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Feeling scattered and overwhelmed? Feel like your mind is running with 50 tabs open leaving you mentally exhausted and feeling inadequate? Maybe you have so many passions and ideas that you find it difficult to be truly present, opening the door of mom guilt? You don’t know where to start so you disengage all together and it leaves you feeling depleted. If that is you then this is the place for you to fill that cup sister friend! Welcome to Control the Chaos Mama. Here, we free ourselves from the chaos and embrace our strengths through self discovery (enneagram etc) to move toward the compelled business women we were meant to be. It’s time to finally take our power back and gain that follow through that we’ve been desperately needing, while also learning to leave the swirl behind. Hi, I’m Angel McElhaney and after losing my mom when she was just 48 I realized that time was fleeting and that it was time to start living and do more of what you love. Let’s make meaning out of our hard stuff end gain traction toward the life we want and finally act on your amazing idea.
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Friday Oct 09, 2020
Friday Oct 09, 2020
1.) SEO/Keywords
Now more than ever Facebook is prioritizing Facebook groups and events. They have now added a Discover tab that makes groups more searchable so it is very effective for you to take this into consideration and to name your group with some keywords that your ideal avatar would be searching for.
2.) FB Collaborations
I think Facebook collaborations is a great way for people to get your content and other audiences as well as to up level your energy and support other businesses. If you are a podcast or you could set up your mike hit record and do an interview in your group you could then take part of that interview and put it on your podcast therefore driving people that are in your podcast to your Facebook community. I think Facebook collaborations also make way for you to niche down while still supplying your audience with more content that is valuable to them.
3.) Weekly FB lives
There are so many great things about utilizing the Facebook live feature among them are the fact that people can see your face so they will grow to know like and trust you and there is the factor that Facebook prioritizes these as well in the feed. When you do a Facebook live be sure to have a title that is clickable and juicy and has a hook that draws your person in and then prepare as best as you can with an outline so it’s still conversational and at the end definitely give a call to action so that they know what their next step is or what you want them to do you can also ask them to do things as you are going through the content so that it will keep bumping it up and increasing your engagement.
I hope you enjoy these three Facebook engagement growth hacks if you would like to hear more check out our Facebook group Multipassionate Mompreneur for more fb group engagement growth hacks and day 2 of the workshop for help on lead generation and monetizing your fb groups.
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Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Ready to Grow an Audience? The SECRET Formula to Sales and Profitability with Stefanie Gass
Today we speak with Stefanie Gass from the Mompreneur Mastermind Podcast and the creator of the podcast course that helped this multipassionate “creative ADD” mompreneur mama to launch a podcast in 30 days! It’s an amazing course and contains everything you need to plan, launch, promote, monetize and so much more. Check out my affiliate link here if you are interested in podcast pro university (I do get a percentage of these sales).
First, we speak with Stefanie Gass, the #1 podcaster for Christian entrepreneurs, and we started with revisiting this previous episode about niching down to your “one thing” as a multipassionate mompreneur.
What are you created to do?
Ask yourself this question and really take into account the skills you have, the life experiences that give you the authority to help others that haven’t been through the same hard stuff like you, and also your passions.
What if you have many things you want to do?
You can have many passions, but it’s more so doing “ONE THING” at a time. You can do it all, but you need to do it one thing at a time so that you can really zone on who you can help and attract them authentically.
How do I grow an audience?
To grow an audience you need to focus more on serving authentically and less on monetizing. You need to focus on your avatar and what they need and how to solve their problems and then you will have the audience to actually sell to and it’ll be what she wants.
The secret to sales and profitability in your business is SERVICE and TRUST.
How to build trust and serve my audience?
Stefanie Gass built her audience in her Facebook group, Mompreneur Mastermind, and decided to use serve also with a podcast. Her podcast is a way to serve and then use the Facebook group and 1:1 coaching to implement with her avatar. This was the key to learning from her avatar and get your “LOLA,” as Stef calls her avatar, to tell you what she needs.
Stefanie was able to use podcasting and move people to her Facebook group, Mompreneur Mastermind group she was able to grow her audience organically by 100K. Then, in a year and a half in she was able to increase her revenue/income 1600% and have 60% of her income coming from passive products and courses. Now she’s coming up on 2 years of podcasting and she only works Monday to Friday and only works 20-25 hours a week.
