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5 Things I Wish I Learned Earlier In Business

Do you ever look back and think, “I wish I knew that earlier”?

There are 5 things I wish I’d learned earlier in my journey of building my business, and if I’d known them earlier, I wouldn’t have made as many mistakes or wasted so much time.

I share them here to help you avoid these traps and pitfalls.

1 – Your Audience Doesn’t Always Know What They Need

The first thing I wish I learned is that your audience doesn’t usually know what they need. A lot of people tell their audience what they NEED to be doing, instead of actually giving them what they WANT.

Many people focus on the method and the process to get to the transformation, but actually, people don’t even know that they need that.

They think that they know, but they don’t … or else they’d be doing it.

Remember that people aren’t at your level. This is the problem that I used to always come up against. I would be speaking to people from one level, when they were way back further than I was in their journey.

We forget how far we’ve come.

I see this with my clients all the time. They have unconscious competence around an area and forget how far along they are compare to their clients.

They speak to people at their level, instead of speaking to them on the lower, less experienced level, where their audience is starting out in their journey. They forget that in the beginning, they used to be back at the less experienced level.

The problems that they THINK they have are usually very different from the ones you have in the more advanced level of knowledge or experience.

It’s only with hindsight that you can see the problems are different at different levels.

People are always thinking about what they want, but they don’t actually very rarely know what they need.

An example of this is when I started out in business, I thought that people really knew that they needed to shift their mindset, improve their time management and productivity, in order to have a successful business.

I thought that people realised that they needed these things, but people thought they were fine in these areas.

They told me they just wanted to know how to get clients.

I was running workshops on mindset and productivity, and I could see these were areas letting people down, but the most popular workshops I ran were around marketing.

People often want what’s going to solve their immediate issues,  so you’ve got to talk to them the way YOU used to be, not where you are now.

People don’t care about your processes or your method. They care about solving their immediate problem.

Are you creating ‘need’ marketing or ‘want’ marketing?

The idea here is to sell them what they want, and then give them what they need.

2 –  The Power of Creating Over Consuming

The second thing I wish I learned earlier in business is the power of creating instead of consuming.

If you’re like me, you love learning. We can get caught up thinking we need to learn more, but in reality – we often need to just start executing on what we know.

We can get to a point where we need to stop absorbing because like a sponge, you can come to the place of being so full. It’s like you’re obese on knowledge, information and content, and you need to get it out there.

I call it ‘squeezing the sponge’.

Finishing something that you’ve created yourself, gives you an incredible feeling.

It gives you a buzz and a high of dopamine when you complete something.

But when you’re in ‘consume’ mode, it’s like this…

You wake up in the morning,  sit down at your desk to create a great social media post, an email, an article on LinkedIn or you want to do a video.

You get your second coffee and try to get motivated.

Then you get stuck looking at other people’s stuff. Hours go by and you waste a whole morning, consuming other people’s stuff, instead of just sitting and creating your own stuff.

We do this because it’s easier. It’s our comfort zone, and it’s much easier to look at other people’s posts for inspiration. But then, next minute, hours have gone by and you haven’t booked any paid clients, you still haven’t got any sales conversations booked in, you have booked any discovery calls that week, and you still don’t have a profitable business.

I get it, because I did this. I thought that I needed to learn more, and I would continually keep going to more and more courses.

I would keep comparing myself to others.

Doing that doesn’t get you where you want to go. Creating great work in the world is what does it.

3 – The Power Of Core Messages

There is power in having core messages that you repeat regularly in the marketplace.

Ideally you want to have 3-5 very clear core messages that you repeat your core message every time you are interviewed by someone, every time you do a Facebook Live, write a blog post, and write your web copy.

You want to make sure that people are really clear on what your core messages are. It becomes your signature language.

When I show up, I say a lot of the same things over and over. It’s repetitive, but people need to hear things multiple times.

People need repetition, it makes it sink in.

Some of the core messages I say consistently are:

  • The world is waiting for your words
  • You overcome fear with a formula
  • For business to be successful, it has to be simple
  • You get proven success with a proven strategy
  • Business is too hard to do alone

These are messages I use all the time in my workshops and marketing.

