In this episode we explore different educational and coaching models, namely cohort-based, evergreen, and hybrid approaches. The cohort model fosters community and shared experiences by enrolling groups with specific start and end dates. The evergreen model offers flexibility by allowing participants to join at any time with pre-recorded content. The hybrid model combines the best of both, providing scalability with personalized support. Additional strategies to make these models successful include regular live events, automated communications, creating interactive platforms, and gathering feedback. Learn how to select the right model to grow your business and help your customers achieve better results.

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Hey, I am going to talk today about the key

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differences between a cohort style business model, an

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evergreen model, and and hybrid, which we call the infinite scale

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delivery model. And we're gonna talk about like, what, which one

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is right for your business? How do you set yourself up for

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success? And then, you know, what are the kind of key

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differences, the pros and the cons, all the different things

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around all three of these different models, and then I'm

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gonna share with you why I believe that the infinite scale

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model, or the hybrid model, is the best model for you, as

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you're trying to grow and scale your online business. Alright,

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so let's dive in.

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Okay, so each approach has unique benefits and challenges.

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And, and so understanding how you're operating or like, the

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rules for each one of them are really important. And then you

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can look at, what do you like from this one? What do you like

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from that one, and create a hybrid model that tends to serve

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both your customers as well as you as the creator better as

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you're moving forward. So alright, I'm gonna break each

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one down individually. Okay, so let's start with a cohort

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experience, the cohort experience really involves

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enrolling a group of people. So your customers are all coming in

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at the same time. So there's a specific start date and a

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specific end date. And you are taking them through an

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experience together as a group. And and so with a cohort model,

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the best part about this approach is that it really gives

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you a sense of community and shared experience for your

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customers and participants, you're sort of putting them in

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an environment where they feel like they have some

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accountability from other people, not just you. And so

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that is definitely a pro of the cohort launch. So they you're

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building a community of people who are going through an

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experience together, which tends to help it become more sticky,

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because people don't want to let other people down, Aand they

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like to see how they fit within kind of a broader community,

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it's a focused effort. So you can concentrate like all your

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marketing, all your sales to drive towards starting on a

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particular date. So it helps you focus, it helps to have that a

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little bit of sense of urgency or scarcity in there. And, and

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so it's it's just more concentrated in terms of like

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instant, it's more of an event, that you're creating some buzz

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and excitement around. And there tends to be more engagement

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because people are going through it together, right? community

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accountability, there's just a different level of energy,

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because people are going through the cohort experience together.

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So that's the biggest pro and that, from my perspective, is

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that there's a start date and an end date. So if you're the type

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of person who has a hard time sort of getting started, or you

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honestly haven't launched yet, doing a cohort is a great way to

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get yourself moving. The other thing is, is it doesn't have to

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be completely done and finished before you launch your cohort,

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which we call a beta launch. So as you're starting to create an

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online business, or create your business, you're creating a test

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or a prototype, to test your model to make sure that what

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you're teaching how you're showing up how your coaching is

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actually going to get people results. A cohort style launch

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is a great way to get yourself in the game. Usually our clients

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start with a an initial beta launch, which is a cohort. And

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then typically, they have two to three more cohorts before they

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start moving into another model. Just because you'd need to learn

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what's working, what's not working, what people are

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resonating to how to get people engaged, and how to help them

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get results, before you sort of lock and load it and have it be

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something that's more evergreen, or more of an asset that you can

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consistently sell. So the cohort model is a great place to start.

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It's a great way to learn. And obviously, you know, it's got

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some additional benefits in terms of community and whatnot.

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The cons though of a cohort launch is that it is time

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intensive, right you have to have a lot of planning, a lot of

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coordination, a lot of things happening in a short period of

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time. And so it's definitely something that takes up more of

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your time. It will take more of your time to show up live with a

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cohort, although I'm going to give you some tips and tricks on

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how to deal with that later on in this episode, but, but it's

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definitely more time intensive. then having it be a continuous

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launch. And with limited enrollment periods, one of the

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biggest challenges that people run into is you get a cash

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infusion. And then you don't get another cash infusion until you

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launch another cohort. And, and so there's sort of this feast or

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famine roller coaster that's happening. And we want to iron

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that out, we want to make sure that you're having reoccurring

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revenue coming in. And when you're doing a cohort launch,

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depending upon how often you're doing it, that definitely plays

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into that definitely plays into that part of the, the

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experience. And, and so again, like, the ideal for this is to

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use it to launch your beta, and then to kind of get your system

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functioning consistently to the point where you can start to

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sell and deliver consistently.

