Create A Proneur Podcast

Today’s episode is sponsored by my free downloadable PDF checklist –How To Create A Highly Irresistible List Building Freebie And Attract Your Perfect Customers The Easy Way! Stop guessing what your ideal audience wants and start filling your email list with ‘Buy Ready’ people actively searching for your digital products, online courses, artwork, workshops, retreats or 1 on 1 client services!

You can download your free copy today at: getpaidforyourcreativity.com/irresistiblefreebie-checklist

1. Do I know my ideal avatars top of mind problem, the one they most want to have solved? And do I know how they’re languaging it?

2. What’s the best possible solution I can give them to address that problem and get them a quick valuable win?

3. Will the result of that QVW (quick valuable win) inspire them to take action on your next step?

Before you create your profit-driven freebie you must get clear on your ideal avatar and the problem they most want solved ways to do this?

* Interview your ideal customer and ask them what they’re struggling with most or what problem they most want to be solved.

* If you have an email list survey them

* Check out and read reviews of competing products that your ideal customer avatar might refer to as an option/alternative to your product or service

* If you sell information or education-related products visit YouTube.com Udemy.com and Skillshare.com enter the subject your freebie solves in the search sorting the results by the most searched and highest rated videos. Review the comments, if there are any, what are viewers saying?

I created a video tutorial Research Your Next Profitable Idea Using Google Trends, Google, Amazon, Udemy, and Skillshare on Episode 013: Choose! My Personal Take On Ryan Levesque’s New Book & How Creatives Can Use It To Choose The Best Idea For Them of the podcast

* You can also search blogs or podcasts and read the comments

Begin with the end in mind then reverse engineer your paid offer to your free offer

* What are you selling? A book, a course, or paid service like copywriting, photography, or maybe graphic design?

* Your free offer must ultimately lead to your paid offer, and if you don’t have a paid offer yet, extend an invitation for an experience that will allow them to engage with you like a Facebook group

* Other options? A free or paid online workshop and if you have a Facebook group you can run it inside your group

* Give them a quick-win that feels valuable and sets up your paid offer. For example, if you’re a service provider like a copywriter you could offer to do a free rewrite of an existing piece of content with the option to purchase if they want to use it

* For example, if your freebie is a checklist take one of the items on your list, (something that relates to the problem your avatar wants to be solved) make sure it’s something that connects to your paid offer and something you could teach on via a live video conference or a one on one consulting session

Stanford Professor and behavior expert BJ Fogg whose concept of “easy wins” suggests

“For people to be motivated to continue pursuing any action, they need to experience a set of immediate and observable wins”

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/018

If you enjoyed today’s episode and it inspired you in some way, I’d love to hear about it and know your biggest takeaway. Take a screenshot of you listening on your device, post it to your Instagram Stories and tag me! @createaproneurpodcast

I’d also love if you subscribed to the podcast and left a review at http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/itunespodcast

Lastly, I want to invite you to help contribute to this podcast by submitting a question for the Listener Question of the Week edition of Create A Proneur Podcast. Go to http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/QA and record a question (under 3 minutes or less) that could be featured on an upcoming episode!

Today’s episode is sponsored by my free downloadable PDF checklist –How To Create A Highly Irresistible List Building Freebie And Attract Your Perfect Customers The Easy Way! 

Stop guessing what your ideal audience wants and start filling your email list with ‘Buy Ready’ people actively searching for your digital products, online courses, artwork, workshops, retreats or 1 on 1 client services!

You can download your free copy today at: getpaidforyourcreativity.com/irresistiblefreebie-checklist

I am beyond thrilled to introduce you to my special guest today. Daniele and I met at a networking event about nine years ago and from the second we locked eyes we’ve been pretty much inseparable. Since that first meeting, I’ve seen her go from self-publishing a children’s book of illustrators based on her beloved cat Beijo who sadly is no longer with us.

But she has a new fur baby in the family which I’m sure she’ll speak about in the interview.