What are your 3 to 5 core messages that you can keep repeating, that people come to know this is your language?

You want to repeat these so that people start to associate you with these messages.

It’s like your brand values and positioning. You’re infiltrating everything, with your values and with these core beliefs.

I help people simplify things and turn things into a model where people can really understand it.

What got me into core messages was I learned about putting in what we call a phrase anchor. A phrase anchor is used in our webinars and presentations and this phrase acts like an anchor that you keep coming back to.

You have one main phrase that you use through your whole presentation.

So my question to you is: Are you clear on your core messages?

4 – The Power Of Having The Right Strategy

Having the right strategy is essential.

If you get up in the morning and want to post some content, but don’t know what topics to talk about, you can get a bit confused. But this comes down to not having a clear strategy. When you don’t have an overarching strategy, you don’t have a plan, so you end up winging it.

When I first started out, I would waste days and even weeks, because I would start something and not finish it. I didn’t have a strategy. I realised I had the ingredients, but I didn’t have the recipe that put all the ingredients together in the right order.

I felt like I was going to all these courses and investing a lot of time and money. But I still didn’t have the right strategy, because I hadn’t gotten an expert to sit down with me to help me build my strategy.

I had a lot of what I call half-built bridges. I would start building something here and it would get too hard, so I would start to build another bridge. When things get hard, we bump up against belief systems that stop us or we don’t have the tools or skills we need, so we start building another bridge and nothing gets finished. This is what I was doing.

People don’t pay for half-built bridges.

They pay for a fully built bridge that they can walk over to the other side.  They pay for a journey and for a path. They pay for a step-by-step process and framework that takes them where they want to be.

I see a lot of people throwing out lots and lots of information, knowledge and content, but not giving a strategy. It is so important to give people a sequential process to follow.

If you have half-built bridges, you’re not alone as it’s human behaviour.  I want you to think about your strategy. And it’s really important when you think about your strategy to make sure that you’re really clear on your positioning, like what do you and your content strategy.

People think positioning is something you need to become but this is more something you decide to act upon, so people describe you as that. What are the 3 words that you want people to use to describe your business? Position yourself around these.

This gives you full control. Don’t give your control to other people. You need to decide what you want people to say about you, and position yourself that way.

5 – The Power Of Consistent, Imperfect Action

The fifth thing I wish that I learned earlier in business is the power of consistent, imperfect action.

I used to get so caught up making sure every slide was perfect. And the whole formula was so perfect before I even posted.

Perfectionism is something that absolutely cripples people. And it has definitely crippled me in so many ways. I know I would have moved so much faster if I hadn’t been so freaking scared of getting things wrong or having mistakes or a typo.

Things can always get better, right? You don’t want to sit on top of something for 3 weeks, you just want to get something out there to help people. Having something sitting in your laptop is not helping anyone.

It’s better to have something out there that is 70%, 80% or 90%, than not having anything at all. I’m not talking about doing sloppy work. We must have a standard of excellence. But we have to be willing to release things before they are 100% perfect.

I do Facebook Live videos every week and often they are not absolutely perfect. I practice beforehand and have my talk planned, but it’s more about being consistent and showing up. But I’m not practicing 50 times at home by myself with no one watching, because it’s not helping anyone. I’d rather just turn my camera on and go live being imperfect.

There is power in imperfect action. You need to think that it’s not about you. It’s about your clients and it’s about the people that you are serving. If you do everything perfectly, you become unrelatable. When I see my multi-millionaire mentors make mistakes, it encourages me that they are human.

If you just took more imperfect action consistently, do you think that you would help more people and actually grow your business? If you create processes for your tribe to follow, do you think you would be able to help more people?

I created a step-by-step process that took me years to refine and tweak.  I’ve now run hundreds of people’s through it and it works every time. It looks simple and it is simple when you know it.

When you don’t know it and when you’re doing it all out of order, then business can be really hard.

