Pastor Bob Thibodeau emphasizes the critical importance of taking action rather than waiting for perfection in your business endeavors. He encourages listeners to launch their projects even if they feel they aren't fully ready, as the fear of imperfection can lead to missed opportunities and zero sales. By sharing his own experiences of overcoming hesitation, he illustrates that getting feedback and engaging with your audience can lead to growth and improvement. Pastor Bob highlights the value of personal interaction and responsiveness in building relationships and trust with potential clients. The episode serves as a motivating call to action for anyone who has been hesitant to start, reminding them that the journey begins with that first step, even if it's not perfect.

Takeaways:

• Starting your business doesn't require perfection; it just needs to be good enough to begin.
• Many aspiring entrepreneurs fear launching because they believe their product or service isn't perfect yet.
• By engaging with your audience, you can learn what they truly need and effectively address their concerns.
• Responding to questions personally can build trust and improve your connection with your audience.
• Don't let fear of imperfection stop you from sharing your expertise and starting your journey.
• The key to success lies in taking action, even if it's not perfectly executed right away.

Links referenced in this episode:

• podcastersforchrist.com
• faithcasteracademy.com

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Hello, everyone, everywhere.

Pastor Bob Thibodeau here.

Welcome to the Faith Based Business podcast.

Today.

We're so blessed that you're joining us.

We're just jump right into it.

Amen.

I've been telling you how you can keep expanding your niche and your trainings.

And in our last session, I shared with you the importance of just launch it, okay?

And see what happens.

So once you have everything ready, I mean, it does not have to be perfect.

It just means to be good enough.

It does not have to be perfect.

Let me say that again so you understand what I'm saying.

It does not have to be perfect.

It just must.

Must be good enough to get the information out there.

Amen.

Let me go ahead and share this screen and we'll jump into this training here today.

Amen.

Move this down so you can see me.

I like looking at you too.

Okay.

But once you've reached that stage where it's just good enough.

Good enough to get out there, the next step is for you to just pull the trigger and get started.

And the reason I'm stressing this right now is I've discovered that a big percentage of people out there right now are looking for this kind of information, but they haven't pulled the trigger yet.

I mean, they.

They've.

They've gone through the entire setup.

They got their funnel, but yeah, needs to tweak here.

Maybe this needs to be, you know, a different shade of green or whatever the case may be.

And they keep putting off pulling the trigger because they're afraid that it might not be perfect.

Well, guess what?

It doesn't have to be perfect.

Amen.

They're afraid of pulling the trigger.

And until you actually pull the trigger, you will have absolutely zero sales.

Zero.

Zero niche, nada, nothing.

Whatever you want to call it, it still equals zero.

Amen.

When I got started in this business, I hardly moved anything.

Okay.

I was so afraid that, you know, it's got to be perfect is the colors right, is the font right, Are the pictures good enough?

I knew really in my heart that the best way would just to be get it out there and then start asking people questions about what they thought about it.

Let me.

Let me share this.

Okay.

I remember when I first got started, I had a small email list, even smaller than the one I got now.

Praise God.

But I keep purging it, but I set up an Aspay.

Actually, it wasn't an ask page, it was an Opt in page, but works the same way, right?

And I was getting a few subscribers, so under the promptings, I guess you could say, of my mentor, Sean Mize, at the time.

Now I started asking people what they thought, right?

It was.

It's just a basic topic, you know, I'm saying very, very basic topic dealing with podcasting and podcast interviews.

Amen.

But I was sent an email to the few people that I had on my email list.

I think I had less than a hundred at the time.

And I sent them email every day.

No, it wasn't every day.

Sometimes it was every day.

But every two days, sometimes, every third day, I was sending an email with this tidbit of useful information dealing with podcasting or podcast interviews.

Where was I getting my information from?

I didn't know everything about this at the time either, right?

So I would just go online and I'd study a topic, a particular topic, Google it.

I'd read some articles, read a few blog posts, and then I'd respond.

And I get on somebody's email list and look at their trainings, and I'd even purchase trainings, okay.

Then I take the information I learned and kind of summarize it and then put it out in an email and say, this is how you do this, right?

And I built trust and relationship that way.

What I was actually doing, I was actually doing research on issues people had problems with, okay?

