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FL 77 – Turning Your Offline Services Into a Successful Online Business Feb 09, 2016

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Today's guest is Flip Your Life member, Pete. Pete has been a teacher and tutor for over 10 years. Currently, he is an expert at helping students raise their ACT/SAT test scores through personalized one on one coaching. Today we are helping Pete learn how to scale this knowledge and expertise by reaching more students online. We walk through why it is important to teach consumers online just like you would in person. We'll also cover how much Pete should be charging online for his test prep content and the strategies to find out what his target audience will be willing to pay. [Tweet "Just because your business is online, doesn't mean it's different than the real world"] You will learn Ways to Structure Your Online Content Importance of having systems Use your market's feedback How to narrow down your target audience. Strategies to Determine Your Price Point Test Your Content Delivery on Free Platforms ie YouTube [Tweet "If you are trying to focus on everyone, you're targeting no one"] Links and resources mentioned in today's show Flip Your Life Community Pete's Website 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! Can't Miss Moments Each week Jocelyn and I share moments that we might have missed if we had not started our online business. We hope these moments inspire you to see the possibilities and freedom online business could provide for your family. Being able to stay home with our kids on snow days and help them work on their snow packets! Without having to worry about taking any time off of work and/or miss out on being there for our kids to help them work through their assignments. You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thank you for listening! 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! JOCELYN: Hey y'all! On today's podcast, we help Pete take his test-prep business to the next level. Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us, each week, as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside-down, by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right, let's get started. SHANE: What's going on guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, great to be back with you again this week. Super excited, we've got another Flip Your Life community member on today for a consulting call. We are going to go through three questions that they have about their online business and we are going to help them personally take it to the next level. Our guest today is a very active member of the Flip Your Life forums, it is Pete Stajk. Pete, welcome to the show. PETE: Hey guys, how are you? SHANE: And is it 'Stayjeck' or 'Stayjack'? I always mispronounce your name. PETE: Stajk, that's fine. SHANE: Stayjack, Stayjeck, whatever; in Kentucky we say 'Stayjack.' Pete Stajk is on the show today, he's got a really interesting business where he helps people with test-prep and we are going to tell you a little bit about that here in a few seconds and we are really excited to have Pete on the show today. JOCELYN: All right, Pete, so tell us a little bit about you, what you do online and anything else you'd like our listeners know about you. PETE: Sure, thanks Jocelyn. So, I've been basically a teacher and a tutor for nearly 10 years now. I was a high school English teacher for five years until I really wanted to get into busin...

FL 76 – Helping Marianna launch her membership site for bilingual parents Feb 02, 2016

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Marianna moved from Venezuela at 13 with her family eager to learn English. Unfortunately, the school district they moved into didn't have a great ESOL program, so she spent most of 6th, 7th and 8th grade watching movies and being taught in Spanish instead of learning English. Fortunately, she had great teachers in High School. This made her excel even pursue other languages in her college career. Instead of pursuing her intended path to take law, she went on to teach English and instill the things she would have wanted for herself as a young English learner to her students. Now, she helps other parents raise bilingual and bicultural kids through her business bilingualavenue.com. We talk through some of the struggles of a new membership community -- about not focusing on getting in as many people as possible immediately, but on getting the RIGHT people into the membership. [Tweet "Scarcity is the best way to get people to buy on a webinar"] After spending a lot of time giving away free content there is a point in time that you will need to spend money to get in front of new people with paid advertising. We talk through if this transition is right for Marianna. You will learn What to do when starting a membership community Remember Memberships Grow over the Long Term Ways to Retarget People Great Webinar Strategy Focus on one thing when having a webinar What a webinar Bonus is really there for Difference Between 'stick' & 'scarcity' Strategy to Promote already created content Batching your content together [Tweet "Focus on getting QUALITY emails, not just on the quantity of emails. Quality emails convert."] Links and resources mentioned in today's show The Flip Your Life Community Bilingual Avenue.com Bilingual Avenue Podcast 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! Can't Miss Moments Each week Jocelyn and I share moments that we might have missed if we had not started our online business. We hope these moments inspire you to see the possibilities and freedom online business could provide for your family. Going to church on Sundays, we volunteer in the nursery and help lead worship for the kids. When we were coaching and teaching we had to miss a lot of Sundays. We have the freedom to do really whatever we want any day of the week. You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thank you for listening! 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! JOCELYN: Hey y'all! On today's podcast, we're going to help Marianna take her bilingual membership site to the next level. Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us, each week, as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside-down, by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right, let's get started. SHANE: What's going on guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, great to be back with you again this week. We have another member of our Flip Your Life community coming on the show today and we are going to be helping them on a consulting call to take their business to the next level. Our guest today is Marianna Du Bosq of Bilingualavenue.com. Marianna, welcome to the show. MARIANNA: Thank you, I'm thrilled to be here. JOCELYN: Yeah, it's really exciting to have you here, we love talking to our members and helping you guys really delve into your busines...

