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Marketing Formula

How to Effectively Analyze Your Marketing Efforts

January 22, 2016 by Joanna Lindenbaum 1 Comment

When your marketing and outreach aren’t yielding the results you want, a common mistake is to try to change everything about the marketing at once — you scrap your launch or your entire funnel or your system for bringing on new clients and you start from scratch.

For example: You send out an email to your community about a new program. The email leads readers to your sales page, and you don’t make too many sales.

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Posted in: Business Development, Marketing, Marketing Formula, Money, Online Marketing, Success Tagged: business development, marketing, marketing formula, online marketing

Time To Share…

April 15, 2013 by Rachel Goldstein Leave a Comment

I’m gearing up for another trip to NY in a week, but before that I have been enjoying the incredible Spring weather & energy, and one of my favorite forms of art: theatre. Jon and I, along with some friends, saw a wonderful production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? last weekend. Wow, what an intense 3 hours.

You’ll notice that in today’s newsletter, I’m recommending events from THREE amazing women – it’s rare that I’ll highlight 3 in one newsletter, but each of these women and each of these events are so fantastic that I didn’t want you to miss out.

I love to promote women, businesses, and events that I find valuable and think the Soulful Coaching community (YOU!) would love. It’s one of the things that gives me great pleasure, and I’m thrilled that I’m able to share other women’s tools of movement, growth, and healing to so many.

Speaking of growth tools – check out last week’s article – all about taking your website to the next level!

With love,
Joanna

Posted in: Business, Business Development, Marketing, Marketing Formula, Online Marketing, Success, Visibility Tagged: business coach, business development, joanna lindenbaum, marketing, marketing forumla, online marketing, soulful coach, soulful coaching, Soulful Coaching for Busy Women, Success, visibility, websites

How To Create An Effective, Soul-Centered Website

April 12, 2013 by Rachel Goldstein Leave a Comment

When you take a look around the web today, it can seem like everyone has a gorgeous, amazing website. It can make you feel very pressured to create a fabulous website for your business or project too!

You never want to act out of pressure.

However, if you sense that it’s time to create a new website, or improve your existing one…that’s great, because a well-created website can make a world of difference in your inflow of prospects.

But where to begin?

What do you include in a website? What’s important and what’s unnecessary? What about graphics? Or video? Or downloads? There are so many variables to consider, it can get overwhelming fast!

If you are just terrified of or feel unprepared to have a website, rest easy: you don’t need a perfect, fancy website in order to be successful in your soul-centered project. If you’re ready to create your website or to uplevel the one you already have, great! Let me walk you through the process step by step.

Elements of a Soul-Centered Website

Before you get started, my number one recommendation to you is this: keep it simple.

Once you start to make your website complex, it’s so easy to get overwhelmed. When you get overwhelmed, more often than not, you just stop working on it or you beat yourself up. This is not helpful! Remember, entrepreneurship is a marathon, not a sprint. There will be plenty of time to add and make things fancier. Here are the real essentials:

HOME PAGE

This is the main page that people will land on when they visit your website. The best use of a home page is to identify who your ideal clients are, to address your clients’ needs and visions of success, and to let them know how you’re the bridge to that success.

  • Be accessible. Make sure your contact information is on every page, starting with the home page. The information you supply will vary depending on what’s appropriate for your particular business, but this may include company name, logo, phone number, email address, social media accounts, etc. This may seem obvious, but this information gets overlooked so many times!
  • Identify your prospect. Have some copy that lets the prospects know that they should be reading it because they are exactly the type of person whom you serve best. You can ask: "Are you a good match for my programs?" You might list qualities of your ideal clients. Describe who they are by identifying their needs and their visions. If you are a yoga teacher, your clients’ needs might be to find tranquility within themselves, to become more fit, or to try yoga for the first time. Their vision might be that they can finally perform a difficult pose, meditate successfully, etc. Speak to their dreams in this section.
  • Reveal the benefits of your service or your product, etc. I like to use bullet points here, just listing all the ways your prospect will benefit from your offerings. You can briefly outline your Brilliance-Based System – lay out, step by step, your system for bringing your clients from where they are right now (their "needs”) to where they’d like to be in the future (their "visions”).
  • Let them know what to do next. You need to always have a clear call to action that invites folks to the next step with you. This might be a call to have people sign up for a complimentary call, or to sign up for a newsletter, or to download an ebook. List the benefits of this and clear instructions on how to do it.
  • Your photo + your presence. A clean, clear photo of you, if appropriate, helps your prospects make a personal connection with you.

