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QA 74 – Should I have my email marketing autoresponder set up if I'm not selling a product yet? Jul 11, 2015

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In today's Q&A, we are helping Rina figure out what to do with her email autoresponder even though she doesn't have a product to sell. Here's a hint - Have your autoresponder set up from the very beginning. Do you have a question you want answered on our podcast? We would love to help you! Click here to ask your question! [Tweet "You should have an autoresponder set up from day 1, even if you don't have a product yet."] Resources Mentioned in this Episode Today's question from Rina at rinaorellanaflamenco.com/ Podcast on Sales Funnel Aweber Let's dive into this week's question! JOCELYN: Hey y'all! You're listening to a Q&A with S&J. 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 another Q&A with S&J. Our question today comes from Flip Your Life community member, Rina Orellana and I cannot pronounce that name, I am not sure what that is. Her website is rinaorellanaflamenco.com; not flamingo like the pink things you put in your front yard but the flamenco dancing. JOCELYN: Sounds like fun. SHANE: Flamenco dancing. And her question is, "I am working on my product right now, dance lesson videos and I have a small email list of less than 500 people. I am working on my lead magnet as well. My question is, should I have an email list and an autoresponder series at all if I don't have a product to sell yet? What should that look like? I have heard your podcast on sales funnels and I thought it was fantastic, but I'm wondering how to apply it to myself when I don't even have a product to sell?" JOCELYN: All right, so I think that you should definitely go ahead and have an email autoresponder series even if you don't have your product quite ready yet. The reason for this is to get people just more acquainted with you, and get them to know you, and when you do have your product ready to sell, you'll already have your email list there and you would already have been talking to them. In the meantime, what you can do is just introduce yourself and give a summary of what all is included on your website and where people could find it. And then also you can communicate with them and get them to tell you more about themselves; what they are doing in the dance world, what they need help with, what are their pain points that you could possibly solve with a paid product. SHANE: Yeah, one of the very first things that you should do when you are starting an online business is start collecting emails whether you have anything or not. Even if it's just the old, 'Sign up for my newsletter' or email list or anything – and you are going to get an opt-in done fast, we want you to do a lead magnet, we want you to have a product mentality first and get something up there that you can exchange for an email address. But you've got to have something on the other end of that email collection that's going to happen over time. Even if it's just – this is not a great way to do it, but even if you are just broadcasting every week, 'Hey, here's my new blog post', or like Jocelyn said, if you are just asking them a question like, you know, 'What is the one dance step you have the most problem with?' I'm not exactly sure, anything about flamenco dancing, but something where you could open that dialogue, keep people coming back, you definitely don't want to get people's emails and then never talk to them again until you have something ready which might be months down the road because if you do, those leads are warm, that's why they gave you their email address in the first place, but they do cool off over time. So your email autoresponder can also include things like, 'Hey, here's my Facebook page, follow me there' or 'Hey,

QA 73 – Josh Bauerle Answers "Can I Write off Health Insurance Costs on my Taxes?" Jul 09, 2015