Fast forward she’s grown from publisher to become one of the sought after Pet Behaviorist in the Southern California area, and her trajectory is nothing short of ‘divine’ we’ll explain in the interview.

One thing that absolutely I love about Daniele is how she bucks the traditional “this how to do business” system and has done so with great success.

When everyone is going right, she goes left and it’s continually paid off for her which is how her email list grows every day with ‘Buy Ready’ leads using a Pet Personality Assessment.

Assessments and quizzes are one of the if not the highest converting freebies you can employ in your list building activities. Why? Well as I mentioned in Episode 016 I personally feel the reason why they’re so popular is simple.

Curiosity!

Shownotes and Resources Mentioned In This Episode: 

http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/017

Today’s episode is sponsored by my free downloadable PDF checklist –How To Create A Highly Irresistible List Building Freebie And Attract Your Perfect Customers The Easy Way! 

Stop guessing what your ideal audience wants and start filling your email list with ‘Buy Ready’ people actively searching for your digital products, online courses, artwork, workshops, retreats or 1 on 1 client services!

You can download your free copy today at: getpaidforyourcreativity.com/irresistiblefreebie-checklist

On today’s episode I'm going to cover:

* How I added over 600 plus new subscribers to my email list in less than 30 days

* 15 Totally Irresistible Freebie Ideas! To see the complete list of options visit the Ultimate Guide to Creating An Irresistible Freebie Blog Post

* I’m also going to share details about a very special opportunity to get some, one on one support from me in a small intimate group virtual setting when the doors open for the Irresistible List Building Freebie 5 Day Challenge that kicks off July 29th!

If you’ve struggled to figure what your lead magnet should be, the focus of the topic, how to put it together, how to market it and use it to attract “Buy Ready” leads you definitely want to get in on this opportunity to get some free support from me and do it the company of other creative entrepreneurs just like you.

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:
Ultimate Guide To Creating An Irresistible List Building Freebie

Today’s episode is sponsored by my free downloadable PDF checklist – How To Create A Highly Irresistible List Building Freebie And Attract Your Perfect Customers The Easy Way! Stop guessing what your ideal audience wants and start filling your email list with ‘Buy Ready’ people actively searching for your digital products, online courses, artwork, workshops, retreats or 1 on 1 client services!

You can download your free copy today at - getpaidforyourcreativity.com/irresistiblefreebie-checklist

Shownotes are available at:

http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/015

I’m declaring July as “Create Your Creative & Financial Independence Month” and if you’re an online entrepreneur or entrepreneur that markets their creative products and services online you need to build and nurture an email list.

If you want to have the ultimate creative and financial independence, which to me means having a cultivated audience that you have complete control over, one that you can nurture and curate and over time you’ll turn into engaged fans that become paying clients and customers, one of the best ways to do this is by creating and growing an email list.

So for the month of July 2019, every episode of the podcast will be focused on list building including:

Episode 015 – Create a list building freebie part 1
Episode 016 – Create a list building freebie part 2
Episode 017 – *Surprise Guest Interview 1
Episode 018 – *Surprise Guest Interview 2
Episode 019 – Irresistible List Building Freebie 5 Day Challenge (kicks off July 29th thru August 2nd)

In today’s episode we’re going to cover:
* What is an Irresistible Freebie?
* What makes a Freebie Irresistible?
* The benefits of having an Irresistible Freebie?

Here's a quote from our episode sponsor: 57 Ways To Monetize Your Gifts and Create True Security For Yourself!

“Nobody cares how much you know until you show how much you care, don't believe me? Ask a disappointed customer.”⠀

It’s been said that acquiring a new customer is anywhere from 5-25X more expensive than keeping an existing one, in this episode of the podcast I’m going to give you some tips and strategies on 5 ways to up your customer service game by keeping your existing customers happy so they’ll reward you with new referrals on auto-pilot.

In a former life, I worked as a trainer at the Four Seasons hotels and regardless if you’ve stayed at one of their properties or not the #1 thing the company prides itself on is creating the best experience possible for its customers.