OFFERING PAGE

  • This can be called "services," "work with me," etc. You can list in detail what you do. If your offerings are services, be clear about what’s included in each program, and more importantly – what the BENEFIT is. If you include your pricing – and you don’t have to — be clear about it. Make sure nothing is confusing; this is your opportunity to paint a bright and vibrant picture. If your offering is a product, you may want to also use images and photos in this section.
  • Again, let people know what to do. At the bottom of this page, include a very clear call to action. For example: "If you would like to learn how these services can move you from A (your readers’ experiences of need) to B (their vision of success) then do Z (sign up, call, email, etc.)."

BIOGRAPHY PAGE

  • This can be called "About Me," "Bio," "About [your name]," or another appropriate title that’s aligned for your business or project. This is where you get to describe, in a personal way, who you are. You can include your qualifications, experiences, education, and your story about your business. Your biography should be personal, because it’s an opportunity to make a real connection and create a relationship with your readers.
  • Include a good headshot of yourself to continue the feeling of connection with your readers. Make sure the photo is adequately lit so that you are easy to see.
  • If the work you do isn’t appropriate for there to be a photo of you, think about other ways to integrate images into your website. You want images to break up chunks of text. The eye needs to rest from all the text, and also the images will help create atmosphere and energy for your site.

Important Additional Elements

  • Make sure there is a way for people to enter their name and email address (and maybe even their phone number) on every single page of your site. You must have a way of capturing the contact information of people who visit your site and are interested in you.
  • That registration box needs to be somewhere in the upper right hand corner of every single page. This is because research has shown that when people look at websites their eyes will naturally fall pretty quickly to the upper right hand corner. Getting peoples’ contact information is even more important than getting them to read your entire website, because it means you can contact them and let them know about your offerings in a more personal way.
  • Create a free offering to use as an incentive for people to sign up and give you their contact information. This could be an e-book, a report, an audio, a guided meditation, a video, etc.
  • Testimonials are a great way to help prospects feel comfortable with and trust your offerings. You can devote a page on your website to them or sprinkle them around the other pages.
Posted in: Business, Business Development, Marketing, Marketing Formula, Online Marketing, Success, Visibility Tagged: business coach, business development, joanna lindenbaum, marketing, marketing formula, online marketing, soulful coach, soulful coaching, Soulful Coaching for Busy Women, Success, visibility

The F-Word of Business: Followup!

March 1, 2013 by Rachel Goldstein Leave a Comment

How familiar is this scenario: you set out to do something, and when it doesn’t work out after the first or second attempt, you decide that you’re not good at it, you’ll never learn how to do it, or it’s not for you? Here are some stories like that which I’ve heard over the years (and I’ve heard hundreds of others like these):

  • "I set up my website 2 weeks ago, and while I’ve posted a few blog articles, I still haven’t gotten more than a few people looking at my site. This business website thing will never work for me!"
  • "I followed up with this prospective client, but they never responded to me. I guess they aren’t interested in my service or product."
  • "I want to write a book of poetry, but have spent a month and can’t even decide on which of my poems to include. Maybe I’m not meant to publish a book!"

Do these situations resonate with you?

If this is an experience you’ve had, you are going to find it very difficult to create success for your soul-centered project. When you easily give up hope or enthusiasm for something you really, REALLY want because your vision didn’t become reality immediately, you are giving up at the EXACT moment to be forging ahead.

