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The Women Conquer business show is an educational how-to

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women in business podcast.

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That features stories, marketing news and real life experiences

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from fun and friendly hosts.

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Jen McFarland and Shelly Carney.

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Join us as we dive into the details.

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So you can slay marketing, overwhelm, streamline processes

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and amplify your impact.

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You'll learn strategies and tactics, leadership skills, and practical advice

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from successful women entrepreneurs.

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To help you grow, nurture and sustain your business.

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hello?

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Hello.

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I don't know why I'm giggling, but there's something today about the amplify, your

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impact that just made me giggle, even though I've heard it for weeks and weeks.

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Hello and welcome to women Cocker business.

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My name is Jen McFarland.

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I'm joined by Shelly Carney.

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The amazing Shelley Carney.

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This week, we're going to talk about skyscraper pages.

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These are powerful authority building content that you can

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have to help your small business.

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Last week, we talked about topic clusters.

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If everybody remembers the whole chocolate cake example, that's

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making lists of topics or content themes based on your expertise.

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It's nice, and it's good to have a list, but what do you do with it?

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So this week we're gonna talk about sky scraper pages.

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There's sometimes called pillar posts.

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10 X content.

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They have a whole lot of different names for it.

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And we're gonna talk about this technique and think of it as the

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center of that topic cluster.

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So if we're thinking about the ultimate guide to chocolate cake and then

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how you break it all down, so you can really stand in your expertise.

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So I, what I wrote is think of this as the ultimate guide to ultimate guides.

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so that's what we're gonna talk about today, but there's also a lot going on.

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In the world and in our lives.

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So let's talk.

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Everything, every, all the things,

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how you doing Shelly?

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That's I am doing well.

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I am expecting my husband to come pick me up in Arizona.

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He's coming tonight.

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We'll be here for a couple of days together and go home on Sunday.

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So I'm pretty excited about that.

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And my mom is doing well.

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I think.

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Everything takes about two weeks.

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She's been home two weeks this Saturday.

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So I think she's well transitioned.

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She's been to see the doctor.

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She's got her meds lined up.

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She's got her home healthcare workers lined up.

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Everything in medical equipment wise is in place.

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So I feel like they're ready for me to go ahead and go home.

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And my, my studio is here.

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I'm leaving everything here.

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If I need to come back.

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And I'm also going to teach them how to do video.

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Doctors visits before I leave so that oh, good.

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She doesn't have to get into transportation and go to the doctor

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because that it's a big effort.

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And it's very stressful for them both.

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So I will teach them how to do that.

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And they've got that lined up with the doctor on making those

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visits with the video camera.

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So we're excited about

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that.

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That's really awesome.

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And after my dad died and we've have the same.

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Situation lined up where, because you'll still be coming back and forth.

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So you need to have something set up so that you can come and work and do things.

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And it's the same thing with me going back to Boise to visit mom

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and help her out with some things.

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I have a setup.

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Now I, this last time I actually did what you did when I was there in what you did.

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Mm-hmm when I I was there in April, where I went.

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Have a whole setup in a bag like that.

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I can just plop on the desk so that I'm able to work and

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get things done because it's.

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It's just the reality when life changes that you have to be prepared for that.

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So Toby calls

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that a field kit, he packs it over totes.

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Whenever we have to go somewhere, he can just grab it, throw out the truck.

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We got a field kit.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And I saw in your newsletter that Toby's outta town and then.

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We had it affirmed this morning when he called before show , which

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is not something he would normally do if he's in the same time zone,

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but he's several time zones away.

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So that's pretty neat too.

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I'm glad that he's doing that and getting to see his family.

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Last night he was talking to me about maybe moving to

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Florida to be with those grandkids.

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And I was like, oh, I, I'm not gonna stand in your way on something

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like that, because the family's

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important, family's really important.

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So yeah.

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How about if I save my Crow story until the end?

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Okay.

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There is a lot also going on in the world.

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Yeah.

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And I would say it's been as a.

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survivor of sexual assault.

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And as the owner of Women Conquer Business, has been phenomenally

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difficult to see everything that has changed in the world.

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I don't really feel like we are conquering anything as women right now.

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, it's a very difficult time for in, in the United States for women's health.

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It it's just been very difficult.

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That's

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right.

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I think back to high school, when I had friends, some got pregnant, some

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had their baby, some had abortions, some gave their baby up for adoption.

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I, we experienced the entire gamut in high school.

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And these girls are now being told.

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Everything is illegal, you don't have any choice and for a a millennial.

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A gen Z person to be told you don't have any choice what's gonna happen there.

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I think I see a lot of pushback.

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coming

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a lot.

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It's interesting because Roe was instituted before I was born.

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So it's not something that I've ever known.

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It's just something I've seen or read about.

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So it's, it is a very.

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Difficult time.

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It is again, it's the totality of it as a, again, as a sexual assault survivor.

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If cases of rape and incest and when the mother's life is in danger in particular.

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I am pro-choice, but it's also in these cases that are considered generally

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considered exceptions even in the pro-life movement, like that are just

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gone now for 50% of the population.

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They don't have,

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so we're gonna lose our OB GYNs, yeah.

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I'm very likely gonna have to have a hysterectomy this year

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and I'm like, I need it now.

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before there's a a scarcity of OB GYNs to go to.

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Yeah.

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We live in different states and that's the complexity here.

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I live in the one state in the union that has a law that says it

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absolutely cannot be taken away.

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At least right now, and that's Oregon.

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And it's the only state in the union like that.

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So I acknowledge that my situation is different.

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other people.

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So it's really about making sure that resources are available so

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women can make health decisions.

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So so it has been very difficult.

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, I don't wanna spend too much time talking about it.

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Just kinda an acknowledgement on it.

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I

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acknowledge that we feel the same things.

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You are all feeling, and please reach out to us.

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We are open to having discussions with you about whatever it

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is you need to talk about.

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And if you are interested in starting your own live streamer podcast to get.

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Your message and your voice out into the world where people can hear you and

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what you've got to say in your activism, please contact us and we'll help you

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get through that initial transition.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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My chat today so my chat item that I had put down is actually related to

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the podcast and it's a, and because I have a really good podcast episode

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about this whole incident that happened, and it was one year ago today.

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So it was when I was doing off and on podcasting last year,

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just when things would come up, I would do an episode about it.

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And so a year ago today, a Crow.

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A live Crow.

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flew down.

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I listened to that episode.

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How, when I first discovered you, that was what I listened to was that one.

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And I'm like, okay, this woman's wild and crazy.

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So we, and the amazing thing about this is, so we had a Crow fly

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down our chimney and we're like, man, we should really get some chimney

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caps, like cuz like you can put.

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A lot of people here have 'em you could put caps on your chimneys.

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So like that stuff doesn't happen.

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Have we done it?

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No.

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chimneys still need caps.

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So what happened last year?

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I can put a link to the show in the show notes is, so those Crow flew down the

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chimney and we have like glass doors.

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So like the glass doors were shut.

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All of a sudden we start hearing this Crow and I'm like that Crow.

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Really close.

