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December 5, 2020 by katmillar Leave a Comment

How To Double The Value Of Your Offer

What if you could double the likelihood of people saying yes to your offer?

Imagine if your offer was a complete no-brainer for people to take up! (if it’s a match for them!)

The best way to do this is to double the value of what you’re offering – and you can do this without having to overhaul your program!

Having a valuable, irresistible offer is one of the most important assets you can have in business…

…and having a product or service where people clearly see the worth (and don’t question the price!) is actually really easy.

So, how do we do it?

Sell Tools As Well As Time
Remember – Selling Time Is Intangible and Invisible

Often people have something like a 6 or 8-week, or 3 or 6 month program and they are just selling ‘time with them’. The problem with that is that time with you is invisible and often hard for people to visualise.

Selling time with you can be hard because, essentially people can internally question what this means – and what kind of result they will get. They ask themselves how they know that spending time with you is going to equate to a physical and tangible result.

Giving people real and tangible things in our offer is one of the 7 essential ingredients of a valuable offer.

I share the 7 different ingredients with my clients, but tonight I want to dive deep into this one specific ingredient to make your offer a no-brainer.

You have an incredible amount of intellectual property (IP) in your mind. The unique way that you explain things and organise your knowledge, your processes and frameworks are your IP.

If you can put those into tangible tools and include them in your offer, then suddenly you’re going to really double the value of your offer especially if your tools are good.

It’s difficult for people to see the value, and people usually want something more tangible. They want tools, not just time.

Give Real And Tangible Tools In Your Offer

So to increase the value of our offers, we can add tools to the mix.

Your knowledge is valuable, in terms of your stories in combination with your experience, skills and everything you’ve absorbed throughout your life.

Creating something to boost your offer using your IP doesn’t have to take a long time.

People like the word tools, because they are something you can pick up right away and use.

Instead of saying “I will teach you XYZ”, flip it around and say you are giving them XYZ tools they can pick up straight away and use.

It often doesn’t take long to extract that and create a tool that’s valuable for your ideal clients.

What Makes A Tool Good?

The first thing that makes a tool good is that it needs to be simple to use, so someone can pick it up and use it straight away.

For example, instead of just having time with you on a coaching call, you could offer to record the coaching call, so they’ve got it to listen back to.

This is something I did last year as a New Years offer.  I offered 5 x 90-minute sessions with me, and they also got a personalised meditation MP3 emailed to them.

I took everything that they said in the session, and created a personalised meditation for them to listen back to. I recorded it on GarageBand and had backing music playing. Every person I sent it to said they played it over and over, because it was inserting their words back to them.

This was a super powerful tool, and that it didn’t take long to create.

There are so many different things you can include in your offer.

You can offer to send them an action plan after your call.

Or you can create a personalise roadmap for each person. You know how to take someone from A to Z and you know the steps that people need to go to get from where they are at their problem to their solution, so these are what you put in your roadmap.

Let’s say you jump on a discovery call where you create a personalised roadmap for them.  If you’ve already created the roadmap as a template, then you can personalise it easily for that person. Easy for you but super valuable for them.

One of my roadmaps is my Client Attraction Roadmap. It starts with identifying your unique brilliance. So I would actually say in my personalised roadmap; “This is the unique brilliance I see in you and these are your strengths.”

This is how you can package up something that is really valuable, but it’s important first that you identify your ideal client.

When you know your ideal client, you can take their information they tell you and you create a document, or a personalised report for them, so they’re walking away a tool, rather than just time with you.

What you are doing is making every part of the time with you tangible, so that they like feel like it’s something real. This helps the clients to see the journey and roadmap they need to take to grow.

Here are some examples of tools that you can use straight away.

If you offer someone a coaching program, i.e. time with you, you can also offer a vault of documents that are really valuable tools, things like checklists, worksheets, video training, guides, templates, PDFs, progress reports, cheat sheets etc. – this way you’re giving something tangible.

Start thinking about some tangible tools you can make to add to your offer.

Transform Your Service Into A Product

We love products. We love going shopping, touching things and buying them. We love having something tangible like a dress. So if you sell something that’s invisible, then think about how you can turn it into a product and make it more tangible.

If you’re offering a service, such as a graphic designer, a copywriter, a psychologist, a plumber or a coach, you want to turn your service to be more like a product.

People think that it takes a long time but it’s actually your genius zone. It’s your unique brilliance. It can be super easy and quick but it must be valuable.

My Client Attraction Accelerator program, for example, is a portal with 8 modules helping people to attract clients. It contains content on marketing, sales, copywriting, presenting and funnels. It has everything that you need to do to attract and sign up clients.

It’s not just video content, it’s also downloadable documents.

People don’t just need video content, they need community, energy and to be motivated and inspired. They want a coach, mentor and live energy and inspiration.

So when you think about how else you can double the value of your offer, you can offer a community. In between having coaching and watching your course videos, people like having a place where they can ask questions and interact.

One of the tools I create for my clients, is Loom instructional videos on how to do things, and then send them the link for the video. These are little mini-training videos made specifically for each client and they address specific needs.

Time-savers 

Think about the tools you use that save you time and what you could put in your offer to help people save time.

For example, part of my offer is I offer are things I’ve created over the years that I share with my clients so they can pick them up and use them. These are things like PowerPoint slides, marketing documents and other business documents. They can put in their own logo and tweak a few things with the templates.

