There are nine foundational elements an online business needs to hit seven figures. In previous episodes, we covered the first three. In this episode, we'll cover the final three essential elements: traffic, automation, and team building.

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There are nine foundational elements that online businesses

need to hit seven figures.

In the previous episode, we covered the first three.

Your expert business blueprint, productizing your expertise, and firing

up your sales funnels to validate and pre-sell your course or programs.

In this episode, we'll cover the next three essential elements.

Hi, I'm David Ziembicki and you're about to learn how to grow from struggling

solopreneur to successful virtual CEO of your own expert business.

Your knowledge and skills can change lives and make the world a better place.

Are you ready to hit the accelerator to scale your results and impact and it's

time to build your expert business?

Remember, trying to build a business without a solid foundation is the same as

trying to build a skyscraper without one.

It's going to tip over and fail at its weakest point.

Be sure to stay until the end where I'll cover a bonus tip on how to get all nine

up and running in your business quickly.

Also, check out the link in the description for a free

resource that'll help you.

So I wanted to tell you a quick but painful story about how I

discovered the value of pre-selling before building your program.

In my first attempt at building an online course, I hadn't discovered the

Expert business foundation yet, so I spent a lot of time building the course,

putting together all the different tools, recording all the content, and so on.

For months.

When I finally launched a course, all I got was crickets.

I didn't have much of an audience yet, and the audience I did have

was not interested in the course, at least how I positioned it at first.

That's why we talked so much in part one about planning.

Research and most importantly, pre-selling to collect feedback before spending

all your time and money building.

If you follow my Expert Business Foundation, you won't have that problem.

Instead, you'll now have feedback and data from pre-selling that'll help you shape

the rest of the nine essential elements as you build out your online business.

At this point, you've validated your offer for your product or

program and feedback that you need to incorporate before you launch.

This is where online business gets complicated, though.

There are three things you need to be doing in parallel right now.

First is building your audience.

You need to be building your audience so that when you launch,

you have a group to sell to.

Second is building your course or program.

Now that it's validated and you've sold some of it, you need to be able

to build it and then deliver it.

Third is building the next three foundational elements of your business to

scale your business needs those elements.

This is where preneurs begin to struggle under the load of too much work to do.

Not enough skills or expertise to do it all and nowhere near enough time.

Check out the link into description for a free training on how to get a

massive amount of help to accomplish all these things for less than the

cost of one full-time employee.

The next three foundational elements are important to put

in place as soon as you can.

Let's dive into the next one, which is powering up your web presence.

But first, if you're getting value from this video, please hit the

like button and subscribe to the channel so you don't miss part three.

Now, your website is not the most important part of your

online business in our model.

It's the fourth essential element.

Far more people are gonna find you and your programs through your sales

funnels than through your website.

But a website's still important, though.

I call it your headquarters or your base of operations.

It's a consistent asset that you wanna build up over time with valuable

content for search and SEO purposes.

It's also important because your funnel, social media and traffic strateg.

I'll link back to your website in domain for most of your audience,

before they purchase anything from you, they're gonna do a due diligence check

to see if your business looks real.

And the number one way they're gonna do that is pull up your website.

When we design websites with our clients, we recommend and take a pretty

unique approach, and that is to think about your website as a funnel hub.

This is a concept I learned from Russell Brunson, the founder of ClickFunnels.

The main idea is that thinking about the customer journey, your audience will

become aware of you by your content and.

Those all will direct them to one of your funnels, usually

a lead magnet or a webinar.

But then they'll pause, open a new browser tab and visit your website

to validate that you're real.

If your website is designed properly as a funnel hub, it'll show them the

breadth of your offerings, you know your content channels, your funnels,

your programs, and also help them self select where they want to go next.

There's a specific design and layout that helps keep them on track.

This is what you want your website to do.

Pull them in and then direct them to the best next step.

Most websites are just static billboards.

People publish and they jam 'em up with every single thing they have

with links to 50 different posts and videos, resources, and it overwhelms

the visitor, and then they bounce.

Instead, your website needs to pull them in, make them aware of

your key channels and funnels, then direct them to the next best step.

Your website also needs to perform critical but invisible

technical tasks for you.

First is capturing and tracking visitor data.

You've probably heard of the Facebook Pixel or Google.

There others like that from your email service provider to

other platforms that you use.

These are the tech pieces that connect data from your website visitors to what

they're doing on the other platforms.