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In today's Q&A, we are helping Preston figure out health insurance as an entrepreneur and how it can help him save on taxes. Do you have a question you want answered on our podcast? We would love to help you! Click here to ask your question! [Tweet "Learn what to do with health insurance costs on your taxes with @CPAonFire"] Resources Mentioned in this Episode Today's expert is Josh Bauerle from CPA on Fire Today's question is from Preston from Graphic Design Blender Last time Josh was on Flipped Lifestyle Let's dive into this week's question! JOCELYN: Hey y'all! You're listening to an Expert Q&A with S&J. Today's expert, Josh Bauerle of cpaonfire.com 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 Q&A with S&J. We have another Expert Q&A for you guys today; we have an awesome guest on, his name is Josh Bauerle, and he is from cpaonfire.com. Josh, welcome to the program. JOSH: Thank you, glad to be back. SHANE: And you may remember Josh, we had him in a long episode talking about running his online business. His wife was on with him, a great episode, we'll put that on the show notes and today we have him on to answer a tax question because Jocelyn and I are scared to death to answer anything about accounting and taxes. JOCELYN: And for good reason. SHANE: For good reason, okay? So Jocelyn, do you have a question for Josh? JOCELYN: Yes, and it is from Preston, and Preston is from graphicdesignblender.com, and says, "Hey guys, you all are so inspiring. Congratulations on all the success; I have a question for you, one of the biggest fears I have faced from quitting my job is losing our insurance. How did you guys bridge that gap? Also, will buying private health insurance save me anything on taxes? Can I write that off?" SHANE: And this was a huge question that we had too because we were teachers, the State was basically – our jobs were paying for our insurance and we had no clue how this would impact us or the taxes. So josh, why don't you tell Preston a little bit about that and how switching to private insurance can impact what he pays on taxes. JOSH: Absolutely, and you guys have been much better experts at the part about getting private insurance, but I'll go over the tax benefits here. So, this is actually one area that is actually a huge benefit to be an entrepreneur. So typically, if you are going to get private insurance, the only way there can be a tax deduction is to write them off in what they call 'itemized deductions' and medical expenses are super-hard to take as an itemized deduction. Basically in the simplest terms possible, they are going to reduce it by 10% of your income, and then you can only take the amount over that. So, if you made 100,000 dollars, they would immediately take off 10000 dollars of your insurance costs and then you can only take the amount over top of that. So that's if you are an employee. As an entrepreneur, if you have a business that makes money, you can write off those insurance costs against the revenue in your business, all right? So, let's say that you made the same 100,000 dollars, as an entrepreneur you paid 20,000 dollars in insurance, and now it's gonna look like you made 80,000 dollars instead of 100,000. SHANE: This will save you a fortune really, ain't it? JOSH: It is and one key here to remember though is that's if you made money in your business. So if you are showing a loss in your business, you are not going to be able to write that off. SHANE: Wow, so you can't just start a random business and not make a dime, and actually claim anything for your health insurance stuff. JOSH: Exactly,

FL 51 – Helping Karen and John Find Their Target Audience Jul 07, 2015

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In today's podcast we're going to talk about defining your target audience, so you can properly target your advertising, pricing and positioning your product. A lot people struggle to figure out pricing and product positioning when they first launch their business. We've found that a lot of the time it's because you haven't properly defined your target audience, and really found the right prospects to go after. In this conversation we help Karen and John really define exactly what they're selling and who they're selling it to, making a pivot from what they originally thought. [Tweet "Your product solves a problem. It's your job to find the person with that problem."] You will learn How we leveraged SEO to build our audience. Why we would be buying ads from day 1. How to target a great audience on Facebook. How to set pricing for your product. Should you do memberships or one time payments? How to sell to school districts. (or any government entity) Links and resources mentioned in today's show Google Adwords Keyword Tool Jocelyn's website Elementary Librarian. Podcast on Paid Traffic Rick Mulready and Facebook Advertising Course Our Last Live Event Fresh Books Gravity Form 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're going to help Karen and John take their 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: Hey y'all, welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast! We have got another flipped podcast for you today; that is where we bring in an audience member and we give them a free consulting call and help them take their online business to the next level. And we let you guys listen in so that everyone can learn from the information that we share. Today's guest is Karen Aachen [phonetic] and her brother, John Hodgeden, [phonetic] I hope I said that right. Karen, John, welcome to the show. KAREN: Thank you. JOHN: Thank you for inviting us to the show. SHANE: We have a brother and sister partners in crime here today, so let's keep the sibling rivalry down a little bit. First of all guys, tell us a little bit about your online business and what you are trying to do to make money online. KAREN: Okay, this started about ten years ago when I had come out of a position where I was teaching social skills for a year and then I went into teaching a regular classroom and realized that teachers really need to incorporate both social skills training in as many lessons in the classrooms so it's kinda seamless in the way they teach because it has really been my belief that ability may get them to the top, but it takes character to keep them there. So we wanted to train students in character development as well as self-managing skills. SHANE: And what level are you teaching at? KAREN: Well, actually my first year teaching, I was in the high school level which gave me the impression that really you need to prepare them in the elementary level, and that is where I am now. Most of what I do is laying that foundation in ele...

