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QA 54 – How do you decide what to charge for and what to give away for free May 02, 2015

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In today's Q&A, we are helping Eric understand how we decide what content to charge for, and what we give away in our 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 "When we see the same question again & again, that's a good signal that we could create a product for our audience"] Resources Mentioned in this Episode Elementary Librarian Google Adwords Keyword tool 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 today's Q&A mini podcast where we answer your questions about online business. Today's question is from Eric Walker and Eric says, "You give away so much of valuable, free stuff on the Flipped Lifestyle website such as tutorials etcetera, things that a lot of people would charge for. How do you decide what to sell and what to give away? Are there any criteria?" SHANE: We've been on a string of easy names lately; have you noticed that? The last three people have been Joe, Matt and Eric. JOCELYN: I know, thanks for that guys. SHANE: Thank you for that; or people are once again – maybe they are putting in false names now that we actually can read instead of purposefully trying to stumble us over the names or something like that. All right, so let's jump in to Eric's question here. How do we decide what to give away for free and what to sell? Well, there are a couple of principles that guide our thinking on this and also just some more things that we have come up with on our own. The first thing you can always do when you are evaluating what you should charge for is, you can tell people what to do but you charge them to show them how to do it. For example, we can guide you through the process that you have to go through to start an online business. One of those things is, eventually, you're probably going to need to start a website. So, I'll tell you, you need to start a website, you need to have content on it, you need to get a logo made; these are all the things what to do, all the things you should do when you are creating a website. So people get a really good overview and a lot of people might be able to figure that out just from that list of what to do but then we can go back and we can create a product that shows you exactly how to do it. We just created a course that's about to launch, I think, in about a week or two; by the time this podcast comes out, it's probably already out there over at Flippedlifestyle.com and it shows you exactly how to set up a WordPress website. 20 videos, 10-20 minutes a-piece, and we go through every step. How to install WordPress, how to get hosting, how to write your first blog post, what you should be writing about when you start it. We actually charge to show people step-by-step, hold their hand, how to do something. Another rule that a lot of people go by is the '90/10' rule where you give away amazing content. 90% of everything that you create, you just give it away for free and then you hold back maybe 10% of the content. Maybe it's that critical step, that thing that kinda connects all the pieces of the puzzle together. That's what you sell. So you give away as much free value as possible. A lot of people might be able to only need that 90%, they can figure the 10% out but there's always going to be a portion of your audience willing to go ahead and pay you for that 10%. JOCELYN: It's really important that you give people some valuable, free content because if you don't, why would they be willing to pay you? If your free stuff is not very good, then they're probably not going to jump and say,

QA 53 – How to get over the fear of making your life public online Apr 30, 2015

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In today's Q&A, we are helping Matt overcome the fear of putting his private life online when starting 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 "There's a million different ways to present your brand online without having to share everything that you do on Facebook."] Resources Mentioned in this Episode Elementary Librarian US History Teachers 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 another Q&A with S&J mini podcast. Today's question comes from Matt; and Matt writes, "How do I get over my fear of putting my life out there for others to see? I would have no problem sharing and selling my e-book to random strangers, but to think about my friends and family finding it and reading is horrifying to me. I know this is something I need to get past but your story is so real and I'm just finding it difficult to even think about doing what you guys do." JOCELYN: All right Matt, this is actually a common concern that a lot of people have and it is something that bothered me when we first started our online business. It's not that I was doing anything wrong or had anything to hide necessarily; it's just that I really didn't want to put everything out there for the whole world to see. So, one way that you can do this, is to just use your first name. So, for a long time, on my Elementary Librarian site, I was just 'Jocelyn'. You could be 'Matt', you could be 'Matt B.' or whatever your initial is and that would be one way of getting around everyone knowing exactly who you are. SHANE: You can even use an alias in your brand. Like my name was on a lot of my products on my football coaching site but a lot of people just knew me as 'CoachXO'. I created like a persona on my podcast, the 'CoachXO' show and basically people would write in and be like, "Hey Coach XO, I got a question for you about football." So you could even do something like that where your brand kind of becomes the identity of the website and maybe you are not so front-and-center. Another thing that I think is important to realize too is that this is a fear because we're scared; it's like public speaking. You are scared to get up in front of people especially people you know. You don't want them to understand exactly what you are doing and things like that but you don't have to share this with people in your personal life. We don't put all of our Flipped Lifestyle stuff, we don't share Elementary Librarian, or history or coaching or all of these little businesses that we've got set up. We don't ever share them on our private Facebook walls or our private Twitter accounts. We only talk about them in the space where they exist like on the Flipped Lifestyle Facebook page or actually on our website. Now, a lot of people have figured out what we do and they've found our websites and they've looked at our products and things like that. We do know people that have bought our products from us, we know them in person. So, there is definitely going to be some crossover but it's not going to be this thing where everyone in your life is going to totally go in and read your e-book. They might not even be in your audience. If you've got an e-book about starting a food-truck or something like that, if no one wants to do that, they have no reason to read your book. So, don't really worry about people in your life finding all of your stuff and keep up with all the minute details of your online business because that's probably not going to happen.

