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Do You Want To Learn How To Increase Cash Flow And Convert More Prospects? Well, Ryan Chapman Is The Guy!
In This Episode, I Am Talking With Ryan Chapman. I've Known Ryan For A While. He Has Been In The Infusionsoft And The Marketing Automation Space For Some Time And His Passion Is Helping Business Owners Improve Profits And Create Greater Autonomy Through Communication Centered Technology. He Is The Author Of Three Business Books, With His Most Recent Being The Messaging Connection. This Book Will Teach You How To More Effectively Convert Prospects To Customers. We Talk About This Book And Many Other Tips To Increase Your Cash Flow By Converting More Leads.
Takeaways From This Episode:
Learn Marketing Automation And Direct Response Marketing
In 2006, he had the good fortune of being introduced to two things that totally changed his life. Those two things were marketing automation and direct response marketing. Having these two concepts introduced to him simultaneously was one of the biggest changes in his life. Literally, six months after he had those things introduced to him, his brother and he started a business that would go from having to put $37 on his credit card because he didn't have any money to 1.3 million in sales! It was a phenomenal experience and that is when he created a new business, which is Fix Your Funnel. They are 100 percent focused on helping people to better communicate with prospects so they can convert into customers. He is taking what he learned and truly helping others.
One of the biggest reason businesses fail is because they mess up cash flow and you do not get a second shot. Marketing Automation helps with cash flow. Hear about a trap that you can easily fall into and how to afford these traps. Learn automation and also keep the personal touch. Learn how automation can actually enhance the humanity of a sale.
Another tip Ryan talks about, is if you want to accelerate sales cycles, you don't make people jump through 30 hoops before they can finally talk to you. You may have some filtering that weeds out the tire kickers. But as soon as somebody gives the indication, based on their action, you jump on it and that's the beautiful thing about marketing automation. Ryan talks about his “Marketing Rule Number 19”. We have already determined sales happen through conversations. Knowing that you are going to capture a lead you should also know how you are going to sell to that lead. Meaning you should know how to communicate effectively.
Ryan talks about his “OCD method” and how it works so unbelievably well. A for sure way to get the audience to give you their number. Ryan wrote this book, The Messaging Connection because he wants to give people a foundation to know how to use messaging to accelerate the growth of their business, and particularly their cash flow. If you text the word “LEARN” to 949-835-5300 he will give you the audio version as well as the PDF version of his book. It is a must-read and I highly recommend it. To really understand how you can shorten up the sales cycles, create these relationships with customers faster and have the cash flow game so you can survive long enough to learn what it takes to really make your business.
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GoWP provides white label services to help WordPress agencies grow. Agencies that partner with GoWP are able to focus on the low-touch, high-value work because GoWP takes care of the high-touch, low-value work that disrupts their day.
Learn the importance of leveraging white-label services so that your agency can grow and scale. GoWP Page Builds is the newest service that offers a dedicated WordPress developer to build out your designs in a page builder.
“What the hell does GoWP do specifically and how can you help other people?” I asked him to specifically talk about the white label program because that is what my audience is going to be really interested in. The way he set up his white label profile, is designed to save time and effort for agencies. They literally handle all the small details for you so you have more time to focus on what you love doing. Brad explains how hard it is to try to do new projects and manage existing sites especially those little support tasks, those tasks that come in where your whole team's committed on this one big project.
Basically, they built a business to take all of the “little stuff” off of the plate of agencies such as: “My emails are not working, the SSL is not configured properly, the login credentials aren't working”. The basic stuff that has a tendency to consume hours of every single week is what they do. In a nutshell, the things that bog down a lot of agencies, GoWP takes care. Like content edits, and changes and tweaks and install this plugin and configure this plugin and those little things on the site that need to be done. They take care of all the details that need to be done but it is difficult to dedicate a full-time developer on these tasks. Let the developers work on more what they love to do and is more lucrative and higher-value work.