QA 72 – Do I need a separate autoresponder for every lead magnet / opt-in? Jul 04, 2015

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In today's Q&A, we are helping Ashlyn figure out how to segment her email list and set up her first sales funnel for new and current subscribers. Do you have a question you want answered on our podcast? We would love to help you! Click here to ask your question! [Tweet ""Keep it simple. Create multiple lead magnets, but feed them into 1 email sequence.""] Resources Mentioned in this Episode Today's question from Ashlyn Tengan at amomintraining.com Podcast 44 Podcast 45 Aweber Flip Your Life Program Let's dive into this week's question! JOCELYN: Hey y'all! You're listening to a Q&A with S&J. 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. JOCELYN: Hey guys, welcome to this week's Q&A with S&J. We are here on a very rainy, Kentucky day – SHANE: Which you can probably hear the thunder right now. JOCELYN: Yeah, it's a little loud so, we are here with you today just hanging out, and thought we would answer some questions. SHANE: Alright today's question comes from Flip Your Life community member, Ashlyn Tengan, I'm not exactly sure how to say that Ashlyn. I know your first name is Ashlyn so we'll go with Tengan right now. How do you think you say that? It's T-E-N-G-A-N. JOCELYN: I am not sure but – SHANE: I don't know; but either way, her website is amomintraining.com. So if you want to go ask Ashlyn how to pronounce her name and check out her content, head over there. She is a Flip Your Life community member and her question is, "After to listening to the podcast number 44 and 45, I am setting up my email autoresponder series, and my sales funnels for two different lead magnets that I have. I am using AWeber" That's a good choice, we like people to start out with AWeber. "My plan is to create two separate lists in which their own autoresponder series sales funnels sell each product, then set up an automation rule that will put them on my main list also –" So basically you are trying to create two different email autoresponders, but get them on your main list as well. "–Since I already have about 100 email subscribers on my main list which currently has no sales funnel, but I do know which lead magnet each person subscribed through. How can I put each group of people through the right autoresponder after I create it?" JOCELYN: Alright, this is an interesting question and I think that it actually could have multiple answers. But where I would start with the people that are already on your list is, by sending them an email and trying to get them to choose one or the other. If you have two options, maybe you would have two links there, 'Which one would you like to learn more about, A or B?' And then that in turn, would segment then on to another list. Now, if you wanted to start them on your new sales funnel, you probably don't want to give them a welcome email because they already sort of, know you. So, what I would do for them is just start them out on email number two. SHANE: So that way, you can send out one broadcast email that has the two options and let them kind of jump in to where they want to be at that point. And then you can kind of just work them into the main part of your list. JOCELYN: So it's a little bit unclear to me if the people who subscribe to each lead magnet are the way that you are wanting them segmented; if that's true, I mean, you can go ahead and segment them on to your other list and to start them at email number two of those particular sales funnels. But if they are unrelated to the new sales funnels that you have created, I would do it the way I was talking about earlier where you would send them an email, let them respond by clicking one thing or another, and then put them on to that other list.