Instead of viewing your attempt as exactly that: simply, one attempt that did not work out, you create a story about yourself. The story usually sounds something like these:

  • I will never have a successful, high-traffic website.
  • This client will never be interested in my services.
  • I’ll never be able to write this book.

The truth is, it’s your ability to follow up and follow through that will help or prevent you from accomplishing the things you want to accomplish in life – not your abilities, or even your circumstances!

The F-Word of Business

Does the thought of following up with a colleague, client, or vendor feel so uncomfortable that it’s practically a bad word? Do you worry that following up means you’re desperate, aggressive, or too "salesy"? Sooo many business owners quail at the thought of having to follow up that I sometimes think of it as the f-word of business!

But in truth, followup is critical to your success. Try to think of it like in tennis. When you’re playing to win, it’s not just about where you make impact with the ball that helps it go where you want.

You also need to make sure you’re paying attention to your follow-through with your racquet upwards and outwards, to really guide that ball toward your target.

So much good comes of following up.

Not long ago, I had a client who applied for a teaching position and never heard back. She assumed she never got the job. I encouraged her to call and follow up, and it turned out that literally hundreds of people had applied, and not a single resume had been looked at yet. The person on the phone pulled my client’s resume from the stack as a result of her call, and she ended up getting the job.

Learn how to follow through from a pre-schooler!

I am often reminded of the value of follow-through just by observing my daughter, Penina. As most pre-schoolers do, Penina has a zest and curiosity for life, and wants to do everything for herself. However, it is a rare instance that she accomplishes her goal on her first attempt.

I’ll give you an example: last week, Penina was figuring out how to maneuver herself around a local playground’s climbing structure. I watched as she tested out which foot to place on which slat and which hand to grasp which bar with. Just as she was about to reach the top, Penina lost her balance, slipped down a rung, and banged the side of her head. I raced over to make sure she was okay. She was a little scared and cried for a minute or two. But then she did the most amazing thing: she pushed out of my arms and went directly back to the climbing structure to complete what she had set out to do.

Penina was able to persist and complete her goal because she didn’t judge herself for not achieving full success at her first attempt. In fact, I believe that the challenge is what made it more interesting for her!

Don’t Hesitate; Don’t Fear

Many times, one of the biggest issues that trips you up is when you wait too long to follow up out of fear. You wait weeks and weeks, so that if you ever do get around to making that call, the opportunity window has long since closed. With a prospect, you want to wait only a few days, at most, before reaching out to follow up.

A major step towards success and satisfaction is to be able to let your passion, enthusiasm, and interest for your project or goal be bigger and more powerful than any story you create about your small-ness or your inability. Don’t let one or two failures deter you from achieving success with your ideas, opportunities, relationships, and projects!

Remember, almost no one can do things exactly right on their first try. But don’t let that get in your way! Keep tapping into your curiosity, working at it, working at it, and tweaking your strategy (and maybe get support and help) until you achieve success. You can do it!

So here’s my homework for you:

Make a list of every prospect, partner, and opportunity that you haven’t followed up with over the last 3 months, and…get in touch with each of those people. Invite them to a conversation with you. See how you can follow up to achieve your goals.

Posted in: Business, Business Development, Marketing, Marketing Formula, Networking, Online Marketing, Success, Visibility Tagged: business, business coach, business development, joanna lindenbaum, marketing, networking, online marketing, Soulful Coaching for Busy Women, Success, visibility

Complimentary Business-Building Teleclass

February 25, 2013 by Rachel Goldstein Leave a Comment

It’s been a meaningful week for me – my daughter had a 5-day hiatus from school for parent-teacher conferences and then President’s Day.

Even though Penina is only 4-years-old, I love it that her school has regular parent teacher conferences.

It’s an opportunity for me and Jon to "qvell" over how well she’s doing, but also, it’s an opportunity to be reminded of how learning and achievement takes place: step by step, with forward movement and occasional setbacks, and over time.