FL 41 – The 4 Things You MUST do to be SUCCESSFUL in Online Business Apr 28, 2015

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In today's podcast we're going to talk about the 4 things we wish we would have been told when we were just starting out in online business. These are four things you MUST do to succeed online [Tweet "Online business is never about what you want, its what your audience wants"] You will learn How we develop avatars of our ideal customer. Why we want to eliminate people from our potential audience. (not add) The tactics we use to find what kind of digital products to create. Why you shouldn't rely on social media in your business. The value of asking questions to your audience. (no matter the size) Links and resources mentioned in today's show Shelly's podcast episode US History Teacher website we run Google Adwords Keyword Tools video guide Google Adwords Keyword Tool Shane's site CoachXO Shelley Hitz PDF of the FLIP acronym 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 Wow...in the two weeks after our consulting call with Shane and Jocelyn, we generated over $3000 in income. Going into the call, we had a general idea of what we wanted to accomplish in our business. However, you guys gave us a specific plan to launch a new product we had not yet considered. Your advice was spot-on and exactly what we needed. Thank you Shane and Jocelyn, you're the real deal. We appreciate you! 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 tell you four things you must do to succeed in online business. [spoiler title="Click to View Transcript"] JOCELYN: Hey guys, welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. Shane and I are glad to be back with you today. We are going to be sharing something with you today that we wish we had been told when we were starting out in online business and we really discovered that this was such an important message for everyone in our audience at our live event in San Diego a few weeks ago. As we talked with all of the people that came to the event, a common theme kept coming up over and over again and that was that people really didn't understand their audience or who they were targeting. So today, we are going to bring you four things that you must do to succeed online and that even have a handy, little acronym F-L-I-P. And we love acronyms because we used to be teachers so this fits right in with what we used to do and there's a lot of acronyms in education. So, before we get to that, Shane has a success story from one of our consulting clients. SHANE: Our success story this week comes from Shelly Hitz; you may remember Shelly and CJ, they were one of our flipped podcast guests a couple of months ago where we allow audience members to come in and we give them a free consulting call to help them take their online business to the next level and then we share those calls with you guys out in the audience so everyone can learn from the questions and the answers. Not long after the Flipped podcast episode that we recorded with Shelly and CJ, we got this email and it said, "Wow,

