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Our Story – Chapter 3: The Worst Day of Our Lives Oct 24, 2017

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[Tweet ""Don't let other people dictate what's possible." - Shane"] Super excited to be back with you again this week, as Jocelyn and I continue our story of what brought us to this whirlwind ride that led to where we are today. Last week, we talked about how our careers started and how we have gotten engaged. If you had a blast last week, we're going to take you on a roller coaster ride of emotions this week! This Chapter's Highlights Our wedding Our career pivots The worst day of our lives -- the catalyst that pushed us closer to a more non-conventional way of living. We've been time-pressed young professionals, then time-pressed married, young professionals, and then time-pressed, working parents… we've been there and done that. We know what it's like and it ain't pretty. So, we hope that our story will inspire you, show you what is possible, and how you can do it too. [Tweet ""Whatever you decide to do is what will happen in your life." - Shane"] [Tweet ""Do what is best for your life, you can't worry what everybody else thinks." - Shane"] [Tweet ""Making the right choice involves making some hard choices." - Jocelyn"] If you enjoyed this week's chapter, let us know in the comments or better yet, leave us an iTunes review. We will continue our story again next week! Here are the links to S&J's Our Story podcast series Our Story – Prologue: A Couple of Kids from Kentucky Our Story – Chapter 1: Love at First Sight Our story – Chapter 2: Welcome to the real world (maybe we should get married?) Our story – Chapter 3: The worst day of our lives Our Story – Chapter 4: How a lawnmower and 11 cents changed our lives forever Our Story – Chapter 5: The Promise Land You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. See y'all next week! Can't listen right now? Read the transcript below! Shane: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family who figured out how to make our entire living online. And now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? Alright. Let's get started. What's up, guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. Super excited to be back with you again today as Jocelyn and I continue our story about our entrepreneurial journey so that we can inspire you and show you what is possible, kind of what happened to us, this whirlwind ride that led to where we are today with the Flipped Lifestyle as compared to our old 9-to-5 jobs. In our last episode, we talked about how we got married, how we ended up finally getting married, then we got engaged. It was a really, really whirlwind process because I was coaching football. I just got a job at West Virginia as a graduate assistant. Jocelyn was living in Lexington, Kentucky. I was moving to Morgantown, and I basically called Jocelyn one day and we had a nice logical discussion about if we should get married or not. Jocelyn: Of course we did. Shane: Of course we did. Jocelyn: Because that's how I roll. Shane: I like to tell Jocelyn I was on one knee on the other end of the phone, she just couldn't see it at the time. Jocelyn: Yeah right. Shane: That is totally not true. We were just seriously having a good conversation. We decided that it would be a good idea that we should get married on July 3. What year did we get married? Jocelyn: 2004. Shane: 2004. Okay, that was a total man thing. Not even remembering the year. I do remember the date.

