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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

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

May 13, 2021 by katmillar Leave a Comment

3 Ways To Convert Quality Clients, Without Feeling Like You’re Selling

If you’re in business. I’m sure that you understand the importance of converting leads into clients.

A lot of business owners really don’t like this idea of being salesy, pushy, or coming across awkward. I get it, because I hate being perceived that way also.

We’ve all been in a sales conversation where we’ve felt that the person doesn’t really care about us and they’re just trying to push the product or the service on us. When I started out in business I really hated selling, but the truth was, I just didn’t understand it.

I remember being at an event once and the guy said to raise your hand if you’re in sales. I was a personal trainer at the time, and there were hundreds of us at the event. No one raised their hand. And he said, “Well, you’ve already lost the game if you don’t view yourself as being in sales.”

I remember getting this really icky feeling that I did not want to be known as a salesperson in business. But here’s the thing; when you attract the right people who are a great match for what you’re offering, it doesn’t feel like selling.

It actually feels like an enjoyable conversation and experience. It feels so natural and it just flows. You don’t have to think about what tactic you will use and how you will overcome an objection.

So how do we actually do this effortlessly?

When I talk about converting quality clients, I’m not just talking about just anyone. I’m talking about your ideal clients who are your dream clients.

Your dream clients are those who have all the traits and elements you put into your ideal client avatar, when when you planned out who your ideal clients are. So for example, your ideal client knows a lot less than you about the topic you are speaking about.

A lot of people show up with imposter syndrome, feeling like they are not wanting to sell because they feel like they don’t know enough. So you want to design your ideal client avatar for people who are way further back in the journey than where you are.

When you get the right people into that conversation, then you’re able to influence them for good. You’re able to help them to overcome the block that’s in their way. You’re able to help with the problem they are experiencing by offering the solution.

True influence is helping people find a solution. It’s helping people go from what I call, pain to paradise. It’s helping people so they can overcome the problem and overcome the block that is stopping them from taking action.

If you don’t do that, then you’re leaving them suffering and stuck in their pain. So if you want to be able to elegantly convert people and not feel like you’re a salesperson, then learning true influence is what will help you convert people into paying clients.

Since 2003 I’ve been working with thousands of people to make positive changes and get breakthroughs in their lives and business. I started out working as a personal trainer, helping coach people with weight loss, fitness, and bodybuilding.

Throughout my whole journey of 18 years in business, the main thing I’ve been doing is helping people get breakthroughs in their lives. When you think about a breakthrough, it’s like a penny drops and people get that aha moment and have a revelation and an epiphany.

I heard someone say once that it’s best to be deliberate, not desperate. I love that! You don’t want to come across as desperate because desperate energy puts people off. One of my mentors Ben Harvey says that buying begins the breakthrough.

Think about when you’ve had a breakthrough. Often it’s because you’ve invested somehow in your breakthrough. You’ve paid to go to a seminar, course or event workshop and you’ve had a breakthrough.

Having a breakthrough feels incredible and breakthroughs start because we make a decision to take action. Usually, that decision to take action is because someone has influenced you. When you have the right heart and the right mode of influence, you will help someone improve the quality of their life.

I really want you to view sales as helping someone discover what they are missing. It’s not about changing someone’s mind. It’s about helping someone to deal with the problem they are struggling with.

This takes the pressure off you and you become excited to tell people what you do. If you’re in business, you have to constantly be telling people about what you do. It’s so important that you know how to sell especially if you’re a coach, consultant, healer, author, speaker or practitioner, and you want to help people improve their lives.

You won’t be in business if you don’t sell, so you have to learn to confidently and boldly tell people what you do. If you want to help more people and make a bigger difference in the world, sales is one of the most important skills that you can develop.

I remember sitting in an event once with Jeffrey Slater and he said that sales is the skill you do not want to learn, but it’s the skill you most have to learn. Most people don’t want to learn sales, but without learning sales, you will have to go back to working a normal job.

In discussing the best ways to find a quality client, I’m assuming that you have a heart to really make a difference in the lives of people and I’m also assuming you’re not trying to sell someone something they do not need. I also assume that you have a good offer, because without a good offer, then you’ve got nothing to offer anyone.

