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jess--she-her-_1_07-08-2024_131440:
welcome back to another episode of
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:the Deeply Rooted Business Podcast.
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:My name is Jess, your operational expert.
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:I'm here with my lovely co host,
Rachel, our marketing mastermind.
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:Today we're going to be talking about
since we're just headed into the
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:official back half of the year, halfway
done what to do if you're not hitting
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:the revenue goals that you set for
yourself at the beginning of:
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:how you can really push in Q3 and Q4
so that you can end the year strong.
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:rachel_1_07-08-2024_131440: I think this
is something that a lot of people are
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:probably experiencing a very slow Q1
kind of pushed into a very chaotic Q2.
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:So we're going to really try to reset
and be a little bit more intentional in
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:the back half of the year while still
driving revenue because that's probably
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:the most important thing as we are
trying to reach these big old goals that
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:feel probably very daunting right now.
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:So we'll break things down.
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:Pretty simple for everyone.
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:And then dive into some hopefully
actionable things that you can
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:walk away from this episode with.
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:jess--she-her-_1_07-08-2024_131440: Yeah.
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:So we're going to take you through one
of my Favorite frameworks that I use
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:when taking action in your business.
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:And that is assess, align, and act,
or I think we have them here as
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:like reflect, identify action, or
take you through these three steps.
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:And if you didn't know, I'm probably
going to say that you should
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:pause and do a quarterly plan.
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:I was just.
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:sharing with Rachel kind of how I
feel like I'm starting to get pulled
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:in a bunch of different directions
and a little bit overwhelmed.
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:And whenever I start feeling those
feelings, I know it's kind of like
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:a time to step back and reset.
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:And that's not my natural
tendency because it seems like
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:I have a lot to do on my plate.
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:I just want to keep go, go, going.
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:I don't have time to pause and reflect.
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:And all of these things, but
I know that that's just a lie
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:that my brain is telling me.
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:And then if I make the space to
have a quarterly reset or a seasonal
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:reset with myself, then that's
just going to benefit me in the.
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:Spaces of just mental clarity
and focus down the road.
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:So I'm committing right now
that probably next Monday, I'm
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:going to do my seasonal reset.
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:rachel_1_07-08-2024_131440: Yeah.
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:That seasonal reset was very,
very helpful last time I did it.
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:And it set a bunch of goals and I
have been tracking my goals and making
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:sure that I'm actually reaching them.
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:But it's just wild.
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:Cause that energy of \ , just pushing
through and not avoid, avoid, avoid,
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:like just keep going kind of thing.
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:But really this is one of the first
steps that we're talking about and
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:is like slowing down and reflecting
is one of the most powerful things
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:that you can do in your business by
just laying everything out, assessing
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:the energy of what you're allowing
to continue forward and all of that.
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:So we want to be auditing essentially
our inbound flow because if your main
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:goal is to be I guess not inbound flow,
because I always say inbound flow for
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:nurture sequences, but inbound audit.
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:So if your main goal is to be converting,
need to make sure that the people
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:coming into your funnel are, the right,
Person, it's the right prospect, the
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:right awareness level and all of that.
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:So just in this inbound audit, what
are some of the things that we're
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:covering and kind of looking at
and breaking down so that we can
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:go forward a little bit more clear.
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:jess--she-her-_1_07-08-2024_131440: Yeah.
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:And I don't even know if I would call it.
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:I mean, what I'm thinking
of is like an inbound on it.
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:How are people getting into your world?
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:Are they converting at the conversion
points that you think they are?
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:If you have multiple offers?
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:Are there any particular offers
that are selling better than others?
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:Are there any particular
offers that you're enjoying
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:delivering more than others?
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:Because It is important to
especially as someone who has multiple
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:really different types of offers.
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:I like to figure out \ , what
do I want to sell this quarter?
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:Almost.
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:And then are there any gaps or resources?
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:In, delivering that service, any place
that can be simplified anywhere you
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:can bring on more support that you can
eliminate, anything you can delegate,
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:anything that you want to automate.
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:So just doing a kind of Rachel
calls that a customer journey.
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:I call it a profit flow, like
how the profit comes into your
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:business of your entire business.
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:And that's usually where I start with
most of the clients I'm working at.
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:And I can Really see like, oh, we
need to turn this dial or tweak
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:this or simplify this to really
make some good headway for the next
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:rachel_1_07-08-2024_131440: Yeah,
because I do think if you're pushing
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:forward and not really reflecting back
on things there's so many disconnects
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:and it's not bad disconnects.
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:They could almost just be like
two ships passing in the night.
