Kat Millar

  • Home
  • About
  • Events
  • Products & Services
    • The Sell-Out Offer System
    • The Client-Getting Content System
    • The Client-Getting Content Audit
    • The Easy Marketing Client Attraction Bundle
    • Invitation to Work with Kat Millar
  • Blog
  • Reviews
    • Workshop Reviews
  • Free Resources
  • Contact us

June 17, 2021 by katmillar Leave a Comment

5 Things You Need To Grow Your Business To $10K Months Consistently

I have a question for you.

When was the last time that you sat down and planned out a clear game plan to bring in consistent clients every single month?

If you haven’t done it for a while, you’re not alone.

It’s not always easy to step back and move from working IN your business to actually working ON your business, from a strategic point of view.

In business, there are literally hundreds, if not thousands of things that we could be doing right now, in order to grow.

Like Blogging, Podcasting, Clubhouse, Google SEO, Facebook ads, YouTube videos, Instagram Reels…

We could be doing joint ventures, email nurture sequences, crafting great sales pages, DM strategies… the list is endless!

To grow our business, it’s crucial that we are in action. But how do we actually decide WHAT action to take… when there are SOOO many options of what we could be doing in our business?

Can you relate to this? You wake up in the morning, you’ve got a huge ‘to do’ list…

…you get caught up in life and appointments and next minute the sun is setting, and you realise that you haven’t posted on social that day.

And now you’ve got to go pick up your kids or meet your friends.

Maybe you’ve also got a side hustle, also known as your job (I call jobs ‘side hustles’ because they’re not the main thing 😉

Add to it your social life, and your family, hobbies, and everything else you want to be doing…

You just want to know how to make it all work to get your business delivering consistent results for you.

After being in business for the last 18 years now and trying so many things, I’ve discovered there are really just FIVE things that you need to focus on to grow your business to 10K+ months consistently.

It wasn’t until I did these things and looked back to reverse engineer it to see “Oh, that’s what I did to get there.”

The sooner you learn them, the sooner you’ll be able to implement and get better at them!

Here are FIVE things you need to grow your business to 10K+ months consistently.

1. Accelerated Attraction Strategy

The first thing you need to grow your business to 10k+ months consistently is what I call an ‘Accelerated Attraction Strategy’.

Attraction is the very first step to building awareness of your business – getting visibility onto what it is you do. So you need a strategy to attract the right people consistently.

Not just as a one-off, for example like one video on your website or one post on your Facebook page, but a consistent strategy that you’re out-working every single week.

And the most important thing about your strategy is that you have clarity on three things.

a. The Big Problem That You’re Solving

The first thing that you need clarity on is the big problem that you’re solving. What is that one big problem that people will pay you to solve?

A lot of entrepreneurs jump in and they start posting content straight away until they’ve got that clarity.

b. The Ideal People That You’re Serving

The second thing that you need to know is who are the ideal people that you’re serving. Who is that select group of people?

It’s not everyone. It’s not even women in Australia, aged 30 to 50. It’s not that.

It’s who are the exact people that you’re serving in terms of the unique problems that you can solve, and then it’s who of those people who will pay for your services.

c. Your Point of Difference

The third thing you need clarity on is your point of difference.

How are you going to stand out?

If you’re a health coach, what makes you different from all the other health coaches?

You need clarity on the problem, the people, and the point of difference.

A lot of clarity comes when you’re moving and on your way.

Clarity doesn’t come when you’re stuck and not putting yourself out there.

You need to have as many conversations as you can and start looking for the patterns.

This is how I did it. I did lots and lots of conversations with people and I realised what I was good at.

I didn’t realise until I actually started working with people and coaching them, what some of my unique gifts were.

Do you know what your unique point of difference or your brilliance is?

A lot of people say they don’t know so if you’re not sure, start working with people. Then you’ll see that you’re actually quite good at that. I thought everyone could do that but actually no, that’s not true. Not everyone can do that.

They call it ‘unconscious competence’ where you’re really good at something and you don’t realise it’s actually something that you’re really masterful at.

I didn’t realise that I was actually really good at copywriting and helping people with the actual structure of their writing, and I was good at seeing the things that people needed from a strategic point of view – seeing the gap seeing the holes.

So that point of difference comes along the way.

However, you don’t want to just jump into doing five posts a week if you haven’t really nailed down those things that could actually push away the people that you’re trying to attract.

2. Compelling Content Formula

The second thing you need is a Compelling Content Formula.

You can have an INCREDIBLE program or service, but without compelling content, it’s like having a Porsche but leaving it in your garage. You won’t get far.

There are two ways that we can do content – either written or spoken.

What I recommend to all of my clients is that you have a combination of written and spoken content.

Then you need a strategy and a structure.

Firstly you need an overarching strategy – knowing “this is what I do on a weekly basis for my content.” – the types of videos, the types of posts, you’re going to do, like one Facebook Live video a week and then maybe turn it into a blog post, leveraging that content, sending an email once or twice a week, for example. That’s your strategy.

Your structure is what actually goes into that video or that post.

It’s really important that you don’t just write ‘how-to’ content, just telling people what to do but don’t actually inspire action. Your posts, every piece of content that goes out should inspire some type of action.

It should talk about a pain point that someone’s going through so it’s not just telling someone what to do, it’s influencing them to want to change.

When you take the time to educate your clients, it can really dramatically shift things. Because quality clients need to be educated, they need to understand why you are different in terms of the result you can offer.

3. A Profitable Presentation

The third thing you need is a profitable presentation.

This could be a live video, it could be a video training, a pre-recorded video, it could be an event, even an online event like a webinar or it could be a workshop but you need some way that you can present what it is you do.

Written content is important but reading content on its own, like blogs, emails, social media captions, all of that is never really enough to attract clients consistently.

So written content alone doesn’t usually inspire or influence someone to actually make a significant purchase decision unless you’re doing a really low ticket offer like a $7 or $47, or a $97 offer. Usually written content isn’t enough to actually get someone over the line unless you’re really brilliant marketer, a really great copywriter, and really great writer.

Let’s be real, how many people have transferred money into your bank account because they’ve read one of your posts or because they’ve read one of your blogs? The reality is, it’s not a reliable enough strategy to consistently have a pipeline of clients coming in.

If we want people to trust us, we need time with them. In order to get trust, it takes time. Think about a relationship, you’re not going to jump into a committed relationship until you’ve had enough time with that person.

So in order to build trust, we need to ask for people’s time, however long it takes for them to go from what we call ‘cold to sold’. It’s very rarely from cold straight to sold. They need time in between.

And the reason people give us time is because we educate them.

There’s a great book called “Oversubscribed” by Daniel Priestley. He talks about a study that showed that people need about seven hours of time with us before they make a significant buying decision. Seven hours. It’s interesting, isn’t it.