To craft a good offer, you need to have lots of quality, real-life conversations with people, that you ask specific questions that address their needs. These conversations help you to craft an offer that is needed and that you are proud of and want to share.

When you have a fantastic offer, then you can start having quality conversations that will bring you ideal clients that are a match. So how do we make that match with quality clients?

1 – Awaken Their Future Identity

Everybody has what I call a BFS, a best future self. Everyone has something that they want to improve in their lives. It could be being a healthier, fitter version of themselves. It could be having a stronger relationship or marriage, or it could be improving the way they parent.

The first way to influence some positive change is to awaken that vision and identity of who the person wants to be. This goes so much deeper than just what they want to have, it’s actually about who they want to be.

People don’t want to buy your product or service, and they don’t want a coaching session. They don’t want an 8-week course or to watch your 27 videos. They want to be the best version of themselves in the future.

In order to awaken that vision, you don’t just want to focus on the method of how you help people or the features of your program. You want to focus on awakening in them the best version of themselves, that may have been lying dormant in their minds for many years.

You’ve got to craft your questions in an elegant way, to remind them of who they want to be. People get buried under all the yuck of life and they forget who they want to become. It’s your job to remind them.

I think of selling as a coaching session. So much of coaching is about asking the right questions and helping people change their perception. At the end of a coaching session if we’re a match, then the person will become a client.

Asking the right questions takes planning and it’s a skill you develop. It’s important for people to get a vision to see, hear and feel what it would be like living in the best version of themselves.

You want to ask people to remember that vision of being their best self and also you need to ask why it’s important to them. This takes time. You’ve got to really listen intently, you’ve got to notice shifts in their body language, and notice what lights them up.

Notice their keywords, their body language, and the shift in the tonality of their voice. You’ve got to be able to sense how people are and you’ve got to be able to see them physically to see their visual cues. This is why having a video call is so important. Sometimes you have to go digging for the BFS goal because it’s not always top of mind with people.

So many people when they’re having sales conversations, don’t understand this. They like to rush the conversations. I used to do this myself. Understanding people’s future vision is so important.

I remember when I was a personal trainer, I just wanted to get people out into the gym, instead of really taking that time to understand what they want and why it’s important to them. This helps so you can motivate them when things get hard.

Back in my PT days, I just ask client’s how long they’ve been in the state and what they wanted to fix. And then I’d try and get them into a 12-week challenge so they could start losing the weight without understanding their motivating factors or what would drive them to change.

When you’re talking to people, really take notes of the words that they’re connected to. Take note of when people are passionate and note when you see a shift in their body.

2 – Educate Them

The market has really changed from a buying perspective and we’ve changed how we interact. People are more educated now than ever before. You can pull out your phone and educate yourself very easily, no matter where you are.

The idea of selling is not really selling anymore. You can sell without feeling like you’re selling, by doing education-based selling. Education-based selling is completely different.

The cool thing about this new marketplace is that if you enjoy teaching, training, and educating people, you’re in a good position to understand how to influence somebody.

When I have a conversation with someone who potentially wants to get some coaching or wants a mentoring program, rather than going through outdated sales techniques from years ago, I educate people in my conversations.

Back in 2003 when I did my apprenticeship at the gym, conversations were very scripted instead of being dynamic conversation. It wasn’t about education. Now what I do instead of talking about the features of my program, I educate people.

When I talk to someone who is struggling in their business and they want more clients, or they are wanting to improve their presenting or copywriting skills, I’ll educate them on what’s working right now for my business to help get clients.

People don’t really care about your product or program or if you give tech support. They just want to know that you’re able to give them what they desire in life, and this is where you can show them that you’re the expert and you do this through educating people.

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

I use a 3- step method for this, and I call it the CPR method. It’s like resuscitating someone who is sick, but you’re resuscitating their vision of their best future self in the midst of educating them.

C – Credibility

If you want to influence someone, share your credibility, your experience, knowledge, and skills. Share why someone would want to work with you.

I remember when I worked as a gym instructor in New Zealand. There was a trainer there who would see someone doing an exercise wrong. Instead of walking up to them and saying to the person, “Hey, I’m Bob and I’ve been training people for the last 5 years. Do you mind if I give you a quick tip on how to protect your back?”