It's not glamorous, but you have to do maintenance, you have to do content edits. So what GoWP has done is design a tool for agency owners who are being consumed by repetitive tasks. On the maintenance side, GoWP has a plugin - not a tool like WP or any of the tools to update things - It's kind of a combined tool that they have built. It is the service of proactively taking care of things that the difference there would be managed by WP. Hear all about how their tool is different.
The white label support that GoWP offers gives you the team you need. If one of your clients submits a request update ...add this blog post to my website … install this plugin and add this tag...this change comes in the email to the agency's support address and then your GoWP support team takes over. They log in, complete the task, and then reply back to the client that it's been done. That white label is an email workflow. So we have the branding that you can do on the maintenance plugin and the email workflow on the content edits. And so the forward-facing stuff is branded with them.
GoWP does not think of themselves as a maintenance and support service, they think of themselves as a company that takes low value work important, but low value work off the plate of an agency owner, so you can focus on the higher-value work. Need help building out pages? GoWp can help you with that. You can do a ton with their service. Before you hire someone, hear how you can leverage their service. See how you can give them your designs, they take those designs and build it out in the page builder.
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How To Build Marketing Funnels For Your Customers And Charge Good Money For It. We Motivate Marketing Agencies To Sell More Marketing Funnel Services To Their Clients, Increase Their Prices And Create Multiple Scalable Income Streams.
Mike Killen Is The Founder Of Sell Your Service. He Gives Marketing Funnel Agencies The Confidence To Create Multiple Scalable Streams Of Income, To Free Them From The Crushing Constraints Of The Traditional Out-Dated Agency Model. Mike Is The Best Selling Author Of From Single To Scale, Universe Fuel, And Five Figure Funnels.
Takeaways From This Episode:
Michael talks about the little pitch that he gives about marketing funnels. It doesn't matter if it's websites, email, social media or none of that - forget about the tools - all we're trying to do is find a bunch of people that don't know that you exist, and pull them through and turn them into happy, profitable, repeat customers who refer you to their friends.
You can Consume 30 40 50% of an employee and when you automate that the human error aspect goes down. Everything gets better.
Little secret - you don't sell marketing funnels. The first rule of selling marketing funnels is don't call them marketing funnels. We talk about what most marketing businesses if they employ automation, or even just sales, general marketing, and sales, they do it correctly. They're in the business of operations and productivity. There are some massive companies that have tons and tons of leads coming in but 90% of them are garbage. They are wasting time and money.
Lot of people do not fully understand the difference between advertising and marketing. If you don't understand that, then you're going to be super confused by the whole marketing funnel. Everything you send is actually marketing. That's why successful companies invest so heavily in marketing. They can control the outcome and they understand what called the "time to close".
So, the number one thing Michael talks about is selling futures, not features. That means selling marketing funnels all based around benefits. The key to understanding a benefit is really just understanding the future that the customer wants? What are they wanting? In fact, on this show, we mention two or three benefits, all dealing with - productivity operations -Time-saving and Money making.
What we are talking about are human triggers. It is called emotional hooks or psychological hurdles. If we understanding the emotion behind decision making, we can understand the prospect's pain and help them where they need help.
Sophisticated marketing minds will tell you 100% of the time, it boils down to an unbelievably rudimentary simple emotion. They might try to check off the boxes logically to validate the emotion - but make no mistake about it - bring it back to that emotion every time and you'll win the sales game.
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Let’s Talk About The Five-Part Framework. We All Know We Have To Produce Content But Did You Know There Is A Framework To Production? It Can Take Forever To Create Good Content, But It Does Not Have To!
In today's episode, I am talking with Say Gabriel, she owns a content creation agency and has developed a five-part content framework for agencies that will blow your mind! This framework helps you create content for your agency that's going to drive quality valuable leads without spending a ton of time doing it. I have learned a lot from Say and I think you will as well in this episode.
Takeaways From This Episode:
Let’s talk about the five-part framework. We all know we have to produce content but did you know there is a framework for production? It can take forever to create good content, but it does not have to.