And if you think about how many social media posts they need to read in order to make a significant brand decision, that’s a lot!

I compare it to doing one pushup every day. You could do one pushup every day for 30 days but you’re probably not going to get a significant result.

Or you could do one event, let’s say a seven-hour workshop, and in that one event you’ve got all those seven hours all at once – which is why events are one of my favorite strategies.

Even like the 60 minute event. You could never get a 60 minute time with someone on social media. It’s so hard to do that. Some people do that on a Facebook Live if they really, really engaging but it’s very rare.

So an online event where people actually register for it, I compare it to busking versus having a concert. You can walk past a busker and say, “Hey, that looks cool”,  and just have a little nosy or stand there and watch them for a while but then you just wander on.

That’s what it’s like on social media – it’s a scroll fest, but when someone registers and comes in and hears your presentation it’s such a win-win scenario. You’re giving them your time and your education, and they’re giving you their trust.

So written content and a presentation is the most potent combination to attract clients.

It helps you build authority, it helps you build trust, it helps you to be able to overcome people’s false beliefs, and it inspires action. It’s super leveraged.

4. An Automated Funnel

Number four is an Automated Funnel.

In business, there are two distinct paths.

One path is the path where you keep letting your business rule you and you work manually. You just keep up as best as you can with that never-ending ‘to do’ list … and anyone can do that.

Or, you can choose a second path which is the path of building an asset. This is when you bring automation into your business.

And this is what so many of your competitors are not willing to do because it takes some thought. It’s not the easiest road.

Les Brown says, “The hard road gets easy and the easy road gets hard.”

The easy road is like, “I’ll just show up and just randomly post and just post when I feel super inspired.” And, “Hey, just contact me if you want to work with me.”

There’s no system, there’s no structure, there’s no automation.

But one of the most powerful ways to succeed is to look at the places your competitors aren’t willing to go and this path, yes, it takes some work, it takes some thought takes some energy but if it’s easy for you to do, it’s easy for your competitors to do.

And I was talking to someone about it today actually saying, “I like the challenge. I like that it’s hard to kind of break my brain to come up with a great piece of content or great video idea” because this is what so many people aren’t willing to do.

A lot of business owners start out and they’re running their business manually because they want to get going and they want to focus on sales, but then they attempt to just keep doing this manual, old school way of doing things where there’s no system, there’s no automation.

All it takes is what I call an ‘adoption of automation’.

I’m not saying you have to have everything automated because there are elements of manual things that we do in our business. But
if you can work on getting the funnels in place and stop running your business, trying to figure it all out, that’s quite an old school process.

You’ve got to decide, the technology’s there for things to be more automated, to look after people so that they’re not falling through the gaps and so that they get an email nurture sequence to then move through my funnel elegantly. This way I’m building my list, I’m building an asset and it’s not just random.

Very few people do this well.

However, you can decide that you’re going to build more of a scalable asset and you can make a heck of a lot of income, without doing a heck of a lot of work. You don’t need to do so much work on an ongoing basis, you just need to do the work once and it’s done.

It does take some energy to learn it. I needed to learn the skills. It took me a few weeks to learn it but even if it took me six months, I’d still do it because now I get to benefit from a funnel that I created years ago and I’m still benefiting from it.

You do it once and it’s done.

Funnels have been such a game-changer in my business. Having a funnel in place would generate that consistent flow of leads into your business and when you get it right, it can really change everything for you.

Right now, just in your mind, stop for a second and think about what it would be like to have a 24/7 marketing machine working for you. You don’t have to do that hustle.

It’s a real game-changer.

There’s great power in having an automated funnel.

They’re so powerful because they elegantly bring people in so that when you get on the sales calls, it doesn’t feel salesy. It doesn’t even feel like a sales conversation. It just feels like people are excited and ready to work with you because they’ve been educated and they’ve been looked after, every step of the way.

5. A High-Performance Mindset

The fifth thing that you need to grow your business to 10k months or more consistently is a High-Performance Mindset.

There’s a mindset when you’re earning 1k or less per month, or when you’re in a startup compared to when you’re earning 10k or more per month.

There are some key differences so I’m going to give you just three of them here.

a. Improving Your Craft

The first one is when you’re at that lower level, there’s a real focus on improving your craft. So I may need to do another certification or to get better at coaching or adding hypnotherapy or NLP to my services, or adding other skills.

A lot of service-based entrepreneurs and coaches want to uplevel their craft, so they’re getting good at what they do but actually, they’re already good enough at what they do. What they’re lacking is actually the business skills – the sales and the marketing side of the business.

So that’s a real shift in mindset by saying, “I’m good enough right now to position myself as an expert. It doesn’t mean I have to be perfect or the best, it just means that I have to have a unique point of difference”, which you already do – you’re different than other people just by being you.

b. Overcome the Fear of What People Think

The second distinction between the 1k or less mindset and the 10k mindset is that when you’re first setting up, there’s a real thing about playing it safe and not putting yourself out there as much. But when you realise that in order to scale your business, you have to get out there more and you have to take more risks.

You have to overcome the fear of what people think and that requires a level of vulnerability, of showing up, of getting on video, and taking a risk to maybe run an event while thinking, “Well, I don’t know if people are going to come or not, but I’m going to do it anyway and I’m going to get people there. I’m going to use my influence skills to invite people.”

There’s a whole strategy around that I teach about how to actually get people in and I’ve never had anyone that I’ve worked with run an event where people haven’t come. They’ve always been able to get people there when they follow the strategy that I teach.

It’s really that shift from playing it small, being timid, being quite passive, just hoping people come to you, and actually stepping up and being willing to take risks.

c. An Abundance Mindset

The third mindset shift is when you’re first starting out, or when you’re stuck at that 1k or 2k month levels, and it’s not having the confidence to really solve a clear problem, and trying to be everything to everyone.

It’s really a mindset shift of abundance that there are enough people.

So it’s stepping across to positioning yourself as the authority, as the expert, and having that abundance mindset.

There’s a lot of money mindset things that need to happen to transition and actually feel like you’re worthy of charging what you’re worth.

I had to go through a lot of money mindset coaching myself, and really diving deep into what I believed in from my childhood and the way I was brought up in order to step into being a six-figure business owner.

So I have a question for you. How would you feel having a day to work on your business and learn exactly how to do all of this?

If you’re in Sydney, this event is unpacking each of these five things, telling you exactly what to do so that you can have a consistent pipeline in order to enable you to get to that 10k mark consistently. You will know exactly what to do by the end of this event.

If you’re not in Sydney, we are going to be running an online version soon so stay tuned for that.

If you are in Sydney and you are free on Saturday (19th June), we’re taking a whole day to dive deep into how to do these things because it is very hard to do it just after watching one video.

You can check it out by clicking here.

You’ll walk away knowing how to apply each of the five steps to your business.

