Dec. 17, 2020

Improving Your Digital Marketing Strategy and Creating Value With Clients with Jason Osborn

Improving Your Digital Marketing Strategy and Creating Value With Clients with Jason Osborn
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This week, Eric Dickmann interviews Jason Osborn. Jason, is a highly accomplished speaker, coach, and consultant in the fields of digital marketing and mindset. Jason established himself as a life coach, back in 2009 and built his online personal development business and within 18 months was making a full-time income form with clients in 13 countries worldwide. Following this success, he switched gears and became an online marketing consultant and has since become a highly sought after coach and adviser. Headhunted by The Re-Think Academy in 2018, Jason is Head Coach and is steering the company towards becoming the #1 coaching program in the UK.

Eric Dickmann can be found on Twitter @EDickmann and LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/edickmann and my website https://ericdickmann.com

Jason Osborn can be found online at https://www.leftclickrightclick.com/ on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonaosborn/, and Instagram @leftclick_rightclick

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Welcome to The Virtual CMO podcast.

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I'm your host, Eric Dickmann.

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In this podcast, we have conversations with marketing professionals who share the strategies, tactics, and mindset you can use to improve the effectiveness of your marketing activities and grow your business.

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this week, I'm excited to welcome Jason Osborne to the show.

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Jason is a highly accomplished speaker, coach and consultant in the fields of digital marketing and mindset.

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Jason established himself as a life coach back in 2009 and built his personal development business.

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And within 18 months was making full-time income with clients in over 13 countries.

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Following the success.

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He switched gears and became an online marketing consultant and has since become a highly sought after coach and advisor head hunted by rethink Academy in 2018.

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Jason is now the head coach and his steering, the company towards becoming the number one coaching program in the United Kingdom.

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Please welcome Jason to the show.

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jason welcome to the virtual CMO podcast.

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I'm glad you could join us today.

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Hey, Eric.

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It's great to be here, man.

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It's my pleasure.

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I always like to start out these as most podcasts do, just getting a little background on you as a guest.

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And one thing I found interesting in reading your backstory as is that a young age, you got bitten by the entrepreneurial bug, like so many, do I think you hope we started selling sweets or candies?

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Give us a little bit of history in terms of how you got started as an entrepreneur and how you ended up today as a business coach.

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Yeah, sure thing.

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So, um, I I've, I've always been really interested in, in, uh, in business just in general.

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I didn't come, I'd come from an entrepreneurial family or anything like that.

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And I was in middle school, middle school, and it didn't come from.

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Uh, you know, a wealthy family at all and quite the opposite we were struggling to get by.

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And I just thought, you know what, I'm just going to go figure this out myself, you know?

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So, um, I I'd heard of some other kids that were doing.

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You know, selling candy and stuff like that.

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So I thought, well, I can do this.

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So I just went out.

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Bought a pack of stuff and just thought, well, here we go.

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So on breaks or at lunch or whatever.

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I'd go around and sell it.

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And people are buying it.

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I couldn't believe it.

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And so it just kind of build up belts and belts and belts, and I was doing pretty well.

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Um, then of course teachers got wind of it and, um, Didn't last too long after that, which.

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Which I think is disappointing, you know?

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I understand one side, I guess you have to be protective of maybe a edible type of things that you're selling on a school campuses, but, um, I in my personal opinion, I think it'd be great.

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If there was more, a kind of entrepreneurial.

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Encouragement at schools to be able to help kids really.

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If, if they, if there's a kid that really has that spark or shown to be kind of entrepreneurial, how teachers can kind of.

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Build that up and encourage that.

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Um, so I never, I never really lost the bug of it, but it just was quite disappointed, you know?

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Cause I was like, why are you shutting me down?

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But yeah, it was really good.

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I love, I love doing it.

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I remember when I did my first lemonade stand and started to realize that, there is money to be made in business if you know the basics.

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So you've come a long way since those early entrepreneurial adventures.

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And now you're a business coach.

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Talk a little bit about what you do today.

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Yeah.

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So today, uh, what I do, I do two things with my company.

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The first thing is I'm contracted out with the rethink Academy, uh, which is a, a large social media training agency.

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And we have hundreds of clients that come through every year through our training programs.

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From starting up a online businesses from scratch all the way to businesses that have been around for 20, 30 years, but they're just wanting to learn how to market themselves better online.

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Um, and then my kind of speciality is LinkedIn showing people how to.

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Use LinkedIn, which is probably the most misunderstood and underutilized platform out there at the moment.

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But how do you use that to really generate leads in business from the platform?

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So, yeah, it's a big transition.

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It was a journey to get to this place right now.

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But, uh, but I love doing it because I love coaching.

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I love helping people through that process.

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I just get a kick out of seeing clients get results as well, which is pretty cool.

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We're going to drill down into Rethink a little bit more and also this whole idea around LinkedIn and how to generate more leads from it.

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But before we go there, I'd love to know.

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Have you had a mentor along your journey, somebody who has really helped you in terms of developing out your own entrepreneurial and marketing skills?

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Yeah, few actually.

