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    NooB Monday! - February 01, 2021

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 02:00 AM PST

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    My online course made $6,622 in 5 days. Here's how I did it

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 08:32 AM PST

    TL;DR I built an online course and got over $6k in pre-orders in 5 days. But my journey started 8 months ago when I started writing and sharing value consistently.

    —

    At the beginning of 2021, I had set a goal to find out one way to monetize my blog. The purpose of the goal is to have fun and learn something new. The money is a nice by-product of doing it right.

    31 days into 2021, I can safely say that I checked off that goal.

    Learn Programmatic SEO, my first online course, generated $6,622 in pre-orders in just 5 days.

    (Gumroad sales dashboard screenshot)

    Now I'm going to tell you everything, from the very beginning, so strap in.

    The story begins 8 months ago

    Honestly, the last thing I want someone to takeaway from this post is that I just put a course out into the world and made money.

    No, it's not that straightforward lol. If it were, everyone would have done just that, right?

    The good news is, you can do it too.

    But you need to do 3 things for a duration of time before it can work for you.

    1. Find your target audience

    Defining an audience and finding them online is a tough job. I cannot codify it exactly for you, but I can tell you who my target audience is and how I arrived at that.

    Who is my target audience?

    People who are building an online business, and also wanting to live a good life.

    How did I arrive at this?

    This is me! I'm building an online business! I wanted to read less thought pieces and high-level analysis of some billion dollar company's strategy, and more of things that work for a small business like mine.

    I was already active on the Indiehackers forum where people would share stories about their successes or failures and their learnings from it. So I knew that people did want read such stories.

    The direction became clear - Let's talk more about how someone can go from $0 to $1000, from $1000 to $5000, and so on!

    At the same time, my identity is not limited to 'founder' or 'someone who builds a business'. My blog is a creative release for my mind. It's my canvas and my words are paint. I didn't want it to feel like work.

    I like living a good life, improving upon my mind and body, learning about new and interesting things. Turns out, many other people in the pursuit of building their own business felt the same way.

    So it was decided, my blog was going to be about all of these topics!

    2. Add value to their lives

    Almost every tweet or blog post of mine is always about providing value to my target audience.

    How do I come up with topic ideas that can add value?

    I write about ideas, problems or learnings that I

    • encountered myself in my life or business.
    • discussed at length with someone from my team or with a friend or a random kind stranger on Twitter.
    • saw others talk about it, could relate to it and therefore wanted to share my perspective.

    You're going to say "really, that's it?" but really, that's it.

    The best topic ideas come from real world experiences. So get doing!

    • Work on interesting stuff, you'll face problems.
    • Talk to people about their lives or business, you'll learn about their problems.
    • Think deeply about problem statements or ideas, you'll probably have a perspective to share.

    Here's a live example in action.

    It's this very blog post that you're reading. I launched an online course and now I'm writing about it.

    With this framework, you will practically never run out of ideas.

    3. Be consistent

    Now that you know who you're writing or creating content for, and what content you'll be creating, there's really only one thing left.

    Similar to my 3 pillars for building a successful business theory, when you have a real problem and a way to acquire customers, the third element is hustle.

    From the POV of a content creator, hustle = consistently producing new and valuable content for your readers.

    Here's a small secret.

    Before I got consistent with my blog, I was struggling with consistency and putting out content for nearly 4 years.

    Until 2016, I used to write almost every day, and then I stopped and couldn't get back to it until 2020.

    I have been a member of Twitter since 2011, but the first time I started posting seriously was in April 2019.

    Since June 2020 is when I got consistent. I've been blogging and tweeting ever since, and I've missed only one weekend.

    Here's how I built my consistency

    Consistency is hard to build, but the great part is once you've gathered some momentum, the inertia will continue carrying you forward.

    I can't NOT write on weekends anymore. It's just what I do, similar to how I exercise first thing in the morning or work on DelightChat during the weekdays.

    To everyone who has asked me on how they can build consistency and write or create content regularly, I share the same advice. This is the first time I'm blogging about it.