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Alright, so the second way, the second model is the Evergreen

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experience, an evergreen experience allows participants

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to enroll in sort of the core course, or program or whatever

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you got going on coaching program, at any time. Generally,

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it's pre recorded and available on demand, meaning people can

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jump into at any point in time, there's not a specific start or

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end date. And, and so you have that continuous enrollment, you

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can scale that, that asset because it's already created. So

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you create it once and then you can sell it and deliver it over

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and over and over again, right. So that's the benefit of an

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evergreen experience. And there's tons of flexibility,

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flexibility for you in terms of how you're supporting your

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customers, flexibilities for your customers, that they can

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access it at any time, right like, at their own pace, or, you

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know, just on their own schedule, wherever they are. So

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definitely some advantages of that with a cohort, there's

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technique, typically, a specific time people are meeting right,

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so it's like Thursdays at one o'clock. With an evergreen

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launch, they can jump into the content at any point in time,

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and watch it at their convenience. So that's

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definitely a pro of the Evergreen experience. So the

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cons of the evergreen experience are pretty much the opposite of

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all of the pros, right? So it's continuous enrollment, which

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means that there may not be a sense of urgency for people to

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actually take action and join the experience. It's scalable,

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which is awesome. But you have to, you have to make sure that

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you're scaling the right experience, what tends to happen

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for a lot of my creators who love to be involved, they love

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to be included in the customer's journey to helping them get to

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success, when you have an evergreen launch, a con of this

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is that if you aren't helping them and you have that desire,

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then you are either going to go and create a bunch of other

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things, or you're going to insert yourself at weird times.

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And so it's not going to be consistent experience. The other

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cons is the initial setup. And again, like the way that we

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teach people how to do this, if you're going to do an evergreen

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launch is start with a cohort launch, do that in beta and then

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move it into an evergreen product that allows you to

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handle that setup time. So yes, it's much more. In fact, we

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don't recommend that you build it and then try and sell it

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right you want to co create it with your perfect customers, and

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then move it into an evergreen launch if you're going in that

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direction. And so you have to just sort of figure out what

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makes the most sense for you in terms of a cohort, an evergreen

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experience, or the third option, which is my favorite. And

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obviously we've built a business around it, which is the infinite

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scale experience or that hybrid experience.

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So you're taking the best of the cohort model and the best of the

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Evergreen model and squishing them together to make a hybrid

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experience, which means that you're taking the system's the

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strategies and sort of the growth model of both of them and

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being able to deliver an awesome experience while also maximizing

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and leveraging the time that you're spending with people. And

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so the the great thing about this approach is you can have

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people continuously come in, but it's a structured curriculum so

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people are coming in their learning in sort of an evergreen

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curriculum status, right, like, they're going through the

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curriculum that you have set out for them that you've already

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created. And then they can jump into a live component to get

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their questions answered, to get coaching to get accountability,

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and like all the things community at the same time,

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while they're going through the experience, so a lot of what are

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the biggest challenges of a cohort launch is that you're

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continuously teaching over and over and over again, right, so

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you show up a specific time you're teaching. And then you're

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answering questions, or you're working with people or

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workshopping or doing whatever, but you're repeating the same

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thing over and over again. So if you do a cohort four times a

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year, 12 times a year, you're repeating everything that you're

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doing every single time you have a new cohort that comes in, once

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you can structure all of the sort of the learning the the

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actions that they need to take all of the foundational elements

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that go into replacing you showing up live teaching your

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thing every single time. What that does is it gives you the

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flexibility to to show up and actually solve big problems with

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your people or help them remove obstacles or hurdles of having

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along the way, help with mindset, how you know, all the

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different things that you can help with like that is a really

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high level use of your time is to have those those you know,

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accountability conversations, or coaching conversations, or q&a

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or group experiences or workshops or whatever, it gives

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you the freedom to be able to have those because you're not

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spending all of your time re teaching. And so in the hybrid

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experience, you're doing both you're showing up when you need

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to show up. And you're structuring a curated experience

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for your people. That helps them like come in where they are, get

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what they need, and then get the support along with him. So it's

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such a powerful way to build the business because it's offering

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flexibility. And, and community at the same time, right. So you

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have flexibility over, they can show up whenever you can show up

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whenever you're not like spending all of your time in one

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on one calls or cohort calls. You're not spending all of your

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time building evergreen assets, you're really having that

