Hala Taha: Build a High-Converting Sales Funnel That Transforms Your Business | Sales | YAPLive

25:11So, you know, MailChimp, Constant Contact, Kit, there's so many out there. You you're able to take those emails and segment them, put them in an email service provider. And then in terms of like content strategy, you want to email weekly at a consistent time, okay? So you want to train people when they're going to see your emails. You don't want to bombard them with too many at a time. Just weekly at a consistent time is a good rule of thumb, okay? So train people when you're going to send them your email. You also want to follow the 80-20 rule. I learned this from Neil Patel. So 80 % of your email should be educational and provide value, and only 20 % should be focused on selling.

25:53So you want to make sure that you're providing educational content in your email, you're building trust, you're providing value, and then only 20 % of the time should you be selling. You also want to increase click-through rates by not providing too many links, okay? So you want the same link over and over again in your email. So typically at YAP, we put the same CTA, the same exact link, just two to three times in the email and definitely want the link higher up in the email and then like, you know, in the middle and at the end and the same link. Don't point to many different links. Okay, that's going to confuse people.

26:30And then you're going to want to track and optimize your open rates, your click through rates. You're going to want to test and optimize and so on. Okay. All right. So out of all the strategies that you learned first, which one will you try? Okay, which one will you try? Oh, and I forgot to mention one that I really like. Whenever you are in your email and you feel tempted to click on an email, you're like, oh, this is interesting. Let me open it up. Save that subject line and put it in like your notepad. Okay, whenever you feel compelled to open an email, save that subject line. And then next time you go to write your emails, you'll have a repository of all the subject lines that got you to open and hopefully that will give you some inspiration.

27:15All right, so which email strategy are you gonna try first? Which one spoke to you? Do you need to just start and make it a priority? If you already have one, what are some of the tactics that you feel like you're gonna start learning? So being more educational, using the 80, 20 % rule, consistent email at the same time. All right, so just so you guys know, Teachable allows you to create lead magnets. Okay? And create gated asset pages. So basically, so this is a lot of marketing speak. If you guys aren't marketers, I'm going to kind of break this down for you. Okay? A lead magnet is anything, any sort of document, PDF, worksheet, quiz.

27:53It's any sort of asset that you create to get an email. That's what a lead magnet is. And a gated asset page is when you have this lead magnet, you want to gate it with a form. So people can only get it if they type their name, their email, their phone number, okay? So that's what a gated asset page is. It's gating your lead magnet and people have to enter their information into a form, okay? So Teachable lets you do that. You can basically upload anything, a PDF, a worksheet, a spreadsheet, whatever it is. You can upload that and then it will create a splash page in your sitemap for your course where people can then download your assets.

28:35So if you sign up to Teachable, you'll be able to create these lead magnet pages really easily. And then you can also plug it into your email service provider. So if you've got MailChimp or whatever, you can plug it in. You can also embed your lead magnet form into your WordPress website or whatever website you have. So it lets you do all these integrations. All right, so let's talk about slaying your messaging. I love this quote from Dan Henry. The easiest way to become a millionaire is to sell what people are already buying and just say it better than your competitors. Okay? This is such a powerful quote, guys.

29:10When it comes to sales, you do not want to create something from scratch. You want to sell something that people are already buying and already interested in. And you need to just figure out how to market it better, how to convince people that you're the number one person that they should buy from, that you're the preeminent business in your industry, right? You need to learn how to say it better than your competitors, which is what we're going to go over today. It's like all the sales psychology and how to convince people to buy from you. So one of the key things in sales funnel is this concept of hook story offer, okay?

29:47The hook story offer framework is used to strategically throughout the buyer journey to attract attention, build trust, and convert prospects into customers. Now, a hook is what gets people in. It brings them into the funnel. And it not only brings them into the funnel, something that I'll just build this out really quick. Something that I want to call out is that hook story offer is what you use on every single marketing asset that you have. It is how you bring people throughout the whole funnel. It is also how you bring people like through every video, every blog, every post has a hook story offer typically if you're selling, right?

30:27So hook is how you bring them into the funnel. Story is how you build rapport. You highlight the problems. You position yourself as a solution. You help nurture the lead. Okay, so stories about nurturing, helping show the transformation, getting them really bought in and trusting you. And then offer is the clear call to action. And this is where you want to incentivize them to actually purchase. Okay, this is the conversion. Now, like I mentioned, hook story offer can be used throughout the sales funnel. It is the framework of the sales funnel itself, right? So tofu is hook, mofu is story, bofu is offer, but then you want to use it throughout each bucket, okay?

31:08So for hook story offer for top of funnel, your offer is going to be the lead magnet to get the emails. For hook story offer for the middle of funnel, your offer is going to be booking a webinar, a discovery call, a coaching call, whatever the mid funnel activities is. And then for bottom of funnel, it's going to be buying from you, okay? Your irresistible incentive to actually buy. And then, like I said, even more granular, every post, every webpage, every video is going to have hook story offer if you're selling. And if you don't have that, it's not going to be effective. Okay. So you need to think about that.

31:45Like I mentioned, you guys are going to get the entire presentation if you stay to the end. So this is not something you need to memorize, okay? But in general, when it comes to these hooks, for top of funnel, this is all about getting people in, you know, grabbing their attention. So this is shock. This is curiosity. This is asking a question. This is mystery, surprise, intrigue, right? So top of funnel is like capturing their attention. And it's also qualifying them, right? What are you going to ask or say that's going to bring in your exact leads or get them interested or let them know if they're fit or not.

32:23It's also about qualifying them. So middle of funnel, they're already qualified, and it's more about warming them up, getting them to understand your offer, how you solve their problem. So this is about stories. It's about pain and then going through the solution. It's about showing your social proof. It's about how to, educational content, how to do this, different tutorials, having a challenge, right? So this is all about solution and proof, okay? Solution and proof. Now, bottom of funnel is all about getting people to take action, okay? This is about convincing them and not letting them have the time to talk themselves out of doing it with you, okay?

33:05So this is about scarcity, urgency, having guarantees, reducing the risk, showing some transformations to kind of push them over the edge, all right? So bottom of funnel is about condensing the time that they have to make a decision, making the decision as easy as possible for them because you've got promotions, you've got proof, you've got guarantees, and it makes the decision really easier for them. Next is retention. Like I mentioned, your best customers are your existing customers. So how are you gonna foster community? How are you gonna love on your customers, serve your customers, make them feel like they wanna keep buying from you?

33:41We're gonna learn about dating your customers later on. How are you gonna make them feel like everything is exclusive? How are you gonna make them feel like a tribe, like they're part of a community that they would never wanna leave, right? So what are the ways that you're gonna retain, love your customers, make it more of a community and start to upsell them to your different offers, okay? Okay, so we went over hooks. Now we're gonna go deeper into stories, all right? And let me know, are you guys engaged? Are you guys learning right now? Let me know in the chat. All right, so let's talk about five types of stories.

34:16First of all, we've got the hero story, all right? So this is your origin story. Why are you the expert in what you're talking about? Why should people trust you? Why should people buy from you? What struggles did you overcome? How can you become relatable? How can people connect with you so they feel like, oh, Hollow was there, I was in that same place and she got out of it. So I better listen to her, right? So what's the emotional connection to you? How are you going to establish that, okay? Number two is character profile, character story. So essentially, this is a high profile testimonial from a respected figure, right?

34:53Now, you're not going to have every single type of story. Character story is pretty advanced, right? You need to be pretty top of your field to get a celebrity or something like this, right? But now, for example, I've been doing this for 10 years now. I've got stories from Russell Brunson being a part of my network and saying he never made ad money and now he's with me, he makes advertising dollars with me. So as you go on and you get your feet wet and you start getting more and more students and clients, you will start to get character stories. So essentially, it's somebody who's really trusted, who reinforces your authority and trustworthiness, okay?

35:28And anytime you work with a big brand or a big name, you're gonna wanna put that everywhere because people will associate your brand with the bigger brand and your brand will become bigger, right? So if you've ever worked with big companies, you wanna plaster that all over your LinkedIn. You wanna put that in your decks. If you've got pictures with celebrities or clients that are high profile people, if you guys noticed in the beginning of this presentation, it was me with Alex Ramuzi and Russell Brunson and all these famous people. It helps elevate your brand and status when you've got other people's brands associated with yours, right?

36:02Big results story. So this is a compelling case study of somebody who achieved extraordinary results from your products or using your method. So it's the full potential of what's possible. So this is somebody who got a huge result from your product, from your course, okay? Initial results story, this is what's going to help people take the initial step to buy, right? A lot of people just have limiting beliefs. They don't believe that they can do it. So this is the type of thing where somebody just got like the first part right. They were able to take the first step, right? So a quick win story highlighting how somebody after implementing your teachings saw immediate tangible improvements.

36:38So proving that your system works even if you're a beginner, even in the first step. Okay? So like a first step type of a story. And then an inspirational transformation story. So this is something that goes beyond even what you sold. So right. Let's say I say I want you to take my LinkedIn course so that you can go viral on LinkedIn. Okay? Now, let's say you end up going viral on LinkedIn and that leads you to becoming an entrepreneur. And now you were able to quit your job, become an entrepreneur, and you started an eight-figure business. I was just trying to help you go viral on LinkedIn, but now you've got an eight-figure business as a side result of taking my course or product, right?

