Business Operations Simplified - Sales, Operations, Leadership & Marketing Strategies For Entrepreneurs

Hello, friends! It's a New Year... and this is a new show! Welcome to the Business Operations Simplified Podcast. Today's show is a quick update on where the podcast is going in February. Thank you for listening, stay subscribed to get new content coming out in February.

I’m wrapping up for the year, friends! The podcast will be back in January 2022. I can’t wait to share new content with you. I’m taking the next few months to enjoy time with my family, pray and strategize about my business and get some much-needed rest. I can’t put into words how much it means to me that you listen to the show. Thank you. I pray it continues to bring you value and I pray you have a blessed end to your year. I look forward to hanging out with you again in January!

 

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Entrepreneurs naturally have a lot of ideas, and staying on track can be difficult, especially when you’re creating content or preparing for a launch. Today’s episode provides valuable tips from Angel McElhaney from the Control The Chaos Mama podcast to organize all ideas, tackle them intentionally and get through busy seasons like launching when you have your highest energy. Angel discusses helpful tips on starting with the bigger vision and backing up the process into small steps, Facebook group engagement, and repurposing content. There’s a ton of gold in this episode for you!

As a freelancer, virtual assistant, or online business manager, knowing how to batch content and manage launch seasons can increase your service offering as a copywriter or content marketing freelancer.

More About Angel McElhaney

Angel McElhaney helps multipassionates, creative rebels, and ADHD entrepreneurs embrace the authority that has always been theirs with podcast strategy and coaching.  Angel creates clarity, confidence, and consistency for her clients so they can finally stop restarting from scratch and learn to trust their intuition. She’s also a mom of four, motherless daughter, and wife to a TN vols obsessed hubby.  When she’s not helping amazing women make meaning of their hard stuff with podcasting, she can be found dreaming about her next vacation, empowering women to love the skin they are in with boudoir photography or making up random songs in the kitchen.

 

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Many entrepreneurs struggle with creating effective lead magnets. Having a process for niche research ensures that your lead magnet attracts the right customers and provides enough value for your customer to want to give you their email address. When your lead magnet is valuable, clear, and effective, you grow your email list faster and have a pool of customers you can sell to. Our guest today, Barbara Carneiro, is a communication and branding strategist who talks about how to research to create an effective lead magnet and the key ingredients in a lead magnet that will increase your visibility and authority in your industry.

As a freelancer, knowing how to research and create valuable lead magnets is a skill that will significantly increase your service offering as a copywriter.

More About Barbara Carneiro

Barbara is the founder of Word Revolution (a communication and branding agency for Christian ministries) and the brain behind The Church Communicator Bootcamp (a training program for accidental church communicators). She is a Christ-follower, forever curious strategist, minimalist designer, storyteller, and geek, and you can make her happy with a white chocolate mocha.

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Do you ever find yourself looking back at the end of a busy day, wondering what you did all day? If your to-do list never ends and your Trello board is working on overdrive, you’re going to love this episode with Kristi Veitenheimer. Kristi is a fellow podcaster and the owner of Simplicity For Solopreneurs. She’s a time-management and business strategy guru, and today she’s sharing her best-kept secrets for truly prioritizing your schedule and finding the accomplishment in your day that you’ve been yearning for. This episode is tactical, fun, and inspirational. Grab that laptop or pen, it's copy time!More About Kristi VeitenheimerKristi Veitenheimer is a Jesus-loving, coffee-drinking, chocolate-loving gal from Texas. She’s a wife, mother of two, and Mimi of four grandsons and adores her family. Kristi is the host of the top podcast for new solopreneurs, Simplicity for Solopreneurs™. Her mission is to inspire and empower women 40+ to make their dreams of owning an online business a reality. Kristi specializes in helping the beginning entrepreneur create her online business without all the overwhelm and stress by teaching her how to simplify her entire business system so she can actually enjoy the journey to achieving her dreams. Because Kristi believes women shouldn’t have to choose between their God-given dreams and talents and their current reality.

