A Thank You Video and Some Quick Announcements

written by   Pat Flynn
on  February 17, 2012
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I just wanted to share this quick video I recorded to say thanks for all of the well wishes and also to make some quick announcements about:

  1. Blog World Expo NY 2012
  2. Security Guard Training Headquarters
  3. A website I just purchased; and
  4. Happy Anniversary!


(Or, you can watch the video on YouTube by clicking here!)

Transcript

Hey everybody, what's up it's Pat Flynn from SmartPassiveIncome.com, and I just wanted to shoot this quick video for you to say thank you—thank you to the entire Smart Passive Income community. All of the support I've had over the past week since getting my wisdom teeth pulled out has just been amazing and really encouraging.

As many of you know, it's been pretty rough for me. I still can't open my mouth all the way and I can't eat all the wonderful foods that I love to eat, but, you know, I'm hanging in there. Luckily, I didn't look like a chipmunk and my cheeks didn't explode, but I do feel like I got punched around a little bit.

But it's okay—it just reminds me of high school. 😉

I just have a few more announcements.

I wanted to show myself here and let you know that I'm okay and I'll be back soon.

Couple more announcements: I wanted to thank Kim and Greg who left wonderful guest posts on SPI this past week. Amazing guest posts, I recommend you check them out if you haven't already. I'll link to them below for you, so thank you Kim and Greg for those.

I was accepted to speak at Blog World Expo in New York! So I'm super stoked about that because one of my goals in 2012 was to speak more, and to speak at an event like Blog World Expo in New York is going to be fantastic. I have an excellent presentation lined up for you already—it's kind of going in my mind right now, I haven't mind-mapped it out yet, but it'll be there.

So if you're going to be in New York around June 5th to June 7th, I would love to meet you, see you there maybe hang out? I don't know, we'll see, so I'm really excited about that.

SecurityGuardTrainingHQ.com—my niche site—has a couple more advertisers on board so that's going really well. The next post I'm going to write about that niche site is going to be about pricing your banner ads so look out for that in the future.

Another announcement is I actually bought my first website, so an existing website that has been out there that someone else owned, I actually purchased it from them with the goal of trying to improve on it, make money from it and realize that investment. So I'm going to be talking a lot about that in the future as well. It's been pretty exciting, fun and scary at the same time, so I have a lot to say about that, but, it's going pretty well. It's actually a site in the golfing niche – the golfing niche and I do golf so it lines up perfectly!

And lastly, before I go, I just wanted to say Happy Anniversary to my wife April. We'll be 3 years together on February 21st.

Three years!

And seriously, without her I would not be where I'm at today. She supported me even before I started doing online business, and knew and believed in me—without her, I definitely wouldn't be where I'm at today. So, I thank her for that and April, I love you.

I love YOU ALL out there for watching this and taking the time to support me and again all the best wishes – it really goes a long way.

So thank you so much, I hope you enjoyed this video and quick announcement and hopefully I'll see you next week with a jaw that doesn't hurt as much.

I'll see you again soon, thank you so much and I'll talk to you later! Bye!

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More Thanks

Also, a big thanks to Greg from Sparring Mind and Kim from Buzz Blogger who wrote amazing guest posts on the blog this past week. Here are the links below in case you missed these posts:

Other Posts You May Enjoy

And—just in case you're looking for more content to read, here's a list of great posts I've recently come across that you may enjoy:

Thanks so much, and if you'd like to shamelessly plug one of your own posts on my Facebook Page go ahead and click here now!

Cheers, and have a great weekend!

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Comments

  1. Elisabeth Williams says

    Welcome back Pat! We missed you. I hope you’re feeling better. I hope to see you at the Blog World Expo NY 2012 in June! Also, I can’t wait to learn more about the new site that you purchased.

    Elisabeth

    PS: Happy birthday to your wife as well! 🙂

  2. Mark says

    Hi Pat,

    Thank you for leaving us your video and letting us know that you’re OK. I hope you’ll feel a lot better soon.

    A few days ago I got an email from you in response to my email that I sent you over a month ago. Thank you for replying even though you’ve been very busy. It surprised me and showed me that you do really care about your readers. I’m that way too.

    I’m happy that you purchased a website. I hope in the future you’ll do great things with it. I’m sure we’ll learn a lot from your experience. I’m looking forward to it. 🙂

    Mark

    • Pat says

      Thanks Mark, my pleasure, and I’m always happy to respond to emails when I can – sometimes it takes a while to get back, but I always do my best because each person matters. Cheers, and all the best!