37:19So it's something that transforms somebody's life beyond what you just sold them. That's what a transformation story is, okay? So you wanna think about what stories do you have right now? What kind of stories can you put in each one of these buckets? And you want to start organizing that and start using that in your materials at different stages of the funnel, okay? A lot of it is going to be mid-funnel. That's where a lot of the stories go. But some of it is going to also be top of funnel, like your hero story might be top of funnel and things like that to get people started to be interested in what you're doing.

37:49Okay, so let's go over the hero story in depth. This is something that everybody should have for their offer, all right? And so this is Russell Brunson's framework. I didn't create it myself. And it's also known as the epiphany bridge story. So first of all, what is your relatable start? How can you mirror your audience's starting point? How can you make yourself relatable to them so they feel like you were once in their shoes and you're the expert that can help them overcome the problems that they currently have? Number two is setbacks and struggles. What were your challenges? People need to feel your pain.

38:22People need to know that you were not perfect, that you're not better than them. that you also once struggled, okay? So first you need to know, like what were your different challenges that you had? People will trust you when you show your vulnerability and your pain, okay? Number three is your aha moment. What did you discover? What was the framework that you discovered? The thing that was missing, the gap, right? Then four is the solution. What method did you use to actually overcome these obstacles? You figured out what the problem was. What was the solution? What is your framework exactly?

38:59Five, proof of success. Who did you help, right? These are all the different testimonial stories that we were just talking about. Do people think you're a big deal? Have you accomplished anything? Do you have awards, right? Are you a thought leader in your industry? And number six is, how are you gonna frame it that your mission is beyond just you and your selfish needs of wanting to make money? How are you gonna serve others and prove to them that your mission is beyond you? How are you going to replicate your success to help other people? And what is like your mission and service to others? Okay.

39:31So like I mentioned, everything that I do is really meta in these presentations. So that whole story in the beginning was just an example of a hero story. Okay. So my relatable start was I started a course from scratch. I never had a course before. Okay. Everybody kept asking me the same things over and over again. And I decided that I was going to put out a course. I never did it before. My struggles and setbacks is that after four months, I hit a plateau. It was really hard to convert new leads from social. Now, this is relatable in multiple ways. If you're an existing influencer, it could be relatable if you have trouble with your sales right now.

40:05If you have no influence, it's also relatable to you because essentially I was starting from scratch. I had to create new leads that I needed to influence and warm up, right? My aha moment was I realized I needed to warm up my leads, that it wasn't just going to magically happen even if I did a whole bunch of paid ads or whatever and got more eyeballs. I needed to actually do something different, which was mid-funnel activities. The solution is my framework for mid-funnel activities. I'm going over right now with you guys. And the proof of success is I made$500 ,000 off my LinkedIn course last year.

40:38And that's just one small part of my business that I only spent a couple days on every month, right? Or every other month, right? So I made$500 ,000 changing my, like through this change that I made with mid-funnel activities. And now I also get paid to conduct webinars. Like, so for example, the reason why you're getting this thousand dollar course for free is thanks to Teachable. They're paying me to do this for you guys, right? So I even get paid to conduct webinars and things like that because I got really good at my mid-funnel activities. And lastly, now I spend time teaching how you guys can do it as well, right?

41:15So that's my service to you is that I'm spending this time teaching you guys how to do this and I'm not holding back on everything that I know. All right, so let's talk about Russell's hero story. Now, this is the first video that we're playing. So if you guys can't hear it, let me know. I've seen like whole classes on Pifty Bridge. Basically, Pifty Bridge is like, what is the story about how you got introduced to the thing that you're going to be sharing during the presentation, right? So if you're in a presentation showing how you, like how something's going to start of their own podcast, then the very first, the first 15 minutes of my presentation is where I'm telling the story about how I discovered this new opportunity I'm about to reveal to them, right?

41:51So the webinar is all tied around the new opportunity that we talked about earlier. So I'm going to tell this Epiphany Bridge story. Like, here's a story how I discovered this thing. I was just like you five years ago. I went through this thing. You're telling the story that you went on and how you discovered this thing. I always tell people like when someone's coming to your webinar, they're looking for a result. When they're buying a product, looking for a result. And typically when they come to you, this is not the first time they've tried to figure out that result, right? So good example. I bought a company last year, a women's weight loss company.

42:17And I remember the owner, I bought it from her. She told me, she said that the average woman in America goes on eight diets a year. Wow. Isn't that crazy? And she said, and so when you look at that, like if I assume that someone's coming to my webinar and they've never thought about having been on a diet before, I'm dumb, right? They come to mind thinking that they never thought about a funnel before. I'm wrong, right? So I have to show them like, what is my new opportunity that's different? Like they tried eight diets this year to lose weight. None of them worked. Why is my new opportunity different than these?

42:44Like, why is it different? So I'm going to tell my story about like, hey, I was just like you five years ago. I tried the paleo diet, the keto diet, and Charlie seems I'd have little successes and then crash. How many of you guys have done before? You tried the same thing, right? Yeah, I had the same problem. And so I went on this journey and I found something that was completely different than what anybody was talking about online. And it was this process called blah, blah, blah. We were processes, right? And this is where I tell that whole story, how I discovered it, what it looked like. And the result I ended up getting because of it.

43:10And then basically I tell people then, like I went through and I figured out a map. I have this map and I'm gonna teach you on the rest of the webinars, this map and how you can use it to have the same result I had. You guys ready for that? And then you all decided that I transitioned to the actual teaching part of the presentation. This is something that you wanna include in your webpage, on your webinars. And it's essentially your promise for the transformation. Okay. And so this big promise has, it's like a formula. So number one is you want some sort of specific measurable outcome. Maybe it's the timeline, the goal, the revenue target, or all three, right?

43:48So how can you be specific and measurable? In four weeks, you're going to get this transformation, right? So I have for this specific presentation in the next 90 minutes, you'll get my exclusive blueprint for slaying your sales funnels to six-figure annual sales and beyond without major investment, complicated tech, or high-pressure selling, even if you're new to sales funnels or don't have a big following, okay? So essentially, you are trying to handle the doubts and objections. So even if you're new to sales funnels or you don't have a big following. So there's the objection there, okay? Specific and measurable, six-figure annual sales, unique approach, my exclusive blueprint for slaying your sales, okay?

44:34You also want to focus on the end benefits. So you don't want to say, in the next 90 minutes, I'm going to go over this slide. I'm going to have a technical difficulty with the video. I'm going to have you write notes. You're going to have to do this. You're going to do that. You don't want to scare people with the work. You just want to tell them in the next 90 minutes, you're going to know how to slay your sales to six figures and beyond. You don't want to tell them about the work involved in it. You don't want to scare them away. Okay. And then you want to show speed. Okay. So in the next 90 minutes, which is a really short time, another example of this is like, learn everything I learned in four years in the next 90 minutes, right?

45:08So any way that you can show that there's speed in what you're doing and that you're going to, like, this is a shortcut for them is going to help. So this is just something that you should have in your repository of messaging materials to integrate into your webinars and your website and even your social posts or your bios and things like this, okay? So you want your big promise. So here's a quote from Kathy Sierra. She says, don't sell better cameras. Help your customers become better photographers because when they become better photographers, they're going to want better cameras. So what does this mean?

45:44It means don't focus on selling, focus on teaching, focus on helping people become better at what you're teaching, right? So you want people to become better photographers. You don't want to sell them better cameras. So here is a video from Josh Kaufman. I'm going to unmute. When we feel like we're being pushed into making a decision or pushed into doing something, this is an idea called reactance. Like there's an automatic desire to push back. So think of the stereotypical really bad used car salesman who's just trying to sell you anything as long as you buy it today. It pushes customers away from you instead of pulling them towards you.

46:30The best position that you can find yourself in is positioning yourself to the customer as an assistant buyer. You're not there to convince them of anything. You're not there to sell them a bill of goods. Your job is to help understand who they are, what they need, what would be beneficial. You have some subject matter expertise in this problem that they're trying to solve for themselves. And so your job is to be their assistant in making this very important, very valuable decision and finding whatever is best for them. You know, sales kind of has these icky connotations that a lot of particularly new entrepreneurs are very uncomfortable with.

47:10When really you can reframe most of that as you are making friends with someone you've never met before. You're trying to understand what would be good for them. and you're trying to help them make a really good decision, whatever that good decision happens to be for them. We talked about value-based selling, like really understanding what the customer wants or needs. And then there's a kind of a close technique called education-based selling, where it's you are helping the customer become a better customer of the thing that you sell. And so there's a quote by Kathy Sierra that I just love. She says, don't sell better cameras, help your customers become better photographers.

47:51Because when they become better photographers, they're going to want better cameras. And so helping people understand more about what it is that you do, it encourages them to want more. And when they want more, they're pulling from you instead of you pushing on them. Now, there are a lot of, call it structural barriers to making a sale. The classic objections, like I don't have enough money. I don't know if this is worth it. I don't know if it'll work. I don't know if it'll work for me. And the best thing about those kinds of objections, you know in advance, they're coming. They're always going to be coming.

48:28They apply to everything. And so that combination of the mindset shift of, I'm an assistant buyer. I'm going to try to help them make the best decision that I can. And being a prepared seller, knowing well in advance the types of questions that a customer is going to ask, doing your research, having answers to those things before the sales conversation actually takes place, that puts you in the best position to make the final sale. Let's talk about becoming an assistant decision maker or an assistant buyer. Okay, so a traditional seller is pushing a decision. It's trying to create pressure instead of partnership.