He would shout out across the gym and tell people what they were doing wrong. It would cause people to get really embarrassed and I would cringe when I heard it, because he would embarrass people publicly. He wouldn’t tell people about his years of training people, which would give him credibility. He would just yell at people.

So anytime you want to educate someone, you need to frame it around your credibility.

P – Process

Sharing your process with people is really important. Tell people what your process is, share that your process is step-by-step and explain how you’ve organised your knowledge. People love organised knowledge.

In a conversation, this might look like, “Hey Tommy, so I heard you say you want to work full time in your business so that you can have the flexibility of working from home. Is this right? So, over the last 18 years of working in business I’ve discovered there are 3 main problems people face when it comes to business…”

In my strategy sessions after I ask the key question, I then create a roadmap for the person and explain how the coaching would get them results. I explain step-by-step how things will progress and I show how my knowledge is organised. People love a step-by-step strategy.

R- Results

You want to share the results you are seeing when people follow your process. You might say, “Sally followed this process and she was able to make 10k a month and was able to increase her conversion rate from 50% to 70%.”

Share your client stories and describe the results client’s got when they followed your process.

3 – You Are The Prize

You are the prize. Say it out loud with me, “I am the prize!”

There are thousands of people that you could potentially be coaching or mentoring and there’s only ONE of you.

Your time is limited, so you only want to work with quality people. If you’re working one-on-one with people, you want quality people to book into your calendar. You don’t need people wasting your time.

You want people who are ready and are seriously committed. You only want to deal with people who want to work with you, who trust you, and who want to take action.

Money is a commodity. You can get money from anywhere, but you only have one you. If you’re coming in with an energy of chasing a person in a strategy session, and if they feel like prey being targeted, people are going to run away.

However, if you come in totally neutral and you’re not chasing, you become the magnet. You know you’re the prize because you’re good at what you do. You want to attract the right clients and repel the wrong ones like a magnet attracts and also repels.

It all comes down to presenting to people the opportunity to improve the quality of their life.

You don’t need to try and convince your ideal clients, you want to find people who are already convinced because you’ve educated them and you’ve provided valuable content.

So the goal with sales is matchmaking, not trying to sign everyone up. It’s about matchmaking with your truly ideal, right-fit client.

So if you want to be known as the one that people chase, rather than being chased by them…

I’d like to invite you to a free client attraction strategy session.

I work together with my clients to:

1) Make your offer irresistible. I help you get clear on the best packaging and pricing for your stage in business and the stage that your ideal clients are at.

2) Clarify your language. I help you understand the beliefs your ideal clients have and what you want them to believe.

3) Creating organic, compelling content that converts. I use my proven process to craft the right language that calls in truly ideal, quality clients. This will ensure you get enquiries from your content.

In order to be the best candidate to get results, it’s best if you have experience serving clients in your area of expertise and getting results, and already have an idea of what problem you solve and who you enjoy helping.

If you’re interested, message me on Facebook or email me at info@katmillar.com and we’ll have a chat and see if you are a good fit.

I look forward to chatting with you!

Kat

April 8, 2021 by katmillar Leave a Comment

How To Turn Your Discovery Calls Into Paying Clients

Would you like a simple sales process to help you sign up more clients?

In this training, I share how you can turn your discovery calls into paying clients with my zero-pressure 6-step ‘Authentic Selling Formula’.

Selling is an awkward thing for many people. A lot of people tell me they don’t like having sales conversations. I get it. It used to be this way for me also.

No one likes having conversations with people who are trying to push their product or service on us.

But you don’t have to do that to make it in business.

I talk to a lot of people who have this idea that business is cut-throat and they’ve got to be brutal with sales and get the sale closed immediately.

But you don’t have to do it like that. You can have a relaxed sales process, which is a really beautiful conversation between two people who are trying to see if they’re the right match for each other.

A sales conversation can almost be like a coaching conversation where you’re helping someone work through what they want, where they are right now, and what blocks are in their way.

If you’re putting off doing sales calls because you don’t like sales, then what I’m sharing today is for you, because it will help reframe sales into something positive for you.

The reason I’m so passionate about sharing this process is because for years and years I was confused and overwhelmed with so many different sales methods.

