Let’s get started…
First week of the Working ON My Business…
I can’t wait to see where it takes you.
Before we go any further… if you did NOT answer the 11 questions from Friday – please CLEAK HERE to do that now (you’ll need to scroll all the way to the bottom for that).
When you’re done… let’s get you started with…
Work Smarter, Not Harder – Part 1
In the coming 4 weeks – you are going to “install” 4 new strategic habits that will help you work smarter instead of harder.
Master Entrepreneurs are those that go from where they are now to where they want to be with the minimum amount of steps. That’s what it means to work smarter.
When you get there – doing business becomes easier, life is more flowing, you get results faster…
The first habit we’re going to “install” is coming up with NEW IDEAS on demand.
New ideas can be answers to questions, solutions to problems, new ways of doing things… – it’s all about releasing your creative powers.
Throughout the program we’re going to use the MG-SPI system for success
- M for MINDSET
To be successful in anything you do – you need to have the “right” mindset; - G for GOAL
If you don’t know where you’re going, you have very little chances to get there; - S for STRATEGY
If the goal is your destination, then the strategy is the vehicle to get you there; - P for PLAN
This is your roadmap – how are you going to “drive” your “vehicle” in order to get to your destination; - I for Implementation
You can have the most supporting mindset, the clearest goal, the best strategy in the world and a perfect plan… But without actually taking action – following the plan – you will NOT achieve your desired success.
Let’s start with your MINDSET…
Work smarter instead of harder – means using your most powerful tool – your brain – in a better way.
Your brain is an answering machine. Ask any question, and your brain has no choice but to come up with an answer (or answers) instantaneously.
We’re going to use this function of your brain – to boost your creativity and transform you to an Idea Generating Machine.
Set your GOAL for this week…
Here’s a great goal for you:
Solving your biggest struggle in your business right now.
How’s that for a start of the program?
Choose the STRATEGY you will use…
You can choose any problem-solving strategy you already know, but I would recommend… for this week practice my favorite strategy:
The Idea Generator
Remember – your brain is an answering machine… so start by stating your biggest struggle as a question.
For example, here is my biggest struggle lately: “How do I get my clients to be fully committed to the process?”
Write your own question down, and then…
Read the question, take a deep breath and start writing 10 ideas for possible solutions.
What ideas? It doesn’t matter. Just write down 10 ideas.
I am pretty sure you can easily write down four or five ideas. But at six it starts getting harder…
This is when your brain starts sweating.
No matter how hard it is… Come up with 10 ideas!
That’s when you develop your “smart” muscles.
PLAN your action in your agenda…
Your next step is to actually plan this process.
My recommendation: plan to invest 10-15 minutes EVERY DAY in the coming 5 days to come up with new solutions for (the same) biggest struggle in your business.
Every day start with a blank page, and if some ideas keep coming back – just write them down – and keep looking for more ideas.
But don’t trust your memory… Plan those “creative sessions” in your agenda.
Now it’s time to IMPLEMENT…
Take 10 minutes, right now, and come up with 10 ideas how to solve your struggle.
As soon as you have them… write down in the comment box below:
- What is your biggest struggle in your business these days?
- The 10 ideas you came up with – to solve this struggle.
Repeat this process EVERY DAY for the coming 5 days.
(work on the same struggle during these 5 days)
My commitment to you…
- I’m looking forward to read your struggle and ideas below;
- I will be there for you on Wednesday to support you with any question, challenge or setback you encounter;
- I’m looking forward to celebrate your progress and results on Friday (I’m curious to hear what solution you’ll go for).
- If still a struggle, during the hot seat Zoom session of July 21 – we can work together to find even more solutions.
Live fully, stay awesome,
Nisandeh
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My issue is getting qualified clients. My ideas:
1. Publish blogs
2. Find out what problems your prospects experience
3. Attract more traffic to your website
4. Create value for your customers
5. Become the expert in your market
6. Post social media messages
7. Go out to networking events to meet people
8. Do research on LI and other social media and connect with them
9. Create an irresistible offer
10. Advertise on social media
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What is my biggest struggle in my business these days?
Friday 24th 2022
I started out with: I need to be more visible and that is my biggest struggle. I can rationalize it, I know what to do, but that first step. However, when brainstorming I discovered that in order to be more visible I need help. Because an important reason and (true) an excuse not to do my social media and bi more visible, is lack of time. There is too much work for one person. So the two 'problems' are more or less entangled.
My 'solutions'
1. Put an ad in the local newspaper
2. Put a button 'vacature' on my website
3. Ask for a zzp'er of freelancer in my newsletter (that is what I did this Friday)
4. Put a job offer on Facebook and/or Instagram/Twitter
5. Ask around in my network
6. Put a job offer in my signature
7. Put a job offer on LinkedIn
8. Make a list of what I do in a day (also to see if I could work more efficiently
9. Make a list: what do I want, what do I need, what do I like and what do I hate about my work.
10. Make a video.
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Sorry I was sick. Couldn't do anything. Catching up now.
New ideas to get the things done:
1. make a list
2. do one thing of the list
3. buy a paper shredder
4. "make my bed" in the morning, so one task is done perfectly and I can start the day feeling good
5. put on the music
6. be more focussed in chosing/attracting clients
7. don't have to help everyone
8. have compassion
9. meditate
10. sell the business
11. emigrate
12. trust the universe in making more impact without all the stuff
13. buy a new computer
14. reward myself more often
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What is your biggest struggle in your business these days?
Get clear on how I want to build my business and get more time to work on instead of in my business.
The 10 ideas you came up with – to solve this struggle.
1. Hire a VA
2. Hire a telemarketing project manager
3. Work on a licence programme for schools for online trainings
4. Get a stagiaire
5. Work with an online planning programme for structure
6. Look for freelance trainers
7. Get a temp
8. Educate a school leaver
9. Ask around in my network for suggestions
10. Outsource to other speaking countries
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DAY 6 - SATURDAY
* What is your biggest struggle in your business these days?
Making my promise to my customers concrete and thus the solution / result for them.
* How do I make my promise concrete?
1. limit the (front-end) coaching options (so not 10 different trajectories)
2. be clear about my target audience
3. provide practical information on self-reflection
4. give a nice hardcover notebook with pen, both with MC logo at the start of the trajectory
5. illustrate what coaching by me can deliver (see also reviews)
6. be clear about how they can get in touch with me between sessions
7. set up intake criteria
8. share more and regularly short videos of myself on LinkedIn
9. tell which books and movies have inspired me
10. tell how many clients I already helped
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Idea Generating Machine day 5/5: my biggest struggle in my business at the moment is how to free up time to work on my strategy for my new business
Yesterday I had a breakthrough. In the Conscious Entrepreneur class I was asked a questions which, in combination with my Personal Life Coach session earlier that day hit a home run: I would down the index of my plan of approach for my new business. It just came to me in a flash based on the questions and with thanks to Dr. Kotter. That's the power of well formulated strategic questions.
The steps for today are therefore not ideas but my implementation plan. A plan that I commit to fullfill:
1. Stop procrastinating
I know what to do. I love what I'm going to do. So get on with it.
2. Create a sense of urgency (my why)
3. Create a strategic vision and initiatives for my businessproject HappyHomes.
4. Communicate the vision
5. Build a guiding and powerfull coalition
6. Create and build
7. Enabling action by removing obstacles (such as raising funds, raising consciousness etc.)
8. Implement my HappyHome project
9. Generate and celebrate short-terms wins
10. Make the HappyHomes concept a sustainable one my anchoring it within the culture of the municipality / country
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10 ideas to get my book sold/ given to many more people
1. Bring the book to each company that I give a training to sell it
2. Bring a book to each company that I give a training in to give it to the CEO
3. We might get more lockdowns again. Make creative actions on how to do online meetings better because we have to 🤪
4. Do a webinar and give participants the digital version if they show up
5. Yesterday I had someone saying he wanted the book, why didn’t I send him to the sales page for pre-order? It would be great to have my first book sold already!!
6. Ask loyal customers what would it need to get my book sold in their company and who I should contact for it
7. Start doing the warm calls again with LinkedIn contacts with interviews- but now with 5 tips on how to do their online meetings better
8. Get invited to a podcast on management or productivity (make a list for this)
9. Find companies (1uur.nu and moeielooswerken) who might be interested to give the book to their customers as a gift (that’s brilliant, this will be my implementation step)
10. Go over all the past tips and find the golden nuggets for me and make a list with dates when to implement
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Day 5/5
Stop procastinating, start focus
Prioritize best ideas to get back in business
Start with the low-hanging fruit
What can be automated?
What can be delegated?
Complete just 1 action a day
Analyse: what were best performing products before covid?
Upgrade and remarket these
When new course schedule is ready, upsell on earlier students
Cross-sell on workshop clients
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Week 1 day 3 and 4 of 5
Struggle how do I get ideal clients for my new public leaders program
Ideas
1. Make a list of ideal clients who I enjoy working with or want to work with in my program.
2. Share an important checklist as optin
3. Create a buyer persona
4. Describe my USPs Check for yourself: what makes your company really unique? Does that have to do with your service? Your specific products? Your specific approach in your service provision? Maybe it's your price/quality ratio? It can also be multiple USPs. Sometimes you can't figure it out yourself. Then ask some satisfied customers why they chose you. You get a lot out of that for your USPs.
5. Create survey for ideal customer asking what they want
6. Join linkedIn groups of the target groups
7. Thinking about own LinkedIn group for target audience ideal customer community.
8. Make a content schedule with topics
9. Create a team for
10. Ask your ideal clients what topic your next book should be about.
11. Buy a file of email addresses with ideal customers
12. Sign up at a speaker's agency
13. Create a one-time event for the ideal customer's target audience
14. Think about who I can form a strategic alliance with
15. Pre-sell the program to an existing customer
16. Make a podcast
17. Ask satisfied customers for referrals
18. Message everyone in your address book about what I do, who I help and what I have to offer and ask them to share it in their network
19. Share the story of the first place as the best municipal government organization in 2018
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I have one question for you Alexander. If i were a woman and looking for a program like yours, I would be hesitant to follow a course/ training with a man. What do you know?
Why are you the one to go to for me as a public leading woman? Because the TA is fantastic and I think you can add so much value... but this might be a doubt to overcome...
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Now that I write this down, I feel something else. Why do you, as a man, think that I, as a woman, need this? Why are you not offering this to the men? am i not good enough??
I know I am not a leading woman in public but this might be valuable insights in how they think:)
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Day 4/5
Partner with retailers
Partner with hotel schools
Create funnels
Map out SEA strategy
Google Ads
Facebook Ads
Insta Ads
Write a blog serie on Linkedin for HR managers
Make a list of ideal B2B clients
Campaign on them
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Day 3/5
Ask for Google reviews
Update Google My Business Page
Update Facebook Business Page
Add Events to Facebook Business Page
Add new blogs to the website
Re-invent my product for leads
Better copy writing on my website
Make a list of all recurring business expenses
See what business expenses can be reduced
Schedule courses for next autumn
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Day 2/5
Research for supplier of wine samples
Create new/better sales pages
Work on SEO for these sales pages
Set-up an referral program for clients
Set-up follow up mails after opt-in
Set-up follow up mails after signing in for the online program
Re-start with journalling
Make a daily planning the night before
Add health habits to my daily planning
Schedule mail campaigns and offer for Sinterklaas en Christmas
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DAY #5
How should I do my marketing and develop my own style when: 1. the topic is sensitive 2. cold acquisition is no option 3. the competition is big 4. I'm not entirely an experience expert.
43. Have my clients spreading the word for me: develop nice gifts for my clients to give away to their relatives. Gifts when you don't know what to say. I would LOVE to design nice gifts.
44. Make Social Media a habit*
45. Make Social Media fun*
46. Do a project that's newsworthy and be on the news. Join forces with one of my cool undertaker relatives.
47. Get interviewed on the radio (NPO2 Ruud de Wild or de Staat van Stasse)
48. Sell my products in pop-up/concept stores
49. Contact the art bureaus of hospitals and ask if my work can be exhibited in their displays. With an QR code on the displays, people can easily find my website.
50. Make a promotion box for undertakers
51. Design a Monumentalista Christmas box with lots of food for thought. Companies can buy the boxes & give them to their employees.
52. My Jizo miniboekje could be a give away in magazines like Happinez, Libelle and Linda
What would my Ideal Social Media look like? Hmm, interesting question...
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1. Trust the process
2. Expect positive results
3. Get realistic estimations of risk
4. Understand the details better
5. Draw the steps to make them visual
6. Just take the first step
7. Keep a track record
8. Transform the feeling
9. Implement systems
10. Be convinced by the big percentage I know/can in stead of looking to the small percentage I'm still growing in.
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Ideeën dag 5:
* Lichtkrachthealing losse (kennismakings)sessies;
* Lichtkrachthealing korte of langere 3 / 5) sessies;
* Lichtkrachthealing los, korte of langere reeks live op locatie voor oudere en/of slechter ter been zijnde mensen;
* Of online of buiten in natuur;
* Lichtkrachthealing idem in Engels in alle varianten;
* LKH in combinatie met minisessie yoga hoofd, nek, schouders;
* LKH icm minisessie yoga armen en handen;
* LKH icm minisessie yoga adem;
* LKH icm minisessie yoga stilzitten
* LKH icm minisessie yoga bekkembodem;
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June 24, 2022 How to arouse the attention of potential customers. Day 5
1. Making a weekly schedule of activities
2. Good balance, work relaxation, making music/study, family
3. Don't be too hard on myself and don't get too easy
4. Goal: know where I want to go
5. Commitment: doing what it takes in harmony with #2
6. Confidence: know that I can do it and that it will work
7. Discipline: steady rhythm leads to flow
8. Concentration/focus: I don't get distracted
9. Share successes
10. Celebrating Successes
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Day 1/5
What is your biggest struggle in your business these days?
Get back in business after lockdowns
The 10 ideas you came up with – to solve this struggle.
Re-engage old clients by email marketing
Ask them what they want
re-engage students in online academy
Make a new online incentive for them ( 1 and 3)
Plan a short and fun live event before the summer holiday
Get back in touch with B2B clients
Get back in touch with old leads who didn't buy
Set-up an affiliate program
plan more time to work ON my business
Re-start with using Facebook
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How do I get a constant stream of new assignments? (Day 5)
53. Contact a salesteam. explain that, instead of them trying to convince people over the phone to buy something, they can now phone people to only ask if they can send them a 2 minute video. More people will say yes, and they can call much more people per day. Then phone them back the next day and now the animation has already done the hard work of convincing them why they would want this product. So using animations to do the selling.
54. Don't give up on the first 'no'. Some people have to hear the idea of puchasing an animation 7 times before they say yes.
55. Start giving webinars.
56. Get on stage at some business event.
57. Give a TED talk.
58. Find partners who already do business with bigger corporations and offer them a fee if they can get me in. Or my animation might be an upgrade on the service they are allready offering to those corporations
59. Invent something totaly new in animation style, something magical, to seperate myself from competition.
60. start calling past clients and ask them if they have friends/contacts that I can approach that might want an animation
61. Make flyers and go gine them to people at business events or put them at art galleries, or golf clubs, or...
62. Find a way to 10x my price, so I only need to make 2 or 3 animations per year.
63. Find a way to make a 70 or 80K animation, so I only need to make 1 animation a year.
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FRIDAY JUNE 24, DAY 5/5
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! I CHOSE MY FRUIT TREE!!! 🥳🍍🌳
Thanks to the idea generator process this week and the Q&A session with Nisandeh, I was able to overcome doubt and finally choose the business idea that I will build during WOMB program.