We’ll show you how to

Create an Accelerated Attraction Strategy,

Structure your content using a Compelling Content Formula

Create a Profit Presentation

Set up Automated Funnels so you’ve got that 24/7 client attraction machine

and how to overcome those money mindset blocks and move into having those keys of a high-performance abundance mindset.

You’ll also get the support of three experts and a really cool community!

I’ve seen the list of who’s coming and there are really great people that you’ll get to meet!

So if you’d like to join us, you can check it out by clicking here.

Keep showing up. Keep sharing your brilliance with the world.

Even if you have doubts, even if you have fears, it’s totally normal.

Keep showing up anyway because the clarity comes when you’re moving – not when you’re staying stuck.

The world needs YOU!

Kat

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Amplify Your Influence, Business, Business coach, Business growth, business strategy, Business workshop, Client Attraction, Coaching, Content, Entrepreneur, Kat Millar, Mindset, presenting, sales, Social Media, Workshop

June 11, 2021 by katmillar Leave a Comment

The most IMPORTANT thing you can do this week to level up your business

If you want to scale up your business, you’re probably doing a lot of things in your business right now.

Posting, emails, research, hanging out in Facebook Groups, writing blogs. There’s a lot of activity as a business owner.

The question is, is it getting you new clients consistently? And if it’s not, what do you need to do differently to get different results?

Level up means different things to different people. What does level up your business mean to you?

For some people, it means upskilling in their sales, in marketing and presenting, their copywriting…

Level up for others means leaving their job and going full time in their business.

For some people, levelling up means that they are bringing on a new team member or creating a new funnel or system.

It might mean achieving your freedom figure – the amount of money that you want to earn every single month so you have freedom and don’t have to work in a job…

…then you can have that impact that you really want to make in the world.

What’s the next thing you want to achieve in your business?

Think about this… there are things that you need to do in your business, right now, that you don’t know how to do that someone else knows how to do.

We can all waste so much time trying to figure out things on our own.

I’ve come up against some things recently that I have been really stuck on. I couldn’t believe that I was really struggling with a Facebook ad and I couldn’t get it to get accepted. It would keep going back into the ad and it kept getting rejected.

For some reason, I didn’t reach out to a business group that I’ve paid for a membership for. I just didn’t even think to reach out to them. And then I finally did. I said I really need help on this. I’ve been trying everything trying to figure it out on my own. And they came straight back to me with the answer.

It was interesting how much I tried to figure that out on my own when I could actually reach out and ask for help and receive it.

Also, another yearly membership to a business group I’m part of came up for renewal at the start of this month.

I’m already part of two other programs plus have a coach, so I was thinking about whether I wanted to stay in it or not.

As it got closer to the expiry date, I felt fear pop up that I would miss out on their specific skills.

When I noticed that emotion I thought “What is it worth to have that extra certainty that I can get more help when I’m stuck?”

I remembered something important.

When I wanted to win bodybuilding contests, I worked with people who had won trophies.⠀

When I wanted to earn $10K+ months consistently, I worked with people who had already achieved that income.

If we don’t keep investing in people who have done what we want to do, we won’t keep growing.

What usually happens is that when we don’t know how to do something, we stop doing it. We go and do something else. And there are things that have been holding us back from a lot for a long time because we’ve got stuck.

Whether it’s somewhere in our funnel or somewhere in our sales process. Or maybe it’s something to do with our website or Facebook ad.

I’ve had three people reach out to me this week, and say that they needed feedback. I help people make-over their content and web pages.

One lady needed a website overhaul and a social media strategy and we got that done in 2x 90 minutes sessions.

Another lady reached out to me and said, “I don’t know why I’m not getting clients.” I looked at her branding and it was impeccable. It all looks amazing. But as I started to go through it, I realised that her messaging was not clear. She was trying to reach too many people … and she’s missing them all. I could see exactly what her problem was.

She could have kept churning out content and it wouldn’t have gotten results because she hasn’t stepped back and crafted exactly who her ideal client is and their specific pain points. She was being super vague.

Sometimes because we don’t look beyond ourselves and what we know, we can miss opportunities to grow.

Changing your business and changing your life, it’s always going to be preceded by awareness of something you haven’t seen in yourself up to that point.

You might know what to do, but you haven’t seen how to actually apply it in your business.

A lot of people say to me, “I know what I should be doing. I know that I need to be doing more content… improving my copywriting skills… doing more videos.” But they don’t have the clear steps of exactly what to do, a formula.

YOU OVERCOME FEAR WITH A FORMULA

You overcome fear with a formula when you’ve got the steps and you know how to apply those big picture principles like send emails, or the things that you know that you should be doing in business, but you’re not taking action on. Often, it’s because you haven’t seen exactly what to do and how to apply it to your own personal business.

A lot of us want to transform things in our business but before the transformation, there needs to come a recognition that something’s broken.

And because we can’t see ourselves, we don’t know what we look like to others.

It was interesting when I was doing this website make-over. I was looking at her LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, I could see so many things that she was doing, I could see the holes – it’s one of my genius zones or whatever you want to call it. One thing I can say is I can quickly pick up where people are going wrong.

Think about it like this. You eat a salad at one o’clock for lunch at a cafe with some friends. Then you go and get your nails done. Then you have some meetings and go shopping. You get home, let’s say 6pm, you look in the mirror and there’s like a big piece of kale in your teeth.

So between one o’clock and six o’clock you’ve talked to maybe 12 people and you think, “Why did not someone tell me?” You couldn’t see it.

And this is the thing I really want you to get – you cannot change what you cannot see.

I heard about a really influential leader who said, “I want to ask a question of the people that I lead. What’s it like to be on the other side of me?” And that’s a good question.

Have you ever thought about what it’s like to be on the other side of you?

We all have blind spots because we don’t know what it’s like to be on the other side of ourselves. We don’t know what it’s like to deal with us. We don’t know what it’s like to have a conversation with us.

We’ve watched ourselves on video, maybe we see ourselves in the mirror, but we actually don’t know what it’s like to be our friend or our coach.

One of my Inner Circle clients is a Parenting Coach. She helps parents with big picture parenting and her and I were chatting about the fact that a lot of parents don’t have a plan for their parenting.

And so they might say, “Oh well, I’m a great parent.” But how do they know? They’ve never parented yourself.

Or, they might say, “My marriage is good”, but how do they know? They’ve not been married to themselves.

So if you’re going to transform your business you need to see things differently from how you see them now. How you see yourself now is not how other people see yourself.

Think about this: every moment of every day, our brain gets bombarded with information which we process, and this becomes our perception and our experience.

I remember learning in my NLP training that we have coming into our system, approximately 11 million bits of information per second. I just couldn’t get my head around that. I don’t know if you can even try and fathom 11 million bits of information. But as a processing unit our brain can only process around 126 bits of information.