FL 75 – Helping Ashley make more sales in her ghostwriting business Jan 26, 2016

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Today we're sitting down with freelance writer Ashley, to help her build her business while increasing her hourly rate. Ashley has been a freelance writer since 2007 until 2014 when she started ghostwriting. She does all of the research and writing for articles and posts it on clients websites and blogs. We answer her questions on how to get paid more for her work, create consistent recurring income, and how to always be asking how is my marketing content making a sale for me. [Tweet "You have to charge what you are worth. Stop undervaluing YOU"] Create more time for yourself by creating a system and process to eliminate the clients that aren't serious about hiring you. You will learn Where to find clients that are willing to pay for your expertise Guarantee Your Income by Offering Recurring Packages The importance of charging more for a one off offer Use Your Customer's Feedback to market to new clients Create a Plan to raise all of your rates to existing and new customers Keep Your Current Clients Happy by offering an extra bonus to your service. Set Boundaries with Prospective Clients Be Clear on Your Sales Page Convince People they Need to Hire a Ghostwriter through your Sales Page Content [Tweet "Don't give away your time. If you meet with people, charge them for their time."] Links and resources mentioned in today's show Flip Your Life 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! Can't Miss Moments Each week Jocelyn and I share moments that we might have missed if we had not started our online business. We hope these moments inspire you to see the possibilities and freedom online business could provide for your family. We were able to go down to the surgery of one of our family members down in Nashville, took the kids to a science museum, swim at the hotel, spent time with the family member after their surgery was finished. You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thank you for listening! 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! JOCELYN: Hey y'all! On today's podcast, we help Ashley Grant take her ghost writing business to the next level. SHANE: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us each week as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside-down by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right, let's get started. SHANE: What's going on guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. Excited to have on a Flip Your Life member today. We ae going to be giving out a free consulting call to one of our members and helping them take their business to the next level. We are super excited as to have a good friend on the show, not only a Flip Your Life member but an attendee at some of our live events and somebody we actually just saw in person a couple of weeks ago. They were passing through. We had got to eat lunch with them. It's our Flip Your Life member, Ashley Grant. Ashley, Welcome to the show. ASHLEY: Hey guys. I am so happy to be here today. JOCELYN: Yeah it's awesome. We have enjoyed hanging out with you in person twice now. So Ashley can attest that we are totally normal people for the most part. SHANE: We are not weird. We are not putting up a front. Do you know what I'm saying? ASHLEY: You guys are awesome. JOCELYN: So it's awesome.

FL 74 – Helping Todd find the right place to start his membership site Jan 19, 2016

