- Some people say that time is kinda like a sword
so if you don't cut it, it'll cut you
and in this video you'll discover
one weird, link building and outreach hack
that's saved me hundreds of hours of work
and if you do any type of cold email outreach,
this video's is definitely gonna help you.
In fact, anyone can do this,
it's super easy to do and in this video
I'll teach you exactly how to do it.
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So what's the secret source?
Essentially, I use something called text expanders
and these are a quick way of saving template responses.
So let me explain, right.
With any type of cold email outreach you usually get
the same issues and queries popping up time and time again.
So instead of writing those over and over again,
hundreds of times over, wasting loads of hours,
feeling as bored as an alcoholic at a tea party,
you can save yourself time with a text expander.
Let's take paid links for example, right.
Anyone who does cold email outreach knows
that they're offered paid links over and over again.
So why waste your precious time
rewriting the same answer to that query
when you could use a text expander instead.
And why not create a script that you can use
to quickly negotiate either a free link
or a lower price for that link.
With a text expander you simply type in the short code,
the template pops up and hey presto, you're done.
Now keep watching if you want to discover how to create
those templates yourself.
So now let me show you how to set up
a canned response yourself
so that you can start using text expanders
to build your links too.
So, first of all you're going to go into Google
type in text expander here
and here's the software that I use.
There's always some different options
when it comes to text expanders
but this is the one that I use.
I've tested out a few, this is the easiest one
and it works for me, yeah.
You also get a free trial when you sign up
and you can basically download it here.
Now once you've downloaded the software just open it up.
And it will look something like this, right.
What you're gonna is just click in new snippet, over here
and whatever canned response you're trying to create,
just label it, so give it a name,
and this is the shortcut you're gonna use
to create your text expander.
So for example, it might be like paidlinks1, right?
And that's just the canned response you use
if anyone says you need to pay for a link.
and then you can type in your template response here
So it might be like,
"Sorry, I don't have the budget,
"maybe you could reduce the price a little
on the link?"
Something as simple as that,
and that's obviously not the exact response
that I use for my own link building
but it gives you an idea of what you could write.
And yeah, so here's the short code,
here's the text you're gonna use
and that's basically the snippet set up
for you to start templating.
And then you can create this for like,
paid links, you know,
"Let me know when the link is live."
"Thanks for adding the link."
any sort of common response
that you need to write several times over.
So let me show you how easy it is
to start using text expander
now that you're all set up, right.
So essentially you're just gonna write in
the short code that you've just used
so in my example it's paidlinks1.
And we type that in, and just like magic
it pops up in two seconds, it saves you a bunch of time,
it saves you a bit or energy
because now you don't have to decide what to write.
And, if you've got a team you can very easily
give them these canned responses.
They don't need to think about what to write,
they've just got it right there as a template
and it's very easy.
Buy how can a text expander save you hundreds of hours?
Because surely, if you're writing a few emails here.
Copying and pasting a few emails there,
then that's not really that much time.
And I actually thought the same
but the results have blown me away.
So, since using textexpander it gives me a monthly breakdown
of the hours I've saved and as you can see
I've saved over a hundred hours already,
which is pretty insane.
And the thing is, depending on how much you value your time
that could be worth thousands of dollars to your business.
But not just that, its also the decision fatigue,
so you can only make so many decision per day,
why waste your time deciding on what to write?
If you look at billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg,
they wear the same T-shirt every day
so they can focus their energy on other decisions.
Plus my team is also using text expanders
so, you know I have people working for me
managing email boxes,
and every time they use a text expander
they're saving time too.
So when we're stacked up
and we're all busy building links for our clients,
it's the one per cents that count.
And when you compound all the hours we've saved
over years of link building outreach
we've probably saved hundreds if not thousands of hours.
So that's why this strategy is so powerful.
So when should you use canned responses?
Essentially with link building
the same responses pop up time and time again.
So for example negotiating paid links,
"Thanks for adding the link."
and "Let me know when the link is live."
these are all things that you can easily
create a canned response with using a text expander.
But you just have to be careful
that you don't turn into some sort of link building robot
and that you personalize your response if you need to.
But not just that, you can use the text expander
for almost anything that you type often right,
so for example chase up emails or negotiating prices.
Personally I use text expanders for
negotiating Airbnb prices so that saves me a lot of money,
and also for outsourcing work to my team
because it's much more time efficient that way.
So , if you send something often
and you can easily script it,
start using the text expander.
So there you have it,
and easy, quick way to save hundreds of hours
when you're doing link building outreach,
and it may seem like a tiny tweak,
but it makes a huge difference.
The other thing is, as well,
that this is one of many link building hacks
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