Want to know exactly how you do this?

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

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

This is our FINAL free masterclass of the year!


At This Free Live Online Event You Will:

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

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

You’ll discover:

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

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

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

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

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

PLUS you’ll receive a BONUS GIFT for attending:

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

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

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

Client Attraction Accelerator Masterclass ?

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

You can read more or book in for free here

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We still have time to finish the year well.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1 – Most People Are Not Ramping Up

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3 – Success Breeds Success

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

This is our FINAL free masterclass of the year!


At This Free Live Online Event You Will:

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

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

You’ll discover:

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

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

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

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

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

PLUS you’ll receive a BONUS GIFT for attending:

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

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

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

Client Attraction Accelerator Masterclass ?

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

You can register here.

 

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3 Little-Known Things That Kill Your Presentations Every Time When You Ignore Them

There are 3 little-known things that people do in their presentations that hinder their success. Many people have no idea that these are mistakes they are making when they’re presenting.

Whether you’re presenting on Facebook lives, Insta lives or stories, webinars, workshops, or if you’re presenting 1:1 to your clients, you may be doing some of these things without realising.

The reason I’m so passionate about this is that I love supporting people to step up as a leader and position themselves as someone valuable and worthy of being listened to.

Presenting to groups has been the #1 thing that has grown my business, even though I used to be so scared of it.

It has enabled me to create a life of fulfilment and freedom, have a voice, fast-track my business success and help more people, which has all been possible by leveraging the power of events.

Before I started presenting, I was only working with people one-to-one.

I LOVED doing one-to-one work with people, it was my comfort zone. I’m an introvert and didn’t like being the focus of attention and didn’t want to present in front of groups of people. I didn’t want to be the one up the front with everyone looking at them.

But I remember a moment in time where I was at a big convention called Filex, sitting in the crowd listening to the speaker.

And I suddenly it hit me – and I had one of those ‘penny-drop’ moments that surprised me.

I thought “It’s going to take me waaaaay too long to build the business I want to build one by one! I’m never going to have the impact that I want to have. I want to be a presenter. I want to be the one on stage!”

I remember thinking “I HAVE to get over this fear of speaking to group. I HAVE to learn to present”.

At the time I was working as a fitness and health coach, only doing one-on-one coaching sessions. My first step to learning to present was to run a small group program at Les Mills called ‘Look Better Naked.’ It was a program for 6 women for 6 weeks.

Les Mills has high standards with qualifying people to deliver their programs and I remember the guy who was assessing me told me I was too quiet and needed to be more outgoing and loud. He said that I needed to ‘fake’ confidence until I felt it.

So I just had to step up.

Eventually, I started running bootcamps and then I started doing 1:many presentations, running seminars at my gym.

I didn’t realise back then the things I was doing wrong, but over time I have learned what NOT to do as a presenter, by doing these things myself.

 

1 – Winging It Without A Structure

The problem that most people have when it comes to creating a presentation, is that they don’t have a proper presentation structure. They wing it without structure.

That’s what I was doing. I was literally showing up and teaching everything that I knew, instead of actually organising my knowledge correctly.

There’s a formula for presenting correctly – in a way where people can receive the information you are giving them. There’s a formula to engage people and maintain people’s attention. I didn’t know any of that.

So, the first thing that people get wrong that kills your presentation is they think they can just show up and ‘flow’ and speak intuitively. They think they can just show up and talk, with no plan or structure.

If we don’t organise our knowledge in a way that someone wants to receive it, we’re actually doing our audience a disservice. I’ve seen this happen so many times where people just think they can speak from the heart, without having planned their presentation.

When you have a formula and structure, you can still flow naturally and be intuitive and speak from your heart. Having a structure doesn’t stop you from being spontaneous, it can actually help it.

If you think about professionals and successful people, how do they become professionals? They practice, practice and practice!

The Netflix documentary ‘The Last Dance’ about Michael Jordan shows this perfectly. It is incredible the amount of practice thatMichael Jordan put in and he was the best in the world.