QA 52 – When Should I start my Business LLC? Apr 25, 2015

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In today's Q&A, we are helping Joe Chang decide when to set up his first business entity. Do you have a question you want answered on our podcast? We would love to help you! Click here to ask your question! Resources Mentioned in this Episode Episode 13 with Josh the CPA Our Accountant - The Bottom Line Let's dive into this week's question! JOCELYN: Hey y'all you are listening to a Q and A with S and J. 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. JOCELYN: Hi guys, welcome to today's Q and A mini podcast where we have a question from Joe Chang and Joe says, here is my question: in episode 13 Josh, the CPA, explained a little bit about different business entities but should I setup a business entity instead of operating as an individual, should I set it up at the very beginning or when I see some real money coming in? alright Joe, let us preface this answer by saying that we are not legal professionals or accountant so just keep that in mind when you listen to our advice, but honestly it really doesn't matter especially at the beginning when you operate as an individual or as a business entity. We waited a long time before we applied for our business entity and we actually operate as an LLC now but there are other ones out there that maybe more appropriate for you just depending on your situation. But really until you start making a whole lot of money it really technically from a tax standpoint, doesn't matter that much if you are an individual or a business. SHANE: And basically it's pretty easy to setup a business account. You can either in some states they let you do a DBA. You can just say I am doing business as Sams Digital Company and go start a bank account for that business and there your business. Other places, you just apply with your state. It's usually just a little paperwork, I think it costs like 50 bucks or something to start-- JOCELYN: Yes, it's not super expensive. It depends on your state. SHANE: Yeah so I mean it's extremely easy to start a business. There is probably no excuse not to do it. I would say just make it general. Like we have, our business is called Sams Digital LLC and the reason we called it that is because it's kind of like the umbrella that sits over top of each individual website which is kind of its own business but they all kind of funnel to the same bank account so it's not a real big deal. So I would just start something that's kind of general and just whatever business you end up doing you can add to that. The morale of the story is this, it really doesn't matter unless you are trying to protect yourself from some kin dof a liability. Like if you have an LLC they can sue your company and you can protect some of your personal assets instead of coming straight after you if you're just an individual. It's a lot of semantics. It's really not a big deal. It's so easy to set it up, there is probably no reason not to do it from the beginning. I wish we had have just so we could have got it out of the way. Don't you think Joce? JOCELYN: Yeah, it's a lot easier moving forward if you set up your business from the beginning. I mean it technically doesn't matter especially if you're not making a whole lot of money, it doesn't matter that much. But it may make things easier down the road if you go ahead and set it up from the very beginning and the best thing to do is to talk to somebody who is a professional at this. Especially in your state or somebody who knows about your state and they can tell you all the tax implications and all the liability questions and all of those types of things that we don't really 100% know the answer to, we can just share out experiences with you.

QA 51 – How many Lists and Email Sequences do I Need? Apr 23, 2015

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In today's Q&A, we are helping Matt and Karen understand how we use Opt-in pages and our autoresponder. Do you have a question you want answered on our podcast? We would love to help you! Click here to ask your question! Resources Mentioned in this Episode Leadpages Google Adwords Keyword Tool How to host a webinar guide 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 up guys? Welcome back to another Q&A with S&J where we answer audience questions every Thursday and Saturday that you have about online business. Today's question comes from Matt and Karen and they write, "In one of your podcasts, you mentioned you were using Lead Pages –" as I do, good job, we're glad you use that. Great product. "– and that you were putting up a ton of opt-in pages etcetera, etcetera and then I got all inspired and I started doing the same thing and I realized, what am I doing? I completely understand that building a list is so important and that that it has to be done and my wife and I certainly are working on that. But if I just keep building a bunch of opt-in pages that are going to create a bunch of different cold lists because I'm too overwhelmed to keep up with each individual auto-responder sequence and each broadcast and every individual funnel, than what good would this do? It's very confusing. What is your secret behind all of that?" JOCELYN: Hey guys, thanks for your question. I think you are actually a little bit confused because that's not exactly the way that we set things up. We do have several different lead boxes but we actually put everything on one list. SHANE: Okay, what we actually do is, like for example, take Flipped Lifestyle. We have one email list. Everybody who comes into our sales funnel, who signs up on our email list, they are going to get the same sequence. Now we might have a branch or two that take them in different directions based on what happens but pretty much everybody is going to get the same, six or seven emails when they sign up for our email list; they are going to get our free product and hopefully they'll get an offer later to one of the paid products that we offer. But we do have different entry points into the list, Karen, and that's what we use the lead boxes for. For example, let's say we write a blog post about keyword research; I might go record a video that shows people how to use the Google AdWords keyword tool and they have to give me their email to watch that video. That's a separate lead box. People give me their email but they are going to the same Flipped Lifestyle list. I know that person is interested in internet marketing because they are looking up something and they found the page on keyword research but I just need to get them into the sales funnel on internet marketing based on what they were looking for at that time. Somebody else may look for 'How to host a webinar?' well, we have a video that shows exactly how to set up a webinar in Lead Pages and host it live but that video, you have to give an email to watch that video but you are still going to go on that same list. So, we're not juggling dozens and hundreds of cold lists; we know our demographic like things about internet marketing. We know that there are things like sales pages, webinars, keyword research, how to build a website – all those fall under the same umbrella for our avatar of what we are trying to teach people. So, we just need to get them what they are looking for at that time and then put them on the same list. So, you can create an opt-in for every single blog post. It could even be – some people just use like a PDF of their transcrip...

