The Scaling To Business Success Podcast

Hey there! Welcome back to another exciting episode of "The Scaling to Business Success Podcast". Today, we're talking about a topic that can help a lot of aspiring entrepreneurs stop wasting time when it comes to creating online coaching programs: monetizing them before you make it.

In March 2018, I made the terrible mistake of creating my entire YouTube course and then trying to sell it. I did an entire five-day challenge with a live grand finale at the end when I released the price of my program.CRICKETS is what I heard when I pulled the trigger. I spent an entire month not getting paid to create my program and no one enrolled. It hurt me because I felt that I should lower the price of my program in order to get those who want to enroll.

I learned from my mistake, and in this episode, you will hear what I learned since March 2018.

In this episode you'll hear:

• Why I created a course first before selling it and why I'll never do it again: As new and aspiring entrepreneurs, we have to learn that having a business is not like having a job. You want to get paid first before any work is made (by validating your coaching program idea). Don't make the same mistake I made! That's something I'll discuss in this week's episode.
• Monetize your idea first: It wasn't until years later that I realized that I made a huge mistake in 2018. Once I enrolled in a course that taught me the power of monetization first, it was a total game changer for me.
• How to eliminate the job mindset: Owning and having a business is not like a job where you do the work first, then get paid. It's the complete opposite and I discuss this in the episode.
• Why you should repeat this process for ALL of your coaching programs from now on: It can and will be a complete game changer, and this process is something that I'm doing with my brand new coaching program now!

Throughout the episode, I'll also emphasize the importance of monetizing your coaching program first before you build it. There's a lot that goes into this besides creating pretty graphics for your lessons and modules.

So, if you're a business owner or entrepreneur who is struggling with business growth, and you're ready to do something about it, this episode is for you! Tune in to learn some practical tips and strategies for helping you incorporate new habits in your life.

Links & Resources:

• Symone's website
• Send me a DM on Instagram!
• The Scaling to Business Success Podcast website
• Check out my free two-day mini course!
• Apply for my Five Figure Launch Accelerator coaching program

Please support the podcast by giving an honest Rating/Review for the show on iTunes!

Hey there! Welcome back to another exciting episode of "The Scaling to Business Success Podcast". Today, we're talking about a topic that a lot of entrepreneurs either shy away from or they're ready to go all in for it: paid traffic.

Paid traffic has been a literal God-send in my business for 2023. Espeically when I learned how to use them on a daily basis, instead of using them for launches only. It took me a while to understand the importance of how paid ads and consistent traffic can help my business and I finally see how!

For those of you who are on the fence when it comes to paid ads and paid traffic, I want to use this episode to help you understand just how important they can be to the growth of your business and your presence in the online space. The goal is to be profitable and this is how we're going to make it work!

In this episode you'll hear:

• No more heavy lifting: With paid traffic, the heavy lifting of posting every single day and night is a thing of the past. You're going to hear how I got rid of my content calendar and why I barely post on my Instagram platform anymore. One thing that I learned from my coach is that when you're running paid ads, you have the upper hand, and I want to keep that upper hand when it comes to my business.
• You're not playing the organic algorithm game: There's a game being played with organic traffic, and they're always limiting what posts can be seen by your audience. I no longer agree to play that game because paid traffic allows your content to be seen by your ideal audience without doing so much.
• You'll have more free time: I now have the free time that I've always wanted in my business and it's because of paid traffic. I've been learning Spanish for almost two years now, and I'm now adding French to the mix. I have time to spend with my husband and my family, and never had that when I was depending on launches to bring me income for my business.
• Consistent leads and sales: Once you have your sales systems down, and you have your messaging put together, paid ads will MAGNIFY your sales system to continuously bring in qualified leads and sales. Who doesn't want that?

Throughout the episode, I'll also emphasize the importance of paid ads and how they can change your life and help you to think outside of the box.

So, if you're a business owner or entrepreneur who is struggling with business growth and you're ready to do something about it, this episode is for you! Tune in to learn some practical tips and strategies for helping you incorporate new habits in your life.

Links & Resources:

• Symone's website
• Send me a DM on Instagram!
• The Scaling to Business Success Podcast website
• Check out my free two-day mini course!
• Apply for my Five Figure Launch Accelerator coaching program

Please support the podcast by giving an honest Rating/Review for the show on iTunes!

Hey there! Welcome back to another exciting episode of "The Scaling to Business Success Podcast". Today, we're talking about how you can find clients that are attracted to your goals as a business owner and entrepreneur.

Over the last few months in my business, I have learned to understand how important it is to find clients who are attracted to your goals instead of trying to find clients that will simply focus on enrolling into my coaching programs. It's something that is completely different for me, and it's one thing that I'm learning to love more.