Extensive data is collected on its guests so no matter what property you’re visiting it’s known company-wide your likes and dislikes. No matter if you’re in Shanghai or the Maldives if you’re allergic to feather pillows you don’t have to tell them, they know.

So with that, Listen in to get these five specific ways to up your customer appreciation practices and turn paying clients and customers into raving fans that reward you with repeat business and referrals.

1. Collect Data As You Onboard New Customers

2. Celebrate Their Wins

3. Send Something Physical

4. Set Up A New Customer Onboarding Email Sequence

5. Demonstrating You Care Always Outweighs Touting Features

Go Here to get the full show notes for this episode including all of the resources mentioned.

If you enjoyed this episode and it inspired you in some way, I’d love to hear about it and know your biggest takeaway. Take a screenshot of you listening on your device, post it to your Instagram Stories and tag me! @createaproneurpodcast

I’d also love if you subscribed to the podcast and left a review at http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/itunespodcast

Lastly, I want to invite you to help contribute to this podcast by submitting a question for the Listener Question of the Week edition of Create A Proneur Podcast. All you have to do is go to http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/QA and record a question (under 3 minutes or less) that could be featured on an upcoming episode!

In episode 11 of the podcast (3 Lessons from My First 60 Days of Running The Podcast (and how you can apply them to every project you create) I talked about the power of choice and the importance of choosing well.

If you missed it, in Lesson 3, I talked about a newly released book I just finished reading called, Choose: The Single Most Important Decision Before Starting Your Business by Ryan Levesque.

What the authors created here is a perfect roadmap to helping creative entrepreneurs discover their sweet spot.

It’s my sincere hope that you’ll use Choose to help you make the best possible business decision to support your creative expression and bank account.

Visit show notes to get my key takeaways from the book, plus a bonus video tutorial Research Your Next Profitable Idea Using Google Trends, Google, Amazon, Udemy, and Skillshare.

Again, I feel what the authors created here is a perfect roadmap to helping creative entrepreneurs discover their sweet spot. It’s my sincere hope that you’ll use Choose to help you make the best possible business decision to support your creative expression and bank account.

We live in a world where the demands on our attention are becoming shorter and shorter every day so when an opportunity to connect with people that might have a genuine interest in our offerings we have to get to the point quickly or we’ll lose them.

With that said, it amazes me how many times at conferences or networking gathering I’ll encounter someone who walks up to a microphone or complete stranger and immediately start “oversharing” their back story and/or work history.

You see whenever someone asks “what you do” that’s not really the question they want you to answer.

What they really what to know is… what can you do for me?

So in this podcast episode, I want to give you a simple framework for answering that question simply and succinctly that actually inspires the “right listener” to want to learn more about you and what you do without you having to “oversell” yourself.

An effective “What do I do” statement it must accomplish three things:

* Tell the listener what you do,
* For Whom
* And what they get or the result they can expect

Show notes for this episode are available on: 
http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/012

If you’d like to share your revised statement with me, send me a DM on Instagram and I’ll respond with a personal audio message.

So if you enjoyed this episode and it inspired you in some way, I’d love to hear about it and know your biggest takeaway. Take a screenshot of you listening on your device, post it to your Instagram Stories and tag me! @createaproneurpodcast

I’d also love if you subscribed to the podcast and left a review at http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/itunespodcast

Lastly, I want to invite you to help contribute to this podcast by submitting a question for the Listener Question of the Week edition of Create A Proneur Podcast. All you have to do is go to http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/QA and record a question (under 3 minutes or less) that could be featured on an upcoming episode!

Depending on when you listen to this I launched the Create A Proneur podcast a few days shy of two months ago, April 9th, 2019 and in this episode, I want to break down my top three lessons I’ve learned from launching the show and how they can affect every project you create.

Show notes for this episode are available at: 
http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/2019-06-011/

Here are my top three lessons from the first 60 days of publishing the podcast.

Lesson 1: Pick a project you’re willing to commit to for the next five years. 