MY CHOSEN BUSINESS IDEA IS:
⭐️⭐️⭐️THE BABY HOTEL⭐️⭐️⭐️
The one question (asked by Nisandeh during Q&A) that eliminated my doubt is: “WHICH ONE OF THESE IDEAS WILL MAKE A GREATER CONTRIBUTION TO THE WORLD?”
The answer was immediately clear to me. Fear and doubt evaporated in a moment of enlightenment.
Thank you Nisandeh for this brilliant question. To honor it, today I put the answering machine to work on the following question:
*How will THE BABY HOTEL make a great contribution tot he world?*
Hereunder 10 ideas:
1. By providing lots of caring and loving parenting support via live and online events
2. By providing reliable, clear,
practical and very useful information to parents
3. By building a very strong and international community of parents where experiences, pains and tips can be shared
4. By providing professional and loving support to babies and their parents during sleepless nights
5. By providing rest and healing to parents reaching (or already in) a burn out
6. By teaching parents about their children’s sleeping cycles, developmental needs, behavioral psychology so they know exactly what to do to teach their children to sleep
7. By rising awareness about the importance of rest, predictability, regularity, clarity and routines for children’s sleep quality
8. By showing parents that it is us (adults/parents) who lovingly (and mostly unconsciously) give unclear signals and bad sleep habits to our little ones
9. By joining the dots of the relation between good sleep, good nutrition, good physical and mental activities to achieve a good night sleep
10. By supporting and facilitating everything parents need to reach a rested, balanced and joyful life.
So this is the end of our first week! I feel so happy and thankful!
First, I would love to thank @Nisandeh for your mindblowing and life transformative insights. I truly can not thank you enough 🙏.
Secondly, I want to also thank @Vered for partnering me with two wonderful accountability bodies. The match is way above my expectations!
Third, I would like to thank my awesome accountability bodies Stance and Sigrid for your wonderful perspectives, advice and for sharing your experiences with me. I am so blessed to have you!
Finally I want to give special thanks to all the lovely people that provided me support, advice and insight this week. Thank you @Max Hirschel, @Manny Moerman, @Machiel Emmering, @Marie-Louise Krause, @Sin Declerc and @Ine Mulder! (Unfortunately I have not chosen Dia de los Muertos Ine, but I promise I will make it one day).
Feels like this choice is certainly one of the most important choices in my life! ❤️
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WOW ... Well done, Maru.
You've just started a path that's gonna change the world.
Go for it and make a difference.
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Thank you so much Nisandeh! I don’t think I could have started this path without the WOMB program!
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WOW Maru! I'm speechless from the depth of your gratefulness and your dedication to the process. You are truly an inspiration and I can't wait to see your project taking place as I totally agree that it is so needed and would bring a relief for so many people who are in need of it and will definitely support in creating a better world.
WELL DONE!!!
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Thank you dear Vered for your empowering comment! ❤️ Today is a day I will never forget. Only the first week and I already feel the WOMB program is the best business program I have ever taken! Thank you for empowering us to improve the world! By doing so, you also do, at an amazing speed and scale! 😍
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Congratulations with your breakthrough, Maru! The Baby Hotel is a brilliant idea and I’m sure you’re gonna make it a huge success. You go girl!
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Thank you so much Ine! 😍 Have a lovely weekend!
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Exciting! Well done. Curious to see where you will go next with this 🙂
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Thank you Max! Also for your valuable input! 🙏
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Yay!! celebrating with you! Congrats Maru.
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What a great idea, Maru! I'm sure many, many parents will be grateful for this.
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Dear Maru,
CONGRATULTIONS on chosing your FRUIT THREE: The BABY HOTEL. I cannot wait to follow you on the journey of creation. And I just love the way in which you gratefully shared your announcement. I've learned alot from your the way in which you describe your process. Reflecting on it, I realize that I should adjust the manner in which I approach my new business. I must grap the chance and use W.O.M.B. to realize my dream business and contribution instead of doing what I've always done. Thanks to your input, I realize that my focus need adjusting.
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IDEA GENERATOR DAY 5/5
My business: build custom web front-ends
10 NEW Ideas on how to generate more value and income without putting in extra hours:
- HIRE & TRAIN OTHERS s to work the way I do, take on big projects and delegate most of the work
- RECRUIT TOP FRONT-END DEVEOPERS, select the top talents and connect them with companies for a fee
- Start a PROGRAMMING SCHOOL (to overcome the IMMENSE GAP between Dutch universities and the actual working environment)
- WRITE A BOOK about what I do, publish it
- Create an APP TO LEARN PROGRAMMING by playing games
- OPTIMIZE WEBSITES FOR DISABLED / BLIND PEOPLE; hire disabled / blind people to test those websites
- Get specialized in website LOAD OPTIMIZATION, becomes #1 expert
- Write a book / start a training about the HABITS that made me succesful in what I do for over 20 years alrady
- Book / training about non-specific PROGRAMMING HABITS that made me an expert
- Host sessions where I BUILD A WEBSITE LIVE in a couple of hours
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1. Instead of a bigger office go back to a smaller one
2. Take 1 day in the week and block it for working on the business
3. Group sessions for parents
4. Make a shift in my offer, work with me or my stagiaire and pay more
5. Just say no to a new client
6. Work with clients longer on one day so I have time off on other days
7. Reject clients with problems at school
8. Group clients with the same problems
9. Concentrate on specifiek problems or age only
10. Stop working with clients, go back to a study and restart
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Day 5:
How do I get students/clients?
1. Give lectures/workshops by businessevents.
2. Organise brainstorm sessions in company.
3. Hire a event company to sell my training as an event.
4. Make a call to HRM advisors.
5. Send a mailing tot HRM employees.
6. Create an fun event with a Personal leadership.
7. Find a businesspartner to do the selling. Millenial.
8. Find a businesspartner to create interviews together etc.
9. Send a mailing to all the houses in Almere.
10. Advertise in the local newspapers.
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Day 4:
How do I get students/clients?
1. Send a mail to HRM managers about talentdevelopment
2. Make an E-book about Organic leadership to use to collect leads.
3. Make an E-book about Personal Leadership to collect leads.
4. Make an bigger E-book about the most important things about psychoadaptiv psychology and sell it.
5. Find a partner who can sell training and organize marketing.
6. Make an HRM vacature for facilitator on linkedin etc.
7. Create a research for HRM advisors about the problems they have to face and ask HRM advisors for there opinion.
8. Give lectures and do a test with an app where they have to login with there mailaccount.
9. Make a personal development test.
10. Create a team to help each other.
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Working on my biggest struggle in my business currently:
- That potential clients cannot find me for what I can contribute to solving their problems and/or seeing their opportunities. What I do can be put more on the market than just a by-product of my work of previous work of work from the university. My main struggle is to position myself based on my expertise and what I can contribute to the market. So it is a matter of the ‘right’ visibility.
o Lead to that I get business that is too divers (my problem that I like it but);
o Another issues that clients want one thing but I can offer more than one thing, so I question myself do I create different channels for different things or find people around me that I work together with, employ and supervise so I can indirectly to these many things. This look a lot like what I do in education (supervising master students on projects, some come via a company to my (I help structuring) or I find a student for a company, but this is done via my position in the University. I gain the knowledge but not value for money (or the company/institution gets is cheap).
Solution directions to tackle in indicated struggle:
Monday 22 June list:
1. Update my LinkedIn Page
2. Use and develop my webpage so it can be as a store of information of who I am, what I did, what I can do and how I helped (including the right testimonials)
3. Post information on LinkedIn in a regular frequency
4. Twitter regularly
5. Re-Tweet relevant post with comments
6. Start Blogging on relevant topics
7. Start Vlogging on relevant topics
8. Write summaries of projects I’m directly and indirectly involved in
9. Write summaries of relevant projects that I did in the past
10. Write articles in professional magazines
Tuesday 22 June list:
11. Write articles in scientific magazines
12. Write a or several books
13. Start of make sure I can have one or more columns in newspapers, website or magazines
14. See if I can be interviews on several relevant topics
15. Organize to be interviewed (by friend, colleague or family) [own interviews] to be used in in several multi-media channels
16. Start a YouTube channel
17. Comments on the contribution of others in my field
18. Post Quick solutions “Who to” in several multi-media channels
19. Start little courses that interested potential clients can follow via any type of social media
20. Start a full study program on several relevant topics
Wednesday 23 June list:
21. Make presentation that I gave (or even after update) available on social media
22. Get people to redirect (link) my social media on their social media
23. Develop solutions instructions using generally available schemes and post them on social media for potential clients to start and give a link to offer help.
24. Start a mailing list
25. Start a I have a question website and respond to posted questions
26. Start an online internet discussion forum
27. Create a party public available knowledge base (source) to be used by many as a reliable source
28. Develop a set of a bright future where my ideas on this future are incorporated
29. Start my own magazine
30. Sticker my car with contact information and a good slogan
Thursday 24 June list:
31. Develop a large set of business card with solution ideas on the back
32. Organize a valorisation center where not only my own results but also the work of others is posted, parts can be just a reference with a link and a short summary others can be enriched with the option for consultancy or an open discussion how things might work out for an interested party
33. Use my LinkedIn contacts for endorsements
34. Use my the people I worked with or that I supervised in the past as reference and feedback on my work
35. Ask my contacts if I can help them and or if the know people that might be interested in help
36. Formalize a set of hypothetical problems (and elaborate) upon them, show what steps can be taken, ask if this (the problem) sound familiar and offer help
37. Look into several industries / companies and explain what problem they will be facing if they do not look for adequate support (and offer help)
38. Go in ‘online’ dialog with others in the field that (partly) agree with me
39. Go in ‘online’ dialog with others in the field that (partly) disagree with me
40. Write a scientific novel about a world that can be developed taking the right steps and offer help to do so
Friday 25 June list:
41. Organize a pizza session with some friends and ask them for ideas or contacts to discuss opportunities
42. Interview former students on why they would or would not ask me for my expertise (what expertise) and what the suggest
43. Gather from literature a set of often mentioned problems and generate solutions and discuss in a selected set of my network if they see the same.
44. Generate a network around me so I can if request come up still say yes and not worrying about the fact that I have to do it (even it might me that potential clients ask me because the think the need me for the assignment).
45. Come up with an hypothetical company and demonstrate my skills and consultancy practices within this hypothetical company (easier than the collective of previous projects)
46. Make a info graphics of what my company (Me Inc.) can offer to clients.
47. Offer to work for a (half) day at companies (for free of valued afterwards) to give a set of suggestions or understanding problems to revised later
48. Look for companies that offer sort-like services look what they do for whom and see if I would do the same or how and in what why I differ from them
49. Demonstrate my skill within a small company that I will buy for this reason and at the same time have a parallel business
50. Find a way to work as a chameleon (within the set of colors that I have) and adapt the market response to the necessary colors
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My struggle for this week is: Get a constant flow of new clients and in that way more revenue and profit.
Day 5!!!
1. Find an intern as social media marketeer
2. create new free giveaway
3. start webshop with our products and merchandise
4. Make Summerschool 2022 for FREE
5. Publish Managementboek.nl bookchat on our social media
6. start PO Community
7. Become sponsor of an Agile Event
8. Organise a Product Owner event
9. Promote Kaartenset at scrum.org certified trainers
10. Interview Product Owners and publish this on website and LinkedIn
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31. Mail a form and ask who they are and in which stage of the diet they are
32. Only to the people who filled the form offering the right product
33. Make more mini funnels dependent what they filled in the form
34. Offering little packages first
35. Send them a questionnaire
36. Dependant what they filled in the questionnaire send the people who are ready to start and want more info and help, send them a calender where they can make a Free appointment with me (Max 15 minutes)
37. Offer people after a Free call the end product with a better price
38. Offer people after a Free call the end product with extra bonus
39. ASK them what they already have and what they need
40. Devide leads in different groups dependant what stage they are at certain moment in the funnel
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It was my birtday 🎉wednesday so I am a little bit late but I did the assignment
21. create a new funnel
22. Quiz doen in the beginning of the funnel
23. Share succes stories
24. Introduce membership instead of paying one time for the program
25. Show a video where I tell about succes stories
26. In the beginning of the funnel first offering a low product
27. Upsell little bit higher product when they wanna buy the first low price offer
28. Offering end product only to the people who clicked on the first offer
29. Offering end product only to people who bought first product
30. Make the end product different, smaller and in different prices
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How do I get more clients (in groups)
41. pm people who react on my soc media posts
42. get redears why groups help more to learn.
42. find articles who 'prove' the benefit of a group
43. find my unique selling point
44. get other professionals to talk about my product
45. only work in groups
46. make groups sound sexy or more interesting
47. find a metaphor or mascotte to represent the good work parents do by learning en groups
48. help schools to help parents
49. make schools talk about it
50. make schools part of the road
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My struggle for this week is: Get a constant flow of new clients and in that way more revenue and profit.
During this week I get more and more convinced that we are fruit farmers instead of vegetable farmers.
For the quick fix/money we can do nice assignments as a Scrum Master and earn the money we need for now. But for our concept Het Wiel van de Product Owner we need to think as fruit farmers. So we need to invest more time (and money?) before we can harvest. For now we have to be happy with one or two customer(s) on our tree (like the two small apples on my new little appletree at home), but when he has grown there will be many more.
Ideas for day 4:
1. Get our message more clear ont he website
2. Speaker on events
3. Ask clients to introduce us in their network
4. Send a LinkedIn Inmail for the PO Summerschool 2022
5. Cold canvasing
6. Less sales, more entertainment in our mailing and LinkedIn posts
7. Product Owner training for free
8. Ask our "warm" network for help
9. Create a marketing internship
10. Hiring parttime/zzp accountmanager based on no cure no pay
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Day 5 Friday
My struggle: to increase the sales of my book
1. Instagram giveaway: tag the super busy friend to whom you would recommend the book. With reel, stories and raffle: Zoom workshop for winner and 5 friends
2. More chances to win: do IG story tagging me and show the book
3. Ads specific to the only 2 Spanish speaking countries where Amazon prints my book: Spain and Mexico
4. When Amazon opens up in Belgium (announced to happen September 2022) post in all Spanish speaking Facebook groups to tell that they can order my printed book
5. Find influencer with the niche of busy mums to pitch the book for a collaboration
6. "Book club DIY" Canva templates for invitations to friends, workbook to fill in, tool to plan how many pages to read by when, guidelines for 4 meetings, videos to guide them. All this for free as lead magnet/optin.
7. Book club lead by me: 4 Zoom meetings, assignments, Q&A, requirement Amazon order proof that bought my printed book
8. Find book review websites and influencers
9. Enroll in program with journalist who teaches how to reach to press
10. Book writing as self care: topic for blog, to combine with podcast episode and IG lives interviewing other authors.
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DAY 5 - FRIDAY
* What is your biggest struggle in your business these days?
Making my promise to my customers concrete and thus the solution / result for them.
* How do I make my promise concrete?
1. Make explicit what the mistakes are in our thinking.
2. Give vivid examples.
3. Be consistent in my message.
4. Be an example of what I preach
5. Write a book on the chosen theme.
6. Write a series of articles on the chosen theme.
7. If there are different themes (problems), make the connection clear.
8. After each conversation, ask coachees what it has brought them and communicate about it.
9. Don't be distracted by coachees from the original purpose of their coaching.
10. To be absolutely honest with myself about what I want to achieve with my company.
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Do you have a pitch? A one minute description of what you do and what it delivers?