Once I’ve made them it saves people a lot of time so they don’t get stuck trying to make these documents themselves from scratch, which slows them down.

For example, I have:

  • A webinar steps spreadsheet. This is so valuable for people that are running a webinar. It’s got every single thing you need to do four weeks out to get your webinar running. It’s got what you have to do for webinar promotion, and it’s also got training videos on how to do it
  • An offer validation guide, which is a guide to make sure your offer will work
  • An offer creation formula – to know how to create a valuable offer
  • A Client Attraction Checklist, so people know what to do daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly in order to attract clients
  • A Lead Generation Strategies Guide, which has a whole heap of free lead generation strategies. I’ve got plug and play templates, and an authentic sales script. It’s basically a toolkit
  • An online resource toolkit at the moment for my Mastermind group that I’m working with called Profit From Presenting. It’s teaching how to run your first webinar
  • A video survival kit – with tools and technology tips
  • A list of handy links and I give people my webinar funnel to use
  • Each week I create a worksheet, for my Inner Circle community which takes me from 30 to 60 minutes and it’s filled with valuable questions and information

These are all ideas you can use for creating your own tools and resources.

There are fun ways that you can name your tools because it’s all about naming it something that’s appealing and attractive.

All these things don’t take too much time, but save people time and increase the value of the offer.

Today I’ve talked about the first tool to help you double the value of your offer.

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November 26, 2020 by katmillar Leave a Comment

3 Crucial Things To Identify Before You Start Marketing

A lot of people are out there marketing before they’ve identified a few CRUCIAL things… and they’re frustrated because their marketing is not bringing them in clients.

Before you start marketing, there are 3 crucial things to think about before you put up a single social media post, record a video, launch a website or send an email to your list…

…in order to make your marketing effective.

You can attract paying clients right now, even if you have:

No experience

No certifications

No website

No idea what to share

Even if you’re an introvert, a technophobe, or you don’t currently have a program, product or following… IF you have these three things.

If you have these 3 things, you can attract paying clients and start making money and help people straight away.

1 – Your Unique Brilliance

You have brilliance that others need and don’t have.

You have one main zone of brilliance; one key area you are brilliant at and you need to communicate this in your marketing. This is your USP – your unique selling point or proposition.

I suggest we unpack and develop our top 3 ‘contributions’ that we have to offer to the world. Your contribution to the world is your mission.

When you unpack and develop your top 3 contributions and design your business around them, you stand out in the marketplace.

Have you identified the unique brilliance that you have, that other people don’t have?

Your Contribution = Passion + strengths + mission

Think about these 3 things:

1) What do you love?

2) What are you good at?

3) What do you feel called to do?

It’s important to know these, and communicate them to your  following.

This doesn’t have to take long. Most of you can sit down and do this in less an hour.  But many people skip this step and start marketing before they are clear on these things, and they wonder why their marketing isn’t working and they’re not getting a return on their time.

Identify why you are different and how you can communicate that to the marketplace. Otherwise, you will blend in.

Get clear on your top 3 strengths and communicate these in your marketing.

Business is an exchange of value, so you need to communicate your value by sharing your strengths.

What do you feel called to do and what kind of impact do you want to have in the world?

And what have you actually overcome and what compels you to help others?

What have you overcome and reached the other side of, that now you can help people with on their journey? That becomes your contribution – your passion, your strengths, your mission – what you’ve overcome and want to help others overcome.

So think about – how can you communicate that better in your marketing?

Define how you are different and unique. If you’re a health coach, how are you going to stand out, when there are so many health coaches on social media?

It doesn’t have to take a crazy amount of time. Just identify your top strengths and what makes you different.

My strengths, for example are training, speaking and coaching. I’ve got some skills around writing, copywriting and influence and I’m able to pull groups together and facilitate groups.

These are the things that I’ve packaged up as my offer to share with people.

A lot of people have a unique briliance zone, but they don’t know what it is. Because it is unconscious competence.

Often we don’t realise that people are willing to pay for our organised knowledge, because we’re so good at it and it’s our unique brilliance. So you need to tell people about it.

2 – Your Irresistible Offer

The second crucial thing to identify before you market is your irresistible offer. You want to know your areas of irresistible offer before you start marketing.

Now, this doesn’t have to take a long time. You could decide your offer is a 6-session coaching package or a 2-day workshop, or a  12-week online course. You need to know what your offer is if you’re marketing.

We want to reverse engineer our marketing by starting with the offer we are going to make to people and making sure our marketing is designed to lead people towards that paid offer.

Your marketing should overcome objections people have to taking action. You want to start with your offer, then think about what is going to help the right people who need it to be inspired to buy it.

A lot of people are doing marketing, but someone asks them what they offer and how much they cost, they stumble and fumble because they’re not organised. And they haven’t packaged their offer correctly.

People are attracted to others who have specialised and organised knowledge. We’re attracted to them because our biology likes certainty every step of the way. It seeks certainty.

Marketing is about attracting and repelling. Attracting the right people, and repelling the wrong people.

The more certain you are about your specialised, organised knowledge, the more you’re going to attract people.

The less certainty you have, the more you’re going to repel people.

If you’re specialised and organised in fitness, for example and you’re more organised than your clients in fitness, that’s valuable to them.

If you’re specialised and organised in wealth creation and you’re more organised than your clients in making money, that’s valuable to them.

Being specialised and organised in something means you can easily package up and sell as a high ticket offer.