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Um, so a part of it is just, you know, when your, um, when.

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When I was growing up, I loved kind of business as we were talking earlier.

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So going through that process of being around other people that were in business.

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So one of'em.

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Some of my friends growing up, their dad was quite entrepreneurial and I hung out a lot with him.

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Um, I worked in a company when I was probably 19.

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Um, that, uh, they, they were good friends of mine as well, but they own the business.

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And so they would let me kind of go out with them on business meetings and things.

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So I was able to be around people that.

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Uh, supported me and encouraged me through that process of being an entrepreneur.

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And then I've hired coaches as well have hired mentors.

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I have a mentor now.

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Uh, that are higher and pay.

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So yeah, it's, it's something, in my opinion, you just ha you have to have.

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That's interesting because we're living in this time of COVID.

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A lot of people are changing professions.

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A lot of people are working from home is solo preneurs.

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So, what do you think makes a good business coach or a mentor?

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Alright, well, one, I think it's about someone that is able to explain things in a simple process.

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Uh, I have been around.

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Or heard business coaches, they over-complicate things.

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And I think that's the first thing if it's over complicated.

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So it's not as simple process, it makes it really challenging to really listen to them.

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For me personally, I like to be around people that have also experienced and done it themselves.

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So it doesn't mean that there aren't people out there that can't be, be helpful or advantageous to your business.

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But when I personally go out and look for a coach, I am looking for a particular element in my business or in myself.

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So whether that's my mindset or things that I need to change in the way that I work that has an.

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A benefit to my business and life.

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I'm looking okay.

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Oh, At a coastal County, this is the specific thing I'm looking to achieve.

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Who has been out there and done that, or has helped people achieve those similar types of results.

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So for me, that's, what I look for is, is.

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Proof that they've been able to accomplish that before.

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I think that's a really good point because I think there are a lot of people who are in the coaching business who really don't have all that much life experience.

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They've got a lot of enthusiasm for the kinds of.

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Things that they want to help people with, but they don't necessarily have the background and experience.

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And I think you have to be careful when you're hiring coaches to make sure that they are offering something that is truly going to be a benefit to you.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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And there's, you know, There's always a start.

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Right?

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You have to start somewhere.

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So if you're starting off, whether it's a business coach or any type of product or service that you're promoting, you always have your first client, your first customer.

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So there there's a starting point, but one of the things that, that I teach when we go in and help clients is if you're going into a market that you haven't worked in before.

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So if you're a coach or whatever, You know, going into it and look at how you can add value first.

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And now it might mean either having really reduced prices or do beta testers, better clients.

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That potentially, even for free that you work through that process and help them get results.

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A lot of people get frustrated by that because I think, Oh no, I came in, I'd make money.

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And now you're telling me not to charge or whatever.

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It's like, Yeah, that's such a short term mentality looking at it that way, you know, because you need that social proof.

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You need to be able to help people through that process.

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And I have some really good friends that have been very successful in particular niche or niche, depending on where you are in the country or the world.

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Um, and they have changed their, their niche.

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And they, so while they would have been really successful charging, really good money on area, they will actually go in CRE have beta testers will do something for free because they want to validate that process have clients on there.

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And they do it in exchange for a video testimonial so that they have is social proof.

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And then when they actually go and start charging it, they're not saying, well, I haven't done this before, but I want to charge you$5,000 or pounds, whatever.

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And people like client, you've never done this and you want to charge me that much.

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I'm not To be your, your, your Guinea pig on this.

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So, um, yeah, there's so there was always a starting point, but for me, you know, I, I, I'm kind of.

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Uh, without trying to sound egotistical or anything, but, you know, at this point I want to work with people that have, have had that experience and the proof to back that up as well.

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It's a great point though, because everybody has to start somewhere and offering those proof points, offering maybe a different way to sort of engage with somebody or in a new industry for the first time, but providing something of value that, that can then give them the comfort level that they need to make that engagement happen.

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I think that's great advice because like I said, a lot of people have to start somewhere.

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Absolutely.

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so you're the head coach here at Rethink Academy?

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Talk to me a little bit about what coaching looks like in that business.

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Is it one-on-one coaching is a group classes.

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Is it online?

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How do you coach your clients?

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So mainly what we do.

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It's more of a group, um, element that we do.

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We have training sessions once per week.

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Um, and we have things built up within kind of phases where we take people through a, we kind of call them sprints so that we are able to focus on something.

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Um, because what we used to do is have something built out over a six or nine month period of time.

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But when you get started the very beginning six, nine months, that feels like a long time.

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And so what we do now is we have sprints where we're looking to achieve specific objectives and outcomes or, or teach certain things.

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Uh, well, obviously we can't make our clients do the work, but we have certain things that we teach within that timeframe.

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To be able to help them.

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And then we have group masterminds as well.

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So we're able to get in and we have specific tasks each week that they're supposed to be working on in accomplishing.

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And then we have a, a, a Q and a mastermind each week as well, to be able to go over that do share screens and all that sort of stuff to help clients through that process.

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And of course we're there for them in between those sessions too, for them to swim, you know?

