Learn More Earn More Business Growth Podcast Host: Brian Webb Episode 62: UPDATE: Brand New Update To Facebook Messenger You Can Use To Reach More Customers & Grow Your Business ____________________ INTRODUCTION Meta, the artist formerly known as Facebook, is introducing recurring notifications in Facebook Messenger. Why do you care and how can you use it to grow your business? I'll get to that in the show. Let's jump into it. ____________________ SUBSCRIBE Apple  |  Spotify |  Pandora  |  Google  |  iHeart Radio |  Deezer  |  Stitcher  |  Amazon Music  |  (SoundCloud Coming Soon) ____________________ HELPFUL LINKS The Ultimate 97 Point Marketing Audit Checklist ____________________ TRANSCRIPT Brian Webb: Meta, the artist formerly known as Facebook, is introducing recurring notifications in Facebook Messenger. Why do you care and how can you use it to grow your business? I'll get to that in the show. Let's jump into it. This is to Learn More Earn More Business Growth Podcast. Brian Webb: Hey everyone. Welcome to the show. I'm your host, Brian Webb. This podcast is designed to be your number one premier place to learn the framework, secrets and growth hacks to grow and scale your business smarter and faster. While you're working on pursuing your dreams and growing your business, I'll be here to help you make better decisions and avoid costly pitfalls and expensive mistakes along the way. So let's go ahead and jump into today's episode.             Hey everybody. Welcome back to the show. Let me ask you a question. Why is Facebook a valuable platform? Why is NBC a valuable television network? The answer is simple. They have audiences. They have the attention of eyeballs and ears. And as a result, people will pay tons and tons of money to advertise on those platforms. So whether you're a solopreneur business, a realtor, for example, or whether you're running a $10 million a year business, what's your biggest asset? Your audience, the people who buy from you, the people who might buy from you in the future.             So what's the takeaway? You need to be growing your audience. You need several lists if you want to scale and grow your business. So for example, how big is your email list? How big is your text message list? And here comes the surprise. How big is your Facebook Messenger audience? The vast majority of people who own businesses, who listen to this podcast have no idea that you can not only grow an audience inside Facebook Messenger just like you can your email list, you can grow multiple audiences.             So if you're in a B2B business and you work with architects, manufacturers, and home builders, you could literally have 1,000 people in an audience in Facebook Messenger that are all manufacturers, another 1,000 people who are home builders, and another 1,000 people who are architects. And all of those 3,000 people have no idea that they are in an audience with the other 2,999 people. They have no idea. So why do you care? When you send out an email, look at your own analytics. If you're lucky, you're getting a 20 to 25% open rate. And if you're lucky, you're getting a one or 2% click-through rate.             And that's probably if you're emailing to a group of your family and friends. So to put some math to that, if you have 1,000 people on your email list and you send out an email, maybe a little over 200 of the people that you send it to will open it, meaning they'll even see it, to begin with. And if you're lucky, 20 of them, probably less will click on any offer that you give to them. Now, let's contrast that with text messaging. Text messages, 90 plus percent of the people that send a message to will see it, and oftentimes 50, 60, 70, 80, 90% of them will click on whatever you sent in the text.             But here's the big secret that marketers know that you don't, you can do the exact same thing