FL 40 – How to Avoid Shiny Object Syndrome in Your Online Business Apr 21, 2015

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In today's podcast we're going to talk about how to avoid one of the biggest causes of procrastination in business, shiny object syndrome. Too many people don't make progress in their online business simply because they never truly finish a project. In this conversation we're going to talk about 4 critical strategies for prioritizing what to do so you can get more done and avoid the mistakes we made when starting out with our online business. [Tweet "If you have 10 websites and none of them are making money you probably have shiny object syndrome."] You will learn Why shiny object syndrome is a great way to feel busy. (but not make money) The reason you need to finish one project before starting another. How we're using the AAA strategy to streamline our production. Why you need a mastermind. The importance of systems to decide what you need to be working on. How to use voting and surveys to improve sales and product ideas. Why you don't need to reinvent the wheel. Links and resources mentioned in today's show The Flip Your Life Community Get in touch with us Pat Flynn's episode we mention (AAA) Elementary Librarian US History Teacher 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 was listening to your podcast from last week on my run today and it inspired me to share a couple of sacrifices I have made lately to fund my online business. I figured I wouldn't be doing any triathlons for a while so I sold my vintage, 2002 Trek Time trial bike last week. Yesterday, I cancelled my satellite radio subscription, $300; you are so right, in the long run, these won't be missed. I need to invest in the tools to make this online business thing happen. 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 tell you how to avoid Shiny Object Syndrome in your online business. [spoiler title="Click to View Transcript"] 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. Last week, we talked a lot about overcoming perfectionism in your online business, how you cannot use perfectionism as an excuse for procrastination. Jocelyn said that was her big thing that she had to struggle with, she had to fight with; this pursuit of perfectionism and how it holds her back sometimes in online business. This week, we're going to flip the script and we are going to come after one of my biggest struggles and that is, Shiny Object Syndrome. That's where you have so many ideas and so much mud on the wall, you just can't even figure out what to do next and Jocelyn says I'm like a little squirrel chasing all these little ideas around in our online business. So, we're going to talk about how to overcome Shiny Object Syndrome,...

QA50 – How do I set up affiliate programs for my digital products Apr 18, 2015

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In today's Q&A, we are talking about how to set up and run a successful affiliate program for you online businesses digital products. Do you have a question you want answered on our podcast? We would love to help you! Click here to ask your question! Resources Mentioned in this Episode Ejunkie Clickbank Gumroad Jocelyn's website Elementary Librarian Shane's website CoachXO Let's dive into this week's question! JOCELYN: Hey ya'll! 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 today's Q&A with S&J where we have a question today from Valerio. We're not sure how to say that. SHANE: V-A-L-E-R-I-O Valerio. JOCELYN: I think people put crazy names in here just so we can – SHANE: I think you guys are using fake names. Jocelyn is right; you guys are putting in fake names just to hear us stumble across them. So, Valerio. JOCELYN: Yeah, it's going to get worse now. Okay it says, "I know that Shane has a friend who also sells e-books for football coaches and they are both affiliates for each other's products. How do you set up these affiliate programs? How do you generate the code, that then you would get to your affiliate person so that he/she can promote your product to his/her audience. Do you do it with E-junkie or ClickBank and are there other methods you recommend?" SHANE: All right, this is a great question and this is another one we get all the time and basically what an affiliate program is, is if I have a friend who is in a similar niche to me, like my buddy sells football playbooks just like I do; well, he might not want to write the same playbook that I do. So I'll just say, 'Hey here's my playbook, you sell it for a hundred dollars and I'll give you forty percent of it.' He's my affiliate. So he's gonna go out and find new people that might not be in my audience, they are going to buy the product, he get's forty bucks, and I get sixty bucks but I make a sale. I don't get the whole hundred dollars but I do get to make a sale that I might not have made if I was not using an affiliate program. You do do this with E-junkie or ClickBank and really all that happens is, you basically upload your digital product and the service that you use, whether it's a shopping cart, E-junkie, ClickBank or something else, just gives you a link and you give that link to your affiliate partner. This can also be automated like you can put some code on your page and people can sign up for your affiliate program and it will automatically generate them a link that they can use to sell your product and all the link does is it sends them to a landing page and it tracks the customer from their website. So, if they buy, in your data and in your sales reports it'll say, 'Oh, by the way, these ten were sold by your friend as an affiliate so you owe them x percentage or whatever it is.' So any shopping cart you use, anything online you are using like E-junkie, ClickBank, Gumroad probably does this; whatever you are using to take payments for your digital product is probably going to be able to set up an affiliate program where you can go out and find people to sell your products for you. ClickBank is a great one to use starting out no matter what you are using because you can go and set that up and there's like a marketplace on ClickBank.com where people can look for affiliate products. So, if I am a football coach and I am like, I want to see if there's any football playbooks out there, oh look, there's five guys out there that have uploaded these playbooks, they fit my product line, I'll just sell theirs as an affiliate too to kind of bulk up my catalogue of information.