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And so I like look in and I was like, ah, crazy at the fireplace . And so

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it's like this whole, like chain of events we called all over the earth to

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try to find somebody who would come and they're kinda like, best of luck lady.

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go for it.

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Yeah.

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So there's this whole story with a soccer net and like all kinds of stuff

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that we did, to shoe the Crow out.

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It turned out when we went to get the Crow.

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Like it, the Crow was just relieved and wanted out anyway.

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So like it had no interest in flying around the house, but that was our

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fear was that this Crow would be like wildly flying around the house.

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And so I used that episode.

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I used that incident to talk about.

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How to deal with the unexpected in your business.

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At least that's how I remember that episode being.

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And that episode goes into much more detail in the hilarity

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of that whole incident.

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And it's funny because I mentioned the chimney caps last week to my husband when

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we were walking around the neighborhood.

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And but I had forgotten that it had been a year ago.

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So that is a funny.

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That happened.

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And I, it really made me smile to see that Facebook post of here's

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what you were doing a year ago.

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chasing

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at crew and it crew in the Chiney trying to figure it out.

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So with that I guess it's time to go onto breaking news,

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breaking news.

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We don't have any music today.

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we're, it's a work in progress.

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Breaking news.

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Okay.

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So this in, from descript, descript is the transcription app that Jen and I use we

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take our audio, we put it up into descript and it very quickly transcribes it.

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And then you can pull out filler words and there's lots of little great things

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in there to help you manipulate that text.

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And then you can also create audiograms and descript is announcing that.

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They are unveiling a transformative new way of making video.

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You can already do some video editing in there, but it's clunky.

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It's a good place to go.

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If you don't know anything about video editing, because it's a simpler

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way to do it, but it is a bit of it's clunky for those of us who know

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how to edit video in another way.

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Yeah.

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About the only way I use it for editing video is it will take out the filler.

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Automatically and edit the video and I use it for that, but yeah, no, I

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don't use it for the other stuff.

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And you probably know more about editing video than I do.

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And it makes me a little crazy.

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Yeah it's very time consuming to edit, edit video, and

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that's why we just do live streams.

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Live stream, send it directly to a podcast.

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Then the only time you're spending on it is the prep work

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and the actual creating of it.

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So on July 13th, The, they will have a live stream at 10:00

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AM, Pacific 1:00 PM Eastern.

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And we'll put the links to find that in the description box, but you can

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just go to their YouTube page for D script and they'll be teaching

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about their new way of making videos.

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So I'm looking forward to that.

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Oh, that's awesome.

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Can you put those links in the chat just in case people need it?

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Yeah.

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And I'll take the, before we start the training I'll just take the, a

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minute to mention something else.

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About privacy.

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I mentioned it in my newsletter.

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There are some concerns about things like using period apps and you know

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that now that , abortion is a crime.

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So if you track your.

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Abortion or if you track your period and that can be subpoenaed by law

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enforcement, that's a very real concern.

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That's actually how people don't realize how much information

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is available on the internet.

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That's something that.

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and how much information is tracked.

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And that's something that I worked in for a long time at the city

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of Portland was data security and keeping information safe.

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And so if you are using any online tools for your business, for your personal

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life, Be really aware of all the things that you're putting out there.

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And there are some really great articles.

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There's a, I can put a link to my last newsletter, which is

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also kinda like a blog post up.

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My, my friends over at near media also did a podcast episode

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about it in a blog to describe.

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Kind of the intricacies of how that privacy works and how

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that kind of changes for women.

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So just be aware of that.

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It's that it's making the rounds on social media, but it really is a very real thing.

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And I can.

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I can, we can put some links in the chat about that, but just be

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aware that in general, the Google and Facebook and apple, and they

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all know tremendous amounts about us based on what we post online.

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So be sure that you keep that in mind.

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Not just in terms of health information that you have out there, but also just

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in general to keep your privacy safe.

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Oh, what does that say?

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Oh, it's Julia.

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Hi, Julia.

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How about when your iPhone asks you, if you allow apps

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to track, are they tracking?

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Even if you say no, they're not supposed to.

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I would say that if make sure that you use more enterprise grade apps that

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are more likely to abide by the rules.

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It's better than.

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, some offbrand kind of app that the truth is we don't really know.

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We don't really know for sure what's being tracked and what's not I will say,

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and I was gonna do it for my newsletter and it's just, it's too complicated.

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There are ways that you can go into Google and check your security of, if you have

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a Gmail account or if you have a work Google account, I recently saw through.

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Google security that my.

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Business name, address, phone number and email had all been compromised.

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so it's very real.

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I'm getting all kinds of weird stuff now that looks real, that isn't.

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So just be really careful and yeah, if you allow apps to track just know

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that they're tracking everything, and there are some apps that track, like

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your keystrokes, that track, like everything that you're typing in and.

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So you wanna get in the details sometimes about what it is that you're doing.

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And I, I have a whole blog post about this, about website security and privacy.

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John Oliver has done a couple of episodes where he talks about things like data

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brokers and selling of your data.

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I like these, even though.

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Super in depth because it makes it achievable for people

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to wrap their head around it.

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And so he talked about it twice.

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He talked about who owns the internet.

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That was like probably about two weeks ago.

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And then about a month plus ago, he also talked about data brokers, which

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is to say that there are people just.

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Capturing all of the data , Google, so Google and Facebook get as

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much information as they can.

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And then they sell it to data brokers and they use it for whatever,

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cuz they're selling it to other people that use that information.

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So when we track, when we allow people to track us, we don't really

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know where that information is going.

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And that's one of the reasons why it's scary and we have to think about it.

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So that was a really good question, Julia.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you again for watching and listening and asking questions.

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So that's right.

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Are we ready to talk about skyscraper pages and content?

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Yeah, let's climb the size skyscraper.

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Get in that elevator and hit the, get

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in there.

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Boom.

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Look at that.

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So I did make slides again.

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Last week I was able to embed them in my website , which is a cool little breaking

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newsy type thing that you can, embed your Canva into your website and make it look

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like a little slide show which was cool.

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That could be why a lot of people watched last week's show and.

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And versus listening.

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So what we're gonna talk about are skyscraper pages or other types of

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content that you can use to build powerful authority, building customer attracting

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content to help you build your business.

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So just to review a few things from last week, because they're.

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Some people who maybe didn't have a chance to listen or watch.

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And I think it's just really important to look at some of these things again

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and again, it really helps it sink in.

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So the first is, how are you communicating and bearing in mind that.

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This is what Google looks for, but it also is what is really helpful

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for you as an entrepreneur in terms of how you communicate and

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how you bring yourself forward.

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So Google is really interested in the expertise of the creator,

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meaning you as the business owner.

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So how good are the resources that you're providing?

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What is it that, what are the other things that you're talking about

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in the ecosystem of your expertise?

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That helps you rank better.

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It helps people find you for a certain expertise.

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Then we have the authoritativeness of the content.

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So it's not just you as the person.

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It's also what it is that you're saying.

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and how you're putting that out into the world.

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Are you linking to other people, are people responding and reading

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the content that you create?

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And then the third aspect is the trustworthiness of your website.

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Has it been around for a while?