If your specialised knowledge happens to be something that you’re super passionate about, and you’ve got strengths in this area, you feel like you are called to do it and you market it effectively – you will make a lot of money.

When you have a clear solution and you’re organised, there are a WHOLE lot of people you can help.

When you start marketing your products and services, you need to clearly articulate your strengths and your specialised, organised knowledge. This stops you from rambling when people ask you what your offer is.

You can tell potential clients about your signature system, how much it costs, how long it goes for and you can say it with certainty.

If you can’t articulate clearly and communicate your services, people will paint you with the brush that you’re disorganised.

There’s a saying out there: How you do one thing is how you do everything. If we’re disorganised in one area of our business, people assume we’re disorganised in every area.

You don’t have to be the best or most skilled in an area. You just need to be experienced and organised around your specialty topic.

3 – Your Ideal Client

The third thing you need to identify before you start marketing sounds really obvious, but a lot of people still get this wrong. You need to identify your ideal client.

So, why do you need to identify your ideal client?

Firstly, when we create content, we want the person who’s reading it or listening to it to think that you are reading their thoughts, or you are listening to their conversations.

When you are clear on your ideal client, you stand out from others as a trusted specialist rather than a generalist. You will get more referrals.

If you jump into a Facebook group as a life coach, you are battling with so many other life coaches.

But if you say, for example, you have an ideal client that you help, then you can target them directly.

For example, if you had the ideal client as parents struggling to cope after a divorce, this level of detail makes you really stand out.

People will see your marketing and think of referring you to their friend who is struggling after a divorce. Or if you’re a health coach, and you help people with gut health issues, then you can market directly to people with gut issues.

The more clear we are on who our ideal client is, the more referrals we will get.

Think about a fine dining restaurant. For example, Altitude, at the Shangri La in Sydney. It’s beautiful and stunning.

I went there recently with my friend Jess. The menu had 3 items as the main set menu. I thought “These dishes must be amazing, as they are the only options!”

People get too overwhelmed with too many options. And so if you can say clearly what you do and who you are helping, it helps people identify you as the person that can help them.

Choosing an ideal client does not mean you cut out a whole lot of opportunities. We have to switch from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset. There will always be enough people for you.

It doesn’t mean you can’t take on other clients, but you don’t market to them. I’ve got clients outside of my ideal clients. I take them on if I decide they are a good fit, but I don’t promote that in my marketing.

Remember, in most cases, your ideal client used to be you.

I want to remind you that you are sitting on a goldmine. Some of you are your industry’s best-kept secret.  You need to learn to communicate your unique brilliance, your strengths, passion and your mission. And if you don’t promote these things, your marketing is not going to work.

And a lot of you don’t have enough marketing out there and you’re wondering why you’re not getting clients. No one can know you exist if you’re not marketing yourself properly.

So remember, we’re attracted to anyone who demonstrates certainty in the communication about the organised, specialised knowledge they hold.

When you’re clear, organised and specialised within your area of unique brilliance, your offer, and your ideal client – plus you market it effectively, you can attract your ideal clients and be very successful.

Want to know how to do this?

Would you like to finish the year successful by learning a marketing system for creating a steady stream of ideal clients?

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November 19, 2020 by katmillar Leave a Comment

5 Smart Ways To Recession-Proof Your Marketing

I’m seeing a lot of people doing the same kind of marketing they were doing before COVID. But consumer mindsets have changed.

The people who are doing the same things in their business as they were doing before are the ones that are getting left behind.

There are ways that you can make sure that you not only recession-proof your business income, but you recession-proof YOURSELF as well.

It’s crucial to make sure that you’ve got the skills, strategy, systems and support in place to sustain your business what’s going on in the economy and marketplace.

The people who are stressing during this time are the people who haven’t adapted in this season and have not seen the opportunities to innovate and they have not changed how they interact with their business and themselves.

The people who have enjoyed COVID have been the ones who haven’t been stressing because they are adapting and pivoting. If you are feeling some kind of stress or pressure in terms of where you’re at in your business, you are not alone.

There are no fully secure or certain job now, and I’ve heard of so many redundancies lately. As entrepreneurs, we need to be resilient and grow.

1 – Look For Your Growth Zone

When the world has challenges, there are always opportunities for us to grow, so you need to look for your growth zone.  I want you to think about where your opportunity is for growth.

The businesses that were the biggest hit during COVID, were the businesses that were relying on word of mouth referrals and didn’t have systems in place to actually go out there and attract clients themselves. That is a very shaky way to build your business.

You do not want to set your business up in a way that you’re relying on word of mouth referrals. You want to make sure that you’re being really proactive and intentional in your marketing.

What have you learned and put in place during COVID? Have you put in multiple lead generation strategies,  so you’re not just putting all your eggs in one basket?

Are you just relying on one source of income or one lead generation strategy? This is dangerous because if that dries up, you’ve got nothing left, right? So you want multiple what I call fishing rods in the water and multiple ways of people coming into your business.

I’ve got dozens of lead generation strategies. But what a lot of people do is they start one and it doesn’t work and they start another one and when they find challenges, they try something else but don’t do any of them properly. They haven’t followed through and made it work.

We need to test and measure, and maybe you need to tweak one particular piece. A lot of people throw out the whole thing when it was actually just one cog in the wheel that wasn’t quite working.

You need to look back and see what marketing strategies have been working for you. Have you actually stopped and analysed your results and adapted and pivoted? Did you create success? Or did you just back away scared?

