Kat Millar

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Crush It In Crisis

You might be thinking “Crush it in crisis? I’m still dealing with the uncertainty, let alone crushing it!”

I hear ya. So let me define what I mean by crush it.

Firstly, what ‘crushing it’ is NOT:

* Being insensitive about people’s current situation

* Profiteering from people’s struggles

* Focusing on your goals at all costs

What ‘crushing it’ IS:

* Thinking like a successful business owner and being brave as a leader in these uncertain times

* Making necessary pivots in your business methods, delivery, packaging and messaging

* Crushing your fears so you can grow in this challenging season (IF you want to!)

Journeying through a crisis time, especially one that’s completely new can create a range reactions.

Some of you want to stay in bed, pull a blanket over our heads and try to avoid what’s going on.

Many people have told me they are wondering at the moment…

“Should I be retreating back or pausing my business goals until all of this is over?”

This is fair to consider, since there is so much uncertainty at the moment.

Let’s acknowledge the fact that the way we need to do business now in this current economic climate is different.

Things have changed and for most of us, our business needs to change as well.

But if you want to crush it, I encourage you to step up, pivot your business where you need to – and jump into all the opportunities that are available you.

I believe that the world NEEDS us as authentic, heart-centred business owners to continue to operate our businesses…

…IF our products and services genuinely provide a REAL solution to a REAL problem.

The only way to do this is to keep offering our help to people who want and need what we offer.

Many people still WANT to buy what you’re offering.

People are not going out and spending money on entertainment, dining out, travel etc. And they’re at home online.

Many people still need your help. And people often don’t value what they don’t invest in.

People pay for what they truly want and need.

Despite the uncertain times we are living in, we can be absolutely certain about ONE thing at the moment…

…ONLINE is THE way.

We have NO choice BUT to be effective online if we want to survive in business.

Here are 5 skills you need to utilise in this time to make consistent money online:

Number 1: The Skill of Providing Value

Providing value is the Number 1 skill you need to have in business.

Value is not necessarily monetary value. It is not always about money changing hands, but it’s still an exchange.

It’s the value you are giving to those who invest in you, whether that is someone paying for your time or if it’s someone opt-in to an email.

What is it costing your ideal clients in their time, money, energy and attention? Are you giving value by being helpful and relevant?

Are you speaking directly to your ideal client, not just to the masses? Are you speaking to the people who you can really help with your level of mastery?

If you can show up and be genuine and give quality information, then you’re adding value. Remember quality, not quantity.  This includes your free offers, and also your paid clients and those who are a part of your paid community.

Number 2: The Skill of Copywriting

The Number 2 skill you need at this time to make consistent money is the skill of copywriting and now is a really good time to learn this skill.

Copywriting is a very underrated skill and it affects your ability to influence people positively through your writing online.

All your Facebook ads, your blogs and captions need to be influencing, engaging and providing value. These are what help people take the next step towards you.

A good investment in the next 30 days is to consume copywriting education and focus on increasing your copywriting skills.

Number 3: The Skill of Presenting

The third skill you need is the ability to present. This could be presenting an offer to a one-on-one client on a phone call. It could be presenting on video, which is what we all need to be doing at the moment in this socially distanced world we are currently living in.

How good are you at your presentation skills and your ability to craft words, videos and webinars?

Number 4: The Skill of Marketing

The Number 4 skill we need to boost our business presence online is marketing. Marketing is your ability to attract clients through social media, blogs, emails and other platforms and channels.

At the moment we don’t have a lot of offline options, so online is where we need to shine.

Number 5: The Skill of Sales

Sales is your ability to get money into your bank account and to get people to pay you.

It doesn’t matter how amazing you are at providing value, at marketing and doing pretty posts or creating amazing pieces of content. If you can’t get someone to actually part with their money, then your business is going to fail.

Think about the above skills and give yourself a score from zero (meaning you’re really bad at these skills) or a 10 -which means you know you can’t get any better.

5 Actions You Can Take To Crush it in Business

Number 1: Cut Back on News and Social Media

I recommend you cut back on the news and social media that you are consuming.

Please stay informed, be healthy and know what’s going on and don’t put your head in the sand.

But check-in with yourself and be honest with yourself with how much time are you spending consuming media.

We need to be bringing inspiring, helpful and positive messages to our eyes and ears during this period.

If you’re digesting things that cause you to worry, drop your confidence or cause your mood to drop, then that’s a sign that you need to cut back and protect yourself.

Your confidence and emotional wellbeing is so important in business. It will make you or break you.

Number 2: Create Daily

Spend your time and energy on daily creation. Just show up and write, show up and practice your videos everyday.

When we create and produce during this crisis, we will crush it, because we’ll feel good about ourselves. We will feel purposeful as humans because we were designed to create.