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Quote unquote, their homework or tasks or whatever for review, and really help them through that process.

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And it's great because having a very structured training, here's what you need to do then each week.

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Do you have questions around that?

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And you have access to the coaches in between those sessions.

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It's really powerful and we're seeing some incredible results with our clients as well.

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Um, you know, people that are just starting off.

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You know, that are getting business and earning a full-time income or, you know, in between kind of three and six months, period of time, which is pretty good.

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And obviously can't guarantee that, but we're seeing those types of results come through, which is pretty cool.

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Hey, it's Eric here and we'll be right back to the podcast.

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Now back to the podcast.

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I want to get into your methodology a little bit.

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And obviously during this short podcast, we're not going to be able to do it justice, but I really like, the topics that you're going into, because I see so much of this in my own consulting practice when I talk with various businesses.

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So you've got this rethink methodology and you start out by talking about, finding the right niche for your business and over and over again, I see with It's that they're too broad that they're going after too big a market segment, and they may have a great product or service.

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But they're too afraid to give up anything.

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And so they try to go after it all and ended up getting very little of it.

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Talk to me a little bit about the importance of finding the right niche.

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Uh, I lo I love this.

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So yes, it's something that we come across all the time as well.

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So, um, The importance of not only the right knee, but also what you said on narrowing down and becoming a specialist in your area.

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And there's different variations of that.

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But the thing that I always refer back to you and I talked about this with our clients all the time is you want to remove yourself from a commodity market, which is what most people do they go in.

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They say, I'm a life coach.

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I'm a business coach.

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I'm a marketing.

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Uh, agency or, you know, whatever it is, even one of our clients is an independent financial advisor.

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You know, an accountant or whatever, it becomes so broad where people will instantaneously make a snap judgment based on what you do and the services you provide based on how you label.

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You'll see yourself.

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And most people put themselves in a commodity market.

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The, the, probably the best one that I can, uh, just as an example, as a personal trainer.

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Everyone knows where to find a personal trainer.

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When you go there, you ask, and what do they do?

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They can either help you lose weight or put on muscle mass.

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Right.

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Simple.

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We know they're going to do that.

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So what's the next question.

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How much do you charge?

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And so that's how you, how much they charge per session or per hour or whatever it is.

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So, what do you do you go to the next personal trainer because you want to start saying, okay, well, who do I like.

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And who's the cheapest.

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Okay.

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And we probably won't go with the cheapest would probably go with the one right above the cheapest, because we don't want to feel like we're cheap.

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But we were basing it on price.

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And that's what a lot of people do is they put themselves in a commodity based market because of how they position themselves.

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And then they compete on price.

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So a personal trainer just saying, Hey, I can, I can help you lose weight.

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Well, so can every other personal trainer.

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So what makes that personal trainer different?

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Where if you position yourself saying, look, I help athletes.

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To get into peak.

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Performance.

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Within 90 days, assuming that's possible.

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I'm not a personal trainer.

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So I don't know if that's actually possible, but that all of a sudden you positioned yourself very, very differently in the market, because if you're an athlete, you're going to go, Oh, okay.

00:15:12.893 --> 00:15:13.312
That's me.

00:15:13.342 --> 00:15:13.942
You helped me.

00:15:14.212 --> 00:15:15.442
And you can help me get in.

00:15:15.893 --> 00:15:19.403
Peak performance, which is a very tangible, specific outcome.

00:15:19.822 --> 00:15:22.972
As opposed to a life coach saying, Hey, I can help you reach your dreams.

00:15:23.332 --> 00:15:24.293
What does that mean?

00:15:25.133 --> 00:15:30.413
And he, and a timeframe you can help me do that in 90 days, or maybe it's, you know, 120 days or whatever.

00:15:30.773 --> 00:15:33.802
But all of a sudden, because of that positioning.

00:15:35.212 --> 00:15:38.092
I know that I'm getting something very, very tangible.

00:15:38.182 --> 00:15:42.982
And if I were an athlete, Looking to get into peak performance within that timeframe.

00:15:43.732 --> 00:15:47.363
Yes, there is an element of price, but are more.

00:15:48.413 --> 00:15:49.673
Concerned about the outcome.

00:15:50.363 --> 00:15:56.452
And if I know that that person, that personal trainer can help me achieve that outcome, I will be willing to pay more for that.

00:15:56.783 --> 00:16:01.373
So it's a huge, huge thing that people need to understand how to find the right niche.

00:16:01.403 --> 00:16:02.393
And then also are we.

00:16:02.783 --> 00:16:07.643
Uh, to, to move into the element, which is evaluating your avatar and how to position yourself.

00:16:07.643 --> 00:16:10.102
So those two things are really, really important.

00:16:10.493 --> 00:16:23.962
Um, when you're we either, whether you're starting off in business or even a few business, been in business for a while, um, oftentimes with clients that have been in business for five, 10, 15 years, when I start asking them these questions to really start fine tuning.

00:16:23.962 --> 00:16:24.113
Okay.

00:16:24.143 --> 00:16:26.663
Well, what makes you different from everyone else?