Take a moment to acknowledge yourself and your success. If you didn’t have success over this season, then you need to innovate and adapt to this new market and look for opportunities to grow.

This is possibly the greatest set up that you’re ever going to get in your waking life. History and statistics show that on the back of recession and challenges like pandemics, there have been some of the biggest opportunities.

Looking back at history at some other pandemics like the Black Flu, businesses may not have been able to pivot as we can now. They had old-school marketing strategies then, like putting fliers on windscreens or letterbox drops. But we can take our businesses online,  so this is an incredible opportunity to sell your products and services online.

When I was in London in 2009, I went hard during the GFC. I was backed into a corner because I literally had no money. I knew that if I didn’t put myself out there and change, learn and grow as a person in my confidence, selling skills and my marketing skills, then I would have to leave London.

There were scary moments where I had to look at making things work and I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t have any clients or any contacts over there and it was very stressful and challenging.

There was that constant temptation to do what I call  ‘the creep’ – to creep back and get a normal job. But normal jobs were very low paid. I was getting paid around 75 to 80 pounds an hour as a personal trainer. The reliable steady jobs were paying about 7 or 8 pounds an hour.

Because I had to make money to pay my rent and buy food, I just worked really, really hard during the recession. A lot of my clients had been made redundant, but I knew that it was sink or swim.

Sometimes when things aren’t challenging, we don’t grow because there’s no reason to grow. So I love these opportunities where we get to grow and step up.

There were a lot of start-ups who started during the recession around 2008. You would have heard of Uber, Airbnb, Slack and Pinterest. All of these started in tough times.

Take a step back and look at where you need to grow and improve.  Resilient entrepreneurs don’t look for the easy stuff, they don’t look for the free stuff or low ticket items. They invest in themselves and their growth.

If you are not getting the results you want, you need to think differently about what you’re doing. Where are your blind spots? Do you have someone with eyes on your business to help you see the blind spots?

What are the areas you need to grow in? Maybe it’s your packaging, your branding or the way you deliver your service? We need to prioritise improving ourselves, our strategy, our skills and our systems.

Ask yourself what resources you need to help you overcome in your business. What support and skills do you need? Maybe you need to look back at your business plan and review it or learn more technology.

None of us were born knowing tech, so you can learn. You have 2 options, you can either learn or outsource something, but I prefer to learn something before I outsource it.

2 – Look For Trends And Patterns

It’s important that we look for trends and patterns and this is something that I love doing.  I’ve been looking at where we are headed, and right now, one-third of the population is online. And in the next few years the majority of the world is going to be online.

We’re about to see markets open up in places we’ve never seen before. At the moment, there are 2.2 billion people on Facebook and by the end of 2021, they say that 3 billion people will be on Facebook.

It’s important to know this because Facebook’s the number one advertising platform on the planet, so if you don’t know how to advertise on Facebook, and how to actually get people to pay you money, you’re going to be missing out.

You don’t have to love Facebook, you just have to understand the role that it plays with your customers and clients who are hanging out on Facebook. You need to understand how to do paid ads so that you’ve got full control over your business.

You don’t have to be guessing, hoping, waiting and wishing. This is a way to future-proof your business. If you look at this current climate and the patterns and trends, there are multiple people shopping and working out online.

There’s an entrepreneur called Kayla Itsines who created workouts online and an app called Sweat.  She is worth something like $300 million and she’s only 29.

There are so many opportunities because there are a lot of people doing online events and videos, now more than ever. We can recession-proof our business by recognising where our skill gaps are and filling that gap by learning the skills.

If your gap is Facebook marketing, then it’s important you understand how that works. This is something I’ve learnt for my own business and I help others learn it also. Be intentional. If you don’t know something, find someone who does know and invest in growing in that area.

3 – Show How You Are Different

Now more than ever you have to be different. In order to stand out, you have to be known as an expert.  You’ve got to make sure that people know what your USP is. What is your unique selling point?

You need to stand out from all the others marketing themselves in the same area as you. You need to show how you get results that are different from others. You need to understand how to position the results that you get for people and you need to prove it through stories.

You need to be different. The world is sick and tired of sameness. Anyone can rip you off in terms of your product, but no one can rip off your personal story. It’s yours and it’s powerful.

You need to provide lots of proof of why you’re different. Do you provide a better experience or a more personalised connection and care for your clients? Or is it that you provide more time, better value or better content?

How can you add more value to people in your business? How can you make it that it’s a no brainer that people sign up to you and that it’s non-negotiable?

Don’t put things into the market place until you’ve unpacked your unique brilliance.  This is what I do with my clients, I help them unpack what they do differently and more brilliantly than their competitors.

Then you need to understand what your ideal client actually wants to buy, because that is a sellable service or product. If you know how to project your unique brilliance, it doesn’t really matter if someone comes along and tries to rip you off and copy you. If others are doing what you are doing, then you have to change your offer and make it irresistible.

4 – Make A New Plan

When was the last time you actually updated your marketing plan or your business plan? Every great athlete, entrepreneur and business leader has a plan. If you want to achieve greatness, it doesn’t happen unless you plan for it.

If you have big goals, dreams and desires, I recommend that you revamp your plan. Sit down and write a new plan for this week or this quarter. And just think about what you need right now.

Who do you need to help you put your plan into action? Maybe it’s a community or a mentor? Who do you know who can help you? And what skills do you need to improve on and learn?