Over the years, I’ve done so many sales courses with Les Mills, Matt Catling, Authentic Education, Jeffrey Slayter, Netty’D Lackovic and others, and I’ve read many sales books by people like Zig Ziglar and Brian Tracy.

I’ve spent so much money and time learning various sales methods from the best in the business.

And I’ve also done thousands of discovery calls, and I’ve been able to work out the questions that are the most powerful, potent, and effective.

Sales conversations are about asking the right questions and making sure that you’re super curious about the person you’re speaking with.

I’ve discovered there are 3 essential ways of being when you’re selling:

1 –Be Present

It’s so important to be really present in the call and not be distracted or thinking about the client that you had before you call, or the meeting you’ve got after your call.

You need to be fully present, so you can build rapport with that person and match and mirror what they’re saying. You also need to mirror and match what they are not saying.

Everyone has different personalities, characteristics, habits, learning styles, pain points, desires, and emotional triggers.

2 – Be Prepared

Preparation is so important and the way you get prepared is by having a proven sales process that works. You do not want to get in front of a potential prospect and completely stuff it up. You need a really great sales script and you need to practice.

Because sales conversations are dynamic, you need to be able to deviate from the script, but still keep control and lead the conversation. You don’t want to be so scripted, that you sound like a robot.

Conversations naturally deviate depending on the person’s needs. So you need to be flexible so you can meet the person’s needs, but also be able to bring it back within your sales structure. This is such a fun game to me because it’s like a puzzle that I’ve got to figure out and I find it really enjoyable.

When you understand human behaviours and see what techniques and triggers are happening, and if you’re holding the person so they feel their consequences or feel the pain, you’ve got to know how long to hold them there.

There is a chemistry with sales and a tension sales calls operate within. You need to be fully prepared with really powerful questions to help the person on the call work through the blocks that are in the way of them getting positive results for their lives.

It’s not that they are just saying yes or no to you, they’re saying yes or no to themselves. And that’s a massive reframe for the person who is leading the call. Are you going to be the person that helps them overcome whatever is in their way, so they can invest in themselves?

Money is everywhere but there is only one you. So you need to show people why you’re different, and how you are going to help them make a positive change to their life.

There is an emotional place that people come into when they are ready to buy. You’ve got to be able to pick these psychological cues.

I teach all of these in my program, but in this training, I want to show you more about a really simple process that you can put in place, and this is part of being prepared.

3 – Be Passionate

The other thing that you need to be in a sales conversation is passionate. Not passionate about yourself, or your product or service, but passionate about the person you are serving and passionate about the breakthrough and result you will help them get.

If you’re passionate about the person and their breakthrough, then you will do what it takes to help them overcome their belief systems, so you won’t leave them stuck in their pain. Be enthusiastic and confident.

Imagine getting on a sales conversation with someone who’s not enthusiastic, not confident, not passionate who sounds flat and bored. It would put you off, right?

So be present, be prepared and be passionate.

Now I’m going to take you through my 6-step A to F process that I use in my discovery sales conversations, and the reason I love this process is because it’s so easy to remember. If you know your ABC’s then you can remember this formula.

The best thing is you can use this formula when you are out and about at a networking function when you’re on a phone call or on a Zoom call.

My 6-Step Authentic Selling Formula

To preface this, sales is about influencing people to make positive change to their lives. It’s not about manipulating someone or trying to sell to someone who has no need or desire for your product.

The presumption is that the person you will be talking to has a problem you can solve, they have a need you can help with and they want to be on a sales call with you because they booked into your calendar. So you are getting on the call with integrity to start with.

A – ARE

A is for ‘are’, so where are you at? If I’m having a chat with someone at a networking event, I want to know where they are at. This will help you to know if you both are a potential match. It’s like when you’re dating you want to know the other person’s likes and dislikes, and where they are currently at in their life.

There are a range of questions that you can use in this category. So, when the person gets on the call, I just outline how I would like the conversation to go. I then ask if the person is comfortable and if they have a glass of water.

I then ask, “Out of curiosity, could you tell me a little bit about your current situation? What’s going on for you at the moment?” Or I might ask why they chose to contact me specifically right now. I ask what their circumstances are right now and if they are having problems, then I ask how long a problem has been affecting them.

