Just wanted to give massive thanks to @Ted Carr for putting together the 45 P's of Clarity worksheet. This worksheet is like several masterclasses on how to create and grow a successful business rolled into one. I've never seen anyone lay it all out so clearly in one place, with so much guidance built in. I got this worksheet months ago from someone on Ted's team, and I opened it and got overwhelmed and kept meaning to come back to it. And I'm so glad I finally got the courage this week to show up and really dig in, and I'm going to continue to Persevere (#38)! So let this be your nudge if you have a doc from Ted that you've been meaning to go through - do it!!! Do it this weekend! What are you waiting for?!

Thanks to Ted and skool I have figured out how to collect leads! I opened my skool on Dec. 1st, so a month ago! I remember when it was hard to collect 5 leads in a month and this month I have collected over 50! I have so much free value to give that it makes it so easy to upload everything to skool! Now the next step is figuring out how to turn members into paying members! I do have a challenge I'm doing next week for free and paid... no paid members yet but working on it! I feel like I'm moving forward!

You’re probably killing the sale before having pitched anything and it’s impossible to find out if you don’t know this: The actual “selling” happens long before you try to close/pitch. It happens when the lead is able to feel and see before him the gap between where he is now and where he wants to be. How can we draw that gapp? While there are many techniques that aim at this, I’ll stick to the fundamentals because that's what I know best. 1. Let them paint their dream. It’s their dream, so ask them a ton of questions. Make sure you get answers that are quantifiable and measure. Don’t let them get away with vague answers or ranges of numbers. eg. “I want to earn $5k per month” is better than, “I want to earn a living” 2. Inflict pain (and urgency) Now it’s time to make them come back to reality. They had the joy of imagining what their dream is, now we’ll make them feel pain by not having that dream. How do we do that? We ask them what’s blocking them from reaching that goal. This brings them back to reality, plus let’s them focus all their pain on one clear roadblock. Again, the better you understand their roadblock, the higher the likelihood they will be sold. Now that our lead is very clear on the gap between him and his dream, he’s ready to listen to solutions/get help. And who would be better suited than the person who just talked him through this gap? (Hint: That is you) PS. If you’re asking the right questions from the start, this will feel like a natural conversation.

Here's a GPT Prompt to help you find trending content for your niche. ➤ Steps: 1. Goto your fave GPT 🤖 2. Copy/paste below prompt 3. Replace what's in the [brace brackets] for your niche 4. Enter ➤ GPT Prompt 🤖: "Find this week's top 5 [Niche Topic] globally, from [Source(s)], summarize each to post on [Social Media Platform], provide 5 main bullet points with brief descriptions, action steps, source links, and drop a few appropriate emojis to keep it fun, also, keep it short, human-like and conversational." E.g.: "Find this week's top 5 Social Media Marketing tips globally, from academic research, reputable Tech companies, Digital Marketing Insights, and other marketing Sources, summarize each to post on LinkedIn, Instagram and Skool, provide 5 main bullet points with brief descriptions, action steps, drop a few appropriate emojis to keep it fun, include source links, keep it short, human-like and conversational." Once you get your output, you can ask for an image to compliment your post: 5. Prompt 🤖: "please give me a photo-realistic image for #1" 6. NOTE: please do not copy/paste GPT Output and post -->> people can detect AI vs. Human writing style. Instead, edit ✍🏽 add YOU in Post, yes, add your own secret sauce to make it your own voice. 👉🏽You can get content for the entire month by substituting "top 5" with "top 30" and you'll have enough content for the month. However, I would stick with a week especially if you want current news 👉🏽👉🏽Try it and please share your results!!

A few days ago, I wanted to help a friend get a job as a photographer. I tried telling him about a few of the things I had learned about selling but he just wouldn’t listen. I kinda became frustrated as I felt he was refusing everything I said. It was then that I realized his refusal was part of the beliefs he has around sales. I believe most people have the same beliefs as he as, if they are not working/involved in selling themselves. He told me getting the job wasn’t about getting as much money as possible and forcing something, but I just wanted to help him LAND the job. It became clear to me that sales was most definitely not purely about getting money and squeezing every penny out of your client/lead. Sales is about finding out how you can give the most possible value to your lead. To show how big of a pain you can help your client solve. And that is what I focus on when doing sales for my clients. Seeing how we can be of value and make sure their leads get what they truly want. PS. If you feel your clients don’t see the value clearly enough, it might be that your offer is not built around the right goals.