Like many people, I had seen photos of it countless times before.
But it wasn't until I was actually there that I learned something interesting: The torii gates aren't simply decorative structures.
Traditionally, they mark the transition from the ordinary world into a sacred space.
In other words, when you pass through a torii gate, you're symbolically
entering a different place.
As I continued walking through the seemingly endless rows of gates, I noticed something else, many of them had names inscribed on them.
Later, I learned that these gates had been donated over many years by individuals, families, and businesses.
One gate at a time.
Over decades, even generations.
What visitors experience today wasn't created by a single
gate.
It wasn't built all at once.
It became what it is because thousands of individual pieces came together to create something much larger than themselves.
After I'm back and seeing the pictures I took, I couldn't help but think about online business: A successful online business isn't usually built from one thing.
It's built from multiple pieces working together.
When they're connected together,
they become something much more powerful than the individual parts (after all, invidivual part cannot serve its purpose at all).
They become a system.
A system that attracts prospects and turn them into customers.
Recently, I've laid out the entire system in the AI Evergreen Acquisition Engine Workshop.
Not another tactic or just AI prompt.
But how to bring the essential pieces together into a complete
customer acquisition system that works as a single engine for your business.
And perhaps more importantly, how to use AI to help you build and implement that engine faster and easier than ever before.
You can now get the full recordings here
Warm regards,
— Patric Chan
P.S.
What impressed me most about Fushimi Inari wasn't the gates themselves. It was realizing that something so remarkable was built one contribution at a time until it became something people travel from all over the world to experience.
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