00:16:27.263 --> 00:16:28.342
The mind goes blank.

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And I'm surprised.

00:16:30.232 --> 00:16:34.432
You've probably seen this as well, but it's like, you've been in business for how long, and you don't know this.

00:16:34.732 --> 00:16:41.903
So, but it's one of those things that I look at it from a positive, because once you land that once I can help a client understand that.

00:16:42.263 --> 00:16:44.363
It changes their whole positioning in the market.

00:16:45.082 --> 00:16:47.153
Um, and, and it's just amazing.

00:16:47.212 --> 00:16:58.133
And one of the things we can chat about if you'd like is just that whole kind of fear based around going so broad and, and, and why people don't narrow down, which I see a lot of people they're just afraid to do it.

00:16:58.552 --> 00:16:59.903
Are afraid of giving up business.

00:16:59.932 --> 00:17:00.173
Right?

00:17:00.202 --> 00:17:07.442
You talked about, that second element, the E, which is really understanding your customers, target persona or avatar.

00:17:07.803 --> 00:17:13.022
And I think what a lot of businesses miss is that they're not giving up anything.

00:17:13.232 --> 00:17:27.863
What they're actually doing is they're providing a focus and that focus is going to allow them to use their marketing budget, the tools that they have available to effectively go after a market, as opposed to just casting such a wide net, that it's completely ineffective.

00:17:28.492 --> 00:17:28.853
Yeah.

00:17:28.913 --> 00:17:29.123
Yeah.

00:17:29.182 --> 00:17:32.482
And it's completely fear based, as you said, they're, they're afraid to lose business.

00:17:32.482 --> 00:17:34.762
And one of the things that I always find really interesting around this.

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Is, you know, I'll see things and you'll see this particularly on LinkedIn, because it's how people kind of put their headlines around what they do.

00:17:41.212 --> 00:17:50.932
But they'll say things like, you know, I'm a life coach, a business coach, strategist, hypnotherapist, and horse whisper, and you, and you're going.

00:17:51.742 --> 00:17:53.752
What, what, what do you do?

00:17:54.113 --> 00:17:55.522
And it becomes confusing.

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And I say, well, you know what, what's the one thing you want to do?

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What, what do you love doing?

00:18:00.593 --> 00:18:02.423
What do you make the most money at?

00:18:02.752 --> 00:18:04.883
What's you know, all of these types of questions.

00:18:05.722 --> 00:18:06.053
And they go.

00:18:06.083 --> 00:18:06.232
Yeah.

00:18:06.232 --> 00:18:07.492
But what about that person?

00:18:07.492 --> 00:18:09.232
I, you know, I could help them with this.

00:18:09.472 --> 00:18:14.242
And so what happens is people are so afraid, as you said, they don't want to lose business and always ask them.

00:18:14.272 --> 00:18:14.452
Okay.

00:18:14.482 --> 00:18:16.222
Well, how many people have asked you to do that?

00:18:16.222 --> 00:18:16.732
We'll know what.

00:18:17.813 --> 00:18:26.813
So they're trying to market themselves and it's based out of fear because if you have a steady stream of leads, And clients coming your way.

00:18:27.442 --> 00:18:35.063
You're not worried about that potential person that might want that one thing that you learned how to do 15 years ago.

00:18:35.363 --> 00:18:38.782
That you, you can charge for because you're not desperate.

00:18:39.532 --> 00:18:43.313
You're positioning yourself in a way where you're reaching your ideal prospect.

00:18:43.313 --> 00:18:45.982
So, yeah, I think we're definitely on the same page with that.

00:18:46.313 --> 00:18:48.923
Well, and how many businesses have been derailed?

00:18:48.923 --> 00:18:50.272
Because they took a client.

00:18:50.272 --> 00:18:54.143
They took a customer that was wrong, really for what they did or for their product or service.

00:18:54.413 --> 00:18:56.873
And it ended up being sort of a nightmare engagement.

00:18:57.042 --> 00:18:58.992
you hear stories about that all the time.

00:18:59.353 --> 00:19:00.282
Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:19:00.313 --> 00:19:00.913
All the time.

00:19:01.363 --> 00:19:02.323
And, and th this.

00:19:02.502 --> 00:19:14.532
The other thing around that is the better the clients you bring on board that are very specific on what you're able to help them deal with and the problem you're helping them to solve the better clients you have.

00:19:15.313 --> 00:19:17.022
And it's just an all around.

00:19:17.262 --> 00:19:23.053
It's a better service you're able to provide and they're, your client is satisfied with you more as well.

00:19:23.083 --> 00:19:23.772
So yeah.

00:19:24.163 --> 00:19:26.262
So the more specific, the better, in my opinion.

00:19:26.472 --> 00:19:30.972
So this, you get into that next element of your process, which is like targeting the right traffic.

00:19:31.063 --> 00:19:37.093
So this is really where you take that niche, that target customer, and then you execute a marketing strategy against it.

00:19:37.903 --> 00:19:38.083
Yeah.

00:19:38.083 --> 00:19:38.682
Yeah, absolutely.