Our Story – Chapter 2: The Real World Oct 17, 2017

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Last week, we had a blast sharing our college days with y'all. We're now moving on to the next chapter of our story, what happened after we moved out of our dorms, graduated from college and suddenly catapulted to what we thought was the vast, fun and glorious real world. Our epic adventure starts with us moving to my hometown, where we took off our part-time adult training wheels, and went in to do some serious, "real world" adulting. You'd think that after getting our college degree we'd be all cozy and comfy, but we were in for a really big surprise. The real world wasn't what we expected it to be, jobs were hard to come by especially since we lived in a very small and rural area. Come to think of it, there were lots of times where we had to really reflect on our next move because there were crossroads everywhere. As a young adult, the corporate environment can be a pretty scary thing to conquer. Zero experience, zero assurance, and with no idea of what's going to happen next. This Chapter's highlights how we forged our career paths how we started figuring out what we wanted to do for ourselves how we supported each other to get to that next level Here's where you'll see most of our early entrepreneurial tendencies kicking in. From Jocelyn's setting of expectations, to Shane's just-do-something-and-see-what-happens, everything that happened then was preparing us to become the people we are today. If you've ever been a struggling 20-something years old, this is going to bring back so many feels. Tune in this week and keep tuning in, who knows? You just might connect the dots in your life and realize you too have the puzzle pieces you need to succeed online. [Tweet ""I started thinking how could I have fun and make money." - Shane"] [Tweet ""Worst-case scenario is they'd say 'no' & I'd have to do something else." - Shane"] [Tweet ""We've learned to turn our backs on negativity." - Jocelyn"] Bonus Trivia: Jocelyn didn't love her MBA classes, and is officially an MBA dropout. When I actually moved from Daphne (AL), Jocelyn and my dad went and rented a big van. This is how I knew that Jocelyn loved me, by the way, for sure. Even being apart, being stupid, and being immature, Jocelyn got in the truck with my dad and drove 13 hours to help me pack and move back home. How to propose to a Jocelyn: "Basically, if we don't get married now, I don't know if we'll ever have a chance to do it." / "Are you free on the 3rd?" Jocelyn's engagement ring had her birthstone on it, instead of a diamond. If you enjoyed this week's chapter, let us know in the comments or better yet, leave us an iTunes review. We will continue our story again next week! Here are the links to S&J's Our Story podcast series Our Story – Prologue: A Couple of Kids from Kentucky Our Story – Chapter 1: Love at First Sight Our story – Chapter 2: Welcome to the real world (maybe we should get married?) Our story – Chapter 3: The worst day of our lives Our Story – Chapter 4: How a lawnmower and 11 cents changed our lives forever Our Story – Chapter 5: The Promise Land You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. See y'all next week! Can't listen right now? Read the transcript below! Shane: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family who figured out how to make our entire living online. And now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? Alright.

Our Story – Chapter 1: Love at First Sight Oct 10, 2017

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We're so excited to share this week's Our Story series with y'all! Last week, we let you in about our early life, where we came from, what it was like before Jocelyn and I knew each other. This week's chapter is actually about how we met in college at the University of Kentucky. The first time I ever got to talk to Jocelyn was when I was convinced that she was the woman I was going to marry. Chapter highlights How I won Jocelyn's love and attention How I tricked Jocelyn into being my girlfriend. Brace yourselves, things are going to get cheesy and then hilarious… really, really fast. [Tweet ""Don't live a "good enough" life, you don't have to live life planning for the worst case scenario.""] [Tweet ""Choose a mentality of abundance, success, drive -- strive for something more.""] [Tweet ""There is unlimited potential in all of us.""] BONUS TRIVIA: Gravity: How Shane got Jocelyn's attention... more or less. Jocelyn was born on March 27th, and I (Shane) was born on March 28th. When I told Jocelyn this, she was understandably skeptical. We both dreamed of going to the University of Kentucky, both drove a Buick, and had eventually moved to the "Wellness Dorm." Talk about fate! If you enjoyed this week's chapter, let us know in the comments or better yet, leave us an iTunes review. Next week, we'll talk about our first careers, when we really started pursuing our dreams and I'm going to share the story of my romantic storybook proposal to Jocelyn and how I convinced her to be my bride. Here are the links to S&J's Our Story podcast series Our Story – Prologue: A Couple of Kids from Kentucky Our Story – Chapter 1: Love at First Sight Our story – Chapter 2: Welcome to the real world (maybe we should get married?) Our story – Chapter 3: The worst day of our lives Our Story – Chapter 4: How a lawnmower and 11 cents changed our lives forever Our Story – Chapter 5: The Promise Land You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. See y'all next week! Can't listen right now? Read the transcript below! Shane: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family who figured out how to make our entire living online. And now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? Alright. Let's get started. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. Great to be back with you again today. This is going to be a solo show with just me and Jocelyn. We are not going to have a guest on the program today. As we continue to tell you a little bit more about our story, about how two normal people from Kentucky were able to start an online business with no money, no time, while working full-time, raising kids, and basically, how maybe you can do it, too. That is what we are doing today, we are talking about the next chapter in our story. Last week, we told you a little bit about our early life about where we came from, where we grew up, before Jocelyn and I knew each other. The next chapter in our story is actually about how we met in college at the University of Kentucky. Jocelyn: Alright, in our last episode, we were talking about how young I was when I went to college. At the time, I thought I was all grown up and independent but looking back now, I realized how incredibly young and naïve I really was. Shane: You technically were not even legally of age. You are not even 18 years old when you moved away from home.