49:10Okay, So you're breaking trust before it begins. The only time you're gonna push people into a decision is after you've already warmed them up, after you've brought them through all the steps. Then you wanna gently push them and incentivize them to make a purchase. But you don't wanna do that right up front. You don't wanna just push people into a decision that's just gonna break the trust immediately, okay? Then you become an assistant buyer where you're helping them decide. You are showing up to support their decision making. You're building long-term connection and trust. And sometimes that means you're not the solution for them.

49:46Sometimes that means turning them away or having them start with somewhere more of a beginner's place, right? So sometimes it means turning people away when it comes to helping them decide. Traditional sellers talk a lot. Really good sellers just listen, right? You want to understand people's problems. You want to understand if you're the person that can actually help them. You want to ask them really good questions if it's like on a sales call or something. So you want to listen deeply. Also, traditional sellers sell what they have, right? You're just pushing some generic solution. Everybody has the same solution, right?

50:22And then people just start to feel like a number. Assistant buyers recommend what fits, and sometimes that means it's not you, right? If you're in this bucket, maybe there's somebody that you can refer them to, right? This will make sure that people see you as that trusted expert and refer you to their friends because they know that you always have their best interests in mind. Traditional sellers hype the products, right? They over-promise, they under-deliver, they have empty claims. And assistant buyers educate the buyers. You wanna give them realistic goals. You want to actually know that your solution can do the following results.

51:00You wanna track those results and give them realistic results of what they can expect. Otherwise, people are always going to be disappointed even if you do a good job. So what are the realistic results? What can you actually help them do? How can you prove that you can help them do that? And how can you make them understand that it's a no-brainer to work with you because you can get those realistic results? Okay, let's talk about objections. Mostly what it's all about is the objection. And here's how it always plays out. First, it's money, which it never really is. but that's the first smoke screen that they throw up.

51:33I'd really like this, but it's too expensive. It's too much money. I don't have the money for this right now. 99 times, that's a lie. So you learn that that's not truly the objection. But until you uproot that issue, you can't get past it. So we'll handle the price objection five or six or seven or eight or nine times in six or seven or eight or nine different ways. Now we don't do it all at once because if you drill down on something, it gets too boring. So we will first address price. And then the second issue was always time, almost always time. I don't have the time to do this or how long will it take?

52:05And so we'll handle that one six, seven, eight, nine different ways, right? And then the real one, almost always the real objection is neither time nor price. It's always belief. I don't think I can do this. I'm deficient in this way. I'm limited in that way. I'm going to fail. And that's where we really spend most of our time. And they're initially excited. And they're like, but wait, I got to consume it all. oh my God, that's going to take a lot of effort. And they will feel very uncomfortable if they don't consume all of your information, even though they can't. It's going to be too much. And it's not a good way of doing it, right?

52:42It frustrates me because it's a limiting belief. The limiting belief is I have to consume all the information in order to be successful with this thing, which is not how real success works. Real success works as we consume only partial amounts of information. And then we kind of go out there and figure it out. Right. But they're thinking I got to consume it all. And if I don't, then I suck. I'm not good. I failed. I didn't follow through or they do consume it all. God forbid. And now they're more confused than they were when they started. I love these customers. They're walking a meat shield full of contradictions.

53:18Right. And so I have to help them navigate through that minefield in order for them not to cheat themselves out of something that they should buy. And so I will say to them, this is what I said the other day, just, and we freestyle these now on these closes. Sometimes I'll say, tell me when you got a library card, you didn't feel guilty that you didn't read every book in the library. And that's one of the ways in which we deal with that objection specifically, if that's one that's coming up. I used to deal with it this way. And I still do sometimes. It's like, if you went to a buffet, do you feel obligated to eat every type of food that's offered to you in the buffet and drink every drink that's offered to you?

53:51And people are like, no, of course not. right? Well, that's what this course is like. It's done buffet style. And even if you only consume 10 % of it at random, we put a blindfold on you, spun you around, and you played pen the tail on the donkey when it came to this content, I am confident you will be able to succeed and move forward with this. And then later on, if you want to go back and do it logically, you certainly can, right? So these are beliefs. And again, I have two or three, I gave you three ways just to deal with that one stupid little tiny belief. But we cycle through all of these.

54:22And then there's product-specific objections too, right? Where it's, can I use it this way? Will I have access to it over here? I'm from, you know, I'm international. Will it work for international folks, et cetera, et cetera. So we just hang in there and we just go through all of them. I love that. And a key thing, Young and Profiters, is you have to know what people are going to object. You've got to actually think through that and prepare your answers in advance. So go through all the possible things that people could object from your offer and make sure that you know the answers and then creatively integrate it.

54:51So I love that. So Jason's awesome. So Jason is known as the$100 million webinar man or a quarter billion dollar webinar man. That's what he's known as. And so he was talking about handling objections on a webinar, but you can also think about this more broadly. You wanna help overcome objections throughout all your different marketing materials, okay? And so one of the things that you wanna do when you're thinking about, let's say, launching a course is like, what are all the reasons why people wouldn't want to do my course? A lot of the, like Jason said, a lot of it is time-based. A lot of it is people make the excuse they don't have money.

55:31That's usually not the case. Usually the actual real reason is that they don't believe they can do it. And so a lot of your communications has to be showing people how they can do it and convincing them that they can take the first step to transform and that they're capable of doing it. So like we mentioned, a lot of this, this whole presentation is going to be available for you guys. But let's talk about some of these objections really quickly. If somebody says it's too expensive, really what they're saying is that they might waste money and that they'll, that they might not be able to achieve what you're saying.

56:09They're not convinced they're going to actually achieve it. Because if they did, it wouldn't be too expensive. It'd be worth the value. So you need to really focus on value, okay? If they say they don't have the time, maybe what they're really saying, or most likely what they're really saying, is that they're afraid they won't follow through, they're overwhelmed. So this is why you don't want to scare them with too much information, right? In terms of the process, you want to handhold them on the process. You don't want to scare them away with too many steps and too many things to do and too much work.

56:38So you want to simplify the process, make it seem as easy as possible. And this might seem manipulative, but it's actually not. It's in their best interest to take your course or product if you have a good course or product. So you're going to want to make it seem as easy as possible so they actually take this journey from you. And then if they think it's not going to work for them, they're afraid of failure. So you want to share a lot of relatable success stories. This is where an initial results story can come in or something like this. So you want to share that other people overcame the same challenges, your own hero story can be a way that you can help people ease their fears.

57:15So how do you see being more intentional with your words can help you improve your funnel performance? Do you guys see how being more intentional with your words will help you improve funnel performance? Let me know in the chat. Let me know. And let's get some activity here, guys. There's hundreds of you in the chat. Please type in the chat. Let's get some energy in here. How do you guys see being intentional with your words are gonna help you with your funnel performance? Can you see yourself leveraging these communication strategies and becoming a sales funnel master? Can you see yourself doing this?

57:46Can you see yourself creating sales funnels, using things like hook story offer, creating a hero story, creating a big promise? Can you see yourself doing this? Starting an email list. Can you see yourself doing this? Okay, do you think that if you implemented just 20 % of the things that we learned today that you would increase your sales? I just tricked you guys. Can you guess what tactic I just used here? I used two things. The first thing I did is I got you guys to say yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I got you in the mode of saying yes, okay? This prepares for the big ask of you buying from me and saying yes.

58:26If this was something I'm not selling to you today, but if I needed you to buy from me, I would try throughout the whole presentation to get you to say yes, yes, yes, right? I am shifting your identity. I'm making you prime to buy by getting you in the mode of yes. This is called a yes ladder technique, okay? So I asked you three questions where you were like, yes, yes, yes, right? So that's the yes ladder technique. The second thing that I did is I created a commitment, okay, with identities. Are you willing to use this in your materials? If you implemented 20%, can you see yourself doing this?

59:05Can you see yourself transform? Okay, I am taking your impoverished identity and I'm helping you transform on this call to become a sales funnel master. The reason why you joined this call is because you thought you were bad at sales funnels or you had some improvement to do with your sales funnels, right? So me always asking you, can you see yourself doing this? Do you think you can do this? Doesn't it seem so easy? What did you learn? These are ways to transform you on the call. So that's what I just did there. I'm nudging you to, I'm nudging you from your current identity to a better one. Because like Jason Fladline said, most people are not buying from you because they don't believe they can do it.

59:52It has nothing to do with time. It has nothing to do with money. They believe that they can't do it and you need to shift their identity. If you guys haven't yet, sign up to the demo. And I wanna know right now, I'm not gonna ask you again about this. I wanna get through the material. If you sign up for the demo, type yes in the chat. I wanna see hundreds of yeses right now. We're in the mode of yes, right? There's no cost to this. There's no credit card. It will help incentivize you to actually get something done being signed up. If you want to take it to the next level, I'm going to tell you all about how Teachable can help you do these things.

1:00:28We still have upsells. We still have bottom of funnel and retention to go over. We have two parts left. We have about 30 minutes. It might be a little bit more than I would try my best to finish in 30 minutes. We did have a technical difficulty. Okay. Put the link in the chat, guys. Please, if you sign up, type yes right now. This is basically a thousand dollar course that you're getting for free. And the way to think teachable is by signing up to the free trial. Okay. It's a free trial. There's nothing to lose. If you guys stay till the end, like I said, we've got about 30, 45 minutes left. You will get the creator course book.

1:01:08You'll get this whole presentation and all the notes in the slides. All right, let's talk about creating irresistible offers. and this is a section that we're gonna go over the teachable demo. Here's something before, now we're talking about creating your offer. So part of having a sales funnel is of course having some sort of offer. You don't wanna find customers for your products. You wanna find products for your customers. When it comes to creating an offer, you never wanna create demand. You wanna channel demand, okay? You wanna sell what people are selling and save better. You do not want to create a product that nobody wants, okay?