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Thursday for being addicted to certainty
1. Listened about how others do this (done!)
2. Asked another coach I know for ideas
3. Make a plan with baby steps
4. Create 2 minutes for every 1 minute I consume
5. Plan 3 things for the next week that involve uncertainty
6. Keep a record
7. Keep exact costs/gains
8. Use others as a stick behind the door
9. Do every day 1 thing I'm not certain about the results
10. Examine the failures
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Would love to hear what you did this week that you are not certain about... and what it delivered you...
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What is my biggest struggle in my business these days?
I want to be more out there but I am a bit of a chicken. I need help because even if I were brave, I am working day and night lately and I am drowning.
Thursday 23rd 2022
1. Clear my head. My head is full and I cannot concentrate. There is so much work that I do not know where to begin. So I need to sit down, be quiet and enjoy the silence in my head.
2. More structure in my day
3. Clean up my office
4. Clear out my office
5. Divide the day into timeslots
6. Take a long walk and enjoy the scenery
7. Take a day off
8. Go on vacation
9. Put a job offer button on my website
10. Write a profile: what kind of person do I need. Personality/talents/requirements and what is it going to cost me. No, better: what is it going to bring me...
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The Idea Generator Day 4/5
My biggest struggle in my business right now is generating the time to work on my strategy.
Thanks to my very inspiring Personal Coaching Session with Vered today I've got the following 10 ideas to implement:
1) STOP PROCRASTINATING!!!!!!
2) Stop sabotaging myself: I know what to do so just get on with it: don't wait until its perfect or the snow is falling. Start now!!!
3) Think big, start small.
4) Grand myself the time to reflect on my business on a weekly basis. Evaluate my business progress against my business goals as well as my speed of implementing. Evaluate without judgement. Appreciate all action taken, adjust and move one.
5) One a month I will reflect not only on my business progress but also if what I'm doing still brings me happiness and joy. If not I re-evaluate my goal and adjust if necessary.
6) One a week I'll find one new thing to improve by business state and implement it immidiately.
7) Once a week I'll Identify one thing which I'm already doing (which is working) which I can do more off to excelerate my business and implement it immediately.
8) Once a week I'll identify one thing which I need to do less off in order to free up time to work on my new business and implement it immediately..
9) Once a week I'll identify one thing which I need to stop doing in order to get me closer to my goal and implement it immediately.
10) Once a day I'll implement at least one of my ideas to get me closer to my goal and adjust as I go along.
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Hey Marie - Louise,
The one thing that helps me the most is every day asking myself: what is the one thing that I have to do today? Today I knew that the one thing I had to do was clean the house (I really hate that, but it needs to be done and its not a big deal, really:)) so before 8.30 I had the house hoovered and mopped. Not sure if the neighbors were happy with that but hey- it was the ONE thing I had to do.
To make it so precise and small it really helps me to start the day fresh and already fulfilled.... then the rest goes a lot easier.
try it... you'll like it...
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Just finished my comment and lost everything :-(. So I will give it another try.
What is my biggest struggle in my business these days?
I have been growing for the last past years, with ups and downs. Thing is that on the one hand I could grow faster because I am not 'out there' enough. My PR is really bad. On the other hand I can not grow fully because it is just Me, myself and I and I am drowning in work. So my problemsolving should cover three things: more and better PR. Someone to help me. And three: more money to pay for all that...
1. Work together with someone and promote one another
2. Put an add in the local newspaper (suffertje)
3. Interview a customer and post it on social media and on my website
4. Swap flyers with another webshop owner to send along with the orders
5. Make social media plan. Every day another theme
6. Block one day a week for social media and blogging or come up with blog ideas
7. Come up with (small) events to lure customers into the shop (the bricks and mortar shop)
8. Loyalty plan 2.2
9. Come up with a subscription plan
10. Find a PA of VA
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Hey Mariëlle, what about a marketing intern? If you want an intern for September, the timing is a bit difficult, but you can always try..
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Hey Marielle,
With your Target Audience I think it is very interesting to find JV partners- for instance vegan restaurants, companies doing sustainable stuff. Do you have a free give away that you can give to them so people can download something in exchange for an email address? That they should get on your website (why not "the 10 things you must do to make sure the products you buy are sustainable, vegan and produced in a slave free environment), or something?
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Dag 4 *What is your biggest struggle in your business these days?* 'Wat is voor mij het ultieme idee om uit te werken tot mijn unieke onderscheidende aanbod? Een idee en een aanbod waar ik zelf heel enthousiast van word en ik bevlogen me bezig wil zijn en wat aansprekend is voor mijn ideale cliënt.'
* de ideeënstroom wort moeilijker vandaag:
* buig je hoofd voor de wijsheid van je lichaam;
* jij bent het grootste boek wat er ooit was en immer zijn zal, het moet ervan komen dat het boek des harten zich opent, wil het waardevol zijn;
* van binnen naar buiten;
* de ouder wordende mens als doelgroep; alle ideeën vertalen naar leeftijdsgroepen;
* alle ideeën vertalen naar specifiek de levensfase 55-75 jaar;
* alle ideeën specifiek vertalen naar transformeren van werkend leven na 'pensionering';
* samenvallen met je blueprint, dan gaan de dingen moeiteloos gebeuren; hoe ontdek je je eigen blueprint, purpose;
* zelfzorg;
* LichtkrachtHealing aanbieden online, al of niet als onderdeel van een korte of langere training;
* oefeningen verbinden met (betekenis van) (totem)dieren en godinnen;
*
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Day 4: ideas to sell as many books as possible in the coming months
1. Put my book on amazon and do an action for 24 hours for free (or 99 cents) and then tell everyone where they can find it and ask for reviews
2. Give them a reward in exchange for a review
3. Ask my proof readers for a review
4. Find a group of managers on facebook or linkedin and ask them to read it and review it
5. Send an extract to management magazines with a good example
6. Magazines: Binnenlands bestuur, IT management, management scope, managementboek magazine, M&O, management support, bizz magazine, management team, management scope, Sprout, zakenblad.nl
7. Find ways to connect with sustainable magazines/ websites/ podcasts: duurzaam-ondernemen.nl, change.inc, ow.magazine, milieu-magazine
8. Ask all the proofreaders what magazines they read and what they would suggest me for whom the book would be interesting.
9. If you take 10 books: You’ll get a 500e discount on me facilitating a meeting for you (within a year)
10. If you take 50 books: I’ll give a high impact meeting on how to do high impact meetings online
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THURSDAY JUNE 23, DAY 4/5:
Big struggle: Making a choice of the the following busines ideas:
A. *KIKKIBU* - Quality food and experiences for children
B. *THE BABY HOTEL* - Hotel and support for sleep deprived parents and their babies / small children
C. *TACONTENTA* - Dancing Taqueria, Authentic Mexican tacos
D. *DIA DE LOS MUERTOS FESTIVAL* - Yearly festival celebrating life by contemplating death
E. *FEEL GOOD AUTOCINEMA* - Exciting, fun, weather and pandemic proof outdoor cinema
These are 10 ideas that can help me choose and stick to the choice (no more doubt):
1. Visualize the sad scenario of a lifetime without a choice… All the uncertainty, chaos and mediocrity. Write it down and make a moment to break and burn the paper
2. For each business idea, describe how the life of my ideal clients would look like after having solved their big pain(s). Compare then the impact that every idea has on their lives
3. Dedicate the ‘to be built’company to my daughter. Write a letter to her that will be delivered in the future
4. Write a compromise letter for myself where I commit to do whatever it takes to plant and grow this fruit tree, with everything I’ve got
5. Make a vision board of how a day would look like working at each of the business ideas at their most prosperous (fruitful) moment
6. Make a list of the problems/challenges that I may encounter for each idea. For example: what if there comes a new pandemic and a lockdown? Can this business be built pandemic proof?
7. Close my eyes and contemplate each idea. Which one gets my heart jumping the most?
8. Make a list of ideas on how this company can support me in building my ideal family life
9. Make a list of ideas about how this company can honor and glorify God within my belief system.
10. Think and describe the unique value (and value combinations) that will make my chosen company great, exceptional and unrepeatable. What is the X factor is what will create a LEGACY?
11. Make a list of things to avoid at all costs in building any company. For example: not having time for family and friends, miss important events of children, etc. And make a list of ideas on how to prevent them to happen
TOMORROW I WILL MAKE MY CHOICE!!!
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This is absolutely brilliant, Maru…
I love your way of thinking.
Can’t wait to see you making a huge success with the idea you choose.
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Thank you so much Nisandeh! I can not thank you and the WOMB community enough! I made my choice! 🥳 Will post it in a moment! 🎊
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1. Create an online program in VR.
2. Research which platform the best solution is for VR online program.
3. Create a VR environment that can be used for coaching where people can reflect on their life/work and where they can create their own visualisation of it.
4. Select the best VR-goggles which can be used for the online program and is easy to use for inexperienced users.
5. Create a plan how to use the (hardware) tools of the VR online program. Clear processes and clear instructions for the clients so the can easily use the online program.
6. Hire someone/Take advice from an expert.
7. Porting a working computer app to VR.
8. Use Augment reality in the program.
9. Use multibrush or altspacevr as a developer platform.
10. Look for readymade VR-concepts and see if they are user friendly for my target audience.
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Thursday
My biggest strugle is computer, Social media, website etc
1: Today a Young girl died under a tractor.. We mourn her and her family.
And I do my creatieve mind exrecise. Following and in the waters of LIFE
2: I implemented more then one suggestion
3: Now I want to move on to more uplifting parts of my business. And I see it is all connected. So follow through
.4 I love to read about you all in the WOMB . Manny ideas and recognitions. Starting to feel in into the richness of this programm and the skills and présence of Nisandeh. Thank you
5: Prepare yourself more on computerwork. Maybe make it a practical ritual
6: After two hours I am a kind of blind and full. Stop then
7 Stop even before
8: Follow through
8: Make a clear list from what you want to speak about with your computer builder
9: Ask Arjen for help.
10: Read others linked in profiles
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I sopped doing most of my computer work. It draines me. 3 hrs from a job student and a Remarkable was all i needed. Before, i would spend hrs fighting myself to start working, as i hate computer vibes. Now i just write it by hand. 60 euro a week and i got my life back. Maybe a job student can also solve your resistance to follow through? No need to do it all alone.
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"How can I generate 50 income streams from the FAME automation?" Remark to self: income stream does not equal sell activity needed.
Ok. Here goes.
1. Sell report management area
2. Sell fame bundels
3. Sell fame all you can need version
4. Lobby retainer
5. Manual proofing
6. Sell prentjesgenerator
7. Sell atm 1 off
8. Sell fame 1 off
9. Sell atm bundle
10. Sell atm all you can need
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11. Sell to kleinhandel vergunners
12. Sell to project devs
13 sell to architects
14 sell to lawyers
15. Sell to environment services agencies
16. Sell to municipalities
17.sell to awv
18. Sell to retailers
19. Sell to frequent renovators like sociale woningmaatschappijen
20. Sell to traffic agencies
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I should start a company selling 50 ideas to solve your issue services. 1 hr of thinking and a video. And some coaching in getting the question right. See Nisandeh, I could also GET payed for being asked questions whaha. That way it'l break even when your new course starts 😉
Ok, back to business.
21. Sell a masterclass on trust in the procedure
22 course on frequent design mistakes
23 course on what is the right assessment
24 course on loading dock design
25 course on parking lot design
26 course on parking lots as money machines
27 course in house on using fame, including field trip.
28. Course on bs and presumptions - counterintuitive traffic rules etc
29. Course on numbers, ovg bv
30. Course on grensstellende vs faciliterende mob. Mob als motor van ro en economie. Niet omgekeerd.
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So that was products, course and audiences. Next up: physical products. Then upsell and rodolex/agency services.
31. Field trip prep notebook
32. Iets om hiaattellen te faciliteren. Stopwatch, dictafoon app van u4, video analyse software,...
33. Loopwiel
34. Veilig en beschut tellen ook tellerjas fluo
35. 4m paal + gopro
36. Telset bij regenweer potlood bladbeschermer etc
37 telcamera en sd
38 papieren field trip assessment / checklist
39 sandwichbord verkeersonderzoek
40 prefab modal spit enquete blaadjes
Borden op maat en verkeersborden
Verhuur items
41 kegels
42 radar
43 upv's
44 borden niet parkeren
45 toolkits specifiek onderzoek diy
46 gopro's
47 niet-courante verkeersborden of borden omleidingen
48 try out materiaal knips ed
49 werkboek verkeersondetzoek
50 mobiliteitsplanning software - laad je excel uit het plan op, pas aan en je meerjarenplan met begroting rolt eruit
Damn, that was hard for physical product sales, but easy for renting out. Really strange... must be me.
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51. Wegenwerken infoborden services
52 plancheck wegenwerken
53 draaicirkelanalyse
54 beeldverwerking
55 gis inventory + mapping
56 slandtellingen
57 vissim
58 capaciteitsmeting kruispunt
59 projectbegeleiding moeilijke dossiers
60 buurtwegonderzoek
Hmm, all of these could be the topic of blog articles.
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Upsells.
61 lobby retainer
62 manual check retainer
63 manual adjustments retainer
64 software ajustments
65 workbokk ajustment
66 intern workshop to work out case specific formats in the procedure
67 plancheck retainer
68 municipality advise retainer
69 cl**********
70 dfy assessment or policy
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20 things that get me smiling:
71. Speaking engagements
72 events for the 10 target audiences
73 coaching for new civil servants
74 books based on the traiings
75 books based on rantings mob - ro - tech - third place
76 book trust the proces.
77 certification as assessment writer or researcher <-- WOW . Become a school.
78 licencing whitelabel versions of fame/atm
79 traffic plan upgrades
80 energy planning / swot / possibilities for roofs and parking lots
81 sell 1m tool to relevant buyers in belgium.
82 sell 1m tool to eu buyers
83 data gathering
84 whitepapers, research papers
85 plug n play traffic hubs
86 course on energy communities <-- vraag om te kunnen opnemen, maak er een cursus van ism vmx. Dit is een impact hefboom
87 telpaaltjes
88 emissiemeetauto
89 kencijfers en nametingen
90 verrijkte datasets en loketten
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Tools and checklists
91. Kaaiculator
92. Checklist pre-fieldtrip
93 trust stappenplan visuals. Trust staat voor 1 team up 2 research 3 utter 4 study 5 trustbuilding actions
94 pre white labeled en met eigen cijfers
95 telrapporten
97 whitepapers over coole research. Focus op "en dan?"
98 proces management blueprint
99 prentjesgenerator
100 attractiegenerator
101 atm
102 fame
103 welke studie(s)
104 mogelijke processtappen
105 i/c berekenaar
If you own the trusted tool, you own the outcome.
106 restcapaciteit generator
107 verkeerspsychologie research, boek, studiedagen, eu funded research projects.
108 link energiearmoede - kansarmoede - verkeersarmoede.
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I have no clue what you are talking about but man, it's so impressive. They're super concrete and they sound like they deliver so much value... I wonder how you're gonna choose what to implement first...
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Which would never have happened if I hadn't started the WOMB .
I interviewed several people today about the following: “Suppose you give an important 20-minute presentation in 2 weeks on which a lot depends for you (acquisition of a major client, promotion or maybe even keeping your job /survival of your organization). Which skill that you think you do not or insufficiently master would you like to master down to the last detail for that occasion?" Despite the experience I have, I got surprising answers. Next Tuesday around lunch time I will go out on the street to the Amsterdam Zuidas (business district) to approach business people with this question (pen and notepad with me).
The results of the interviews form the basis for developing new training courses.
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BRILLIANT, Rudolph.
The power (of speed) of implementation.