There are eight skills that I teach, which I’ve found are the most essential when it comes to attracting and signing up your ideal clients.

These skills are marketing, sales, copywriting, presenting (videos, events, webinars, workshops etc.) I teach how to create irresistible offers, find your USP, create marketing funnels and set up automation processes for your business.

Make a list of the things you need to learn or improve on and put these into a plan.

This can be overwhelming sometimes, so that’s when you need to think about those people who need you and are going to benefit from your help.

Your motivating factor should be those who you can help, so when you make your plan and need to upskill, remind yourself there are people out there who need your unique brilliance and they need you to step up as a leader.

5 –  Act Now, Not Later

It’s about now where people start to write a January list full of things you’re going to do in January.

But if you want to succeed, you’ve got to be clear and intentional about doing things NOW. Do something small, but do it now.

If you need to learn how to run Facebook ads or run a webinar, learn it now. Don’t hold off for the future.

It’s more powerful when you think about making a change NOW, not in the future. Next year can become a bit of a dumping ground for the things that we’ve been putting off.

I really like what Tim Ferriss, who’s a best-selling author teaches. He says he has between three and eight essential things on his to-do list. And he doesn’t go anywhere till it’s done.

Rather than doing lots of little things, he takes time for planning and thinking about the MOST important things that he can act on now right away.

It’s common to find distractions that keep popping up, like friends, family and social media. We can plan a perfect day, but things are going to come up sometimes. But I’m inviting you to start acting now.

Otherwise, you can talk yourself out of it. Months can go by and you still haven’t started.

What do you need to act on now?

Do you want the best training on attracting your ideal, high ticket clients fast through strategies that work best right now?

I highly recommend you check out my upcoming online evening masterclass, the ‘Client Attraction Accelerator’.

This is our FINAL free masterclass of the year!


At This Free Live Online Event You Will:

It’s happening this Tuesday, the 15th of December, from 7pm to 9pm.

This is for you if you’re a coach or consultant or any type of practitioner or service based business owner and you know you’ve got the potential to help a lot more people and make a lot more money, then this is for you.

You’ll discover:

?  How To Get 7 Clients In 7 Days, using a proven, step-by-step process (WITHOUT using any pushy or sleazy tactics)

​?  The 3 Powerful Client Attraction Methods that have people consistently asking “How can I work with you?” (without wasting money on ads)

​?  The Little-Known Content Creation Techniques that will adapt & transform your business in 2021, using my psychology-based influence hacks.

​? ​ ​A Simple Tool That Shows You INSTANTLY whether your target market is niched enough and if not, how to fix it.

​? ​ ​How To Map Out Your Ideal Client’s Journey so you can get people’s ATTENTION and connect with them authentically.

PLUS you’ll receive a BONUS GIFT for attending:

You’ll Get My Social Media Success Tool Kit Valued at $97 For Free!

With step-by-step guides and training on how to use social media to get new clients – ready for you to implement instantly!

So if you are sick of sitting behind your laptop, struggling and not knowing what to do and not knowing how to get clients, come and join us.

Client Attraction Accelerator Masterclass ?

➡ Tuesday December 15th 2020, 7:00pm – 9:00pm (AEDT)

You can register here.

I don’t want any entrepreneurs struggling alone, so check out this event now!

See you soon,

Kat

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Amplify Your Influence, Business, Business coach, Business growth, business strategy, Business workshop, Client Attraction, Coach, Coaching, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Influence, Kat Millar, marketing, Social Media, Success, Webinar, Workshop

November 7, 2020 by katmillar Leave a Comment

Why It’s Time To RAMP It Up In Your Business

Lately I’ve heard a lot of people say they just want this year to be over. They’re excited about next year.

It gets to this time of year, and a lot of people want to take their foot off the accelerator.

We see the Christmas decorations go up in the shops and it’s easy to think, “Ohhh, I’m exhausted. I’ve had a big year. I’m going to slow down now.”

Next year can almost become a ‘dumping ground’ for anything we’ve been putting off this year.

I get it. This year has been really tough for a lot of people.

But although 2020 may not have bought you the results you wanted… you can still make this year count.

Ending your year by finishing strong and feeling successful, with the right focus, strategy and execution can completely change how you start next year.

We still have time to finish the year well.

Ending your year by finishing strong and feeling successful, with the right focus, strategy and execution can completely change how you start next year.

I’m not talking about those of you who genuinely need a rest. I’m talking about those of you who know that there’s a bit more in your tank and you’ve got more to give.

The good thing about success is we get to determine what success means.

WE get to define our year, whether we feel it was successful or not. It’s not based on someone else’s metric. It’s based on our own metric. It’s based on how we feel.

It could be an amount of money coming into your bank account, or a number of clients, or doing a webinar or Facebook Live video.

If you’re focusing on ‘just getting by’ into next year, you’re missing out on a huge opportunity that successful entrepreneurs know.

Which is – every task counts, every day counts, every week counts, every quarter counts.

If you’re already checking out of this year mentally, feeling it’s too late to start something, then I invite you to ask yourself this: Do people still need your help?

If the answer is yes, then consider keeping going, keeping helping people.

Obviously, if you need to take a mental health break, a physical, emotional or spiritual break, then do it.

But if you feel you have it in you to do more…

Here are 3 reasons why I believe it’s time to ramp up in your business:

1 – Most People Are Not Ramping Up

I’m generally not a massive advocate on focusing on your competitors and thinking about what they’re doing. But sometimes we can use it to fuel us.