The Five-Part Framework:
Say guarantees if you follow these five steps, you will be able to write and produce value content for your audience!
Reference Material That Literally Every Single Agency Or Every Single Small Business Should Have.
There are some basic pieces of reference material that literally every single agency or every single small business should have. The first one is an avatar or a persona.
The second one is what we call our marketing engine. This is a path that tells you to run with that piece of content.
Pick An Anchor Channel And A Bass Rhythm
That takes us to number two, picking anchor channel and bass rhythm. Now, what are an anchor channel and bass rhythm? A channel is basically your medium. The rhythm is basically the rate of release.
That’s Your Work
Number three is, batch your work. Meaning set up how you use your channels. Lee and Say both use podcasts. Lee does all of his podcast in one day, Say spreads hers out. Listen to how they set up their batches differently but they both work.
Leverage Your Team
Number four is, Leverage your team - if you have a team - definitely leverage their skills first because this is their field of expertise. The hundred percent of what they are doing is definitely a hell of a lot better than the 20% you are doing.
Repurpose Content Across Multiple Platforms
Number five is to repurpose content across multiple platforms. Whatever your anchor channel is - it can almost certainly be repurposed. A single channel can become many channels without doubling or tripling or exponentially growing the work.
Connect With Lee:
https://www.marketingagencycoach.com - Website
https://www.facebook.com/groups/digitalmarketingagencygroup - Facebook Group
https://twitter.com/Agency_Coaching - Twitter
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Bolt-On Marketing Creates Mailbox Money For Your Agency! Who Doesn't Want Mailbox Money? Listen To Joe And Learn How To Build Relationships, Community And Bring In The Money. Joe Fier, The Co-Founder Of Evergreen Profits, Is A Seasoned Marketer And Applies Most Of His Experience Helping Business Owners Grow Through Fan-Building And Creative Ways To Monetize.
In this episode, find out how agency owners can use podcasting to bring in their best client talent all the way across the board. How do they share? How can an agency best use podcasting to make their lives better?
When someone's listening to your podcast, it's just you and them; it is you and the earbuds, air pods, or whatever way they are listening to you. People are not typically sitting around with 10 other people in a room listening to a podcast - so it is kind of like you are having a one on one conversation with your listener. They start to feel like they know you personally which can build trust and more followers. The more episodes, the more they learn who you are and what you are about.
Another bonus is ...a podcast can allow you to schedule one day a month to record six podcasts, like I did this day, and then you have a month-long content all buttoned up, ready to rock and roll search engines. Learn how to use YouTube, Vimeo, transcriptions, blogs, and much more!
Podcasts Are One Of The Most Valuable Tools But You Have To Use It Wisely.
You will need a promo calendar to map out the content. With affiliates and the referral partners, you do not have to stress over content! It takes a lot of the weight off. That's right, I don’t create content! They do! Why would I, I mean it would take me hours to come up with custom content all the time. Use your affiliates and referral partners. It is a win-win-win for you, them and your base. Listen to how it is done!
Joe talks about the bulk of their business, about 80%, comes from affiliate revenue.
Many agency owners that Joe has chatted with have not even thought about affiliate marketing and most are not even open to the concept. They are afraid to think about the bolt-ons to their existing offers.
Grow A Community Of Fans.
Everyone has heard about Facebook groups. Well, if you don't have a Facebook group, get one. You want to build a community. Emails, YouTube, Podcast all work together to help you build a community -- it is all about the community! And one of the funny things about Facebook is people will opt in to give you their personal info more easily. Emails I can get a 3.4% opt-in but with Facebook, I can get 50-60% opt-in!! Facebook offers Livestream - people love that! So many options and ideas with a Facebook group. Hear why and how to build your community:)
Shameless Plug Moment
The Hustle and Flowchart Podcast and Facebook Group are amazing communities! Listen to shows twice a week for an hour-long. It's a doozie and they are the crazy kind of people bringing on right now. The world's changed as you know; it's always gonna be different from this point on in some fashion, but I know community ain't going away. More than ever community and engaging with people like human podcasting is huge. Grow that community! Listen to Joe and Lee to see how branding and relationships are going to pay off!