Chapeau…
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Great, isn't it? I've been doing calls on a different topic, asking strangers to do 20 seconds of free associations with a word as part of market research. Highly interesting conversations as well. I applaud you for daring to ask!
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Well done!
This is also very inspiring (for me, I guess for others too).
I am still in 'waiting what we have to do next'-modus.
Good to know it is an option to just get started right away. 🙂
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Day 4 - THURSDAY
1 What is your biggest struggle in your business these days?
Making my promise to my customers concrete and thus the solution / result for them.
2 How do I make my promise concrete?
1. indicate the maximum duration of the coaching for a specific theme
2. indicate from which core talents I coach and what this results in
3. indicate what the coachee must do to achieve his/her goal
4. make my website revolve around that promise instead of the various problems > make it simpler
5. share bits of reviews on LinkedIn
6. compose 3 distinctive core questions to use in every intake
7. indicate in advance that I will stop a program if there is no commitment
8. say no or goodbye to prospects who are not showing motivation, even halfway through a process
9. be consistent in my communication
10. give a few clear examples to illustrate my vision and approach
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What I can already see from listing the ideas is the manager's struggle to determine what others should do instead of what I am providing by connecting with employees first. They learn to understand their employees better and mutual understanding is created. I'm curious what I'll find about this among others in the books. Today my first appointment with an author who is in third place with his book in the top 10 of best-read management books. More and more light is falling on the sweet spot 🙂
One more thing: I didn't see the Q&A come up. Did I miss something?
My 10 ideas for today 23-06-22:
1. Picking up the podcast The Authentic Leader because I like this and maybe developing a video form for the future too.
2. Gain more knowledge about difficult behavior of employees.
3. Compiling the top 10 of the most difficult employees.
4. Compiling the top 10 employee frustrations.
5. Compiling the top 10 frustrations of a manager.
6. Top 10 explanations why that make employees unlikeable.
7. Create a podcast about bad employee experiences that caused them to leave companies. Of course, do not mention the name of the company and the employees can remain anonymous because they are not in the picture. I think this will attract quite a lot of listeners. Mmmm...not a bad idea!!!
8. Research what an ideal workplace is for job seekers.
9. Perhaps the participants in this course would like to tell me what they thought was good and bad about their former boss.
10. Visualize my approach with a catchy video.
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The Q&A is very active here since yesterday, Marcel.
You should check the schedule page every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for new links…
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Thank you, Nisandeh, "You learn every day, so do I."
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1. Stop working with the childerena nd focus on the parrents
2. Stop working with the childeren and start with teachers of the child
3. Developpe training program mand teach organisations
4. Move to another building in another city and start from scratch
5. Go to clients instead of theme coming to me so less client time
6. Instead of sitting in the office and work with the cients go outside and create new working-forms for outside
7. Group clients
8. Develope a client parrent programm
9. Focus on educational problems and have solutions for that
10. Start becoming known as the expert by writing columns in important papers
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Day 4 Thursday
My struggle: to increase the sales of my book
1. Find other Amazon self published authors of my niche, interview each other - content idea: there's a book in you
2. Find if there's any self care subscription box for Spanish speakers… send them author copies to include
3. Find niche influencers and ask for collaboration
4. Book club with your friends! Order multiple copies - write content about it
5. Book club as self care - write content about it
6. Event with friends: order 10 copies or more of the book and I will give you the Zoom workshop for free (or I ship to your address author copies)
7. Find web review websites for my niche
8. PDF version giveaway: must do IG Story (I give them the image to share)
9. Make a list of podcasters for my book niche who I could pitch an interview
10. Give Amazon review, show me screenshot, get invited to exclusive Zoom event (could do around September 21)
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Dag 5
Biggest struggle: more (ideal) clients
10 ideas:
1. Connect wth team managers online for my stressprevention program
2. Check my network about team managers.
3. join business networkevents in my region to meet teammanagers
4. present my program at such an event and let people experience some parts of it.
5. Make a video-short introduction about this program
6. Send this video after phonecalls to the positive HR managers in organisations
7. call clients from the past to connect and ask them a favour, to connect me with potentials
8. In these calls with past clients invite them for a refresh workshop.
9. organize a webinar about my coming workshop.
10. Invite people who helped me for a thank you party and inform them about an interesting theme about stressprevention: and introduce a new program.
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My biggest goal/struggle with my business today is to create repeatable/reusable content
ideas;
1. Finish the book
2. Publish the book on amazon
3. Create a training module per inter-cultural dimension
4. Turn the modules into an online training course
5. Load the clips I've already made onto a you tube channnel
6. Create my new web-site
7. Load my clips/blogs onto the website
8. Interview people with relevant content
9. Use the interviews in my modules
10. Get into the habit of vlogging off the cuff.
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IDEA GENERATOR DAY 4/5
My business: build custom web front-ends
10 NEW Ideas on how to generate more value and income without putting in extra hours:
1- Focus on one technology I'm using....become #1 expert in that
2- Focus on one nice I'm serving....become #1 expert for them
3- Create a training program for junior web developers
4- Create a paid community for junior/medior developers for support with their questions / problems
5- Create a demand/supply website for front-end developers, as they're very very hard to find
6- Focus on accessibility for website, do only that
7- Focus on page-load optimization for websites, do only that
8- Create a paid version of the time-saving validation component I created
9- Create an app for audio journaling (most of them suck)
10- Do "fly-in" support for half a day a week for companies that don't have senior front-end developers, so they can ask me anything and I can help them out with their problems.
Nice....just refrasing the question to "Come up with 10 NEW ideas" creates 10 new ideas of recycling earlier ones.
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Dutch speaking wp plugin developers. Goldmine.
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Thanks, Sin. Sounds interesting. You have experience with not finding those?
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Day 4
Biggest struggle: more (ideal) clients
10 ideas:
1.Higher in google, find out about what words to use.
2.facebookgroep starten tbv facebook lives, reaching more people. Inviting people.
3. Ask ambassadors to share website link because of irresistable offer.
4. Bloggen en vloggen about stress, using "high in google" words.
5. Interview an expert about stress and stress release and make a podcast to put on my website eg.
6.Offer a bonus, when they share the offer with at least 2 persons via email.
7. Invite a famous/important person who is willing to give a testimonial about me.
8. Make animated funvideo about stressrelease in my practice and put in my website, facebook, network.
9. Make Animated funvideo serie maken with useful anti stress tips and use it for vlogging.
10. Ask a school director to contact other schooldirectors about my life/hybrid stress prevention program.
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Day #5
How should I do my marketing and develop my own style when: 1. the topic is sensitive 2. cold acquisition is no option 3. the competition is big 4. I'm not entirely an experience expert.
I was drifting off my major topic and did a brainstorm for my marketing IN GENERAL, while I started brainstorming on my latest project which needs a slightly different approach. I have difficulties focusing, due to a major deadline for a fair on the 2nd & 2rd of July. After that weekend things will get better, I promise 😉 Anyway, first I will write down my results for my Jizo brainstorm (latest project) and after that I'll add my general brainstorm I did today:
JIZO BRAINSTORM:
33. Contact hospitals, gynaecologists and midwives to show them my project by offering my (mini) books for free (giveaways or put them in the waiting rooms).
34. Advertise in magazines like 'Ouders van nu' or 'Libelle' or other more populair magazines for parents.
35. Find a BN'er or celebrity who had a miscarriage and is willing to be a Jizo ambassador.
36. Hire my buddy (Paul van Aarle) to make an animation that goes viral.
37. Contact the Japanese community (Jizo is Japanese after all AND a very popular mythical figure in Japan)
38. Maybe the Japanese Okura hotel in Amsterdam can be a reseller, or Japanese supermarkets?
39. Design a proper marketing campaign
40. Ask cemeteries to place my Jizo statues at their 'kinderhofjes'
41. Contact all the undertakers I know (and don't know) with information about my latest project and offer them my mini books as giveaway for their clients
42. Provide the young blogging and posting undertakers with content (they're always looking for nice visuals and stories)
GENERAL BRAINSTORM:
1. Start blogging about death/grief (do it!!)
2. Contact crematoriums and cemeteries (but.. all my competitors do that)
3. Get publications in lifestyle/fashion magazines (I'm an ambitious business woman, worth publishing)
4. Develop a product for supermarkets or the Etos or the Bruna
5. Is there a cheap way to do marketing in public areas? In the streets? 🤔
6. Create or join an Allerzielen or Dia De Los Muertos event
7. Do a proper marketing campaign, not just a shot in the dark
8. Design a product for in Christmas boxes (Christmas is the time to reconsider your life, be with people you love, so maybe a good time to think about death?)
9. Find interesting JV's, maybe with companies that are NOT in the funeral business (but in design and art for example)
10. Join Maru in her Dia The Los Muertos project (if she chooses it)
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23 juni 2022 How to arouse the attention of potential customers. Day 4
1. Implement 1 action every day
2. Action today go out and find suitable training location
3. Set date for first training
4. Organize mailing list
5. Write invitation
6. With all the knowledge and experience of today, review and update my trainings and select the stuff that really matters
7. Start from there and come up with new ideas
8. Related to #7 interview people in network what is really important for them
9. Create 1-day training for ex participants
10. Create 1-day training for new participants
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How do I get a constant stream of new assignments? (day 4)
37. Start making animations for dreamclients with no assignment, and email them and ask them: how can I make this perfect for you? Then make it perfect and charge them if they want to use it. (Idea from Nisandeh, best idea so far, thank you Nisandeh.)
38. Call 1 existing client every day of the week. That is 250 moments of contact every year.
39. react to 3 posts in LinkedIn every day.
40. Ask the Universe to bring new assignments, every day for 10 minutes during meditation.
41. Raise my vibration to radiate confidence that I will always have more than enough work.
42. Keep track of made animations and call clients 1 or 3 or 5 years later to ask if they want their animation updated, or a new one.
43. Become better in explaining what an animation can do for a business.
44. destroy all other animation business and become the only animation business. 🙂
45. Become the only animationbusiness in a spicific Niche
46. Become the Nr 1 animation expert in The Netherlands. Or in the World.
47. Get the 8 uur journaal to talk about me somehow.
48. Always overdeliver.
49. Don't stop at 10 answers, if you are asked for 10, but give 11, or 12. Don't just deliver an animation, but give some extra service, help them with how to use the animation for their business, even if that is not what is expected.
50. Don't just share facts on social media about animations OI made, share how it made the client feel.
51. Get more emotion in my communication.
52. Get more emotion in my animations.
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Who is losing a ton of money because they can't get a yes on a specific idea, project, assignment, socially wanted begavior,......? How could your animation turn a no into a yes?
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that's a great question. Now I miss the option to like a comment:)
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I saw on TikTok a man that just visited random stores once in a while and offered to make a video (ad) for them for free. They would have a video for free and he would have a customer name on his website and ofcourse a video to show on TikTok. Some of his video's went viral and now people come to him. You could do that and also show the process from brainstorming to drawing to the final product.
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Hi Paul, #37 when you offer your dreamclients your amazing animations, maybe you could propose them a spin off package too (spin offs based on your animations like postcards, a calendar, giveaways, digital animated christmas wishes, etc)
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My struggle for this week is: Get a constant flow of new clients and in that way more revenue and profit.
Day 3
1. Shout out in our network for new PO connections
2. Connect with groups for PO's on LinkedIn
3. Take over a PO community
4. Collaborating with other businesses that support Product Owners
5. Collaborating with businesses that are specialising in Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches
6. Do our own survey amongst Product Owners
7. Do completely something different
8. Have an experienced Product Owner join the company as a partner
9. Announce a big bookpresentation
10. Find a well known person to write a preface for our upcoming book and already promote this.
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Week 1 - Day 3 of 5 Insight: WOW it is getting easier to make this list.
How is that possible?
Struggle how do I get ideal clients for my new public leaders program Ideas
1. Approach a network of staffing agencies if they know my ideal clients and would like to recommend the program
2. Email former participants that I am developing something new
3. Record video of what I'm going to do and email it to potential ideal customers
4. LinkedIn advertise with the video
5. Interview public leaders
6. All municipal secretaries ask to nominate 1 ideal customer from his / her government organization
7. Describe the sweet spot of my target audience
8. Interview Bas Blekkingh and Phillip van der Driessen about their thoughts on public leadership
9. Find new studies that provide answers to problems that
10. Write 3-5 blogs about leadership based on books, which I have already read from the perspective of my target audience
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Day 2/5
1. Make cost/gain balance
2. Celebrate gains
3. Do small things
4. Repeat things that work
5. Watch how succesful people coped with it
6. What did this cost me
7. Celebrate the succesful uncertainties of today
8. Self-hypnosis
9. Create a journal
10. Be prepared to take the losses
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The Idea Generator Day 2/5
My biggest struggle in my business right now is generating the time to work on my strategy.
These are my 10 ideas on how to solve my struggles:
Airbnb
1) Investigate if the effort made to overdeliver is actually adds value to the experience of my customers (I find it important that the bed is made when they arrived. This cost me me alot of time and effort (washing, ironing and making the beds) but is this actually important to my customers of is the way the house has been decorated sufficient to support the price?
2) Balance the effort against the expectations of my customers
3) Inform my customers that bedlinnen is not included in the price but can be rented at the park
4) Purchase 3 full sets of towels which enable me to always have a clean set and thereby decreasing the stress of a tight deadline.
5) Place a cupboard at my charlet with everything required for a warm welcome so I don't have to bring it every time
6) Automate the watering of my plants which means that I don't have to water the garden of the charlet every evening.
7) Make arrangements with the clearning team as to how I want the charlet cleaned and prepared for the new quests
8) Make long stays mutually attractive to my customers and myself decreasing the time spent on administration
People (change)manager
9) Hire a VA/PA support me
10)Divide my working hours at my customers across the full week enabling me to work 3 x 8 hrs + 2 x 4 hrs. This will give me more room to work on my strategy for my new business.
11) Start each day at 7 p.m. and stick to my hrs.
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What's the right question to ask?
in my buddy group the tip was: how do I get more clients?
21. what's a helping funnel for parents?
22. What do parents think they want.
23. what's the right direction?
24. what's a blue ocean for parents?
25. What kind of product (in raising kids) makes them feel a better parent.
26. what kind of offer would make them feel proud?
27. what kind of product would be irresistible?
28. what is the most inviting way for parents to ask help?
29. Is a Mastermind a inviting start?
30. Do parents want to start online help/online training because nobody sees them?
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Day 3.
1. Start a crowdfunding campaign (too late, but idea for next time)
2. Read pieces from the book daily on YouTube
3. Contact local bookstores to tell about my book?
4. Make a fantastic description with keywords so it’s also found on bol.com
5. GET TESTIMONIALS
6. Give a webinar about the content of the book
7. Offer something special to everyone who was interviewed on the book
8. Find people to work together to refer each other with similar TA (Adrian)
9. Get quotes from the book and post them on LinkedIn
10. Find out where my readers gather and find a way to show them the book there (fairs?)
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Dag 3
*What is your biggest struggle in your business these days?* 'Wat is voor mij het ultieme idee om uit te werken tot mijn unieke onderscheidende aanbod? Een idee en een aanbod waar ik zelf heel enthousiast van word en ik bevlogen me bezig wil zijn en wat aansprekend is voor mijn ideale cliënt.'