I was reading that when he was filming the movie Space Jam, they would film for weeks or months on end doing 12-hour days. He would then go straight to training and practice for 5 hours every single day.

When we do a presentation and we are winging it and speaking from the heart, we are doing our audience a disservice. We are not valuing them enough to plan and craft our presentation or use psychology or the power of influence to help people to take action.

Remember every single presentation is designed for someone to take action. It’s not designed for it to just be interesting. You want to inspire someone to take action and that requires crafting your presentation.

Presenting is a profession because it requires crafting and tweaking your words. The higher the stakes, the more you practice. People who do TED talks practice for months beforehand.

2 – Focusing On Yourself And Not On Your Audience

The second thing that kills someone’s presentation is focusing on themselves and not on their audience. This happens all the time because public speaking is so many people’s biggest fear.

It’s the Number 1 fear people have.  People are really self- conscious, and they’re thinking about themselves and what the audience is thinking of them. You can train yourself to overcome this, so when you’re presenting, you’re thinking about your audience.

I spoke at a woman’s event last Sunday and when I was rehearsing for it I brought up pictures of women on Google images on my 2 screens, so when I practised, I was looking at people’s actual faces.

It was a great way to practice for a live event. I don’t put Zoom on gallery view as it’s very distracting. If I have it on gallery view, I look down at the gallery, and then my eyes are not looking at the lens. So I turn off gallery view and only look at the lens so I am then connecting straight to you.

So there’s a difference on video when you’re presenting, then when you are doing a presentation to a live audience. Because it’s been a couple of months since I did a live event, I visualised that live presentation with people in the room together night after night before I went to sleep.

I visualise what I want every night before I go to sleep. I visualise myself helping thousands of people at once.

This is why people will organise their knowledge and put it into a book, or a TED talk. They organise their knowledge so they can help multiple people all at one time.

And so, when I showed up on Sunday, because I had practised and visualised the event, it felt completely normal and there was no need for my brain to throw out fear.

This way I could be really present with the audience and focus on communicating my message as well as I possibly could.

It’s so important that we’re not self-conscious and thinking about how we look and sound, but instead being present and focusing on sharing our message in the best possible way to serve our audience.

Presenting is not always easy, and it takes learning the craft. But it’s worth it because if you get one valuable presentation, it’s an asset and it’s a legacy item. You can use it over and over again.

If you want to fast-track your business, I believe the most logical thing to do is to present to multiple people at one time.

But you’ve got to get over any blocks or fear of presenting so you can fully connect with your audience.

3 – Under-Sharing or Over-Sharing 

Under-Sharing

Under-sharing is being stingy and holding back from giving.

We HAVE to always provide great value, whether they’re getting free content or not. That is super important.

If you think about all the years and all the amount of study and research you’ve done, you won’t be able to put that all into one presentation or even into a week’s worth of content.

We’ve got to make sure that we’re generous and giving really genuine value.

We can’t just give fluffy stuff. We’ve got to give content that has substance and real-life application.

Over-Sharing

On the flip-side is over-sharing. I used to do this all the time. When I ran an all-day event, I would give so much away.

Because I wanted to give so much value, I ended up giving away too much value. This actually ended up doing a disservice to people.

You want your presentations to give value, but you don’t want to over-deliver. You want people to leave hungry for more. You need to be able to spark curiosity and help people see that you can solve the problem they hold.

There’s a sweet spot in the middle of being generous and not giving everything you have away, all at once.

Be like Goldilocks – share just the right amount. (remember the story? “Ahhh, this porridge is just right!”).

A lot of people ask me how do I know the difference of what content to share or not share. Like, how do you know what content should go into your free Facebook Live, webinar or workshop?

Many times, it’s very case-by-case, figuring out what should be shared and what shouldn’t be shared.

There’s an art and a science to it and requires crafting and mapping it out.

If you think of a client journey – there are people that don’t know you, so the content that you share with them is going to be different to people who come to your workshops, or who consistently show up on your Facebook Lives, for example.

Everyone’s in a different stage on the journey. And that’s why it’s so individual, there’s really not just one rule. It depends on multiple factors.