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Todd Ferguson is a full-time seller on Amazon. He is looking to take that expertise and teach small business owners how to expand their markets by selling their products on Amazon. He's already put together the content for the course and is looking to launch his membership site soon. We walk through his questions around the sales funnel, what you should and shouldn't be doing with ads and landing pages. We cover some key principles about lead magnets and what it takes to actually make a sale from cold traffic. [Tweet "Do SOMETHING every day, even if everything you do isn't perfect."] One of the most important aspects is identifying the perfect customer. We cover some tactics to go about this and why it's so critical in the online marketing strategy. You'll also learn the components of a highly effective sales page once your target audience has been identified. Problem Benefits Solution Testimonials You will learn How to make more money on products you are already selling. The importance of a free offer to get new email subscribers. Can memberships be a stand alone product? How to create an introductory offer from already created content. Why competition in your Niche is a good thing. Do I have the right product for the right person at the right time? What is the benefit for the customers you are targeting. [Tweet "Always test your introductory offers with the funnels you are setting up"] Don't miss out on the bonus content at the end of the show.... Links and resources mentioned in today's show 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! Can't Miss Moments Each week Jocelyn and I share moments that we might have missed if we had not started our online business. We hope these moments inspire you to see the possibilities and freedom online business could provide for your family. Walking on our new desk treadmill in our office space to avoid sitting while working! You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thank you for listening! 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! JOCELYN: Hey y'all! On today's podcast, we help Todd grow his membership program that helps small business owners sell their products online. Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us, each week, as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside-down, by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right, let's get started. SHANE: What's going on guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, great to be back with you again this week; we got another awesome interview with a Flip Your Life member, we're going to take them today, down the path of success and we are going to help them take their business to the next level by answering three of their most pressing questions about their online business, and help them figure out what to do next. Our guest today is a good friend of ours, he is not only a Flip Your Life community member, but he has attended our live events and just a great person all around. His name is Todd Ferguson; Todd, welcome to the show man. TODD: Hey guys, thanks for having me. JOCELYN: Yeah, we are really excited that you are here, we have met you in person like a few people we talked to recently, and we are excited to delve in and help you to continue to do what you have already b...

FL 73 – How We Use Reflection and Goal Setting to Take Our Business to the Next Level Jan 12, 2016

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In our first episode of 2016 we're going to go through some of our favorite Can't Miss Moments, things that went right, what went wrong, and our goals for 2016. What Went WRONG in 2015 We got hacked - everything, emails, bank accounts. All of it. This proved to be one of the biggest challenged we have ever faced running our online business. Listen in on how this happened and how we dealt with it. Sickness slowed us down. October - January our family has been sick with pneumonia, respiratory issues. The most important person on our team left to go to another job. This was problematic as we didn't create a good procedure to hand over everything the previous employee was doing. What went RIGHT in 2015. We shifted our business model from launching products periodically to having all of our businesses operate on the recurring membership model. We worked less hours so that we could spend more time with our kids and attend their events. 40- 50 hours a week in 2014 now 10-20 hours of actual work from us. We hosted live events - this was a big goal that we accomplished. Goals for 2016 Goal to grow our Flip Your Life Community (possibly shedding some of our other stuff to focus on this) Hire a high-level business coach that is the level we want to be at. Financial Obligation = Accountability More 1 on 1 work with our Members Podcasts are going to be consulting calls with our members You will learn Importance of what happened in 2015 Creating Plans for 2016 How Can't Miss Moments will bring Inspiration Get Prepared for the bad things with better systems Have Backups in Place if something happens to one of your team members Procedures of your business is Vital Predictable Growth With Membership Models Build Your Business the Right Way allows you to work less. Be Around Like Minded People Just keep Moving Forward even with little steps [Tweet "Celebrate Your Wins, especially the small ones. Little wins add up to big ones."] Links and resources mentioned in today's show Click here to get the Flipped Lifestyle Goal Setting Guide. How We Got Hacked What You Can do to Prevent Identity Theft What to do when you get Hacked Podcast Episode Screw the 9 to 5 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! Can't Miss Moments Each week Jocelyn and I share moments that we might have missed if we had not started our online business. We hope these moments inspire you to see the possibilities and freedom online business could provide for your family. Favorite from 2015: Traveled more in 2015 than ever before - going to Ft. Lauderdale, FL when Kentucky was going to have an ice storm so the only warm place we could find in the US was there. So we hopped onto a plane and left that same day. Ability to Bless others by creating jobs for people - surrounded ourselves with friends and family. You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thank you for listening! 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! JOCELYN: Hey y'all! On today's podcast, we take a look back at 2015 and take a look into the future of Flipped Lifestyle. Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us, each week,