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You can also buy up multiple years of your domain name.

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So you can I do this where you prepay five years out and it just shows that

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you are serious about your website.

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It helps Google understand that you're not a fly by night web scraper, just

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putting stuff up that you actually have the intention of keeping

Jen: 00:18:01

your business around for a while.

Jen: 00:18:03

So expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness is called eat.

Jen: 00:18:07

And that's what Google's looking for.

Jen: 00:18:09

The second step is to really think about the content funnel,

Jen: 00:18:12

understand that people are looking for things for a specific reason.

Jen: 00:18:16

Some people just want a general information.

Jen: 00:18:19

Some people are navigating and want like a mega guide or a walkthrough.

Jen: 00:18:23

Some people are looking to buy something.

Jen: 00:18:25

It's they're trying to compare products cause they wanna buy

Jen: 00:18:28

something they're ready to buy.

Jen: 00:18:30

Now they're looking for things like testimonials that say this

Jen: 00:18:33

is the right product for me to.

Jen: 00:18:35

And it's important to understand all of these people are looking for

Jen: 00:18:39

different things, but ultimately, they might become a client.

Jen: 00:18:43

So you want to really look at your content through these different

Jen: 00:18:47

filters, because it helps you.

Jen: 00:18:50

Build out the content that makes the most sense.

Jen: 00:18:52

Are you still there?

Jen: 00:18:53

Shelly?

Jen: 00:18:53

I'm actually, I don't have multiple monitors, so I

Jen: 00:18:57

can't still here right now.

Shelley: 00:19:00

we're working on Jen

Jen: 00:19:01

having a second monitor.

Jen: 00:19:02

We're working on this.

Jen: 00:19:03

We're efforting.

Jen: 00:19:04

The second monitor, maybe Toby can send me some ideas.

Jen: 00:19:08

So you're still there.

Jen: 00:19:09

Yes.

Jen: 00:19:09

Do you have anything to add to these, to the review so

Shelley: 00:19:12

far?

Shelley: 00:19:12

Nothing that I didn't already say last week, which is just keep these in mind

Shelley: 00:19:16

and each one of those can be a video or you can combine all of them into

Shelley: 00:19:20

one video depending on that's right.

Shelley: 00:19:22

What it's about.

Shelley: 00:19:23

That's right.

Jen: 00:19:23

And then you use the script to transcribe it and

Jen: 00:19:26

make it into a blog post.

Jen: 00:19:27

Yeah, Honestly the third part of the review is we had our topic clusters

Jen: 00:19:32

example, which is to say that you have a topic like chocolate cake and

Jen: 00:19:36

you break it down into smaller post.

Jen: 00:19:39

But today, what we're actually gonna talk about is that ultimate

Jen: 00:19:42

guide, we're talking about the center of your topic cluster.

Jen: 00:19:44

So you have one topic.

Jen: 00:19:47

And when I was talking about my own business, one topic could be marketing.

Jen: 00:19:51

This is all within the marketing realm.

Jen: 00:19:53

And so I might have one.

Jen: 00:19:55

One post that really brings forward my philosophy around marketing and

Jen: 00:20:00

then all the little subtopics it could be SEO, it could be email

Jen: 00:20:03

marketing, it could be, everything around marketing that's specific.

Jen: 00:20:07

But they all relate to marketing.

Jen: 00:20:09

So what we're gonna talk about is.

Jen: 00:20:11

The chocolate cake.

Jen: 00:20:13

So the center of our topic cluster.

Jen: 00:20:15

And so now we're gonna start talking about some new things.

Jen: 00:20:19

So there are lots of different words that can be used to describe

Jen: 00:20:24

skyscraper content or long form.

Jen: 00:20:27

And I'm saying long form ish content types, because not all of

Jen: 00:20:30

these are necessarily longform.

Jen: 00:20:33

I think that when.

Jen: 00:20:34

The reason we went back and talked about eat is that you don't wanna

Jen: 00:20:39

just make things long for the sake of being long . It has to genuinely be a

Jen: 00:20:44

broad topic that is worth being long.

Jen: 00:20:47

Shelly, you can't just talk about something ad nauseum

Jen: 00:20:50

if it's not interesting.

Jen: 00:20:52

Yeah.

Shelley: 00:20:52

Oh yeah.

Shelley: 00:20:53

And you'll know because people start repeating themselves and you're like

Shelley: 00:20:57

you had that further up in the blog post, and now you're repeating it

Shelley: 00:21:00

and now you're repeating it again.

Shelley: 00:21:01

I don't need to see it three times.

Shelley: 00:21:03

Are you an AI or a human being, cuz a human being shouldn't

Shelley: 00:21:07

be doing that kind of thing.

Jen: 00:21:09

Absolutely.

Jen: 00:21:10

And you'll look on here, there's four different types of content

Jen: 00:21:13

cornerstone content, and that is content related to your customer journey.

Jen: 00:21:18

So it's not necessarily long form.

Jen: 00:21:20

This is more function over length, and it usually links out to a lot of things.

Jen: 00:21:26

It sounds like it uses your topic cluster.

Jen: 00:21:29

This is where you're gonna see a lot of these things overlap.

Jen: 00:21:31

So you're gonna send people out to other.

Jen: 00:21:34

About your expertise.

Jen: 00:21:35

So that's one form of topic clusters being used to link out to other things.

Jen: 00:21:41

Another one is skyscraper content, which is the word that we use

Jen: 00:21:44

to describe today's episode.

Jen: 00:21:46

And that's around Brian Dean from Backlinko.

Jen: 00:21:49

This is the term that he uses.

Jen: 00:21:51

And he's talking about building backlinks that emphasize length and

Jen: 00:21:55

what backlinks are it's content.

Jen: 00:21:57

That's so good that other websites link back to.

Jen: 00:22:01

And part of his philosophy is about how to go out and pitch people

Jen: 00:22:05

to link back to your websites.

Jen: 00:22:06

I get these pitches all the time and sometimes they're just nonsense only

Jen: 00:22:10

go out and ask people to link back.

Jen: 00:22:12

If it's a worthwhile.

Jen: 00:22:14

Cause of doing it.

Jen: 00:22:15

But skyscraper content emphasizes length.

Jen: 00:22:18

So you're really dissecting all of the different pieces.

Jen: 00:22:22

And then if you link out to your own content, guess what?

Jen: 00:22:24

It sounds a lot like pillar content.

Jen: 00:22:26

It sounds a lot like cornerstone content.

Jen: 00:22:28

And so that's the second piece.

Jen: 00:22:30

So that's skyscraper content.

Jen: 00:22:32

The third content type is 10 X content.

Jen: 00:22:35

And this is you go out and you look on the Innerwebs and you see all of the

Jen: 00:22:40

things that are ranking for your topic.

Jen: 00:22:43

And you're like that's not very good.

Jen: 00:22:45

I'm gonna do something that's 10 times better.

Jen: 00:22:48

And that was that's a 10 X content was coined, I believe by Rand

Jen: 00:22:53

Fishkin and in about 2015, I think.