We all have goals that we have set for ourselves, and we want to make sure that we achieve them. So, its important to understand how we can find clients that help us make a difference in our own lives and find those ideal clients who match up with the goals that we have set for ourselves.

In this episode you'll hear:

• What are your goals and what do you want to achieve: This is one of the most important steps that you need to do first before trying to find ideal clients.
• Finding clients who want to achieve the same thing: A lot of entrepreneurs don't think that they can find clients who want the same goals as them. It's always that they have to conform to your goals and that's it. I discuss why your messaging is one of the most important things to have and put out in the online space so those ideal clients can come and find you!
• Talk about your goals and struggles: Just like before, your messaging is KEY! And one of the things I have noticed is that there's no transparency when it comes to being online and posting content. People only want to see the good stuff and never want to show the bad and the behind-the-scenes. I discuss in this episode why I'm not afraid of transparency, and how I will work with a coach who's transparent and one who's not.
• Mindset and thinking: Believe it or not, there are people who think and have the same mindset as you. Your messaging just has to be put out into the world in order to find them! We talk more about this in this particular episode as well.

Throughout the episode, you'll learn why transparency and finding clients aligned to your goals is one of the best things you can do for your business and for your life.

So, if you're a business owner or entrepreneur who is struggling with life and your business growth, this episode is for you! Tune in to learn some practical tips and strategies for helping you incorporate new habits in your life.

Links & Resources:

• Symone's website
• Send me a DM on Instagram!
• The Scaling to Business Success Podcast website
• Check out my free two-day mini course!
• Apply for my Five Figure Launch Accelerator coaching program

Please support the podcast by giving an honest Rating/Review for the show on iTunes!

Hey there! Welcome back to another exciting episode of "The Scaling to Business Success Podcast". Today, we're talking about a topic that can help a lot of aspiring entrepreneurs become better CEO's of their online businesses: learning how to live by successful habits.

As a CEO, I know firsthand how living by certain habits can help to change your life and make it better. And we're not just talking about your typical "success habits" that you can find in articles on the internet. We're discussing the types of habits that you don't really hear too much about. I'll be sharing some actionable steps and habits that you can take to help you become better as you continue to grow your business.

In this episode you'll hear:

• Why entrepreneurs keep going no matter what: We'll discuss some common reasons as to why they keep going despite facing failures, and why some upcoming entrepreneurs never prosper because they give up too soon.
• Automated funnels running at all times: It wasn't until earlier this year that I understood the benefits of having a funnel running at all times. We'll talk about why having a funnel running at all times is important to the growth of your business.
• Having a plan in place: We'll discuss why successful entrepreneurs always have a plan in place, no matter what. There's always a backup plan that will help them IF something does decide to fail and not go the way they envisioned it to be.
• Daily practice of journaling: This is a practice that I'm starting to include in my daily routine, and we'll talk about why this is important for you to do the same. Journaling can change your life, and we'll discuss as to why this can happen for you.

Throughout the episode, I'll also emphasize the importance of these habits and how they can change your life and help you to think outside of the box.

So, if you're a business owner or entrepreneur who is struggling with life and your business growth, this episode is for you! Tune in to learn some practical tips and strategies for helping you incorporate new habits in your life.

Links & Resources:

• Symone's website
• Send me a DM on Instagram!
• The Scaling to Business Success Podcast website
• Check out my free two-day mini course!
• Apply for my Five Figure Launch Accelerator coaching program

Please support the podcast by giving an honest Rating/Review for the show on iTunes!

Hey there! Welcome back to another exciting episode of "The Scaling to Business Success Podcast". In this week's episode, you will understand the importance of having a freebie in your business to help generate leads and grow your emailing list. But you'll also learn that there are different types of freebies that you can use, and the typical freebie that gurus are telling you to create may be pushing away your ideal clients at an alarming rate. 

In this episode you'll hear:

• What gurus have said about free offers and building your emailing list
• What you NEED to have in a freebie
• What mistakes you're making with your free offer
• Email list growth and what it's used for

So are you ready to embark on this journey of understanding if you need a freebie for your business to generate leads? Join me as we explore the secrets behind a successful free offer. Get your notepads ready, because you don't want to miss a single golden nugget of wisdom and knowledge. Tune in to the episode now!

Links & Resources:

• Symone's website
• Send me a DM on Instagram!
• The Scaling to Business Success Podcast website
• Check out my free two-day mini course!
• Apply for my Five Figure Launch Accelerator coaching program

Please support the podcast by giving an honest Rating/Review for the show on iTunes!

The one thing that gurus are always telling you is that in order to make money in your business, you need to do a live launch and that you need to do this live launch every 90 days.

Do you know how tiring that can be?!

When you're in the beginning stages, live launching can be exhausting and tiring because you have to do so much before you even think about launching your course/program out into the world. 