FL 72 – Catching up and celebrating success with former Flipped Podcast guests! Dec 23, 2015

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Special Edition This week we have two former guests with us, members of our Flip Your Life Community who have some awesome success stories to share. Listen to these stories of thousands of dollars earned and jobs being quit so you can be inspired by today's stories and take action on your goals. Brad Barrett Brad has gone all in quitting his day job this year while increasing his online income dramatically. He's gone from one on one free calls to a course that individuals can sign up whenever they want - basically selling courses on auto-pilot now. By flipping his life he is now able to have lunch with his daughter during the day, greet his older daughter when she gets off the bus, and the opportunity to read books all day if he wanted too. Brad and his wife are looking forward to traveling the world with their children during the summer breaks which wouldn't be possible if he was still at his full time accounting job. [Tweet "I would pick Flip Your Life over Harvard Business School in a heartbeat"] Shelley Hitz Shelley learned how to launch her beta group from her previous one on one call with us! Without having any content ready she was able to fill 20 spots at $199 during her pre-launch bringing in around 6k in just a few weeks. She is already getting AMAZING success stories and feedback on what students really want which allowed her to make money upfront and save time. One student published her kindle book in the first month after taking the course and became a number one best selling Amazon Author in the very first day! Another has published three books in the first month and is living out a 20 year dream of being a published author. [Tweet "Take the Steps and Take Action"] You will learn Importance of a Digital Product It's about your mindset Why to Invest into your online business now It is possible to make money online Good to give value; but you need to make money also Video Testimonials are so vital to future sales How to bring new people onto your already large list. Links and resources mentioned in today's show Flip Your Life Community Brad's Episode Travel 101 Course Richmond Savers Shiny Objects Episode Shelley's Episode Shelley's Website 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! You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thank you for listening! 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! JOCELYN: Hey y'all and Merry Christmas! On today's show, we are going to catch up on some Flip podcast guest to see what's happening on their online businesses. SHANE: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us each week as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside-down by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right, let's get started. SHANE: What's going on guys, welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. Merry Christmas to everybody out there about to celebrate the birth of Jesus and Santa Claus coming to town. We're only a couple of days away now from Christmas actually happening and we wanted to bring you a special addition of the Flipped Lifestyle podcast this week. We are bringing back two of our former guests on flipped podcast. Those are members of our Flip Your Life Community who we give a free consulting call to and we answer four or five of thei...

FL 71- Exactly what to prioritize and how to spend your time when building your business Dec 16, 2015

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With the new year right around the corner, it's a great time for everyone to get focused and organized for 2016! In this episode we're answering questions about managing time and setting priorities. Creating free content, paid content, opt-in freebies, and marketing activities How you divide your time is dependent on where you are in your online business. Before you start your blog, you should be focusing 100% of your time on your lead magnet. Once that's done, spend 100% of your time on setting up your website. After that, you might spend: 70% on free content 10% on opt-in bonuses 10% on marketing 10% on creating content for other people. These percentages will shift around once you open doors into your website. [Tweet "Prioritize things that serve others & solve problems. Do that, & you'll make money online"] So the key takeaway here is to always start with your lead magnets. Scheduling free content The next thing we discuss is scheduling free content. How often you release content is up to you, but the key is consistency. If you stay consistent, over time you'll be successful online. The 'To-Do' list is something we all struggle with. Start working through it by breaking each 'To-Do' into bite-sized pieces and schedule them in your calendar (e.g. Google Calendar). Use any app or piece of technology available to help you block your time and stay on track. Be specific when you break down your tasks, set aside some catch up time every week, and focus on one thing at a time. Prioritizing Goals Next up, we talk about prioritizing goals. Look at all the things that you want to do - see what you can delete, what you can delegate, and what you can do. Prioritize the goals that can make you money the fastest. [Tweet "Calendar everything. To do lists don't work. You have to schedule time for your tasks"] You will learn The best way to divide your time Tips for releasing free content Best practices for delivering opt-in freebies Techniques for nurturing non customers Tips for tackling your 'To Do' list How to schedule tasks in your calendar to get more done Tips for setting and prioritizing your goals Links and resources mentioned in today's show Flip Your Life Community US History Teachers Elementary Librarians Google Calendar Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family! Click here to leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe to the show! We may read yours on the air! Can't Miss Moments Each week Jocelyn and I share moments that we might have missed if we had not started our online business. We hope these moments inspire you to see the possibilities and freedom online business could provide for your family. You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thank you for listening! 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! JOCELYN: Hey y'all! On today's podcast, we're going to help you manage your time and set the right priorities in your online business. Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us, each week, as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside-down, by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right, let's get started. SHANE: What's going on guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast; great to be back with you again this week. We are in the middle of a Q&A series where we are answering questions from our Flip Your Life community membe...