    1. Start small

    I cannot emphasise on this enough. No matter what you do in life, whether it's starting a new habit or creating a new blog or building a new business, start small.

    How small? As small as it needs to be for you to be consistent.

    When Sankalp and I started SuperLemon, we intentionally tried to build a small business. Our revenue goal was $3k MRR (ramen profitability!).

    When I started writing on this blog, my goal was to publish everyday no matter how few words I wrote. On some days I wrote 500 words, on other days I wrote 100. But after 25 days of publishing daily, my mind got into a habit of writing and hitting publish.

    It's another matter that I switched to a weekly schedule. Here's the rationale behind it - I can't produce high-quality stuff daily.

    Moving to a weekly schedule allowed new post ideas to germinate in my mind before I would vomit them out into my notes app and edit it for your reading pleasure.

    2. Know your WHY

    For anyone to work on something day in day out, it's impossible to do so without an internal drive. External motivations can only drive you so much.

    Therefore, it's really important to figure out your intrinsic motivations before starting a long-term or high-effort project.

    In my case, I had 2 strong why's.

    1. I knew clearly that 10 years from now I want to see my brain on the internet, in the form of blog posts, videos, audio or whatever medium works best.
    2. I also knew that the way I can make the world a better place is by helping more people achieve financial freedom, making them free to focus on creative pursuits and outcomes that give them happiness and satisfaction. It's what I'm doing with my own life.

    And so I visualised the future.‍

    "What would my blog look like in 1 year from now? It would have 52 posts, hopefully read by thousands, and hopefully impacted at least a dozen entrepreneurs trying to make progress."

    3. Build accountability

    It's really hard to gain consistency and momentum. Almost all of the hard bit is concentrated in the beginning of the journey. That's where everyone needs most help.

    In my case, when I started writing on this blog, my girlfriend Mausumi would ask me everyday if I had written. And if not, she would force me to stop whatever I was doing and go write. Write gibberish, but write.

    And so, on the days I really didn't feel like writing, I got the push needed to get off my ass and do what I really truly enjoyed - writing.

    It's not possible for Mausumi to always be on my ass (I wouldn't want her to be), so that's when I decided to launch my newsletter Sunday Coffee ☕️.

    My goal with the newsletter - Build an external accountability system.

    The day it was announced, my newsletter got 100 subscribers.

    Now I was accountable to 100 people who I promised weekly updates on what's happening with my life and business, and new learnings the form of blog posts or tweets.

    Sunday Coffee has evolved into my little corner on the internet. I LOVE writing the update. It feels like a weekly checkpoint in my life. And I believe that readers get the same feeling while reading the newsletter.

    I am grateful to them for their time 🙏

    Fast forward to the present

    "Alright Preetam, enough with the flashback. Tell me what you did last week."

    On January 19th, Webflow published my blog post about how we used programmatic SEO and Webflow to grow DelightChat's search traffic from 600 to 240,000 monthly impressions.

    Initially, there was no traffic spurt. But then Webflow featured the post in their newsletter and shared it on their social media channels.

    Boom 💥

    Dozens of emails, Twitter DMs and LinkedIn messages started pouring in saying they read the blog and would love to learn more.

    Some wanted me to consult with them, which I politely declined (because DelightChat is my baby).

    One Ecommerce company that signed up on DelightChat's waitlist actually wanted to talk about programmatic SEO 😂

    I ended up giving them a free demo of course, because providing value is what I do best 😉

    They too wanted me to work as a consultant for their 12+ Ecommerce brands. Obviously I declined. But it got me thinking.

    "A lot of people want to learn about this. I can't work as a consultant. Maybe I should record myself talking about this and share it as an online course."

    Note: I've given out all my content for free, and I will continue doing that. While charging money seemed lucrative, I also didn't want anyone who actually needs this to be barred from accessing it. Hence the course is free for students and Indiehackers with <$100 revenue. Just drop me an email, no questions asked!