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Mike Zeller Is Passionate About Helping Entrepreneurs Predominantly Make The Transition From The Entrepreneur Into The CEO Role. He Helps High Achievers Align Their Purpose With Both The Business They Want To Build And The Life They Want To Live While Getting Unstuck And Shaking Off Limiting Beliefs.
In This Episode, I Am Honored And Privileged To Have A Good Friend Of Mine, Mike Zeller, Talk About His Journey From Entrepreneur To CEO And How He Had A Second Chance Or Was Twice Born. He's Known As One Of The Top Entrepreneurs, Mentors, Business Architects For Small Businesses. He Just Released His New Book Called Twice Born, How A Crisis Can Remake You. He Talks About How It Really Is About The Journey And You Need To Understand And Appreciate The Journey.
Takeaways From This Episode:
Mike talks about losing over $1 million in bad business breaks, poor decisions, and investments that just didn’t turn out the way he expected.
In one year, three of his businesses lost more than $100,000.
Each. There are patterns of when we get enslaved to the operations, and one of Mike's favorite quotes says, "Great operators get tired. Great business owners get rich".
What An Entrepreneur Thinks Compared To A CEO
The first one that comes to mind, and I think it's the most important distinction is the business operator gets up thinking about, "What do I need to get done?" but the business owner wakes up thinking "What decisions do I need to make today?"
Not Asking For Help Soon Enough.
Mike talks about one of the biggest mistake that he sees in business owners and the fact - they don't ask for help soon enough. Having a coach or a mentor to help you as you make decisions, can be a lifesaver for so many business owners. Taking care of yourself and having masterminds get involved can accelerate your mind-shift. It is shocking how asking for help or slowing down can actually get you to your goal faster. Investing in yourself and your time away from work, pays series dividends and these massive dividends helps you shift from the operator to owner.
I had to learn this the hard way and I talk about the moment I had to start removing myself from my agency and start asking for help. Game-changer.
Don't Hire Someone That's Like You.
At the top of the list of things to think about and learn is, don't hire someone that is like you. First of all, you are already really good at being you. Why would you hire someone that's like you? Second, focus on finding somebody to complement you. There's no such thing as finding someone to replace you because you are the entrepreneur. It is your vision.
As entrepreneurs, we are the risk-takers. the progress and success depend on us because we have that entrepreneurial spirit and this is our company. Remember, Ideally you want the whole organization to have elements of that spirit but it can not replace that spirit.
A Divine Storm In Your Life And Knowing How To Navigate That Divine Storm.
Mikes says, "I was frustrated, confused and exhausted. I knew I had to make a change." See what Mike did to change.
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Website: https://www.mikezeller.com/
Jeff Bullas, one of the top influencers on the planet talks about his journey and the top three things he would advise agency owners they must do. Not only is he ranked as one of the top 20 influences, but he is also a wealth of knowledge according to Forbes and many other major publications. I highly advise you to go check out Jeff bullas.com after listening to this podcast and check out just some of his amazing resources.
I actually love the topic we talk about in this episode. We discuss personal hygiene like shaving every day and do you brush your teeth. Trust me, you are going to love hearing Jeff’s journey, from his failures to successes.
Jeff talks about the Tall Poppy Syndrome in Australia. This syndrome is very real and it is where they do not talk about themselves very much because. In Australia, if you talk about yourself too much it's called bragging - but in the United States - It's called marketing. Jeff talks about himself and his journey through stories and real-life experiences - the Australia way:)
Shortly after Jeff turned 50 he started to figure out what his purpose was. It took him a long time to discover why he was on this planet. In the middle of a divorce, he lost his family home, had to close down his business, and essentially was homeless. He had to move in with his brother and that was when his eyes were opened to how he needed to change his life.
