Launch communities

{E41} Sally Hope Talks Getting Started With Online Communtites

Renegade life coach, Sally Hope joins me today to talk about all things community. A former musician, she soon realized that she loved having access to people but wanted to help them in a more focused way. At the suggestion of a band mate, she looked into life coaching and got certiifed.

Creator of the first B-School group 5 years ago, she has since gone on to launch her own community, Wildheart Revolution in which the focus is the entire person and not just the business aspects.

We talk about how to launch communities, why you should do it because you believe in community and connection and not just do it for the money because it is a lot of work!

Key Takeaways:

  • Get clear on your goals and WHY you are starting a community.
  • Do it because you believe in community & connection.
  • When you start a community, you are part of it and not just the ONLY voice of it.
The version in your head, is not the version that comes out in real life. #community #launching

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About Sally Hope

Sally HopeSally Hope is a former touring musician, RV traveler, and current renegade life coach and leader of the Wildheart Revolution, where she teaches you how to “carpe the hell out of your diem” and live the life you were put on this planet to live. She’s a pun addict, olive lover, obsessed with motorcycle boots and you’ll never see her without a french manicure. You can find out more about her at sallyhope.com

{E40} Grow Your Reach With Webinars

Solo episode time! In this episode, I share the three reasons why I have added webinars to my marketing strategy and how I am using them to connect with my audience, broaden my reach and educate. I also share how I come up with topic ideas for my webinars and how you can create one webinar but reposition who you target to.

Key Takeaways:

  • How to broaden your reach with webinars.
  • How to come up with topic ideas for your webinars and reuse the same webinar with different audiences.
  • Why technology is no longer a barrier to entry.
Grow your reach, promote your brand and get to know your audience with #webinars #marketing…

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Have you thought about doing webinars? Why or why not? Let me know in the comments below!

Systems and Tools

{E39} Getting Your Tech House In Order with Maya Gaddie

Maya Gaddie joins me to talk all things technology. When you’re in the growing phases of your business, it’s time to get serious about systems and the tools you are using. We talk about email marketing systems, customer relationship management, project management as well as managing your day-to-day tasks.

Key Takeaways:

  • Having systems in place and the tools to support you is key.
  • Tools like Boomerang help you manage your inbox and email workflow for example, answer client emails on the weekend but have them scheduled to go out on the weekdays.
  • No tool is perfect, while it’s important to look to the future and plan for growth you also have to keep in mind where you are and start somewhere!
Get your tech house in order with @mayagaddie #technology #systems #entrepreneur

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What tools do you rely on in your business? Tweet me @SandySidhu #BusinessIgnite

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About Maya Gaddie

Maya Gaddie - Digital Mentor + Tech MatchmakerMaya Gaddie loves helping overwhelmed entrepreneurs create an extraordinary business by showing them how to free up time and location in their business. With her signature Tech Matchmaking Sessions, she connects entrepreneurs with the very best resources for their business, so they can create the business they dreamed about when they first started, work “on” their business not “in” their business and have plenty of time to enjoy the experience.

Fast Fix Fridays

{E38} Small Landing Page Tweaks For Big Results

Welcome to the Friday edition of the Business Ignite Show where I answer your questions! Got a question for a future episode? Tweet me @SandySidhu #BusinessIgnite or drop me an email sandy@sandysidhumedia.com

This week I talk about a recent change I made to my webinar sign up flow. I optimized my thank you page and added two calls to action and saw a huge increase in Facebook likes and opt-ins to my private online community Ignite Online.

In the past, I would say my thank you page was kind of “meh” and not really taking advantage of the fact that people had opted in and I now had their attention.

Instead of sending them to a page with a call to action, I was simply sending them to the page where they would be watching the webinar live (in a few days). Talk about FAIL! They would be getting that link anyways!

Before

After opting in to the webinar, they would be sent to this page telling them that the webinar was happening in a few days. They would also get an email confirmation.

LandingPage

After

Now, after opting in I send them to a page with 2 calls to action. The information with webinar details goes straight to their inbox.

landing page with call to action

The Results

I promoted this webinar over a period of 5 days and made this change around day 3.

In just two days, I added 75 people to my Facebook page as well as doubled the size of my newish community.  I then went ahead and also made the change to my regular opt-tin and hope to see similar results over time.

I could probably even add a video but for now I will leave it like this and use this as my new webinar confirmation page.

I used LeadPages to create this page (and also use LeadPages for my webinars) but you don’t have to.

Have you experimented with your landing pages? What kind of results did you get? Let me know in the comments!

{E37} Strive For Progress Not Perfection

It’s solo episode time!! In this episode, I look back at the lessons I’ve learned after 3 years of being a solopreneur. I never imagined 3 years ago the places I would go, the people I would meet. All I know is that I kept my mind and heart open to new friendships, opportunities, clients.

 Key Takeaways:

  • Start before you are ready
  • Connect with other entrepreneurs
  • Do something that scares you!

 

Strive for progress not perfection. #Entrepreneur lessons learned

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What’s your biggest lesson learned?  Tweet me at @SandySidhu #BusinessIgnite.