Our Story – Prologue: A Couple of Kids from Kentucky Oct 03, 2017

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What is going on, everybody? We are super excited to start our special podcast series where we'll be giving y'all the juicy details of who we are, where we started, what and how it happened. An author is writing a book about our story and part of that process is recording our story on audio for her to listen to in an interview style format. So, Jocelyn and I were sitting here recording, and thought how this would be a great opportunity to fill in the gaps for everyone listening to our podcast. We want to share our story with you, how two normal people from really, really small rural communities in Kentucky went through life, learned about online business, and ended up creating this amazing life that we didn't even know existed a few years ago, and just let you guys in on that. Highlights of this Prologue Family background childhood memories fun high school days Walk this journey with us, listen to our story, let it inspire you, and know that you can do this too. BONUS TRIVIA: Jocelyn is obsessed with computers, and she started with this early 90s computer with 4 MB of RAM & a 256 MB hard drive. Here's an example image and what a 2,400 baud modem looks like. This is waaaaaay before Facebook y'all! Although we're saving the college days story for next week, here's a picture of what "Ethel" looked like. Here are the links to S&J's Our Story podcast series Our Story – Prologue: A Couple of Kids from Kentucky Our Story – Chapter 1: Love at First Sight Our story – Chapter 2: Welcome to the real world (maybe we should get married?) Our story – Chapter 3: The worst day of our lives Our Story – Chapter 4: How a lawnmower and 11 cents changed our lives forever Our Story – Chapter 5: The Promise Land You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. See y'all next week! Can't listen right now? Read the transcript below! Shane: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family who figured out how to make our entire living online. And now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? Alright. Let's get started. What is going on, everybody? This is Shane and Jocelyn here, flippedlifestyle.com, super excited to be back with you for another podcast today. This one's going to be a little different than our normal podcast where we're helping our people take their online business to the next level, members of our Flip Your Life community. Jocelyn and I actually are having a book written about us. An author is writing a book about our story and a part of that process is we are recording our story on audio for her to listen to, to go through, kind of like in an interview style format. Jocelyn and I were sitting here recording, and we thought, man, what a great opportunity to fill in the gaps and a lot of you listen to our podcast for online business advice and things like that. But what a great opportunity to share our story with you, how, basically, two normal people from really, really small rural communities in Kentucky over a period of time-- we went through our careers, we learned about online business, and we ended up creating this amazing life that we didn't even know existed a few years ago, and maybe just let you guys in on that, and let you walk that journey with us, listen to it, and listen to our story, let it inspire you, and let you know that you can do this, too. Jocelyn: Today, we are starting out with our early life.

4th Quit-iversary Special: How we flipped our lives & how you CAN too! Sep 26, 2017

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5 years ago, we were both working as school teachers, barely getting by and living on someone else's schedule. We were time-pressed parents with no control over our lives. Our greatest journey started with a thought, "We want total control of our lives." That thought led to questions like, "How can we achieve that?" which led us to take action, and THOSE actions later led to our success. It started with creating and selling lesson plans online, which now has evolved to an even bigger calling. It's been 4 years since we left our nine-to-five jobs. We're full-time online entrepreneurs serving our online community, all while having the freedom to spend more time with our kids and each other. Our lives have changed for the better because: We figured out our WHY. We opened our minds to the possibilities. We took action AND because we did whatever it took to flip our life. So, to commemorate our 4th quit-iversary, here are 3 of the most important lessons we learned that enabled us to quit our jobs: Mindset Shift #1: Real people can do this! Yes, this means YOU! :-) You might think that you're not enough, or that you don't have what it takes, that you need a PHD to come up with a brilliant idea or need decades of experience to succeed online… THAT IS NOT TRUE. There were other people like us online and they made it work, so why can't we? I was a 0-10 head coach at one time, and built an online business that sold football playbooks. Jocelyn was a librarian for just 3 years when she sold lesson plans on her website. Don't let the world dictate what you can and cannot do. Folks working nine-to-five jobs can make money online. Parents can make money online. Retired, empty-nesters can make money online. We believed and took action, that is why we made it. You are more than capable to succeed too! Mindset Shift #2: Making money is easier than you think When you're working for someone else, hard work doesn't always guarantee your family's financial security. When you trade in your time for that paycheck, that is time away from your spouse, your kids, and things you're really passionate about. Which brings us to mindset shift #2, making money is easier than you think! There is ALWAYS a way to make money online. Because: Solving problems = Money Bigger problems solved = More money The only one stopping you from making money online is, well, YOU. #YouCanDoIt Mindset Shift #3: We all HAVE the time 60 seconds in a minute. 60 minutes in an hour. 24 hours in a day. 168 hours a week! We all have the same set of time and it's really up to us HOW we spend it. Prioritize what's important. What are your non-negotiables? To make it online, you have to be ready to make sacrifices. That means, cutting down on watching TV and even saying no to night out with friends. The time you invest on building your online business today, can spell your success in the future, so you need to decide what stays and what needs to change. Take control of your time, don't let it control you. We hope you had as much fun learning with us as we have while recording this episode for y'all :-) Don't forget to watch out for the Flipped Lifestyle's "Our Story" Series, see you next week! You can connect with S&J on social media too! Links and resources mentioned in today's show: Flip Your Life Community Jeanette Stein Brad Barrett Evan Burse Pat Flynn Rebecca & Dan Dekker Jeff Twiddy FL 168 Grid - Time Management Guide.pdf Elementary Librarian US History Teachers Thank you again for listening! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. :-) Transcript will be uploaded soon~