    Here's what I did next

    • Wrote a tweet thread to announce the course - 5 minutes
    • Created this page on my blog to talk about the course (I also wrote the course outline there) - 20 minutes
    • Setup my Gumroad account correctly and create the course page - 10 minutes
    • Hit publish everywhere.

    Honestly, my expectation was nothing.

    Okay, not nothing. I thought it would be GREAT if my course made me $1000 in 30 days. It would give me a nice dopamine boost to write on my blog every weekend, and that's it.

    What happened next will shock you

    (sorry about the Buzzfeed title, I couldn't resist haha)

    Here's really what happened next.

    • 6 pre-orders within 30 minutes (🤯)
    • 53 pre-orders, $1073 sales in 6 hours (🤯🤯🤯)
    • 144 pre-orders, $3016 sales in 24 hours (🧘‍♂️)

    Haha, it was more 🤯 but times x100.

    Here's everything I did after launching the course

    In an ideal world, I would have been promoting the course consistently with new content on Twitter following-up to then launch. However, we were having an intense work week at DelightChat so majority of my mind, energy and time was focused there.

    However, behind the scenes, I did do several ad-hoc marketing stuff whenever I would get free for 5-10 minutes during the day in order to promote my course.

    1. A personal reply to every person asking for free access

    Whenever a student or Indiehacker would email me asking for free access, I would reply with this templated response. I would edit the template and add a sentence about their business or goal.

    Here's the template: (link to screenshot)

    That tiny favour got me dozens of retweets. So every time I gave out the course for free, I would get more sales. Win-win!

    Takeaways:

    1. ‍‍You can make money while giving your stuff out for free.
    2. Do things that don't scale.

    2. Announced the course to my newsletter subscribers

    I've been writing Sunday Coffee, my weekly newsletter, for 32 weeks straight.

    Because I never tried to 'grow' my newsletter, all the subscribers came in organically. As a result, my newsletter open rates are consistently >50%.

    For the first time in 32 weeks, I sent my subscribers an email outside of Sunday.

    (newsletter subscribers screenshot)

    I had 564 subscribers at the time, and many were interested in the course. It was also great to read replies from subscribers and hear from them.

    This post that you're reading will be shared in the 33rd edition.

    Takeaway - A captive audience is far more valuable than focusing on big numbers.

    3. Asked people for a favour

    I'm very apprehensive of asking people to "share this" or "do that" for me. In general, I never do it.

    But that became the exact reason why I had to at least try.

    Because as it turns out, you miss 100% off the shots you don't take.

    Here's the shot I took with Hiten Shah (and a few others). It worked and he retweeted the course.

    (screenshot of message to Hiten Shah)

    Important note: Don't do this unless you've established credibility with someone. They are most likely to ignore you. That definitely happened with a few of the people I sent this DM to.

    I sent roughly 10 DMs before deciding against doing more. Putting out content felt like the right thing to do.

    But hey! It works if you do it right. And I'm sharing transparently here, so 👁👄👁

    Takeaway - Be okay with doing uncomfortable stuff and asking people for help.

    4. Share snippets from the course

    Once I got around the creating the course content (remember this was a pre-order launch?), I started sharing snippets from the course on Twitter.

    One of those snippet tweets really took off and has brought me more sales, like $500 in the next 12 hours.

    Takeaway - Share snippets that are basically juicy bits from the info product you're selling, with the aim of informing people what they can expect to learn. That way, someone seeking that exact value would be interested in the product.

    That's it. That's the post.

    Now you know everything! So, what should be your takeaways?

    1. If you're thinking of becoming a content creator, start today. Just do it. The first section of how I started 8 months ago is most relevant to you.
    2. If you've been creating content since a while and see steady engagement from a tight knit community, then I urge you to experiment with creating info products. The best ideas will come from the loudest questions asked by your community. So ask yourself, "what do people who read my content ask me for help with?" Go help them.

    —

    Originally published here

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    Just booked a first 'big' client for my pet portrait side hustle thanks to you!