So, we’ve got 11 million bits coming in. Our brain can only process 126. So how do we decide which bits to pick?

Imagine a big pile of  11 million matches. I can’t even fathom that, but imagine there is a big field full of 11 million matches, and your brain, in a second or millisecond pulls out just 126. Think about how many are left … 10,999,874 bits of information are left that your brain didn’t pull out.

If I pulled out my 126 matches, they’re going to be different bits of information based on our beliefs and experiences, our upbringing, our filters our perception of reality, what’s important to us, etc. That’s why when you buy a nice top, you begin to see that top everywhere in the shops.

So the odds are you’re going to pick up different bits of information to someone else.

So when you think about how much you’re missing out, how much you’re not seeing and how much you’re not experiencing, it’s crucial as business owners, that you know the task to pull out that you could be doing in business, which are going to have the greatest impact.

We need to know the tasks that are going to have the greatest impact and we can’t usually see that the challenges ourselves. We need someone else from the outside to actually show them to us.

How do we differentiate the test of high impact and low impact? Well, the first thing we need to do is we need to decide what impact means. You may want to base your impact on your monthly or quarterly income goal.

So, determine which tasks in your business, of the hundreds of things that you could be doing, are going to bring the most in income.

Some people think it’s either increasing their income or it’s helping people. They actually go together. You can’t increase your income without helping people.

And if you’re charging what you’re worth, you can’t help people without increasing your income. They go together too, because business is about providing value. If what you do genuinely improves the quality of someone’s life, then the more impact you make, the more income you receive because they really do go together.

So there’s nothing wrong with having income as a priority, because that’s a direct reflection of how many people you’re serving, and helping.

It’s also important that if income is a priority, that marketing and sales are the most important activities you can be doing.

And by marketing, I don’t mean making your brand colours pretty. I don’t mean fluffing about on Canva, lining up every photo. I don’t mean writing a blog for three hours so only your Mum and your best friend read it ,but not actually driving any traffic to it. Those are not impact-driven activities.

We can all get stuck in those things because the brain loves the path of least resistance.

So often those 126 bits of information that are picked from the 11 million bits are the easy things, the safe things, the comfortable things. But if you’re not good at sales and marketing, the priority is skill acquisition on those two things – improving your marketing and sales skills has to become a top priority until you’re getting a return on your investment of the time that you’re putting in.

The lady that I was working with before was sharing that she is getting a lot of leads coming in so that she actually had to turn her ads off. The problem is she’s not converting them. So I said to her that her priority has to be sales right now as well as sales conversations. She can’t keep pulling people in if she doesn’t know how to convert.

So she needs to stop the marketing and focus on sales.

If you’re not getting any sales, if you look at your calendar right now and you looked at the next week or two, how many sales conversations have you got booked in? If you don’t have enough sales calls booked in in order to meet your monthly income target, then that’s got to be your priority – marketing, client attraction. lead generation.

These have got to be your priority and not the things that are just passive things, but the things that are directly going to lead to people booking into your calendar.

So often, we don’t see this ourselves. We don’t see what we don’t see.

So my question to you is: whose eyes are currently on your business, showing you the most important things to do?

Because if you’re not experienced in business, or you haven’t hit 10k months consistently, for example, do you want the opinion of friends around your business? Or do you want people who have successfully done what you want to do looking at your business.

I’m sure you’ve done business courses before. But if your business is not where you want it to be, it’s not just that you’re not applying what you’ve learned.

Here’s the distinction.

People think I learned all this stuff, I’m just not doing it. That’s not it. The reason you’re not where you want to be is you don’t know exactly how to apply it to your business right now. You don’t know the next steps, because otherwise you’d be doing them. So there is something missing.

And if you’re not levelling up, you don’t know the exact steps to take that are going to make the most impact and that are going to give you the results that you want.

There’s a quote that I love that says, “We can’t see the picture when we’re inside the frame.”

We can’t see that kale in our teeth when we’re looking at someone else.

So the most important thing you can do this week to level up your business is to get an expert perspective, to get someone’s eyes on your business. It’s the fastest thing if you think about it. Businesses scale up fast because they have strapped themselves to a fast moving vehicle.

Someone who knows what they’re doing or a company that knows what they’re doing. They’re not reinventing the wheel and trying to figure it all out themselves. And that’s how you grow your business and scale your business fast!

So if you’re stuck in your business, right now, the way to speed it up is to reach out to someone who can help you with that thing that you’re stuck on, the most impactful thing related to your most impactful goal. And whether that’s an income goal, or an impact goal, or both.

What’s essential for leveling up is to get someone’s eyes on your business that has done what you need to do. It’s called ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’.

I had a cassette series when I was a teenager called ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’. Did you have that? It was of Les Brown and some other motivational speakers. I remember that concept just clicking with me. This made me think if someone else has done it, then I can do it too.

But I need help. I can’t just try and figure it out myself. So I’ve invested around $145,000 now on education, and that is the single most thing that’s given me success. There’s no way that I’d be full-time, earning six figures a year in my business if I hadn’t have reached out and got expert help directly on my business.

So if you want to level up your business to $10K a month or more, not just as a one-off, but consistently, there’s a strategy to that. But you can’t learn that strategy if no one’s ever showing you exactly what to do.

It requires a willingness to get an expert’s perspective on your business, because your business is unique. And once you know the strategy, you stop wondering where your clients are going to come from, and you start getting predictable results, which is what we need in business. We don’t want to just be trialing things all the time and of course, there are going to be things that don’t work.

There are always risks in business of things that don’t work, but why not get a strategy that you know someone else has used over and over with many people and it works.

When you have a strategy that works, and it’s reliable, and you can trust in it, it becomes a repeatable system and you don’t have to keep trying all these different things.

If you’re not in Sydney and you want to get expert eyes on your business this week to move past your business problems, email me and we’ll arrange a time to chat.

And if you are in Sydney, and if you want to level up your business, I’ve gotten together with one of my business masterminds, (which we call ourselves the ‘Success Inner Circle’) and we’ve decided to create an event teaching the strategy.

Check out the Level Up event here

Together we’ve delivered over 8,500 coaching sessions between us and we’ve run over 300 events between us. So we know how to attract clients consistently based on our experience. We’ve designed an exact action plan that you can use to scale your business systematically.

We’re running an event on the 19th of June sharing how you can sign up your ideal clients consistently with a proven, reliable system.

Click the link here to find out more.

We’re going to be showing you how to get the right clients into your business using the right language – making sure that your messaging is correct, making sure that you’re speaking to the subconscious mind, which is the most powerful way that people make decisions.

We’re going to guide you through a step-by-step process that you can use straight away so you will know exactly what to do after the event.

We’re also not selling anything. It’s no fluff, there’s no hype. We’re just sharing pure, valuable content all day.