There are the emails that you have to create, the social media posts that you have to create as well, and there's the actual content you have to put together for when you're doing your live launch.

Then you also have to figure out what are the best days for you to do your launch, create your ads and ad copy, figure out a budget of what you're going to spend for your ads, AND create your emails for after your launch and for when people enroll into your program.

If you can't tell, this is A LOT of work to do, especially for one person. 

This is one of the main reasons why I'm against live launching and I'm deciding to take a stand. 

There is an easier way to grow your business and I'm honestly shocked at how many entrepreneurs are not talking about it, but you're going to hear about it today in this week's episode. 

Check it out and take a listen!

PLEASE excuse the language in this week's episode. This is not normal for me to do, but I get excited and passionate when it comes to this particular topic.

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Being a part of a community full of like-minded people is fun. You get to meet people, you get to connect with them, and eventually they either get to work with you or you get to work with them.

But when you depend on Facebook groups to help you grow your business online, you might be doing more harm than good. 

Facebook groups can be oversaturated with people who are not your ideal clients. It will be harder to find your people because the Facebook algorithm limits what you see on your timeline, and even inside of the group. 

You have to figure out if being a part of a Facebook group is beneficial to the growth of your business or if you should decide to start your own. (I personally would tell you to start your own! 😉)

When revamping my business, I decided to move away from marketing into free Facebook groups, because there are other ways that you can find your ideal people online. 

Take a listen to this week's episode, send me a screenshot and DM me on Instagram (@symoneredmond) to let me know what you think about it!

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Over the last few years, I've realized that a lot of business coaches are creating programs based upon what their audience wants because they know that if it's something they want, their audience will buy it. 

But what happens when that specific program isn't what you wanted to create? What happens when you feel disgusted when you talk about the program or even think about adding more to it, and it doesn't feel good to you?

That's exactly what I'm discussing in this week's episode. 

In 2016-2017, I realized that I was creating online coaching programs that weren't aligned to what I wanted to do. The guru's tell you that you need to serve your audience, and create what they want to have because they'll buy it. But sometimes, what they want you to create may not be what you want to teach about.

I made that mistake early on, and I'm learning to be focused on creaing programs that excite me. 

Because when you create programs that excite you, that's when the income starts to come in.

The income that matches your goals, and being able to attract the clients that are aligned to you. That's what business should be about. 

Business should be about having fun and being able to create programs that you absolutely love and finding those who want to experience what you want to achieve in life as well.

Check out the episode by clicking "PLAY" above!

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When it comes to being on social media, you need to have a strategy. You have to figure out how you're going to show up, interact with your audience and followers, and figure out how you're going to sell them.

But for me and my business, I'm trying a different strategy - one that doesn't require me to be present on social media every single day.

The more you're in business, the more you start to understand that it's not necessarily required to show up on social media every single day, especially when you have an automated system in play.

I've learned to let my automated system and funnel do the heavy work for me so that I can have more time to do more of what matters to me, and that's to interact with my audience and serve my clients who are enrolled into my programs. 

Listen in to this podcast episode as I explain what my new social media strategy is, and how it really goes against what the "guru's" are telling you online. 

Check out the episode by clicking "PLAY" above!

FREE MINI COURSE:

Are you ready to acheive consistent enrollments for your online course without having to do discovery calls and tons of organic posting online? I ha

I have a brand new mini course that shows you how I was able to achieve $25K in online course sales within four months, and I want to show you how!

Click here to register for the free mini course and I'll see you there!

When you're online and you're wanting to grow your business, you see a lot of people say, "I made five figures from my latest launch! Five figures is easy to make!" So that makes you wonder if you'll ever be able to achieve the same thing, and it seems as if it's becoming harder for you to do so.

You're doing everything the business "gurus" are telling you - do a webinar, do a challenge, show up on social media every single day, create a ton of programs, and have 1:1 coaching session with your potential clients.

Yeah... that's a lot to do.

In this week's episode of the Scaling To Business Success Podcast, I discuss my entire strategy of how I generated five figures TWICE in my business a few years ago. And to be honest, it's not a hard strategy. It's one that will require you to do something that you've probably never done, and it will require you to invest in yourself as well.

Everyone's journey of achieving five-figures is different, so don't expect my journey to be the same way yours is going to be. I'm here to give you my knowledge of what worked for me, what didn't work for me, and what I would do differently. 

Acheving five figures in your business is all about doing what's in alignment to you and what makes you feel good about what you're going to create and deliver to your audience. 

Take time to listen in to this week's episode, and I'll chat with you soon!

To learn more about my two-day free mini course, you can check it out and sign up for it HERE.

Inside this two-day mini course, you will learn and dive deeper with me on how you can achieve those five-figures without having to do live launches, posting daily on social media, or doing discovery calls. 

There's a different way to achieve your goals, and I'm here to help you get there.

Talk to you soon!