Think about the fact that most people aren’t doing this.  Then think about what successful entrepreneurs do and emulate that.

In business, you don’t want to do what everyone else is doing.

Quarter 4 is when I ramp things up. Quarter 4 is the quarter that I go even harder, because I know holidays are coming.

I want to feel really deserving on my holidays and that I’m finishing my year strong. Because if I don’t, I know what I’m like and  I’ll just regret it and be disappointed.

If I didn’t ramp it up, I’d miss out on new clients, launching new programs and new opportunities.

And if you’re super productive, you can get a lot of things done when you focus on the right things.

If you’re trying to grow a business, as an entrepreneur in this day and age, you recognise that you need to use your time wisely. You can get so much done in just one week. So if you take your foot off too early, you can waste so much time.

It’s really important that you take opportunities where other people aren’t. I know that December and January are my quietest months, they always have been over the last 17 years in business. A lot of people go away, so you want to get ahead of the game.

Be intentional for what you want to achieve to finish the year well and also start the new year well.

Be clear. Be specific and you will kick your goals and feel awesome.

2- It Sets You Up For The Tone of the Coming Year

Ramping up your business in Quarter 4 sets you up for the tone of the coming year. Be the person who doesn’t cut corners and who doesn’t stop short of your goals. This is a mentality I’ve built within myself.

I used to do a long run which was about 8 kilometres door to door. Towards the end of the run I’d think that I could just slow down and walk the rest of it. But when that thought came, I would move into my entrepreneur identity and think, “Kat you are not a person to cut corners. You don’t stop short of your goals. You are a person of excellence.”

When you have that mentality of finishing successfully, you will take that feeling into your holiday and into the new year.  And when you feel that success, you will want to keep feeling that success.

You want to be the person that executes and does whatever it takes to finish strong. I don’t know about you, but after I’ve been on holiday, I don’t feel motivated to get back to business.

If I know that I’ve had all these wins and I’ve got people waiting for me to serve them, then I get motivated. If I’ve had all these wins the year before, that excites me as I go about my business in the new year.

Finish strong and make it a habit. Then make sure that you give your brain a break over the holidays. Fully stop and give your body and brain a break. Allow the adrenaline to release from your body, so you can recoup for the new year ahead.

3 – Success Breeds Success

The third reason why it’s time to ramp it up in your business, is because success breeds success.

Success almost always brings more success and failure brings more failure.

If you’re feeling a little bit like you’ve not achieved what you’ve wanted to this year, there’s still time.

Don’t finish mediocre. That mindset is not beneficial to you or to being a successful entrepreneur.

We need to be both present-focused AND future-focused as entrepreneurs. We need to have one eye on the present and be very present every day, and one eye on the future and having a vision and plan.

So I want to ask you a question: What’s it going to take for you to feel like you had a successful year?

What 3 things do you want to achieve before the end of the year?

Put your focus on those. Don’t waste time constantly consuming other people’s socials or checking your likes. Create. Start executing a plan.

Execution is about creating things – like events, programs, documents and videos, all things that are helpful for people.

Start thinking about the momentum of success that you can carry on to next year.

I challenge you to write down 3 things that would make you consider this year successful if you achieve them before 31st of December.

Then write down 3 things you want to get done each week leading up to December 31st.

These are your top 3 priorities. Every day look at your top 3 priorities for the week so you keep your focus.

Ever day matters, so let’s make every day count.

 

Do you want the best training on attracting your ideal, high ticket clients fast through strategies that work best right now?

I highly recommend you check out my upcoming online evening masterclass, the ‘Client Attraction Accelerator’.

This is our FINAL free masterclass of the year!


At This Free Live Online Event You Will:

It’s happening this Tuesday, the 15th of December, from 7pm to 9pm.

This is for you if you’re a coach or consultant or any type of practitioner or service based business owner and you know you’ve got the potential to help a lot more people and make a lot more money, then this is for you.

You’ll discover:

?  How To Get 7 Clients In 7 Days, using a proven, step-by-step process (WITHOUT using any pushy or sleazy tactics)

​?  The 3 Powerful Client Attraction Methods that have people consistently asking “How can I work with you?” (without wasting money on ads)

​?  The Little-Known Content Creation Techniques that will adapt & transform your business in 2021, using my psychology-based influence hacks.

​? ​ ​A Simple Tool That Shows You INSTANTLY whether your target market is niched enough and if not, how to fix it.

​? ​ ​How To Map Out Your Ideal Client’s Journey so you can get people’s ATTENTION and connect with them authentically.

PLUS you’ll receive a BONUS GIFT for attending:

You’ll Get My Social Media Success Tool Kit Valued at $97 For Free!

With step-by-step guides and training on how to use social media to get new clients – ready for you to implement instantly!

So if you are sick of sitting behind your laptop, struggling and not knowing what to do and not knowing how to get clients, come and join us.

Client Attraction Accelerator Masterclass ?

➡ Tuesday December 15th 2020, 7:00pm – 9:00pm (AEDT)

You can register here.

 

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Amplify Your Influence, Business, Business coach, Business growth, business strategy, Business workshop, Client Attraction, Coach, Coaching, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneur mindset, Influence, Kat Millar, Mindset, Public speaking, Success, Webinar, Workshop

October 29, 2020 by katmillar Leave a Comment

3 Keys To Getting People To Take The Next Step Toward Working With You

 

If you want to be able to turn someone from a stranger, into a follower, into a paid client and eventually into a loyal, raving fan, there are 3 specific keys that you need to follow.

