#24 The Clarity Sessions Podcast – Obstacles To Customer Clarity
Clarifying your audience is such an important step that too many people miss when it comes to creating their business. I want to share with you about why it's important for you to clarify your audience and to specifically focus on that one target avatar you will serve with your products and services.
There are a few obstacles that we face when it comes to clarifying our audience. I'm going to walk you through those three obstacles that many of my coaching clients and participants in my courses face before we start to work together. If we do not clarify our customers or know exactly who we serve, then we don't know what to offer our audience or how to help them. This leads to zero sales. You might have a great idea for an online course, membership site, speech, or a book, but if you don't know who it's for, you likely won't have anyone to buy it.
So let's talk about the three obstacles that you may be facing:
1. You are thinking too broad.
So this happens often. I'm talking to...
#20 The Clarity Sessions Podcast-How To Create A Successful Webinar
**These concepts are from a combination of Jeff Walker's book, Launch, and Russell Brunson from ClickFunnels.
I want to share with you about live webinars and why I recommend live webinars as a part of your marketing strategy. But first, you may be wondering, "What is a webinar?" Well, a webinar is basically an event. It's an opportunity to invite people to participate in something exciting and often live. If you think about a concert, festival, parade, or a running event, there's something about this community element that's really exciting. A live webinar can be the same thing for your industry!
As an example, I'm hosting a live webinar coming up all about money mindset and helping people, specifically faith-based entrepreneurs, with their money mindset.
Here's the basic business model of a successful webinar:
1. Opportunity
The first thing that I do is start to think about the three limiting beliefs of my audience. What are the three limiting beliefs that your audience has about...
#10 The Clarity Sessions - Overcoming The Fear To Get Started
Episode 10 of The Clarity Sessions features guest Maira Vial from Vial Designs.
On our journey of working together, I challenged Maira to send an email to her people asking them the following: "What are you struggling with? Hit reply and let me know."
Before she sent this email, she worried if her clients would ask her a question she didn't know. This is a relatable feeling to many, but it's important to not let fear and nervousness get in your way of serving your people well.
Here are three tips for asking your people this question:
1. Trust that your people will ask you something they KNOW you can help them with.
Your people know your expertise, so it's unlikely you will be asked something that you cannot answer. They tend to ask you questions related to your topic because they know you and your area of expertise/ knowledge. If people aren’t asking you questions related to the topic you want to focus on, take that as a cue to hone your message - make your message...
#12 The Clarity Sessions - How To Make Money Online
Have you ever wondered how to make money online?
There is one main reason why you're not making any sales online. I asked in a webinar recently for people to let me know how many dollars they've made online since the beginning of the school year, and most people said zero. The misconception that many people have for why they aren't making money is that they don't have enough traffic. They say things like: "You know, I don't have any traffic, and I'm not running any Facebook ads. I don't have anybody that's affiliating for me. I don't have a very big email list." But I want you to know that those aren't the reasons you're not making money online.
Here are the steps you need to take to start making money online:
1. Clarify your audience.
The one consistent theme between people who are making money online and people who aren't has nothing to do with traffic. It actually has to do with the clarity you have about your audience. Knowing who you are writing and creating...
#09 The Clarity Sessions - How Do You Amplify Your Message Online?
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How do you get clarity and know that what you want to do is the right thing and then how do you amplify it out to your right audience? Betsi Hill and I discuss this very topic.
1. Target your audience.
Identify your people. Who do you feel like you’re here to serve? Who is somebody that you feel like you can make a difference for? Narrow down the audience. Think of a target on a bullseye. If you take a dart and throw it, you might not hit the bullseye. You might not get the 50 points, but maybe you’ll get the 20 or 30 points. But if you have no dartboard at all, you’ll never get any points. I would really focus on one person. Be very specific about your person. It might be someone you know or a combination of people.
2. Know what questions they are asking.
Once you’re clear on her, then you get to know what questions she is asking. Your content is just answering her questions. If...
#08 The Clarity Sessions - Does Your Message Really Matter?
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Does your message really matter? What if you write about something that doesn’t necessarily “change the world” but is more of a fun hobby?
Angie specializes in the silhouette/Cricut niche. She is struggling with monetizing her blog while battling the insecurity of whether or not a craft blog really matters to people.
1. You have people who need your message.
Angie is stuck thinking "It's just a craft blog." When she has that belief, it's important she starts to think about her reader. She has identified her ideal reader as a mom who is probably in her early thirties with maybe two or three kids, and she stays at home. She likes to do crafts but doesn't have a lot of time to do them. She likes her house and kids to look a certain way, and she likes to do it herself. Crafts give her satisfaction because she can do them herself rather than going out and buying stuff. They are something for her to...
#04 The Clarity Sessions - How To Figure Out Your Ideal Audience
Are you ready to figure out your ideal audience?
Do you struggle to figure out what kind of product or service to offer to your audience? What about figuring out who your audience even is? Ryan Fairbanks from Noted Pro and I chat about these questions. If you feel stuck, keep reading.
Ryan has thought about doing a book or putting together a course and was wanting my insight on how to figure out his ideal audience.
1. Identify your ideal reader.
Ryan said that his ideal readers are guys who are getting in business trying to build their own confidence and platform and some guys who may have or may not have had good examples to guide them.
It's important to narrow in your audience. So I walked Ryan through this process. Let's say that there's guy, we'll just call him John. He's 29 years old, so we sit within your target audience. He was working for a company and he decided to go out on his own as a consultant and start his own kind of consulting firm -- just a one-man shop. He got...