QA 71 – Matthew Kimberly Answers "How do I make my blog stand out" Jul 02, 2015

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In today's Q&A, we are helping Sam discover how to differentiate herself and understand why someone should listen to her when there is so much content out already out there online. Do you have a question you want answered on our podcast? We would love to help you! Click here to ask your question! [Tweet "This is how you differentiate yourself - you stand for something @mjkimberley"] Resources Mentioned in this Episode Today's expert is Matthew Kimberly from matthewkimberley.com Chris Ducker Event Matthew on Twitter Let's dive into this week's question! JOCELYN: Hey y'all! You're listening to an Expert Q&A with S&J. Today's expert is Matthew Kimberley at matthewkimberley.com. 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 Expert Q&A with S&J podcast. This is our Thursday edition where we bring on experts to answer your questions. Jocelyn and I always say, we do not have all the answers but boy, we get all the questions. So we like to pass these on to people that know more about certain subjects than we do. And we have an amazing guest for you today, a guy that we met just a couple of weeks ago, in the Philippines, at Chris Ducker's 'Tropical Think Tank' event. One of the best speakers we have ever seen and a real guy that knows how to book yourself solid. It is Matthew Kimberley from Matthewkimberley.com. Matthew welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. MATTHEW: Great to be here, S&J. Thank you for having me. SHANE: Yeah, we are so glad you are here because we are clueless about some of these questions, especially the one we've got for you today. So Jocelyn, let's throw Matthew a question here. JOCELYN: Alright, this question is from Sam and Sam says, "There's so much information out there that I find it hard to differentiate myself. How do I make my blog stand out in the crowd and make it unique? I'm talking about a subject that is well-covered by many others. Why would anyone listen to me?" SHANE: This is a great question Matthew because, you know, we think about this all the time because really, when you think about it, every issue is pretty well covered on the internet. So how do you make yourself stand out in such a crowded world that we live in these days? MATTHEW: Sure, absolutely great question and the first thing that comes to mind is don't worry at all about the content. It's great that there's information out there, it's great that other people are talking about what you are talking about because if they weren't, there's probably a reason for that. So, if you find that you are the only person talking about something, unless it's brand new and very, very, very little – is brand spanking new, then that's validation. That's external validation. If other people are talking about vacuum repair, then that means that other people are listening to other people talk about vacuum repair. So that's great, good job, there's other information out there. Now, how do you differentiate yourself and how do you make your blog stand out? There's a couple of ways that I would go about doing this and a couple of ways that I would advise my clients that they could go about doing it. The first one is, you. Okay, so the information that you are presenting is standard, it exists elsewhere, but you are the only person who can deliver it the way that you can deliver it. Many of us, when we adopt a public persona, we water down the really interesting parts of our self. SHANE: Right. MATTHEW: We often say this in corporate emails, both from companies to their mailing lists, but also people when they are wearing their professional hats; here where I live in Malta in the Mediterranean,

FL 50 – Helping Scott and Alyssa Find Work Life Balance and Streamline their Online Business Jun 30, 2015

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In today's podcast we're going to help Scott and Alyssa figure out how to balance work life while growing their online business - Happen to your Career. Every couple and parent has similar questions to Scott and Alyssa. How do you record a podcast with kids? When do you work on your business vs. play with your kids? (when you're also working a full-time job) How do you build lasting relationships with other people online? We're going to cover all of those and more to help them figure out where to focus on in their business to see the greatest returns. [Tweet "When working with your spouse delegate tasks and get out of each other's way. "] You will learn How to work together as a married couple. The importance of delegation and automation. How to schedule priorities so you know when it's time to work. (and not) What kind of live events to attend to build better relationships. Where you should be investing your business profits. The importance of batching your content. Why you shouldn't "Be Everywhere". Links and resources mentioned in today's show Scott and Alyssa's website happentoyourcareer.com Jill and Josh Stanton - Screw the Nine to Five Live event we hosted in San Diego Chris Ducker - Tropical Think Tank Flip your Life Program Jocelyn's Elementary Librarian Website Apply to be on the show If you're interested in a consulting call with us 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're going to help Scott and Alyssa take their 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? Alright, let's get started. JOCELYN: Hey guys, welcome back to another Flipped Lifestyle podcast. We are super excited today to bring you a Flipped podcast and today's guests are Scott and Alyssa Barlow. We are very excited to have you guys today, welcome to the show. SCOTT: Thanks. JOCELYN: And I want to just say that our Flipped podcast is where we bring people on for a consulting call, and they ask us questions, and we help them to either get started in the online business or in this case, with Scott and Alyssa, to really try to work to take that to the next level because they're already having some success online and we are going to get into that in just a little bit later. But first of all, tell us about yourselves, where you are from, and anything that you want to share with our listeners. ALYSSA: Okay, I'm Alyssa and we are from Moses Lake, Washington, located in Central Washington State; if you don't know where that is, it's a pretty small town. We both graduated from high school here, left for a few years and then eventually made our way back. SCOTT: We tried to get away, it didn't work. SHANE: It always sucks you back. It does. SCOTT: It always sucks you back. ALYSSA: We have three children, our oldest is seven, we have a six-year-old and a four-year-old. So, they are all in a pretty tight span there. SCOTT: Boom, boom, boom. Three in a row, 18 months apart, each one. ALYSSA: And I am a former teacher, I guess, you could say.