00:19:38.682 --> 00:19:42.613
Because every, every target market is going to be on dif different places.

00:19:42.942 --> 00:19:44.413
So understanding of how to target them.

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And we're talking about online.

00:19:45.883 --> 00:19:49.873
You know, if you're doing business to business, LinkedIn is a great platform for that.

00:19:50.022 --> 00:19:55.932
If you're doing business consumer, then things like Facebook and Instagram are probably going to be better platforms.

00:19:56.202 --> 00:19:58.903
Now, does that mean you can't sell business to business on LinkedIn?

00:19:59.292 --> 00:20:01.903
No, but it's more challenging.

00:20:02.502 --> 00:20:05.442
And can you sell business to business on Instagram and Facebook?

00:20:05.442 --> 00:20:06.163
Yes, you can.

00:20:06.282 --> 00:20:09.702
But your target market, your decision makers are on LinkedIn.

00:20:10.002 --> 00:20:15.133
So understanding not only how to target them on the platform is, but what's going to.

00:20:15.583 --> 00:20:22.633
Entice them to actually, as we were talking earlier, take up something of value from you so that they can be engaged with you.

00:20:22.633 --> 00:20:25.843
You can start that whole process of generating lead from them.

00:20:26.083 --> 00:20:28.992
So you're targeting the right traffic is really, really important.

00:20:29.472 --> 00:20:32.952
And that whole idea of giving them something of value, I think is critical as well.

00:20:32.952 --> 00:20:38.653
We're in this age of tremendous content generation where people are offering all BS.

00:20:38.903 --> 00:20:53.063
things for free on their website, on a YouTube channel like we're doing today on the podcast, but it's still not surprising to run into a business that wants you to sign up for things before they will even give you the smallest amount of content.

00:20:53.363 --> 00:20:56.452
And that just doesn't seem to be the best way to go about it.

00:20:57.323 --> 00:20:58.643
No, no, no, absolutely not.

00:20:59.393 --> 00:21:01.613
The more that people can know, like, and trust you.

00:21:01.613 --> 00:21:06.712
And that's something that obviously a lot of marketers know about is that whole know, like, and trust element.

00:21:07.192 --> 00:21:13.403
But having something that you're able to do, which goes into the Hage part, the age part of the rethink has helped for free.

00:21:13.883 --> 00:21:17.032
So you're going in giving them something of value.

00:21:17.452 --> 00:21:17.692
And.

00:21:18.262 --> 00:21:24.653
The thing that a lot of people I see do here is they, they scammed around the edges around this stuff.

00:21:24.923 --> 00:21:29.873
They just say, well, what can I give a free that's the smallest, the least amount of effort.

00:21:31.073 --> 00:21:33.772
But what does your prospect think about that?

00:21:33.803 --> 00:21:41.393
Like, if what they're getting for you from free is the smallest bit that you can possibly help them on and they don't feel.

00:21:41.663 --> 00:21:44.333
Like, what you're doing is really adding value to them.

00:21:44.663 --> 00:21:46.942
Or it's so generic or so bland.

00:21:47.393 --> 00:21:56.452
That is also a reflection of the perceived value that they think that they're going to continue to get from you if you are working with them longterm.

00:21:56.752 --> 00:21:58.853
So that doesn't mean to give away the form.

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It doesn't mean to give everything because obviously, you know, you have you're in business.

00:22:03.083 --> 00:22:03.923
You need to make money.

00:22:03.923 --> 00:22:04.883
You need to make a profit.

00:22:05.903 --> 00:22:17.212
But you want them to be able to have something of value from them, from you that they really get a sense of how well you're going to be able to help them.

00:22:17.452 --> 00:22:20.333
If they do move forward and pay you for your product or your service.

00:22:21.292 --> 00:22:26.843
One of the things that you talk about or make reference to in the methodology as well is once you've made that sale.

00:22:27.353 --> 00:22:29.032
Go for the immediate upsell.

00:22:29.212 --> 00:22:36.712
And that was an interesting thing because I've seen similar methodologies, but this is the first time that I've actually seen this as really as part of one of the methodologies.

00:22:36.742 --> 00:22:39.532
Talk a little bit about why you feel that upsell so important.

00:22:40.492 --> 00:22:42.623
Well, it, it's what we call people in the yes.

00:22:42.623 --> 00:22:43.073
State.

00:22:43.282 --> 00:22:50.032
So when you have someone that, whether it's an ad on Facebook or piece of content, or they've seen something on.

00:22:50.393 --> 00:22:55.643
Instagram or LinkedIn or wherever when, when they go and they click on something.

00:22:56.182 --> 00:22:57.623
To learn more.

00:22:57.863 --> 00:22:58.913
That's a yes.

00:22:59.482 --> 00:22:59.722
Right.

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Cause it could have said no, they could've kept scrolling and they could have moved on.

00:23:04.192 --> 00:23:06.413
They could have switched off their phone, whatever.

00:23:06.833 --> 00:23:12.143
So something that moves them more in the direction of your overall funnel is a yes.

