Buying a list of thousands of contacts and blasting them with mass messages sounds like a shortcut to scaling fast. Jon Goering, founder of Story Trust Media, tried exactly that early in his business, and walked away with zero clients, damaged email deliverability, and a very clear lesson about what actually builds a service-based business. Spoiler: it is not a numbers game.

Jon joins Kristi to unpack what went wrong, why high trust transactions require a completely different approach to outreach, and how shifting to value-led relationship building completely changed his results.

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If you have ever been tempted by the promise of a bought list or a mass messaging campaign, this episode will save you the time, money, and headache of finding out the hard way.

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