Check out the upcoming event in Sydney here, seats are filling up fast!

I’d love to see you there!

Kat

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Amplify Your Influence, Business, Business coach, Business coaching, Business growth, business strategy, Business workshop, Client Attraction, Coach, Coaching, Content That Connects, Copywriting, Entrepreneur, Events, In person Event, Kat Millar, marketing, Online marketing, sales, Success

June 5, 2021 by katmillar Leave a Comment

How Successful Business Owners Multiply Their Income Without Doing More

A lot of people think that growing your business faster means…

being way busier…

creating more content…

starting at 6am, finishing at midnight…

A lot of businesses fail because people get burned out.

They get overwhelmed, they lose momentum because they’re not growing, they’re doing everything they know how to do, and it’s really frustrating.

Over the last five years helping business owners to grow their business, I’ve discovered something important.

Instead of doing more, you need to be super focused on doing the right things.

I’m going to give you some things here that you can do to multiply your success without adding a whole lot of time.

People get stuck in endless research and trying too many new things, which creates resentment and burnout.

What they don’t realise, is we need to build sustainably by doubling down on what’s working and doing it better, rather than addition.

Successful entrepreneurs have discovered they can achieve a whole lot more by actually doing less. But it requires a specific approach to managing your time and eliminating tasks that don’t lead to great results.

You need to rise up and look at the business from a higher view in the ‘clouds’ and stop getting stuck in the ‘weeds’.

Some people might think that in order to double their income, they need to double their working hours, but that’s not how to do it. If you want to get a consistent $10,000 a month, you don’t have to necessarily do more.

Instead, you need to choose a few strategies that are working and go deeper with them.

It’s about doing the right things properly. It’s about levelling up.

If your business isn’t growing at the moment, it’s because there are gaps in your skills or knowledge.

And you need to uplevel the area that you are lacking in, either your mindset, skills or knowledge.

I’ve had people say to me that they know what they should be doing, but don’t do it. If that’s the case, there’s a gap in your mindset.

One way you can save time is to automate.

There are 4 ways to automating your business. I call it the CIAO model.

C – Create Something

The first step is to create something and release it. Test it and get feedback. Make sure it’s valuable and helpful to your ideal clients.

I –  Improve It

Once you’ve created it, then up-level it. For example, for a webinar it could be tweaking your slides, changing the order of your content, having a clearer or more valuable offer. You may do this multiple times.

You don’t want to automate something until you’ve refined it. You get better and better, you test it in the marketplace and make sure people want it and like it.

A – Automate It

Once you’ve improved it and you’re happy with it, you can automate it. You put it into a system.

For example, with a webinar, you would create a funnel that looks like this

Step 1. Opt-in page explaining the benefits of a webinar

2. Broadcast room where people watch the evergreen webinar

3. Sign-up page to your offer.

This is how you automate that whole sequence.

This is just one example of automation.

O – Outsource It

Once it’s automated, you can then outsource it.

It’s important that you have a thorough understanding of your product and the processes of automation before you outsource it to someone.

This is just one example of how to free up more time in your business so you can multiply your income without doing more.

The CIAO method is a simple 4-step model that you can use in all areas of your business in order to multiply.

It’s really important in your business that you maintain control, that you know how to tweak things in your business before you outsource them. It’s key that you learn marketing yourself and not just pass it on to someone else.

I know someone who paid $5000 for someone to do marketing for them, but they had no control. Communication was really bad between this person and the person they had paid to do the marketing, so there was a great deal of frustration.

If your business isn’t growing, it’s time to look at how you’re doing things, not just what you’re doing.

Just because you’ve created a system like posting twice a week, or you send an email once a week, or you write a blog once a week, it doesn’t mean that’s all the work done. You need to keep up-levelling and improving the way you do each of these things.

To level up in your business, it means looking at your business as a pipeline and finding the leakages where things are draining out.

You then need to ask yourself how you will plug those gaps so you have a steady stream of consistent clients who are really well nurtured and looked after, and who get great results. People who get great transformations then refer their friends.

4 Things To Level Up In Your Business

There are 4 things I recommend that you level up in your business. To level up, you don’t need to just add more products, or create other things. More often it’s about up-levelling the quality of what you’re doing. Every single area of your business can be tweaked which can multiply your results.

There are 4 main things that I recommend you consider when you want to uplevel your business.

1 – Level Up Your Strategies

If you’ve been using the same strategies and you’re not growing, then you need to do something different. As Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.

If you’re writing blogs, posting on social media

If you’ve been sending out an email with your blog every single week, and you’re still not getting clients, then you might need to uplevel that strategy. You either need to improve your writing so that your writing is more engaging. Or you might need to uplevel your copywriting skills.

If your social media posts aren’t really getting engagement, they’re not getting people to actually book into your calendar, for example, or to click through to your landing page, then you need to uplevel your content skills.

If you’re sending out emails every week, but you’re not getting many people opening them, you need to uplevel your ability to create good subject lines and great content that gets click-throughs.

Ultimately, you’re not going to get people book into your calendar or have people come into your landing pages and order forms if your copy is not attracting people, so it’s super important that you uplevel your strategy.

2 – Level Up Your Skills

The second thing to look at is to uplevel your skills.

If you’re regularly posting on social media and sending emails but not getting people book in for calls, you may need to up-level your skill of inspiring someone to take action.

It’s one thing to share content, another to inspire someone to take action and make decisions. Inspiring someone to take action is about how you craft your language.

Or maybe you’re good at getting people to book into your strategy sessions but you find it hard to convert them into paying clients. So then your influence skills are needing to be levelled up.

Any time that your business isn’t growing, it’s time to look at your skills such as copywriting, marketing, sales, presenting, technology and automation. All of these skills need to be up-levelled to increase your income.

The best part is they all can be learned. All skills are learnable and anyone can learn them.

 3 – Level Up Systems

You also want to look at your systems. Let’s say you’re sending manual emails, you might want to change from manual emails to automated emails. If this is the case, you need to learn email automation.

Or you might change from using more of a beginner website like Wix or Squarespace, and upgrade it to WordPress.

You might be chasing people via email or sending invoices manually, and you actually want to go from manual, clunky old-school, to actually automating that whole process, so you need to learn these skills.

Then you can remove yourself more from those things and actually focus on what you’re really good at. Successful business owners spend their time in their genius zone.

You have unique brilliance that you’re really good at. And the more time you spend in that genius zone, the more money you’re going to make. You can outsource things you’re doing that other people can be doing.

I’ve got 3 assistants and they do tasks that free up time to be doing things that only I can do in my business, like content creation and videos and creating automated funnels.

You always want to be thinking if someone else can be doing the task you’re doing.

What systems can you put in place to free up your time so that you can multiply your income?

A lot of entrepreneurs spend their time posting so much content that just leads nowhere. And they don’t have a systemised funnel in their business.