QA 70 – How do you create a unique lead magnet FAST Jun 27, 2015

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In today's Q&A, we are helping David figure out how to create a lead magnet that solves a quick problem so he can grow his email list for his online business. Do you have a question you want answered on our podcast? We would love to help you! Click here to ask your question! [Tweet "Treat your lead magnet like a tourniquet rather than a band-aid"] Resources Mentioned in this Episode Today's question from David Bilbey at homestyle.education Flip Your Life community Guide to using the Google Keyword tool How to Create a Sales Funnel Template for Your Online Business Foodtruckr Let's dive into this week's question! JOCELYN: Hey y'all! You're listening to a Q&A with S&J. 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 another Q&A with S&J. Thank you so much for listening to our podcast again this week. We are glad to have you here. Today's question comes from David Bilbe and David writes in and says, "Shane and Jocelyn, you are so relatable." Thank you, David, we appreciate that. "I have started a homeschooling blog at homestyle.education. I am struggling to come up with an idea for a lead magnet. I am a software developer, so I have the possibility of writing some sort of software, but I'm still struggling to come up with something. How do you create a lead magnet that is not a topic you plan on covering by blog posts and how do you create something that doesn't take six months? It would take me a long time to write software. Should I do this or should I do something else?" JOCELYN: Hi David, this is a question that we actually get a lot and I was just talking to somebody yesterday in our Flip Your Life community about this very issue. People make it out to be a lot harder than it really is when really all that you need to do is just solve a problem for your audience. And this is where a lot of people get confused because they want it to sound nice and – SHANE: Huge, and long and epic. JOCELYN: You know, give everybody their hopes and dreams but that's not what people care about. People want to solve a problem; they want to immediately stop a pain. So, that's what you really need to think about when you are starting to write your opt-in magnet, or your lead magnet. You need to solve a quick problem for your audience so that they know that your content is good and they're ready to move on and consume your paid content. SHANE: For your example David, like you got homeschool curriculum, I did a quick Google search in the Google AdWords keyword tool and we have actually a video that teaches our members in our Flip Your Life community how to use that tool, how to go in and find keywords that are specific to your niche. I went into the Google AdWords keyword tool and I typed in 'homeschool' and I looked into some of the words and I found some things like 'homeschool programs', 'homeschool curriculum', 'how to find homeschool curriculum', and one of them was 'how to find accredited homeschool curriculum'. So you could create – you can see that there's thousands of people, this one has 2400 searches for accredited homeschool curriculum. You can go in and say, 'Get my free download on the top ten, accredited homeschool curriculums' and you just create a one-page PDF that is a list that solves that problem. People are out there actually searching for the answer to that question. They want to find homeschool curriculum that is accredited, that meets national standards, that's going to make sure their kids are learning the things they need to take state and national tests and then bam, you create a ten-page PDF, it's got a link to all the best curriculums, maybe those are even affiliate links or something like...