And I would be giving them a quick answer to the problem maybe with, you know, they'd email me and say, well, I am having a problem setting up this kind of microphone on this Windows operating system, and I can't figure out how to make it work.

So I go research it, and then I give them three or four pointers on getting it to work.

And they were getting quick answers to their problems.

And that's what the folks were really looking for, quick answers to simple problems.

Amen.

So I started sending out an email and.

And said, you know, hey, what's your biggest challenge with xyz?

Then I would put out a promise in the email and say at the end of the email, I say, if you'll answer this question for me and respond to me within the next 24 hours, I promise I will personally respond to you by email.

And what happened was, you know, people would give me these questions.

You know, two, three questions come in every week like that, and I put them all on a Word document.

As they come in, I just start going down the list I go through.

If I knew the answer, I could respond immediately.

Amen.

Because I've already got some experience in the air, and I've already done some Research in the area.

If I did not know the answer, then I do the research.

I would go research the answer and then get back to that person personally in an email.

This is something we talked about this last week or week before.

Something that most marketers just do not do is personally respond, right?

I was personally responding to these people.

And, you know, if.

If it wasn't on that exact day, it was the next day or so after.

Right?

But in the process of doing this, I was learning the very things people wanted to know about podcasting, about podcast interviews.

And I had people now coming to me and asking me to do more than just teach them.

Okay.

But they just didn't want me to send them a PDF or, you know, a video series.

They wanted me to personally take them by the hand and lead them and coach them so they could have this set up themselves.

I turned down, believe it or not, I turned down someone who wanted to pay me $2,000 about three weeks ago to personally coach them and get.

Help them get their podcast.

I don't have time to do that anymore.

That's the reason we do videos, because you can go step by step through the video.

If you have a problem, email me, I'll answer the problem.

That's.

I have to do that now because I am so busy with everything we have going on now in our ministry and in the training programs.

Amen.

But if you're not that busy, you could personally answer their questions and you could personally coach them.

How would that make you feel to have a couple people every week reach out, say, will you personally coach me?

What do you charge?

And they're willing to pay it.

Amen.

If I'm speaking to you right now, right now, and you're someone who's been trying to get started, say, for the last six months, last year, two years, three years, whatever, and you've never actually pulled the trigger.

I'm speaking directly to you right now.

Okay.

Wouldn't you be far better off just to start?

Even though it's not set up perfect yet, even though you don't know as much as you think you want to know right now, wouldn't it be worth your time to just ask a few questions to however many numbers you have on your email list right now, it's a hundred or three hundred or whatever.

Just ask a couple of simple questions, let them answer, then you, you know what their questions are.

You answer those questions, do the research.

If you don't know the answer, do the research the same way I just shared a minute ago.

And Maybe two, three, five, six months where you'll.

You'll be able to take people by the hand and charge them as your coach, as your.

As their mentor.

You are now their coach and mentor, and they are begging you, literally begging you to coach them.

You can take this business as far as you want to go, folks, but it has to have a beginning somewhere.

You have to start somewhere.

That's what I'm talking about.

And that somewhere starts right now.

Right now.

And I'll take it up again there next time.

Amen.

Praise the Lord.

If this has resonated with you today, email me.

Email me Bob podcastsforchrist.com Tell me, Bob, that was awesome.

And I have a question.

And then ask me your question.

I promise I'll personally respond to you.

Glory to God.

Right?

But I invite you to go check out our training platform, faithcaster academy.com right now and look around.

All of my trainings end up on that platform.

And all of those trainings on the platform are free to access to our active subscribers for one low monthly fee.

You have complete access to everything, including free access to other live webinars that I conduct from time to time.

I try to do at least one a month and I charge other people for attendance.

Members of the academy get in free.

Amen.

Just go to faithcasteracademy.com right now and take a look around.

Glory to God.

Hallelujah, folks.

That's all the time we have for today.

It's been good.

I enjoyed it.

I think I personally, in my spirit, I could sense someone somewhere this resonated with you today.

Amen.

Gloria, email me Bob at Bob at Bob at podcastersforchrist.

Com.

Let me know.

Praise God.

Till next time.

As Pastor Bob, remind you, be blessed in all that you do.