* al hetgeen ik op dat één en twee bedacht verbinden met de natuur en buiten zijn;
* hybride trainingen uitwerken op gebied van yoga, natuurgeneeskunde, embouchure, bekkenbodem, met online aanbod en activiteiten buiten in de natuur;
* geschikte plekken uitzoeken in directe omgeving en (iets) verder weg om aanbod uit te voeren samen met cliënten;
* krachtplaatsen uitzoeken om aanbod uit te voeren live én online;
* buitenactiviteiten online aanbieden voor mensen die dat 'buiten' niet (meer) kunnen bereiken;
* trainingslocaties zoeken waar binnen en buiten heel goed verbonden zijn en daar gebruik van maken in trainingen;
* krachtplaatsen verbinden met bewegen, klank en muziek maken (oerfluiten);
* mensen leren om oerfluiten te bespelen vanuit intuïtie;
* mensen leren om roemeense kavals intuitief te leren bespelen (eenvoudiger embouchure dan de bulgaarse);
* korte en langere wandelingen ontwerpen op bijzondere routes aan de hand van een thema met oefeningen en route;
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IDEA GENERATOR DAY 3/5
My business: build custom web front-ends
10 Ideas on how to generate more value and income without putting in extra hours:
1 - Get rid of all work related to the client's infrastructure ... saves about 40% of my time
2 - Create design systems for the most recurring work ... creating forms, popups, navigation bars, buttons, dealing with colors etc.
3 - Charge the client per page or component instead of per hour
4 - Work with a subscription model....client pays a certain amount a month....gets to fill the list of work...result is delivered within a couple of days, one page/task at a time
5 - Create a list of reusable components so I don't have to rewrite everything for each client
6 - Create an online training to teach others what I know
7 - Lead / support / train teams and charge way more for that
8 - Invest my income in assets (not necessarily related to my business) that generate more income
9- Create a product , instead of doing one-time projects for clients
10- Stop this business and come up with something entirely different
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WEDNESDAY JUNE 22, DAY 3/5
Biggest struggle right now: DOUBT
During Q&A session, Nisandeh gave me a wonderful method to rate ideas based on specific criteria. The results are so revealing and terrifying!
During the process I start doubting myself. Doubt is what has been stopping me to achieve greatness these years. So now I use the idea generating machine to solve this struggle.
How can you stop/ alleviate/ deal with doubt?
1. Write the answer to the following questions: why do you doubt? What do you doubt about?
2. Tackle your biggest doubt arguments and make research to see how realistic are they
3. Make a vision board of the positive outcomes that may come if the idea becomes successful
4. Write down the worst that can happen in case of failure
5. Book a moment to pray and ask God for advice
6. Think of objective ways to answer the fear
7. Ask the opinion of your accountability bodies
8. Make several scenarios and visualize yourself choosing the highest rated ideas
9. Make an objective validation plan of the ideas
10. Compare the process steps of how to get from where I am now to where I want to be
11. In the end just CHOOSE, it will be all right!
Good evening everyone
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Suggestion. Make the question positive. For exemple: what will show and proof to me that I am an expert, that I added real value, that i'm understanding 1 specific client struggle,... i'm not sure what applies to you.
Your attention goes to where you focus. Focus on 'no doubt' lets you see the word doubt all the time. If the question is about confidence, you see confidence all the time.
Hope it helps 😉
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Day 3
My biggest struggle is that I am overworked.
1. double my prices
2. set focus timer
3. stop working latest at 3pm
4. Start the day with sports
5. question doership
6. mediate
7. get a RTT session
8. track what I do
9. stop using the Word „must“
10. become familiar to high Numbers in your Bankaccount and leave it at least 1 week and watch it grow every day before you shift it to other accounts
Interesting! How different this becomes!
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Is there a way to clone or automate yourself? Can clients do a DIY version for the whole or part of it? If so, do you want to?
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Day 3 Wednesday
My struggle: to increase the sales of my book
1. IG stories reading a page of my book
2. IG stories with video testimonials of readers / put in Story Highlights
3. Content: talk more about why I wrote the book
4. IG lives and blog posts about the book's content
5. Find guest blogging opportunities
6. Find guest podcast opportunities
7. Search for Facebook groups of book clubs
8. Ads
9. Search Amazon marketing ideas
10. Ask readers to post IG stories taking the book on vacation
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DAG 3 #
What is my biggest struggle in your business these days? Getting more (ideal) clients
The 10 ideas I came up with – to solve this struggle are:
1. organize a theme session with parents about stressregulation in the family, giving them solutions.
2. Ask those parents to bring in clients.
3. Look for local events where my anti stress mini workshop can make a difference for people and offering more payed help
4. Call other familydoctors in my hometown introducing myself as stress expert, if I can put a leaflet about one on one sessions
5. Invite myself as a speaker about stress and introducing helpful strategies for people who work as caretakers in a hospital etc.
6. Ask my 8 neighbours if they know people who can benefit from my sessions. If they bring in new people, they get one session for free.
7. Look at my list of clients and ask myself who can be ambassador for my cause.
8. Make a video that can be passed on with a irresistable offer for limited time.
9. Call some friends if they are interested in a pilot mini workshop anti-stress, ask them for feedback and more clients
10. Put clear leaflets with irresistable offer in libraries and certain cafe s.
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My struggle for this week is: Get a constant flow of new clients and in that way more revenue and profit.
Day 2 new Ideas
1. Ask current clients for a reference
2. let our clients sell our product
3. Start LinkedIn community for Product Owners
4. Give workshops for FREE
5. Use LinkedIn advertisements
6. Use Facebook (inlcuding group) for our business
7. Going to speak at Agile events
8. Register more frequently on tenders for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches
9. Use Scrum Gilde Amersfoort e.o. more for "advertising"
10. Use LinkedIn's Inmail to approach Product Owners
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Wednesdsy
My biggest strugle is my clumsyness with computers, Social media, website etc
1: now I realize how dreadfull this topic is for me. A kind of Dyscalcully
2: Do not victimize yourself, go beyond that.
3. Beyond that is a field of possibilities
4. Reach out in what you need
5: Get ideas from other people
6: There is no need to know it all by yourself
7: Open up here to recieving
8: Find a way to get more fun in it
9: Inmagine more often how it is to be more fluent
10: Buy that device so you can do your computerthings also outside if you wish
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Biggest short term (< 1 year) struggle is: how to increase my direct sales, while at the same time increasing my position with / sales through my partners (indirect sales).
1. Think out an actual strategy behind marketing efforts, instead of random acts of mere appearance
2. Start giving conversion webinars
3. Improve compellingness + on-site sales flow of my own channels
4. Pick up list building again
5. Re-start mailings / funnels
6. Go back to advertising / pixels / tags (Google/pull, and socials/push)
7. Discover how autoresponders can get more out of recipient behaviour
8. Discover how heat maps can help improve site layout based on visitor behaviour
9. Start posting content again (this time with better funnels)
10. Engage more actively with LinkedIn interactions
11. Hire a marketeer to do much of the above
12. Get qualified to be able to offer STAP (a new eduational subsidy) myself
13. Produce more independent items to sell
14. Produce more upsell items to sell
15. Produce more follow-up items to sell
16. Produce many more giveaways
17. Design low-end / high-end sales connections and conversions
18. Design and sell implementation trajectories (like WOMB ) instead of passive only
19. Sell current stuff at a higher price (seems justified according to many)
20. Start promoting referral rewards
21. Improve my market targeting (conquer a niche, then target an adjacent one, etc)
22. Become “overly myself” to grow a self-selecting market around me
23. Develop an appealing Why-story to address a corresponding market
24. Find my way into more multinationals for corporate accounts
25. Gain access to my partners’ clients and subsequently their emplyees
26. Tranlate my products into languages of developing + eager + big + "non-English” areas (China etc) and target there
27. Convince my partners to promote me more/better with more of their clients
28. Find legitimate ways to approach my partners’ clients myself
29. Copy seemingly effective tricks of successful content gurus
30. JV / hook up with successful content gurus
31. Find and hook up with more resell partners
32. Get on more mooc-like channels (Udemy/Coursera, etc)
33. Start JVs with influencers
34. Get influencers / authoritatives as ambassadors
35. Address previous clients for my new products
36. Gain widespread reputation, e.g. as a columnist/speaker
37. Start giving live seminars again, with passive income no-brainer upsells on the spot (when they are in the middle of it and enthusiastic)
38. Make it to a national tv-appearance in some show
39. Start a podcast series
40. Get invited to podcasts (make special offers in the shows)
41. Intensify my directed networking efforts
42. Develop a community / communities
43. Bring my products under one umbrella
44. Give more conspicuous “purple” twists to my products
45. Improve my products to be certain that there is no better
46. Drill down better what the tangible benefits of my products are (beyong “merely” high ratings/reviews)
47. Start a Youtube channel with 90-sec educational videos
48. Train trainers to give seminars and trainings with my content
49. Repackage my content in a variety of ways to be able to sell in more formats and seemingly different products
50. Introduce the “sharing = multiplying concept” for engagement (“buy 1 get 2”, “buy 1 = give 1 to somebody of your choice”)
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If I may ask Machiel,
If you did listbuilding/mailing/funnels/advertsing/pixels/tags/posting content, and you now feel this is a good idea to do again.
Why did you stop??
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Day 3 - Deciding on how to deal with the zero-tolerance on showing up on a yet to develop Martial arts class.
Since I couldn't get to 10 yesterday but till 8... I have made those 2 up with a penalty of 2 extra.
1. Let them pay extra for missed classes to stay in.
2. Let them do extra exercises as penalty the next class.
3. Let them write an essay on our martial arts for missing class.
4. Don’t allow them to join exams.
5. Let them wear something ridiculous the next class.
6. Let them bring something nice to make up. (Pie, cake, ect.)
7. Let them do chores.
8. Let them sing a song in front of the group
9. Let them dance in front of the group
10. Let them do voluntary work for the school. (cleaning training equipment, ect)
11. Let them make dinner for their designated training buddy.\
12. Let them do a recorded session at home as proof for making up the time the lost in class.
13. Let them train one class with wrist and ankle weights
14. Let them clean the floor
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Well done 😉
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Not zero tolerance, but I like the clarity of this program.
Friendly reminder, friendly warning, friendly goodbye.
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Dag3 Roadmap
1. Kijk welke 7 vragen er gebruikt gaan worden voor de road map
2. Vind iemand die de roadmap kan teken
3. Maak 7 iconen voor elk archetype een, die gebruikt kunnen worden als pion op de road map
4. Verzin werktitels voor de roadmap
5. Maak kaarten hoe elk afgetypte kan communiceren met de andere archetype die deelnemen aan de roadmap
6. Stel spelregels op voor de hygiëne voor het deelnemen aan de roadmap
7. Geef doel en reden van de roadmap aan.
8. Maak salespitch voor leidinggevende om aan de roadmap in te gaan zetten.
9. Zorg er voor dat het deelnemen aan de roadmap fun en aantrekkelijk is.
10. Onderzoek aan welke duurzame inzetbaarheid regelingen werkgevers moeten voldoen die verwerkt kunnen worden in de roadmap.
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How do I get a constant stream of new assignments? (day 3)
27. Improve on SEO
28. Write a blog every day for 1 year.
29. cooperate with influencers.
30. Find clients who will need something new every year (something like schools who need new books every year.)
31. Make 1 animation every 2 months for free, for the New York Post (or for Gary Vaynerchuk) in exchange for them to name my brand when they use it online.
32. Make a few animations for Nike, Coca Cola, Amazon and other big brands, so I can place them on my site and say I 'worked for them'.
33. Cold calling
34. Build a funnel in a way that has proven to work, (like Frank kern teaches or Russell Brunson from clickfunnels)
35. Find 1 client who needs/wants 2 animations per month.
36. Explore what clients really want and deliver that instead of trying to sell animations.
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WOW . The last one sounds like a really good idea... I wonder what comes up there...
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1. group clients together
2. create a group training
3. give parents tools to work at home with
4. skip clients who have easy to solve problems.
5. specialize on a few problems instead of helping all
6. write a book about the most common problems
7. delegate clients to my stagiare
8. surch for co workers
9. developpe a training program for teachers to give theme the tools
10. only work with boys or girls or make a shift in the age group like PO or VO
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Day 3 - WEDNESDAY
1 What is your biggest struggle in your business these days?
Making my promise to my customers concrete and thus the solution / result for them.
How do I make my promise concrete?
1. Choose a clear theme
2. Get clear what my own purpose is with my company
3. Communicate my purpose
4. Be completely myself in all my choices and actions
5. Don't bow down to "that's the way it should be"
6. Be clear about my rate and stick to it
7. Be clear about who I see as my target audience
8. Eliminate side activities that cloud my purpose
9. Make clear what commitment I expect from my coachees
10. Name (first for myself) what my core talents are.
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some new ideas:
1. get up earlier
2. start fresh and energetic
3. put myself first, healthy
4. set up to win in the evening
5. think big, act small
6. do one thing at a time
7. finish it and after that the next thing
8. clear my mind
9. i don't have to know it now
10. trust the universe
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My most important insights from yesterday: What wonderful books have been written and how ashamed I am that I have not read any of these books. Only now do I realize that I have never seriously looked at the sweet spot of my customers. I am also becoming increasingly aware of how important it is to me now that Nisandeh is looking over my shoulders. That this way of implementing his knowledge works for me.
My 10 ideas for today 22-06-22:
1. Describing the sweet spot of my target audience.
2. Go through all the dashboards of the customers who have followed a coaching trajectory with me to discover a common thread and then describe it.
3. Contacting managers of management training courses.
4. Ask Jasmijn's father what is his biggest frustration and what information he is interested in.
5. Gift a book from the top 10 as a thank you to your supervisor.
6. raffle 10 books among those who complete my survey.
7. Compiling a survey based on the books I have to read from the top 10.
8. Gift my guests a book when they join my podcast The Authentic Leader.
9. Pick a top 10 book and start reading this week that I think best aligns with my service.
10. Look on YouTube to see which videos are best viewed about authentic leadership.
11. Call Ton Lunesu if he wants to be a guest on my podcast De Autheniekeleider.
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I’m happy to see Marcel, that the idea you initiated is actually doing you good…
Keep up the good work.
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Thank you Nisandeh for your appreciation of my idea and indeed this is what I need now and it works.
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DAY #3
How should I do my marketing and develop my own style when: 1. the topic is sensitive 2. cold acquisition is no option 3. the competition is big 4. I'm not entirely an experience expert.
1. Make better use of word-of-mouth marketing. This kind of marketing is especially effective when it comes to sensitive topics like grief. Maybe I could give a nice reward --> I did a quick brainstorm for nice rewards and my best idea is giving them a set of condolence cards (both physical and digital (for use on whatsapp)). Everybody needs to their offer condolences from time to time. With a beautiful Monumentalista card, they can spread the word even better.
2. Simply tell the beautiful stories from my daily business. Almost every product starts with a story, I'm a storyteller, visualizing them is part of my expertise.
3. Just do it. Eat that frog. You know what? I should make a start today...
4. Start with images, the story will follow. I'm a designer, I feel comfortable with this kind of approach.
5. Make social media posts in batches.
6. Block marketing time in my agenda
7. For my marketing, I could use the same approach as I do for my client projects. Makes it easier to get started
8. Get publicity, so people get to know my face and my story
9. Improve my websites, so I feel more confident sending people there
10. Hire a VA
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22 juni 2022 How to arouse the attention of potential customers. Day 3
1. Ask customer for review
2. Accept network invitations (still being very selective, only the fun ones)
3. Prepare several (humorous) one-minute-pitches related to the importance of speeches
4. Collect relevant topics about presenting for short 10-minute presentations
5. Mail ex participants that I’m “still alive”
6. Send them (#5) a special offer
7. Think of a special offer
8. Book a location for a small group
9. Make an agenda and plan trainings on the website
10. Find a suitable location
By the way, it’s amazing how easy these ideas pop up on the third day. It was 10 minutes work; Monday it did cost me half the morning to come up with the last four to complete.