00:23:12.563 --> 00:23:21.472
When they get to your landing page or your website and they fill in a form to get your free whatever, or to book in a call with you or whatever that case may be.

00:23:22.583 --> 00:23:23.482
That's a yes.

00:23:24.173 --> 00:23:25.462
And so they're in this yes.

00:23:25.462 --> 00:23:27.952
State of wanting more information.

00:23:28.373 --> 00:23:36.653
And so when you get that element of them saying, okay, here, I'll put my name and email address to receive your free gift, whatever that might be.

00:23:37.163 --> 00:23:38.242
And it goes onto that.

00:23:38.242 --> 00:23:39.083
Thank you page.

00:23:39.653 --> 00:23:41.393
Now they're in that yes.

00:23:41.393 --> 00:23:43.073
State because they want to know more information.

00:23:43.073 --> 00:23:46.163
And so if you're able to provide something to them, a value.

00:23:46.553 --> 00:23:52.643
To say, look, if you want more information now, yes, you've got the free stuff that's coming in right now to your inbox.

00:23:52.823 --> 00:23:56.573
But if you want something now that can help you more.

00:23:57.232 --> 00:24:02.962
Here is an offer 40, and that could be a, you know, kind of a low ticket product draw for that.

00:24:02.992 --> 00:24:07.792
You have, um, it could even be an affiliate product that you're promoting out that you get a commission on.

00:24:08.093 --> 00:24:09.383
But having that.

00:24:09.833 --> 00:24:10.492
People in that?

00:24:10.522 --> 00:24:11.242
Yes, state.

00:24:12.143 --> 00:24:19.792
They're more likely to purchase because if not think about what you're doing then is they're getting disrupted.

00:24:20.482 --> 00:24:21.502
In their life.

00:24:21.982 --> 00:24:22.702
Because.

00:24:23.903 --> 00:24:29.962
Yes, they put their name and email address in, but for them to then go into their email, they may be distracted.

00:24:29.962 --> 00:24:33.383
Something might happen and then it could get lost in the email.

00:24:34.192 --> 00:24:38.303
They could forget they've even signed up, which a lot of marketers like.

00:24:39.353 --> 00:24:45.863
A lot of marketers are surprised when, when they're first starting off, like peop they've just signed up now they're emailing me, telling them I'm spamming when they sign up for us.

00:24:45.893 --> 00:24:46.192
Like yeah.

00:24:46.252 --> 00:24:47.633
Cause people just forget.

00:24:48.083 --> 00:24:49.222
And so IE.

00:24:50.093 --> 00:24:55.313
If you're relying on just simply your free product, that your free gift or whatever it is, your email.

00:24:56.002 --> 00:24:58.373
Then you have to reengage them into a yes.

00:24:58.373 --> 00:25:00.982
State again, where the immediate upsell they're already in that yesterday.

00:25:00.982 --> 00:25:05.752
So there's a likelihood of them purchasing something from you straight away, which is really cool.

00:25:06.472 --> 00:25:12.413
One of the things that I love about marketing and it's good and bad in some ways, but we have so many buying intent signals, right?

00:25:12.413 --> 00:25:17.482
With all these tools, we can now really track what people are doing and understand what their intent was.

00:25:17.722 --> 00:25:18.532
I'll give you a great example.

00:25:18.532 --> 00:25:20.573
And this is honestly the first time that I'd seen this.

00:25:20.782 --> 00:25:27.792
I was shopping earlier for, some clothes, a new pair of pants, and I'd been on several different websites looking at this.

00:25:27.792 --> 00:25:31.813
And then just earlier this morning, I was on Instagram.

00:25:32.262 --> 00:25:36.432
And every other post on Instagram was the same company.

00:25:36.913 --> 00:25:40.903
And with a different picture from their catalog of things.

00:25:40.903 --> 00:25:44.113
And I'd never seen something where the same companies.

00:25:44.442 --> 00:25:47.712
A message was repeated every other post.

00:25:47.742 --> 00:26:01.843
You know, I've seen them pop up frequently, but never like that, but they knew I'd been shopping on a couple other sites by buying intent signals were very strong and they were going to capitalize on that moment for those impressions to put that in front of me, as often as they could.

00:26:01.843 --> 00:26:03.163
I thought that was really interesting.

00:26:03.762 --> 00:26:03.972
Yeah.

00:26:03.972 --> 00:26:04.303
Yeah.

00:26:04.393 --> 00:26:04.752
Yeah.

00:26:04.813 --> 00:26:06.163
And it's, it's a good thing.

00:26:06.343 --> 00:26:07.363
It feels a little bit scary.

00:26:07.363 --> 00:26:07.752
Sometimes.

00:26:07.752 --> 00:26:09.222
I think all of us have been in that.

00:26:09.613 --> 00:26:17.173
That place where I don't know if it's they actually do their snob, but where we've just mentioned something and, you know, talking to our partner or whatever.

00:26:17.502 --> 00:26:19.932
And next thing you know, we go into our, our cell phone and.

00:26:20.623 --> 00:26:21.913
Lo and behold there's theirs.

00:26:22.633 --> 00:26:24.583
An ad for the very thing we're talking about.

