If you feel overwhelmed in your business, or like you're doing everything but not getting results, this episode is your reset.

Most entrepreneurs default to doing more: more content, more offers, more strategies. But instead of creating momentum, that approach leads to confusion, lack of focus, and little to no traction.

In this episode, Tara challenges that instinct and breaks down how to simplify your business so you can finally start seeing better results. She walks through why chasing too many ideas keeps you stuck, what it actually takes to gain traction, and how to focus on the one thing that will move your business forward.

This isn’t about doing more for (or in) your business. It’s about doing less - with intention.

🔑 What You’ll Learn:

• Why doing more often slows your progress
• The trap of chasing too many ideas at once
• How to simplify your business for better results
• What it really takes to build traction
• Where to focus your time and energy for the biggest impact

⏱️ Chapters

00:00 – The Challenge: Simplify Your Business

00:36 – Why “Doing More” Isn’t Working

01:11 – The Power of One Clear Path for Customers

02:42 – The Idea Trap (and Why It Keeps You Stuck)

04:16 – Why You’re Not Getting Traction

05:07 – The “Planting Seeds” Reality in Marketing

05:58 – The Real Problem: Lack of Focus

06:27 – Case Study: Trying to Do Too Much at Once

07:38 – The Power of One Strategy

08:07 – Choosing Simplicity and Focus

08:32 – Understanding Your Audience (Hot, Warm, Cold)

10:16 – Where to Focus First for Faster Results

11:17 – Why Cold Audiences Take Longer

12:04 – Discipline: Commit to One Thing

12:52 – Final Thoughts: Less Is More

💡 Key Takeaway:

You don’t need more ideas - you need more focus. Simplifying your business is what creates clarity, traction, and real results.

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Share it with another business owner who’s stuck in overwhelm and help them simplify their path forward.

About Me:

Hey, it’s your host, Tara Bryan. And I am on a mission to help more business owners learn to infinitely scale their businesses by leveraging the power of online without sacrificing the customer experience or results.

I like to geek out on all things business strategy, marketing, interactive digital and user experience. This podcast is all about what is working, lessons learned and actionable tips to create and grow a thriving online business.

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome to season three of the

Scalable Expert Podcast, the show for

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established expert business owners

who are maxed out on time and ready to

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find the scalable impact of their work.

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I'm your host, Tara Bryan, founder

of the scalable expert, and creator

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of the Infinite Scale Method.

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If you've built a business around

your expertise, but feel stuck

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in the time for Money Trap, this

podcast is your path forward.

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Each week, I'll share stories and

strategies and shifts to help you

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step into a new, scalable business

model by declaring your authority,

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packaging your expert framework and

streamlining your offers and systems

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to ultimately become a scalable

expert because it's not about working

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harder, it's about building smarter.

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All you need is one signature expert

framework, and you can deliver an infinite

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amount of ways to be able to scale your

business, your impact, and your income.

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Alright, let's get started.

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome to today's episode.

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I am thrilled that you're here.

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Hey, in this episode I wanna talk

about a challenge I have for you.

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So I am going to challenge you to

think about less in your business.

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Don't think about more.

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I want you to think about less.

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How do you simplify

everything in your business?

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So take a week, take two weeks,

however long it takes for you.

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But I'm gonna challenge you for this

week, every single day, start the day by

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saying, how do I simplify my business?

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How do I simplify what I'm doing?

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Because more likely than not, what

you are doing is, what can I do?

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What can I create?

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What, who can I talk to?

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What can I put out there?

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What kind of content?

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I need a challenge.

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I need a webinar.

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I need this, I need that.

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I need this other thing.

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I need to create more videos.

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I need to, like all of the things that

are happening, all of the activities

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that are happening where you are thinking

about creation, you're thinking about

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how do I build more, how do I do this?

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How do I get this to do this, to if

you are that, in that place right now.

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I see you.

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Right?

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So instead of thinking about more,

think about how do you simplify?

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One of the things that we've talked about

is what is the, like the one way that you

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can communicate with potential customers

so they come in and start working with

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you, or they start experiencing what

you have to offer, and then when they're

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ready, you offer them the next thing.

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And then when they're ready,

you offer them the next thing.

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Instead of like, here's my

laundry list of all the things

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that I do, go pick one, right?