1:01:43So one of the things that I want to show you is the top 20 reasons that startups fail, all right? Let's look at the top three reasons. No market need, 42%, ran out of cash, not the right team. Now, the second and third buckets are all because you don't have money because nobody wants your product, okay? So whenever you're thinking about starting a course, you really got to think about, are people already buying this? Don't reinvent the wheel. Sell something that people are already selling and say it better. So you have to work on the right idea. Like I just said, 42 % of startups fail because of lack of market demand.

1:02:21So you wanna ask your community what they want from you. You wanna pay attention to what people are asking you over and over again, all right? You wanna test your idea. Remember I told you I started my LinkedIn Masterclass with a pilot, half price. Let me see if I can get people half price to buy it. Then that means I could probably get double the price if I improve it a little bit and get some feedback. So you want to work on the right idea. And let's talk about turning your expertise into a course. For the sake of time, I think I'm going to skip this video. You guys can watch it on your own time.

1:02:52It's Jenna Kutcher basically explaining how she started a course. And it's very similar to my story in terms of people were asking her how to do the same thing over and over again. And so she decided to create a course. So you can watch this on your own time. It's a great clip.

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1:05:54Young and profiters. I know there's so many people tuning in right now that end their workday wondering why certain tasks take forever, why they're procrastinating certain things, why they don't feel confident in their work, why they feel drained and frustrated and unfulfilled. But here's the thing you need to know. It's not a character flaw that you're feeling this way. It's actually your natural wiring. And here's the thing. When it comes to burnout, it's really about the type of work that you're doing. Some work gives you energy and some work simply drains you. So it's key to understand your six types of working genius.

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1:07:30I'm obsessed with this model. So if you guys want to take the Working Genius assessment and get 20 % off, you can use code profiting. Go to workinggenius.com. Again, that's workinggenius.com. Stop guessing. Start working in your genius. And we're going to talk about launching your course. So how do you launch your course? Before we do that, I want to ask you, like I mentioned, I started my LinkedIn course because I was a LinkedIn influencer and then everybody always asked me for LinkedIn advice. For a long time, I gave away the advice for free. And then I was like, I keep repeating myself. I keep giving the same advice.

1:08:03I need to like put this in some sort of a course so that if people ask me, I can just point them to the course or they can sign up to the course and I can monetize it, okay? So what do people ask you for help with, okay? And think outside the box. It could be like, you could be in marketing, but people always ask you for fashion advice, right? What do people always ask you for help with? Type it in the chat right now. Tech tips, writing advice, life advice. Okay, maybe you can be a life coach. Career advice, how to organize. I love that. ChatGPT, AI, yeah. That's hot, guys. AI is super hot. Insights at solving problems, healthy eating, entrepreneurship.

1:08:44Awesome. Yeah, so this is a precursor of your course or your membership or your coaching program. Okay, that is where it starts. Establish your expertise, okay? What do people always ask you for over and over again? What advice are you giving over and over again? Then you wanna define the change with your course. What is your transformation, okay? This is so important. This is your big promise, okay? You wanna define your big promise. What problem are you solving? What is the clear end result that they're gonna get from your program, your coaching service, so on? What is the transformation? Then you're going to want to outline the framework.

1:09:26What are the three to seven steps? Don't go over three to seven steps that will be too overwhelming. What are the three steps, the three stages, the three pillars, the five pillars, the five steps, the five stages? What does the transformation look like? What is the journey you're going to take them on? What are they going to achieve by the end? What do they have to learn to get there? And this essentially then becomes your curriculum, whether it's a coaching program, whether it's a membership program or an on-demand course or a live course. This is your curriculum. Every, you know, module or lesson is your pillar, okay?

1:10:00So we have an example of this. It was the sales funnel framework, TOFU, MOFU, BOFU retention. This is, that's the framework of today's course, right? That was the framework. So you wanna think about what your framework is and then that is your agenda, okay? Then you wanna choose a format. Are you gonna do pre-recorded? Are you gonna do live? Are you gonna do hybrid? Are you gonna have videos? Are you gonna have quizzes? are going to have worksheets, right? How are you going to make it interactive? So you want to think about your format. What do you feel comfortable with? And then a platform like Teachable lets you do it literally A to Z, okay?

1:10:35Then you're going to create an irresistible offer. So it's taking whatever that format is and then you're layering on bonuses, right? So a lot of those lead magnets that you use to bring people in the funnel will then become your bonuses, right? You can just add that to the course as a free bonus if the people didn't get it yet. your risk-free guarantees. What are you going to guarantee them? What kind of testimonials do you have? Do you have a VIP access and things that are priceless? So if you say like, oh, and then you get a VIP coaching call with me once a month, those things are priceless.

1:11:07It's going to make your offer seem really valuable. This is called stacking your offer. How are you going to stack your offer outside of the course? What other things are they going to get where it just seems too good to be true? They're getting so much value from this course, okay? And then lastly, you're gonna launch your sales funnel. This is essentially the playbook of what we went over today, right? So an example is having a lead magnet, getting their email, getting them to register to a webinar, making a sale, right? So you're gonna have all these different sales funnels. Start with one and then keep building different sales funnels.

1:11:38Okay, so let's talk about the value equation in terms of irresistible offers. So value equation is all about the perceived value. So we were just talking about creating an irresistible offer as step five in the framework. And this is all about the perceived value of everything. People buy because they believe it's a shortcut to results. It's a transformation they can visualize. It's a future self that they want to become. So let's talk about the value equation. So the value equation is basically, you wanna increase the top of the equation. You wanna decrease the bottom of the equation, okay? So when it comes to your messaging, You want to increase the dream outcome.

1:12:20Increase the perceived likelihood of achievement, okay? So increase the dream outcome. This is about speaking in outcome, not talking about the effort and the sacrifice. This is about the transformation and the dream, right? Like it's really about helping them envision themselves, shifting their identity, okay, in all your communications. Perceived likelihood of achievement is about reducing the risk of buying from you. So what does that mean? That means guarantees. That means testimonials, all those stories that I was talking about. You know, exact results that people have gotten, your own results, okay?

1:13:01So making it seem like a no-brainer, risk-free, other people have done it, famous people have done it, and so on, okay? Then you wanna decrease the time delay. You want to make it seem as simple and as fast as possible, that you're giving them a shortcut. You want to make it seem as easy and as effortless and as simplified and easy to understand as possible, okay? So you want to increase the top. You want to decrease the bottom, okay? So you want to speak in outcomes. You want to increase the likelihood of achievement. You want to decrease the delay in results and the effort it's going to take to get there, okay?

1:13:39So we're going to talk about Teachable now. This is a Teachable demo portion, and we still have Bofu and retention to go over. So make sure you guys stay tuned. So let's talk about what you can do with Teachable. So first of all, you can create online courses. So you can build and launch online courses. My on-demand course is on Teachable. You don't need any coding. And you can use AI tools to jumpstart your content creation, which is awesome, okay? You also can have digital downloads. So you can upload assets. You can create gated asset pages like we mentioned. You can upload different types of assets to your curriculum to support everything like worksheets and things like that.

1:14:19You can also include digital downloads for upselling purposes and bundles, and you can sell your digital downloads. So if you've got some sort of e-book, you can sell it on Teachable, which is awesome, okay? You can also have your coaching service on Teachable. So they've got calendar management. You can manage sessions, client progress with milestones. You've got an onboarding process that you can have in your coaching program in Teachable. Teachable basically has a coaching platform that you can leverage. So if you want a coaching program, you can do that with Teachable. And then you can also have memberships.

1:14:53So if you have something that's more of like a wide-serving community that you want to start, a subscription model, you can use your subscription member service in Teachable. You can create forums, communities. You can have flexible pricing tiers, free trial options, and so on. So you can also do your subscription memberships and community forums within Teachable. The other thing to note is that they've got different AI tools. So they've got an AI curriculum generator. So let's say you do a coaching program. You could upload all your materials to Teachable. You can answer some questions. They give you some question prompts for the AI tools, and it will create the curriculum for you.

1:15:32You can also create quizzes using their AI tool. So they've got all these different AI tools that you can leverage to create your course really, really fast. Of course, you're gonna wanna put your human touch on it, right, but they make it really easy for you. So Teachable is one of the most advanced, probably the most advanced course platform out there. I've tried them all and my courses are on Teachable for a reason. Okay, so everybody signed up for the demo already and we are gonna go into a two minute demo of Teachable. I will unmute here. Hello, everyone. In this video, I'm going to give you a quick overview of the Teachable backend and show you just how easy it is to get started and create a course.

1:16:13If you've already signed up for the one-month free trial on the Builder Plan, your first step will be to create an account. You'll answer a few questions, a form, and just like that, you just created your first school. Your school is set up and ready to use. Once you're in, This is the backend, and here is what it looks like. On the left-hand side, you'll find all the navigation options. For today's demo, I'm going to focus on the bottom half, especially the course creation part. Let's dive into the courses. I'll be using this Podcasting 101 example to highlight one of Teachable's coolest features, its AI integration.