I have a whole toolkit of questions, and depending on what the person says, I can look at my toolkit of questions if I’m on a Zoom call I have the document open, and I just follow the structure. If I’m out and about and I haven’t got anything in front of me, then because I’ve done so many discovery calls, the questions just start to roll off my tongue.

When the person tells me where they are at, I then ask, “Out of curiosity, why is that important to you?” I then dig deeper and ask how it’s affecting them. I ask how are things affecting them, their family and relationships, and their health.

I ask how long the issue has been a problem for them. When you ask questions this way, you can really get to know their current situation, and it’s not until you really feel like you understand the current situation, that you then move on to the next question.

Before you move to the next question, you need to validate and repeat back to the person what you’ve heard them say. You could use, “I just want to make it clear that I’ve understood this correctly…”. Repeat back to them what they have said.

Once you’ve validated, you want to go into some more digging questions like, “Can you tell me a little bit more specifically about that?.. Could you describe that a little bit more to me?.. I’m curious, can you tell me a bit more about…?”

Keep going until you feel like you’ve got a really good feel of where they currently are at.

B –BE

In the ‘be’ section, you find out where the person is wanting to be in the future.

So I ask questions like, “What’s the specific outcome that you want? How many clients do you want? How much money do you want to make?

If you’re a weight loss coach you would ask, “How much weight do you want to lose? What dress size do you want to be? What’s an outfit that you want to fit in?” You need to be really specific.

Then you start building questions higher and ask, “What would your life be like if you solve this problem? How would it affect your family, your house, your business, your work, your emotions?”

If you think about the whole wheel of life, everything affects everything else. Your business or your work affects your family. Your mental health and emotions affect your business and your family. Your physical health affects your mental and emotional health.

So you want to get them to paint a picture of where they want their life to be.

Ask them about their big vision and their ultimate vision for their life. I get them talking about their vision, feeling it, and seeing it inside of their mind. I help them paint a really clear and vivid description of the future they want for themselves.

I spend quite a lot of time there. And then I go into the benefits. So I ask them what some of the benefits would be if they achieved their vision. And if they don’t move towards their vision, then I ask them how that would impact them.

C – CHALLENGES

There are 3 parts to the ‘C’ part to the process.

The first is challenges. What challenges are in the way and what roadblocks are preventing the person from getting where they want to be? You need to ask, “What’s not working for you and What’s holding you back?” “Where are you most struggling?” And, “Where are you frustrated?”

I have a whole lot of questions that I ask around the challenges someone is facing. One of my favourite questions is, “Where do you need the most help? Is it strategy, execution, skill acquisition?” I ask where the gaps are that they need the most help. I ask, “What have you tried that hasn’t worked for you?”

Once they say their challenges, I then take them into the second part which is the consequences for not changing.

And this is where you don’t just want to rush to the solution. You want to stay in the consequences and to do this there is a tension to navigate.

Tension is the chemistry itself. So with the consequences, you actually want to take them to the pain and I know it sounds horrible, but this is so that they can see a real contrast between the benefits and the consequences of what will happen if they don’t change.

They need to see the contrast of their beautiful vision they’ve just described to you and the consequences of their life if they don’t implement changes. You have to put your own discomfort aside at this point because the person has to feel the pain of the trajectory that they are currently on.

I then ask questions like…

“What’s it costing you to not have this problem solved? How is it an issue? Why is it important for you to solve it? What would it be like if you didn’t solve this problem? What would life be like for you in 12 months’ time if you do decide to deal with these problems?”

This might feel really weird but you just need to practice. You need to hold that space for them to actually explore. They might not sign up with you and that’s totally cool.

But if they have got a conviction that they need to change and they can see if they don’t change that the direction of their life will not be positive, then you’ve actually done your job.

So an example question would be, “If you don’t do this, what would be the consequences, and cost you be to you emotionally, financially, spiritually, physically, if you don’t change?”

And then the third stage is commitment.

“Okay, so you told me this…(do a bit of a recap and validate…) so why are you committed to making it happen right now? What’s your commitment level from 1 to 10?”

And then you might say, “Okay, why did you pick that number?” Or one of my favourite questions is, “Why don’t you put the lower number?” Then, the person will give you all the reasons why it’s important to them to change.