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That doesn't lead to a successful

customer journey because customers get

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confused and they don't know what to do.

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The same thing applies to you

and what you're creating, right?

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If you're like, I need more

leads, then like, great.

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Create one thing that then you

can start using to bring the

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leads in and move them forward.

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Not like, I gotta create 42 million

reels and 25 million of these and

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all of these other things, right?

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One thing that brings them to the next

step, that brings them to the next step.

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So really challenge yourself to think

about how do you move from all of

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the things, all of the ideas, and

trying to implement all of the ideas

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to just implementing one, the one

that's gonna make the biggest impact.

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So two things.

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One is we have a tendency, and I include

myself in this, to, when things aren't

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working how we want them or we're

trying to do something, we brainstorm

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all of the potential ways that we

can make something happen, right?

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We are entrepreneurs, we are

business owners, we are scrappy.

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We have a million ideas for

everything that could happen.

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The challenge becomes when we start

chasing all of those ideas, right?

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So we brainstorm ideas and then we narrow

it down to one or two that we wanna test.

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The trap that most of us fall into

is we get super excited about all the

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ideas, and so then we start trying to

implement all the ideas at the same time.

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Guess how many ideas actually make it to

market when we try and chase all of them?

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Yep.

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Very few, right?

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And so, brainstorm and

then narrow it down to one.

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Then have the discipline for yourself

to actually just take one of the ideas

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and run through it to fruition, right?

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Test it to see if that one idea

is the idea that's going to move

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the needle in your business.

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Not take the one idea, start working

on it, start to put it out there and

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then it doesn't do anything so then

you move to the next one, and then you

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start, and then the next one, and then

the next one, and then the next one.

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And you can't ever get traction

because you just keep moving

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from idea to idea to idea, right?

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I, if that's you, I see you like, right?

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Like I, I have a tendency to do that

too, because we get so excited about

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how we could potentially get all these

people in all these different things.

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And, and if it's not immediately

working, then we throw it out and

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we start something new, right?

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Or we watch something and somebody

says do it this way, so then we

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move and do it that way, right?

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And so my challenge to

you is focus on one thing.

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Get really disciplined on working on

that one thing until it starts converting

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or until you get the data that it's not

the thing that your ideal avatar wants.

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Right?

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Then throw it out.

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But that takes some time and

you need to give it the time

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for it to grow and nurture.

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One of the things I always talk

about with my clients is, when

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you are reaching out to somebody

new you're planting a seed, right?

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And seeds don't grow overnight, so

you have to, you have to nurture

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them, you have to water them, you

have to give them the right sunlight.

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You need to give them the right

things so it starts to grow.

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And then it doesn't grow from

like the seed to a giant flower

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all at the same time, right?

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It takes some time.

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And in the sales and marketing

process, we forget that, right?

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We're like, we want immediate results.

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If we put out an ad or we put out some

content, if it doesn't immediately

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produce a customer, we're out.

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We gotta, we gotta move on,

we gotta do something else.

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And so we don't give things long

enough, or our focus is so, so

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fractured because we're doing 4 million

things, we just never get traction.

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And I would say that like the people

that I'm working with, this is the

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thing that they struggle with the most,

is just focusing on the one thing for

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long enough until it starts to do, what

it's intended to do in the first place.

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And so this week I challenge you just

really think about where is it, and you

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probably know where it is, but where is

it that you need to really focus and have

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the discipline to do the one thing, right?

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I have a client right now who is trying

to acquire more customers and she is

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literally running around like a chicken

with her head cut off, trying to do a

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million different lead gen activities all

at the same time, for different audiences,

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which is a whole nother conversation,

but, she's just sort of throwing things

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out there and hoping that one of the

things is the thing that's gonna stick.

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And there's so many hooks in the water

for everything right now, including

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all of the crazy that's going on

in the world that people can't see

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all of the different things, right?

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And so she's distracted, customers

start getting distracted, and then

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they're not buying because there's

too many things going on, and so it

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is literally taking her discipline and

traction in one thing and riding that

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through until it starts to convert.

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Once it starts to convert, then you

just keep doing that thing, right?

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But that's the biggest

challenge is really focusing.

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So when we talk about the power of

one, it's literally focusing on one

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thing at a time as you're building

your business, which you know is

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almost impossible for us, but when

you have somebody who's helping you,

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like, okay let's commit to this.