I’ll be unpacking these factors and so much more this coming Saturday at my free event ‘How To Get Clients With Online Events’.

It’s happening THIS Saturday 24th October.

I will be sharing the formula I’ve learned from the last 13+ years of doing live and online events to help you get clients from events.

I’ve used this formula to build my business into a 6-figure coaching business. It’s my best strategy for attracting new clients.

You can register here

See you online soon!

Kat

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5 Ingredients Of A Successful Presentation

Have you ever wondered what it takes to put together a successful presentation?

A presentation could be anything from a Facebook Live, a webinar, a workshop or even a video.

Over the last 10+ years, I’ve run over 200 events, both live, in-person and online, and I’ve discovered that when it comes to creating successful presentations, there are a few fundamental things that every single presentation should have.

In this video and blog, I share five main ingredients that make up a presentation that not only ensures your audience learns what you have to share….

But it also guarantees that they are engaged, maintain attention, and take ACTION on your content. ?

1 – Appeal To Every Type Of Learner

The first thing you do when is appeal to every type of learner. There are many ways that people learn and different ways that people process information.

The most important thing to keep in mind is that everybody who shows up and listens to your presentation learns in a different way.

There are four overarching core strategies, which are really four learning styles. And a lot of people just teach in their own learning style, instead of actually covering all four of these learning styles.

Learning Style 1 – People Learn Based On Their Personal Values

There are people out there that like to learn based on their personal values. So they really want to learn what’s important to them and what’s aligned to their highest values.

I call them the ‘why’ learner. They need to know why. Why am I learning this? And they need to know that very fast. If we don’t appeal to what’s important to them, they’re just going to switch off really fast. So we need to be able to start talking about the benefits and why very quickly for these types of learners.

Learning Style 2 – Use Statistics, Research, Evidence, Data And Facts

People learn differently. There are some that need to know the origin of things, proof evidence, data and facts. All of these are very left-brain types of information.

These types of learners are people who want you to have evidence to back up what you’re saying. They like to hear numbers, have data and they like analyse it. They like to know how things work and the proof to back it up.

Learning Style 3 – Describe How Things Work

The third way that people like to learn is to understand how things actually work. What are the mechanics? How do I actually put it into action? They want to be told so they can understand the benefits and reasons it aligns to their values.

We need to have a structure in our presentations that takes people through a process. We cannot just throw random information at people, it’s got to be organised. The most successful people have organised knowledge.

If you are teaching someone how to cook a beautiful cake, you have organised your knowledge around the recipe for this cake. You have the ingredients in order and then you give the method.

These learners learn best when you’ve really organised your information and structured it in a way that makes sense.

Learning Style 4 – Getting The Information, Tweaking It and Breaking It Down

Were you one of those kids that liked to take things apart and see if you could put it back together? This learning style is really lateral. These people are creative and think outside of the box.

They want to get information, break it down, refine it and tweak it. They are taking information and evolving it.

If you have people in your presentation that have this learning style, then you want to make sure that you’re enabling them to think about what is you know and then also think outside the box.

Remember to speak the way people talk and this will be a real game-changer for you in your presentations.

2 –  Move Your Audience

Secondly, you need to be able to move your audience. Moving your audience is not about telling them what to do.

Just telling your audience step one, step two, step three etc doesn’t move them. We move people by tapping into their values, moving them emotionally, using stories, moving them down a process of inspiration and influence to actually take action.

You move people by understanding the pain they’re in and their existing problems by getting to know them. By getting clear on who your ideal clients are by building relationships with them through conversations, messages, surveys and free sessions.

A presentation is not just for someone to get more information. That’s not it. If you just deliver a presentation that gives people information, then they could have just googled it.

A presentation that moves you for example is a TED talk. They have empowering, motivational and inspiring speakers. These speakers are not just giving you facts or information, they’re moving you emotionally.

Deep down in specific parts of our brain, there’s a little child inside of us that just loves to hear stories. If those stories are structured in a way that we get value from a content perspective but we also enjoy the story itself, that is actually what keeps engagement.

