In this personal episode, I share some pivotal moments in my life that have led me down the path to becoming a teacher, discovering that I was actually born launching, and embracing that by striving to be an example for other entpreneurs...
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Today’s episode of the podcast, I’m going to share the 4 things many people are missing from their business and need to get rolling before they are ready to start planning their launch.
Some of the topics I cover:
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Brigitte Lyons is a media strategist with a passion for helping people get their messages out to the world. She created B - a boutique PR agency to work closely with cause based businesses and people who have something big and/or important to share with the world.
In this episode we talk about everything from her beginnings in the PR world, how she shifted her business from the group online course model to building her agency and working closely with clients...and she even shares her super simple ways to - find the right places to get "press", how to create content easily, and how far in advance you need to be planning your outreach if you want it to impact your launch.
Today's episode was recorded on my Iphone... I've been on vacation, doing a lot of mobile working...and it just happened this way! So, this week join the on the go episode and find out the Sales Strategies I love and the ones I'll never use (or not anytime soon!).
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Raise your hand if you wish your email list was bigger?
I’m fairly certain almost everyone feels this way at pretty common intervals in their business. Logic tells us that a bigger list is in our favor to generate more sales, more clients, more people - more money.
And to some extent this is true. One way to increase revenue is to serve more people.
But is email the only way to reach more people?
My guest today has been in business a very short time, but she’s been building an audience since 2009. No email list in the traditional sense.
Alexis Giostra (a.k.a. MissTrenchcoat) has built a thriving community that tells her every single week what they want in the comments on her YouTube Channel.
Not only that, she’s used the platform along with her other social media main squeeze to sell digital products and even launch her recent coaching program using nothing but these two platforms.
Sounds intriguing right?
If you’ve ever felt like you had no one to launch to or that you just weren’t into email marketing...well, you’ll love my interview with Alexis.
Visit the blog now for more information and how to connect with Alexis: http://www.annesamoilov.com/launch-without-sending-email
I’m pretty sure today’s guest and I are sisters separated at birth. She is all about helping people find and embrace their expertise...and figure out how to turn that into a profitable course. But more than that, my guest Jeanine Blackwell seems to be this amazing combination of support, strategy, and tactical execution.
See - literally, I keep saying, wait that’s me too!
Jeanine’s in the middle of a launch right now and she sat down to talk about figuring out what you should offer whether it’s your first, second, or third time out of the gate.
She asks the tough questions that you probably haven’t thought of or taken a step back to think about.
Are you avoiding one area of true expertise? What question does your course answer? What’s something your ideal customer will actually pay to solve?
We get into a whole bunch of topics including:
And so much more!
Head back to http://www.annesamoilov.com/creating-six-figure-courses/
Look around at businesses online and offline - and it feels like some brands and companies are launching all the time.
But while you might see Starbucks, LuckyBrand Jeans and Kate Spade sending multiple “sales” emails every week… how much is too much when it comes to launching?
Should you launch all the time? Only every 6 months? Perhaps once a quarter?
And what exactly can you launch each time?
Today’s episode is a totally new style and feature this podcast recorded in my kitchen while I paced back and forth speaking into my iPhone.
I’ll be honest, there was another show in this slot today but I just had to get this question answered because it seems like I’ve been hearing people struggle to understand or figure out how to pace their launches.
In this episode, I share the primary tools I use for every phase of content creation -- whether it's for my blog, this podcast, my new channel on Youtube...coming up with the easiest tool set up is crucial to make sure I can get it all done!
We go through the brainstorm/planning phase, actual creation and workflow, and then finally discuss analyzing what's working and what's not.
Even if you are new to thinking about your blogging or podcasting as a strategy, this episode shares super simple and some fun tools that really work well together!
Check out the show notes for this episode and also check out others you may have missed: http://www.annesamoilov.com/show
Today's interview is with Carrie Green who founded an amazing organization to help women entrepreneurs feel less alone as they build their businesses.
The Female Entrepreneur Association is an online hub with the mission of inspiring and empowering women from around the world to turn their ideas into a reality, build successful businesses and live a life they love.
Carrie shares the story from idea through launching the associations signature product--The Member's Club...she really knows how to rock the perfect combination of knowledge, inspiration, and strategy...and I dare you to walk away without at least one nugget to grow your own business.
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Are you in the habit of launching fast or at the last minute? Not a great habit, but if you're going to do it, here are three ways to make sure they are possible and profitable.
I sat down with business systems expert Val Geisler to see if we could find a new way to look at systems and maybe make the topic a little more appealing--especially to those of who are artists underneath it all.