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balanced workload. So it gives you that opportunity to have a

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consistent experience, create a consistent experience, and then

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deliver it. It offers scalability with a personal

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touch, which I really love because you're taking that

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evergreen model layering in a personalized approach, that that

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allows people to connect, right, like people want connection. And

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they want to know that somebody is paying attention you as a

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coach or the community or however you structure it, so

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that it gives them a really that balanced approach. But it gives

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them a holistic view of how they're going to help themselves

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get to the transformation that they want to get to. And that is

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where it becomes really powerful. And then consistency,

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like you're able to build a consistent model that somebody

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can jump into, at any point in time, get what they need, follow

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the path, get support, and help and then keep moving forward.

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And so it provides you with the clarity and confidence to be

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able to have your thing in to get to drive people to results.

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But it also helps your customers and your clients know exactly

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how to get there. The cons of a hybrid launch, that you still

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need to have sort of coordination in terms of when

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somebody comes in, how are they getting dropped into the right

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place. And so one of the things we work with our clients on is

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like, here's how you set up their customer journey. And

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here's how you set up your personalized customer in

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somewhat customized learning path for your, for your people,

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depending on where they're coming in. And so when you have

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your experience map and you have a way to figure out in an in a

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an automated fashion where someone is in what they need to

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get to the results, you're able to literally get somebody

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results without you having to constantly be with them all the

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time. But that coordination like that requires planning that

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requires really understanding the journey and the steps to go

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from point A to point B which we talked about as your signature

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methodology. And then knowing how to get somebody there,

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right? Like, where are the hurdles? Are they're gonna run

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into along the path? How do you knock those down? Without?

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Without them experiencing them? Right? And so looking at that,

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and then, and then how, how to make sure that like, if

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somebody's coming in at the, you know, by themselves or whatever,

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instead of a cohort? How are you engaging them? Right? Like, how

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do they? How did they know that they can show up? How do you

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communicate with them all the options when you're not doing

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that live? So again, that's all solved with technology, once

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you've mapped out the entire journey that somebody goes on.

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So, again, that's something that we, we help our clients kind of

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figure that out.

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Okay, so overall, that is definitely like, my favorite

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strategy is the hybrid strategy because it gives you a sense of

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being involved in helping your customers and having a

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consistent experience or asset that you can run people through

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so that you're not recreating it all of the time. Okay, so five

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key strategies, if you decide that the hybrid or infinite

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skill experience is the right one for you, is that number one

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is, you know, once you've mapped out your customer experience,

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and you've looked at, you know, like how do I help people go

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from point A to point B?

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Then you need to develop a robust onboarding systems. How

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do people like what happens when they purchase? What do they need

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to know about when they first come in? How do they get access

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to the, to your platform? How do they navigate through your

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platform? What are the expectations, always think about

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this, like, if you're going to a live event, right, a training

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or, or a workshop or something else, like the very first thing

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that you always get when you go to that is like, Hey, everybody,

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here's the agenda. Here's where the bathrooms are, here's where

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you can go to do this, here's where you can find food or

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drinks or whatever else that you need, right? Like, there's just

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a moment in time where the facilitator pauses and says,

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Hey, I know that you may be thinking about this in your head

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and acknowledging it right. The other thing is, like most of the

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time, when you walk into a workshop or a training, that

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instructor or facilitator is going to come up and introduce

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themselves to you, right? Hey, I'm so and so it's so great to

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have you here today, thanks for showing up. Just a little simple

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introduction makes a huge difference. And then kind of

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giving people the rules of the road, like, I'm not going to

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stop every, you know, 40 minutes to so you can. So we have a

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bathroom break, right? Like if you have to go to the bathroom,

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just get up and go. It's just down the hall, no problem, come

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back in. Like people need to know what the norms are going to

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be for the day. It's exactly the same thing. When you're talking

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about creating an onboarding system, it doesn't matter if

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it's online or offline, you need to give people the rule the

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rules of the road, like here's how we, here's how we meet,

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here's where you can schedule a call. Here's how you log in.

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Here's how you navigate around to all the various places. So

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really sit down and create that robust onboarding system. Again,

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if you're in LEARN Academy in our mentorship program, there's

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a whole training on how to build your onboarding system. And and

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so it takes you through from that initial purchase all the

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way to somebody feeling really comfortable coming in and

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knowing how to navigate through your, your system.

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Okay, number two scheduled regular live events. So often,

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one of the biggest mistakes I see people make is they are

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like, oh, I want to have you know, office hours or q&a calls.

