The Shift Show

What has moved your business forward? For me it's been the power of connecting with other people in a similar entrepreneurial journey. It's really amazing what spending time with people who "get" you can do for you. Going to a conference in Vegas really moved the needle forward for me and I want to be able to help you do the same...without leaving your home. 

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Melyssa Griffin is a major online course powerhouse. She made over 100,000 in March ALONE! Melyssa shares specific ways to use pinterest to grow your email list, how she stays balanced and her biggest business flop. Melyssa Griffin teaches online courses and workshops for entrepreneurs and bloggers who want to turn their passion into a full-time business. 

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Natalie is the president and co-founder of Healthy Human Life. Her diagnosis with multiple sclerosis prompted her to make clean living and healthy choices a priority. She co-founded Healthy Human Life to help people eliminate toxins in their life with the simple choice- choose stainless steel.

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We can get so overwhelmed with information, environment and more. Take the time to simplify your life and minimize your frustrations. Write down a list of 5-10 things that bring you frustration and pick one at a time develop systems. You'll be more productive and work better...and be happier! 

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Nicole Holland is a Master Coach and Marketing Strategist who specializes in helping service-based entrepreneurs take inspired action, to build profitable and purpose-driven online businesses. She is the creator of the hugely successful Business Building Rockstar Summit, which is a month-long, annual event where she interviews industry leaders about their favorite digital marketing techniques and platforms. Nicole works directly with clients who have a big mission and helps them design and implement strategies to realize their full potential through her coaching and mastermind programs.

What is the most effective form of social media?

Relationships. People just post things like billboards. Don't look at what other people are doing. Model the behavior that you want from other people. Look at social media like it's another relationships building tool. You wouldn't go into a PTA meeting and say to other parent's "ask me about my wisdom". You would ask them questions and get to know them first. Be in social media modeling the behavior that you want to get out of it.

I recommend to think about what is fun and easy for you regarding social media. Don't try to be everywhere. Wherever you are, be there well. Get to know the platform of choice really well and get to know it really well.  Engage with people and build relationships, without that, social media is not useful. Find what's fun for you and focus there.  If you don't want to be on video, then don't be. It doesn't matter how many people are using it.

What should entrepreneurs be focusing on to grow their brand?

Professionalism and authenticity. Have taste. Put things out there that are authentic to you. Put things out that will help people make a connection to you.

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Erika Kerekes is trying to turn the condiment world upside-down with NOT KETCHUP, her all-natural "ketchups" made from (other) fruits instead of tomatoes. An award-winning food blogger, Erika made her first batch of Cherry Chipotle Not Ketchup after a very productive trip with her two sons to a u-pick cherry orchard. She spent the summer of 2013 making "ketchup" out of every fruit she could get her hands on and now offers five flavors: the original Cherry Chipotle plus Blueberry White Pepper, Smoky Date, Spiced Fig, and her newest flavor Tangerine Hatch Chile, which she makes without any added sugar (hello, Paleo friends!). A longtime writer and marketing executive, Erika is a native New Yorker who moved to Los Angeles two decades ago. She still can't believe she lives in a place where food grows on trees in her backyard. 

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You need to F.O.C.U.S. Focus on One Course Until Success. Stop with shiny object syndrome and keep working on one thing until you have success with it. 80% of your results will come from 20% of your actions. Ask yourself what is really working? Brainstorm ways to do more of that activity. Get focused! 

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Christy Harp, turned her catering business online and grew it all over Instagram. She is going to share some valuable tips today and give you a few things that you can implement right away. Christy harp has been a chef for over 15 years and has built her business online in the form of a membership site called TLC Foodies. Christy's goal is to help women achieve their health and weight loss goals, have greater understanding of food and nutrition without the use of restrictive diets, calorie counting or the elimination of carbohydrates so that they may educate the nest generation. 

My top 3 tips to grow your instagram:

1. Do not use the big hashtags. Let's say you are a fitness coach and you see everyone using fitfam so you use that.  I want you to do is search fitfam and then scroll down the list and use the things that don't have millions of tags. Why? Because your gonna stay in that tag longer and people are going to find you. 

2. Colors. It's all about colors. 

3. Consistency. You need to be posting twice a day. I know with me having 7000 followers I know my followers are not on all the time. If your post twice a day, you're doubling your chances of getting into their feed.

What would you say is has been the biggest game changer in your business?

The biggest game changer was listening to what my followers want as opposed to what I thought they wanted. I was busy creating meal plans and recipes. My Instagram course that I teach came about because people asked me to teach it. I think no matter what platform you're on or how you're advertising yourself it serves you well to either ask them directly what they want to see more from you or listen to the comments or the questions that your getting all the time. If this is the stuff that people are wanting to see from you then you should take the time to see if it's worth it. 

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Denise Pomaski from the Granilla Bar has been cooking for most of her life! For the past 3 years, she has been working on exciting new Paleo recipes that infuse recipes from her Itailian heritage with the Paleo lifestyle! As well as being what we like to call our at home "Paleo chef", Denise is a CrossFit athlete, as well as, Crossfit Level 1 certified and a certified Crossfit kids Coach.

Denise was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. However, she currently lives in Houston, Texas with her four children, loving husband, Kevin and her two Mastiffs Izzy and Odin.

What is your biggest flop/disappointment?

Not being able to move forward due to lack of finances. The inability to just access money is probably been my biggest struggle.Whole Foods approached me a year ago and they wanted me in their store which was fabulous news. But we couldn't do it because of our packaging.  We're still waiting to do it because I need to change my wrappers so that they're heat sealed. This takes a lot of money that I just don't have until I can get a solid investor.

How did you come up with your sales strategy?

I just went with it. My husband helped me and we worked together on trying to just do everything we logically thought we would need to do. At the Slim Palate Cook book signing, I met quite a few people and one of them was April LeMaster. (April works for Diane Sanfilippo's). She sat with me in that book signing and she gave me advice. She said 'you need to be at Paleo FX this year, you need to make sure you have an Instagram account, you need to make sure that you need to have a Facebook account that's not just your personal one, you need to have a Twitter account, you need to go home and set up a website that's able to you to make money even if you have one order a week,'.  She kind of set my path that way and from that I kind of start posting things on Instagram. | Show notes: https://awesound.com/@NicoleCulver/go-with-your-gut-with-denise-pomaski-the-granil?auid=ay04WWUk

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