How can you apply this strategy in the next 30 days? Look forward to your comments.
David
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I’ve been feeling like a total unworthy slacker around these people.
One woman is helping with clinical trials healing autistic kids with vibration, and doing a documentary with Bill Cosby.
Another friend is pulling in $175,000 a MONTH from selling a meditation product.
Yet another friend has created a multi-million dollar business in 2 years!
The good news is:
– the bar has been raised (like to the moon). What i think it possible is shifting.
– Janet Attwood and Marci Shimoff have said kindly yes to a book endorsement. Lisa Nichols is a maybe, and Jack Canfield has a copy of the manuscript and will decide if he’s going to write the foreword.
– I’ve made some lovely personal connections.
And – I’ve decided to carve time out each week to work on projects I think will make a difference, regardless of revenue. It could be volunteering at a soup kitchen, or setting up the anxiety teleclass, or developing my new ’emotional firewalking’ niche. In fact – I’m doing a teleclass this Thursday to discuss this very topic – stay tuned for the invite.
And then there’s the snorkeling with fish and turtles, whale watching, and hopefully tomorrow – dolphins!
David
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2. FEATURE: How I Got Started
A major business magazine is talking about publishing my story early this year. I enjoyed their questions and writing the answers, and realized many readers have an interest in how I got started in the business.
Here are my answers to this journalist; I hope you find them useful:
1) How did you get started?
I was in a cushy consulting job on Park Avenue – helping multinationals with their international pension fund arrangements. Sexy, hmm? I was an actuary with a numbers addiction, and only 1% of the population had any idea what I did.
I did a personal development course with Landmark Education because my marriage was falling apart, and lo – the clouds parted.
I saw people having life changes in three short days, that most people wouldn’t have in a life time. Cynical, actuarial David gradually gave way to a man who saw great possibility for all people – beyond what most can imagine.
I quit my consulting job and started handing out business cards that said “life coach”. When I had 23 clients in 5 countries, making 6 figures working 2 days a week on the phone, I found new coaches and other professionals flocking to me to find out how to build a successful coaching practice using the internet.
Now I show all professionals how to share their gift with the world using the internet. And how to automate it, so they serve the world while they sleep, freeing up their time for other things that get the soul juiced up! From my laptop, I shout my message to 91 countries, encouraging people to escape their wage slavery and do the same.
2) Why did you choose the business you’re in?
As mentioned above, I was blown away by what was possible in people’s lives. I realized I was naturally coaching people anyway; I just wasn’t getting paid for it. I found I had a natural flair for marketing and a talent for training and writing. I couldn’t stop coaching people if I tried. I combined these with my nerdy internet genes and an online business was born.
3) What are your goals for 2009?
There are so many!
- Launch my new book to best-seller status: “THE WEALTHY GYPSY How to travel the world, serve others, and get paid for it” (still playing with the title).
- Use the book as an excuse to do a national talk-show and radio tour to build profile and sales and reach more people.
- Have Richard Branson write the foreword to the book.
- Develop a $15,000 product.
- Develop a 3 day retreat/bootcamp.
- Develop a high end coaching program for The Wealthy Gypsy training.
- Write four more books.
- Deliver 4 speeches to audiences over 1000, selling $300,000 in training at each.
- Increase my rate of taking ideas to reality by a factor of 10. How? By posting ALL internal projects on a web site, and inviting my 70,000 subscribers to either volunteer for, or manage a project. Some will receive product in exchange, some will be paid cash, and some will share in the profits. This project (in progress) can be viewed at www.solutionbox.com/mindmap/index.pdf (by publishing date this will be fully functional with application forms).
- Live communally with friends for 3 months out of the year.
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Action: Post on the blog:
1) What’s one action you will take to increase your exposure to the media?
2) What are YOUR goals for 2009?
3) Post your answers to the blog.
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2. FEATURE: Make Decisions
This is an excerpt from Warrior of the Light by Paulo Coelho:
The Warrior hears someone say: “I need to understand everything before I can make a decision. I want to have the freedom to change my mind.”
The Warrior regards these words suspiciously. He too enjoys that freedom, but this does not prevent him from taking on a commitment, even if he does not know quite why he does so.
A Warrior of Light makes decisions. His soul is as free as the clouds in the sky, but he is committed to his dream. On his freely chosen path, he often has to get up earlier than he would like, speak to people from whom he learns nothing, make certain sacrifices.
His friends say: “You’re not free.”
The Warrior is free. But he knows that an open oven bakes no bread.
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Action
1) What are you committed to?
2) Go to the blog and share your commitment.