00:26:24.583 --> 00:26:25.903
So, uh, you know, I don't know.

00:26:26.173 --> 00:26:26.353
It.

00:26:27.462 --> 00:26:36.252
People have different opinions on it, if that actually happens or not, but it feels like that way, but yeah, you want to make sure that you capitalize on people's buying intentions for sure.

00:26:36.883 --> 00:26:40.813
Yeah, there's a lot of privacy concerns, obviously that we have to deal with.

00:26:41.093 --> 00:26:50.752
as a society, as marketers, but there's part of me that really feels like I'd much rather see products and services that were of interest to me than see a bunch of things that were completely irrelevant.

00:26:50.992 --> 00:26:53.343
And so there definitely is a trade off.

00:26:53.732 --> 00:27:00.932
So as we get to the end of your methodology here, let's just go through these last two steps, which were a nurturing the relationship and knowing your numbers.

00:27:01.323 --> 00:27:01.682
Yeah.

00:27:01.863 --> 00:27:02.192
Yeah.

00:27:02.373 --> 00:27:10.623
So nurturing is really important because a lot of people, they want the immediate upsell, uh, but going in and actually nurturing your list.

00:27:10.653 --> 00:27:11.942
Adding continued.

00:27:12.182 --> 00:27:21.002
Uh, value to them is very, very important because not everyone's going to want to purchase straightaway, even like what you did looking for your pair of pants.

00:27:21.032 --> 00:27:30.692
I don't know if you bought anything, but you went in, you looked, you researched, you looked at that and you're in the process of deciding on whether or not you actually want to purchase something.

00:27:31.083 --> 00:27:34.623
So by them, Providing more ads to you.

00:27:34.653 --> 00:27:47.222
Now, if you'd sign up for something and you're able, they're able to then send emails to you about promotions coming up or whatever the case may be, that is just continue value in that they're providing to you.

00:27:47.252 --> 00:27:49.202
So nerd journey, your list along that.

00:27:49.653 --> 00:27:53.012
That process showing them that you can continue to add value to them.

00:27:53.432 --> 00:27:54.692
Is really, really important.

00:27:55.143 --> 00:27:56.403
And then knowing your numbers.

00:27:56.403 --> 00:28:02.042
And this is where a lot of people, I think fall short is they don't know what their, their conversion rates are.

00:28:02.073 --> 00:28:03.123
They don't know what their numbers are.

00:28:03.153 --> 00:28:05.702
They don't know how many people come to their landing page.

00:28:06.272 --> 00:28:15.512
And then what the conversion rate is of people signing up to how many people purchase to how many people buy the upsells or upgrades to that.

00:28:15.782 --> 00:28:19.173
Um, how many, you know, what's the lifetime value of your customer?

00:28:19.173 --> 00:28:27.303
So if you have someone that's come in and bought a$50 products, well, what's the lifetime value of, of that, that, uh, that customer to you.

00:28:27.722 --> 00:28:30.363
And so knowing those numbers are really, really key.

00:28:30.363 --> 00:28:33.002
If you don't know your numbers, you don't know what to improve.

00:28:33.002 --> 00:28:35.403
You don't know what can grow and.

00:28:36.093 --> 00:28:39.452
You'll fall shore, uh, from massive potential in your business.

00:28:39.482 --> 00:28:40.532
If you don't know your numbers.

00:28:41.192 --> 00:28:46.923
Couldn't agree more with all the tools that we have, the analytics that, a lot of these tools provide.

00:28:47.103 --> 00:28:55.472
There's really no excuse for not knowing your numbers, but you have to know what numbers you need to be tracking as well, and make sure that the data going in is good because numbers.

00:28:55.923 --> 00:28:58.113
Are only as good as the data that you put in, right.

00:28:58.563 --> 00:28:58.803
Yo.

00:28:58.803 --> 00:28:58.952
Yeah.

00:28:58.982 --> 00:28:59.913
Yeah, absolutely.

00:28:59.913 --> 00:29:06.303
And there's some great tracking tool tools and, you know, obviously Facebook with the Facebook pixel and Google has its own page.

00:29:06.333 --> 00:29:06.813
Console.

00:29:06.813 --> 00:29:09.782
And there's loads of tracking tools now that you can use.

00:29:09.782 --> 00:29:09.962
And.

00:29:10.383 --> 00:29:12.063
Yeah, but you've got to know your numbers.

00:29:12.063 --> 00:29:16.202
You've got to look at them and, and make sense and look at where those incremental changes are.

00:29:16.232 --> 00:29:25.833
Cause that's, that's what, where the real growth comes in is if you're able to increase your lead magnet conversion rate by three or 4%.

00:29:26.252 --> 00:29:30.333
You know, if you're doing big numbers, that's, that's a lot of difference to your business.

00:29:30.633 --> 00:29:33.123
And so knowing that is really, really key.

00:29:34.383 --> 00:29:35.823
Before we wrap up today.

00:29:35.823 --> 00:29:43.863
I really want to pick your brain a little bit about LinkedIn, because I know you talked about how much you liked LinkedIn as a lead source as a way to make connections.