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How do you do that, a humorous 1 minute pitch? that's interesting!
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Oh Gerdy, it requires creativity as always. Many of us are coaches and what coaches are good at is promising a good result. "I can teach you to present in a relaxed manner" for example. That is of course nonsense. We all know that you can't manage results, but you can manage your effort. In addition, that promise is often made without knowing the future coachee. And yet I keep hearing those promises in many one-minute pitches.
If we look at the purpose of the pitch, in my view it is that you stand out and that people remember you and maybe approach you for a chat. And not that you convince people of your supposed excellence in one minute.
Humor and lightheartedness help. Well, how do you bring some humor into your pitch? An example that I came up with on the spot when I read your question how do you do that humor in your pitch is the following. (haven't tried it yet). Start with that promise "My name is R from Xyz and we'll make sure you .....". Then have a long Pinocchio nose on hand and put it in front of your face and say "Oops, I can't promise that at all because I don't know who you are and what you need yet. But if you want to know how I can help with your next presentation, come to me afterwards". something like that.
Is this a way of thinking that might work for you? I'm sure we all can come up with many variants.
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How do I get students/clients?
1. Make an PR article for newspapers about psychoadaptiv psychology.
2. Make podcast about stress etc.
3. Try to get in invitation on the radio about psychoadaptiv psychology.
4. Find an influencer who likes to talk about psychology/people.
5. Hire a account manager to do B to B.
6. Hire a consultant to sell the training.
7. Make a free in company workshop.
8. Make a stress scan for an company.
9. Make a stress test on the website.
10. Send a flyer about my company to HRM managers.
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Week 1 - Day 2/5
struggle how do i get ideal clients for my new public leaders program
ideas:
1. Interview successful public leaders and professors
2. Interview ideal customers to explore their problems, wants and needs etc.
3. Publish in newspapers free publicity
4. Ask Linda Graanoogst (my business buddy from Open Circles Academy Business University) for help for free publicity
5. Ask ideal clients to suggest new ideal clients.
6. Approach industry associations VGS, VDP and VOM.
7. Create a new webpage for my ideal customer
8. Host a webinar
9. Request new (or different) ideal customer testimonials for your website 10. Request new (or different) ideal customer testimonials for your website
11. Create a questionnaire for ideal customers and reward them with an ebook. Or signed expert book
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would a networking event for them not be very interesting you think? Maybe you can do a management friday afternoon drink with a content thing in it in 3 places in NL for them? Or a lunch meeting?
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DAY #2
How should I do my marketing and develop my own style when: 1. the topic is sensitive 2. cold acquisition is no option 3. the competition is big 4. I'm not entirely an experience expert.
Yesterday my brainstorm was focused on social media, today I somehow came up with ideas for presenting myself to the world in general. In the passed months, I was working all the time (from home), I didn't see many friends, didn't go out, didn't dress up. Corona aftermath, I guess. Anyway, I think it's time to reconnect...
1. Go back to the things that bring me joy and use them for some authenticity in my marketing (art, design, fashion, enjoying (classical) music together with friends, go to motorcycle and old/youngtimer meetups, nature, things with animals, strange events, etc).
2. What is it I am good at (I forgot, haha). Work at my expert position.
3. Use storytelling for my marketing (I know so many beautiful stories from my clients).
4. Try to get published in magazines other than the usual suspects.
5. Present myself at braderieën.
6. Join exhibitions/events with other artists.
7. Do projects with new technologies (like 3D concrete printing) and get publicity with that.
8. When my book is finished (autumn/winter 2022) make sure it will be everywhere for people to read (like waiting rooms in hospitals/at family doctors)
9. Go networking, meet people. They like what I'm doing, it's unusual and speaks to the imagination. It's nice to have conversations about death.
10. Do a social relevant project (gravestones for people who can't affort it, for example) and get subsidies/raise money and publicity.
11. Do LinkedIn. It worked in the past.
12. Get to know new people in peer groups. If you have a shared interest, people are more likely to ask YOU for the job.
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Dag 2: What is my biggest struggle in your business these days?
To find more ideal clients. People between 30 - 65 old, working, who are struggling with stress having a need to solve the stress issue (with massage, coaching).
The 10 ideas I came up with – to solve this struggle:
1. Interview succesfull collegues in my field on how they get more ideal clients.
2. Ask them to send clients to me sometime.
3. Contact psychologists etc. in my neighbourhood to help out their clients with stress issues
4. Talk to my family doctor to send me clients who have stress problems.
5. Talk to local GGD about long waiting lists for help, wich people can I help to reduce stress?
6. Visit local working places where stress is an issue and offer them a stress reduction program on the spot
7. What psychologists etc. do I know in my network, that I can talk to about collaboration
8. I can introduce myself in the nextdoor app as an stress expert in my neighbourhood.
9. I can go to local business gatherings organised bij KvK or somebody to meet people and opportunities.
10. Make a leaflet (aiming on my ideal clients) I can give for waitingrooms of psychologists, doctors etc.
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well done! keep going!
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How do I get more 'out there', meaning how to make my business more well known
Solutions
Tuesday June 21th 2022
1. Find a social media buddy
2. Take the time
3. Set deadlines
4. Manage my time
5. Brainstorm every day
6. Do not be a chicken
7. Come up with a PR Plan
8. One step at a time
9. Share your success
10. Be authentic
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*What is your biggest struggle in your business these days?*
'Wat is voor mij het ultieme idee om uit te werken tot mijn unieke onderscheidende aanbod?
Een idee en een aanbod waar ik zelf heel enthousiast van word en ik bevlogen mee bezig wil zijn en wat aansprekend is voor mijn ideale cliënt.'
*The 10 ideas you came up with – to solve this struggle.*
*Dag 1:*
Yoga op basis van Samsara-Yoga en zwangerschapsyoga;
Bones for Life (yoga-methodiek voor botversterking);
Divine9Dance volgens methodiek Kaouthar Darmoni;
Natuurgeneeskunde volgens Centrum Internationale Therapieën (bloesems, oliën, edelstenen, klanken, kleuren, metalen, chakra’s);
Natuurgeneeskunde volgens Bulgaarse tradities;
Consulten LichtkrachtHealing concept Annemarie Sips;
Verbinding met muziek, ritme;
Verbinding met bespelen muziekinstrumenten; Specifiek Bulgaarse Kaval;
Hybride training over handhoudingen en spirituele mudra’s;
Hybride training over stilzitten volgens Samsara Yoga;
Zowel in Nederlands als in Engels;
Een combinatie van bovenstaande ideeën.
*Dag 1:* Bonus door Max uit accountability-groep:
*Wat is voor mij het ultieme idee om uit te werken tot mijn unieke, onderscheidende aanbod?*
Kijk op Google Trends/Answer the public
Begin met je ideale doelgroep. Wat willen zij kopen/doen?
Waar word je enthousiast van?
Maak sales pages en verkoop je producten, nog voordat het product er is
Vind een superpopulair product bij een concurrent. Maak dat je gratis product
Waar ben je het beste in?
Maak een introductieproduct met 1 les/ervaring in alle 10 richtingen
Maak Bulgarije een Unique Selling point (sessies in je tweede huis oid)
Kijk wat je zelf hebt gekocht en ga dat aanbieden
Vraag aan vriend(inn)en wat ze je graag zien doen
*Dag 2:*
Hybride training over kaval, embouchure en kringspieren;
Hybride training over stem en kringspieren;
Hybride training over kringspieren (ogen, keel, diafragma, bekkenbodem);
Hybride basistraining yoga en voelen;
Musiceren (alleen en samen met mijn man) en dat aanbieden voor speciale (feestelijke, religieuze?) activiteiten;
Musiceren en dat verbinden met Oost-Europese muziek en OER-blaasinstrumenten kaval, ney;
Het proces delen van het leren bespelen van een (nieuw) muziekinstrument in je derde levensfase;
Musiceren en dat verbinden met muziek uit het Soefisme;
Musiceren en betrekken van kaval, klankschalen, framedrum;
Kruidengeneeskunde volgens Bulgaarse tradities;
...
*Dag 3:*
*Dag 4:*
*Dag 5:*
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My granddaughter was born yesterday (everything went well and we are all very happy:-) ) so I'll start the exercise today.
My biggest struggle in my business right now is generating the time to work on my strategy.
Here's my first list of ideas how to solve it
Airbnb
1) find a reliable and committed angel who will take over the cleaning of the airbnb's.
2) outsource the cleaning of the charlet to the park if # 1 does not succeed
3) write clear instructions or make films on how I want it to be done.
4) make it attrative and fun to work for me so I'm sure people will stay and better still will do their best
5) make sure I have a backup in case of absence due to illness, holiday's or other reasons.
6) make sure they handle the backup themselves with little to no involvement from me
People(change)manager
7) handle all mails on a daily basis
8) plan by agenda wisely
9) delegate more
10) complete the top 3 priorities daily and minimize multitasking.
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Woohoo… Congratulations, Marie-Luise.
🎊🎉🥳🐣
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Thank you so much Nisandeh for your joyful reaction. Love it 🙂
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Opdracht 1e maandag
Wat is tegenwoordig uw grootste worsteling in uw bedrijf?
De 10 ideeën die je hebt bedacht - om deze strijd op te lossen
1. Teveel ideeën en mogelijkheden en kansen en daardoor kom ik niet verder. Ideeën en plannen worden steeds groter en kom ik niet verder.
1.1 kleine stapjes
2. Ik weet teveel en ik zie teveel. Bereik hierdoor niet me doelgroep. Ik spreek teveel wat ze nog niet zien.
2.1 wat wil je doelgroep
3. Zoek mensen die me helpen dit uit te werken en denk ook ik moet het toch zelf kunnen. Is lastig om hulp te vragen.
3.1 Doe het en ervaar het
4. Pak veel aan en verlies focus
4.1 Doe practice en mediteer pak je focus
5. Stress van geldschuld en verlamt me om de juiste keuzes te maken
5.1 heb vertrouwen
6 voor ideale plan is veel geld nodig
6.1 ga met investeerder het verhaal vertellen
7. Ik kom niet aan juiste monteurs ( fietsenmakers ) dus moet het self doen. Maar hoe krijg ik de juiste monteurs. En hoe betaal ik dat.
7.1 Investeerders en die contacten zijn er. Misschien in de groep
8 hoe zet in online leeromgeving op met video’s. Hoe maak ik ze met welke opmaak en uitstraling. Ik moet daar kennis bandje ben of mensen nodig maar hoe betaal ik die.
8.1 ga het gesprek aan met mensen die hier verstand van hebben. Kijk maar voorbeelden zoek / onderzoek
9 ik weet wat ik te doen heb. En waarom die ik het niet. Wat is mijn uitdaging.
9.1 heb vertrouwen. Wees niet bang om niet goed te doen. De reactie om je klein te maken is geen bijdrage. Of om uit te stellen is geen bijdrage in wat ik wil.
10. Ik weet dat ik veel kan bereiken en zie alles voor me en toch doe ik het niet. Waarom. Niet
10.1 ik wil te snel
Ik wil teveel
Implementeren.
Gebruik MG-SPI-systeem gebruiken voor succes
M voor MINDSET
Om succesvol te zijn in alles wat je doet, moet je de "juiste" mentaliteit hebben;
G voor DOEL
Als je niet weet waar je heen gaat, heb je heel weinig kansen om daar te komen;
S voor STRATEGIE
Als het doel je bestemming is, dan is de strategie het voertuig om je daar te krijgen;
P voor PLAN
Dit is uw routekaart - hoe gaat u uw "voertuig" "rijden" om uw bestemming te bereiken;
I voor implementatie
Je kunt de meest ondersteunende mindset hebben, het duidelijkste doel, de beste strategie ter wereld en een perfect plan…
Maar zonder daadwerkelijk actie te ondernemen – het plan volgen – bereik je NIET het gewenste succes.
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Hi Leo,
In my opinion you focus with the 10 answers on 10 struggle, so I would recommant take 1 struggle and focus on 10 solutions/answers/ideas how to deal with the struggle. Not just 1 perfect solution but 10 semi-perfect solutions, and then 40 more. You have no problem with idea generation so get that machine working in the right direction... hope that helps.
Gr. Matthias
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How do I get more 'out there', meaning how to make my business more well known
Solutions
Monday June 20th 2022
1. Teaming up with Social Media Enthusiasts
2. Find my voice
3. Write a communication plan
4. Be more consistent
5. Watch succesful bloggers/vloggers
6. Read relevant books
7. Get together with people that are facing the same problems
8. Appoint a fixed day for social media
9. Just begin
10. It does not have to be perfect
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My biggest struggle is getting new clients for a new six month program.
Men and women aged 35-50 in government leadership roles with false modesty and who are shy and insecure in their current role and who want to move up and work out of their role easily and comfortably. They do not automatically rely on their public leadership talents and do not fulfill their potential. They need new handling repertoire, skill and confidence.
The question for this week is: How do I get new ideal customers for my new program?
10X
1. approach people on my mailing lists with the message that I'm going to do something new.
2. a post on LinkenIn to share that I'm going to do something new.
3. Make a selection from my LinkedIn network and approach them via DM and invite them for a Free Growth Conversation.
4. Calling people who have contacted me before to help them grow.
5. Create an ad campaign on LinkedIn
6. Create a mailing campaign with emails with tips
7. Writing a blog series about or about this topic Public Leadership
8. Write an ebook on Public Leadership
9. Ask in the network of municipal secretaries whether there is any candidate for the program.
10. Find out if my buddies know Open Circles Academy WOMB candidates in their network for the program.
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what a beautiful niche. I can imagine that it's quite tough for a woman like that to admit this and subscribing to a program that talks about false modesty and shyness feels like a failure. So maybe there is also somethign to gain in turning the message into an empowering one?
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Good idea. Gerdy! It is not that I will communicate directly the shame or shyness. But this are the psychographic things I discovered last years in working with them.
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How do I get parents in groups? (the parents I met preferred 1 on 1)
1. offer 1 on 1 as a high end product
2.tell about the benefits
3. produce a lead system you cannot refuse
4. talk about the positive side effect from keep on learning
5. refearls, referrals,refearls
6. give content for free, have an easy, one offer page website
7. groups have lower price. (lower, not low)(second thought is higher price because of all the benefits)
8. Do free intake. (or bonus session after a webinar)
9.have a uniek product (a want to have and must have)
10.make is sexy to be in a training of mastermind for parents
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1. Teveel ideeën en mogelijkheden en kansen en daardoor kom ik niet verder. Ideeën en plannen worden steeds groter en kom ik niet verder.
2. Ik weet teveel en ik zie teveel. Bereik hierdoor niet me doelgroep. Ik spreek teveel wat ze nog niet zien.
3. Zoek mensen die me helpen dit uit te werken en denk ook ik moet het toch zelf kunnen. Is lastig om hulp te vragen.
4. Pak veel aan en verlies focus
5. Stress van geldschuld en verlamt me om de juiste keuzes te maken
6 voor ideale plan is veel geld nodig
7. Ik kom niet aan juiste monteurs ( fietsenmakers ) dus moet het self doen. Maar hoe krijg ik de juiste monteurs. En hoe betaal ik dat.
8 hoe zet in online leeromgeving op met video’s. Hoe maak ik ze met welke opmaak en uitstraling. Ik moet daar kennis bandje ben of mensen nodig maar hoe betaal ik die.
9 ik weet wat ik te doen heb. En waarom die ik het niet. Wat is mijn uitdaging.