FL 70 – Today we help Lauren make more money on her hair loss blog. Dec 10, 2015

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Today's guest Lauren is a Flip Your Life Community member. She's got a blog called the Corner of Hope & Mane where she covers topics related to women's hair loss. Lauren works a 9-to-5 job and right now her blog is just a hobby. In the past year she began working on it a little more seriously and has 50,000 monthly page views along with a 2,500-lead mailing list. She currently makes about $1,000/month through ads and affiliate sales, which is great, but she's ready to take her online business to the next level! The first topic we tackle is generating leads. Right now Lauren only has one lead magnet - that's not enough. One of the ideas we gave Lauren is to look at her top 5 blog posts and create a different content-specific opt-in for each. We also discuss the best way for Lauren to monetize her site through a forum. The topic of her blog really lends itself well to a support forum, and we think there is a lot of value in creating a community where she is the leader and support backbone. Even if she only has a 1% conversion rate, Lauren could easily get 25 paying forum members within a month. At $25/member, that's $500/month! [Tweet "Your product could change someone's life, that is too important not to do"] Another topic we touch on is how to introduce paid content to readers who are accustomed to free content. The key is to provide real additional value to them and make no apologies for it. To wrap things up we go into Facebook and Google ads, and how Lauren can best leverage them to drive people to her site. Even though hair loss is considered a very personal subject, we found hundreds of thousands of users who have liked hair loss support groups and products on Facebook. There are also thousands of different searches on Google Lauren could take advantage of through Google ads. You will learn Ways to generate lead magnets Tips for increasing your lead magnet conversion rate Creating a paid membership site based on community value Techniques for drawing readers to her membership site How to introduce a paid area or paid content to your audience How to leverage ads to drive traffic to your website [Tweet "You will always make more off your own products than ads or affiliates"] Links and resources mentioned in today's show Flip Your Life Community Corner of Hope and Mane 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! 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! JOCELYN: Hey y'all! On today's podcast, we help Lauren take her online business to the next level. SHANE: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us each week as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside-down by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right, let's get started. SHANE: What's going on guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. Great to be back with you again this week. We are feeling so much better. We are finally completely healed from-- JOCELYN: Not completely. SHANE: Almost completely. Jocelyn is still coughing a little bit. JOCELYN: I would say 90%. SHANE: But 90% we are back to normal and things are getting that way around here. Very excited about this week's episode because we have a flipped podcast for you where we bring on a member of our Flip Your Life Community and we ...

FL 69 – How to have a positive mindset and stay inspired as an entrepreneur Dec 03, 2015