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And they have them like at random times. And so they're

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trying to be available for their customers. And so you know,

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maybe they have one Tuesdays at nine and Thursdays at two and

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Saturdays at noon. So while that's great, what it does is it

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confuses people, right? And so if you're going to have those

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three calls, don't have the records, first of all, but if

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you're going to have three calls great, but then every single

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week, it's the same. Don't change them up. So what what we

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recommend is like one q&a call every week or every month or

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every other week, or however you want to structure it, and it's

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always at this time on this day. People want to know when to show

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up, right? They want consistency, if they have to

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constantly hunt around, it's too chaotic. Now, there's always

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times where maybe you're on out of the office or you're on

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vacation, or you're doing something else, and you have to

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make a change. Great. But overall, try and make something

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super consistent. So they know what to expect. And they know

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when to show up. So just put them on your calendar for the

Tara Bryan: 00:20:20

year and, and see how close you can get to being consistent. So

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we have an office, our office our call, on Thursdays at one

Tara Bryan: 00:20:31

o'clock, and it's always at Thursdays at one o'clock. And,

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and so people know that if they have a question, if they need

Tara Bryan: 00:20:38

coaching, if they need to talk to me, they're going to talk to

Tara Bryan: 00:20:42

me at Thursday at one o'clock, so they can plan their week, if

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I every week, just send out random times that I'm available,

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that's not going to help somebody plan and you're just

Tara Bryan: 00:20:52

adding more chaos. And so you want to eliminate the chaos in

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the form of all, you know, they've got enough going on

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learning and doing something new, it takes a lot of brain

Tara Bryan: 00:21:03

calories. So they have enough going on, they don't need to try

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and hunt around and figure out where where to go to meet and

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what the timing is.

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Okay, number three is leverage automated communication. This is

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critical is that when you're first starting, and you're

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trying to figure this game out, and you're doing your cohort,

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this is a great time to start documenting, like when do I want

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to send an email? When do I want to notify people of different

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things that are happening? How do I want to help people stay

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engaged and maybe send out various messages that keep them

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motivated or or, you know, check ins or whatever, that is a time

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for you to start documenting that so that you can use the

Tara Bryan: 00:21:50

technology to send to those follow ups. But the your eye

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should always be on? Like how do I set up consistent

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communication? Based on how you want them to go through the

Tara Bryan: 00:22:05

experience, right? So you go back to your journey map and

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you're like, Okay, this is when I want to communicate with them.

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This is, you know, I want them to be notified that they've done

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certain things or whatever else, right? So always think about how

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do you make that a consistent experience, once it's

Tara Bryan: 00:22:21

consistent, then you can automate it. And, and so that

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will, that in and of itself will change your life. Because

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instead of sending out ad hoc random emails, you are able to

Tara Bryan: 00:22:33

schedule those. I remember when we were running an agency, and

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we had one or two emails we sent every single time we started a

Tara Bryan: 00:22:42

new project. And, and my project manager was creating those

Tara Bryan: 00:22:48

emails every single time. And I'm like, but isn't this email

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basically the same for every customer? That we that we are

Tara Bryan: 00:22:56

onboard? Like, aren't you just sending the same message? And he

Tara Bryan: 00:23:00

was like, Well, yeah, I mean, it's basically the same thing.

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And I'm like, great, that's awesome. Because we can put that

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into an automation. And when you have that customer, and you're

Tara Bryan: 00:23:10

ready for that email to go out, we can schedule that email to go

Tara Bryan: 00:23:13

out and you don't have to rewrite it every single time. He

Tara Bryan: 00:23:16

literally was like, sitting down and crafting the email, each and

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every time we had a customer instead of just using, you know,

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kind of the pre written template that he had created. So again,

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us kind of think about that, from that perspective.

Tara Bryan: 00:23:36

The fourth thing is create an online experience platform. So

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this is super critical in the sense of like, a lot of times

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people will think, Okay, well I'm just gonna put my course

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assets in a membership site, and you know, just like create a

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bunch of videos and throw them out there. When instead what

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you're doing is you're creating an experience for people and

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putting it into a platform that allows them to go through that

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experience in the way that you want them to, so that they can

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get results and have a great a great experience. Right? So

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you're you're planning every aspect of that. So it's not just

Tara Bryan: 00:24:15

videos, it's it's a place for them to interact. It's a place

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for them to ask questions, it's a place for them to connect and

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share with other people. The more you make it a supportive

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and collaborative environment with the the various training

Tara Bryan: 00:24:32

assets that you have in there, the more it becomes sticky for

Tara Bryan: 00:24:35

them, the more that they're in there. Like, imagine if Facebook

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was just a bunch of videos, right? Nobody would go in there.