10. Ik weet dat ik veel kan bereiken en zie alles voor me en toch doe ik het niet. Waarom. Niet
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Hé Leo,
Ik zie je struggle. Die is behoorlijk veelzijdig.
Ga je voor nu concentreren op de ideeën om je struggle op te lossen. Gebruik de ideeën generator! Zet 'm op!
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can you find a first step that would already help you? Something small. What would be a victory for you? Just pick ONE. You could also try the WHY process (ask yourself 5 times why to come to your real need).
Kun je een eerste stap vinden die je kan helpen? Iets kleins. Wat zou echt al een gave overwinning zijn? Ook het WHY proces dat Marcel ergens deed in het begin zou helpen. Waarom wil je meer monteurs? Waarom wil je een online omgeving? Je hebt een fantsatische niche. Laat je niet uit het veld slaan. Welke fietsenmaker doet er nou aan marketing?? Durf ergens te beginnen....
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Ik had de vraag verkeerd begrepen.
Ik dacht dat je de dingen moest benoemen wat je tegen houd en daar een idee bij.
Nu dus genoeg vragen om ideeën bij te bedenken. En ideeën genoeg. En stap voor stap is zeker belangrijk.
Ik weet heel goed de waarom en waar vanuit.
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Great Leo! If you are in doubt, never hesitate to ask your buddies- they can help you!
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Ik had de vraag verkeerd begrepen.
Ik dacht dat je de dingen moest benoemen wat je tegen houd en daar een idee bij.
Nu dus genoeg vragen om ideeën bij te bedenken. En ideeën genoeg. En stap voor stap is zeker belangrijk.
Ik weet heel goed de waarom en waar vanuit.
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What is my biggest struggle in your business these days?
To find more ideal clients. People between 30 - 65 old, working, who are struggling with stress having a need to solve the stress issue (with massage, coaching).
The 10 ideas I came up with – to solve this struggle:
1. Renew my website to be a flower for the bees.
2. Share my new website in my network.
3. Ask intimate friends and collegues for a recommandation if they know people with stress who need help now
4. Create an irresistable offer for new clients
5. organize a webinar with immediately working anti -stress tools, making a inresistable offer for one on coaching at the end.
6. ask clients to bring in new ideal clients. For every new client they can have a session for a reducted price.
7. Look for organisations that work with burned out people offer them my expertise on stress reduction.
8. Look for organisations where stress is high, so people get sick (and cost are high for the organisation)
9. Renew my testimonials on my website
10. Interview owners of organisations who work with burned out people to get information and leads.
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TUESDAY, JUNE 21. DAY 2/5:
Which fruit tree am I going to plant? These are my Business ideas:
1. KIKKIBU – Healthy fun food (Japanese Bento box style), remarkable products and experiences for children. A fun and nurturing place for parents too.
2. THE BABY HOTEL - Hotel for sleep deprived (burned out) parents where they can bring their babies (and small children) for guided sleep coaching, rest and caring parenting support.
3. TACONTENTA – Dancing Taqueria. Authentic and healthy Mexican tacos (Mexico City style) combined with salsa dance fiestas and workshops.
4. DIA DE LOS MUERTOS – Life transforming yearly festival celebrating life by contemplating death. "Carpe Diem" but "Memento More". Based on Mexican tradition of Day of the Death, three days of life contemplation, celebration (fiesta), amazing food, workshops, cinema, conferences.
5. FEEL GOOD AUTOCINEMA – For Cinema lovers, an exciting, fun, weather and pandemic proof outdoor cinema.
I envision a Franchise system for all the business ideas above except of Dia de Los Muertos Festival. This last can be built on a Licensing base. Please notice that ideas 1 and 2 are parenting/children related. Ideas 3 and 4 are related to Mexican culture. Idea Nr. 5 is just my passion for cinema.
Tremendous relief thinking that this week I will choose ONE business idea to develop during the WOMB program and that the other fruit seeds can be planted later and even better after learning and practicing Nisandeh's strategic thinking. Am so excited!!!
As a follow up of yesterday, these are some investigative questions to ask to each idea:
• Why is this business idea a ‘fruit-seed’? Explain in detail.
• What is the business model behind this idea? How is this tree going to bear fruit (generate value and PROFIT)?
• What is the target audience for this idea? Why helping them?
• Why is this business relevant for the target audience? Which pains are solved?
• What is the story behind this idea?
• How can this business be started?
• What are the steps from where I am now to where I want to be with this idea?
• Why am I passionate about this idea? And what is the passion level from 1 to 10? (10 being the maximum)
• How can this idea bring fulfillment and contribution?
• Why is this idea suitable form y desired family life / life style?
In search of role models. These are the companies that inspire me as an entrepreneur and relevant to my ideas above:
• DISNEY – Magic experiences and legendary quality
• MAC DONALD'S – Successful worldwide franchise and impressive process systematization
• IKEA – Excellent cost-effective design furniture, family oriented
• ZARA – Local fast speed fashion, real estate
• STARBUCKS – Third home concept
• APPLE – Visionary company under the leadership of Steve Jobs
• TOYOYA – Company self learning, Kaizen method
What do I need to research about these companies that can be useful to build my business?
Next step: Finish answering Monday questions plus the new ones ^_^.
To be continued... Dear reader, please feel free to vote for your favourite idea
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Deciding on how to deal with the zero tolerance on showing up on a yet to develop Martial arts class.
1. Zero tolerance (I don't care, you're out)
2. Making rules on when you are allowed to skip class. (Hospitalized, funerals, servier illness etc.) (I'm reasonable)
3. Giving them 1 or 2 free passes if used in advance. (I'm flexible)
4. All allowed if communicated before the year starts. (I'm flexible)
5. Allowed if communicated days in advance. (Quite lose with 'zero tolerance')
6. If communicated 48 hours in advance (starts to feel like a dentist or something)
7. Just let them send a text right before class they not coming. (Just a bit more strict than my recreational students)
8. Lose the zero tolerance.
9. Really braking my mind to fill up to 10.
10. That's it...
I really find it hard to get to 10. I understand it's an exercise as much as it is to help with your struggles. But now it cost me a lot of time to think of ideas I know I really don't help. 😅
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Bring it up tomorrow in the Q&A post, Logan, and I’ll try to offer some support…
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Could it be that you are too critical of the ideas you come up with as to whether they are good enough? I recognize this, that's how I started on Monday. It took me half the morning to come up with the last 4 ideas. Maybe this will help you: Tuesday I let it go and wrote down everything that came into my mind without judgment. Then it started to flow gently. Today I was done in less than 10 minutes. Friday I have another challenge: what should I do with 50 ideas? I wish for you that same "problem".
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Day 2
1. Take a Short Course on NFTs
2. Find an artist who can design NFTs.
3. Learn about the new way of betting NFTs
4. Buy the right crypto.
5. Create an account with Binance to do this.
6. See how the 7 archetypes of our Scan can be processed in NFTs.
7. Find out how to make it unique.
8. Find out how it can be interesting for my target audience to own an NFT of our company.
9. Demonstrate the benefits of an NFT.
10. Find a way for our NFTs to become popular.
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My biggest strugle is my clumsyness with computers, social media, website etc.
It costs me tons of time and frustration and it is an obstacle in being visable, in my administration work snd in my money flow.
What I realized yesterday is that I fill one
hole with another. That becomes more of a structural problem.
My thinking suggests:
1: start with taking better care of your eyes and go to an eye doctor
.2: you do not need to hecome very good but you can get more fluent
3: Just try more. For instance I tried to upload my profile photo. Not succeeded yet.
4: if you get stuck, just leave it for a while
5: Ask a kind of help that empowers you more in this field.
6: Good that you make this topic finaly a priority
7: prepare to focus on it like you focus on the content of your work.
8: Hey, these things take time!
9: Youre website builder is not good enough. Make better use of them or exit.
10: Experts who do work for you need more of your guidance and limmits.
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DAY 2
My biggest struggle is that I am overworked.
1. earn working hours with self-care hours - oh WOW , here did that come from?! 🤩
2. NO to new clients
3. stop procrastiworking and write the requested proposal that brings you passive income
4. find out which moneymaking-activity is the best
5. don't allow "but everything is a money-making-activity" as answer
6. turn off all devices for one day and see what happens
7. have a meetime-buddy
8. call her, because you have one
9. go to bed at 9pm
10. ban ALL electronics out of the bedroom -even e-book reader - but my audiobooks!!!
Okay... this was more fun than yesterday.
Now how can I earn working hours? 😆
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WEEK 1 - DAY 2/5
STRUGGLE: How to generate more value and income without putting in extra hours?
INSIGHTS: Very exciting to see that different ideas come up already on the second day. Also amazed and thankful how 2 opportunities to change my target audience and systemize my business appeared in my life since I'm putting attention on this question.
QUESTION: I'm wondering if I should have chosen a more specific struggle; solving this one is not something that can be done in a day or week, maybe I chose something too big for this?
IDEAS:
1. Do a survey amongst colleague zzp-ers to get a better picture of the market and their hourly rate --> change accordingly if possible
2. Double my hourly rate and see what happens
3. Systemize most of what I do
4. Find a specific (business)-niche, be an expert in that, increase rate
5. Find high paying clients and double/triple my hourly rate
6. Grow an army of Renses (pun intended) as employees and let them do the work
7. Outsource my work to another company(s) - I did that before, worked quite well
8. Switch to a subscription-model instead of per-hour model
9. Switch from development to consultancy / advice and charge more
10. Get rid of all the client-specific work; deliver awesome result to clients but let them do the client-specific things
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day 2: struggle finishing "old stuff", admin
hire someone to organize,
hire a coach to keep me accountable,
share it with my buddies,
terminate memberships professional associations,
focus on 1 thing in my business,
make that a success,
trusting that I will not be bored
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DAY 2 - TUESDAY
* My BIGGEST STRUGGLE in my business these days
Making my promise to my customers concrete and thus the solution / result for them.
* TEN IDEAS for making my promise concrete
1. Look at how 'competitors' do this: for example via a specific product.
2. At the start of a program, give a one pager with a brief description of what the program will offer for that person - insofar as this is already possible.
3. Raise awareness of my Millennial Mind Quest workbook.
4. Indicate that a DISC test is one of my tools.
5. Agree at the beginning of each conversation what is most important for the client to cover in that conversation and come back to it at the end.
6. Go through all my interview reports and see which concrete approaches and tips I have given over the years and make a list of them as a giveaway for long term clients.
7. Write about such a tip on Linkedin.
8. Write short messages on LinkedIn about successes that a coachee and I have achieved (anonymously)
9. Indicate if something is outside my expertise and possibly refer.
10. For business clients, I send monthly progress reports (numbers, themes, nothing that can be traced back to individuals.)
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Day 2 Tuesday
My struggle: to increase sales of my book
1 Book club
2 Zoom workshop for book fans and their friends
3 Press
4 Guest blogging
5 Ads
6 Amazon marketing course
7 Self organized book tour to sell and sign my copies
8 Contact women groups/circles to gift PDF and talk about possible collaborations
9 Summer promo: take the book to the beach
10 Instagram reels ideas for book promotion
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Day 2:
How do I get students/clients?
1. To build up a community around personal leadership.
2. To build up a community around psychoadaptiv psychology.
3. Make a website for psychoadaptiv psychology.
4. Make video’s with explain things likes stress.
5. Make video’s withs a bold title like: addiction is a choice.
6. Try to get an invitation from branch organizations to talk about personal leadership, personal development and talent development.
7. Try to get an invitation form HRM branch organizations to talk about talent development.
8. Try to get an invitation form manager branch organizations tot talk about organic leadership.
9. Try to find out where the millennials meet.
10. Make an article for a magazine psychologic.
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Whoa. It gets so much better. The first ideas are nice but "that's what everyone else is doing" kindalike
Now here I got inspired and I really like the last few ideas to do a tour!!
Ideas day 2 - how can I get my book to as many people as possible (paid or not paid)
1. Find someone exciting to give the first book to (I already made a list of 3 people. They’re hot shots so I don’t know if it will work but at least I can give it a try)
2. Find someone “famous” to write a recommendation for the book
3. Listen to the WYB again for more ideas
4. Find a location IN a company (saves so much money also, and gives them exposure especially if there is media involved)
5. Organise a signing session in the big bookstore in Rotterdam where I always went to
6. Send personal messages to people to get them involved
7. Plan two weeks in October where I travel through Holland and give all the mayors of the towns that I pass a book
8. Do something local! Why not write to the local newspaper that I am publishing the book? And I live in two municipalities ey:) action for today to share it with Zoetermeer. Not sure if I can do this for Nieuwegein without getting in trouble (living kind of illegally in someone else’s house here)
9. Connect it to green and deliver it to every company who wants to become more sustainable in a similar way
10. Go around by bike and visit all the companies in Nieuwegein, Vianen well, within 20 km and deliver them a book as well
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21 juni 2022 How to arouse the attention of potential customers. Day 2
1. From scratch: Renewed clarity about my services: who am I, what do I stand for, what services do I offer, when is it important to you,
how do I do that, how would you benefit from it, how long does it take to get you there and what does it cost you?
2. Write down in detail process #1.
3. Ask someone to give feedback on it
(done)
4. Rewrite / adjust if necessary
5. Translate into interview scripts for podcast and/or video
6. Redesign my website based on this
7. Find someone who can do this for me (tech part)
(done)
8. Re-define my target audience
9. Publish concrete products i.e. on website
10. Add small group training to my service again
(just started rewriting processes for group training)
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I also share my key insights from yesterday:
Yesterday it became clear to me that after so many attempts I have found that I am now open for help.
Because I gave full throttle yesterday, two things happened yesterday: The day flew by because I was working so effectively and that was also frightening that life rushes past me in this way. When I combine this with Nisandeh's wisdom that successful people quickly reach their goals, it means there is an end to my goal and an after. My life won't change much when I get there, but my bank account will. The latter gives peace of mind and more stability. I need effective days with yesterday's experience and days of continuing to enjoy.
My 10 ideas for today 21-06-22, on this day that my love becomes 40 today ♥️🎂:
1. Ask any customer what they think is a manager's biggest frustration and why he or she thinks that.
2. Talk to people I meet more often and ask them this question.
3. I ask this group of participants what they think is the biggest frustration of a manager and what managers and board members are interested in. I hope I will have the opportunity to ask this on Wednesday.
4. Use the information I get as a quote and post it on LinkedIn and Instagram and see what the reactions are.
5. That I'm starting my podcast the Authentic Leader again. Who knows, there may be participants who would like to be a guest on my podcast.
6. That I look for blogs where topics are covered about leadership.
7. That I'm going to read the best-selling management book.
8. That I'm going to make a top ten of how to become the perfect manager.
9. That I'm going to make a top ten of the 10 most common mistakes by managers.
10. That I will look for elections for the best manager and who will be on the jury.
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Great discovery Marcel: to find being open for help. Asking for help can be a big step.
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Thanks for encouraging message, Rudolph!
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Beautiful insight, Marcel! Also inspiring to read your ideas about getting to know your target audience.
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Thank you, Rens. How nice of you.
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My biggest struggle this moment is transitioning from delivering high quality for a low price to delivering the same high quality for a price that makes it worth my while.