If I give them all of my stuff will they still hire me?
Yes! People will hire you and get your help as a guide to implement the content.
What are the trust tiers?
Trust Tier 1- Serving with large form content like a podcast, YouTube channel or blogger. This tier is teaching content and leaving it to be consumed, but it’s one-sided. This is the free stuff!
Trust Tier 2- Serving deeper with Facebook groups. There is a dialogue that takes place within the facebook group that allows for the person to be heard. In this stage you find out exactly what she needs and then you create it and she buys it. This is when your avatar spends $1-500 with you.
Trust Tier 3- Masterminds, Retreats. This is that deeper connection and typically when someone spends $501 and up with you.
Tired of the crickets? Ready to accelerate your engagement with a Facebook group? Come on over to Multipassionate Mompreneur FREE FB Group Community and let's work on building connections, community, and collaboration together. This is a great place for work at home mompreneurs to gain some support as they take on all the things. We are better together so let's go.
Ready to get into action? There is an event coming up in the group called "FB group Engagement Growth Hacks Workshop" where you will learn some tangible and tactical things to do in your group to double your engagement in 5 days.
Come over to Multipassionate Mompreneur and get the support that you need to get into action.
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Friday Sep 25, 2020
Friday Sep 25, 2020
Tired of yelling? When you try to do all the things and wear all the hats we can see “Medusa Mama” surface.
Who is Medusa Mama?
It’s when you ask something of your kids, or anyone really, and then after not feeling heard she yells. Yes picture snakes from the head and maybe even your head spins, eyes turn into lasers and all the things. Ha! Ok.. maybe it’s mostly the yelling and then you feel bad and it’s just a cycle that isn’t pleasant for anyone involved.
What is positive parenting?
Positive parenting is based on the thought that kids are inherently good and so they want to do the right thing, but may need to be guided that way. It’s about teaching without breaking their spirit and with understanding the logic behind the undesired behaviors and really looking at the way we parent that enables the kids to still feel loved and powerful.
What are the benefits of Positive Parenting?
Positive Parenting builds self esteem, autonomy, mutual respect and doesn’t result in anyone acting in emotion in the moment and feeling bad later. I believe it helps you to be thinking about the outcome that you want rather than having dominance or power. This can help you to stop yelling and joining their chaos, but rather bringing them to peace.
The 5 R’s of Positive Parenting
I heard these from Parenting Solutions on instagram, check out their page here.
1.) Be Respectful- Take away the blame, shame or pain when you are parenting. Make sure the consequence is fair.
3 core rules of the responsive approach are listed here. Want more on this? Check out this website.
Respect yourself
Respect others
Respect your environment (surroundings)
Have young kids? Exchange the word respect for "taking care of" and they will begin to understand.
2.) Be Related- Is the consequence related to the behavior? This will communicate a logical consequence that
3.) Reasonable in duration- Are you being fair? Working in extremes can result in a child giving up trying because it’s just over the top. For instance, they don’t do their chores for one day so they are grounded for a month versus they don’t do their chores one day and lost a related privilege for that day.
4.) Revealed in advance- Do the kids know what the consequence is beforehand?
5.) Repeat it back to them- Set the expectations out to them, have them repeat it so you know they understand it and the consequence before hand and then follow through on it. Seems simple right? This foresight allows managing it to be easier and usually ends up in less backlash when a consequence is released.
If your kids are acting out they may be needing more attention or power. This search for autonomy or choice in what happens in the world around them or feel seen may be the cause of some acting out. As work from home moms doing all the things, we may need to take a breath and analyze the reason for the behavior and be a little strategic in making changes in the behavior that is effective.
Do you like more episodes like this? Do you need to put some strategy around managing things in your daily life that need work outside of your business? Shoot me a voice DM on instagram or screenshot and share this episode on your stories or facebook. We can get through this one day at a time, together.
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Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
What is a freebie or lead magnet and why do I need one?
A freebie or lead magnet or opt in is a way for people to get on your email list. This is a way for them to get to know you and what you do and also for you to communicate when you release something that would help them, as well as a way for you to develop a two sided dialogue that could help with market research so you know what to create. In short, this is an awesome way for you to serve and solve for free so that you can sell later when appropriate.