Jen: 00:22:57

And so that just means that you're gonna write something that is 10

Jen: 00:23:00

times better than what's ranking now for a particular topic.

Jen: 00:23:04

And that sounds a lot like cornerstone content, cuz you're really writing

Jen: 00:23:09

something that has a function that is really serving your customers

Jen: 00:23:14

and helps people more than what is already available out there.

Jen: 00:23:19

So that's the third type.

Jen: 00:23:20

The fourth type is pillar content, which is often com compared to

Jen: 00:23:25

skyscraper content, which is, publishing a comprehensive guide with

Jen: 00:23:30

a cluster of supplementary pages.

Jen: 00:23:32

EG topic, clusters and pillar content was created or coined by HubSpot.

Jen: 00:23:41

So those are your four types of content.

Jen: 00:23:43

The pillar content is very similar to skyscraper content,

Jen: 00:23:47

very similar to 10 X content and.

Jen: 00:23:50

Cornerstone content.

Jen: 00:23:51

So if you're looking at all this and you're like what the heck do I have to do?

Jen: 00:23:54

Guess what?

Jen: 00:23:55

You're not alone.

Jen: 00:23:56

, I'm calling this the small business content dilemma.

Jen: 00:23:59

And that means you only have so much time, so much money and

Jen: 00:24:04

you have to have the best value.

Jen: 00:24:06

I use different iterations of this in my presentations.

Jen: 00:24:09

You don't have time for all four different types of.

Jen: 00:24:13

You just don't if you're a small business owner and honestly, even if

Jen: 00:24:16

you're a solo content creator, you don't have time to be constantly focusing

Jen: 00:24:21

on all four of these content types.

Jen: 00:24:23

You don't have the money or the resources for an army of content creators to

Jen: 00:24:28

help you build out all four post types.

Jen: 00:24:31

And so you need everything to be valuable to you and your customers.

Jen: 00:24:35

And when all of these things are in balance, it's no longer a dilemma.

Jen: 00:24:39

You are a happy content creator.

Jen: 00:24:42

. What do you think about that,

Shelley: 00:24:43

Shelly?

Shelley: 00:24:45

I think that.

Shelley: 00:24:47

Individual content, creators, content entrepreneurs have an advantage

Shelley: 00:24:52

because we can, and this is what I do.

Shelley: 00:24:55

We can take content that is good.

Shelley: 00:24:57

And we can read it and ingest it, all on one topic.

Shelley: 00:25:01

And this is how I wrote my article on LinkedIn this week.

Shelley: 00:25:03

I read the other articles on that topic.

Shelley: 00:25:06

I thought about it.

Shelley: 00:25:08

Then I made it personal.

Shelley: 00:25:10

I told my story.

Shelley: 00:25:11

From my point of view, what's going on in my world, but I brought

Shelley: 00:25:15

in all of that information and.

Shelley: 00:25:18

Basically I showed it in action right here is, yeah, here is it go?

Shelley: 00:25:23

Here's where it goes on in real life.

Shelley: 00:25:25

Here's how it works.

Shelley: 00:25:26

And here are some examples and that to me is just illuminating.

Shelley: 00:25:31

I can read all the dry, boring textbooks, but until you've.

Shelley: 00:25:36

Shown me how it works in real life, how you can implement that day by day.

Shelley: 00:25:41

Then I can't use that information.

Shelley: 00:25:43

So you can be that person that interprets right.

Shelley: 00:25:47

All.

Shelley: 00:25:47

Jen does this.

Shelley: 00:25:48

She takes that brainy nerdy stuff that, that people have a hard

Shelley: 00:25:51

time with, our brains turn off sometimes with certain things.

Shelley: 00:25:55

Mine's like math.

Shelley: 00:25:56

I don't wanna, I don't wanna deal with math, but if a financial person

Shelley: 00:25:59

could come in and say, here's what my client did and here's how it worked.

Shelley: 00:26:04

And they did this.

Shelley: 00:26:06

I can relate to that.

Shelley: 00:26:07

I can read and understand and enjoy and consume.

Shelley: 00:26:11

And I wanna read that.

Shelley: 00:26:12

So that's how I feel about that

Jen: 00:26:14

topic.

Jen: 00:26:16

I agree with you and we're.

Jen: 00:26:17

I'll, I will show you how much I agree with you.

Jen: 00:26:20

on the next slide on the next slide on the next slide, but what I, Bridget,

Jen: 00:26:25

the Bridget Willard, the great came in with a question, skyscraper pages.

Jen: 00:26:28

I'm curious.

Jen: 00:26:29

So what we just talked about is skyscraper pages are very similar to

Jen: 00:26:34

pillar content, pillar, post content.

Jen: 00:26:36

They are also very similar to 10 X content, where you go

Jen: 00:26:40

out and make something better.

Jen: 00:26:41

Skyscraper content was brought up by Brian Dean of Backlinko around having

Jen: 00:26:47

content of length that people are likely to come back and backlink to.

Jen: 00:26:52

So that is that it's like pillar content.

Jen: 00:26:56

Yes.

Jen: 00:26:56

We make up all these words.

Jen: 00:26:57

You'll have to go back and see all of the things.

Jen: 00:26:59

Yes, it's very similar to pillar content.

Jen: 00:27:01

It's very similar to cornerstone content, 10 X content.

Jen: 00:27:04

So here is what I believe is the small business content reality.

Jen: 00:27:10

Nobody has time because nobody has time to do all four content types.

Jen: 00:27:15

We have a real opportunity as Shelly said, and I really I really

Jen: 00:27:21

believe that this is how it works.

Jen: 00:27:24

What we have to do as small business owners is we have to create

Jen: 00:27:27

cornerstone content, no matter what it is that we make, it has

Jen: 00:27:31

to be relevant to our customer.

Jen: 00:27:33

that's like the bottom line.

Jen: 00:27:34

It doesn't matter how long it is.

Jen: 00:27:36

it doesn't matter.

Jen: 00:27:37

It just has to be relevant.

Jen: 00:27:39

So that's why last week, when we talked about topic clusters, it was

Jen: 00:27:42

all about what is a main topic that you can talk about, for example,

Jen: 00:27:47

marketing, and then what are all of the subtopics around that, that you can

Jen: 00:27:52

talk about that are making a lot of.

Jen: 00:27:54

That are related to that topic.

Jen: 00:27:55

I'm getting distracted by comments.

Jen: 00:27:57

I'm gonna try and not look at comments and at the same time do this.

Jen: 00:28:02

So cornerstone content is really the main bucket for what it

Jen: 00:28:07

is that we need to focus on.

Jen: 00:28:09

As business owners who are creating content, it always has to be relevant.

Jen: 00:28:15

I pause it that no matter what it is that you create, it's 10 X content, meaning

Jen: 00:28:21

it's 10 times better than other content because it's within your expertise.

Jen: 00:28:25

So you have to always remain in your expertise because it's always gonna

Jen: 00:28:31

be better because it's original.

Jen: 00:28:33

It is about what it is that, it's likely to be also be skyscraper content.

Jen: 00:28:38

If it's relevant.

Jen: 00:28:40

And it's necessary for it to be longer.

