Partner-, client-, or customer-getting riddle

UPDATE: This riddle has been solved.

got it in the comments below.

But before you go and read James's answer, I highly recommend reading the riddle yourself, and thinking about it a bit, and trying to figure it out on your own.

The answer, whether you figure it out or read it later, will be much more useful to you that way.

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I just got a guy with an email list of 99,000 people, mostly buyers...

... and a proven $10k offer, plus a stable of lower-ticket products...

... say he's interested in handing over his list to me for me to monetize for him, via auction or in some other way.

Maybe nothing will come of this.

Still, I'm posting it because I'm chuffed about the possibility.

Plus, I'm posting it because there's a lesson here that's relevant to you if you have an email list, and if you are looking for partners, clients, or customers.

Do you want to guess how this guy and I started talking, and what I did to get him to express interest in working with me?

I'll tell you this:

I'd never heard of this guy until two days ago
He didn't come via the "refer me your copywriting client" campaign I ran to my email list last week
I did not send him any kind of cold outreach message
He did not send me any kind of cold outreach message
We didn't meet in a group, a mastermind, a bathhouse, or an orgy

So?

You wanna guess how this guy and I started talking, and how the conversation turned to partnership in a jiffy?

Or you need more information?

Ask away or guess away. The smallest bit of thinking about this today will make this lesson stick more in your mind, and increase the odds you apply it tomorrow.

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