Already have a freebie? 3 reasons why it may not be working
1.) Content- Is your content for the freebie speaking to the biggest pain point that she has? Is the language in the copy words that she uses? You can utilize market research questions in other groups that you person hangs out to learn this language or some of my engagement tips found in the facebook group, my 6 categories to post to boost your engagement in 30 days freebie or in your own DMs.
2.) Title- Is your title juice? A clickable title will be something that hooks you in. Sometimes it's useful to put it as a question or a number of ways to do something or go back to that language and get those keywords in the title. Is the promise clear and specific? Sometimes it's just too big of a compilation of things versus speaking to one clear solution or promise.
3.) Distribution- Are you promoting your freebie? Add it to your files in your facebook group and then make sure that you have membership questions when you enter the group. This will also attract her to your group. Promote the results from your freebie, show it being used in your stories if possible, and do this often. We think that people are seeing our stuff, but it's just not the case. Also, go to other groups and drop your freebie in freebie friday posts, ask questions that show you your person, ask an admin if you can share it or even dm people that you know could benefit and tell them you think it could help them.
In this episode we brainstorm coach and mentor Michelle Porterfield of Set free Sisterhood Podcast. We also talk about how to use her freebie to get her audience a quick win, build trust and belief that they can take a break from alcohol in her Ditch the Wine Witch challenge coming next month. Have you considered taking a break from alcohol and want support? Check out her podcast and fb group too.
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Ready to show up real and authentic on instagram? Today's interview is with instagram and branding coach Allison Scholes and she schools us on the 3 MUST HAVES to showing up authentically on INSTAGRAM. What is your main goal for instagram? Instagram is not the place to focus on sales. Think of it as a boat and nurture the people who are on your boat. Clarity in messaging will attract your ideal people on your boat. How to make a clear brand message? Make a Instagram bio by making it about them and have clarity on who they help. What does your ideal audience need to solve their problems 3 categories of what to post on instagram 1.) Relatable - Be real and vulnerable. Show your family and show your mess. Transparency and trust make people relate to you. 2.) Educational- Teach them something! 3.) Entertain- Have fun. Share funny stuff, be silly, and entertain your audience so that they want to show tune in. Should I use the feed, IG stories, IG Reels or IGTV? The feed is where people get to KNOW you, stories is where they start to LIKE you and IGTV is where they start to TRUST you and build authority as an expert. Reels are meant to be fun, but can entertain as well. Want to learn more about instagram? Check out Allison's podcast Social Media for mompreneurs and her instagram @allisonscholes. Come over to Multipassionate Mompreneur and get the support that you need to get into action or let's connect on social! Let’s Connect! Learn–> www.angelmcelhaney.com Connect –> info@angelmcelhaney.com Join the Sisterhood —>Multipassionate Mompreneur FB community Work with Angel–> FB GROUP CONNECTION PLAN
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
How to know if you are ready to create a course?
Are you constantly asked the same things? Do you have a system that you can record and teach to package up your process? If this is the case you are ready?
Where do I begin?
Step 1:
I recommend going to Mindmeister and brain dumping all of your ideas, steps and then look at what is essential to your process.
A good rule of thumb is to have about 6 modules for a signature course or 3 or so for a mini course. Within the course it’s a good idea to try and keep it to 6 lessons or so and not overwhelm people with length either by keeping it around 6 x 6 x 6. I saw this in something by Grace Lever and it made total sense.
What should my course be on?
As much as I like the feel good emotional stuff of mindset, happiness and the like I want you to make your course focused on the outcome you can measure. While mindset can be a module it shouldn’t be the whole takeaway in my opinion.
For instance, my course I’m working on has emotional links for sure. It’s about connection and community and collaboration and building trust.. but how can I measure that? I’m measuring this with fb engagement. People will be able to get a plan, follow it and build engagement that they will are in their insights and even leads that they generate later when they are through solving her problems.
Step 2:
Build an outline using whatever you like, I recommend Canva. I love the look of Canva and I bet you will too! I’m including modules on how to use Canva in my course by the way! If you want on the waiting list message me at info@angelmcelhaney.com or shoot me a Dm in social media on fb or Instagram @angel.mcelhaney.