    Posted: 31 Jan 2021 04:54 PM PST

    A month ago I made a post about a quarantine hobby that I was making some beer money from. I unexpectedly got several messages from people interested in a portrait, and a handful of them turned into actual sales. I was charging $35-60 USD.

    From there, I joined a few dog/pet oriented Facebook groups and just booked a $500 custom piece! They sent me a 50% deposit within a few hours of messaging me.

    Lessons learned so far:

    - If you have an idea with low risk - try it. My investment was a $30 drawing tablet and a few hours of learning

    - Don't be afraid to follow up - this is key! Whatever you're selling, it's probably not the person's priority and they might forget. Don't take it personally.

    - Treat your first few clients like VIPs, because they are. Go above and beyond - I offered lots of freebies and unlimited revisions. These clients are key to growth and referrals. I understand scalability is important, but not as important as having something worth scaling

    Link to said portraits: https://imgur.com/a/inWcVSI - Credit for digital frame: rawpixel.com

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    Is the Cannabis industry overrun?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 10:22 AM PST

    What sort of tailwinds does it have? Obvious ones include increasing acceptance and legalization in one state after another.

    Given the innumerable amount of hemp companies taking up business each week, the product manufacture subsect seems sufficiently in the category of a Red Ocean. More CBD products are offered than craft beers it seems, with perhaps less differentiation between the products (imperfect metaphor, but it's saturated nonetheless).

    Standout players like MedMen shed light on how aesthetics and service go a long way. And new cannabinoids, including intoxicating ones, are being discovered and sold. There's evidently money in the industry, but how much depends on your subsect of choice (distribution, manufacture, medical, something else), geographic focus, and other factors.

    What do you like and dislike about the cannabis industry?

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    What to do with profits?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 11:19 AM PST

    I'm in business for myself kind of accidently (covid). I have a small business (sole proprietorship) and profit in an account. What do I do with this profit? It's not earning interest in the business account. I can't transfer it to a personal account without paying a lot of tax on it.

    Do I just leave it where it is?

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    What features are most desired for an Investment Analysis/ Brokerage tool?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 10:20 AM PST

    Hey r/Entrepreneur!!

    My name is Russ, and I am a junior in high school and WSB member working with other classmates on launching a stock research tool, Fynking Analytics. We would love to get some insights on what customers REALLY want and validate our hypotheses. You guys filling out this form would really mean a lot to us.

    ​

    A little more about us: Spurred by the WSB vs. Citadel GameStop fiasco, we are adding a few features to our MVP and preparing to launch a new investment research platform that aggregates reliable data and sentiment data from news sources, in addition to providing complete financial data on a company to make financial decision making easier. In addition, we are working on creating personalized investment recommendation algorithms that give trade ideas tailored to our users' needs.

    If you have any investments in the stock market, then please fill out this form:

    https://forms.gle/m39ciqsi35fPiXc88

    ​

    Thanks All,

    ​

    Russ Sobti

    CEO/CTO Fynking Analytics

    Fynking.com

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    In these strange times, change is needed

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 02:34 PM PST

    Comment some of the most importanr sectors where we will see innovation and potentially new industries being created

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    Help with pricing

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 12:20 PM PST

    Hello!

    I'm a 21 years old business owner located in Greece. I started with my partner a company for POD and because it didn't work at the time with our mistakes (which we learned from but too little too late) we moved on to dropshipping with the same results due to budget limitations.

    We have a decent experience working with shopify, and we are looking to build e-shops for other small businesses, especially now that there is government funding for new e-shops. We are thinking of offering different packages, like only build and run the store, or manage the social media accounts, improve online presence etc.

    The problem is that we don't know how much to charge for these services. We looked into other people in Greece who are offering the same things but most of them don't show prices in their webpages.

    Can you help us?

    Thanks for your time!

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    Anyone looking for a clubhouse invite?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 11:23 AM PST

    I have 3.

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    10 Great AI Cold Emails: Selling Bananas to Walmart / Asda

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 07:25 AM PST

    I've been playing around with GPT-3 over the last month to generate sales emails. I even went out and built a SaaS tool to help entrepreneurs send out better cold emails

    And then I thought, how interesting can sales emails get?