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We are going to go over some mindsets and how to put systems in place for positive habits. Life goals should be a priority over your business goals. Always ensuring that your life is the first priority and what you want to accomplish over your day to day business tasks. If you take care of yourself and your family first, your frame of mind will be better as you know that everything else is taken care of for that day, week or month. It's important to focus on one strategy at a time. In this episode we share our weekly schedule and how many hours a day we are working on average. [Tweet "It's not all grind & hustle. Life is more important than work!"] You will learn How to stay positive in your business Daily habits to stay motivated Doing the things that matter Focus on one thing at a time Filter out distractions The importance of focusing on your longterm goals Get your stuff done as fast as possible don't waste your work time Set benchmarks Take the pressure off of yourself You need deadlines Celebrate your successes Links and resources mentioned in today's show The Modern Parent's Guide to Old-School Parenting 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:Karen Colt a FL community member, has a podcast: weturnedoutokay.com "Hey everybody I wanted to share this milestone I've had 10,000 individual downloads on my podcast watching that number turn over from 4 figures to 5 figures yesterday felt so good, it was just one of the many things I am thankful for and I love that I reached this milestone on Thanksgiving Day. So thankful for Shane and Jocelyn and the Flip Your Life community your support keeps me going." Can't Miss Moments Each week Jocelyn and I share moments that we might have missed if we had not started our online business. We hope these moments inspire you to see the possibilities and freedom online business could provide for your family. 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! JOCELYN: Hey y'all! On today's podcast, we're going to answer your questions about staying positive and inspired when working on your online business. Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us, each week, as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside-down, by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right, let's get started. SHANE: What's going on guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. We are very glad to be with you again this week. We have not had a podcast out in a week or two because we have been very, very, very sick. I got pneumonia for a couple of weeks, and Jocelyn just battled through bronchitis. Jocelyn is here and alive. JOCELYN: Yeah, barely and I still am not 100% well so, my voice may sound a little crazy. SHANE: And you may get a little coughing in this episode because we both are still kind of getting over that. The kids have been sick; it's just been a rough, rough November. We've been passing it around the house; all you guys who are parents and have kids, you know what it's like. Once somebody gets sick in the house, it just passes around for months it seems like. But we are feeling a lot better, we are very happy to be back with you again today, and we've got a great topic.

FL 68 – Today we help Jeff Twiddy improve his sales funnel on a live consulting call Nov 15, 2015

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Today's guest Jeff Twiddy, is a member of our Flip Your Life Community. Originally a Football High School coach and Geometry teacher, he started a personal training business helping high school students who wanted to play college football. He has two online businesses -- one for high students wanting to play college football, Game Plan Your Future, and the second which we're going to focus on today, Geometrycoach.com where he sells teaching plans online and has a membership. Jeff started listening to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast two years ago, and since then he made over $20,000 in online sales. Now he's ready to take it to the next level! We are going over how to attack holiday sales online - Black Friday, Back to School, Winter Holidays - first thing to identify your avatar and what applies to your audience. One idea we go over is to offer new packages, special annual prices, 6 month prices, and include bonuses that won't be there later on. You can also have massive benefits is having your email list vote and whichever option they click on they receive the discount they chose and, "Everybody Wins". We'll also cover how to organically grow online from market places and bring people back to your own website. And finally, we discuss how Jeff could be using webinars. We talk about converting off of automated webinars, once you do a few live ones how you can create a presentation going through some of the FAQ. [Tweet "When you send an email, is as important as what you send in the email"] You will learn Process Jeff went through Mistakes Jeff made initially Black Friday Online Sales Important to invest your time How to grow organically online Best ways to benefit from a webinar How to convert your emails better Pay attention to the timing of your avatars Splinter out your free offers What is a nurture sequence? Adequate number of people on your list for your niche. Don't forget to look at things realistically [Tweet "Every niche is different, make every decision with YOUR avatar in mind."] Links and resources mentioned in today's show Jeff's Game Plan Your Future Jeff's Geometry Coach Our Interview on Smart Passive Income Elementary Librarian History Website Ever Webinar Software 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! 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! JOCELYN: Hey y'all! On today's podcast, we help Jeff take his online business to the next level. Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us, each week, as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside-down, by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right, let's get started. SHANE: What's going on guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast; great to be back with you again this week. Super excited because we have a Flip Your Life member on the call today and we are going to bring a Flipped podcast to you; this is where we bring in a Flip Your Life community member, and we give them a consulting call, and we let everybody else listen in so we can all learn from the discussion and move our businesses forward and take them to the next level. We got a great guest today, a man after my own heart, guy loves to coach a little football,

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