Step 3:
Go to loom.
Look allows you record videos, organize them in folders and I especially like it over because I can trim the videos easily which can’t do in zoom.
Click record then open up your presentation on Canva and start your module. Forget the fluff and get straight to the point. Remember they can come to your podcast, YouTube channel or blog to get your long form content and this course is meant for them to get what to do so they can get the result. Make this efficient.
Step 4:
Upload to your course platform of choice. I went with podia because it was comparable to teachable and thinkific, but with no transaction fees and I liked that it allowed the ability to sell digital downloads and even offers membership sure option if I ever wanted to use that.
Interested in podia too? Click here For my referral link.
I can’t wait to see what you create! The world needs what you have and why not package it up as a passive product and save time for what matters most to you?!
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Monday Sep 07, 2020
Monday Sep 07, 2020
Have you been trying to meet a goal and feel like you can’t make yourself do it? Hmm.. I wonder if you are a rebel like me! Take the quiz at www.4tendendciesquiz.com
To find out which one you are.
What are the 4 tendencies?
The 4 tendencies was developed by Gretchen Rubin and helps to know how you tend to respond to expectations. The 4 tendencies are Rebel, Obliged, Upholder and Questioner.
How do the 4 tendencies respond to expectations and what are the 4 questions to ask yourself to find out which sounds like you?
Rebel -resists inner and outer expectations and wakes up saying “what do I want to do today?”
A rebels strategy for meeting a goal and staying motivated is going to be Identity. This is what I am. Come over to Multipassionate Mompreneur fb community or find me on Instagram and let me know what you are and if you want to join our #virtualwalk then shoot me a voice DM!
Obliger- meets outer expectations and resists inner expectations. The question they wake up saying is “what do I have to do today?” If this sounds like you then your strategy for staying motivation is going to be accountability.
Upholder- meets outer expectations and meets inner expectations. An upholder asks themself “what do others expect from me and what do I expect of myself? The strategy for motivation for an upholder is going to be scheduling.
Questioner- resists outer expectations, but meets inner expectations. A questioner asks themself “what do I think I should do according to my judgement?” Their strategy for staying motivated is going to be clarity on why.
Which sounds like you?
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Thursday Sep 03, 2020
Thursday Sep 03, 2020
By now we all know that once you complete one thing there is always another when it comes to business and mom life, but what if you could have this ONE THING at the core of what you do that could help you succeed in all the things. Yes, I'm talking about the thing that is critical to a successful business, motherhood, and marriage on today's podcast episode on Multipassionate Mompreneur.
What is the ONE THING you need to succeed?
The one thing we need to succeed is Connection. In the book, "Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect" we learn that from award-winning neurologist Matthew Lieberman on how social interaction and connection to others is more valuable than money and other extrinsic motivators. It's no new news that social interaction is important and we know that we are social creatures, but did you know this social aspect can relieve physical pain? As humans, we want to move from pain and towards pleasure so understanding this could help us to provide insight on how we run our businesses and validate the time inputted to connecting with people.
Why is this information useful for online marketers?
Knowing who you are serving and knowing their motivations is essential to generating leads and making sells, but it also will help you to make lasting connections in collaboration and growth as an entrepreneur. I believe that connection to yourself, others and God are the foundations on which we can feel centered and happier overall.
What is that is the SCARF MODEL?
The S.C.A.R.F motivation model is an easy way to remember the five major domains across which people are making assessments as to whether something is moving them closer to pleasure or to "good" stimuli or way from threats or "bad" stimuli. This model was developed by David Rock and is a brain-based model that is used as a tool to help people work effectively with one another and collaborate.
The acronym "SCARF" stands for status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness, and fairness.
How can I use this in building a community that drives motivation to engage?
Status- Relative importance to others
Ex: this can show up in a facebook group as edifying and empowering people. Show them that you see their contribution to the community and have value. Ask them to go live in your community, to share their experiences and even to have a role as a moderator to help others in the group. Also, you can ask their opinions on things in your life and business and value their opinions with polls.