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Getting your content found is an important piece of building your business and growing your audience. In today’s show, we speak with podcast strategist and coach, Wren Robbins, about the best way to create content that serves your audience and get it found online. Wren gives specific statistics around blogging and podcasting and explains why podcasting is the best way to get your message to the masses and the strategy behind how to do that successfully!

More About Wren Robbins

Wren Robbins is a Podcast Strategy Coach who catapults women in business using effective podcast strategies. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Special Education, is a wife to Jim, mother to an eight-year son, and loves connecting with others. As an avid aviation family, they are following their dream of building a home on an airstrip.  For the past five years, Wren has been the host of The Friends of a Feather Podcast where she interviews women who share their God stories each week.  Through her podcast coaching programs, women start their podcast and gain unique podcast strategy for their business.

 

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Are you looking for a signature service? Or a unique way to work with nonprofits and for-profit organizations? Today’s guest tells us all about what it’s like to have grant writing as a signature service.

Eliana Echavarria brings energetic, cool-girl vibes to the driest of topics- GRANT WRITING (enter the yawns)! As a grant writer and freelance coach for Christian entrepreneurs, Eliana teaches aspiring freelance grant writers how to launch and scale their business with a Kingdom-focused mentality through her podcast “Nothing for Granted.”

Eliana is on fire for God and determined to raise her 4 littles to be the next generation of entrepreneurs by leading by example. Don’t hang out with her too often- she’ll have you believing you too can build a business where you don’t have to compromise motherhood, marriage, travel, and a career you love!

 

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Instagram is an amazing tool and the reach you can get to grow your business and community can be tremendous. It can also be exhausting. Do you feel that way? I do. So, I sought out someone who we can learn from to use Instagram for the effective tool it can be, but who I thought could help us do this in a way that wouldn’t make us feel like we had to spend all of our time on the platform and go insane with keeping it up. Sound good? If you’re nodding your head, you’ll love today’s guest as much as I did. Camie Wilke is a faith-based business coach who teaches women how to generate a full-time income from home on Instagram using online coaching and courses.

In today’s episode you’ll learn:

What’s necessary, and not necessary, to grow on Instagram

Tactical steps you can take to use this platform effectively for your business

What to post to grow your community

When and how often to post and maintain your sanity

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Visit Camie’s website: https://www.camiewilke.com/

Follow Camie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/camie.wilke/

Checkout Camie’s course: https://www.camiewilke.com/kingdomcourseacademy

The podcast was blessed today to have Christa Hutchins as our guest! Christa is an accountability coach who helps busy leaders reach their goals. Our discussion today gives realistic ways to reach goals when we are surrounded by a world, and circumstances, that we often can’t control. Christa’s approach to setting and achieving goals is flexible and realistic and offers a great approach that is fitting for the busy world we live in today. As an entrepreneur, freelancer, VA, OBM, or online business owner, these tactical steps will give you a refreshing way of approaching and reaching your goals!More About Christa HutchinsChrista Hutchins equips busy communicators and leaders with project management and problem-solving skills so they can turn their big ideas into a successful ministry or business. She is passionate about teaching women to find practical applications of the Bible in their personal, professional, and ministry lives. Christa lives in south Louisiana with her husband in their delightfully empty nest. 

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Connect with Christa and the resources mentioned on today’s show: https://doanewthing.com/schoolofcopy/

Connect with me www.amberglus.com

Schedule a free 30-min marketing consultation https://calendly.com/amberglus

Download my free guide for The Five Essentials For A Successful Website www.amberglus.com/website

Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/amberglus/

I love a good resource or a tool that saves me time and makes life, and business, a little easier. In today’s show, I share the top tools I use and love that organize my business. We cover organizing a to-do list, setting up a budget, making sense out of an overwhelmed inbox, and getting contracts in order for your business… and more! These tools will help keep you organized and keep your business running smoothly.Resources From Today's Show:

Book A Call With Amber  https://calendly.com/amberglus

Download my free guide for The Five Essentials For A Successful Website www.amberglus.com/website

Connect with me www.amberglus.com

Shout out for sharing the show!Kelly Witt, Witt and Company: https://wittandcompany.com/

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