A lot of what people do can be done in a more automated way.

4 – Uplevel Your Support

There’s nothing more valuable in business than having the support of a community around you who will hold you to a higher standard.

A supportive coach and community can give you clarity, direction, feedback, and accountability.

Accountability is the number 1 thing that’s helped me grow my business. Without having support and guidance from people who’ve achieved what I wanted to achieve, I wouldn’t have been able to build a six-figure income and help the amount of people I have.

If you don’t immerse yourself in an environment of growth, with expert eyes looking over your business, it’s so hard to grow.

I never launch anything without having people look over it and give me feedback.

I love what Eric Schmidt, the Google CEO says, and that is that the one thing that people are never good at, is seeing themselves as other people see them.

You can’t see the whole picture when you’re inside the frame. So support gives you that perspective, which ultimately gives you that acceleration.

Successful business owners multiply their income by up-levelling their strategies, skills, systems, and support.

Are you ready to level up in your business and attract more people who want to invest in your services?

Do you want to get answers to questions and increase your finances, fulfilment and freedom in your life?

If you’re a business owner in Sydney, I’m super excited to share an event that I’m running with two other speakers, Gez Perez and Mark Flores to bring you the Level Up event.

Check out the Level Up event here

We decided we wanted to run a 1-day event that is just giving away pure value all day, we’re not selling anything. We know that it’s really hard to up-level on your own.

This event is for you if you want to build a pipeline of consistent, ideal clients and scale your business up to 10k months consistently. It’s designed to take you out of a plateau and get you momentum again.

If you want to become a sought-after trusted leader or expert in your industry, it’s not about spending more time hustling.

It’s about your willingness to follow a proven step-by-step process that works.

When you’ve got the right systems, you can breathe, because the systems are doing the work for you, as opposed to you trying to do it all yourself, and getting overwhelmed and burned out.

If you want clarity, direction, and the exact steps to take in your business, and if you’re ready to scale up to $10K+ months consistently, and want to connect with entrepreneurs and other like-minded people, this is for you.

Check out the Level Up event here

We’d love to see you there!

Kat

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Amplify Your Influence, Business, Business coach, Business growth, business strategy, Business workshop, Client Attraction, Coach, Coaching, Copywriting, Entrepreneur, Events, Kat Millar, marketing, Success

May 27, 2021 by katmillar Leave a Comment

How I Stay In LOVE With My Business…And How You Can Too

Do you feel like business is draining at times?

There’s sooo much to learn and do … and it can be exhausting.

After being in business for 18 years, I’ve discovered something important that’s stopped me from giving up when it got tough.

I’ve realised that if you want to stay in the game, it’s essential to stay in love with your business.

Would you like to get your joy and inspiration for business back?

I’ve been chatting to people recently who are struggling and finding their business draining. This has inspired me to talk about staying in love with your business.

Business is definitely not easy and it’s not for the faint-hearted. Business is one of those things that can be hugely exhilarating and also massively challenging.

It is so important if you want to stay in the game … that you stay in love with your business.

Think about your business like a relationship. All relationships have ebbs and flows, ups and downs.

What is your relationship with your business like?

When your relationship with your business is good, then often the results of that produce great outcomes for your business.

Like any human relationship, negativity impacts your business and can throw things off.

I like thinking of a business as a pipeline and when things aren’t working, rather than getting super emotional and thinking something is wrong with me, I just look at what’s wrong in the pipeline. I look at where the leakages and holes are that need to be filled.

In my last blog, I spoke quite in-depth about the 3 things that I look for when I’m looking for quality clients, and it’s also the 3 things that I look at whenever I’m struggling in business. You can read it here.

There are 3 areas I recommend you look at if your business is struggling:

1. Attitude

2. Skills

3. Effort

If your attitude towards your business is negative and skeptical, and you’re struggling with your mindset, then that’s going to overflow into your results.

When you’re feeling discouraged and negative … it has a negative flow onto your outcomes.

If you don’t keep up-leveling your skills like – copywriting, sales, presenting, and marketing skills, that will also affect the growth of your business.

If you’re not putting in effort – showing up consistently, that affects your outcomes.

It’s important to take a VERY honest look at these three things and face whatever you’re avoiding in order to spark your joy and passion again.

There are 3 ways I’ve found to stay in love with your business:

1 – Align Your Business With Your Personal Values

The first way to stay in love with your business is to align your business with your personal values.

Are you taking action in your business regularly that is aligned to what is important to you in life?

The way you work out what your values are is to look at your life.

What books are on your bookshelf or in your Audible account? What podcasts do you subscribe to? Look at what’s booked in your diary, what’s pinned up on your walls, and look at how you spend your time. Look at the people in your life you spend time with.

My highest personal value is freedom. That’s why I’m an entrepreneur, because I don’t like working for someone else.

Another personal value for me is growth. So I spend some time every week on growth activities, like reading, researching, or crewing at business events that I’m passionate about. I love educating people also, so this is a high value for me.

I love connecting, supporting, and helping people – one of my top values is connection. I love connecting with people face-to-face, which is why I love doing live events.

I notice the shift in my energy and my joy levels when I’m connecting in person with humans. There’s nothing quite like face-to-face with real-life people and events.

Because of this, I decided to put on an in-person event that is coming up soon. I was inspired to run a live event again because I recently went to an event in Sydney and it was so powerful. And it fired me up and got me passionate again.

Ask yourself what your personal and business values are.

And then align your tasks, actions, and your habits with these values.

If contribution is a high value of yours, and contributing to others is going to keep you fired up, passionate, and feeling alive, then start reaching out and supporting more people.

When I’m finding things challenging and nothing seems to be working, I know if I can get on and help someone, It makes me feel so amazing and uplifted. When I help others,  I end up feeling inspired.

Business always has highs and lows, hills and valleys.

If you’re in a valley right now, I encourage you to keep walking. You will get through it. However, you don’t want to keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result. Einstein calls this insanity.

When things aren’t working you’ve got to look at the pipeline or you’ve got to look at where the gap is because there’s always a way to fix it. There’s always a way to tweak it, as long as your passion is there.

If you’ve fallen out of love with your business because you’re just doing it just for the money, and not for service and contribution, your business becomes soulless and transactional.

Imagine being in a relationship, that the person just wants you on the side to fulfill their needs, then there really isn’t much of a relationship is there? It simply doesn’t work. So if you’re doing business just to make a bit of money, rather than being in love with your business, it’s going to cause you problems and you will feel unfulfilled.

2 – Fall In Love With The Process

There are so many facets to business and you have to fall in love with the process of all areas of the business. If you just love coaching people and don’t want to focus on marketing, sales, or other areas that your business needs focused effort in, then it won’t work.

You need to fall in love with learning how to do Facebook ads or learning how to run events. You don’t have to learn all things at once. Learn one new thing, master that, and then learn another.