We get into a whole bunch of topics including:
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Last week we talked about how the work changes and doesn't change when you launch and relaunch your products and services. So, this week, I wanted to dive into the timeline of a launch. I'm always getting asked, okay what should I do next if I'm launching [insert date]? Listen to this new perspective on the timeline that might have you breathing a sigh of relief.
Episode 39 is a great place to go next after you listen to this one...because Marie shares a behind the scenes look at some of their timeline!
Today's episode demystifies what happens behind the scenes on a successful product launch and with a successful business. What changes in the day to day? Do we focus on the foundational pieces of starting a business? What's different and what stays the same as we grow our business? Marie Forleo shares key insights and answers some of the most common questions about business and also highlights some of the key challenges she's faced over the past 6 years of building her B-School program to the popular program it is today.
One of the most frequently asked questions I get is when and how to start telling people about their product launch... How long before a product or service is available do you start leaking it out to people? This episode updates you on my launch leaking strategy...and I think you'll like it because it's au naturale!
Today’s guest on the podcast is Denise Duffield Thomas of LuckyBitch.com. She’s well known for her work helping women entrepreneurs make more
Denise and I get into a ton of topics fast…including:
Click over to the show notes for all the resources we talked about plus how to work with Denise inside her Money Bootcamp program.
They struggled for years and years trying to make the side hustle their main thing work -- to get the chance to finally do what they were passionate about.
That story is a common one in some for one or another for many entrepreneurs...even me! That side hustle keeps you ignited because you push, you struggle, you create, whatever it is… but it propels you forward.
What happens when you get out of that phase of needing a side hustle - when it becomes a full time hustle?
Today's episode covers this topic and more as I explore -
And I also share three people who inspired me to start some side projects myself!
Are you ready to grow your business this year?
Do you know what it’s going to take?
Do you know what exactly you want to achieve?
Wanna know what you’ll have to give up (and take on) in order to get there?
You’ll get some insight, strategies and maybe a little inspiration to answer these questions for yourself.
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If there’s anything I know helps me improve and grow my business, it’s establishing better work habits. There’s only so many weeks I can wait until the last second to record a podcast, publish it, write the notes and get it up there in less than 24 hours.
I’ve got a 6 year old and a slightly short attention span.
And at the same time - I’ve got big goals. One of those was to make sure that I could commit to having a weekly podcast. Not every other week or every third week.
So, that’s what I dive into today in this shorter episode about how I got my podcast process back on track.
In this episode I also talk about:
The real reason I ended up skipping blogging for 2 months
Results of some of my blogging and podcast tests throughout 2014
How I plan to get all my publishing content
The simple question you can ask yourself about all that content you’re publishing
How I’m making the process even easier for myself
What happens when you finally have focus + establish a habit
Why I’m always evaluating what’s working and what’s not
Okay - let’s do this!
Who is running your business?
Can you say that YOU are?
Something I discovered this year is how many of my big business and life decisions are directly influenced by a few not so great forces.
The biggie is guilt.
Yup - Guilt has been my CFO on many occasion.
He’s allowed me to stay in jobs too long, in relationships too long, in friendships too long...and spending my energy on the wrong projects in my own business too...
And let’s get real - guilt is not a separate entity. It’s me.
I’ve been the one to allow the guilt to drive some of my biggest business delays and changes. And specifically I’ve:
stayed on people’s email lists because I felt guilty leaving and having them see me leave
said yes to projects that put my health and mental well-being in serious danger
said yes to jobs with destructive bosses (and even got hives in the process!)
avoided letting an employee go because I felt bad
didn’t do a number of promotions for my business because I felt guilty making the offer
Now, many of these are ancient history - they did NOT all happen this year, last year or even in the past 5 years...but they’ve left marks on me none the less.
And only now am I staging the takeover of my own business.
If you’ve ever felt a little off after making a decision to work with someone or offer something, then there is something that’s driving the boat…and it might just be guilt.
Let’s dive in.
Do a search for creating useful content on google.
There’s enough opinion and education on the topic to make your head…
wait for it…
Explode.
And that’s pretty much what my head’s been doing since I first heard this phrase.
Create useful content, Anne.
Waking me up in the middle of night.
Are you being USEFUL enough, Anne?
And off and on this whole year I’d look at other people’s content and wonder…
How the heck is THIS useful to the world?
I started pulling apart every blog post I’d see, challenging it to be useful to me, which is hilarious because as you know there’s a lot of useless but fun info on the internet.