Focus on quality, not quantity. It doesn’t mean going live on Facebook every day. It doesn’t mean writing a blog post every day either. It just means writing or speaking every day and focussing on improving your skills.

I recommend that you focus on video during this crisis season, because people are craving connection even though it’s through a screen.

Number 3:  Get your Marketing Funnels Live

The Number 3 way to crush it in this crisis is to get your marketing funnels going live as soon as possible, even if they’re not perfect.

You might need to create a freebie like a downloadable guide or a cheat sheet.

Focus on making it relevant, helpful and VALUABLE – and get it up there and start building your email database.

This is one of the best ways for you to leverage your time and help more people.

Start running online events for people if you haven’t been doing that already. You know enough about your topic to help people right now.

Number 4:  Focus on Getting ONE Thing Finished

I’ve talked to quite a few people this week who have started a lot of things and not finished them.

We need to develop blinkers and get the thing we started completed before we move on to the next challenge.

People don’t pay for a half built bridge. They pay for a FULLY built bridge.

Please don’t be tempted to start a book and then move on to starting a podcast, and then move on to a five-day challenge then a webinar. Finish one thing.

Focus and finish!

Number 5:  Choose ONE skill to develop

Developing your online skills is one of the most valuable things you can do at the moment.

I recommend that for the next 30 days, focus on ONE of the 5 skills.

Or maybe you want to dive deep on one of the skills for 7 days. Consume all the books, articles and podcasts on that one skill.

Pick the skill that is your weakest link or the skill that’s most holding you back.

Remember, if your service is helping someone improve their life, then there’s no reason why you shouldn’t show up and offer it. And in fact, if you don’t, you can’t help anyone.

You’re improving people’s lives and it’s a value exchange, so do not feel guilty about offering what you offer – IF it’s ethical, authentic and genuinely helps people get a real result.

Remember, we don’t have a lot of certainty about a lot of things at the moment, but we do have certainty that business is now ONLINE.

If you haven’t got marketing funnels in place, then that is one of the most important things that I strongly recommend you focus on during this time, is creating a funnel.

Having a good marketing funnel gives you an ability to capture people and continue to nurture them and provide value and help them.

Due to the amount of people online during this time, we need  to make sure that we stand out.

We also need to make sure that we get people away from our social media pages and onto our email lists. This gives us control of sending marketing material, nurturing and providing great value to people.

A marketing funnel is a series of steps that takes someone from being a stranger into a client. A marketing funnel is the number 1 asset you need to make money online.

If social media suddenly crashed and you didn’t have access to your friends and followers, how are you going to market yourself?

Your email database is one of THE most important assets in your business.

A funnel will help bring people into your email list and from there you can continue to market to them for weeks, months even years to come.

Building a marketing funnel and getting it live is one of the essentials for your business to survive and thrive in this crisis.

Want help creating your own funnel to attract more clients?

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I’ll help you clarity your next steps to building your own, profit-producing marketing funnel, fast.

Looking forward to helping you get more clients online!

Kat

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5 Content Inspirations To Engage Your Ideal Clients

Do you ever run out of ideas for what type of content to post online?

Creating content is so important when it comes to growing your business and attracting new clients.

A lot of people say to me “I don’t know what to post” or “I run out of content ideas”.

Are you getting a little bit stale on some of your social media, video content or blog posts?

Do you need some fresh inspiration?

In this blog post and video, I share 5 content inspirations to help you engage your ideal clients.

Watch now or read below…

 

 
If we’re not producing consistent, original, valuable content, our ideal clients may struggle to find us.
 
They’re not going to be able to really get to know us and know that we are trustworthy.
 
We want them to learn from us and know they can get value from us.
 
Otherwise we can go to the back of their mind, and unfortunately what can happen is that…
 
Firstly, they could go to your competitors.
 
Secondly, they could actually forget about you.
 
Then when you do pop up in the email inbox, you haven’t built up enough rapport or trust or value for them to take the next step towards you.
 

So if you suddenly make a paid offer and you haven’t been providing them with enough valuable content, people can feel like it’s a little bit salesy…

 

So, here are the five content inspiration ideas that you can use to engage your ideal clients.

 

1. Identify the number one question that you get asked, and answer it.


There’s probably a question that you get asked quite a lot by your clients or followers on your Facebook page or group.

Or you may get asked a certain question a lot when you’re chatting to people at networking events and out and about.
 
Create a blog post or video answering the question.
 
Then for ongoing content, move on to other questions you get asked a lot.
 
For me, the number one question I get asked is how do I find clients?
 
You can also identify the top 3 or 5 questions to turn it into a content series.
 