Your clients will move through a specific progression from discovering you & engaging with you, through to buying from you, and it’s important that you understand how it works.

Too many people rush things.

In dating. In networking events. In pushy DM’s & PM’s. In sales conversations.

Over the years I’ve worked with all sorts of business owners, from coaches, psychologists and consultants, to childcare centre owners, gym and studio owners and thought leaders.

The people who are most successful have nailed these 3 keys that I’m sharing with you today.

The 3 keys are Know —> Like —> Trust

This is the progression your clients will take from discovering you & engaging with you, through to buying from you.

You’ve probably heard of these factors before. But do you know how to use them?

It’s important to look at your whole marketing strategy when it comes to employing the know, like and trust factor.

A lot of people say that they are posting but not getting clients. They are sending out emails, but people aren’t clicking through and taking action on the next step.

If that sounds like you, one of these 3 ingredients is probably missing.

The good news is, once you identify it and fix it, you can get your client pipeline flowing again.

When you combine these three elements, magic happens.

You start to become more of an authority and you build a tribe of fiercely loyal clients.

So here are 3 keys to take people rapidly on the journey from not knowing you, through to knowing you, liking you and trusting you enough to become your client and also become a raving fan.

1 – The Know Factor

There are three different aspects under the ‘know’  factor that we need to take into consideration.

Visibility

When it comes to people knowing you, visibility is key. People need to know that you exist, so you’ve got to be visible and visible in multiple places.

This is stage is all about building awareness that you exist. This means you need to show up in multiple places online and you need to attend events as well.

Going to events are such an easy way to build trust and connection really fast.

I know it’s been challenging this year to get out there and attend actual physical, live events, but attending seminars, conventions, conferences and networking events, is the easiest way to get known quickly. Because we’ve had social distancing and so many live events have been mostly closed down, I suggest hanging out regularly online instead, such at Facebook groups.

Pick three of your favourites groups and make sure you’re not in there with the sole purpose of getting clients.

It’s so important to give value while you are there.

You can also build connections and collaborate with Facebook group owners and ask to be a guest speaker on a podcast or in the Facebook group.

It’s called relationship marketing or conversational marketing. So you want to be out there, being visible in order to build that ‘know’ factor.

Build Curiosity

Building curiosity is so key for building people to know and like you. People get curious about what you do by regularly seeing you and by you educating people on what you do.

It’s all about volume and putting things up multiple times. You can’t put one blog up and think that it’s going to get you clients. You need to educate people about what you do. Be really clear on what you do. This is why niching is so important.

You can’t just say you are a life coach or a business coach.  You’ve got to tell people the kinds of things you do with people.

To get people to move to the like factor, they need to know you. And we want to make sure people get to know you by you being yourself.

Marketing is about attracting and repelling, so if you think about it, would you rather have a bunch of people that love you because they know you, or a few people that just don’t like you?

If you want to be successful you don’t need everyone to like you. You just want people to know clearly who you are, what you do and you want to be able to be yourself.

A lot of people struggle with getting out and being visible. But the fact is, if you’re not willing to do it, you won’t even pass that first date. There are stages that you’ve got to move people through from knowing to like into trusting, so you have to get out there and be visible.

People won’t just know you exist. You need to make yourself known to your ideal clients.

2 – The Like Factor

Giving Value

How much do you generously and genuinely give value?  Back in the old days (like years ago) you could just put up an E-book and actually charge for it. But it’s not like that now in the market.

The world is getting more and more competitive so we’ve got to make sure that our free stuff is really valuable and consistent.

Be generous and give things that people really want, not some scrappy thing that you created years ago and want to use as a lure.

You want to make your freebies something of great worth and value, and something that someone can take away and apply it straight away. This way you are giving people a mini win and a result straight away.

Relatability

We like people because we relate to them. Think about how you can connect with people and build the bridge of trust through being relatable.

Being authentic and showing your human side makes you more relatable. We relate with people who aren’t formal or fake. No one likes fake people. We’ve got to be genuine and authentic.

How much are you being yourself and how much are you putting on a mask?  When you share your struggles and how you’ve overcome them, you’re showing your vulnerability.

This opens people up to you when you share from your heart, share your struggles and what you did to overcome them.

You’ve got to be nice. I’ve found myself to be successful because I’m nice. I genuinely care about people and I’m not pushy. I give value.

If you’re trying to choose between two coaches, you’re going to go with the one that you like the most. It’s not like you’re buying a commodity, like bread or a car. You’re buying time with a person. I’d prefer to spend time with someone I love to be with and I’m sure it’s the same with you.

Being Inspirational

Being inspiring is how you will move someone to actually want to take action. So if you’re thinking about how to get people to the next step towards working with you, there are many steps towards working with you.

Most people don’t want to rush it. But how do we move someone to the next level? You’ve got to be building that skill of being able to appeal and inspire people so they want to take the next step towards you.

I love Seth Godin. He’s one of the best marketers in the world. He’s got some incredible books and I encourage you to look him up. He says he doesn’t check his analytics or go into his website to check how many people have visited, he just commits to doing great work every single day.

He’s written a blog, every single day, for years.  He just shows up every day and gives and gives. He inspires people to take the next action by giving tangible nuggets.