FL 161 – We help Layne and Sondra drive more traffic to their website Sep 19, 2017

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Need help driving more traffic to your website? We have Layne and Sondra Johnson on the show today, and getting more traffic to their website is one of the things we will learn in this episode. We'll be sharing insights on how they can take their fine art business to the next level! Sondra and Layne are a power couple, who's been working expanding their business both offline and online. Layne the first part of his career as a freelance illustrator, then 15 years as a children's book artist with over 20+ published books. Last year, he has officially switched to fine art and started creating a whole new body of work. He is primarily responsible for creating the content and the products. Sondra, on the other hand, has a full-time corporate job with a company she's served for 20 years. She was the one who laid out the foundations for their site, managing and learning how to handle the marketing and sales of fine art online. With the fine art business evolving like many other industries, the Johnsons are now looking into effective online marketing campaigns to grow their audience, but with so many platform options, how do you know which one is the right one? Join us as we discuss options of how artists can make money online, finding their effective social media platform and opt ins to get more people interested in the product. Are you a struggling artist hoping to get the right people to find your creations? Tune in and this just might help you take your idea to the next level. [Tweet ""You won't make money until you go out there and make something." - Shane"] [Tweet ""If you can make 1, you can make 101 or 1,001!" - Shane"] You Will Learn: How artists can sell online Driving more traffic to your website How to build and grow your mailing list Maximizing content type and platforms Plus so much more! [Tweet ""Don't do everything at once, work through a process." - Jocelyn"] [Tweet ""Everything is a trend, be prepared for the change." - Shane"] [Tweet ""Connect people who find interest in what you do." - Jocelyn"] Links and resources mentioned in today's show: Layne & Sondra's Website Evan Burse - the Cartoon Block Flip Your Life community Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family! Click here to leave us an iTunes review and subscribe to the show! We may read yours on the air! Success Story: Today's success story comes from Paul. Paul is a fellow Kentuckian with me and Jocelyn, so we love Paul. And Paul writes in our success forums inside the Flip Your Life community, "12 Members to 20." Paul says, "This is starting to look like something. Since the beginning of this summer, I've gone from 12 members to 20. At 12 I felt like maybe I was making a mistake." "It's funny. It's feeling like a legit side business. At 50, I think I will be able to concentrate on it exclusively. Last fall, I was making pizza money. Now, I'm almost paying for my health insurance. Next stop, rent. Then, it really starts to get interesting." We would love to help you write the success story for your online business. At the end of today's show, head over to flippedlifestyle.com/flipyourlife where you can learn more about building and growing a successful online business with the help of our Flip Your Life community. Can't Miss Moment: Our Can't Miss Moment for this week is a Wednesday afternoon walk with the kids and the dogs. The other day, it was a Wednesday, it was around 11 o'clock and I was kind of getting burned out, and I was trying to figure some stuff out, the kids were here. I was like, "You know what? I'm not going to work the rest of the day." I just shut everything down, got the kids, got the dogs, threw them in the truck -- I didn't throw them in the truck, like the back of the pickup for anything. I actually got in the truck. We drove up to this little hunting club that we are a mem...