1:16:49To start, I've added the course title and short description. Now click Continue. you. For now, we can skip things like thumbnail and pricing. We can come back to that later. Now here is where the magic happens. With Teachable's AI tool, we can generate a full course outline and curriculum based on the description you provided. I've already entered the description and now the AI is building out the course for me. You can also choose to start from scratch or upload your own material, whatever works for you, but for this example, we'll use the AI. Let's click finish and watch the magic happen. Teachable's AI is now creating the course section by section, adding topics like identifying your podcast audience, defining your unique value proposition, choosing the right podcast equipment and software.

1:17:37So everything you'd expect in a beginner level podcast course, all generated automatically. Once the content is ready, it will notify you. Just a reminder, this is a super helpful feature to start working on the content, you want to go and personalize it based on your own expertise, based on your own insights, and add value to it. That's how you'll deliver the most value to your students. Another time-saving AI feature is the quiz generator. Based on the course content you've added, Teachable's AI can automatically create quiz questions, making it easy to add interactive elements to your course without starting from scratch.

1:18:16So if you're ready to start building your own online course with powerful tools like this, sign up for Teachable's Builder Plan today and get 30 days for free, completely free. You just enter your info and you'll get the offer. Awesome. Thank you so much, Eamon, for that. Yeah, feel free, guys, to post us on LinkedIn. And by the way, a lot of you guys are like just talking to the host and panelist. I don't know why that's happening on this webinar. Maybe by default, for some reason, that's the setting. But go ahead and chat with everyone. And I'd love for everybody to see everyone's feedback because most of the feedback is coming just to the panelists.

1:18:53All right. So if you guys didn't yet, sign up to Teachable. Shout out to Teachable for sponsoring this awesome session. And this is the third webinar that they've sponsored. So really appreciate their support and enabling me to teach all of you guys everything that I know for free, which is amazing. So guys, do you feel more confident to launch a course or coaching program or membership? Do you guys feel more confident to do that now? Yes, ladder in effect, you know it. Are you going to give Teachable a try? Is this something that you're actually going to take action on? Are you going to? You signed up.

1:19:34Are you going to actually start playing with it? I have to tell you guys, all of my companies started really small. like really, really small action. I started my network by creating a PowerPoint deck that just like outlined my network. And then I would like pitch that around to podcasters. And then now I have like a$6 million business from like a PowerPoint I started. Right. So it's like literally like what is the first step that you're going to take to just try? Okay. Don't get overwhelmed. Think about what is the first thing? Maybe it's a digital download. Maybe it's like you want to start the coaching program, okay?

1:20:16Start small, okay? Okay, let's talk about the bottom of funnel. Now, I love sales psychology. Something you want to always know is that people want what they can't have. People want what other people do, right? They want risk-free decision-making. They want other people to think for them and make the hard decisions for them. People want exclusivity. They want things that people have, just a select few have access to. They don't want to feel like it's available to everyone. They want exclusivity. So you always want to keep that in mind with your messaging material. And so let's talk about some of the language that gets people to buy.

1:20:53This is, like I talked about, bottom of funnel is all about like, you know, you warm them up, you show them the value, they know you're the expert. Now you're like, how do I decrease the time in which they make this decision and talk themselves out of this decision that's good for them? Because they don't believe in themselves, right? How can we make this a no-brainer for them and get them to actually click that buy button and give you their money, right? So scarcity. There's a limited supply. I've got a limited number of seats. There's a limited number of clients. So for example, if you've got a coaching services, I only can take two new clients a month, okay?

1:21:28I only can take two new clients a month. I'm sorry, but that's the max. I'm going to give you this agreement. The deadline to sign is X, right? If you don't sign by now, if you don't sign in two days, I'm going to give it to somebody else. I'm going to open up the spot because I only have a limited number of seats, limited number of spots. Maybe it's, I'm only doing, like, for example, I've got a podcast course I'm going to launch. I'm only going to launch it once a year. I'm going to tell everybody, guys, I'm launching this podcast course, which is true. I'm really launching a podcast course and I'm only going to launch it once a year.

1:22:01And then you have to wait till next year if you want to do it. I'm not going to be on demand. It's going to be live in its cohort, and I'm only launching it once a year, okay? So you want to be scarce. The other thing that you want to do is a function of people, right? So how can you have social proof? Who has used your stuff? What are the testimonials that you have? What quotes can you get? What competitors are you working with? So how can you just make it a no-brainer? Somebody else made the decision for them, tried it, took the risk, it did well. Now they don't have to worry about the risk, okay?

1:22:31Function of time, there's a limited only discount, seasonal discount, deadline to sign, kind of similar to the quantity. It's like just urgency scarcity, right? So this is the language that gets people to buy. Now let's talk about status.

1:22:50How many of you guys want me to go through everything versus how many of you guys want me to skip around? How many of you guys will stay 15 minutes later or 15 or 20 minutes later to go through everything versus how many of you guys want me to skip around? If anybody needs to go, there's going to be a replay. So if you have to go, there's going to be a replay. But try to stay. Try to stay so that you could just learn everything. Okay, we got mostly people don't want to skip. And by the way, you guys are still only messaging panelists. Please change to everyone so that everybody can see what you're saying.

1:23:26Okay? All right. So let me unmute here. Okay, so related to new opportunities, why is status and leveraging status really important to do a good job with that? Yeah, it's fascinating. In fact, I bet most listeners will argue with me on this or they won't believe it's true for themselves. But I promise you it is. Everything we do or we don't do in life is because it's also a status. If you do something, it's either going to increase your status or it's going to decrease your status. So we do the things because we hope it's going to increase our status or we don't do things because we're feared that it's going to decrease our status.

1:24:00So for example, somebody sees a nice car, like, oh, I want to buy a Ferrari. The reason why I want to buy a Ferrari is because if I buy this thing, it will increase my status. My people around me will think that I'm better. So that's what drives us to want to buy something, right? If I'm going to buy a course from somebody, there's two weird things, right? If I buy something from you, I'm taking money out of my bank account and giving it to you. So what happens to me is my status is decreased because I'm losing money. But I have a hope that by giving you this money, it's going to increase my status by the result you're giving me, right?

1:24:27And so they're always waiting like, if I give you this, it's going to decrease my status temporarily. But by doing so, I will learn, I'll figure out how to distinguish, increase my status. Therefore, I'm willing to take that risk. So whenever I share this with people, I always laugh because they're like, well, I'm not that way. Like, I don't do things based on my status. And I actually had this conversation with my wife when I was writing Expert Secrets. I had a whole chapter on status. And I asked her, I was reading this to her. She was like, she's like, Russell, you don't understand. I don't look at it that same way.

1:24:49I'm like, what do you mean? She's like, I would never buy a Ferrari. I would never do that. I'm like, why not? And she's like, if I had a Ferrari, she's like, my friends would make fun of me. They'd be like, oh, the mom's showing up at the pickup line, picking on the kids in the Ferrari. And I was like, okay. I kind of stopped and I said, so by you buying a Ferrari for you, it would have actually been a decrease in status because your friends and people with the pickup line would have made fun of you, right? She's like, oh. I said, yes, all the choices we're making is based on this weird thing of like, if I do this, is it going to increase my status or decrease my status?

1:25:13And so when I'm selling something or I'm making an offer to somebody, I'm always thinking about that. Like by them giving me money, it's going to decrease their status, but I have to help them see the vision of like, over time, this will actually increase their status if they buy this thing. And status could be, they're going to make more money. They're going to lose more weight, whatever that thing is they're trying to get, right? And if they believe that the increases in status will offset the decrease by paying you, then they're more likely to buy the thing. So status is an interesting one that's hard for a lot of people to believe.

1:25:38It dictates your choices, but 100 % it is. From everything, I think about like the people we date, the people we marry, the clothes we wear, all these things have to do with how we perceive it's going to increase or decrease our status. It's kind of fascinating. It is so fascinating. Russell Brunson is the GOAT, by the way. He's my client also. He's amazing and gives the best advice. And so, like he said, people make decisions based on a desire to increase their status or avoid losing it. So throughout your funnel, you're always going to want to think about how can I make people realize that even though they're going to give me this money and it's going to decrease their status temporarily, that by taking this course, it will ultimately increase their status.

1:26:17So short-term loss, long-term gain through what you're selling. So if your audience can see this as a way to elevate their status, whether that's socially, professionally, personally, physically, it's gonna help them. So there's seven status drivers primarily. There's wealth and success. How can you show that you're gonna help them increase their financial ability to make money? Intellectual authority. So how can you make them look smarter? physical appearance, how can you make them look better looking, right? People want to look better looking. Exclusivity and access, how can you make them feel more like a VIP?

1:26:54Influence and recognition, how can you grow their audience, their visibility? Belonging and belief, how can you make them feel like they're more a part of a tribe or a community? And then progress and achievement, how can you show them that your course or program will give them tangible results, like you've got milestones, headphones, badges, make them feel like they're winning on this journey. So there's many different status drivers that you can use in your communications and in your programs itself, okay? So what is a status that you're going to improve via your course or product? How does your course or product improve your customer's status?

1:27:32Type it in the chat, like just give some ideas. If you guys have questions, drop them in the chat. And as long as my studio allows me to stay, I'll answer whatever questions at the end. All right. So we've got education, talking, professional status, creates desire. Here, I'll go back to this slide. So like out of these things, what is the status that your program is going to hit? If it doesn't hit one of these, there might be a problem. So like, for example, my LinkedIn course is typically wealth and status and influence and recognition and even exclusivity and access because there's a mastermind involved and so on.