And that’s when it hit me...about being useful...and why I wanted to dig in and discuss this moving target of being useful…
In this week’s episode, I explore:
What does being useful really mean in the context of your online business?
Who decides if something is useful or trashable?
Why is creating useful content a challenge to most online entrepreneurs?
And...what do you need to know about your audience in order to get even close to figuring out what is useful for them on any given day?
If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re being useful or not, listen to today’s episode of the Fearless Launching show and then leave me a comment below.
Ok let’s dive in!
Creating Social Substance (great article at the top of google's list!)
Ep. 30 - Planning For Success (planning is all about knowing what your people want and need)
Ep. 10 - How To Become A Better Teacher with Jennifer Louden (love Jen’s take on teaching, especially since that’s what all content really does - it teaches!)
Does your business feel good?
Do you enjoy most days doing what you do?
And how’s that launch making you feel?
Be honest.
Okay, I’ll go first.
Sometimes the answer is no. Not good at all.
But does that mean I’m doing something wrong?
Not necessarily.
Today, I’m going to share some truths about running a business, growing it online, and what you need to be prepared for when you’re launching...
There's a little good, a little not so good...but all real things you might (and probably will) experience if you're on this journey too!
My hope is that by hearing what your day to day life can be sometimes, you’ll be prepared for those not so great moments...
In this episode I talk about:
•The one thing that’s going to make it easier to handle the day job if you're building a business on the side.
•some of the most common "problems" and challenges you might face even if you're only working on your biz a few hours a week
•what you'll discover about yourself - and you might not like what you see!
•what to do when you get the "maybe I should get a job" blues
•how to avoid the slippery slow of envy and competition watching
•surprise wins that you better acknowledge when they happen
•amazing shift that happens when you realize you have nothing left to prove to anyone
•How do you handle all the ups and downs?
•What launches reveal about your business
Mentioned In This Episode:
FLS 001 : Feeling Trapped? How to become an entrepreneur while you’re working for someone else without losing your mind FLS 029: Why Watching People Grow Is My Personal Business Bonus (and Guilty Pleasure) Leadpages Cupcake Royale Start up Seattle Tony Robbins Nathalie Lussier
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It’s the end of the year and you may be making big plans for the new one.
And while I’m a huge fan of planning big things, pushing yourself to reach goals, launching the ideas that you’ve been sitting on for too long...I’m also curious…
And I like to be a detective in my business...especially when I’m planning.
I like to ask - What worked last year? And if it worked...can I do it again?
Today’s episode we dive into that topic and more.
So - if you’re about to create your own marketing calendar for the new year, this one’s perfect for you.
Why is watching people grow my biggest bonus from running my own business?
For me ...watching people grow means I'm doing my job.
...And benefiting in some way from what I'm trying to teach or inspire.
You getting to witness this change, a spark, inspired action, and someone finally doing something they’ve been putting off.
So, I’m breaking with my usual interview or masterclass style to give you this heartfelt love note to some of the people that remind me every single day why I do what I do.
Visit: http://www.annesamoilov.com/watching-people-grow for the complete show notes.
We usually chat with people after their first launch - so we can get that story of what happened, how they felt, what they changed up going forward… but this time, I there was no need to time travel or dig into the archives.
Kristoffer Carter has been working like a madman behind the scenes of some of the most important creators online. I got to know him last year when we joined forces to support our dear friend Jonathan Fields launch Revolution U and then again as faculty members in Jonathan’s intense, life changing GLP Immersion program.
But today - it’s all about Krissy. Here’s just a peek at what we get into on this episode:
We also dive into many topics that show how he lives his life from top to bottom - with a mission to be completely integrated, always practice radical introspection, and to make it his duty to have fun and rally people to have the best experience EVER.
Visit the show notes page to get all the resources and peeps we mentioned during the show over at: http://www.annesamoilov.com/show
What makes a brand a brand?
Is it the pretty colors? The fancy font? The pictures? The words?
Our guest today shares some tips on creating and evolving your brand that don’t require you to change the look of things and she believes that a company’s branding happens in the brain first as an experience not just by the oohs and aahs we might utter when we see a new font.
Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:
How Pamela got her start (and it wasn’t online)
Some reassuring tips from Pamela’s first launch
Her simple approach to finding the right blogs to guest post and 2 big sites where she nabbed recurring writing roles
The only type of launch Pamela likes to do...and she does it every single time she launches
Pace Smith’s Tier System for launching
How to figure out your brand message and why it’s so important for your next launch
The one thing that you gotta know before you pick colors, fonts or any other type of visual styles on your website.
Ebook Evolution (aff)