Tara Bryan: 00:24:44

It's the curated experience. That is a that brings people

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back over and over and over again.

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And then the fifth thing is like gather and implement feedback

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constantly being asking for feedback. what's working, what's

Tara Bryan: 00:24:59

not working? How can I add this? What's what's missing? Like all

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the things, when you're doing a cohort launch, this is really

Tara Bryan: 00:25:05

easy, because you're gonna have your super fans who are going

Tara Bryan: 00:25:08

through it with you, especially in your beta launch. When

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you're, when you're moving to a more hybrid experience, it's,

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you know, building that in as part of the entire experience,

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is helping them be able to give you feedback, it'll, it'll make

Tara Bryan: 00:25:26

a huge difference in, in how your experience sort of is

Tara Bryan: 00:25:32

living and breathing. Okay, so that is the difference, the pros

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and the cons, the strategies for how do you build the right

Tara Bryan: 00:25:42

business model that will help you scale. And again, like, I

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strongly believe that the the hybrid or infinite scale method,

Tara Bryan: 00:25:51

and model is going to be the one that's gonna scale because

Tara Bryan: 00:25:55

regardless of how many people you put into that model, you're

Tara Bryan: 00:25:59

not adding additional time, right, you're not like gonna max

Tara Bryan: 00:26:03

out in time, like you would, if you're doing one on one, or even

Tara Bryan: 00:26:07

when you're doing cohort like you can't do 1000s and 1000s of

Tara Bryan: 00:26:11

people in a cohort doesn't work that way. Because there's so

Tara Bryan: 00:26:14

much teaching and showing up live in nothing is necessarily

Tara Bryan: 00:26:21

consistent, right, and so ever been, will give you that. But

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most of the time, you're not, you're not engaged in the

Tara Bryan: 00:26:31

experience. And so it's not helping you, and it's not

Tara Bryan: 00:26:34

serving your customers, because ultimately, at the end of the

Tara Bryan: 00:26:37

day, your customers are going to need some accountability and

Tara Bryan: 00:26:39

some, some coaching to get past some of the obstacles and

Tara Bryan: 00:26:45

hurdles that they're going to have along the way. So your

Tara Bryan: 00:26:48

retention rates are going to be a lot higher with a hybrid

Tara Bryan: 00:26:51

model. And you're going to be able to continue to grow and

Tara Bryan: 00:26:54

scale. So there you go, that is the differences between the

Tara Bryan: 00:26:59

launches. And it will help you not only grow your business, be

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in the right business model that will help support you and your

Tara Bryan: 00:27:09

customers. But it's going to help your customers become more

Tara Bryan: 00:27:12

successful, so that they're getting results. They're moving

Tara Bryan: 00:27:16

up in levels, and they're staying with you. Because you

Tara Bryan: 00:27:20

have been able to create a curated experience that moves

Tara Bryan: 00:27:24

them to the next phase. So there you go. If you're interested in

Tara Bryan: 00:27:28

talking more about the hybrid or infinite scale model, if it

Tara Bryan: 00:27:33

sounds like oh, you know, you've got one or two of the other

Tara Bryan: 00:27:36

models, and you're not quite sure how to put them together

Tara Bryan: 00:27:38

and what that looks like.

Tara Bryan: 00:27:40

Give me a shout the bottom of this in the show notes or in the

Tara Bryan: 00:27:46

video or in the blog, wherever you're looking at this. There

Tara Bryan: 00:27:51

should be a link to schedule a free discovery call. And then we

Tara Bryan: 00:27:54

can talk about like, what model are you in maybe you don't know,

Tara Bryan: 00:27:58

maybe you're just sort of grabbing things from each model.

Tara Bryan: 00:28:01

And you're not exactly sure how they all fit together so that

Tara Bryan: 00:28:04

you can leverage your time and attention. And it's a great way

Tara Bryan: 00:28:09

to kind of figure that out is to jump into that free discovery

Tara Bryan: 00:28:13

call. So I look forward to speaking with you. And in the

Tara Bryan: 00:28:16

meantime, really determine like which model are you following in

Tara Bryan: 00:28:20

which one makes the most sense for you and your business? All

Tara Bryan: 00:28:23

right. Have a great day.