Jen: 00:28:44

It is more likely to get links.

Jen: 00:28:47

People are more likely to link back to it.

Jen: 00:28:49

So what I will say is, for example, , as we've discussed a couple times before

Jen: 00:28:55

I was interviewed for a documentary, because I wrote a snappy article about

Jen: 00:28:59

clickfuns and why it shouldn't be used by every online business out there.

Jen: 00:29:05

And a lot of people linked back to it.

Jen: 00:29:06

A lot of people are finding it.

Jen: 00:29:09

Because I wrote something interesting, different and necessary.

Jen: 00:29:13

That was also very relevant to my customers who were small business owners.

Jen: 00:29:17

So that's an example, of skyscraper content that got a lot

Jen: 00:29:21

of attention and got a lot of links.

Jen: 00:29:23

I didn't do the work that Brian Dean suggests, which is going out and

Jen: 00:29:28

actively hunting down back links because I'm a small business owner.

Jen: 00:29:32

I don't have time to go out and do that.

Jen: 00:29:34

I just write interesting stuff.

Jen: 00:29:36

and I pay attention to the keywords I'm using.

Jen: 00:29:39

so that it's more likely to get more eyeballs and more attention, which

Jen: 00:29:43

brings us to the pillar post, which is also directly related to our

Jen: 00:29:47

topic clusters because it also shows expertise and ad depth of knowledge.

Jen: 00:29:52

So pillar posts like skyscraper content are very long and relevant and also

Jen: 00:29:59

branch out into your topic cluster.

Jen: 00:30:03

But for me, everything has to fall into the cornerstone bucket.

Jen: 00:30:07

And then length is determined by relevance and necessity.

Jen: 00:30:12

What do you think about that, Shelly?

Shelley: 00:30:14

I just wanted to mention that Jen does actually.

Shelley: 00:30:18

Ask people to back link to her stuff, but the way she does it is an automation.

Shelley: 00:30:22

And she taught me this through missing letter.

Shelley: 00:30:25

She puts her content out there as curated and promotes it.

Shelley: 00:30:30

And people can, get that, see it and decide if they wanna

Shelley: 00:30:35

share it with their audience.

Shelley: 00:30:37

So in that way she's taken that step of.

Shelley: 00:30:41

Sharing out her content and having people link to it and share it with their

Shelley: 00:30:45

audience, but in an automated fashion.

Shelley: 00:30:47

And I think it works really well.

Jen: 00:30:50

It actually does.

Jen: 00:30:50

I always forget about missing letter curate.

Jen: 00:30:52

It's just part of, what's baked into my process now that like after

Jen: 00:30:56

the, after a podcast is over, we go, I post the link in missing

Jen: 00:31:00

letter curate and it gets out there.

Jen: 00:31:02

So like for last week's show, for example, it's already.

Jen: 00:31:05

Scheduled to be shared by, I think like 80 people.

Jen: 00:31:08

It's just crazy and these are people, I don't know.

Jen: 00:31:10

So I do have baked in there, but I don't go out and

Jen: 00:31:13

individually like talk to people.

Jen: 00:31:15

And so I get like a social boost from it and I think some people do end up

Jen: 00:31:19

linking to it on their own websites.

Jen: 00:31:23

That's the hope so that is how I do it because I don't have time to go do it.

Jen: 00:31:27

There's a lot of different ways of doing it.

Jen: 00:31:29

I also, my weekly newsletter is like a blog post and I link out to like

Jen: 00:31:34

different things that it's related to.

Jen: 00:31:36

So like today it's a one year anniversary of the Crow in my house.

Jen: 00:31:40

. So now we're gonna link back to that episode.

Jen: 00:31:42

And that's one way of saying, oh, this is relevant.

Jen: 00:31:45

And this is the other thing that I've talked about.

Jen: 00:31:47

It's natural, right?

Jen: 00:31:49

Because it's just organically.

Jen: 00:31:51

What happens when we link out to it because I am living in

Jen: 00:31:54

that same content reality.

Jen: 00:31:55

Shelley's living in that same content reality where we can't

Jen: 00:31:58

create four different types of posts and fuss around with it.

Jen: 00:32:03

So we are doing it ourselves.

Jen: 00:32:05

We're finding a way to navigate this.

Jen: 00:32:07

Anything to add there.

Jen: 00:32:08

I just went to where I can't see you again, Shelly.

Jen: 00:32:10

Oh,

Shelley: 00:32:11

I think that when you've been doing it long enough, and as Jen has

Shelley: 00:32:14

said that your first a hundred blog posts are practice when you've been

Shelley: 00:32:17

doing it long enough, you automatically start including all of those things

Shelley: 00:32:23

and everything that you write.

Shelley: 00:32:25

And then every now and then you'll go.

Shelley: 00:32:28

I need to take a stand on this and that becomes your pillar post, and

Shelley: 00:32:32

then you wanna say more about it.

Shelley: 00:32:34

Yeah.

Shelley: 00:32:35

So those are your branches that you're coming off of that pillar post with.

Shelley: 00:32:39

So it just happens organically for you once you've been doing it long enough.

Jen: 00:32:42

Yeah.

Jen: 00:32:43

I will say that click funnels post was in me for years before I ever let it out.

Jen: 00:32:47

so one of the reasons it was so long is that I had so many

Jen: 00:32:51

clients struggle with it.

Jen: 00:32:52

So many issues that it finally just erupted into this one post.

Jen: 00:32:57

And that's why it gets attention because I took a stand on something

Jen: 00:33:00

and it's not necessarily a popular.

Jen: 00:33:03

although if you talk to a lot of small business owners that will say

Jen: 00:33:05

that ClickFunnels did not work for them even though it works for some.

Jen: 00:33:08

And so it's important to take a stand and talk about things that are relevant and

Jen: 00:33:11

helpful to your customers and understand that you don't have time to do all of

Jen: 00:33:15

the things that all the experts tell you

Jen: 00:33:17

So this is why this is around setting priorities around what you create, how

Jen: 00:33:21

you create it and how you maximize it to help your customers and also help your.

Jen: 00:33:28

So here is another way of looking at it.

Jen: 00:33:31

Just some questions and advice on like how to navigate this.

Jen: 00:33:34

So for your cornerstone content, it's what do my customers need to know that

Jen: 00:33:40

will help them understand my expertise and make a buying decision that should

Jen: 00:33:45

be your guidepost for whatever it is that you're creating and how to help them.

Jen: 00:33:51

Understand holistically who you are and why you do what you do and how you do it.

Jen: 00:33:56

So it, and that's like the overall, the overarching idea around the

Jen: 00:34:02

content that you create then inside of that, the, if you think about the

Jen: 00:34:07

10 X content it's, how can I make the information out there better?

Jen: 00:34:12

Or D.

Jen: 00:34:13

And this is really important.

Jen: 00:34:15

Sometimes you don't realize how much different your stand is on something

Jen: 00:34:20

until you start to dive in there and you'll look at what other people say.

Jen: 00:34:23

And you're like that's, that doesn't make any sense.

Jen: 00:34:26

so think about this as like a guiding question, a piece

Jen: 00:34:29

of advice that you can use.