This is so important, because it mirrors the journey of an entrepreneur as much as a budding preschool reader. It’s a great reminder not to get frustrated when growth doesn’t happen as quickly as you’d like.

It’s also a great reminder that growth happens best when you have a mentor, some good instruction, and someone to believe in you – whether your 4 or 74.

If you’re feeling like you need some of this right now, I hope you’ll join me for a very special teleclass I’m hosting in two weeks.

With love,
Joanna

Posted in: Business, Business Development, Marketing, Marketing Formula, Networking, Online Marketing, Success, Visibility Tagged: business, business coach, business development, business growth, joanna lindenbaum, marketing, online marketing, soulful coach, soulful coaching, Soulful Coaching for Busy Women, Success, teleclass, visibility

Four Marketing Essentials

January 18, 2013 by Rachel Goldstein Leave a Comment

No matter what you’re wanting to gain visibility for – your next new program, your book, your private client offerings, your clothing line – it’s VITAL that you market yourself and your offering in one way or another.

And, whether you let people know about your stuff via your website, blog, social media, prospect calls, inquiry letters or presentations, you want to make sure that you are incorporating an effective strategy into your marketing. If you aren’t using a strategy in your marketing that really connects you and your target audience, then chances are you’re having a lot of trouble attracting in new clients, new publishers, new boutiques to sell your clothing line, etc.

Today I want to share with you a highly effective and easy marketing formula I use and teach all of my students and clients. I use it every single day in my own business, whether I’m writing web copy or giving a teleclass or speaking with a prospective client.

The thing that makes this formula so effective is that it allows you to connect fully and deeply with your ideal client/target audience. After all, the key to good marketing is about making an authentic, intimate connection with your prospects.

Let me walk you through this foundational marketing formula step by step:

1) Connect your prospect to what’s missing in her life: Your prospect/target audience is looking to you to help fill a void or bridge a gap in her life that she can’t fill herself. For example, if you’re a health coach, your ideal client’s void might be that they are exhausted all the time, or that they feel terrible about the way that they look. The best way to connect in with this person is to let them know, through your copy and words, that you get it. Instead of avoiding the pain they’re in, gracefully name it or ask them about it.

2) Connect your prospect to what she wants for her life: Once you’ve made space for your prospect to see what’s missing for her and how it feels, you want to get her really connected to the possibilities that could open for her. By doing so, she’ll not only feel even more connected to you and that you understand her, but she’ll also then be in a position to get excited about making a change in her life. So, to continue the example of the health coach, your ideal client might want to feel energized or beautiful or active or in full well-being. No matter what marketing avenue you are using, you want to really activate your prospect’s vision and create the space for her to get excited about possibilities for her health and well-being moving forward.

3) Let your prospects know how you can help them get from where they are now to where they want to be: Now that you’ve really helped your prospect understand what’s missing for them currently, as well as what possibility they envision for their life, it’s time to get really clear and specific and tell them how your product or offering can help them get from where they are to where they want to be. You’ll want to talk about or list all the ways that you can help them specifically.

4) Make a powerful call to action: This is the final step. It’s the step that so many leaders and entrepreneurs skip over, and it is so, so important. You want to clearly and confidently invite your prospect, potential publisher, potential buyer, etc. into a next step with you. Perhaps the call to action is a connection call or perhaps it’s an invitation to buy your service or join your newsletter community or to have lunch with you. Whatever it is, state the invitation clearly with as much detail as possible.

There you have it! I’ve given you the quick, down and dirty version here. There are, of course, many more details to consider and add in, but you’ve got the structure now.

Posted in: Marketing, Marketing Formula, Visibility Tagged: business coach, business coaching, joanna lindenbaum, marketing, marketing formula, soulful business coach, soulful business coaching, soulful coach, soulful coaching, Soulful Coaching for Busy Women

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