Most people pick Number 8. I’ll then say, “Okay, why didn’t you pick a low number?” Then the person will often say, “Because I really want to change and I want to do ….” They actually are now talking themselves into the change.

D – DIRECT

Now you move from the ‘question’ hat, and you put on the ‘director’ hat because it’s here that you need to be the director.

The ABC part of the process is very much the area for curiosity, where you’re getting the person to tell you all about their situation. D is where you take the lead and tell them how you can help them.

To take the charge here, you say to the person something like

“You’ve told me… so imagine this…”

Then you fill in what they’ve told you about their vision and what it would be like for them when they’ve had their problem solved and they’ve achieved their desired outcome.

Now you’re guiding them to see that instead of struggling in an area, they will have achieved. And then you direct them to see what having that achievement ultimately means for their life (health, business, family etc.)

Then you would say to them something like, “If I was able to show you a way to avoid the problems that you talked about and your challenges (mention here the long-term and short-term consequences) would you like to hear about it?”

When they have agreed, I will then walk them through what it would be like for us to work together to solve the problems they mentioned and get the results they mentioned they want.

I’ll say to them, “So I have an [xyz] program that I think will really help you…” and then I go into sharing about my offer.

Here is where I insert something I call CPR. Credibility. Process, and Results.

For credibility, I’ll say something like, “Well over the last 10 years I’ve been coaching thousands of people and I’ve been so grateful so many people get results. And in that time I’ve discovered that the 3 main problems people face are…

Now I share my processes to help people overcome their problems.

I tell them I’ve created a process called the Client Attraction Accelerator and I walk them through the processes of the signature system that I have created to help them solve their problem. Then I’ll share some typical results that people have.

I will share feedback and testimonies that people have given me that I’ve helped them get fully booked with clients. Or it may be that I’ve helped people to run events or webinars. So I will talk about the credibility of why they should listen to me.

I then explain that I offer one-on-one coaching and group coaching. I tell them about my online program and about the extra support they receive, including access to my workshops.

I give details about the payment options and my payment plans that are available, and I talk about all the benefits they will receive.

Once I’ve shared what I have to offer them, I ask them how it fits with what they have in mind. And then I just wait and see what they say. If they want to proceed, I will then go to the next step in the process, which is to engage the person in the sign-up process.

E – ENGAGE

Here is where I take the person through the enrolment process. I would say, ‘That’s fantastic, I’d like to welcome you officially to the program and the community.”

I would then ask for their details to start the process over the phone. Here is where you want to have a card processing system that you can do it on the phone.

Next, I explain the process that will happen next.

I tell them something like “I’m going to email you a partnership agreement so that you can read and sign it, and email it back to me. When I’ve received this, you can get started straight away. I’ll send you the logins for the online course and you can book in your first one-on-one coaching session.

F – FINALISE

To finalise the process if someone doesn’t sound like they want to sign up right away, I will recap briefly the A, B and C’s of our discussion and I will talk about where they are at, where they want to be and the challenges and consequences if they do not address their issues.

If you don’t think you will be a match and you don’t want to work with them, give them some other help to help them out so they gained legitimate help from the discovery call. You would also share your credibility, your process, and results. Stay positive during this part of the conversation and don’t be in a rush to get someone over the line.

The whole conversation can happen from A to E in 30 to 45 minutes. You really don’t need longer than that. If the person wants to think about it, you can book them in for another 15-minute catch-up.

Anything longer than 30-45 minutes for the discussion and you will probably be getting stuck in sharing too much content or going too much into ‘coach mode’.

If you would like help and support with your sales calls, I’d love to help you go through the sales session and personalise it for you, so that you can feel really confident on your calls.

I offer a free 45-minute clarity session for people who have not had a session with me prior.

You can apply here.

Kat

April 7, 2021 by katmillar Leave a Comment

How I Signed Up 4 Clients This Week (And How You Can Too)

This week I signed up 4 dream clients. In this training, I share how you can do it also.

There are 4 main things we need to in order to attract new clients…

1. An Irresistible Offer

In order to sign up new clients, you need an irresistible offer. So it’s important to take the time to build out a no-brainer offer that you cannot wait to share with the world.

It needs to be an offer you’re proud of and excited about because it is filled with so much value.