FL 160 – We help Nicola brainstorm and figure out her next level steps to grow her autobiography business online Sep 12, 2017

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We're so excited to have one of our Aussie Flip Your Life friends on the show today! Ready for this week's exhilarating mind mapping session, we have FYL community member and journalist-autobiographer, Nicola Davison. Nicola is a wife, and mom with two kids from Queensland, Australia. She has been a journalist for over 15 years and She has worked for daily and community newspapers in New South Wales and Queensland, as well as in the United Kingdom. She has interviewed thousands of people throughout her career and believes that everyone has their own story to tell, with years full of many interesting and inspiring lessons, it would be a waste to miss the chance to share it with loved ones. Her online business, Forever Young Autobiographies, focuses on helping folks write their life story, get it self-published and preserve their key memories to pass on to the next generation. With her avatar identified, Nicola will be needing our help to develop her next offer. Would it be an opt-in, an introductory offer or can it be MUCH BIGGER than that? Join us as we get our thinking caps on and polish Nicola's gem of an idea. We'll be diving in on the importance of getting standard procedures in place, creating irresistible challenges and experience how we help take our members from mind mapping a product to their sales game. Let's have some Flipped Lifestyle fun and take this online business to the next level! [Tweet ""Create something that can passively accomplish tasks for you." - Shane"] [Tweet ""You have more opportunity then you are really thinking about." - Jocelyn"] You will learn: The anatomy of an introductory offer-based challenge Why it's important to have standard procedures in place What its like when we do a "product" brainstorming session Plus so much more! [Tweet ""If people want to take it a step further, give them that opportunity." - Jocelyn"] [Tweet ""It takes a lot of hard work & perseverance to really reach your goals." - Shane"] Links and resources mentioned in today's show: Nicola's Website Flip Your Life community Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family! Click here to leave us an iTunes review and subscribe to the show! We may read yours on the air! Success Story: Today's success story comes from Kathy, and Kathy writes, "Holy cannoli," -- she is really doing in her subject line right, 'Holy cannoli!' with two exclamation points -- "I've hit double digits!! " Kathy says, "I spent my entire summer vacation just grinding and working away at my business. I head back to school on Monday and I am so pumped and excited to show that I have officially hit double digits with my members. I have 10 real life people who are paying me money, and using my stuff. What the heck?! I actually had had 12 members, but to members left which was totally okay. I'm learning to navigate the highs and lows of people leaving, but all is good. Thank you for everyone's help here especially Shane, Jocelyn, Kitty, and Kat." "Your encouragement on all my posts, especially my action plans really help to continue to push me onto the next 10. Mega high-fives all around." Something I love about Kathy is that she shows up. She just said that she goes and posts in the action plans. I see her all the time on our live member calls twice a month. She asks good, insightful questions, she comes in, she signs up for her podcast, if you are one of our members you get a podcast once every six months. She signs up every time. She takes action on what we tell her to do. I love working with people like Kathy. Great job! We would love to help you write the success story for your online business. At the end of today's show, head over to flippedlifestyle.com/flipyourlife where you can learn more about building and growing a successful online business with the help of our Flip Your Life community. Can't Miss Moment:

FL 159 – We help Elizabeth pivot her online business by analyzing different monetization strategies Sep 04, 2017