The reason story telling is so effective is because when you tell a story to somebody and you clearly describe the characters in the story, as in you bring those characters to life inside that person’s imagination, our brain can’t help but produce small doses of Oxytocin.

Oxytocin is a bonding chemical. So if Oxytocin allows us to bond with things, then if I’m telling stories in my presentation and you’re releasing small amounts of Oxytocin, then the good news is you are bonding to what I am saying. And that means you’re paying close attention to what is being said.

One of the best ways you move people emotionally is through being vulnerable and showing your struggles and humility, and how you overcame your struggles.

You want to show people how you’ve gone from a vulnerable place of not knowing what to do, to a place of victory.  It’s showing people that you were in a hard place, but you’ve been able to get out that inspires people.

3 – Provide Value

The next essential ingredient of a successful presentation is to provide value.

So, what exactly is value? Value is something that helps someone improve their life.

If someone is speaking about your highest values, then you’re going to give them your attention and enjoy what they’re saying.

If someone is not speaking about something that you value, then you will not give them your attention.

You tap into people’s values by talking about the things that they are most interested in, not just random information. Value is only valuable if you understand the problem that precedes it.

If you’re selling the most incredible recipe for the most amazing cake, and you’re trying to sell it to someone who’s gluten and dairy-free, but your recipe has flour and butter in it, then it’s not going to be of value to the gluten and dairy-free person.

I know it sounds overly simple. But if you think about this analogy, the value you give is only valuable if it solves a problem for someone. So we’ve got to know our audience.

I would never give a presentation unless I knew my audience. What are their biggest pain points?  A lot of people just show up and present and don’t take the time to work out if what they are speaking on applies to a specific person with a specific problem.

Your presentation will only be a successful presentation if you are giving value, based on your audience’s highest values. If someone comes along and they give you content that’s way down on your priority list, then you’ve got all these priorities above it.

Value is all about helping people solve their highest priorities. And we do that by understanding our audience.

Whenever I give a live presentation, or if I give a keynote talk, I always survey the people I will be talking to. This is so I can understand what they are struggling with.

I get to know their biggest pain points, their desires and dreams. This way I can structure my content and give them the value they need.

4 – Use A Combination of Left And Right Brain Hemispheres

Our brains have left and right hemispheres, and we need to tap into these when we do a presentation.

The left brain is more logical and analytical and uses processes and sequences. Our right brain is creative and emotional. It uses symbolism, shapes, colours, feelings and emotions.

I learned from Brian Tracy, who is a great public speaker, about a concept called the windscreen wiper technique which uses the left side of the brain, then the right side of the brain when giving presentations.

A typical left-brained job is an IT specialist or an accountant dealing with numbers.  A typical right-brained job is a writer, artist, singer painter or someone who thinks outside the box.

An audience is usually 50/50 – half are left-brained and half are predominantly right-brained. When we use the wiper and the left brain, right brain technique, we help our audience understand the concepts we are talking about in a way they will understand.

An example of this is if you’re jumping on a Facebook Live, you have to ask yourself, how can you include in your presentation a combination of story and emotion, but back them up with logic, facts and statistics.

It’s important to build out the side that you don’t naturally fit into. If you’re more of a logical person who has spent 40 hours that week in logical, analytical tasks, then you might think about how you can add in emotion and visuals to your presentation.

Think about how you can use visuals, diagrams and how you can use your hands to create visual representations when you are presenting.

If you’re using PowerPoints, you definitely want to use diagrams, visuals, analogies that bring things to life through story and metaphors.

In this blog, I’m using the metaphor of the recipe of the cake throughout this presentation. So I’m going back and forth from the logical by giving you the steps in order, but also weaving in this story and an analogy and metaphor of a cake recipe.

5-  Break Down Advanced Concepts Into Frameworks & Simple Language

If you want to be successful when you present, you want to hone the ability to take really tough, complex, hard things, and teach them in a really simple way that people understand.