    Background

    I finetuned GPT-3 to sales emails. We teach the model several inputs: who the recipient is, what the recipient's company does, who the sender is and what the sender is selling.

    I then use my database of great sales emails I've written, or have received as training data. I cut the data into emails I called "Light Topical Emails". These types of emails usually reference some appropriate reading material, link this back to the product being sold, and provide a call to action. In the training emails, I actually included some statistics.

    It's important to note the training emails ranged in industry and topic, from selling SEO, all the way to conversion optimisation tools.

    Results

    Here's one of the emails - you can see the other 10 here, and also use the tool to make your own fun / serious b2b sales emails ;)

    Hi Mark Thomson,

    I read with interest how you strive to reduce your environmental impact in the UK.

    I work for a company that sells bananas. Our goal is to reduce the number of bananas that are wasted.
    We have found also that our way of wrapping bananas in a smart way leads to 30% more bananas being sold.

    I'd love to show you how we can help you reduce waste and increase the number of bananas sold

    I'm super impressed with the emails in a few ways and think in aspects they could be improved.

    Pros:

    • Very creative emails. One could take any of these emails and actually use it as a template for their future email flows
    • The emails make interesting references to topics I had not explicitly stated in the inputs. For example, they sometimes reference Brexit, Food-Waste and Importing. I see this as a positive as it provides new angles for someone who genuinely was sending a sales email.
    • Some very clever mentions of Asda's pain points in relation to bananas. This is exactly what we're looking for from a sales perspective.

    Cons:

    • Saw a bit of an overreliance on "food waste". I think to improve the outputs more information on the products being sold should be given.
    • Sometimes saw the AI getting confused, but it was rare.
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    We created a Shopify & Marketing discord server to help people connect and to help beginners by answering questions.

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 04:50 AM PST

    If you're interested in such a community, feel free to join: https://discord.gg/EUhB8s9X6q

    I made a post yesterday, and received a ton of PM's of people asking questions and wanting to connect, I hope this discord server makes it much easier to do just that.

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    How To Start A Podcast? A Step-By-Step Guide

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 06:59 AM PST

    Hey everyone! Our post is about how to start a podcast. There is a complete guide to creating a podcast from idea to the first episode launch. You might find it worth sharing.

    https://2muchcoffee.com/blog/how-to-start-a-podcast-a-complete-step-by-step-guide/

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    If you have too many product variations - that can negatively affect your sales (study)

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 06:17 AM PST

    Before I dive into the topic. Know that not everything applies to every single situation. If you want to share your experience that may agree or disagree with the post topic, feel free to do so in the comments.

    In this post, I am going to be talking about the exotic jam psychologial experiment. Basically, experimenters placed an exotic jam booth in a grocery store and monitored the behavior of the consumers. 2 variations of the experiment:

    • Exotic jam booth had 24 jam flavors.

    • Exotic jam booth had 6 flavors.

    People could taste the jams but if they wanted to buy them, they still had to go to the main cash register, so they still saw all of the other jams.

    Over 700 people were observed.

    Results:

    • Booth with 24 flavors was checked out by 60 percent of the store goers. 50 percent more compared to the 6 flavor booth.

    • People that saw the booth with 24 jams were 10 times less likely to buy a jam compared to the 6 flavor booth which had a 30 percent jam buy rate.

    So even though jam booth that had more taste options attracted 50 percent more people, having so many choices didn't increase the sales, it reduced them significantly.

    I wrote about it here but I pretty much covered most of the things in the post itself. They also did a variation of this study with university students, but it was more about demotivation that comes while having too many choices. So I don't know if it's completely relevant. Link.

    As mentioned at the top of the post, this study does not mean that it's the case 100% of the time. Everything is relative and nuanced. It's just an effect to look out for. A thing to experiment/test within your niche.

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    Which online site can I sell my leads on?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 09:38 AM PST

    I have over 500k qualified business leads for insurance, healthcare, and finance that my business no longer needs. Is there a website were I can sell these leads? I just want to sell them cheaply.