I also get asked “How do I engage them” and “How do I convert them” and “How do I get more eyeballs on my stuff?”
 
So, when you write blogs and post videos, create content that is all about answering the main questions that you get.
 
People are going to be really interested in that.

 

2. What should your ideal client be asking you, but they’re not?

 

Think about some things that are objections in your potential client’s mind that they’re not actually saying to you.
 
There are likely some things that they haven’t asked you, for example, “Why can I really trust you?”. Answer those.
 
You might do a post on a client success story, positioning one of your clients as the hero.
 
They’re not asking you for it, but it’s something they actually need to know to see you as trustworthy and credible.
 
There are probably things about you that you haven’t shared with your audience before. Like some fun facts about you.
 
Or, your potential client needs to know that ‘this’ methodology is better than ‘this’ methodology.
 
For example, do they need to know that they can coach with you online?
 
Or that they can actually overcome a limiting belief in just one session?
 
Often people don’t think to ask you something, but you want them to know it.
 
So have a think about those things that they not asking you, but they should be asking you.

 

3. Identify your top three posts and design similar content

Flick through your Facebook business page, and look at your posts over the last three months.

Which have been the most popular and had the most engagement?
Which ones resonated the most with your ideal clients?
 
For example, recently I posted a quote from my nephew who’s five. He got more engagement than any other quote that I’ve ever posted before…
 
A 5-year-old!
 
So, that to me is an indicator that I need to do more fun and playful posts like that.
 
So. think about the posts, blogs or videos that have had the most engagement. Think about how you can do similar content to those.
 
Or maybe you can repurpose the same idea and do it in different ways.

 

4. Share the common myths or mistakes


Share the common false beliefs or mistakes people make about your topic.
 
Let’s say that you are a personal trainer and one of the main myths you came up against is that you can do crunches and get rid of belly fat.
 
You record a video about the #1 myth people believe about getting rid of belly fat.
 
You will often get a lot of engagement on posts whenever you evoke curiosity and dispel a myth. Especially if people didn’t already know it.
 
Don’t use one that everyone knows, be different and use something that most people don’t know.
 
Think about the number 1 mistake, or the top 3 or 5 mistakes that people make when it comes to your topic.
The top 5 mistakes that I see business owners make, for example, are:

1. Not spending enough time on dollar-producing activities

2. No clear or effective strategy

3. Being unwilling to do what competitors aren’t

4. Having too broad a niche

5. An unwillingness to invest

You can read the whole blog post I wrote on this or watch the video here.

Think about what everyone is assuming is truth, that’s not true, it’s a myth.
 
Then choose the top 1, 3 or 5 myths or mistakes people make in your niche.

 

5. Post about what other people are doing in your industry that you disagree with

What are other people saying is the correct way or the only or right method?

You can come in and show that there’s another way, and
 
Russell Brunson talks about this as ‘throwing rocks at your enemies.’
 
Now I’m not saying name names – please don’t do that.
 
But you can talk about what’s happening in your industry overall that you disagree with.
 
You can give contrast and say “They are like this… but I’m actually like this.”
 
For example, something I stand against is ‘get rich quick schemes’.
 
Also, people who teach things that they haven’t done themselves.
 
And I also stand against confusing strategies with no step-by-step process.
 
I also stand against doing whatever it takes to make your business work at the expense of your physical, mental and emotional health.
 
So I talk about these things in my content.
 
‘Throwing rocks at your enemies’ is a great way to overcome objections and to show people why they should listen to you.
 
You want to always position yourself as you’re the guide your clients the hero, and his enemies.
 
It’s kind of like in a movie. You’re the guide, you’re helping your client, who’s the hero, to get where they want to be.
 
From hell to paradise – that journey. And there are enemies along the way.
 
And the ‘enemies’ are your competitors – whether that is other businesses, objections or beliefs.
 
So don’t name people, but you might call out what’s happening in your industry that you disagree with.
 
You might see some holes in other methods, so you can share the problems with the other methods.
 
You don’t want to use this through all your marketing, but a post that’s a little controversial that gets people engaging is actually very good.
 
It will boost your traffic, even if it gets some people may not agree.
 
You know that old saying ‘All publicity is good publicity.’
 
Stay within your ethics and be authentic, but don’t be scared of the haters. If you get a few people that disagree, that’s ok.
 
That’s what marketing is all about. You’re going to attract some people and you’re going to repel some people, so don’t worry about that.

 

So I’m going to recap here the five content inspirations ideas for you:

  1. Identify the number one question that you get asked, and answer it.
  2. What should your ideal client be asking you, but they’re not?
  3. Identify your top three posts and design similar content
  4. Share the common myths or mistakes
  5. Post about what other people are doing in your industry that you disagree with

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