in this episode.
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Tom talks Perils of Unlimited Emails
Today, we're going to talk about the perils of unlimited emails. There's a lot at stake here, including your wallet, your professional and personal emails, and your reputation.
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Tom talks Topless Carwash
Today, we're going to talk about a topless car wash at a church. And believe me, there's a lesson here.
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Tom talks Reputation Management In An AI World
How do you keep your good reputation intact in the face of artificial intelligence? And I'm not sure I'm going to be able to give you a definitive answer. I'm going to give you things to work with and to help your reputation and to try to knock down things that are against your reputation.
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Tom talks VPN Revisited
Today, we're going to talk about VPNs. This is a virtual private network that can do a lot of things for your business. Keep your privacy. It'll let you check things that you couldn't normally check, let you get to websites you couldn't get to sometimes because of country restrictions, all kinds of good stuff.
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Tom talks Quotations
Today, we're going to talk about quotations and the ways you can use them, and all kinds of good stuff about that. I mean, you can use them in sales letters, speeches, podcast interviews, radio interviews, TV interviews, all kinds of ways. You can use quotations, and there's no shortage of them out there.
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Tom talks Seminar Scams Part Three
Today is the last part of a series to keep you safe. This is part three of Seminar Scams, but we go all the way back to episode 903 QR Code Scams 904. Catfishing scams 905. Just regular Phishing Scams 906 is part one of seminar scams and 907 is part two. This is part three. I don't want you getting ripped off at a seminar, and I've been there thousands of times, literally, and have seen a lot of bad stuff. And I have actually have a dossier on just one bad seminar guy that I got 48 victims on for lots and lots of money. So I don't want that to happen to you.
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Tom talks Seminar Scams Part Two
We're going to talk about Seminar Scams part two today. So, I want to make sure you don't get ripped off at seminars. And this is part of our Keep You Safe series.
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Tom talks Seminar Scams Part One
This is part of our Keep You Safe series, and this is Seminar Scams, Part one. This is going to be a three part series on how people get ripped off to sometimes losing their homes at seminars, so I don't want that to happen to you.
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