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After packing for a 10 day trip in July, and ….um…..never returning,
I find I’m sick of travelling! It’s been 6 months, and I’m very happy to have landed in San Francisco. I have quite a few friends here, and am making new ones – everyone is very friendly.
After a week of house hunting for a rental, I’ve found a gorgeous rental in Mill Valley that I intend to buy. (So much for 6 months of hard house hunting!)
I’ve posted and pics and videos at www.davidsfacebook.com
I took another tumble with the ex which didn’t work out. The good news is: I got out easier this time, with less attachment. I think I might actually be learning something.
Regarding the book, I have an awesome agent who will now shop it around, and we’re still tweaking to find the perfect title. Jack Canfield has agreed to take a look and may write the foreword. I’m off to Hawaii to the TLC retreat (www.TransformationalLeadershipCouncil.com) and will collect more endorsements, hang with some cool people, and swim with dolphins. Then it’s back to move in, take receipt of my STUFF (Man have I missed my bed!) from New York, hunt for a roommate, and prepare for a house warming party!
Love David
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2. FEATURE: Pricing and Negotiating Fees
[Proudly Reprinted from Mentor Monthly #50]
Suppose you got 1,000 visitors to your web site today.
How many would give you their email address so you can stay in touch?
5? 200?
And will they be engaged? Inspired to do a coaching session with you?
In this article I’ll tell you a very simple, yet clever strategy, which will engage your visitors in an interactive way, AND get their email address.
Start a relationship
People don’t tend to plunk down money the first time they visit a site. And they don’t want to become a client until they feel they know you a little better. So to get them interested in you and your site, try fr ee downloads, articles and other freebies. These are excellent ways to bring people to the top of your marketing funnel.
Once you start a relationship by giving them something, it will be easier to convert your visitors to clients or sell your products.
Assessments as freebies
Assessments are a fantastic way to attract visitors. Assessments are quizzes and questionnaires that create an interactive experience for your prospects. “How Successful Are You?” “Are You Ready for a Relationship?” “Are You Stressed?”
People love to fill them out and better yet, they like to pass them on to their friends. And assessments can be powerful tools to help people learn more about themselves. In other words, they are already being coached!
Lyle Johnson, a client in my Coachstart™ Mentoring Program took this idea and turbo charged it. He created 38 assessments in one week!
I’m serious – 38 assessments, 30 questions each, and SIX EMAILS in an autoresponder series to follow up every assessment individually!
http://www.coachforoutcomes.com/assessments.htm
He used the Assessment Generator to get his assessments up that quickly (it does the programming for you).
Now I don’t expect you to be as prolific as Lyle, but you could definitely whack one up there in the next few days, and send the link to your colleagues and friends.
Get their email address
Once you have a visitor’s email, you can contact them more to build the relationship you started with the give away. And you get a chance to show them what else you can offer them (i.e. coaching, an information product, a teleclass, etc.).
Lyle has a great system for following up with potential clients who take the quizzes. He asks for their name and email address before they hit the score button. He tells them where they are based on their score, and then follows up 6 times via an autoresponder specific to that quiz! The autoresponder messages are to upsell to his coaching.
How do you set up the autoresponders? Well – that’s a topic for another article. To save you from overwhelm, I’d suggest you just start with the quiz. But for those of you ready to go to the next step – you can check out the system I recommend here.
Can you see the potential? Set up this system once and then you don’t have to email each prospect, each time. Just some tweaks here and there every so often.
What’s your freebie?
Now that you know how important having something to give away is to attracting potential clients and customers to your site, what are you going to do?
What kind of freebie do you want to use? Can you think of a fun quiz that would suit your niche?
Exercise
1) Brainstorm a list of 10 assessments or freebies you could offer which match your niche.
2) Think about what you want to upsell to (i.e. coaching, products, a course).
3) Post the name of the freebie or assessment you will create in the comments area:
Enjoy!
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Earlier this year when I was feeling depressed and anxious, I looked for a teleclass so I could dial in and get support from home. And guess what? I couldn’t find one.
Wouldn’t it be a gift to the world, to provide such a service?
You’re invited to apply for one or more of the following positions listed on the mindmap:
– Manager
– Teleclass Leader (must be qualified therapist/psych/counselor)
– Web Traffic Manager/SEO
– PR Manager
– Web Master
– Article Writer
– Newsletter Manager
WHAT TO MENTION IN YOUR COMMENT/APPLICATION:
– your email
– your name
– the position(s)
– the skills you bring to the position
– YOUR EMAIL (so we can contact you. e.g. bill AT goat.com (so automatic email harvesters can’t find it)
I also invite you to let your friends know about this project – perhaps you know someone perfect for it?
David
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