1:28:16Okay, wealth and status, belonging and belief, physical appearance, okay. And even physical appearance can also be like internal health, right? Like so like longevity, I would add to this, you know, physical appearance or longevity. All right, so let's talk about optimizing your funnels. So first of all, you want to isolate your funnels. If you've been in business already, if you already are selling something, chances are you have a lot of different funnels. And you might not even know all your different funnels. And you might not be like strategic about your different funnels where you're just kind of driving a bunch of stuff to a bunch of stuff.

1:28:52And it's like not a cohesive funnel that you're tracking. And that's not good, right? So first thing you want to do is isolate your funnels. So here are some funnel examples if you're already existing in business. So you might have a ManyChat campaign where it's a social media post that goes to a ManyChat direct message automation. You're capturing email. You put them in a welcome journey. You sell them on email and they check out through the email. Or it's a webinar campaign. You've got a social media or a podcast. You're driving to webinar registrations. You're getting email journey and reminders.

1:29:25People attend the event. You sell on the webinar itself. Or maybe after the webinar is done, you sell them afterwards. So they came from the social media podcast, they registered, they emailed, you sent them an email journey, they attended, they did not convert on the webinar, and then you retargeted them after the webinar and they converted on email, right? So there's all these different funnels that you need to track. And if you're not tracking them, you're not going to be able to track the performance. Eventually, and this is for a whole nother course that I teach a lot actually about bottoms up sales forecasting.

1:30:01It's just not in this presentation where basically once you outline all these funnels, you can do bottoms up forecasting, which basically means you can have an end result that you want. And then you can just increase the actions in your sales funnel to get that end result. So, so for example, let's say I had I want 30 signups at$2 ,000 for my mastermind and I do social media DMs in order to do that and to get 30 signups I have 3 ,000 DMs that I need to send now if I want 60 signups and I know that if I send 3 ,000 DMs and then x amount of people click and x amount of people send up to my webinar and x amount of people convert from that webinar on average because I've done this sales cycle 10 times and I have all the averages, then I can say, okay, if I double my DMs, I will get 60 signups.

1:30:56And then I just double the first thing that I do, the top of funnel activity, to then get the end result that I want. So that's bottoms up sales forecasting. And you want to reverse engineer it. You can't do that if you don't know all of your steps in the funnel. Okay. If you guys want information about bottoms up sales forecasting, just look up any of my of Pipedrive-sponsored webinars, okay? All right, let's talk about how your sales funnels are broken with Sean Cannell. And then it's kind of like online marketing best practices. I think the naming of whatever you're giving away free, the desire of what you're giving away free, alignment on the entire thing and congruency.

1:31:38Congruency is that when they land on the page, they're on the right page. People have horrible landing pages, navigation above. It doesn't even seem like it's them. There's not authority there. It doesn't load. It's like malware notification. There's all kinds. I mean, it's just kind of stressful. Someone's like, man, there's so many things. You just want to remove friction. Sometimes the biggest mistake is like you're making a video that have people thinking one way and giving a call to action that's not related. Think about what video would attract the ideal person for your opt-in. what opt-in would attract the ideal person for your offer and those things are broken all the time in people's businesses like someone opts in but they're not the right psychology psychographics demographics because it was a cool free thing but did it really align and then the youtube videos if you were talking about how to hire team members in a video.

1:32:38And then you were like, and by the way, if you want to download my 21 tax savings guide, like not horrible, because maybe some people are like, that does sound interesting. The reason that they're there, the better guide would be a freebie that's like, you know, and if you want to get my scripts, my job interview scripts for how to really filter out the wrong candidates and lock in the right candidates, just go to think filter, thinkhiringscripts.com or click the link in the description. So that would be my biggest thing is like, I think the strategy of the content that attracts the right people, then the opt-in that ties together concurrency and the whole thing.

1:33:15And then again, a good sales process and funnels, you know, you probably have endless episodes in your own library of some good stuff on making great funnels. But what's powerful about that is it is a psychology. Everybody listening to this needs to know. thinking about their whole, you could call it sales journey, the whole customer journey, thinking about the entire thing to start to finish. And that is a never ending process of tweaking. All of us could improve it. Ours is probably a six out of 10 and we've done very well. Like there's so many, you know, things that small tweaks lead to giant peaks.

1:33:51And so just being willing to be like, can I change my opt into the future? Can I change my offer page? As I am just my offer page, the checkout page and the thank you page. and then follow up and what do I want to do next? And is that all aligned? And usually when things are not working, it's just because a piece is broken and there's some kind of like cognitive dissonance that happens or something. Sometimes from YouTube to your landing page, it's not quite what it looked like and all these little details like that. One of my favorite things to do right now is to take every sales funnel that would...

1:34:23Okay, so because I'm going into bottomless forecasting and I already explained that to you guys. So basically what Sean Cannell is saying is that you need congruency. So you need to evaluate all your videos, your different funnels, and you need to see like, where is it broken? Where am I losing people? And part of that is knowing your sales funnel and actually tracking and understanding like how many clicks do I usually get? How many people actually register? How many people actually convert, right? You need to start tracking those things and seeing if there's like incongruency. He talked about having a video where you're talking about a certain topic and then your lead magnet has nothing to do with that topic.

1:35:01It could be the same thing. Maybe you're attracting a certain type of audience that's not interested in what you're trying to solve. So you need to make sure you're able to kind of evaluate your sales funnel, okay? So in summary, small tweaks have big impact. Something else that we went over earlier is that every single page or video or post that is selling has to have a hook story offer, okay? So if the hook story offer is missing, that is what's broken in general. Next, alignment is key. So the opt-in, the content, the offer all have to attract the same audience. You also wanna eliminate friction.

1:35:46So that means like not having multiple CTAs, right? Not being distracting, making it seamless, making sure there's nothing broken in your sales funnel. So you always wanna check your sales funnels. Sometimes like our like pop-up on our website is broken and then I don't hear about it until like a fan's like, hey, your pop-up doesn't work. And I'm like, oh, great. How many things did we miss? Because nobody caught that, right? So like you wanna make sure that things are working and not broken. You also wanna optimize with data, this bottoms up forecasting that we were just talking about and reverse engineer success.

1:36:18When you have the data and the averages of what your typical sales funnel is like, you can then decide on a bigger goal and reverse engineer success by taking more action throughout your sales funnel, okay? Having more top of funnel interactions and eyeballs. All right, what was your biggest takeaway for bottoms up section and improving your funnels, optimize your funnels? What was like one of your big takeaways from this section? Let us know in the chat. We still got, you know, hundreds of you guys in here. So let us know in the chat. Eliminate friction, alignment. All right. So let's talk about upselling and retention.

1:37:00Successful brands don't rely on one expensive product. They upsell and nurture customers over time. So something that you want to think about is not only your marketing funnel. You want to think about like your marketing and sales funnel. You want to think about like your product funnel, right? that you're like, where do people enter? What is the next stage? What is the next stage? What is the next stage? You don't wanna just have like one$200 offer and nothing else, right? You always want an ability to sell them something more and more and more, right? So you want different levels of your offers.

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1:41:59Rudy Maywar is like a genius when it comes to this kind of stuff. So I can't wait for you guys to hear this one. Oh my God, these strategies are so good. And one thing that you just kind of opened my eyes to is that my masterclass is expensive, right? It's almost$2 ,000. So my organic leads were willing to spend the$2 ,000 after a webinar, but maybe for cold traffic, it needs to be like a$200 course, a 197 course. Most of our stuff, we actually start at under$100. Okay. And there's a big important psychology lesson here. Under$100, psychologically, most people don't need multiple decision-making processes.

1:42:40They don't need to review it multiple times. As soon as you go over $100, and especially over$500 or$1 ,000, there needs to be multiple touch points and multiple conscious decision-making processes involved. A great way to explain this is when you're lining up a CVS Walgreens grocery store to pay, have you ever saw on the side of the aisle where you're in the line where they say, you can buy a TV here for$1 ,000. And then the other side, it's like, you can buy a jet ski for$12 ,000. And then you can buy a new couch for$2 ,000. No, you never see that. Why? Because it's too expensive to be spontaneous, right?

1:43:16But that's what a lot of people are doing in their ads. When they sell to cold traffic, they're saying, hey, buy this$12 ,000 jet ski. It's like, I came here, I'm bored at work looking at my friend's photos. I'm not ready to buy a jet ski. So you have to, I try and start them low, get them in the ecosystem. And another easy analogy is you're going to date before marriage, right? When there are one following, you can say, hey, you want to come on a week's vacation with me? If you went up to a stranger in the street or on a dating app, and the first message was, hey, you want to come on a week's vacation?

1:43:48And I'm like, who the hell is this, right? So you got to date a little, and then you can elevate that process as a relationship built. Same psychology with dating, same psychology with the user journey. I want to stick on this for a bit because I think it's really important. The importance of understanding that you need multiple products and you need to upsell along the way. So give us an example of how you've done this in your business. Yeah, great. It's cool. I call this the essential model. I think most businesses need this. And most businesses that are successful, they have what's called a high lifetime value.

1:44:22So they have multiple products to elevate people through, right? And obviously the exception again is maybe billion dollar brands. Louis Vuitton doesn't sell something cheap, but most people that buy a Louis Vuitton bag don't walk around the shopping mall, have zero clue what that brand is and just go, oh, I'm going to buy a$1 ,500 handbag. They've wanted a Louis Vuitton for three years because their favorite celebrities, influencer and older sister, all had Louis Vuitton bags. So again, you got to realize the psychology is different. But most of us that aren't Louis Vuitton or anything like that, we need these multiple touch points.