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:Like your ideal client may
at one particular stage, but
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:you're kind of forcing another.
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:stage of maybe offer
B in your offer suite.
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:You're like, I really want to
sell this one, but your ideal
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:client is actually living and
thriving and engaging in offer a.
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:And so you're like without that,
stopping and listening to what's
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:actually happening in your audience,
what people are responding to.
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:Or even like the types of leads that
are coming into your space right now,
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:you could just be missing out on a
lot of money that if you just shifted
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:to a different offer in your suite,
that's already set up and everything
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:that you could be capturing these
people that are coming in and are
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:a lot more primed for your space.
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:So, some of the things, tangibles that
you can be looking at in how leads
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:are coming is like, what questions are
they asking on your discovery calls?
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:Which resources are being actively
downloaded right now, and then
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:really trying to understand,
where they're at in their journey.
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:right in this moment instead of trying to
force and say, I really need to sell offer
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:B when they're like, but we want this one.
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:You know what I mean?
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:So I would say that's the first step.
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:Second step in reflect is really
diagnosing what the real problem is.
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:So is it a, You're not
getting enough leads.
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:So is it a funnel problem, an awareness
problem, or is it you're getting leads
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:in, but you're not converting them.
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:And that could be a conversion problem.
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:So really understanding where
the problem actually is.
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:And I say this all the time with AB
testing, where it's like, you're not going
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:to be AB testing the inside of your email.
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:If nobody's actually opening the email.
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:The email itself.
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:So understanding where your problem is
at is the biggest, time saver and can
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:really put you on the right path so
that you're not wasting a lot of time.
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:jess--she-her-_1_07-08-2024_131440:
That is so right, Rachel, because I
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:have the tendency and I know I've shared
this before is like, I am a creator.
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:I like to create, create, create.
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:new offers.
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:So if I am not making money
in my business, think you go
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:where you're most comfortable.
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:So my first initial reaction is
to always create a new offer.
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:And you can ask Rachel, I probably
have like 50 amazing offers,
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:but that's not my problem.
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:That's not my problem.
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:My problem is top of funnel.
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:Awareness.
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:So I am aware of this now that this
is a problem that I have a tendency
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:to create and I was just sharing
with Rachel before we hopped on
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:officially that I am really challenged
myself this quarter to not create.
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:anything new.
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:And to just reuse the offers or
resell the offers and the content
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:because I have tons of content too.
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:And I have like 18 freebies.
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:Like I do not need to create anything new.
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:None of that is my issue.
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:My issue is getting in
front of more eyeballs.
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:So that is my quarterly plan is to work
on top of funnel and not create anything.
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:I'll listen to you on the back end.
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:Even if I have an idea to do stuff.
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:rachel_1_07-08-2024_131440: Exactly.
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:jess--she-her-_1_07-08-2024_131440:
leaning into one that you're
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:more comfortable with?
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:rachel_1_07-08-2024_131440: I mean,
I have had, and this is so funny,
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:I've had the same offer suite,
slightly evolved in deliverables
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:and the ideal client and everything.
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:But the exact same offer suite
for the last two plus years,
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:don't really add a lot to it.
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:If I do, it's not really
anything on my retainer side.
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:It's more on my intensive side.
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:Cause I'm like, Oh, this would be
a fun cash injection kind of thing.
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:But I think, so my conversion rates
are always pretty steady, but my
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:biggest lull is the creation side.
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:So what Jess is biggest opportunity is,
is my biggest weakness because when it
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:comes to like saying the same thing and
creating new things, I just get so like,
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:why do I have to do that kind of thing?
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:Even though I do it daily for my clients,
in their newsletters and all of that.
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:So it's quite funny the things that
we resist in our business versus
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:like the things that we know and
are actively telling our clients,
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:because Yeah, I'm right there with
you, but we're aware of it now.
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:Right.
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:So we're going to hold each other
accountable that I will be more in
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:create mode and you will be more in
conversion mode because you have all
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:of the things that you need done.
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:jess--she-her-_1_07-08-2024_131440:
All the back end stuff is built.
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:I just need to shout it to the road,
put out more billboards that the stuff
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:is here and it's available for you.
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:And one of the ways I'm doing this and
this is moving into the next step is
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:Align, so look at all your data,
both quantitative and qualitative.
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:So quantitative, the numbers of
, what is actually making you money.
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:And then qualitative is how you feel
or like the feedback that you've gotten
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:from the customer and determining.
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:And I think this is like the
number one thing is determining
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:what you're going to sell, when.