Your offer needs to be designed very specifically for a clear problem and solution.

Your offer cannot be that you will give someone a dream life as that’s too vague. It’s got to be something specific, and you need to use compelling language.

People don’t want to receive coaching just for coaching’s sake.

They want to work through a process, overcome challenges and receive keys, tools, and resources. People want to work with someone who has overcome the same challenges themselves and organised their knowledge in a way to help them with the same challenges.

There are 3 main components I recommend you have in your irresistible offer:

1 – Curriculum

Your irresistible offer needs a solid step-by-step curriculum in your offer. It needs to have a step-by-step system, like an A to Z process.

It’s not just about having bits and pieces of content. It needs to take people step-by-step to their end goal.

There’s so much free information out there that people get overwhelmed. People want a curriculum of content and you want that to be available for people 24/7.

2 – Coaching

As well as curriculum, people also need coaching and mentoring as part of your offer in order to implement the learnings.

Research shows that less than 10% of people ever complete an online course on their own.

You have knowledge, wisdom, and experience that other people don’t have and you’ve overcome the problem that you’re helping to solve, so including coaching or mentoring is highly valuable.

This could be done one-on-one or in a group setting.

It could be you delivering it, or one of your team who you’ve trained.

3 – Community

People also want a community. And not just any community, but a quality community.

There are so many Facebook groups out there. Most people are part of so many free communities and often they are getting lost in the crowd.

To accelerate success, we need a smaller quality, intimate community where we are valued, heard, and supported by people on a similar journey.

We need cheerleaders who lift us up, give us feedback, inspire us and help us grow. The best way to do this is in a smaller group.

Curriculum, coaching, and community are just some of the components of building out an irresistible offer.

I’ve got a whole training on how to build out an irresistible offer. Email us if you’d like us to send it to you.

2. Consistent Valuable Content

Every single week you need to give a valuable piece of content to your social communities. You can do this as a Facebook Live, as a blog post, or in lots of smaller social media posts (3-5 per week).

Consistency is the key to social media. The reason I signed up 4 clients this week is that I plant seeds constantly. I plant seeds in my Facebook Lives, blogs, and social posts. I’m constantly throwing seeds into the ground, watering and nurturing them.

The clients I’ve just signed up are from the seeds I planted a long time ago. One lady who signed with me has been following my Facebook Lives for about 6 months and she’s been getting my emails. It’s not about getting instant results. I only want to work with people that are ready.

I never want anyone to feel rushed into something. I don’t like people to feel like there’s any pressure, so for me, I’m detached from the outcome. I show up. I ask what they need and if I feel that I’m the right fit for them, then I present them with an irresistible offer. But I don’t offer it to everyone.

The cool thing is that because I’m always planting seeds and consistently putting content out there, most people come to the strategy calls ready and committed to themselves.

I don’t ever have to do awkward sales calls because most people who connect with me know they have a problem and I know that I have a solution to help them.

Your content has to be compelling, hook people in, engage people, speak to their fears, to their desires and your content needs to connect with them emotionally.

You need to speak the language of your ideal client and speak directly to the specific problems and needs that they have.

Your content also needs a great call to action. You don’t just need free content, but also a clear lead generation strategy that you focus on. And consistency is the key.

3. Unshakable Confidence

Signing up new clients really comes down to how much you believe in yourself because if you’re not confident, you won’t be able to sell anything and you won’t be able to sign up clients.

Here are 5 things you can do to build unshakable confidence:

1 – Believe In Yourself And Back Your Dreams

Now, this doesn’t mean that every single day you wake up and feel amazing. It’s just a quiet knowing within you, that whatever happens, you will keep going until you make it.

I’ve made a decision a long time ago that I will never give up on my dreams. It doesn’t mean I don’t doubt myself. It doesn’t mean I don’t have fears, worries and doubts come up.

This is where you have to do the work to keep your mindset strong and keep backing yourself and believing in yourself. Even on the days where you struggle, you’ve got to just do it anyway. No one else will believe in you as much as you need to believe in you.

2 – Do The Hard Work

Confidence comes as a by-product of competence, and you get competent, by doing the work and by getting really good at your craft.