Jen: 00:34:32

when it comes to things like skyscrapers and pillars, it's really what are other

Jen: 00:34:36

people saying in my industry, people are more likely to link back to you.

Jen: 00:34:41

If you're saying something a little bit different, something a little bit

Jen: 00:34:44

interesting, or even if you're aligning with other people notice I, I gave

Jen: 00:34:49

full credit to HubSpot, Rand Fishkin, and Brian Dean around these different.

Jen: 00:34:57

Of content.

Jen: 00:34:58

Like these are thought leaders in my industry.

Jen: 00:35:01

So I am saying they're right.

Jen: 00:35:03

There are all these different types of things.

Jen: 00:35:05

And then I'm further making it a little different by saying, and if

Jen: 00:35:09

you are a small business owner, this may not work for you to create all

Jen: 00:35:13

these different types of things.

Jen: 00:35:14

So I'm also making it a little bit different.

Jen: 00:35:18

The pillar content you want to think about.

Jen: 00:35:21

How does it relate to other content that I have or can create?

Jen: 00:35:26

And that's going back to the topic clusters that we talked about last week.

Jen: 00:35:30

So you have a broad topic, and then you can break that topic down into all

Jen: 00:35:34

of the different pieces to share the depth and breadth of your expertise.

Jen: 00:35:42

So when you put all of that together, again, we come back to.

Jen: 00:35:47

making sure that whatever you create is helping guide your customers into

Jen: 00:35:52

what it is that they need to know in order to understand your expertise.

Shelley: 00:36:00

You still there, I'm still here.

Shelley: 00:36:05

just being quiet, but yeah your customers need to know the information,

Shelley: 00:36:12

but they also need to know.

Shelley: 00:36:14

How to use that information.

Shelley: 00:36:16

Yeah.

Shelley: 00:36:17

And why it's important.

Shelley: 00:36:18

And you can give them an example of how you use it or how a client uses it.

Shelley: 00:36:24

Then that's going to help them understand it better.

Shelley: 00:36:27

The more you can fill in those gaps with real life examples

Shelley: 00:36:32

and how it actually works.

Shelley: 00:36:35

Then the more useful it is to people.

Jen: 00:36:39

A hundred percent.

Jen: 00:36:40

Yeah.

Jen: 00:36:41

Yes that's exactly it.

Jen: 00:36:43

So when we look at it in practicality, if we go back to our chocolate

Jen: 00:36:48

cake example, you might have an ultimate guide to chocolate cake.

Shelley: 00:36:54

Versus starts off with eat and then you're going chocolate cake.

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And

Jen: 00:36:56

again, and again, there's no picture chocolate's

Shelley: 00:36:58

sponsor on this show.

Shelley: 00:37:00

so like Betty crocker

Jen: 00:37:02

or what is this ? I don't, haven't had time to reach out, so dunno.

Jen: 00:37:05

But if we had the ultimate guide to chocolate cake, you might have a paragraph

Jen: 00:37:08

about how to find the right recipe.

Jen: 00:37:11

Just a paragraph, little part of it, whoa, what just happened there?

Jen: 00:37:14

You might have a little paragraph about, finding the right

Jen: 00:37:16

recipe, but it might link out to various chocolate cake recipes.

Jen: 00:37:20

So you might have a, another post that really goes into, more in depth around it.

Jen: 00:37:24

You might have a section about gluten free options.

Jen: 00:37:28

In making chocolate cake that would link to chocolate cake recipes that

Jen: 00:37:32

might include a gluten-free option, or you might have a separate and

Jen: 00:37:35

you might have a separate post.

Jen: 00:37:36

Also that is gluten is flowerless chocolate cake gluten-free and then

Jen: 00:37:41

guess what the chocolate cake recipes would link to is flowerless chocolate

Jen: 00:37:46

cake gluten- cuz you might have a recipe in the flowerless chocolate cake.

Jen: 00:37:52

And then you might have another paragraph.

Jen: 00:37:53

That is why chocolate cake is good for your health.

Jen: 00:37:56

Please.

Jen: 00:37:57

Somebody tell me that it's good for my health . And then that paragraph

Jen: 00:38:01

would link out to some of the nutritional facts about chocolate cake.

Jen: 00:38:05

So as you can see, none of, then that would all be within your ultimate

Jen: 00:38:10

guided to chocolate cake post.

Jen: 00:38:13

That links out to more in depth information about a specific dimension.

Jen: 00:38:17

So this is one example for how you can create expertise driven posts or content.

Jen: 00:38:25

And again, this content can also be created on social

Jen: 00:38:28

media can be created on video.

Jen: 00:38:31

However it is that you are creating content.

Jen: 00:38:34

You can break things up in a certain way and give the value

Jen: 00:38:38

that your customers need.

Jen: 00:38:40

And at the same time, Giving them a little entry, giving them a little bit

Jen: 00:38:46

of guidance on how to navigate things and then, oh, by the way, if you want

Jen: 00:38:50

more, , here's how you can hire me.

Jen: 00:38:53

This is how this content wheel works.

Jen: 00:38:56

But you'll notice that there's no post on here that suddenly

Jen: 00:38:59

is like coming outta left field.

Jen: 00:39:01

You know how to buy the best baseball glove.

Jen: 00:39:02

Like it's not related to that.

Jen: 00:39:05

I give a talk last week where somebody was a consultant and had

Jen: 00:39:11

a post that was ranking really well in a topic that was completely

Jen: 00:39:15

unrelated to the work that they did.

Jen: 00:39:18

And we had a little conversation about how important it is to stay.

Jen: 00:39:23

Within your expertise when you are sharing about what it is that you do on your blog.

Jen: 00:39:29

Or even on social media, you always have to tie it back to your expertise,

Jen: 00:39:33

because if you're getting a lot of traffic on something that isn't related

Jen: 00:39:38

to, what it is that you do, it really.

Jen: 00:39:41

Doesn't, it's not really helpful.

Jen: 00:39:43

yeah.

Jen: 00:39:43

You don't wanna just get traffic for the sake of traffic.

Jen: 00:39:46

You wanna get people coming to your site that are likely to be interested in

Jen: 00:39:50

what it is that you do and how you do it because you don't have time for, random

Jen: 00:39:56

celebrity posts or things like that.

Jen: 00:39:58

, that's

Shelley: 00:39:58

exactly what I was thinking is celebrities giving political opinions

Shelley: 00:40:01

and it's they're not a politician.

Shelley: 00:40:03

They don't work in government.

Shelley: 00:40:05

Do they really have much weight to their opinion just because they're on

Shelley: 00:40:09

television or they have a large platform.

Shelley: 00:40:12

And, and we forget that sometimes that, oh and so said it was true.

Shelley: 00:40:15

So it must be true.

Shelley: 00:40:16

Maybe it's not that's not their lane of expertise.

Shelley: 00:40:19

They're, if they're an actor and then their lane of expertise is.

Shelley: 00:40:24

Being an actor anything related to that?

Jen: 00:40:29

so if you like this kind of training and these kinds of hot tips,

Jen: 00:40:34

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newsletter that is@womenconquerbiz.com slash newsletter that's.