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:And I feel like that's, that
sounds so basic, but I think it's a
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:fundamental step that gets skipped
when people are creating content or
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:when people are planning their order.
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:It's where I almost feel like
that's the foundational piece,
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:I don't know.
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:Maybe a few thoughts of why that
happens or that's what I did
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:is I was like for this month.
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:I am only selling and
maybe we get sick of it.
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:You said you get sick of talking about it.
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:I'm only talking about this thing and
I'm going to challenge myself to come at
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:it from different angles because I think
what happens is people will start to talk
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:about it and we'll talk about it for one
week and they'll be like, I didn't convert
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:anything or I didn't get any leads.
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:So it's either not working or they'll get
bored about talking about it and switch
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:and it's really that predictable marketing
is what's going to build your predictable.
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:rachel_1_07-08-2024_131440: there's
so many things where if you have
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:a very expansive offer suite, you
have a little bit of FOMO about
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:not talking about everything.
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:But the most success I have seen is
when you really dedicate these sprints
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:to each offer to kind of talk through.
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:Like build up your awareness to the
problem, aware to the solution, aware
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:to then getting back down into regular
engagement and educational content.
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:But it's so funny because so many
people just blast out, Oh, this
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:offer, this offer, this offer.
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:And like the saying of a confused buyer
never buys is a hundred percent accurate
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:because if you're blasting and they're
all really great offers, your ideal
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:client could be seeing themselves in like
four or five different offers and being
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:what I actually need.
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:at least for my clients, the
success I have seen is when we
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:really break down their promotional
phases into a single offer sprint.
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:Think of not a launch, but like very
much structured to a launch where.
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:You're saying we're doing a
ramp up where then we're going
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:to be actively selling this.
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:And yeah, it gets repetitive, but
repetitive is like really where it's
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with the time, like the attention span
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:of current buyers and the amount of
information that they need in order to
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:make a decision, people are no longer
making that snap investments or those
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:kinds of decisions that are like, Oh,
I knew I needed this kind of thing.
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:So there's a lot smarter buyers
and you really have to hit them
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:around like 14 plus touch points.
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:So like be repetitive.
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:And that doesn't mean just post 14
times because not a hundred percent of
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to see every single thing you post.
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:You have to be posting an exponential
amount of times in order for
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:And I think it's like completely
opposite that maybe in this is
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:everybody, but what my brain wants
to do, I think we've been trained
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:I posted this morning and didn't get any
likes or responses or anything from it.
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:I suck.
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:in my brain, I was already
what else can we set?
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:Like, I went into that panic mode.
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:what if I focus on this all month
and like, I don't make any money.
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:should I be focusing
on this offer instead?
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:And it's like, yeah.
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:But no, this is really what I want to do.
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:And I just need to figure
out a way to message it.
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:Or maybe people just need
to hear about it more.
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:Maybe everybody's just busy because
they're coming off a holiday weekend.
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:you have to give it its due diligence.
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:being repetitive, actually, everyone
wants a more simple business.
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:And being repetitive is
a more simple business.
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:Rachel and I we're tag
teaming on a new client.
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:I'm not going to say her
name, but like looking at our
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:But it works we can see
her numbers and it works.
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:the first time I went into the back end
of her business when I was doing her
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:So yeah, embrace simplicity.
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:Plan your promotional periods.
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:I mean, do you recommend monthly week?
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:what is your, like when you're
doing these single offer sprints,
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:what is your usual timeline with?
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I think three weeks with one week
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spot, but I'm pretty positive.
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:We have an episode on this where we talk
about the various phases of your marketing
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and the promotion all of those things.
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:those sprints are really, I think
in that three week window, because
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:if you think about like, you're not
like actively launching, but you
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:And I think this is something that,
and maybe this is just a little.
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now where it's like so many people
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Because they don't want to be salesy,
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:We have to talk about our products We
have to talk about these things we cannot
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give give until People buy from us like
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:there needs to be Product promotion here.
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:So it's really just important that like
you're going to feel uncomfortable if
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now, or you're just overeducating.
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:And then you transition to these
kind of like month long sprints
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:where you're just talking to one
particular person about one particular
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:It's necessary.
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:So I would say if you're going to
start it three weeks of just active
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like one week, depending on how aware
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:jess--she-her-_1_07-08-2024_131440:
Love that.
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:and that's what you do that's like
the bulk of what your quarterly
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out your promotional periods.
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:And then your projects stem from
what do I need to create to make
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more effective for the most part.
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what you're going to promote.