These things are a series of micro-changes that you make in your business that can bring you exponential growth. Business is a series of tweaks as you go. If things aren’t working then tweak what you are doing.

If you’re not in love with the process and if you don’t learn to love the process and reframe some of these things that we have to do, like marketing or sales, then you’re probably better off in a day job.

I’m not here to try and convince you to start a new business, but if you want to stay in your business and not give up, then you need to learn marketing, sales, writing, and other skills.

I highly recommend learning these skills before you outsource them. Because you need to know what you are paying for.

I was talking to a lady recently who had paid someone $5000 to do some marketing work for her. She’s finding there’s a lot of communication breakdown and it’s super frustrating for her because she doesn’t know how to do any of it herself and hadn’t learned it.

I always encourage people to take control of their business and learn all the areas themselves. That way you’re not relying on someone else.

When your business is at a great stage, then you can outsource your business. But you can’t just outsource everything just because you want to be a coach.

I didn’t always love marketing. The way I fell in love with marketing is by reframing it. I reframed it by thinking; I love coaching. I love presenting. I love them because I’m helping people. I’m making a big difference to people’s lives and they get their a-ha moments and get valuable education.

I can also get that great feeling through marketing. And so I linked the process of marketing, sales, presenting, copywriting, etc to my highest values.

With marketing I asked myself these questions:

  • How will marketing give me more freedom?
  • How will marketing give me more growth?
  • How will marketing give me more connection?

Ultimately marketing is about helping people. It’s helping people shift their perspectives and have a breakthrough.

It becomes less about the outcome of how many clients are you getting, and it becomes more about who you are helping. This is how you learn to love the process.

3 – Keep Levelling Up

My third way to stay in love with your business is to keep levelling up. It’s important as humans that we grow and progress.  If you keep getting stuck in your business and things are staying the same, it’s easy to fall out of love with your business.

If you’re not growing and consistently investing in skill acquisition, it’s really hard to stay in love and stay passionate about your business. Passion and excitement for your business come when you are investing in your growth.

This is how to keep that fire of passion burning for your business because you’re learning and investing in your growth. This passion and fire keep your relationship with your business strong.

You can’t just passively learn if you want to level up. You need to jump in apply what you learn to your business.

It’s not about perfection. Leveling up is about excellence. It’s about aiming to being excellent and outstanding as a standard.

When you choose to keep levelling up, you choose not to avoid hard things.

You may have been avoiding doing videos, or avoiding looking at your finances, or avoiding learning to do Facebook ads. Levelling up in every area of business means you’re constantly making those little tweaks.

What I love about levelling up, is that it makes your success inevitable.

If you want to level up in your business, particularly if you want to get more clients or sign up the leads that you do have coming in, I have something exciting to share with you!

I’m super excited about a new in-person event that I’m holding with a business strategist and a marketing strategist called Level Up.

It’s a Sydney-based, in-person event where you’ll get to spend the day with us and other like-minded entrepreneurs to renew your passion and love for your business!

I’ve teamed up with Mark Flores who is a brilliant video content strategist and marketer, and Gez Perez who is a productivity, systems, and mindset wiz.

We are sharing how to build a pipeline of ideal clients so you can scale up to $10K months consistently.

So if you are sick of playing small and tired of the overwhelm of marketing, and you want clarity and a step-by-step formula to sign up clients consistently, you can register for just $1! And then, if you enjoy it and get value, it’s just $49.

This is for you if you have a coaching, consulting, or service-based business, and you want to take it to the next level.

This is for you if you want to know how to build a system and have the formula to hit the 10k months and guarantee your success.  This event is designed to take you out of a plateau, and into being a trusted sought-after leader in your industry.

We are not selling anything at this event, it’s pure valuable content!

Check out the Level Up event here

Hope to see you there!

Kat

 

 

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

May 22, 2021 by katmillar Leave a Comment

How To Attract Quality Clients Vs. Energy-Zapping Clients

I’ve been having a few conversations with people lately about energy-draining clients.

Some people have told me they don’t want to turn people away who weren’t the right match because they’re afraid they won’t get other clients.

The danger of that is it can come from a scarcity mindset and can cause waaaaay more headaches in the long-run.

When you’re just starting out, getting this right from the beginning is important, because it’s so essential for you to get results with your clients as soon as possible.

Getting testimonials quickly is a priority. This gives you social proof, which is a huge part of growing your business.

If you’re not getting results for your clients, it can be hard to attract more clients. Attracting clients can become a snowball effect. When you get clients that have transformations, it brings more clients to you.

Every time you say no to a difficult client, you are opening up space in your calendar, in your mind, your emotions and in your energy and your life… to bring in an amazing client to work with.

And amazing clients give you so much joy and fulfillment!

They are rewarding to work with, they get results and see a transformation.

When you say no to people who aren’t a good match, you’re saying yes to amazing opportunities to work with people who are committed to getting results.

Become Known For Your Niche

Being tighter niched builds more trust, because you’re known for only looking for certain people, and you’re not trying to convince everybody.

When you become known for working with someone in a particular niche, you attract more of those types of people. It shows you don’t take on just everyone. It’s called the tribe effect.

Robert Cialdini talks about this when he speaks about influence. The tribe effect is a phenomenon where people feel they are a part of something bigger, it taps into camaraderie and a ‘family’ feeling.

For example with CrossFit, they create a feeling for people to feel they are part of the CrossFit tribe.

It’s the same with the marines or with VIP exclusive events. People want to feel part of something exclusive, unique and they want to feel special that not everyone is doing it. People have had massive growth in their business because of this tribe effect.

This is really important because your reputation is worth so much more than money.

There is so much power in reviews like Google reviews or Facebook reviews when you first start out. Just one bad review can tarnish your reputation.

When I first started out in business, I decided I’d always put my reputation above money, because money you can get back. A tainted reputation is really hard to get back. If you’re working with a client who is not a right fit, you’re not going to get results and you’re both going to be resentful.

So, how do you decide how to take on a client?

There are a few things I recommend you look for…

Attitude, Skills And Effort

This is a concept created by a billionaire Japanese man, Dr. Inamori Kazuo., who uses this philosophy in engaging the company’s employees. Staff are assessed by their attitude, their skills, and their effort.

Attitude

When I’m thinking about whether someone will be a right fit to work with, I make mental notes about their attitude. Are they keen, positive, and committed? Do they keep showing up with a good attitude and bring energy and optimism?

That’s why whenever I hire people, like my three assistants at the moment, I hire based on attitude, not solely skill. Because skill can be trained. Yes, some skill is important, but attitude is even more important to me.

I do this with clients. If you think about it, you might only need 10 or 15 clients to have a functioning, great business, it’s not like you need 100 people. So you can be quite particular about who you choose to work with.