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    Top Marketing Metrics to Track in 2021

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 09:27 AM PST

    For funnel images and full post: https://hockeystack.com/blog/saas-metrics-to-track

    Customer Churn

    Acquiring new customers is equally important to retain power users since saas revenue depends on the retained users. Power users are loyal users who have been using the product for a few months now and whose feedbacks are crucial.

    Customer churn rate is the measurement of lost users over a period of time. Churn is a reality so it is crucial to track it.

    Tracking churn rate can give you insights into your users' behavioral patterns: After how many months are they likely to convert to a different provider? What makes them convert to a different provider? Which features were they using and not using?

    Revenue Churn

    Revenue Churn measures the lost revenue over a period of time. It suggests that some users are more valuable than others because they spend more on your product.

    Revenue churn analysis can help you to understand which customer cohort is the most likely to spend more and then you can offer them new ways to spend on your product which is also called upselling.

    Upselling tips:

    • Choose the RIGHT Upsell
    • Don't Be Pushy
    • Make Your Upsell Relevant to the User
    • Personalize Your Upsell Recommendations
    • Get the Language Right
    • Use Urgency
    • Offer Free Shipping (if applicable)
    • Provide Social Proof
    • Limit the Price Increase
    • Offer Substitutes
    • Upsell After the Purchase
    • Follow Up via Email (after a purchase is made)
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    Where/how to purchase insurance for a new start-up?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 09:13 AM PST

    Where do you go to, where do you find more information on the type of insurance and etc.

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    My new product, need advice

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 05:25 AM PST

    Do you like design? MethodX

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    Buying a business advice

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 02:57 AM PST

    I've come into a bit of money, and trying to figure out what to do with it. Buying a business *seems* like a good idea. All the non-BS-scammy looking stuff is restaurants, laundromats, and salons along with random things like auto-repair, niche food, care pet care. I've never been down this road, and I'd like to make a good decision on a buy, or do something else entirely. I work in IT, so I have an income, looking for something I can manage part time I guess for some extra income. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

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    How to Get Consulting Clients With Webinars

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 08:35 AM PST

    Are you trying to get consulting clients, but the usual ways aren't working that well for you?

    You're on the right article cause I'll teach you how to use webinars to attract potential clients.

    If you want to watch the video version of this article, click here!

    Webinars, aka online trainings, are usually used to sell online courses and digital products. Not many know that they're a great way to attract consulting clients.

    In this article, I'll show you how to create these types of webinars in 5 steps.And stick around to the end cause I'll tell you how to promote your webinars as well.

    First of all, let's see if this method applies to your niche or not.

    The clients you want to attract are the ones who want to learn a new skill or acquire knowledge. In my case, I book consulting calls where I teach how to become a digital nomad or build an online business.

    I have a student who uses this method to help with relationship consultations. Another one uses webinars to gain clients who want to learn how to become a UX designer.So if you offer consulting services, or you're planning to, keep reading.

    Let's get into the 5 steps.

    1. Put yourself in your audience's shoes.

    Your Webinar's topic needs to be irresistible enough to make your followers subscribe with their email address.

    What are your audience's questions and struggles?What do they need to learn that could be beneficial for their career?

    If you ask yourself these questions, you'll develop types for clients you could coach in the future.

    Asking myself these questions, I came up with my ideal client types.Some of my potential clients are tired of their full-time job, and they want to become entrepreneurs to be more flexible with their time.Others are already working as freelancers, but they're not getting enough clients.

    The better you can identify your personas, their problems, and struggles, the best your webinars will convert.

    An excellent technique to identify your ideal consulting clients is to think about your younger self. The people you want to coach are in a similar spot where you were years ago.

    4 years ago, I used to work full-time for a big company, and I was tired of that. I wanted to break free, build my business, and become my own Boss. Many of my clients are at this stage.

    If I create a webinar where I tell them how I overcame my old problems and became a digital nomad, they'll definitely be interested.