QA49 – I'm not sure what I can do for an online business Apr 16, 2015

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In today's Q&A, we are helping Steve discover the right path for his online business and how to make that compelling enough to convince his wife it's possible. Do you have a question you want answered on our podcast? We would love to help you! Click here to ask your question! Resources Mentioned in this Episode The Flip Your Life Community Podcast Episode #6 Elementary Librarian Let's dive into this week's question! SHANE: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes before work. We are your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us each week as we teach you how to flip you lifestyle upside down by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? Alright. Let's get started. What is going on guys? Welcome back to another Q and A with S and J mini podcast. Our question today comes from Steven and he writes in via email. He says: I really want to get started on online business. I have a lot of interests but I am not sure if they would make a good online business. I am trying to figure out whether I have ideas for an eBook or have the writing skill to get the reader even interested in my product. I would also like to really convince my wife this digital product idea can work. What advice would you have on getting people behind this idea? JOCELYN: Alright Steven that is a great question. And one that I have actually gotten several times recently. So I just wanted to let you and everyone else out there know that the thing you want to look for when you are considering making a digital product is what kind of problems are you solving for an audience, or what kind of problems can you solve for an audience? What is keeping up at night and how can you help? How can you solve their problem? That little test is going to help you to evaluate each of your skills and how they might translate into a future online business. So the question is, do you have a skill that might translate well over to an online products like for example, Shane and I, we use our day job skills as teachers to create products that solve problems for teachers. Maybe it is not something that you do like for your job, maybe it's a hobby that you have or an interest and a lot of people that they can't make these types of things into a business but you absolutely can as long as you are solving someone's problems. SHANE: And you font have to be like some rocket science or a PhD or the authority in a field you really only have to know a little bit more than the people behind you. If I know how to set up a website, then theoretically I can create a course to teach people how to make a website that don't know how I am expert enough, I already know how to do that. I was not the greatest football coach that ever lived but I had a lot of experience over ten years and I created this very specific defense that a lot of people wanted to learn that defense who are either just getting into coaching or maybe they have some experience and they are switching over to my defense. So I was able to take my interest to football, turn that into a digital product and I was able to teach that to other people. I wasn't the football authority in the country but I did know a lot about that defense and there was a lot of people behind me that didn't know so much about it. JOCELYN: And you know sometimes there are people out there that say I just don't really have any skills or any interest and that is just not true, really for anybody. Everybody out there has something they are good at or something they really enjoy and if you are having a hard time coming up with something for yourself ask somebody who is close to you. What is something that I know about that I can maybe teach you how to do or show you how to do or that you think other people might want to learn how to do? That's probably the best way to get an idea for an online business if you have no clue what you want to work on. SHANE: Another huge mistake that people make when...