You don't learn from comfort. You learn from discomfort.
In 2008, during his phase of discomfort - he found his passion - the digital world. When social media was the Wild West, he first joined Twitter and in time started working at a digital agency helping build online stores. He would wake up at 4:30 in the morning and write content and realized he was really good at it. Hear his story about the traffic starting to grow and within a few years, he reached 5 million visitors a year and had nearly 600,000 followers on Twitter! He has mastered content creation to attract an audience.
Jeff was doing all the writing, doing all the work and so he needed a way to actually scale it and put in place systems and processes so he could create content at scale. That's what he and his team are doing now. He realized his passionate purpose is to actually try and help people get their voice out to the world. What he loves about social media is it allows you to bypass the gatekeepers, the media moguls.
Then hear his top three things regarding social media.
Done is better than perfect.
I asked Jeff if anyone is looking to start at the end of the content world, what are a couple pointers on creating content at scale would you give them? He gave advice coming from someone who's been doing it for a long time, at a very, very high level. It is good stuff starting with how he decided to get other people to write for him and how you have the ability to take content and turn it into a variety of media. Don't over complicate things.
The Jeff Bullas show is an evolution of his blog and website, taking it to a whole new level. They interview some of the most fascinating entrepreneurs from all around the world, especially those that are focusing on the digital space.
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I Had The Honor Of Interviewing A Wonderful Brother From Another Mother, Lee Jackson. He Is An Agency Coach And Runs A Couple Of Agencies In His Spare Time. In this episode, Lee and I talk about... Dropping The Stigma and Pride And Asking For Help...Knowing the value a coach brings into one's life and discrediting the idea of being weak if asking for advice. Something that I have found is there seems to be a little bit of stigma when asking for guidance. It's almost like if reach out to a coach - you're asking for help - and that is a bad thing. We both talk about having these moments in our careers that made us second guess what we were doing and realize we may not know everything! Hear our stories and the amazing outcomes!
Embrace Being An Entrepreneur But Get Rid of The Attitude.
As entrepreneurs, we have this Spirit in us that just is there and we will move mountains, there is no stopping us. If you are a true pure entrepreneur, you don't care how many brick walls there are. It's just a matter of running through them. BUT, sometimes that attitude can be a stumbling block and we have to recognize it.
At The End Of The Day, Running A Business Is Running A Business
You can be really successful based on your talents and based on the personal brand and the energy that you give off. You are running a business that is ridiculously inefficient! Lee talks about his foundation and how it is absolutely a must when running a business. Learn about accountability rhythms of a company.
Entrepreneurs Need To Be Held Accountable!
For the most part, entrepreneurs do not like people holding them accountable - But when they do have someone holding them accountable - their performance skyrockets.
Top 3 Things To Look For When Looking For A Coach
Basically, you need a coach for the entrepreneur side of you, for the manager side of you and the employee side of you. Make sure that all those three people inside of me are being coached.
Let's Talk - The Digital Renaissance
Businesses have now realized that the internet is the single most important way of communicating and connecting as a way of doing business. The bricks and mortar finally realize they need to get online agencies in the best space possible. I talk about the Gold Rush. I'm calling it the third digital Gold Rush. There's not a CEO worth their salt on this planet right now that's not using this downtime to dramatically plan out a beef-up of their digital infrastructure
Hear Lee Jackson talk about the 1000-year-old Pub in his home town making the digital transformation! They have been in business for 1000 years for a reason!!
Now is the time for agency owners to shine. Listen and Learn how.
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Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/digitalmarketingagencygroup
Liz Germain is a rock star when it comes to YouTube! In this episode, Liz and I talk about how to turn YouTube into a lead generating machine for your agency. Using YouTube directly affects all of your social media! Liz Germain helps grow and monetize YouTube specifically for online businesses, coaches, entrepreneurs and agencies.