00:29:44.163 --> 00:29:47.103
What do you think people are doing wrong on LinkedIn?

00:29:48.063 --> 00:29:52.653
Oh, the, the first thing that people are doing wrong on LinkedIn is trying to sell.

00:29:53.913 --> 00:29:54.722
Which people go.

00:29:54.752 --> 00:29:56.222
What's the point of being on LinkedIn.

00:29:56.222 --> 00:29:56.883
If you're not going to sell.

00:29:57.932 --> 00:30:12.573
We all get messages now, you know, connection messages that people send a connection request to you and in their connection message, which there's a limited character count on that anyway, but in that short amount of characters, they're just like, Hey, do you want to jump on a call with me?

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And it's like, well, no, I don't know you.

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Like, why would I want to communicate with you at all?

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And why would I want to give my time away to you and that sort of thing.

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So that's the first thing is definitely just trying to sell to people straight away on, on a connection request, or once you've connected with them since a just full-on sales message to you is just.

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It turns people off it, they don't want to do business with you and the people that I do see promoting that.

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Uh, they're just, they're doing massive numbers and they're there.

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They're P they're given kind of the whole process of bad name on LinkedIn.

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Um, and I don't see them lasting very long either.

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They usually just fizzle out because people just don't like working with them.

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So that's the number one.

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Uh, thing that I see.

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That people are making a massive mistake on, on LinkedIn.

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I get so many messages that say, Oh, we have a number of connections in common.

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I think we should connect.

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Well, Y you know, tell me why you think we should connect.

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What is it other than having a few other connections in common?

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That is a good reason to connect.

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Because I'm open to connect with just about anybody, but I'd like to know sort of why you think you would be a good connection for me as well.

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And I see so many people doing that and I fallen into the trap many times of saying, okay, I'll do that.

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And then like you said, the very next thing is a form message.

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That's just a sales pitch for some product or another.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And, and there's, there's a balance between that as well.

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And so there's lots of things that people are.

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LinkedIn's a different platform than Facebook and Instagram.

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You know, it's not really a social networking platform, you know, you're not on there to share pictures of what you ate or your holidays or vacations or anything like that.

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It's a networking platform.

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And the way that you communicate with people is very different on that.

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So, you know, there's always a balance.

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I see the one side people going in for what I call the kill, you know, just that sales message straightaway.

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And then you have other people, um, because they've heard from other kind of LinkedIn trainers that you should just.

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Start messaging and create a relationship and all that book.

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I look at it where that's what I call being friend zoned it, where you just go in and say, Hey, how you doing?

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How things been going over for you for the last six months during COVID.

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People kind of go, well, why are you asking me this?

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You know.

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Okay.

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I get it.

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You're not going in for a sales pitch, grape.

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But also get to the point as well.

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So there's this balance and this is what I train a lot is, is how do you find that balance where you're not going in for the kill?

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But you're not just going into this kind of like asking questions where people just go, Oh, I just can't be bothered with.

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Replying to you anymore around this.

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So where's that balance and there's a process.

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It's a simple process.

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But, um, yeah, it it's it, once you get that down, though, LinkedIn is a brilliant, brilliant platform to use.

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Yeah.

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And as we were discussing a little bit before the call, it has its challenges, right?

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It's a, it's not moving quite at the same pace at some of the other platforms are moving for sure.

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But they are enhancing it.

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They are making it better and giving more tools for people to connect in different ways.

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And so it's certainly a platform that as a solo preneur, as a business owner, you should be taking advantage of and should have a presence on.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

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So LinkedIn is growing massive.

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I think they're adding about two, two new people every second, which is pretty cool.

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And, uh, I saw, um, actually yesterday that due to all of the COVID stuff to traffic on LinkedIn, as well as increased around.

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Uh, 2300%, because that's where a lot of people were networking because you couldn't go out and do that sort of networking.

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So it's a massive, massive platform.

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And as I agree, if you are a solopreneur entrepreneur or business owner and not using LinkedIn, you're definitely missing out for sure.

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And I know LinkedIn is your preferred channel for people to get in touch with you.

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So, if you would tell people what is the best way that they can find you.

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And also a Rethink Academy.

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Yeah.

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Sure.

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So if people want to connect with me, go on LinkedIn.

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It's Jason A Osborne O S B O R N.

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Um, and also for Rethink, um, we have, uh, the rethink social media book.

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Uh, so if you want the first four chapters of that, if you go to rethink gift.com.

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You can put your name and email address and do exactly what we talked about today.

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We put your name in an email address and we'll send the first four chapters of that book over to you as well.

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So you can just look into it, have a read of it and see the amazing value that's in that book for you.

00:34:41.182 --> 00:34:43.163
Jason, this has been a great conversation.

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I loved the methodology.

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I think there's a lot of value there and I hope people will go to the website, check out the first couple chapters of that book and take a look at some of the other training programs that you guys offer, because I think it's spot on.

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Cheers.

00:34:54.802 --> 00:34:55.193
Thanks, Eric.

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Appreciate it.

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