    2. Deliver your best content in the Webinar.

    Many creators are afraid to deliver too much info on the Webinar, so their prospect won't need to hire them to learn more.

    You're not thinking like your prospects. Your viewers joined your Webinar because they trusted you. If you promise to give valid content, they will expect it.

    The online training is a chance for you to gain their trust and show them you're not fooling around. It's a window inside your world.

    Through your content, they will decide if you're an expert or another online snake-oil salesman.

    If you're afraid to fix all your prospects' business problems with a 1-hour webinar, well, it's not going to happen. If they like your content, they will want more and more.

    The vast majority of my webinar viewers subscribe to my YouTube Channel and join my Facebook Group cause they want to learn more from me.

    Think about the last guide or how-to book you read. Did you stop there? I'm sure you read other books on the same topic or watched online videos to learn more.It's the same with Webinars. There is nothing like delivering too much.

    3. Add the right call to action to get consulting clients

    Every Webinar ends with a call to action. Most of the time is a product that is the logical follow-up of what learned in training.

    In this case, our product is a consulting service, but it's still too early to ask every attendee to pay us for coaching.Consulting, coaching and 1-on-1 calls are personalized services, and for this reason, we need an induction call before the pitch.

    It's essential to have a private conversation with who's interested in your help before you present your paid services.Your clients will be your testimonials, and if you're not sure you can help them, it's better not to work with them. We don't want bad publicity.

    We can also charge a higher price for our 1-to-1 coaching, and a private induction call with the prospect will be the last push to convince this person to take action, even if the price is high.

    But to avoid being overwhelmed by scheduled calls and have our time completely drained, we need to examine the proposals we receive. That leads us to step #4.

    4. Survey who's interested and select just the right ones

    When I started offering coaching calls, I used to have free initial calls with all the people interested. That was a massive waste of time.

    If you give everyone the possibility to schedule a call with you, you'll soon be buried under requests. Be aware that most of these calls come from those who can't afford your services (or don't want to pay for them).

    Surveys allow me to stop these vague requests and schedule calls just with those I can help and willing to pay for my services.

    If you're wondering about what tool I use to create surveys, I use Videoask. I love it cause it allows you to create both video and text surveys.

    Here's below, you can download my 3 most important templates I use on the platform: a survey to book a call with me, one to re-engage an old client, and one to ask why a person didn't buy my course.

    5. Reach out to your ideal prospects.

    Now that you have the list of people with who you want to have a call, it's time to reach out and make them schedule a call with you.

    You can write them an email with a link to your Calendly account.Then you can use your favorite tool to have the call, like Zoom or Skype.

    One advice I can give you about the call is to listen to your prospects and focus on their needs. They're on the call to talk about their stumbling blocks, and you must listen carefully. Ask questions, listen to the answers, and be present.

    How to promote your Webinar to potential consulting clients

    As I told you at the beginning of this video, I want to leave you with a few ideas to promote your webinars.

    First of all, if you don't know what platform you can use to run webinars, I suggest you try Demio. I've tested most webinar platforms, and I can honestly tell you that Demio is the best one, counting usability and effectiveness.

    One of the great features you have on Demio is transforming your live webinars into evergreen ones.

    Then you can add their landing page links to all your social media profiles and channels.If you have a YouTube channel like mine, add the link in the description of every video you have.

    If you mainly use Facebook or Instagram, add the link on your bio, but at the same time, publish content that leads to it.Make it your primary way to acquire clients, and create a content structure that leads to it.

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    Suggestions for importing machinery from China?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 08:31 AM PST

    I am located in the USA and need a packaging machine for a product I am developing. It doesn't look like any American companies manufacture the machine I need, so I am looking at Chinese options on Alibaba. I have been talking with one company, and other than the broken English, they seem fairly legit and credible... but it's difficult to tell. I asked their sales rep for an American reference and she gave me a Russian (?) sounding email for an alleged person with a Hispanic name. So, that's kind of bizarre. They haven't gotten back to me yet.