Certainty- concerns being able to predict future outcomes
Ex: People want to envision the future outcomes of working with you, participating in the group etc. This is one reason why testimonies are amazing for Facebook groups. This could also be fostered by you showing for certain that you are going to show up and build on the certainty of what to expect in the group with it being super clear in the title, description, and content on what the group is used for.
Autonomy- provides a sense of control over events.
Ex: People want to feel like they have control on what could happen in their lives. In a facebook group this motivator could be fostered by doing a group challenge with a small win to show them that they can do it. This builds confidence and autonomy and allows them to go more "all in" with you, because they can see how they can control and change their lives.
Relatedness- sense of safety with others-able to decide if you are a friend or foe.
Ex: Be vulnerable. This could look like showing something that you messed up on or a time where you felt unsure or less of an expert. This could even be showing behind the scenes and those less than perfect life moments. The perfect place for this is IG stories to me, but can be done in Facebook groups in the forms of Facebook lives, posts, and showing up authentically.
Fairness- The need for justice and honoring right vs. wrong and fair exchanges among others.
Ex: Set rules and stick to them in your group. Don't allow someone to share and promote and not others. Show the process for how to winners of giveaways are decided by either using the Facebook insights that show you the most engaged people or by showing a video of the winner being called in a random name generator tool.
Status, relatedness, and fairness are more "social" in their applications to me but I felt it important to make sure you were aware of them all. I'm sure you have seen where starting small with a little win to build autonomy with a client to build their confidence has impacted their motivation to even try though right? This core factor could be huge in getting your clients to try and the certainty factor is them being able to envision the future which is huge in this too. Human behavior is driven by these factors so use them in your life and business and prioritize connection and engagement.
Facebook Engagement Accelerator
Now you know why we should care about connection and engagement in our businesses and life. So now what? If you want to foster a community around these five domains and a plan and strategy to connect, nurture and generate leads using Facebook then shoot me a DM on facebook or instagram and get on the waitlist for extra bonuses on my upcoming course.
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Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
What is Facebook Group Challenge?
A Facebook challenge typically happens in a pop-up Facebook group or in your own group. The idea of a Facebook challenge is to build trust, serve and give your audience a quick win or taste of what they will get to work with you, buy your course etc. Facebook Challenge groups can be great if you have an existing product or service or you want to use the group to fine tune content for an upcoming course or product.
Why should I have a Facebook Group Challenge?
Facebook Group Challenges build know, like and trust factor. They build a container for quick wins and connection. During the challenge you can learn more about what your avatar needs to solve their problems and build community that they don't want to end.
Jess Winnett
Today's interview is with Jess Winnett who is a mom of 4, wife, and entrepreneur who coaches mompreneurs. She helps them to launch and build minimalistic and profitable online businesses. She has a passion for seeing women step fully into their passion and purpose without sacrificing what matters most to them.
Tips for A Successful Facebook Challenge
1.) Know your Who
You have to talk to one specific person when you run your challenge. This person can be different in each Facebook challenge but needs to be super niched down for the challenge to attract your ideal audience. In your messenging speak to the the pain points of your audience's problem using their language. You can discover their language by doing market research in other facebook groups, get into the DMs of your audience.
2.) Know your Promise
Knowing the quick win that you will give your audience will give a clear purpose for the challenge. If you make the content too much in the group then you may overwhelm your audience and they won't get to the output part of the challenge. Ask yourself "What is the big result they will get from the facebook challenge group?"
How to Fill A Facebook Group Challenge?
Jess Winnett has had some of the most engaged facebook group challenges that I've ever seen. As most of you know by now from listening to my podcast here engagement is connection and that's what matters in online marketing over followers, friends, or members in our group so I interviewed her on today's podcast to get you all the deets!
Time vs. Money
You have a choice, would you like to spend time or money to promote your facebook group challenge?
Do you want to spend some time promoting your Facebook Group Challenge on guest spots on podcasts, Facebook lives, Facebook Groups, IG stories, and emails or do you want to spend money on cold market Facebook ads? I prefer cultivating a warm market with engagement and connection, but the choice is yours. Which would you choose?
3 Things to Think about when it comes to Facebook Group Challenges
Pre-challenge-Open your group about 5-7 days before the group starts. I recommend taking into account cycle syncing so that you will feel energized. Find out more about this here. Post a video explaining your giveaway (Jess recommends doing a giveaway for the most engaged) and also do a pre-challenge (Jess usually has a prize for the first 5 to do the pre-challenge). The pre-challenge is typically going life saying something about themselves or what they expect from the challenge etc.