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just talked about being repetitive
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for action or note was like, go
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:rachel_1_07-08-2024_131440: I have
something to add to, So, really
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don't go into sales mode and I take
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about, if you're going to go into
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go into sales mode until you are
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:Know these things first before you
start hyping into promotion mode.
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situation where I said earlier, where
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you're promoting offer a, and you're just
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really think it would be really powerful
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the four reasons why your offer may not
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you go into a promotional period.
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like quickly gauge that is like,
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:But you just want to sell more
than your messaging might is
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:probably dialed in if you've been
able to sell it before, like it's.
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all, because it's a new offer, or
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resonating with your clients anymore,
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:That why your offer isn't selling and
then go into your promotional period.
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you could probably listen to that episode
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all of those key points before you
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offer, I am experimenting with a new
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hit my revenue goals for these months.
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offer is going to be land.
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a little something extra.
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cake and other parts of the country.
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good strategic place.
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:If you're calling Hold to a new
offer to start creating a new one.
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the year and create a new offer and try to
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that's just coming from scarcity.
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the very beginning of the year, wasn't
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reason had to go back to selling what I
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like a little revenue runway, I can
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:rachel_1_07-08-2024_131440: so just had
to place that disclaimer there first, So
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your business that are actually working
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of scrapping and starting from scratch
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:So really being consistent in what
works is super, super important.
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:So that's like, if you want to
be able to get referrals in,
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:reaching out consistently for
your referrals is absolutely key.
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:Like, that's something I feel like I miss
out on so much because my clients never
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:leave me is that I'm just like I don't
really have anybody to super tap into my
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:But if you have a referral system, if
that's something that works for you,
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:making sure you're doing that super
consistently, if you're selling, let's
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:just say or pitching and pitching works
for you doing that consistently and
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of just Dropping what's working and going
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:jess--she-her-_1_07-08-2024_131440:
The next step is , after you finding
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:what's working is then to , if you've
identified the opportunity, like mine is,
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figuring out where those friction points
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:why do I create all the content and
it never leaves my Notion is basically
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out , how can I make sure that it
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:leaves my Notion and, that's where
setting up systems, automating and
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:delegating have really, like, I don't
know why I didn't hire VA longer.
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:rachel_1_07-08-2024_131440: For so long,
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:jess--she-her-_1_07-08-2024_131440:
I was listening for so long.
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:She's amazing.
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:And like my literal goal this
month is how can I make more money?
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:She edits this.
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:So how can I make more money so I can
get her for more hours I'm working on it.
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:I'm working on it hard gel.
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:rachel_1_07-08-2024_131440: So,
really focusing on what's working
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:and doing that and systemizing it
so that it's optimized the second
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you know, Generate more sales is by
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:really improving your conversion rates.
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:So if you know where your conversions are
not happening and a lot of people don't.
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:But if you know where your
conversions like aren't happening
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:So when I typically sign a new client
and we set up all of their tracking
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their email list, somewhere between like
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:And that's the lowest hanging fruit
that we can do is kind of like jump
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messaging and let's get it to eight.
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:We don't need to improve the
amount of people that are
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:We just need to improve the amount of
conversions happening from the funnel.
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:So it's like, keep doing what you're
doing to get the people there,
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get that conversion rate higher because.
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So that means AB testing your engagement.
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certain types of messaging.
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they get very, very overwhelmed
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the exact same thing, but you're
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you have very emotional buyers, putting
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message and seeing how well they do
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you're audience takes action and what
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and ultimately better conversion.
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things that it's less work, but it's
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audience and in your space and kind of
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more intentional about how you're
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effort of just getting them on your
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path to revenue, like I always like to
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when we were in like a brick and mortar
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that it was rainy out and there weren't
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days were focused on converting.
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that comes in here and then also
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Rachel talks about lifetime value.
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people, which is way easier than to
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grab more people and drive them to
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way for us to do it at that point.
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of days where there was traffic, where
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kind of almost be focused on Still
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it was more about how can we just sell
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on that value of each customer as well.
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:rachel_1_07-08-2024_131440: Yeah, exactly.
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:jess--she-her-_1_07-08-2024_131440:
I have to think of digital things
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:rachel_1_07-08-2024_131440: Oh my gosh.
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order to increase value in
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We talked about the action
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during promo and sales plan is you can lay
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:gorgeous sales plan, but if you don't
have a creation plan or an implementation
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:plan to get that promo plan to bring it
to life, then it's not going to happen.
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:So it's equally important when
you're setting up your promotional
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emails you're going to create and
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for each of those pieces of content.
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what days are you batching?
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:And that was the major miss for me is that
I had all of these amazing content ideas,
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calendar to sit down and say, this is
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have space blocked out where I mapped out
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the content that's going to.