You can’t be sloppy. You’ve got to really craft your words so that people are inspired to move towards you.

People need to be inspired. They need to know what your point of difference is, and how you can actually help them solve a genuine problem.

Ultimately we like people who we feel good around. We like people who inspire and help us. Ultimately we are sharing value and helping people with a specific problem.

3 – The Trust Factor

Trust is the most challenging part, but your client absolutely needs to trust you. You may spend a lot of time on this step, but it’s the most important step.

When we invest our time, our energy, our money, there must be trust. Without trust, there is no exchange.

If you think of any relationship, a friendship, a romantic partner or a family relationship, these all have to have trust.

Trust takes time to build, so take the time at the beginning stage to do this and don’t rush people along until trust is established.

Consistency

The first thing to building trust is consistency. People want to be able to rely on you. They want to know you’re not here one day and then gone the next.

I look at some business pages and they’ve not posted on their socials for over a year. When you’re not consistent you can’t build trust.

You’ve got to show people you’re serious. So focus on sharing with people what you do consistently.

The quickest way to build trust is through video. So you’ve got to make sure that you’re putting video in your marketing strategy. And there’s also a right and wrong way to do a video.

There are things you can do on video that actually put people off, so you definitely want to hone your skills if you’re going to be doing video.

You also want to think about a combination of written and video content consistently.

Imagine if you decided that every single day you’re going to share with three people what you do. You just keep showing up and you post and you share content and you commit.

It’s a decision you need to make and keep.

Credibility

There are a lot of people selling dodgy things on the internet. A lot of people sell things for cheap like online courses and they don’t know what they’re doing.

If you provide a service like coaching or consulting, often people are buying something that’s  invisible. So you need to put their mind at ease by showing our credibility.

To show your credibility, don’t be afraid to share your expertise. You can do it in a humble way that’s not bragging.

You can talk about how grateful you are to have worked with certain people and how long you have worked in a particular industry.

Do it with the tonality of gratitude and show how your expertise can help people get where they want to go faster.

You can do this through social proof, like sharing testimonials from people who’ve worked with you. It could be sharing stories of how you’ve successfully helped others achieve results.

It’s being transparent and letting people know who you are and who you’re not. Let people know what you stand for and what you stand against.

You can do things like offering some kind of results guarantee. This doesn’t work for every business. But having a guarantee like a 7-day or 14-day satisfaction guarantee on your signature program makes it a no-risk, no-brainer.

If you’re a service provider like a coach, consultant, personal trainer, psychologist or someone who sells a service, people are buying something invisible – something they can’t see or touch initially. So there has to be a lot of trust there, so if you can give something that takes away the risk, you’re taking away a major objection.

Also, be accessible. Put your contact details and offer phone calls for people who don’t have all their questions answered.

It’s really important that we build those trust factors, because we know that people need trust us, in order to take that next step with us.

Clarity

The third thing we need to build trust is to be clear. This is all about your ability to communicate clearly what you do and who you help.

You need to get clear on your ideal client, their dreams, desires, fears and frustrations and be able to provide content that educates and inspires them.

You also need to be clear on your vision and mission, what you stand for and against, your business values and have a clear pathway to help people solve their problems.

When you combine the elements of know, like, and trust to your content and actions, magic happens.

You start to become more of an authority and you build a tribe of fiercely loyal clients. But results like these take time and effort. You need to put the work in, keep growing and never give up.

Do you have knowledge, skills and experience that can help people?

Would like to know exactly how to structure and organise your knowledge so you can get new clients fast?

I highly recommend you check out my upcoming online evening event, the Client Attraction Mastery Masterclass

This is our FINAL free masterclass of the year!

 

Do you want the best training on attracting your ideal, high ticket clients fast through strategies that work best right now?

I highly recommend you check out my upcoming online evening masterclass, the ‘Client Attraction Accelerator’.

This is our FINAL free masterclass of the year!


At This Free Live Online Event You Will:

It’s happening this Tuesday, the 15th of December, from 7pm to 9pm.

This is for you if you’re a coach or consultant or any type of practitioner or service based business owner and you know you’ve got the potential to help a lot more people and make a lot more money, then this is for you.

You’ll discover:

?  How To Get 7 Clients In 7 Days, using a proven, step-by-step process (WITHOUT using any pushy or sleazy tactics)

​?  The 3 Powerful Client Attraction Methods that have people consistently asking “How can I work with you?” (without wasting money on ads)

​?  The Little-Known Content Creation Techniques that will adapt & transform your business in 2021, using my psychology-based influence hacks.

​? ​ ​A Simple Tool That Shows You INSTANTLY whether your target market is niched enough and if not, how to fix it.

​? ​ ​How To Map Out Your Ideal Client’s Journey so you can get people’s ATTENTION and connect with them authentically.

PLUS you’ll receive a BONUS GIFT for attending:

You’ll Get My Social Media Success Tool Kit Valued at $97 For Free!

With step-by-step guides and training on how to use social media to get new clients – ready for you to implement instantly!

So if you are sick of sitting behind your laptop, struggling and not knowing what to do and not knowing how to get clients, come and join us.

Client Attraction Accelerator Masterclass ?

➡ Tuesday December 15th 2020, 7:00pm – 9:00pm (AEDT)

You can read more or book in for free here

(Note: Spaces strictly limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Grab your ticket before it books out)

?  You can read more or book in for free here

See you online soon!

Kat

 

 

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