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Need ideas on monetization strategies? Listen in as we talk to today's guest about analyzing different monetization strategies for her online business. On air with us today is a returning guest and Caregiver Advocate, Elizabeth Miller. Elizabeth helps overwhelmed & stressed family caregivers find time for themselves and the things they love. She initially launched as Savvy Sandwicher in Feb 2015 on SquareSpace, then joined the Flip Your Life community in October and participated in our mastermind, which led her to do a re-brand early 2016. Her website, Happy Healthy Caregiver, is where she launched her products and her support community for caregivers craving work-life balance. She has tons of content, offers, and some members. Elizabeth has already earned some money, but is looking into monetizing the brand even more and be able to work on her online business full-time. With a network and speaking engagements lush with prospects, we analyze which route would lead to a more stable, recurring income. We've seen Elizabeth take action before and it's brought her some success, now join us as we help her take even more action to get her online business to the next level. [Tweet ""Your job is to get the content into their hands." - Shane"] [Tweet ""Continue bringing value into their lives." - Jocelyn"] You Will Learn: Repurposing and repackaging old content What is a long-term nurture sequence Jocelyn's long-term nurture email sequence strategy Automation & curation Institutional products & the workshop environment Plus so much more! [Tweet ""It doesn't always happen overnight no matter how hard you work." - Shane"] [Tweet ""Great service brings in more customers." - Jocelyn"] Links and resources mentioned in today's show: Elizabeth's Website FL 90 - Elizabeth's First FL Interview Women's Day with Elizabeth Grant Baldwin's Website Designrr Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family! Click here to leave us an iTunes review and subscribe to the show! We may read yours on the air! Success Story of the Week: This week's success story from our Success Story Forum in the Flip Your Life community, is from Rachel, and Rachel's subject line reads, "414 Email Subscribers in Just Three Weeks," and we've got a smiley face emoticon. Rachel says, "In the last three weeks, I have done two webinars. The first webinar, I grew my email list from 0 to 232. I just finished my second webinar, and I now have 414 email subscribers. I'm not in any paying ads, just sharing things on Facebook groups. This is very encouraging. I think I will keep doing webinars." And you know, this is something we teach in our Flip Your Life membership in the Flip Your Life blueprint is how to get emails, how to go out and find subscribers, how to find your perfect customer, and put yourself out there to do it. A lot of times, people have all the puzzle pieces, and they're just not taking action. We just want to congratulate Rachel today. She took action, that is why she went from zero email subscribers to 414 email subscribers in just three weeks. If you are having trouble growing your list, if you are not quite getting the following that you would want to do, maybe you need to do some webinars, maybe need to take action like Rachel, or maybe you need to jump in the community with Rachel, and learn how you can do it, too. We would love to help you write the success story for your online business. At the end of today's show, head over to flippedlifestyle.com/flipyourlife where you can learn more about building and growing a successful online business with the help of our Flip Your Life community. Can't Miss Moment: Today's Can't Miss Moment is our children's first day of school. Isaac was going to a new school, he was super nervous, and we were able to be there for him.

FL 158 – We help Paul optimize his social media following to grow his online membership community Aug 29, 2017

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The power of social media is at its peak now more than ever. As online entrepreneurs, we must learn how it works and how we can take advantage of it. Listen in on this episode to learn how to use social media platforms to grow your online membership community. We have another fantastic guest on the show today who's serving his community in a truly meaningful way. Flipping his life and online business to the next level is FYL community member & Church Tech Specialist, Paul Clifford. Paul has been married to his wife, Christina, for 18 years. They have two kids: Trinity and Ellie. He has been called to serve since his teenage years, but was unsure how to fulfill this purpose until he became Church Technician. He is an expert in a church presentation software -- ProPresenter, and has created several courses on it. Being a church tech is quite a lonely vocation, but Paul was dedicated to creating a platform by which he can help others like himself to provide high quality church presentations in order to improve the service experience. He started his online venture in February 2011 and has significantly grown his online presence and credibility. He has also created books and multiple courses that would lead his audience towards his online membership. Paul has already gotten his first 12 members. The questions now is, how do we ramp it up to 100? Join us as we help Paul understand the push and pull behind social media platforms, how to use that to his advantage and win the sales-numbers game. The conversation is fun and easy to digest, if you're looking into taking your online business to the next level without all the crazy jargon, we got you covered -- so don't miss this! [Tweet ""It's just crazy what happens when you really put yourself out there." - Shane"] [Tweet ""Don't be so concerned about losing control as long as you're following the guidelines." - Jocelyn"] You Will Learn: Facebook groups VS Forums Finding a way for your avatar to talk conveniently Sales as a numbers game How to drive in more traffic using Google Ads Google-Facebook strategy Plus so much more! [Tweet ""Use your talents to do what you're supposed to do to serve." - Shane"] [Tweet ""What if you had only one other person that could say that you changed their life, would it be worth it?" - Jocelyn"] Links and resources mentioned in today's show: Paul's Website Flipped Lifestyle's Mobile App Elementary Librarian US History Teachers Learn Scrivener Fast Flip Your Life community Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family! Click here to leave us an iTunes review and subscribe to the show! We may read yours on the air! Success Story of the Week: Today's success story comes from Lea, and it is an awesome success story because we get so wrapped up as entrepreneurs in the money and in growing our memberships, and growing our businesses that we forget that our online business is changing people lives, are changing the world and that is what this one is about. The subject for this success story is, "Making an impact." Lea posted: "It's not often that we hear how we are impacting lives through the content and teachings we offer. I just had the best conversation with one of my followers. She told me that my recent blog post, 'Seven ways parents can help teens find their passion,' helped her reconnect with her daughter in a spectacularly meaningful way. She downloaded the lead magnet, and use the questions there as conversation starters to help her kid figure out what she really cared about. It brought to light a lot of the things mom didn't know about her teenager, and helped the daughter really feel better about her own path. The best part: the mom cried when she told me that it brought her closer to her teen. Their relationship has been strained for years, and this left them both feeling great.