QA 69 – Michael O'Neal answers "How do I validate my idea for an online business? " Jun 25, 2015

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In today's Q&A, we are helping Amanda figure out how to validate her idea before she spends a lot of time and money developing her digital product. Do you have a question you want answered on our podcast? We would love to help you! Click here to ask your question! [Tweet "Ideal customer = least amount of work and most amount of money @solohour"] Resources Mentioned in this Episode Today's expert is Michael O'Neal from solopreneurhour.com Our episode with Michael O'Neal Evernote Michael's product called Sololab Tim Ferris Screw the Nine to Five Let's dive into this week's question! JOCELYN: Hey y'all! You're listening to an Expert Q&A with S&J. Today's expert is Michael O'Neal of The Solopreneur Hour podcast and solopreneurhour.com. 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 another Q&A with S&J mini-podcast. Today we have an Expert Q&A and we are super-excited to welcome back Michael O'Neal of The Solopreneur Hour podcast and solohour.com. Michael, welcome back to the show, man! MICHAEL: Hey guys! So good to be back, I appreciate you having me on again. JOCELYN: Yeah, we are excited for you to answer another question – MICHAEL: Appreciate chya! Does that sound better? JOCELYN: Yeah, that's better. SHANE: I told somebody we were on your show and I said, I swear he had a drawl at the end of that; we sucked him into the south, man. MICHAEL: I'm ready, I'll do the whole show like this. I don't mind. JOCELYN: All right well, Amanda of teachsheetz.com says, "How do I validate my idea with my audience? I want to tell teachers about my Teach Sheetz website I'm currently working, on which can be used to create customized board sheets. Instead of sifting through the millions of options online, they can customize their own worksheet in under five minutes, using a site that has a functionality of Canva. I think this is a great idea but how can validate it with my target market? How do I know others can think it's a good idea before I spent all the time selling it? I don't have a huge audience, what do I do?" SHANE: This is a huge question we get Michael, and I'm really interested to see what you think about this because most of the time when I hear people get frustrated and quit online marketing, it's because they spend a month creating a product and nobody bought it. So Mike, how do you look at an idea and validate that in your business before you spend all that time, you know, creating something that nobody may even want? MICHAEL: I have an answer for both scenarios: One being that you have no list, no platform and one being that you have some list and some platform. So, the no-list and no-platform, here's one misnomer I think people have about online marketing in general is that everything has to be done online. And when you have more time than money, you can afford, time-wise, to actually go talk to people and if she is already immersed in the teaching community – I think a lot of times, when people come out with ideas for very, very niche businesses or products, it's because they are totally immersed in that – SHANE: They are the market basically. MICHAEL: They are the market. She's creating something for herself in this case. So, she has to go out and literally go find some of herself which is, don't do it super-casually, don't be like, 'Hey, you want to come to happy hour at six o'clock and we'll have a chat'. It's like no, find ten of your friends at least that are in the situation you are in and ask them, ask them what are your challenges here and how would you – I have this idea; however, before I tell you my idea, this is very important like what order you do this in.

FL 49 – 6 Reasons Why Your Online Business Isn't Working – part 2 Jun 23, 2015

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In today's podcast we're going to talk about the final 3 things that are stopping you from succeeding in your online business. We've seen the problem with the current stereotypes of people who make online business work (working 24/7, going it alone until 4 in the morning) and how they consistently hold people back. That's why in part 2 of this series we're going to cover three more roadblocks that are probably holding you back from success in your online business. [Tweet "Money is replaceable, time is not."] You will learn Why it's necessary to batch content. How the stereotype of an entrepreneur going it alone is wrong. The value of finding a community (even if it's one person). Need a mastermind? Join our private Flip Your Life Community We help our members succeed every day Learn more: https://flippedlifestyle.com/flipyourlife Why you need to invest in yourself. The issues with "free" tools in your online business. Links and resources mentioned in today's show Subscribe to the Podcast on Itunes Flipped Lifestyle on Stitcher Shareaholic Leadpages Podcast with Michael O'Neal The Flip Your Life Community Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family! Listen to what others are saying about Flipped Lifestyle I heard about S&J a month ago and started listening to the podcasts two weeks ago. Since then, I've listened to every single one. Why? Because Shane and Jocelyn share information in every episode that is essential to running an online business. This is not your typical podcast for online sellers. They tell you how it is and give you all the information you need to do it and keep you motivated in the process. If you are listening to more than one business podcast and S&J at Flipped Lifestyle isn't one of them or at the top of the list, then you are missing out and wasting time. Flipped Lifestyle has changed my business and my life. Thank you. "My Uncluttered Life" 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. 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 continue last week's discussion about the six reasons your online business may not be successful. 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. JOCELYN: Hey guys, welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. We are talking about six reasons your online business may not be as successful as you would like and we actually started these back last week in Episode 48. And if you want to catch the first part of this podcast, you can head on over to flippedlifestyle.com/podcast48 and that is where we started talking about three of the reasons that your online business may not be succeeding and those three reasons were: 1. You have not defined your ideal avatar or audience, the person that you are trying to sell to. 2. You are not thinking about your product first; you are doing a lot of other things that may not necessarily be profitable....