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:And I think that's like a big miss
too, is not actually putting a
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:rachel_1_07-08-2024_131440: you have
to project plan yourself, especially if
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:you don't have a big team, but also if
it's not your natural state of existing.
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:But if you're not a natural
organization person, having that
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of mind, you're not going to do it.
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:And so when you can have a moment to say,
this is the project plan breakout day.
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we're doing put this on creation day, this
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:Like it really does make it a lot
easier for you to consume rather
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you'd be like, what do I need to do?
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:Or trying to like do it every single
week where you're saying like, okay,
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:this week is talking about this and
we need to write this newsletter
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:and these five social posts and
we got to do all of those things.
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how you project plan yourself
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promotional periods is super key.
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:We're all busy.
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:Client work, all of that stuff is,
you know, picking up and everything.
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:So just making sure that you're not
setting yourself up for failure is key.
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:jess--she-her-_1_07-08-2024_131440: Yes.
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:And I will add one more thing with
self sabotage and it's like, when you
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you can say like, I want to create
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to create an Instagram post and you
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:Like it's probably better than
what you've done in the past.
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:And just know that now your cadence
is three posts a week and that
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:I think that I had like in my brain
that this Creating a newsletter was
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that's what, stopped me from doing it.
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system set up and your plan in place,
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:it only takes, like, an hour or two
each week, maybe even less than that.
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:rachel_1_07-08-2024_131440: Please
say that louder for everyone
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:jess--she-her-_1_07-08-2024_131440:
It only takes an hour or two!
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:I really thought it was gonna The
first time you do it, it's gonna
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:take a long time, and then maybe
you won't want to do it again.
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:Like, it took me a really long time to do
last week's, but, like, next week I know
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:it's not gonna take me any time, because I
already know what I'm gonna put in there,
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:and the template's already made, and it's
just gonna be Plug and play fun ness.
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:rachel_1_07-08-2024_131440: Exactly.
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:Okay, so we're reaching a point where we
never like to get which is over 30 minutes
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:with our episodes So let me do a quick
recap so that everybody has like kind of
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:like Um, so if you're not hitting your
revenue goals right now, here's kind of
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:how to make that pivot for Q3, Q4 pushes.
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:So first off, we want you to reflect and
do a little bit of an audit of how your
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:people are getting into your systems.
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:Audit your discovery calls, audit your
conversations what resources are being
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:downloaded, what posts are being engaged
with and understand like if you're
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:talking to the wrong person, but this
person's ready to buy, like you should
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:be making these pivots intuitively
in your business kind of thing.
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:So really being able to diagnose the
problem as far as if it's a top of funnel
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:awareness or if it's a conversion problem.
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:So that's step one is take a step back,
reflect on what's happening currently.
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:And then the last quarter back in your
business so that you're not Pushing
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:forward with all this energy and
really not making a lot of effort.
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:Second thing is kind of identifying the
opportunities that are most engaging
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:right now, or like the opportunities
are like the warmest so that you can
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:really determine like, where's the
most bang for your buck happening.
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:Whether that means you need to make
shifts to your messaging because your
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:messaging isn't hitting, you need
to increase your top of funnel, like
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:count and your numbers and your reach.
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:Or if your problem is just your
leads aren't very aware, you need
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:to get a little bit deeper into
your customer journey and start
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:understanding what that awareness
bridge looks like to your ideal clients.
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:So that's step two, step three
is now getting into action.
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:So, Really focusing on the systems that
work for you systemizing those so that
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:they become kind of like less manual and a
little bit more structured so that you can
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:be super consistent with those as well.
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:A B testing some of the lowest
hanging fruit, which is your
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:conversion rates where you don't
necessarily have to increase how
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:List, you just need to increase
how many people are converting on
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:your list or even in your audience.
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:AB testing kind of works everywhere.
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:And then really honoring and
focusing on your promo slash sales
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:periods project manager self so
that you're not self sabotaging.
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:And then stepping back into
just understanding that
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:it's not like one line item.
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:But that it's like probably 15,
20 things that need to get done.
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:So if you break those up, it's
actually a lot more feasible.
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:So did I hit everything?
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:jess--she-her-_1_07-08-2024_131440:
I think you did.
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:So thank you guys for listening.
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:Sorry that this was a longer episode.
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:But it was very juicy and we
obviously had a lot to say about it.
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:Make sure to like and
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:where we'll be covering it again.
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:Transcribed One of my topics that I
am very passionate about, which is
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:business habits to avoid burnout.
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