Lesson 2: Consistency is everything!

Lesson 3: Everything is a choice. Choose Well.

I'm currently reading the book Choose: The Single Most Important Decision Before Starting Your Business by Ryan Levesque (highly recommended) 

Get your hands on a copy today!

Stay tuned for a future episode of the podcast where I’ll share more of my impressions and discoveries from the book and how I’m using it to create my own “practice business” projects and who knows, I may be able to score an opportunity interview with the author!

So if you enjoyed this episode and it inspired you in some way, I’d love to hear about it and know your biggest takeaway. Take a screenshot of you listening on your device, post it to your Instagram Stories and tag me! @createaproneurpodcast

I'd also love if you subscribed to the podcast and left a review at http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/itunespodcast

Lastly, I want to invite you to help contribute to this podcast by submitting a question for the Listener Question of the Week edition of Create A Proneur Podcast.

All you have to do is go to http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/QA and record a question (under 3 minutes or less) that could be featured on an upcoming episode!

How to Create a Website That Converts (and Actually Have Fun Making It)

Show notes available: http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/2019-05-010

Now before I get into what I have for you today I want to tell that this episode is sponsored by Leadpages.

I’ve used Leadpages for going on five years now to create all of my landing pages to continually build and grow my mailing list and if you’d like to see one of my Leadpages in action go to http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/57waysgift to grab my free gift 57 Ways To Monetize Your Gifts and Create True Security For Yourself!

Now make sure to listen to the end because I have another special gift waiting for from Leadpages which is a perfect accompaniment to the focus of today’s episode.

So without further ado here we go, How to Create a Website That Converts (and Actually Have Fun Making It)

Leadpages just launched a free course called Create a Website That Converts (and Actually Have Fun Making It) that walks you through the soup to nuts everything you need to know about setting up a website.

This comprehensive free course covers everything from:
*Website Basics
*Website Goals
*Building Your Site
*Content Marketing: Signature Content
*Content Marketing: Lead Magnets
*Tools
*Optimizing Your Site
**Campaigns with Landing Pages

And you get your hands on it at http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/lpworkshop when you opt-in you have an option to take advantage of 14 days free trial to Leadpages if you want to take advantage of their free training and start put together your own Landing pages and website.

And to take it step further, if you decide to become a Leadpages customer after the 14-day free trial, so if you sign up for a full year, forward your receipt to [email protected] or take a screenshot and DM on Instagramand I’ll gift you a 30 minute Getting Started with Leadpages Onboarding session as my gift.

If I asked you what you thought the most important page on any website what would you say?

If you said your “About Me” Page you’d be a grand prize winner.

Here’s why

Your “About me” page is your opportunity to introduce yourself to the world online. Use it to share your accomplishments, your passions, your interests, your work history, special certifications and how you serve your ideal audience.

It’s important that your “about me” is more than just a resume of professional qualifications do that and you’re missing a golden opportunity to let people know about you and what makes you tick

In my experience, the biggest mistake we all make is using this vital piece of real estate solely as a resume

Of course, you want to shout out your credentials but just listing your professional accomplishments is boring, it doesn’t set you apart from everybody else that offers the same thing as you.

But when you share the things about you that bring you joy, the things you’re good at, your hobbies, interests, and talents humanizes you and makes you relatable. That’s what a good “about me” page does!

Visit the show notes for a list of topics to inspire you as you flesh out your own "About me" page.

If you enjoyed this episode and it inspired you in some way, I’d love to hear about it and know your biggest takeaway. Take a screenshot of you listening on your device, post it to your Instagram Stories and tag me! @createaproneurpodcast

I would also love if you subscribed to the podcast and left a review at http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/itunespodcast

I want to invite you to help contribute to this podcast by submitting a question for the Listener Question of the Week edition of Create A Proneur Podcast. All you have to do is go to http://getpaidforyourcreativity.com/QA and record a question (under 3 minutes or less) that could be featured on an upcoming episode!

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