QA 68 – How Do You Explain To Others That You Make Money Online Jun 20, 2015

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In today's Q&A, we are helping Hannah understand how we explain to people what we do and how we make money online. Do you have a question you want answered on our podcast? We would love to help you! Click here to ask your question! [Tweet "First they'll ask you why, then they'll ask you how."] Resources Mentioned in this Episode Cliff Ravenscraft - Podcast Answerman Flip Your Life Program (teaching how we did it) Let's dive into this week's question! JOCELYN: Hey y'all! You're listening to a Q&A with S&J. 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: Hey guys, welcome back to the Q&A with S&J, we are recording our podcast from 30,000 feet above the Philippines right now; we are about to land, we've managed to record three or four of these for you guys and we're gonna roll them out over time. Always batch your content, we always want to stress, if you got the podcast stuff out, record four of five podcasts. If you got the blogging going, do three or four blog posts and we are batching content right now on the airplane. We are sitting up in business class, it's only a few people around and couple of them are asleep. So we kinda moved seats where nobody can hear us record. We are going to knock out another Q&A today. Today's question comes from Hannah and she asks – this is a great question; she says, "When people ask you guys what you do, what do you say? How do you explain what you do in your small town? How did you explain when you quit your job, what you were about to get into? Do people even get it?" That is an awesome question because every internet marketer that we talked to, whether it's from Pat Flynn to the people in our mastermind groups, it's really hard to explain to people what you do because people are so used to 'No, I'll go get a job. I work for someone, I trade time for dollars.' And it's a really confusing subject when people start talking about how you make money online. JOCELYN: It's especially hard where we live because we live in a really small town, and what we do is just far off of most people's radar screens. I mean, they don't even know that this world exists. So, a lot of times when we are talking to people, they'll kinda look at us like we have three heads. So, it's very interesting and we have to try to put it in terms they'll understand and so normally I say to people, 'We sell digital products' and they look at me again like I'm crazy. Then I'll say, you know, 'like e-books, sort of like Kindle'. Usually people will understand what Kindle is so they can sort of, understand what that means when I put it that way. But it is really hard, and being from a small town when people do understand what we are doing, you know, we have a lot of people who want to meet with us all the time and like, you know – SHANE: Show them how basically. JOCELYN: Yeah, everybody wants to know how we do it and can we show them step-by-step. And you know, we love to talk about this stuff as you know, but it's just really hard because we can't meet everybody for an hour, a week, or a day, or whatever. SHANE: And actually that's exactly why we created Flip Your Life originally because we helped a couple of people around here when we first started out and they had some success and made some money online with some digital products. The word spread, and just so many people kept asking us and there was just no way that we could meet with everybody. And I kinda felt really bad about that at first and got some – I've actually mentioned this before, I got some great advice from Cliff Ravenscraft the Podcast Answer Man, he told me, 'You know, Shane, you got to do for a few what you wish you could do for many' or you got to reach more people in a diff...

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