Second is search engine optimization and building up your

domains reputation over time.

There's specific technical setup and tools that help ensure you get the maximum

outta your content and post by sending that data to the major search engines.

If these items aren't in place and set up correctly, you'll lose traffic and

won't be able to supply the ad networks like Facebook or YouTube with the data

that they need to optimize your ads.

These are some of the key things to think about when powering up

your web presence with our clients.

A lot of this falls into the category of they don't know what they don't know.

Meaning websites are a lot more than just a couple of pages of text and images.

This is a key area to get help in.

Check out the link in the description for information about how to get.

But first, if you're getting value from this video, please hit

that like button and subscribe so you don't miss part three.

Social media channels are an essential element of all seven

figure online businesses in our Expert Business Foundation model.

After you have your funnels and website in place, it's time to

turn on your social channels.

That means claiming the names and accounts for your channels.

Getting professionally designed cover art backgrounds and post templates,

and then setting up your initial profiles on all of the social networks.

You want consistency and brand recognition across all of your channels, while at the

same time tailoring them to each channel.

As an example, your LinkedIn profile should be more businesslike,

while your Instagram profile might include more lifestyle or behind

the scenes branding and content.

As people check you out and your brand, you want them to see that

you have your act together and are taking your business seriously.

You also wanna make sure your sales funnels are never more than one

click away on every profile and post.

Next, you need to scale your social media efforts.

Consistency and repurposing are critical to scaling your social media channels.

Choosing the right tools for managing your social media can

save you five to 10 hours a week.

There are hundreds of social media scheduling tools and

platforms to choose from.

With our clients, we help them get onto one or two at most, which cover

all the major social networks, and most importantly, the support posting.

The most popular content forms like TikTok, reels and shorts.

The overall goal is the maximum amount of posts for the minimum amount of

time that you're creating content.

With your website and social platforms in place, it's time to fuel them with the

content to begin building your audience.

Gary V.

Russell, Brenson, Alex, or Mosy all agree that the biggest opportunity for organic

growth is producing content at scale.

Gary V talks about producing a hundred pieces of content a

week and eventually getting to a hundred pieces of content a day.

Sure he has a team of 40 people.

Russell does as well.

Alex Ormo has said he spent $70,000 a month on his team.

What does that mean for the rest of us?

It means putting in place a content engine.

What is a content engine?

Well, a content engine is the tools, systems, and team that enables

content creation at scale and posting across all social networks.

This can be done without a huge team or budget.

My agency offers a fractional team model where you get part-time access

to an editor, a copywriter, social media manager, and pro-level tools.

The key is you creating one piece of super valuable long form content each

week as the fuel for your content engine that your team then cuts into

10 different assets and posts across 10 different social media channels that

gets you to the hundred posts a week from just two hours of your time invested.

Across all those posts and channels, there are three feelings.

All of your content should invoke in your audience.

First, your content needs to leave the viewer with the

feeling that you are credible.

Not that I didn't say expert or world class.

If you can get there, great, but the minimum bar is credible.

Second, you want to leave them with the feeling of wanting to

watch more to watch the next video or listen to the next episode.

This means having a content strategy such that you aren't posting randomly

across many topics, but instead, each poster topic leads to the next third.

About 20% of the time you wanna have a call to action to one of your lead magnets

offers or funnels where the viewer feels like, yes, that's exactly what I need.

That combination of increasing watch time on the social platforms and occasionally

taking them off platform to your offers is the best chance for growth.

Your social media channels need a content strategy that attracts an audience and

sends them to your sales funnels to become leads and get converted into customers.

We recommend and help our clients with three types of content.

First is connection, where your goal is to connect with your audience

and show that you have had the same challenges they have and understand

their struggles at a deep level.

Second is awareness where you talk about your solutions, methods, and programs,

and how they provide a desirable outcome or transformation for your.

Third is conversion, where you're specifically calling your customers

to take action, like register for a webinar or purchase your course program.

When you get all three of those aligned, your content engine

delivers a constant stream of organic traffic to your sales funnels.

Now, if you haven't already smashed a like button and subscribe before it's too late,

also click the link in the description for a free training I'm doing on these

topics and how to get help putting them in place as quickly as possible so you

can accelerate your journey to seven.

So at this point with your blueprint, products, funnels, website, social

channels, and content engine in place, we're starting to have a solid foundation

for your seven figure online business.

But there are still three more essential elements to go.