1:44:56We need free content. We need opt-in based content where people just give their email address or phone number. You want some generally some sort of a lower ticket content, which is the first day you're getting them in the restaurant. And then you need some content where they can start dating you, maybe move into the house, which is what we call middle tier content. And then you want your high ticket content, which is when they're going to get married to you and have kids, right? So if you imagine it just like that, easy way to understand it, right? The first date is the first message on a dating app or whatever.

1:45:27I saw 60 % of people that meet these days are through dating apps now, kind of crazy. But you know, so that first date is that first touch point. And then you just take people through this sort of journey. Well, I've been marrying everybody, apparently. Well, the good thing, the nice thing is you've got a big brand where so many people want to get married to you. But now you've said, I want even more people to get married to. And now you've got to kind of start over again over here. And you just got to warm them up a little bit further. So good. So good. I love that advice. So talk to me, guys.

1:46:02How are you going to start dating your customers? What are you going to do to move them up your product ladder? How are you going to get them to start with you and then start to date them so that you can upsell them? Okay. Okay, talk to me in the chat. Freebies, lower tier content. Yeah, I loved his advice of starting with an offer that's under$100, right? Starting with an offer that's under$100 that's gonna be like, you could just sell that directly off your social posts. You could just sell that from DMs, right? That's something that we didn't get to talk about. Some of top funnel, like some of your funnels might not need all the steps.

1:46:41So if it's under$100, that just might live in your top of funnel. and might not be considered like your full offer, right? It might be your like introductory offer that's really cheap,$27, but then it brings them into the funnel. So like your lead magnet, if it's really good, can be really inexpensive and be like your first actual product, right? So that's like something to think about. Okay, what would your low ticket offer be? Drop it in the chat, right? Just brainstorm. What could your low ticket offer be? What could you sell for under$100? PDF, free readings, yep. Okay, and can you guys think of a high-ticket offer?

1:47:26What would your high-ticket offer be? 20K event, coaching, group program. So a lot of the times your coaching, your high-ticket offer might be like a mastermind. It might be a mastermind event. It might be one-on-one coaching instead of group coaching, right? So it could go from a simple e-book that you sell to maybe a course or coaching offering to then a live mastermind or a monthly mastermind that's a lot more higher ticket. So you want to think about what is the... You never want to launch something and not have something more expensive to sell to your existing customer. So at least you need two offerings, one to get them in the door that's lower ticket and one offer that's going to upsell them.

1:48:12As a customer support specialist, how do I upsell? I think you're going to have to think about what problems your customers have. Like, this is way too broad. So like, you need to think about like, who's the person that you can help? Are you going to help other customer support specialists be better customer support specialists? Or are you helping a certain type of client in your industry, right? So you need to think about who your customer is. Okay, so let's talk about advanced monetization features. with Teachable. So Teachable lets you do awesome things like subscriptions. They let you bundle offerings.

1:48:48So you could bundle your course and your coaching or your free, sorry, or your digital download and your course, right? So you can bundle things. You can also upsell people. So once they're finished downloading your digital asset, you can then ask them if they wanna buy the course, if they wanna sign up to your program, right? So you can take them on this journey, right? You can do order bumps. You can do coupons, promo codes, literally everything you could think of that you need for a digital online business is available on Teachable. So right here, we have a demo on upsells and bundles for Teachable.

1:49:24And then we're going to go into our last section of classes, just a two-minute demo or one-minute demo. And then we're going to go into our last section of class, which is all about retention and loving your customers. Back again to show you one more interesting feature before we finish. Like Halos talking about, when it comes to upselling your audience, Teachable has a built-in tool that makes it really simple to do just that. Now, if we go back to the curriculum, one last thing I want to feature here is the upsell feature. Teachable automatically generates a next step section, and I want to build on that and upsell.

1:50:01In this case, I want to upsell the podcasting 201 course. So if someone finishes my 101 course and wants to go deeper, here is an immediate opportunity to do so. You can add a headline like develop your podcasting skills even further, plus a description and a CTA button. This will automatically add the upsell to your course. And of course, I recommend going back and customizing it further with a thumbnail and a refined description and your parents' voice. It just goes to show how seamless it is and integrated Teachable is when it comes to promoting your offers and the upselling on them. Let's take a look at bundles next.

1:50:44If you click on bundles, you'll see how easy it is to package multiple products like courses or coaching in a single offer. This is perfect for those students who are ready to go deeper and want to access all of your content in one go. For example, I've created the Podcast Master Bundle. That includes both Podcasting 101 and Podcasting 201. one. Instead of buying them separately, students can get the full experience at once. It's a smart way to increase your revenue while giving your audience even more value. So whether you are upselling inside the course or through a bundle like this, Teachable helps you guide your students through their learning journey in a seamless and thoughtful way.

1:51:26And don't forget, if you haven't already, now's the perfect time to try Teachable for free. Sign up for the Builder Plan and get 30 days for free. You can cancel anytime. Just go to teachable.com slash welcome slash Hala or click the link in the chat. All right. So you guys, if you want your free creator playbook, you can scan the QR code right now if you want that. We still have one more section of class, but if you want the free creator book, you can scan that and then we'll give the other one away later. So Amy dropped that in the chat. If you guys want the creator book, go grab it now. So Teachable allows you to do a lot of things with retention as well.

1:52:12We're about to go into the retention section. So you can do abandoned cart messages, re-engage prospects. You can do affiliate programs where your best clients can then start selling for you. You can integrate with different email service providers. So you can do all sorts of things to retain and upsell your clients with Teachable. All right, let's get into loving your customers and retention, our last section of class. I hope you guys learned so much today. I'd love some feedback in terms like if you felt like you learned a lot, let me know in the chat, that'll make me feel great. So let's talk about loving your customers, retaining your customers.

1:52:52So number one, you gotta be good at what you do. If you can't honestly tell a client you're the best choice for them and back it up, you should not be in business. This is what Jay Abraham says, okay? Now, Jay Abraham taught me about something called the strategy of preeminence. And this is something that after he told me about it, I could not stop thinking about it. And it's dictated the way that I treat my clients and how I think about my clients and my role with them. So let me play this for you guys. What does a preeminent business look like? Well, it's interesting. The preeminent business is seen in whatever category, high price, low price, product, commodity, service, as the only viable choice.

1:53:42It's the most trusted advisor, the go-to source that you would turn to for life or yourself and anyone else you would refer to them. And I spent a week interviewing everybody that was critical in the business. And I took thousands, literally thousands of pages of notes, and I distilled it into what I call the strategy preeminence. And it starts with this belief that you want to be the most trusted advisor, the only possible source they can turn to, and that the only way you can do that is by caring more, doing more, being more in the eyes of the audience. And you can't do that if you're not willing to, first of all, examine, understand, appreciate, acknowledge, recognize how your audience is, and not just superficially, but as a human being.

1:54:32The next is you have to have a positioning that is distinctive. You have to have a point of view that animates their spirit and gets them thinking differently, whether it's more depth or whether it's a different take. to never allow anybody to buy more than they should, more and less than they should. Not because you're going to lose money, but because you're always guiding and advising them as their most trusted advisor and what's going to give them the best outcome for what they're doing. If you had a bottled water shop and a water bar and I came in and wanted to buy one half glass And you sold it to me without first making sure that I knew that I needed seven and a half more of those each and every day.

1:55:21And you let me do it without making sure I was aware you wouldn't be preeminent. You would be opportunistic. It doesn't mean I have to do it. If you sold me eight glasses, but I only came every two days and you didn't do the same to make sure in between I was aware that you can't save those eight glasses, you would be stealing from me. The next thing is you have to put into words feelings, thoughts, aspirations, intentions that the prospective buyer has never felt or experienced before. The next is you have a moral responsibility, a privilege, and an opportunity if you really are operating at a higher level and you're bringing a higher level of value, caring, protection, enhancement, whatever your product or service delivers, to not let the person not buy from you if they should and not buy from your competitor.

1:56:16Not because the competitor is a so-and-so, but because the client will be to serve. I use the word client very, very purposely. Most people call someone they do business with a customer. If you look up the Webster's definition, a customer, it's someone who buys a commodity or a service. If you call me a customer, what you're saying between the lines is I'm no better than everyone else. That's not what you want. A client is someone under the care, the protection, the well-being of another. When you fall in love with your client and you live to see your product or service animated at work in their lives, you take great pride in knowing you're creating that.

1:57:02If you're selling something that's expensive or not, but you know that when it's at work in their life, it's protecting, enhancing, enriching, and entertaining. Jay gave some really great advice about how to become the preeminent business in your industry. And essentially what that just means is that you're the go-to person. You're the no-brainer. There's nobody better than you. And there's a few things that you need to do to become that person. So number one is you're gonna call people clients. Even your students are clients. If you're a doctor, your patients are your clients, right? You don't wanna give people a term that's like derogatory.

1:57:42Customer is transactional. You don't want people to feel like they're a transaction. You want to make sure that people believe that you care about them and you do care about them, okay? Next is empathy. So you wanna understand people's problems, right? You wanna speak to their dreams, their fears, their frustrations. You wanna be relatable. You wanna speak directly to what matters to them. This is a lot of the stuff that I was teaching today, right? So you wanna make sure you have your hero story. You wanna make sure you understand their dream outcome, all the objections that they might have, the fears, the limiting beliefs.

1:58:13You want to help build them up. You want to do what's best for them, even if it's not you. Trust is more important than the immediate sale, okay? Especially the more high ticket you are. It might take years to convert somebody. You want them to trust you and know that when they're ready to buy, they're going to you and nobody else, okay? You want to lead with value. You want to help people before they buy from you, when they're buying from you, after they bought from you, you still want to help them, okay? You want to lead with value no matter if they buy from you or not. You want to give away your best information for free.