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And do you wanna talk about your weirdly.

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LinkedIn newsletter

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you betcha.

Shelley: 00:40:49

I'm gonna paste the link and the chat.

Shelley: 00:40:52

And so this week's LinkedIn newsletter.

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I talk about personal brand.

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How do, what is a personal brand?

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Why is it important?

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What goes into a personal brand?

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And I give examples and I, and explain the reason that this came up in my

Shelley: 00:41:05

personal life, what it means to me, why I needed to understand it better.

Shelley: 00:41:10

And then I share my understanding.

Shelley: 00:41:13

In my LinkedIn newsletter.

Shelley: 00:41:15

I also relate it to today's show.

Shelley: 00:41:17

I talk about, pillar posts, being a part of creating your personal brand.

Shelley: 00:41:22

What is important to you?

Shelley: 00:41:24

What your experience has shown, what your expertise is all about,

Shelley: 00:41:29

that goes into your pillar post.

Shelley: 00:41:30

And it's also.

Shelley: 00:41:32

Helping to define your personal brand.

Shelley: 00:41:34

And the reason it's weird is because I use weird Al Yankovic as

Shelley: 00:41:39

a personal brand example, and talk about all the things that he's done.

Shelley: 00:41:45

And he's one of the longest live Personal brands out there and he's

Shelley: 00:41:51

capitalized on weird being weird.

Shelley: 00:41:54

And I talk about that in, in my article because my daughter is

Shelley: 00:41:58

a big fan and she wants to have a podcast related to weird AIC.

Shelley: 00:42:03

So it's all tied together and it's all very personal, but it also gives some

Shelley: 00:42:08

some light to the topic of personal branding and what it's all about.

Shelley: 00:42:13

Yeah.

Jen: 00:42:13

Yeah.

Jen: 00:42:14

Getting mad props from Bridget Willard.

Jen: 00:42:16

Great info ladies.

Jen: 00:42:17

I hope everybody else is getting a lot out of this.

Jen: 00:42:20

If you enjoy this please share it.

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Please subscribe to the channel.

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If you're watching it on LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, wherever it is please

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share it and like it and we hope that we're really helping everybody out there.

Jen: 00:42:33

Are we ready for some tweaks of the

Shelley: 00:42:35

week?

Shelley: 00:42:35

We are tweaks of the week, first week.

Shelley: 00:42:39

I dunno.

Shelley: 00:42:39

Tweet.

Jen: 00:42:40

OK, go ahead.

Jen: 00:42:42

You got this.

Shelley: 00:42:43

All right.

Shelley: 00:42:44

Toby and I found a new product on app Summa this week that is

Shelley: 00:42:47

available for lifetime purchase.

Shelley: 00:42:49

It's called product Dino, and it is a product selling and delivery platform

Shelley: 00:42:54

where customers can access all of their related purchases from you in one place.

Shelley: 00:42:59

So if you're offering free downloads PLR courses paid and.

Shelley: 00:43:06

Free if you're offering any type of digital product whatsoever, you can

Shelley: 00:43:10

put it on this platform and you send them all to one place and they can

Shelley: 00:43:16

find it all, or you can, they can find just what you want them to find.

Shelley: 00:43:20

So you can place a product and you can put it in a collection

Shelley: 00:43:24

and have people come in.

Shelley: 00:43:25

It's got the, the email integrations.

Shelley: 00:43:28

It's got integration with a program called Womba, which is a word of mouth type.

Shelley: 00:43:35

Reward system for people who purchase or even get your free stuff that

Shelley: 00:43:40

they share it with their social media contacts and you reward them for that

Shelley: 00:43:45

through this it's already set up.

Shelley: 00:43:47

So you don't have to think about that or understand it that well, because it's.

Shelley: 00:43:51

Done for you.

Shelley: 00:43:52

which I love is I see all these things out in the world and I'm

Shelley: 00:43:56

like, oh, I wonder how they do that.

Shelley: 00:43:57

Oh, that looks so hard and complicated here.

Shelley: 00:44:00

It's done.

Shelley: 00:44:00

It's also got an LMS, which is your your learning management system, so that

Shelley: 00:44:05

you can work with people who are going through your courses more closely and

Shelley: 00:44:09

help guide them and give them quizzes and just check on their progress.

Shelley: 00:44:13

And there's a lot of a.

Shelley: 00:44:15

Analytics baked into it as well.

Shelley: 00:44:16

So we're really enjoying that.

Shelley: 00:44:18

It is touted to be an alternative to podium, think if and Kajabi.

Shelley: 00:44:23

So if that is something that you've been looking at or thinking about for

Shelley: 00:44:27

your own business, but they're outta your price range as they are for me this

Shelley: 00:44:30

might be a great alternative for that.

Jen: 00:44:32

It's interesting as you were talking about it, and I know we talked

Jen: 00:44:35

about it before the show, but when you're mentioning it, this could be

Jen: 00:44:38

a really great alternative to member.

Jen: 00:44:42

It sounds a lot like member vault to me.

Jen: 00:44:44

And for those of you out there who maybe were priced out of member

Jen: 00:44:48

vault, because they recently changed their pricing structure.

Jen: 00:44:51

This could be a really good alternative for that.

Jen: 00:44:53

It's called again, product.

Jen: 00:44:55

I know I, when I saw this in the notes, I was, it reminds me of

Jen: 00:44:58

another product that's that does something completely different.

Jen: 00:45:01

So I was surprised when you told me what this is.

Jen: 00:45:04

I hope that this is good.

Jen: 00:45:05

I.

Jen: 00:45:06

I'm always very intrigued my tweak of the week.

Jen: 00:45:09

it's so funny.

Jen: 00:45:09

It also happens to be from app Sumo.

Jen: 00:45:12

I have some clients called snap downloader.

Jen: 00:45:14

I have some clients who are pulling their content off of Facebook.

Jen: 00:45:18

have other clients who just wanna move their videos to someplace else.

Jen: 00:45:22

Snap downloader.

Jen: 00:45:23

It lets you download videos from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo,

Jen: 00:45:28

and it says other places as well.

Jen: 00:45:30

It is typically a subscription product.

Jen: 00:45:32

So it is monthly annual that type of thing.

Jen: 00:45:36

It's also available on app Sumo for $30 right now that in here I have been

Jen: 00:45:42

using it this week just to test it out.

Jen: 00:45:45

And so far I've had.

Jen: 00:45:46

really good luck with it.

Jen: 00:45:48

If you've ever tried to capture some of your content from other places

Jen: 00:45:52

and like you usually they're really scammy, like websites that you have

Jen: 00:45:55

to go to, to put in the link and then it says you can download it.

Jen: 00:45:59

And it usually seems not something that you wanna do, getting back to the privacy

Jen: 00:46:02

stuff that we talked about earlier.

Jen: 00:46:03

This is a really good product for that.

Jen: 00:46:06

It's $30 one time lifetime to use snap, download.

Jen: 00:46:12

and I'm definitely gonna send it to a couple of clients who, like I said,

Jen: 00:46:15

are interested in moving platforms.

