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Revenue Recovery: Top Tips to Hit Your 2024 Financial Goals
Episode 311th July 2024 • Growing a Deeply Rooted Business • Jessica Walther & Rachel Lopez | Rooted Business
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Are you struggling to meet your 2024 revenue goals? You're not alone! In this episode of the Deeply Rooted Business Podcast, Jess, our operational expert, and Rachel, our marketing mastermind, discuss actionable strategies to boost your revenue in Q3 and Q4. We'll take you through a proven framework to assess, align, and act on your business goals.

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  • Understanding why Q1 and Q2 may have been slow
  • The importance of a seasonal reset
  • How to conduct an effective inbound audit
  • Aligning your offers with your audience's needs
  • Strategies to improve conversion rates
  • Tips to avoid burnout while pushing towards your goals

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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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but it just gets skipped over.

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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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like, Oh, well, it's not really clear.

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what I actually need.

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And then they don't make a decision.

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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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at with drilling it in, especially

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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your views or your, audience is going

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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those 14 points to actually like,

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jess--she-her-_1_07-08-2024_131440: Yeah.

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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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on getting immediate gratification.

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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'm like, this sucks.

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I suck.

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I'm going to scrap.

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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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messaging, it's very repetitive.

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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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audit, I was like, I think I'm making life

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if this is what works.

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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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rachel_1_07-08-2024_131440: mean,

I think three weeks with one week

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of a ramp up really is that sweet

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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calendar, where it's like that creative

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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are just talking about your product.

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And I think this is something that,

and maybe this is just a little.

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Rant that I'm gonna throw out there

now where it's like so many people

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are afraid to talk about their product

Because they don't want to be salesy,

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but we are freaking businesses.

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We have to talk about our products We

have to talk about these things we cannot

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over educate and just give give give

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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you're in that educational space right

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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offer and really understanding that.

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It's necessary.

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It's so incredibly 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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solution focused messaging and maybe

like one week, depending on how aware

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your audience is of problem awareness.

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jess--she-her-_1_07-08-2024_131440:

Love that.

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Yeah.

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and that's what you do that's like

the bulk of what your quarterly

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planning should be is planning

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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this promotional period even

more effective for the most part.

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So that is our align is picking

what you're going to promote.

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and being consistent with it.

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And then it's all about taking action.

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And I think it's funny cause we

just talked about being repetitive

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and our first note that we wrote

for action or note was like, go

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back to what's worked before.

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rachel_1_07-08-2024_131440: I have

something to add to, So, really

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understanding those opportunities,

don't go into sales mode and I take

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back everything, what I just said

about, if you're going to go into

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these promotional sprints, don't

go into sales mode until you are

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aware of where your clients are at.

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So are your leads and your prospects.

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So understand is your messaging working?

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Is there demand for your product?

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how aware are your leads?

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Are you targeting the right ideal client?

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Know these things first before you

start hyping into promotion mode.

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Or else you could be in that exact

situation where I said earlier, where

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one client is ready for offer B and

you're promoting offer a, and you're just

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two ships in the night kind of thing.

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So I know we did an episode, which I

really think it would be really powerful

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to re listen to and understanding what

the four reasons why your offer may not

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be selling now and go back and break down.

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That is just proactive measures before

you go into a promotional period.

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jess--she-her-_1_07-08-2024_131440: Well

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I think there's like the way to

like quickly gauge that is like,

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okay, have you sold this offer?

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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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validated.

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If you have not sold your offer at

all, because it's a new offer, or

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maybe it was an offer and it's just not

resonating with your clients anymore,

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then go back and listen to episode.

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That why your offer isn't selling and

then go into your promotional period.

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And if it's a brand new spanking offer,

you could probably listen to that episode

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and make sure that you're like hitting

all of those key points before you

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start promoting it, but also just know.

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if you're experimenting with a new

offer, I am experimenting with a new

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offer that is because I have already

hit my revenue goals for these months.

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And anything with this new

offer is going to be land.

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Y'all know what land yet means

a little something extra.

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That's a new Orleans term, icing on the

cake and other parts of the country.

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So that's when it's a

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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Don't do what I did at the beginning of

the year and create a new offer and try to

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sell it when you need the money, because

that's just coming from scarcity.

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It's not a good book.

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So I actually Launched a new offer in

the very beginning of the year, wasn't

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working, wasn't dialed in for whatever

reason had to go back to selling what I

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originally was selling the original way.

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But now that I've built myself

like a little revenue runway, I can

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experiment and have some more fun

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rachel_1_07-08-2024_131440: so just had

to place that disclaimer there first, So

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really understanding the key systems in

your business that are actually working

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and continuing those things instead

of scrapping and starting from scratch

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and kind of doing all of these things.