1:58:46You want to serve other people. You also want to elevate your language. You want to be sincere, be visionary, make sure that your mission, your wider mission resonates. They know that you're not out there just for the money. You've got some bigger mission aside from just making money, right? And you're clear about that mission. That is how you become the preeminent business in your industry, okay? Now, let's talk about... love breeding loyalty and NPS surveys and the importance of that. I do think surveys would take people's time. But the question that was the best predictor of loyalty behaviors turned out to be likely to recommend.

1:59:24How likely would you recommend this to a friend? So zero through 10, we ask that question. That score lets you know if you've created a promoter or enriched a life or a detractor and diminished a life. Then we have an open text verbatim follow up to tell us why. And in the customer's own words, they can explain why you enriched a life or how you diminished their life. and people have to take the time to read that. People who read it should feel the emotion of an enriched life or a diminished life and good people care about that. My daughter Jenny said, dad, our promoters, they tell us why they love us in that verbatim text.

2:00:00But if we ask them, is there anything else we could have done to make your experience better? They tell you good ideas that can innovate and make you even stronger. And remember your promoters, they're your biggest fans. They want you to succeed. You're a part of their personal brand because when you refer someone, you're sharing your personal identity, your reputation with the brand. It's a big deal. And those people care about you and they want you to succeed. So give them an option to give you their best ideas. But don't go past three. There's just no way that customers should be answering five or 10 questions.

2:00:36So what are the ways that companies can love their customers and drive more promoters, more customer loyalty? Yeah, love was a radical word to use. And especially for a bany like me, your happiness is the result of making your partners happy. So if you love someone, most of your happiness comes out of you creating happiness in them. And that kind of love, which is golden rule, love thy neighbor as thyself, that's what makes the world a better place. That love is at the core. Love breeds loyalty. When customers feel loved, they come back for more and bring their friends. And that's what starts this economic flywheel.

2:01:15Love is hard to measure, but loyalty is pretty easy to measure if you're serious about it. Because in this digital age, you can watch how many of customers are repeating, how many are referring their friends. I mean, one of my recent investments is in a company that has a technology platform to help give and receive referrals. And I think that's what the world needs to do is referrals are everything. You know, instead of doing it on a survey, I'm likely to recommend, let's keep track of real referrals because that's where the economic value is and that's where the reputation is. And I think rather than kidding around with surveys, let's keep track of referrals.

2:01:54Yeah. And to your point, love is so important. When you love someone, you're going to recommend the company that gave you that great service, that gave you that great experience. So it's not necessarily that they love your company. they love their friends and family so much that they're gonna recommend your company. Okay, so let's break down some of these key concepts in terms of retaining our clients. So first of all, there's a flywheel effect. Love breeds loyalty, okay? So first of all, you love your customers. What does that mean? You give them amazing advice. You transform their lives. You care about your product.

2:02:28Your course is amazing. Your product is amazing. Your coaching is amazing. You improve their life. You show real care. You can actually do what you say you're doing, okay? That's going to build you super fans. Your happy customers are going to become loyal. They're going to support you. They're going to share feedback. They're going to cheer you on. They're going to tell you how to make your service better and better. And then they were going to refer you to more people because, again, it's not about that they love you so much. They want to boost their own status by giving somebody else the secret sauce, which is you.

2:03:02Okay? So it's not about them loving you so much. They love their friends and family so much that they want to increase their own status by offering your amazing product and service because they trust you so much. If they don't trust you're going to do a good job, they would never say your name to other people. So if you're not getting referrals, that really means that your clients don't think that you're the best and they don't trust you enough to share with their loved ones. Okay, so if you're not getting referrals and people signing up, like bringing their friends to your business, that's a telltale sign that people aren't exactly happy with your service and you're going to want to do a customer satisfaction survey to understand why are they not recommending you to other people.

2:03:40Now, once they recommend you to other people, you love those people. They're going to become your super fan, give you feedback, make your product better. They're going to refer you to more people and that flywheel effect keeps happening. Okay. So you actually want to track your referrals. At my agency business, I do zero advertising, zero promotion. I never really even talk about my LinkedIn agency and podcast agency, and it is 100 % a referral business. I only just get referrals, and I have a wait list of clients through my clients. And it's a small agency. I don't take a ton of clients, but it just goes to show you don't even have to do advertising if you love your customers enough and if they become your super fans that refer you, okay?

2:04:24Okay, so what are some things that you can do to promote more love with your clients and your business? Number one, you're gonna wanna launch an NPS survey. So an NPS survey is really standard. It's just three questions. How likely are you recommend us to a friend or colleague, zero to 10? What is your primary reason for your score? Is there anything else we could have done to make your experience better? So that's gonna give you feedback. It's gonna understand if they're gonna recommend. The other thing to track is how many referrals you're actually getting, okay? How many referrals you're actually getting per quarter or whatever?

2:04:55And you can see if those referrals go up, that means you're loving your customers more and they're trusting you more to tell them to their loved ones, right? So you want to build love into your attention plan. This is something that I'm actively doing with my agency because as you build a business, you start to like get off the ground, right? So I used to talk to my clients every day. I used to talk to my clients on text every day. Now I have a 60-person team. So what does that mean? I've got to, when people launch their social profiles, I'm sending them an email. Congratulations on your launch.

2:05:27I'm like, congratulations on your first viral post. Or let me know if you want to chat and have a performance call. Like, so I'm trying to like become more personal. You can do things like birthday milestones or, hey, you've been with us a year. I just want to say congratulations. So like milestones related to timeline of their journey. You can do custom emails, custom DMs. you can send gifts. So sometimes we send our clients Christmas gifts. We send our clients birthday gifts. We send our clients random gifts. So we'll send gifts all the time and try to build love. I try to be personal with my top clients in terms of like texting them and things like that.

2:06:05So how are you going to build love and like maintain that relationship? Something else I do with a podcast is I'll invite my clients on my podcast. I'll invite them out to dinner, right? So like, what are you going to do to like really build that love where people are going to feel like you're the number one person because they care about you so much and your product is good? And another thing to know is that people will choose customer service over product every single time. You could have a big mistake happen in your business. Something goes wrong or let's say like you're 80 % of where you want to be in terms of the quality of your product.

2:06:41If you have 100 % great customer service, people will always choose customer service over product. So that's the other thing to keep in mind. It's like if you can keep your customer service good, people will retain even when mistakes happen, okay? You also want people to feel like a tribe, okay? So how can you get your clients to know each other, okay? So is there a community? Is there a name you can call them? Is there internal newsletters that you can launch? Is there a Slack channel you can launch where people can talk about, talk and feel like they're part of a tribe. On a Teachable, they've got communities that you can create, forums you can create.

2:07:18So if you can make people feel like they have a shared identity, they're much less likely to leave because they feel like they're part of this tribe but they don't wanna leave, okay? So if you can create an identity and a tribe around your service, that's gonna make things really sticky. You can launch an affiliate program where people can get incentivized to actually bring you clients, okay? I've seen this kind of backfire too. Like once you put money around it, if you're already getting referrals, don't do an affiliate program, you know? Because if you're already naturally getting referrals, sometimes making it monetary will actually turn people off where like it was from the bottom of their heart.

2:07:55Now they feel like they're being manipulative to their friends, right? So affiliate offers work more for like lower ticket stuff, courses, but for a higher ticket stuff, you don't really wanna do an affiliate program because those types of people won't want to do that. They just want to share and increase their status by sharing your offer, okay? And you want to track your referrals and your projects. So process, progress, sorry guys. You want to track your referrals and your progress. So those are some tips for love breeding loyalty. Last thing on Teachable is that they create forums and communities.

2:08:28So that tribe aspect that I was talking about with your course or coaching, you can do that with Teachable, which is really awesome. And so that's it for today's webinar. Now we're just gonna go over all the free gifts. So if you guys want to get your free month of the builder plan, that's an$89 value. Just scan that link. The team will drop the link in the chat for you right now. Thank you, Eamon. And if you guys want the Modern Course Creator Playbook, you guys can scan that here and Eamon will drop the link as well. And then lastly, if you guys want my presentation, you're going to get that directly sent to your email.

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2:09:43And yeah, I'll talk to you guys soon. Thank you so much, guys. I hope everybody has a great day. Yeah, fam, that's a wrap. Thank you so much for spending time with me on this Yap Live webinar presented by Teachable. And I know how busy life gets. So I appreciate you showing up for yourself and your business today. And my goal today was to equip you with a clear, actionable framework inspired by my own journey so you can confidently monetize your expertise. Now you have the full blueprint for building a powerful sales funnel that turns attention into income. We walked through how to package your expertise into offers people actually want, how to create simple but effective lead magnets, and how to nurture your audience with real value before ever making a pitch.

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2:11:57I want you to know that in this world, you don't need to be an influencer to go viral, to have a following, to make money, to be a creator entrepreneur. If you're passionate, if you're consistent, if you're willing to solve a real problem for somebody that has demand, you're already qualified to get started. So I believe in you. Now it's your turn to believe in yourself. Take what you learned today and go build. Thank you so much for listening to Young and Profiting Podcast. Before we go, I did want to thank my team, Eamon and Jaden, for helping me with this webinar. Jaden, thank you so much for hopping on early, for warming everybody up, for promoting on social, driving so many attendees.

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