Challenge- Decide how long your challenge will be and when it will happen. Jess does her challenges on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and gives them Sunday to catch up and then Finishes up on Monday and Tuesday. She goes live on zoom and shares it into the group and records it and offers the recordings later for a low point offer of $27. She also does an optional add on of implementation with her challengers with a low point offer in the challenge that they can add on. She shares this into the group with others to see and hear and I believe this helps to build connection and for people to see the results. During these sessions she talks with her clients that opted into the add on and they apply the teaching from the day or discuss how to apply it. Create a few PDFs to help your facebook group challengers to apply the information from the facebook live.
Post Challenge- Don't leave the trainings up forever no matter where you do the group. If it's in a pop up or in your facebook group they need to feel the urgency of being on facebook live, doing the work in the moment etc or they will save it for later. Jess goes on Facebook Lives for an additional free training or Q and A after presenting her offer on day 5. After the challenge she leaves the pop up group up, but deletes the videos. If you do this challenge again you can do it in this same pop up, but redo the videos each time.
Should I do a pop up or my group?
Jess prefers pop ups because it is the person entering the group raising their hand to be "in" the challenge. This commitment in the group ensures that you have more engaged people in the group and that they want to be there. She also says that Facebook will prioritize new Facebook groups content and will more readily show notifications of a new group to its members.
Connect with Jess on facebook or instagram and check out her next challenge or come over to instagram or facebook and tell me about your next facebook group challenge.
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Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
In today's podcast episode we talked with Jacqueline Howard of the Optimize to scale podcast. She is an executive virtual assistant who now helps other moms become virtual assistants and make money online while at home. You can connect with Jacqueline at her email here or on her website here
What are you naturally good at?
Ask yourself this question and do an inventory on what your skill set is and what comes naturally to you. Chances are that the things that come naturally to you seem too easy and you probably are amazed that someone wouldn't be able to do them on their own. It's important that you make it focused on your skills so that you can be successful in making money at home and that you won't have to have a huge learning curve. Jacqueline mentions having a quick win built in as you step out as a virtual business and this will make it easier and your work, or social proof that comes from putting yourself out there, will be better.
What are your daily standards?
What are your core values that you want to keep a priority? It's important that you be realistic as you gauge how much time tasks will take you and how much time you have or are willing to trade to make money at home. Do you want to first be an excellent wife and mother? This can also help you with deciding pricing as you grow and avoid burn out.
3 Things to do to start making money now as a virtual assistant
1.) Get Legal
Yes this part is scary and it's stepping out and declaring that you are doing the thing! We recommend that you resist the overanalyzing that often turns into imposter syndrome and then ends in analysis paralysis and instead start with your name. Although Jacqueline says that you can do multiple things as a virtual assistant, which yes it makes my multi passionate mompreneur heart happy haha, you don't have to do it all at once.
Find out what your state requires to do a sole proprietorship or LLC. We aren't lawyers and can't give legal advice, but a quick google search will put you on the right track. In short, LLC protects your assets and divides your business and personal, whereas a sole proprietorship is lumped together. Don't get lost in the weeds with this though, depending on your state many times this is super simple. Through the state website you can get the EIN number that you need. Another thing that Jacqueline recommends is a separate account set up, a P.O Box at your local post office if you want to be able to keep your address off of emails and things and any contracts or licenses for your particular business.
2.) Get visible
Pick a platform like facebook, linked or instagram and get yourself out there. Network in facebook groups, serve and solve for your avatar and look at job opportunities that you are qualified for. Don't get lost in the back office stuff and work on making content for your ideal client 60% of the time to show your knowledge and leverage the authority and expertise that you have.
3.) Social Proof
Social proof is a fancy way of saying start the doing part of this. Get yourself some clients by asking questions like " when it comes to ________ what do you struggle with most." Save these posts in your phone, learn the language, struggles and hopefully solutions for your avatar that will make it a no brainer for them to work for you. In short, show what you know and build social proof and remember to ask for referrals, reviews and keep customer service paramount.
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