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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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clients are always like referring me out.

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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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systemizing it so that you're not kind

of just Dropping what's working and going

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and trying some new shiny object syndrome.

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what's working is then to , if you've

identified the opportunity, like mine is,

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topple funnel awareness conversions, then

figuring out where those friction points

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are, and being able to systemize that.

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why do I create all the content and

it never leaves my Notion is basically

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the question I've tried to figure

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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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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thing I would say to , actionably,

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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So if you don't, that's totally okay too.

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But if you know where your

conversions like aren't happening

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or if you have visibility on that.

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So when I typically sign a new client

and we set up all of their tracking

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and everything, I'm seeing usually from

their email list, somewhere between like

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a two and 3 percent conversion rate.

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And that's the lowest hanging fruit

that we can do is kind of like jump

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in and say, let's optimize this

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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coming into this current funnel.

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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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but let's improve the messaging.

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Let's improve the call to actions and

get that conversion rate higher because.

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The audience is there.

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They just need to be converted properly

So that means AB testing your engagement.

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That means AB testing,

certain types of messaging.

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And when people get here, AB testing,

they get very, very overwhelmed

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by it, but it's literally saying

the exact same thing, but you're

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breaking it into two different ways.

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So if you have very analytical buyers or

you have very emotional buyers, putting

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an analytical message versus an emotional

message and seeing how well they do

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can give you so much insight into why

you're audience takes action and what

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you can implement across the board.

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So that you can have better engagement

and ultimately better conversion.

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So it really is just one of those

things that it's less work, but it's

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more in depth because you're in your

audience and in your space and kind of

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like knowing them a little bit more.

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So you're being a little bit

more intentional about how you're

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talking to them rather than the

effort of just getting them on your

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Space and your audience and yada, yada.

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jess--she-her-_1_07-08-2024_131440:

path to revenue, like I always like to

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think about Because we had conversions

when we were in like a brick and mortar

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store and retail as well and the days

that it was rainy out and there weren't

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a lot of people walking into the store.

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That was a different focus like those

days were focused on converting.

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How can we convert every single person

that comes in here and then also

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how can we increase their So I know

Rachel talks about lifetime value.

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Like how can you tap back into those

people, which is way easier than to

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be like, we physically couldn't go

grab more people and drive them to

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the mall and get them into the store.

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It's like, this was like the quickest

way for us to do it at that point.

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Conversely, when there were like a lot

of days where there was traffic, where

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there's a lot of days, we had to just

kind of almost be focused on Still

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making sure conversion was okay, but

it was more about how can we just sell

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the most stuff versus really focusing

on that value of each customer as well.

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jess--she-her-_1_07-08-2024_131440:

I have to think of digital things

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in a physical realm as well.

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rachel_1_07-08-2024_131440: Oh my gosh.

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Okay.

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So last action step.

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Jess, what are we doing in

order to increase value in

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Q3, Q4 to improve revenue?

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We talked about the action

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is like promo sales planning.

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So it's actually sticking to your

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promo and sales plan.

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So I think one thing that gets skipped

during promo and sales plan is you can lay

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out this, a gorgeous promotional calendar.

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This.

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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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plan and you're marking out how many

emails you're going to create and

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how many posts you're going to do.

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To also go in and create a project plan

for each of those pieces of content.

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So when are they going to get done?

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If you were solo or small team,

what days are you batching?

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What emails?

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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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but I wasn't blocking off space into my

calendar to sit down and say, this is

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when I'm actually going to get this done.

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So my promo planner in notion, I now

have space blocked out where I mapped out

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the days that I want to put out content.

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But then I also have marked off.

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The days that I'm going to create

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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plan to put your plan into action.

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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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broken down, because if it's not top

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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And you're saying, this is the steps

we're doing put this on creation day, this

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on writing day, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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Like it really does make it a lot

easier for you to consume rather

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than like, A week going by and

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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It just gets very overwhelming.

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So really being intentional and

how you project plan yourself

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in like backing into these like

promotional periods is super key.

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So you don't self sabotage cause.

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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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first start to map out these things,

you can say like, I want to create

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five posts, give yourself permission.

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Like if you give yourself two hours

to create an Instagram post and you

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only create three posts, that's fine.

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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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you can work up to those things.

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I think that I had like in my brain

that this Creating a newsletter was

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supposed to take so much time, and

that's what, stopped me from doing it.

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But really, once you've got your

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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many people are getting into your.

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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

subscribe, leave us a review.

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If you found this helpful, we'd

love to hear feedback, say hi to us

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either on Instagram or TikTok, and

then make sure to tune in next week

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where we'll be covering it again.

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business habits to avoid burnout.

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