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Let's run through it.

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Do this one thing.

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Don't build five funnels at the same time.

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Just build one and start to

see what's happening with that

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as you go through the process.

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So for you today, I want you to

write down the word simplistic,

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right, and focus, and less.

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Whatever word resonates with you.

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Think about that and really start

to focus on kind of the one thing

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that you know will move you in

the direction you need to go.

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For example, when you think about like

selling to an audience, and I try not to

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talk too much about sales and marketing

in here because that's not our focus, but

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unfortunately you have to have customers

come in to your world in order for you to

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continue to grow and scale, so sometimes

that comes up in the conversation, so

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I'm gonna keep riffing from this, but

you think about it like you have three

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different types of audiences that you

are pitching to or you are selling to.

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One is a hot audience.

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Those are people who are

already in your world.

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They're already ready to go.

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They're like, yep, what do you got for me?

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I'm in.

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Those are the easiest people to sell to.

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And a lot of times, we spend all of

our time trying to find new people,

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and we don't even focus on the people

who are just sitting there waiting

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for us to come up with something

new that they can consume, so don't

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forget about those hot buyers.

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Then you have warm buyers.

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Those are people who are on your list

already or they're swimming around you,

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but they're not necessarily they're not

a hundred percent ready or they're not a

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hundred percent sure and they just need

to hear the right messaging from you.

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Those are your warm buyers, those are

also easier to bring in because they're

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just waiting for you to speak to them

in a way that, that shares, or that

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matches the way that they, want to,

to solve the problem that they have.

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Two great audiences to really focus

on, especially when you're first

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starting is not like you don't even

need to be out to a cold audience.

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Those are not your people right now.

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Your people are already in your

world who are just waiting for

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you to discover that you have the

fastest path to give them results.

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So I always tell people the first

six months, even a year, is really

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just working on how do you build

and communicate to your hot and warm

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buyers that you already have, and then

move out to a cold audience strategy.

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And a cold audience strategy is

like people who don't even know

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you, they don't even know you exist.

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You haven't even talked to them

or communicated with them before.

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That's like the third place that you go.

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So often I have new people who are

starting out and they've packaged

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their expertise, they have their

delivery system, they're testing, and

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either they've gone through their beta

experience or they are just starting

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to go out and acquire customers.

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And they're like, we need Facebook ads.

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We need this, we need that.

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And we're gonna, you know, get all of

these new leads in and then convert

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all of these new people into buyers.

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And yes, that's possible.

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But not probable, right?

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Like they, they are that little seed

that needs time to become a flower

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and that's a longer term play.

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And so yes, you can be doing that, but

that's not gonna be where you're getting

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the most traction from sales, right?

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And so when you're first

starting, start with those two

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audiences that are a lot easier.

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So when you're looking at brainstorming

your list, brainstorm for those audiences.

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Focus on that audience that you have.

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Hot buyers ideally, but even warm buyers.

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Focus there.

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All of your attention.

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And then start to bring

in more warm buyers.

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That's the goal.

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It's not to turn all the cold people

in the world to become buyers 'cause

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it takes longer, especially in the

selling environment with the trust

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recession, to turn them into customers.

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So again focus, less, simplistic.

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Get down to the brass tacks and

discipline yourself as a business

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owner that yes, you have a million

ideas and they're all wonderful.

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Pick one and work on that one for,

I would say like 30 to 90 days.

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Give it some time.

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We're not very good at that as

entrepreneurs and business owners,

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but really, that's what it takes

to start to see the shift happen.

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And if you wanna scale your

business fast, that's how you do it.

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It's not by putting out a million

different things, it's by focusing

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on one, one thing that's gonna

help move the needle for turning

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your prospects into buyers.

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All right, there you go.

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Hopefully that helps you

today as you start looking at.

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How do you plan your week?

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Remember, when you brainstorm, the

whole goal of brainstorming is to

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narrow it down to one or maybe two

different tactics or strategies.

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It's not to try and implement

all of them at the same time.

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And I see you, I know, I work with a lot

of you, and so while you say, yep that

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makes sense, in practice, you're actually

out doing a million different activities.

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So, focus and remember, less is more.

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All right.

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it a shout, give it a rating,

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