Helping your audience to understand your ideas using frameworks helps your content stick & be easier to understand and action. ? This takes crafting. 

I remember hearing a story where a guy asked someone to speak at their summit. He asked the guy how long would it take for him to prepare.

The guy replied, “Well,  that depends how long you want me to speak for. If you want me to speak for five minutes, then I’ll need probably a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for 10 minutes, I’ll only need a few days to prepare. If you want me to speak for half an hour, I probably will need a day to prepare.”

This goes against logic, right? We think the longer the presentation, the more time we need to prepare, but it’s actually the opposite. In order to condense information into smaller parts and make it really simple to understand, it takes more time.

It’s one of the hardest things to do. Anyone can just show up and regurgitate a whole lot of information. But to strip it down and teach it in simple concepts, takes time.

To do this you need to know your subject really well. An old mentor of mine spoke to me about using spots as a concept. She talked about the concept of sharing in spots, which is breaking down complex information into something that is more simple to understand.

An example of this is if you’re a health coach, and you wanted to do a  presentation on three ways to improve your sleep.  You wouldn’t just do the simple things that people know, like turn off your electronic gadgets half an hour before you sleep.

You would want to speak on something more complex, like understanding why your system is disrupted when there is electric magnetic fields in your bedroom. You want to inspire people to actually turn the electronics off before bed.

So it’s not a case of just telling people what to do. It’s actually taking some kind of complex piece of content and making it really simple to understand, that actually inspires someone to take action.

Whether you’re doing a Facebook Live, a webinar or workshop, or speaking on someone else’s podcast or group, remember the purpose of any presentation is to get people to take action.

If you’d like to learn how to create an event that inspires incredible action from your participants, I’d like to invite you to my upcoming FREE live workshop “How to Get Clients With Online Events” 

I’ll be revealing my step-by-step method to using events to educate, engage and inspire people to take action, so you can grow your business and help more people. 

You’ll learn how to: 

* Use FREE events to reach your financial goals & a lifestyle of freedom

* Grow your business by helping more people using my proven formula

* Build trust and connection fast, even if you struggle with nerves …

* Create engaging and profitable presentations

* Position yourself as an expert in your niche 

* Consistently sell out your programs 

You can learn more about the event or claim your complimentary ticket here

See you soon!

Kat

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The #1 Thing That Helps You To Consistently Attract Ideal Clients, In As Little As 1 Hour

Last week in my blog and video, I shared 3 things that prevent people from attracting clients on social media.

If you haven’t seen it yet, you can check it out here

Following on from that, this week I share the ONE main thing that exploded my business, which removes all 3 of these problems.

For the last 13 years I’ve been using this strategy, and it’s the one thing that helps me attract clients, be able to hold their attention and inspire them to take action.

To recap, here are the 3 things that prevent people from attracting clients on social media:

1 – Not Knowing How To Attract People

One of the main reasons people struggle to get clients is not knowing how to ATTRACT people.

Being able to attract people is crucial for growing your business consistently.

The brutal reality is that if you don’t effective attraction skills, you’re probably not going to stay in business very long.

The good news is, like any skill, the skill of being able to ATTRACT clients can be learned.

2 – Not Being Able To Hold People’s Attention

The second reason is not being able to hold their attention. They may get people to like a post, but they can’t hold the attention of people.

People move on fast if you don’t keep their attention. Attention is everything.

Social media is a great way to build connections and relationships, but it’s not a great place to keep people’s attention. It’s a noisy place with lots of distractions. 

There is so much information you need to share to build connection and trust, but most people have a low attention span.

3 – Not Being Able To Inspire People To Take Action

The third reason people struggle to get clients is that they’re not sure how to inspire someone to take action.

This is where a lot of people fall down relying on social media to get clients.

A lot of people think that if they put up content posts with tips on Facebook and Instagram that they will get clients.

But it doesn’t often work that way. You also need to be able to inspire people to take action.

This is why I recommend running events. It’s the best way to get and maintain someone’s attention.