FL 157 – We help Cynthia shift from one-off sales to upselling her online ASL resource membership Aug 22, 2017

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Our guest this week is a real inspiration! We're super excited to help Flip Your Life community member & ASL Resource Developer, Cynthia Long. Cynthia has been married 32 years, a mother of 3 AND grandmother of 3. Her passion in learning ASL began when her son had met a deaf boy in his study group. He said, "Mom, no one is talking to him." It's how they decided to learn sign language and she became hooked. She loved signing so much that she eventually got a degree in ASL. Because her passion was so strong, she took her board exam fresh off her first year. She was the first in her college to become Nationally Certified and later was the first to be Certified in the school district. After 8 years of interpreting in the school system, she noticed that there were no resources for deaf and hearing impaired kids. This led her to create Sign Baby Sign that was initially meant to teach babies ASL, and has now evolved to supplementing school systems with ASL resource. Their website is now ASLteachingresources.com and continues to expand its content. Cynthia's website is loaded with content and has generated income mostly from one-off sales. She is looking into turning her online business to lean towards a more sustainable and recurring feature. This brings us to her guest question, "How do I set up my membership site for my niche?" Join us as we help Cynthia pivot from one-off sales to the more passive income generating membership model. Are you interested on what the membership model can do for you and your business? Do you want to learn about its advantages and the strategies we use to implement it? Then get your thinking cap on and tune in, this episode just might take you to that next level you've been wanting to reach! [Tweet ""When you're stuck & things aren't working out, it's important to learn from it, step back and evolve." - Jocelyn"] [Tweet ""It's amazing how just one idea can really explode into such an awesome thing." - Jocelyn"] You Will Learn: The advantage of upsells and what it can do for your sales Maximizing your customer's lifetime value How to offer your upsells Purchase orders VS Credit cards Where does your niche / community like to talk Understanding your avatar calendar Plus so much more! [Tweet ""One of the goals in business is to create a forever customer." - Shane"] [Tweet ""Knowing your calendar is critical to making launches and really good sales." - Shane"] Links and resources mentioned in today's show: Cynthia's Website Cynthia's iTunes Podcast US History Teachers Elementary Librarian FL Kids on YouTube FL Kids on Facebook Flip Your Life community Flipped Lifestyle's Patreon page Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family! Click here to leave us an iTunes review and subscribe to the show! We may read yours on the air! Success Story of the Week: This week's success story comes from Sabrina, and Sabrina writes, "I just received my first payment from online retailers." The post says, "I just received my first payment from print on demand estimators of my book. I don't know which distributors they were. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Chapters Indigo, etc., but I sold 10 books." And there is a cool follow-up to this story. Sabrina actually just went to a conference. She sold a hundred more books. So she is really doing a great job promoting her content. A lot of people think it is just memberships, or it's just online business. But there are so many people doing so many different things in the Flip Your Life community, whether it is selling on Amazon, maybe it is reselling on eBay, or eight maybe even writing books and selling them in marketplaces like Amazon. There are some new ways to make money online, and Sabrina is just rocking it with the path that she chose. Good job! We would love to help you write the success story for your online business.

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