You don’t want to open up spaces in your calendar and then when it comes to looking at who you have booked in for the day, your heart sinks.

I remember once I worked with a guy who was rude and disrespectful. I’d say happily, “Good morning.” and he’d reply sternly with, “Let’s just get on with it.”

I’d be nervous and flustered and it didn’t bring out the best in me. His attitude impacted me and I made a decision after that not to take on people like that again.

Skills

Skills are also important. I don’t want to take on someone who has absolutely no skills. I want someone who is good at what they do but has some gaps.

I’ve been working with a client Jen for a while. She’s an amazing speaker and author. We worked on putting together a heap of systems to run her very first webinar. She had to quickly learn Click Funnels, Zappier, Vimeo, PowerPoint, Mail Chimp, automation sequences – the works. It was such a steep learning curve for her.

Her attitude was, “Let’s do this, let’s learn it and get it sorted out.”

Her skill level wasn’t in these things, so the tech was challenging for her, but this is where I could help her.

What’s more important than that is that her skill in her craft was excellent.

In her first webinar, she had over 55 people attend live, and 23 registrations for her program, which made her $12,476 AUD!

Effort

You don’t want to be working with someone who doesn’t put in the effort. Then you have to handhold them so much, it’s like you’re dragging them into change, instead of partnering as a team and working together to get results.

Are you really willing to work with someone who doesn’t want to put in the effort?

Who never does what they say they’re going to do, and doesn’t take consistent action?

The Energy You Feel During And After Your Sessions

Another way to tell if it’s a quality client vs. an energy-zapping client is to ask – What’s the energy that I feel during and after a session with someone?

Do you feel happy and uplifted or do you feel drained?

If it’s a quality client, you don’t feel drained afterward. If you’re feeling drained, then there’s some kind of leakage happening and some kind of misalignment.

I’m working with a dream client at the moment, who signed up for my Accelerator program, plus one-on-ones with me. She paid upfront and said she doesn’t want to see me fortnightly, she wanted to see me weekly. She upgraded her upgrade.

She comes to me so keen and full of energy. She never complains, just keeps taking on the challenges. After speaking with her I feel so much energy and confidence that I can help her get results and that what I’m doing with her is really helping. You don’t want to have clients that are taking up space and that you can’t really help.

5 Traits of Quality Clients I look For

There are 5 traits that I look for when taking on a client.

1 – Coachable

The first trait I look for is – is the person easy to coach and open to feedback? Do they get offended easily or are they willing to receive feedback?

I just did a copywriting makeover tonight with my Inner Circle group and there were 5 women in there. There are all coachable and eager to learn, which made it SO rewarding for everyone.

2 – Committed

Find clients who are committed to their results. You don’t want flaky clients. You want clients who are not mucking you around – saying one thing but doing another.

3 – Willing To Grow

You want clients who are willing to grow and change, and they respect you because you are such a good match. They don’t think that just because they pay you money, you’re expected to just fix them. They want to work as a team with you to learn and grow.

4 – Have An ‘Until’ Mindset

Clients who have an ‘until’ mindset are clients that keep going until they get their breakthrough. They will keep going until they figure it out. They don’t quit just because something gets hard or uncomfortable.

I worked with a lady once who wanted to set up automation systems. Just two weeks in she said it was way too hard for her. Instead of working through it step-by-step, she just gave up!

I’ve struggled in the past to say no to people, but I had to find the courage to say no to her because I knew we were not a match. If someone gives up that easy, they’re probably not built for business.

Now, what helps me say no to people is to think that someone else is missing out, who is ready to make changes in their lives. If I continued to give this slot to her, I would end up frustrated.

5 – They Value You

Choose quality clients who value your time, your knowledge, skills, and wisdom.

You have to shift your mindset from a scarcity mindset in which you want to take on everyone, to a mindset of valuing yourself. This can come back to a self-worth issue.

Mindset Shift From Scarcity To Value – 3 Mindset Distinctions

There are 3 mindset distinctions I recommend:

  • Mindset Of Trust – Trust people will come and fill those spaces that are quality clients.
  • Abundance Mindset – There is an abundance of clients out there if you are good.
  • Mindset Of Courage – You need this to actually say not to people. You need to be bold and brave in your business.
5 Ways To Spot Energy Zapping Clients
1 – Do You Sense They Won’t Get Great Results?

You can pick up a sense with energy-zapping clients. You will sense they won’t get great results. You won’t get the satisfaction of really helping them. You won’t get testimonials from them and your investment of time won’t bring a great return. This feels like such a waste for you and for them also.

2 – Do They Affect Your Mood?

Energy-zapping clients affect your mood, not just for this energy-zapping client, but for other clients also and for your community. You get stuck in negative thinking after the session, instead of other more important things. If you have an energy-zapping client, you will take that energy into the next client meeting, and this is not worth it.

3 – Do They Make You Doubt Yourself?

Energy-zapping clients can really make you doubt yourself. There are 3 important mindsets you need to show up with: 1) Conviction 2) Certainty 3) Confidence. Energy-zapping clients can drain you of these things.

4 – Are They Demanding Or Disrespectful?

This is subjective, because sometimes people aren’t outright demanding or rude, but they push the boundaries that go beyond what you’ve promised. I’ve had this a lot of times, where I’ve had to put strong boundaries up.

I’ve had people contact me and want me to help them with building a landing page. When people contact you and say, “Hey, can I pick your brain…” and they want free advice, it shows the boundaries are not clear enough.

This really is a subjective area, because people can be disrespectful by not paying, by not showing up, by turning up late.

5 – What’s Your Gut Instinct Saying?

What does your gut instinct tell you? This instinct rarely lets me down. Taking note of that check or red flag feeling in your gut is really important. Otherwise, you end up resentful.

This is why I’ve made a decision to work with people that I am going to know that I am going to enjoy working with. I choose clients that are going to enjoy it and where I can absolutely help them because in every case, it’s just not worth it for the money.

If your intention is to attract quality clients, then quality clients will show up for you. And they really do start coming in like a magnet, if you do quality work.

You don’t get quality clients if you don’t do quality work.

Do you need help attracting the right clients?

If you’ve been struggling to say no, or struggling to find your right clients, I’ve opened up some space in my calendar to help people like you in my community.

I’ll create a personalised marketing roadmap for you based on my proven formula, to help you attract quality clients!

Click this link to apply for a free 45-minute strategy session

The right people are waiting for you.

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

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • …
  • 20
  • Next Page »

FREE Downloadable Guide: The Ideal Client Identifier Guide

Menu

  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Reviews
  • Contact

Download Your Free Client Attraction Checklist

Grab your copy of the Checklist now

Let’s Connect!

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter

Copyright ©2025 · Kat Millar - All Rights Reserved · Terms · Privacy

Copyright © 2025 · Executive Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in