Running Events – The Number 1 Thing That Attracts Ideal Clients Consistently

Running events is like purchasing a ticket to a concert. People turn up and give you their attention for a long period of time, and that’s not possible with social media.

The fastest way to hold someone’s attention for the amount of time needed to build trust and rapport is by running an event.

It could be a free event like a webinar or workshop, online or in person. There’s no way to hold someone’s attention for long on social media or even by reading your blog that compares with running an event.

This is why big companies do live presentations. Like Steve Jobs did with the iPhone. Apple have billions of dollars and they could have marketed in other ways, but they chose to present their new product at a live event.

Learning to present so you can run events is directly related to how successful you’ll be in your business.

Presenting is a learned skill. If you’re not willing to learn the skill, you’ll most likely struggle to stay in business for long.

The problem is a lot of people are scared to learn it because of fear. Fear of rejection, fear of failure, fear of people not showing up,  the fear of looking stupid, not having enough content and not being good enough.

For many years, I’ve encouraged people to run events and I sometime get resistance because of these fears.

If you were with me 14 years ago, you would have found yourself in a studio in a Les Mills gym in New Zealand where I was running a small seminar.

I was training for a bodybuilding competition at the time and learning a whole lot about muscle gain, supplements and protein.

So I went to my gym manager and asked if I can run an event and if she would help me market it.

I was so nervous and scared. I didn’t really know what I was doing. I didn’t know that I needed to structure the event,  how market it correctly, I didn’t really know anything!

I think back about it now and it wasn’t great… but this event positioned me as being different in the gym, because the other personal trainers weren’t doing it.

When you position yourself as a person that’s willing to overcome the fear of presenting, you put yourself ahead of others.

At the moment you don’t have to book a venue or organise food or any of that because we have this awesome technology like Zoom that you can use to run online events.

Running events is so much more powerful than doing Facebook Live videos

On a Facebook Live, there’s no buying behaviour happening. It’s entertaining and educational, but people aren’t looking to buy. There’s different psychology when people register for an event.

You don’t have to be a polished presenter. You can start with a 60-minute webinar – they are very doable. I started from scratch and learned from making mistakes and using trial and error…

When I came to Sydney, I started running little monthly meetup groups in my local library. About 20 people would show up every month. Some of them would go on to become clients and some of them would just keep coming month-to-month and they enjoyed the community.

Events have been the #1 thing that has helped me get booked solid with ideal clients.

One day I was sitting in an event listening to Benjamin J Harvey speak. I remember realising that my events were educating people, but I didn’t have a proper structure or formula. I was just downloading content to people.

I didn’t know how to use frames, the right content, language, or how to effectively influence people and keep their attention.

So I invested in a presenting course because I recognised the importance of it. Presenting is a skill that I want to develop for the rest of my life.

If you want to increase your positioning and your credibility as the authority in your sphere of influence, presenting and holding events is the way to do it. All of your presentations become valuable assets that you can use later.

Presenting is something that will differentiate you from your competition. It will allow you to build massive trust with people and it will help you hold people’s attention and build engagement.

I’ve done over 200 events now. If you saw my very first seminar back in that gym studio all those years ago, you would have seen that I wasn’t confident, I was worried, I had so much fear, I was insecure…

… but I’m so grateful to my past self for giving it a crack.

I’m so blessed that I’ve now had teachers that have taught me how to do it properly.

It gives me a lot of security and certainty to know that whenever I need to get clients, I know that I’ve developed the skill of being able to speak and present and this will always bring me clients.

That’s what I would love to help you with.

Since my wobbly ‘give it a crack’ start at the gym, I’ve been blessed to build a six-figure coaching business, working from home, mainly because of the power of running events.

This is why I decided to run an event where I teach you how to do it.

I’m packing the best of my learnings into one day, and I’ve decided to offer it completely free.

I’m going to be sharing my 7 pillars to profit from presenting, I’ll take you behind the scenes so you learn how to create and deliver really effective presentations, show you how to structure them, leverage your online events, facilitate great connections with people and ultimately, know exactly how to get new, ideal clients.

You can grab your free ticket here

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Kat

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