FL 39 – How to beat perfectionism and move forward in your online business Apr 14, 2015

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In today's podcast we're going to talk about how perfectionism can hold you back from launching your business and start building for the future. People have used perfectionism as an excuse for not getting started for far too long in the world of online business. We love seeing people move forward, and getting over this "excuse" is critical for so many people just to make those first $10 or even $100. You will learn Why the little things might not really matter to your audience. A story of how not being "perfect" can still play out ok. Why you should not make the changes first. Practical ways to overcome perfectionism Why you need to only focus on what you're the very best at. Links and resources mentioned in today's show The Flip Your Life Community Join us LIVE and in person - click to learn more! 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 S&J, I sold three courses at 97 dollars so far and counting. I can't thank you guys enough. This is a complete game changer for me in believing in my product, voice and message. Now I just have to tweak my Facebook ads to get the pearl website click down. I already paid off my coaching call. You guys rule. I'm so stoked right now and I cannot wait to see what's next. Thank you, 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 ya'll! On today's podcast, we're going to help you stop pursuing perfection and move forward in your online business. 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. What's going on guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. Great to be back with you again this week. We are going to tackle a subject today that is kind of a universal struggle for everybody that gets into online business; we hear so many people talk about this topic that we thought it would be great to just go into a full-blown podcast about it and see if we can help people move forward in their online business and that topic is perfectionism. It's trying to make everything just right, getting everything perfect before you launch. Writing the perfect email before you put it into your auto-responder sequence and how perfectionism is actually really, really bad for your online business and you've got to deal with this if you are ever going to be successful online. But before we do that, Jocelyn is going to read a success story from one of our audience members. JOCELYN: And by 'some people' in that little speech, he means me. SHANE: Jocelyn is the perfectionist; I have never struggled with perfectionism but Jocelyn does. We'll talk about that later. JOCELYN: Okay, so today's success story is from Chris and we actually spoke to Chris not too long ago. He was one of our consulting clients and he says, "S&J, I sold three courses at 97 dollars so far and counting. I can't thank you guys enough.

FL 38 – Helping Janelle Start Her Online Business Apr 07, 2015

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In today's podcast we're going to help Janelle start selling her digital products on her website subdays.com. Janelle has a product and a vision for her online business but has some questions to really kickstart her growth so she can stay at home with her son. She has great questions about everything from social media advertising to how to position herself as an expert. You'll definitely be able to get some value from these common questions we hear about launching your online business. You will learn The actions Janelle needs to take to start generating sales for her products. How to start growing your email list with Facebook ads. How to balance the paid vs free content on her site. The art of pre-selling your product. Why you should always be working on your brand and your content. If you need ISBN numbers or not on your products. Links and resources mentioned in today's show Janelle's website subdays.com Past episode about Social Media advertising What a LISTSERV is 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 are going to help Janelle take her online business to the next level. SHANE: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes before work. We are your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us each week as we teach you how to flip you lifestyle upside down by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? Alright. Let's get started. JOCELYN: Hey guys welcome to this week's Flipped podcast. We are very excited this week to have our listener Janelle Afasiab. I hope I said that right Janelle. She has actually asked a question before. I am pretty sure we butchered that name before so we are really excited to have her today. We have a New York to Kentucky connection today so this is going to be an interesting call. We got the north and the south but we are super excited to her. SHANE: And no fighting we are not going to fight. There is no north and south fighting tonight, alright Janelle. JOCELYN: So we are very excited to have you today Janelle you have some great questions and I know that ty will really benefit out listeners out there. So let's start out and go ahead introduce yourself and tell us about your family and your online business so far. JANELLE: Okay, well my name is Janelle Afrasiab. And I have been married eight years and we have one son. He is about five weeks away from turning three and my husband is currently at home right no babysitting. We don't have much family here on New York. I am originally from North Dakota. I don't have much family out here so getting a babysitter is a little bit more difficult. I am a former high school Spanish teacher and what I have done is I have taken my activities that used in class, put them into a book and now I am trying to sell and market them. SHANE: Awesome. And do you work right now? JANELLE: Just a stay at home mom. SHANE: Okay. So tell us a little bit about like why you want to get in to online business. Why do you want to flip your life? What is your husband do for work? And then how do you think that online business would make your life better? JANELLE: My husband currently we have a Bollywood, video slash Western Union slash electronics store here in New York and the reason that I want to flip my life ...

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