Jen: 00:46:17

It's just important to have, if it's content that you own, if you don't

Jen: 00:46:21

wanna buy this, just make sure that you have a backup somewhere of everything

Jen: 00:46:24

that you create so that you can keep it, cuz it's yours, you made it.

Jen: 00:46:28

And I don't know if this is part of your workflow, Shelly, when you work

Jen: 00:46:32

with clients or not, that you help them.

Jen: 00:46:34

Download the videos from stream yard or whatever so that they can keep a copy.

Jen: 00:46:39

Some.

Shelley: 00:46:39

We do recommend it.

Shelley: 00:46:40

And of course, Jen is in our stream yard.

Shelley: 00:46:42

So she has total access to all the videos and audios and so she can take

Shelley: 00:46:47

them in, put them on a hard drive or do whatever she needs to do with them.

Shelley: 00:46:51

We, once they're up on YouTube, we're pretty happy with

Shelley: 00:46:54

that because you can always.

Shelley: 00:46:56

Go into your YouTube channel and just download it from there.

Shelley: 00:46:59

It's very simple.

Shelley: 00:47:00

But if you've only been putting it on Facebook, then it does

Shelley: 00:47:03

just go off into the ether.

Shelley: 00:47:05

So I would recommend something like this for for that type of situation.

Shelley: 00:47:10

Of course, you can't always rely on YouTube to keep your stuff forever, but.

Shelley: 00:47:15

How far back do you wanna go?

Shelley: 00:47:16

It kinda, yeah.

Shelley: 00:47:17

What are you gonna do?

Shelley: 00:47:18

Yeah.

Shelley: 00:47:18

And

Jen: 00:47:19

yeah, and I think it works too in, in the case of, Twitter

Jen: 00:47:21

spaces and different things.

Jen: 00:47:23

LinkedIn lives, if you're only going to one spot, it's really good for that.

Jen: 00:47:27

You can't, you absolutely can.

Jen: 00:47:28

I always forget about all of the capabilities of YouTube but

Jen: 00:47:33

you can download already.

Jen: 00:47:35

This was just slick because you could just put in the YouTube link.

Jen: 00:47:39

And hit download and it does it so it's more of a ease of use.

Jen: 00:47:41

I think when it comes

Shelley: 00:47:42

to using now, if you do have a show where you are showing other

Shelley: 00:47:46

people's content and then you're giving reaction to it, or, you're

Shelley: 00:47:49

showing it as an example this might be a really great tool for that as well.

Shelley: 00:47:53

Just always ask, I would always encourage you to ask permission

Shelley: 00:47:56

from the owner of the content.

Shelley: 00:47:57

If you're gonna show it on your.

Shelley: 00:48:00

. Yes.

Shelley: 00:48:01

We have people that do that with us all the time.

Shelley: 00:48:03

They'll ask us can I show a piece of your content?

Shelley: 00:48:05

We've also had people who just flat out, stole our content and put it up and Yeah,

Shelley: 00:48:10

but too, shut that down through YouTube.

Shelley: 00:48:12

So you gotta get the eye out for stuff like that

Jen: 00:48:15

sometimes.

Jen: 00:48:16

Yeah.

Jen: 00:48:16

Yeah, no, this is a, this is very much about use your powers for good

Jen: 00:48:19

. Yeah, this is not use it for your.

Jen: 00:48:22

Benefit of stealing other people's stuff.

Jen: 00:48:24

For sure.

Jen: 00:48:25

Yeah.

Jen: 00:48:25

Okay.

Jen: 00:48:25

What you got, I feel like being inspired.

Jen: 00:48:28

You wanna be

Shelley: 00:48:28

inspired?

Shelley: 00:48:29

Yeah.

Shelley: 00:48:31

today's inspirational.

Shelley: 00:48:33

Nugget comes from Marcus Aros meditations.

Shelley: 00:48:37

I maybe saying that wrong.

Shelley: 00:48:38

I apologize to Marcus, he's dead.

Shelley: 00:48:40

So he is not gonna know he said the mind adapts and converts any.

Shelley: 00:48:48

To its action into a means of achieving it.

Shelley: 00:48:52

That, which is an impediment to action is turned to advance action.

Shelley: 00:48:57

The obstacle on the path becomes the way, and that sounds really cool, but

Shelley: 00:49:02

it's like, what does that even mean?

Shelley: 00:49:05

so you have the power of turning obstacles upside.

Shelley: 00:49:09

Taking a negative circumstance and using it as an opportunity to practice an

Shelley: 00:49:13

unintended virtue or form of excellence.

Shelley: 00:49:17

So whenever something comes up, that's an obstacle or seems like

Shelley: 00:49:22

a really negative occurrence.

Shelley: 00:49:26

Take a look at it and say, how can I use this obstacle as an opportunity?

Shelley: 00:49:29

What can I learn from this?

Shelley: 00:49:30

Where's the gift.

Shelley: 00:49:31

I'm always asking myself, where's the gift in this.

Shelley: 00:49:34

And I'm sure that more things will come.

Shelley: 00:49:37

From those obstacles that we don't see yet, I have faith that

Shelley: 00:49:42

doing what feels important and right, is always the right course.

Shelley: 00:49:47

Even if some other things need to be put on hold.

Shelley: 00:49:50

And in the case of myself, I had to put my business on hold and come to Arizona to.

Shelley: 00:49:57

Be here with, for my mom for my family.

Shelley: 00:50:00

And that was the number one priority.

Shelley: 00:50:02

Now that they're in a good place, I can, go back to what I was doing,

Shelley: 00:50:07

but things will come up in our lives and we have to say, Yes to those.

Shelley: 00:50:13

And then we have to say, I can put my life on hold while I focus on this,

Shelley: 00:50:18

because it's going to bring me so many rewards, even though it doesn't

Shelley: 00:50:23

seem like it right now, it will, in the end, bring me those rewards.

Shelley: 00:50:26

I feel closer to my family than I have.

Shelley: 00:50:28

Probably ever my brother and I've talked more in the last couple of

Shelley: 00:50:33

months than we have since we were kids.

Shelley: 00:50:36

And, there are just so many things that we can get out of these situations

Shelley: 00:50:41

if we just look for the gifts.

Shelley: 00:50:43

. Yeah,

Jen: 00:50:44

absolutely.

Jen: 00:50:46

Thank you.

Jen: 00:50:47

That was good.

Jen: 00:50:48

Yeah.

Jen: 00:50:48

I liked you.

Shelley: 00:50:49

Yeah.

Shelley: 00:50:50

And I hope that helps some people feel a little bit more hope.

Shelley: 00:50:53

I know this is a really difficult week for a lot of people.

Shelley: 00:50:56

So look for the gifts.

Shelley: 00:50:58

How can you make a difference?

Shelley: 00:51:00

How can you find a way to, to rise in this current situation?

Shelley: 00:51:07

Yeah.

Jen: 00:51:09

Thanks everyone for being there.

Jen: 00:51:10

And we hope that this has been really helpful.

Jen: 00:51:13

If it has please subscribe, share, talk to your friends about it.

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This is the women Cocker business show, and we will see you next week.

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