I’m good at sales because I’ve done hundreds and hundreds of sales calls. I’m good at presenting because I’ve done hundreds of events. I’m good at coaching because I’ve coached hundreds and hundreds of people.

I started out coaching people for free. That’s how I got all the learnings and figured out what people want and what they need. I’ve done so many strategy sessions where people didn’t sign up, but I’m not focused on the outcome because I know eventually, I am going to succeed.

There’s a lag time between putting the seeds in the ground, watering them and making sure they get the sun and looking after them before they start to grow and produce fruit. Most people don’t keep going and quit before the harvest comes.

Farmers don’t throw the seed in and expect a tree the next day. Farmers consistently show up, water the plants, fertilise the soil and do everything they can to ensure the crop they have planted end up bearing fruit.

3 – Keep Showing Up Consistently

Keep showing up consistently even if you feel like it or not. You have just got to commit.

If you’re not committed and trustworthy, people aren’t going to trust you. They will just think you are there when you feel like it. People want to see you showing up and taking action consistently.

4 – Spend Time With Visionaries

Spend time with visionaries and people who think beyond just the current day-to-day stresses. You are not going to get unshakable confidence by hanging out with people who think small and focus on really small problems and things that don’t matter.

You need to spend time with people who are visionaries, who think bigger and look to solve bigger problems, instead of just thinking about how they will make their lives more comfortable.

5 – Have A Mentor

We all need mentors to help us develop our skills because confidence comes as a by-product of being really good at what you do.

And one of the fastest ways to get better at what we do is by having a mentor who has ‘been there, done that’.

4. Proven Sales Process

There are 3 main things people get wrong when it comes to the sales process:

1 – Not Having An Automated Booking System

This is so simple to overcome. If you don’t have an automated booking system, you just need to set up a calendar online. You can get one appointment type for free. I use Calendly.

If you want to have multiple calendars it costs $10US a month. I’ve got a calendar for 30-minute bookings, 15 minutes, 45 minutes, 60 minutes, and 90 minutes.

It just takes away so much time and effort that you can waste, going back and forth with people. How many people are just not signing up with you, simply because it’s too hard? You need to have something that people can book 24/7.

I don’t do anything manually for my sales process until I turn up on the call. Everything is automated. People book a session on Calendly. They get a questionnaire to fill out. They receive automatic reminders and all I do is read and take notes from their questionnaire before the strategy session.

2 – Not Preparing For Their Sales Calls

People don’t do well at sales because they fail to prepare. They don’t have a questionnaire, and they don’t have a structure to follow.

Sales calls are very dynamic and can go all over the place, but I have a structure that I’m following and a toolkit of questions. I then devise questions based on the questionnaire that I’ve received.

I always know where I’m at in the process of the sales call, as I follow a structure. I allow myself to flow within that structure though depending on how the call progresses. It’s so important to prepare in advance.

3– Not Leading In Their Sales Calls

You’re the expert. You’re the professional and people want to be led and directed in strategy sessions and sales calls.

In my strategy sessions and sales calls, I have set questions that I ask, but I flow with how the answers are, but I always bring it back within my structure. I lead in my strategy sessions.

I ask the person when I get on the call or Zoom if they are comfortable, have a glass of water, and are ready to start with the strategy session. I then have my questions and structure to follow based on the information I’ve received from their questionnaire.

There’s so much that you can do in your conversation to increase the likelihood that they’re going to say yes to you.

I absolutely love sales conversations, because it’s an opportunity to help someone change their life. I see them as coaching sessions and if we are a match, then I offer them my program.

Getting good at sales is the only way you can stay as an entrepreneur. It’s the only thing that gets money in your bank account, and it gives you freedom.

I could not have built my own business to a 6-figure business on my own. I needed a mentor. Personally, I invest at least $10,000 every year in getting help from mentors and coaches.

Every time my money has been low, I have spent the money and invested in coaching and mentoring, because that’s the way we grow.

Want help to grow your business?

Do you want help to get more ideal clients, free up more time and create a profitable, lifestyle-friendly business that you love?

I offer a free 45-minute clarity call to see whether my programs are the right fit for you.

Apply for your free clarity session here

To your success,
Kat

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How I Signed Up 4 Clients This Week (And How You Can Too)

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2. Consistent Valuable Content

3. Unshakable Confidence

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