    I have never imported anything before, so I am pretty wary navigating this space. The machine is only $4k, and I'm pretty confident I won't get scammed, but I just want to make sure I'm not ordering absolute junk. Any suggestions?

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    What are you PRO for?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 07:40 AM PST

    PRO Marketplace is an online store for American-made goods! This is our first business and we need 15,000 supporters to start! No commitments, no fees, just support! Head to promarketplace.site to learn more about this Made in America movement.

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    Trying youtube for marketing, looking for feedback

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 07:00 AM PST

    Hey guys,

    We're trying our hand now at video to promote our product, it's a work in progress as its a new avenue for us but I was wondering if you could provide some feedback on this video which gives an overview of pipeline management in our CRM product:

    Be as brutal as you need to be, is it clear? Does it engage you as a viewer? Do we adequately address pain point around sales pipeline management? Anything really.

    The video in question is here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnZlWhoZpS0

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    Suicidal because of my future, what do I do?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 06:51 AM PST

    I'm 16 and terrified about my future. I can't sleep, I can't spend a single minute not thinking about it.

    I really just want to be remembered when I die and I want to be wealthy when I'm alive. Im scared

    I'm not trying to sound greedy I just really want to have something in my life so I can finally impress my parents. They've always called me useless and said I'll amount to nothing, and I don't want them to be right. They're going to be right

    I have a business idea I want to do when I'm older but I'm just so stressed out with life. I don't know if I want to do psychiatry or business or both I just want to be someone. I actually have so many ideas but I fear that they'll fail and I'll be nothing

    It's killing me, it really is. I've tried therapy and medications. I want to make people happy, I don't want to die as a speck on the map. I want to be wealthy for me and my family

    I can't take it anymore I want to be someone. I don't want to sound greedy or entitled I just want to be something. Please help

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    How did you optimize your small business during Covid19?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 06:49 AM PST

    Hello there, Covid19 made running and sustaining a business harder than before. What changes did you make to sustain and stabilize your business?

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    I am here to help! (Bull, or is it?)

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 05:54 AM PST

    Hey folks,

    I am on a journey to help you tackle your core development (web & mobile) challenges - helping you find authentic answers. I have access to developers of different mobile & web development frameworks, CMS, eCommerce, and a few more with a proven track record and industry expertise.

    Here is the first episode of "i-don't-know-how-many."

    For this episode, I have chosen the best 15 - 20 (TBD) WordPress plugins.

    I have been working on this for the past 2 weeks now - going through online resources & talking to WP developers (they have been friendly), and I reckon there is at least one more week to go (or maybe less).

    But before I spit any more gibberish, I want to know if this, AT ALL, is a problem.

    1. Do you, as a developer or a small business owner, find too many WordPress plugins confusing to choose from for your website?
      (Choosing the right WP plugin can be a daunting task for a business owner. You always have better ways to invest your time & other resources in.)
    2. Would you be interested in a post that lists the best plugins you can use for your WP site and a step by step guide on how to use a few of the complicated ones?
    3. Do you want me to DM you the post's link once it's live?
    4. Would you be interested in becoming part of this journey? I will be covering topics on the top development challenges companies face and I would rather base it on what you have to say than following "Google Trends." (I decided to pursue this topic based on Google Trends data.)

    Since there is no easier way of doing this on Reddit, I would appreciate it if you could comment the numeric value of the above options that interest you - any or all of them.

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    Do e-commerce companies that want to take VC money always need to show intention for billion dollar exits?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2021 05:43 AM PST

    I understand that billion dollar exits are how institutional investors get returns on their investments. However, this seems tricky for the vast amount of e-commerce companies that serve underserved markets and can have great exits but below $1B+. How do companies like those raise money from investors that are aligned with their realistic expectations? Or do you believe that every founder should pitch their e-commerce company a as a potential unicorn, no matter how niche the industry? What if an e-commerce company wants to raise money to dominate / grow a $500MM industry? Would any investor be interested in that?

    Please let me know if the question makes sense or else I can provide more detail.

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