Liz Germain, founder of Vidfluence LLC, helps online businesses grow and monetize YouTube using video marketing automation and YouTube SEO. She is a leading expert in YouTube organic strategy. Liz has generated over 100 million organic YouTube views and tens of thousands of leads for Vidfluence clients across industries.
Realizing you can do the work once and just have it live there and have it generate leads forever! It is all about working smarter, not necessarily harder.
YouTube is A Search Engine - Owned By Google
Liz teaches people how to really master YouTube SEO, and the keyword strategy to pull in targeted organic leads to your business and into your sales funnel. If you do a Google search now you will find like three to four different videos right there at the top. Right. Yeah, it's very challenging to actually rank on the first page on Google, especially for agency-related search terms. But the thing is, YouTube gives you a competitive edge.
Video Marketing Strategy Converts On Average 49% More
People who use video in their marketing strategy convert on average 49% more than people who do not and 80% of online consumer traffic is Video Traffic.YouTube is your video platform of choice, video in general is one of the best ways to market and promote your business.
Turn Viewers Or Subscribers Into Buyers!
Liz breaks down the top four things she would recommend to everyone on how to monetize your YouTube videos.
Creating The Three Channel Pillars
Pillar One - It's really, really critical in the first two seconds of someone landing on your channel that they understand this channel is going to be covering around three different topics.
Pillar Two - One of the biggest mistakes is using YouTube for marketing purposes, by putting every single social platform
Pillar Three - Always giving a verbal call to action at the end of the video, because if somebody watched the entire video, they are clearly interested!
YouTube Growth Course
Start with “help” content first, and then do the keyword research process in their YouTube Growth Course. It will literally take you step by step through the process and show you how to use the different YouTube plugins like VidIQ. It walks you through the process so even if you have no idea what you're doing, You got this! It gives you the templates and spreadsheets that make it easy.
Liz gives a few wisdom nuggets and a shameless plug on how she can help you.
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In today’s episode, I am talking with Allie Quigley and she is one of the founders of a company called Impravado. What they do is help you aggregate in real-time all the KPIs. There's a lot of benefits from all the KPIs - She breaks down those benefits. I wanted to get her on my podcast because who does not want to increase your residual income, right?
True Ability To Be Able To Validate Your Hard Effort.
Ali shows you how a platform like Impravado can allow you to aggregate whether it be from Google Analytics, Facebook insight, you name it, you can pretty much pull all that stuff into a centralized real-time KPI dashboard. The reason why this is so important is because often times marketing teams are spending entirely too much time on the wrong tasks.
Automate The Entire Process, You Connect In, They Pull In All The Data For You!
Right now you might spend 50 hours a month pulling all this data from these sources, then you spend 300 hours on the actual cleanup. From there, it takes you 10 hours just to put the report together. With Impravado, they automate that entire process for you, you connect in and then they pull in all the data for you. The impacts of this can be huge - Your ability to make decisions much more quickly, your campaigns become much more efficient, because you have more time to spend on the actual optimization.
Don’t Even Need A Technical Background - They Do It For You!
Having a real-time KPI is an absolute game-changer for sure!! It is unbelievable to see your average hourly rate, your billable hours, your profit margin ...everything at a glance! And, you don't have to have any sort of technical knowledge or background to be able to get your hands on this data! So, hypothetically, if you're running a campaign, a brand awareness campaign in Facebook, a closed campaign after being pix-elated in Facebook and Google - you have six or seven different campaigns across all the different things. With Impravado, you can pull all of that into one centralized platform and give a true aggregate number of return on ad spend across all platforms for that one campaign! WHAT!! I mean, the value in that alone!
Watch An Actual Demonstration Of The Process!
Ali goes through and breaks down the process, answers questions and explains how the system actually works! She describes how Impravado is for all types and sizes of agencies and why it has been so successful!
Question And Answer Time!
Lee and Ali go through and answer the questions that come up and reply to comments regarding Impravado. If you are serious about saving time and bringing in more residual income, this is a must-see episode! Learn how your KPI dashboard works and use it to your advantage.
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