  5. Jackie says

    I checked out the transcript since my phone wasn’t cooperating; glad you have those 🙂

    Anyway I bet your presentation will be awesome in New York. I’d love to say I’ll be there to watch it but unless we get our house paid off before then that’s not happening. Who knows, though 🙂

  8. Gregory Ciotti says

    Thank YOU Pat for providing the great resource in this site, the podcast, and of course your videos.

    Special thanks for the opportunity to post here, I sincerely appreciate it and look forward to where you’re taking things this year (love the hints dropped about working with purchased sites & your potential plugins).

    Congrats to you and best wishes to your family!

  13. Jared says

    Great to have you back. I can’t wait to hear more about the new website and how you are turning it around. I think there is a lot of money in this approach and hope to get tons of great new insights on it from you over time.

  14. Elizabeth Hooper says

    Hi Pat,

    So glad to hear that you’re on the mend, and very excited to see you’ll be heading to the Est Coast for BlogWorld! Super interested in hear what you’re talking about – definitely let us know.

    Happy anniversary, and thanks for the amazing community you have built here on SPI!
    Elizabeth

  17. John D says

    Hey Pat,

    Love the video. I see that you have improved on the quality on your N90 camera. (I know you were having trouble with that) but it looks great. How can I get ticket to your class at blog world.

    Keep up the good work.

    John D

  19. Justin Mazza says

    Thank You too Pat.
    I had my wisdom teeth taken out in 1997. I didn’t go under either. I was conscious during the whole thing.

    Great to hear that you were accepted to speak at blog world expo in NY. Since that is my area of the Country maybe I will see you there.

  20. Rory Mullen says

    Congrats Pat at the new investment purchase, I hope all works out. I hope you feel better, and I know your success will be plentiful. Guess what Pat, I have taken your knowledge and information you have provided, created a Niche website and have already made $2.05 from adsense.

  21. Jonas Carlsson says

    Hey Pat,

    Welcome back and thanks for being so genuine, kind and straight forward about so many aspects of your work; it’s heartwarming and awesome! 🙂

  22. Dan Sumner says

    Hey Pat,

    1st of all thank you for the link much appreciated.

    I really wanted to go to the blog world expo this year, but unfortunately I am not going to make it due to other commitments.

    I look forward to what you have in store for your new niche site. It should be cool if the success is anything like the security guard training site. Golf is very popular niche, are you looking at a micro niche?

    Glad you are feeling better Pat.

    Dan

  23. Jane | Problogging Success says

    Hey Pat, man, I know how hard it is to go on with the wisdom tooth thing. I had all my 4 wisdom teeth removed (the lower ones were actually cut out from the jaw bone ahhhh) on one sitting. It was a terrific experience! Hope you will resume soon completely.

    Its so cool that you have nice blogging pals to give you a hand and keep SPI visitors fed with awesome guest posts. I enjoyed those posts very much indeed.

    And, yes Happy Anniversary to you and your wife 🙂

    Cheers,
    Jane.

  25. Cory says

    Pat you never cease to amaze me. Every time I check in you’re tearing it up. Congrats on your anniversary and all your latest activities. Can’t wait to see your next new site! Awesome video quality by the way very clean and crisp. What video camera are you using?

  27. Feye says

    Congratulations to you, surely you have prepared a lot for the achievements! Keep up the good work and hope to see more posts. They are really helpful.

    Lastly, Happy anniversary to you and your wife!

  29. David Moore says

    Hey Pat, appreciate the newsletter today on filler posts and the Kim did a great job on the 17 templates. Look forward to hearing about the golf site. I have played for many years, some of it competitively, and now my son beats the crap out of me. Very humbling (but I taught him everything he knows).

  30. Chris says

    Glad to hear you’re feeling a bit better and Happy Anniversary to you and your wife! Looking forward to hearing your experiencing with the website purchase. I listened to your most recent podcast on the subject and really enjoyed the content.

  31. Pat says

    Thanks for all of the kind words everyone! I’m feeling 99% better today, and I appreciate your support and patience!

  32. Tim says

    Wow. Your face is all bright and blemish free. Did you do make up before taping yourself? Not a diss. Everyone who doesn’t go do make up before the camera looks horrible.

    What kind of camera did you use to record this?

  33. Thomas Bock says

    I am considering joining the BWO in NY this year.
    Any suggestions wich ticket to go for, as there is a big difference in pricing…
    3 Day Blogger/Podcaster Pass or Social Media Business Summit – I do not know
    Thanks for any opinion…

  34. Nick Purcell says

    Hey Pat! Glad to hear your going to the Blog Expo in New York. I immediately called the CEO of Blog World to see if they offered any student discounts. We’ll see if he calls back. I really hope I get the chance to see you…. Oh, almost forgot! Happy Anniversary!

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