Solutions:
1. Differentiate (good quality, but standardised -> basic price, excellent quality, customised -> higher price)
2. Rethink my pricing (from fixed price for everything to fixed and variable pricing)
3. Create high quality templates to format standard books
4. Automate tasks that can be automated
5. Stop accepting endless rework for free
6. Ask every customer for a review
7. Increase visibility
7.a.Promote my work on social media
7.b. Advertise my services on social media
7.c. Share positive reviews on social media
7.d. Ask customers to share their reviews on their social media
7.e. Start a Youtube channel with tutorials for authors
8. Reduce the number of working hours in my regular job
9. Give existing customers a discount when they bring in a new client
10. Cherry pick - only take the jobs that have the best time/proceeds ratio (really don't want to do that actually)
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1. Work shorter with a client
2. Work with theme in peergroups
3. Give theme homework so only once a month contact
4. Give the parrents homework to work with there child
5. Write a book on my expertise
6. Raise my price again to €100
7. Stop with governement payed clients
8. Delegate to collega’s
9. Find a co-worker
10. Set up a training programm for peers
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My biggest problem? I'm also thinking about the question. Do I have the best question?
How do I get parents in groups? (the parents I met preferred 1 on 1)
How do I get parents enthusiastic about working in groups/trainings?
How of I get parents eager to learn more about family communication in trainings?
1. just start
2. start talking about it (three months ahead)
3. make the announcement
4. walk the take on social media
5. work together with other company('s)
6. talk to the network
7. make a online training
8. make a waiting list offer (existing waiting lists)
9. think about great mouth to mouth leads system
10. think about a present for leads
I start the day with thinking time, this week.
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How can i sell out my festival this year?
1. Double my ad spend
2. Double my poster spend
3. Email twice ad much
4. Post on socials twice as much
5. Focus 1 hour more each day on it
6. Contact 100 ambassadors to help you promote
7. Spread 100.000 flyers house to house
8. Focus more on pr
9. Write to tv shows for attention
10. Spend 5k on radio advertisement
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How can I build a company that is a place that serves as my expantion lever?
1. I can acknowledge expantion as a decision criterium
2. I can journal on what that might mean, expantion lever.
3. I should stop all 1:1 work immediately (almost there)
4 i can figue out what business models serve me best
5 i can show my unusual opinions and methods
6. I can check where i felr expantio in the past
7. I might make space for new things
8. I might ask 'is it a ten?'
9. Imight continue may think and meditate time
I might list out my quarks and think about how to integrate them
10. I might allow myself some preaching now and then.
11.i can add data sources and graphs
12. I can integrate puzzles and humor videos
13i can sow up vulerable
14.i can share more about myself
15i can do a behind the scenes
16 i can open up my house
17 i can have veggy only linch
18 i can use product creation as an excuse for doing research
19 i can share my origin story
20 i can share my mistakes
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22.i can do strategic work
23. I could build out a brand based on my signature system
24.i can ask myself'what does this learn me? Make me experience?'
25. I can decide doing stuff for others is no longer a valid offer, and work 100% on my terms
26. I could make a list of delegatable things.
27. I could start a volunteer team
28. I could use social and cbsm marketing in the application proces.
29. I could make a what not to delegate list
30i can have a remote team of top players.
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31. I could use silence as a tool.
32.i can use deep conversations as a product feature.
33. I can only fo writing. I marketi g, in communication, in thinking.
34. I can integrate alchemie
35. I need a forum. And a good moderater to start with.
36. I need flexible calender options so i can have bad days.
37. I can come up with visuals that other people draw
38. I can hire a wp expert that can think along and execute.
39. I can implement#realtalk in the company
40. I can look for business cases where visioning and strategy work is a differentiator, ex branding agency.
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41. I can sit and think 1 hr a day
42. I can invite tough questions ansd write about the answer.
43. I can talk about remy and take a day to look into archives.
44. Ik kan aandacht schenken aan esthetiek, schoonheid
45. I can limite my workday to 2 to 4 hrs.
46. Icould focus on merger and acquisition
46 i can automate
47 i can cherry pick a community
48. Ican own my unusual choices and preferrences
49. I can featue the stoves in a video setting
50. I can use numbers in my work.
51. My company can become a numbers company
52 i can offer advice without paperwork to municipalities
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So many!!!
What does expantion lever mean? (uitbreidingsschakelaar in dutch?)
WordPress has some good forum options.
And how did you stop all 1:1 work? Do you still deliver the same value? At some point I might want to do the same 🙂
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My biggest struggle this moment is transitioning from delivering high quality for a low price to delivering high quality for a price that makes it worth my while.
I need to sleep on possible solutions and will post them tomorrow.
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My biggest strugle and this moment is my clumsyness with computers and social media etc.
Sollutions:
1 Hire somebody to do this for you
2 Take a personal teacher to get you updated
3 Make a study online
4: Become member of a senior help group
5: Minimize all that seemingly ¨normal¨use of computers
6: Ask someone to look with teamvieuw to help you out
7: Take notes and study while he or she is doing that
8: Buy an apple again
9: Study 5 hours a week
10: Just wait untill there is a more suitable medium and do in the meantime a bit of all that I wrote down before
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What is the most recurring / specific part of the computer usage that's frustrating you, Maria?
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My biggest struggle is to get more knowledge about my martial arts (Sibpalki) to progress as an instructor and reach 'Master level'.
1. Keep looking for a new master who speaks English.
2. Keep learning Korean (very bad at). To learn from Korean Grandmaster.
3. Try to buy/beg back my old teacher (Grandmaster) and get reinstated by the Korean Association.
4. Learn a new martial arts.
5. Progress from online video's only and give myself new grades.
6. Take similar martial arts lessons and start creating my own.
7. hire an interpreter.
8. Stay around current knowledge level and act as a 'master level' master
9. Discard titles
10. Just staying where I am.
This is a quite a big problem for me which always ends in a less happy feeling if I think about it. 🥲
Currently I only consider the first 3 options viable for reaching the ultimate goal. Can't really think of other ways yet to get there at this moment.
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Logan, for what reason do you want to reach Master level?
What can you do then what you cannot do right now?
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While recurring customers would be my biggest challenge, it’s not my ACUTE challenge - and I really want to focus on what I need to do NOW.
My book - I want to launch it end of sept, and then it means that I need to finish it in 2 weeks and do all the redaction.
And it needs to be solved.
So for this week, I’m going to put my thoughts only on coming up with 5x 10 ideas to sell my book and get it at as many people as possible to read it.
Here are my 10 ideas.
1. Start a LinkedIn campaign with every day a different post, during the whole summer.
2. Find a great place for a book launch, and someone to give it to, who is inspiring to others
3. Contact my network and tell them about the book
4. Send everyone in my network who might be interested a request for help on title, cover, etc, to get them engaged
5. Come up with an irresistible deal for buying more than 1 book (get a free training if you buy 40 books)
6. Ask for referrals and give them a great deal for it (buy one book get one book for free)
6. Bring the books to the university where I help entrepreneurs and give the graduates (if it’s for them) a book as a gift
7. Find a nice JV partner who can give the book away as a gift - but need to think of how this can help me
8. Go to networking events and bring the book
9. Find connections with places where you can do online/ hybrid meetings and see if we can work something out together
10. Make sure the media knows about the book - contact the journalists I know
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Hey there,
My biggest struggle is that I am overworked. This is usually not the best time to come up with more ideas, which make me work more, but lets see 🙂
1. find a VA
2. outsource SEO
3. stop 1:1
4. offer more onlinecourses
5. resend Mails to people who clicked on an offer
6. Take a long break - july and august like last year
7. buy membership in my favorite spa
8. make room in my calendar to visit it at least 3x a week
9. create a wishlist of tasks the VA is taking over
10. write a post-it that reminds me, that I don‘t end up sleeping under a bridge just because I work less 😆
Well, not so bad. Let’s see what tomorrow brings. 😊
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Cornelia, nice ideas. Number 10 I find especially interesting; I used to work very very hard most of my life.
Got into a burnout 11 years ago (fully recovered and more now).
What helped me most to stop working hard is to subconsciously understand that everything I need to survive is already there, indeed.
Free fresh air to breathe, food in the fridge and cabinets, a roof over my head, living in a safe society etc.
Once my subconscious really got that, it was so much easier to stop working hard and just doing it in a healthy way.
It also helped to see where it came from...all events from my childhood, which are irrelevant now I'm an adult.
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Thank you, Rens!
So true - my conscious mind knows, but still. Even if I know, that I am safe for YEARS.
It is like a bad habit. It had long to settle, now it takes long to let go... 😅
May I ask you how do you work now and what you have changed?
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I limit the amount of work a day to 8 hours, take very regular breaks (set my alarm for that) and when I notice the feeling of working too hard I take the time to find out why that is and stop forcing myself to continue.
It's indeed amazing how tough some habits can be.
One of my teacher once compared the subconscious to a computer the size of Texas (that was still in the 90's 😉 )....without it's support, it's hard to get anything done.
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Thank you so much, Rens!
Timer was an my list yesterday. We will see what Ideas come up today.
Even if that was in the 90's, I need some time to digest this 😆
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May I suggest you google kule cease? Worked wonders for me to listen to his podcast during hikes.
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Oh great! Thank you, Sin!
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My struggle is to get a constant flow of new clients and in that way more revenue and profit.
For day 1 my 10 ideas are:
1. Send emails to our mailinglist
2. More references on our website
3. Every day a post on LinkedIn by our business account
4. React on LinkedIn posts of expert in our field of business
5. Cold acquisition
6. Up to date information on website
7. Blogs
8. Vlog on Youtube channel
9. Approaching existing and former customers clients about our trainings
10. Managementboek interview on their website
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Goed bezig 🙂
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What is your biggest struggle in your business these days?
'Wat is voor mij het ultieme idee om uit te werken tot mijn unieke onderscheidende aanbod?'
Een idee en een aanbod waar ik zelf heel enthousiast van word en ik bevlogen mee bezig wil zijn en wat aansprekend is voor mijn ideale cliënt.
The 10 ideas you came up with – to solve this struggle.
Yoga op basis van Samsara-Yoga en zwangerschapsyoga;
Bones for Life (yoga-methodiek voor botversterking);
Divine9Dance volgens methodiek Kaouthar Darmoni;
Natuurgeneeskunde volgens Centrum Internationale Therapieën (bloesems, oliën, edelstenen, klanken, kleuren, metalen, chakra’s);
Natuurgeneeskunde volgens Bulgaarse tradities;
Consulten LichtkrachtHealing concept Annemarie Sips;
Verbinding met muziek, ritme;
Verbinding met bespelen muziekinstrumenten; Specifiek Bulgaarse Kaval;
Hybride training over handhoudingen en spirituele mudra’s;
Hybride training over stilzitten volgens Samsara Yoga;
Zowel in Nederlands als in Engels;
Een combinatie van bovenstaande ideeën;
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My struggle: disconnect more from the need for certainty.
1. Just do it!
2. Become consciously aware of this behaviour.
3. Watch a powerful short video.
4. Think about the REAL consequences of a wrong step.
5. What can I miss when I'm not doing it?
6. Take pen and paper and make it visual.
7. Calculate the REAL risk vs. gain.
8. Watch how others did it.
9. Break down in CLEAR baby steps.
10. Celebrate the things that went well.
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My struggle: to increase the sales of my book
Ideas
1. Facebook/IG Ads
2. Amazon Ads
3. Book fairs
4. Live on site workshops, signed book included with ticket
5. Email campaign to give PDF for free and follow up to remind where to find on paper
6. To carry copies with me wherever I go (and go out more to women events)
7. Campaign on Mother's day, Sister's day, Friendship day, Christmas (book = great for stocking filler or Secret Santa)
8. Talk more about the book in my content
9. Who buys the book with Amazon purchase proof gets ticket to some online event
10. Book influencers
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My biggest struggle How/where to find my ideal clients and have them sign up for my online courses.
To make this a bit more specific and action driven, I will focus on my 6-month program that starts July 1st. After my webinar about a week ago, 15 people signed up and I want to double that to at least 30 participants July 1st.
1. Extend the early bird discount (which expired this weekend)
2. Send a message to all webinar registrants to tell about discount extension
3. Send an email to all people who did the course before and ask them to send the registration link to their friends (who they think would also benefit from the same course).
4. Ask them also for a testimonial about the course
5. Offer them a gift when a friend of theirs sign up (create gift!)
6. Write a blog on my website about one of the subjects of the upcoming course (and add a link to the blog to the online course plus the discount code)
7. Create a post of Facebook with part of the text of the blog, with a link to the full blog on my website
8. Create a FB add using above mentioned post, focussed on people who have already interacted with my FB page
9. Create a free E-book with some content of the course to get new people on my list who might be interested in the course
10. Postpone ALL other things on my to-do lists and focus on above this week!!
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Lucie, this landed on my door yesterday: askmethod.com/
Seems to be very interesting for finding out your best target audience and getting leads.
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ASK is fantastic, ask @Sin for it she introduced me to it. however the idea of this exercise is to start sweating your brain and come up with your own solutions instead of google (makes you lazy)
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I think the last tip is the best! 😀 Can't wait to hear your results!
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How can I market my new business activities with a good feeling?
1. Take every day time to proceed the licensing procedure.
2. Make arrangements with supplier in the toeristregions.
3. Seek coöoperation.
4. Care for Public Relations.
5. Strenghen my personal believe in succes of the new business.
6. Test the website.
7. Make everyday a moment free to make certainly a step forward.
8. Lay priority at my businessactivities above other.
9.Make a planning list of what I surely must do every day.
10.Have my wife monitor the progress daily.
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love the idea of letting your wife monitor your progress... she can keep you accountable but she will also know why she is supporting you...
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How can I (re-)gain complete insight and overview of my (potential-) projects including promises made and expectations raised?
1. Use CRM-software Teamleader more consistently
2. Let somebody else do it
3. Begin with being complete with the names
4. Make the format more simple
5. Get a whiteboard, and write all projects out, until they are updated in the CRM system
6. Contract less projects/become subcontracter/apply for a normal dayjob and quit my own business
7. Use a different CRM software
8. Hire somebody to do the complete sales process.
9. Do it immediately/on the spot
10. Make the process more phased
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1. Write down details together with client
2. Make a Google answering list
3. Integrate website questions with crm
4. Make a standard answer/proposal/example quotation.
5. Make complete offers with some + options and bring them in on the spot
6. Make somebody responsible for customer contact + sales offers
7. Use a solar CRM including purchase of materials
8. Just make 1 offer a day but make sure to make the offer immediately after you visited the client
9. Book time in agenda to do appointment including sales offer (right in the car after visit)
10. Make a list of general agreements/concept with info in separate document, so the offer itself can be really simple en short
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1. Make a list of all templates that need to be updated
2. Plan to update each of them, make time for it
3. Remove all double questions in the deal-page (details of project)
4. Make multiple templates for multiple offerings/types of clients instead of customization of 1 model
5. Make a sequence/document of what should be done and make it as good that somebody else can do (part of) it.
6. Download all clients and all client-info/project -info and see where we can simplify this data
7. Make multiple data-entries possible named after different options/proposals
8. identify keystone-habits that should change for healthy and balanced living: sleep, food, sport, relaxe-time, quality-time with friends and family, fun, education, nurture + education of kids, art, gardening.
9. sleep 8+ hours per night (for 1 month or longer) 5/7 nights per week + evaluate
10. Do a 1 hour walk every day (for 1 month or longer) 5/7 days per week + evaluate
11. Meditate each day/start work with meditation
12. Plan time to work on implementation of ideas/working ON my business
13. Priorities ideas
14. make a template/dashboard for everyday-list of clients that are waiting for something from me + first action to be taken.
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First thing in the morning:
How can I (re-)gain complete insight and overview of my (potential-) clients including promises made and expectations raised? AND meet the expectations or fulfill promises being made?
1. Make promises realistically with some time extra and overdeliver
2. Communicate when it changes
3. Don't take every client
4. Take an expert-position in my market, charge for it and make sure to deliver
5. Set up the marketing, so that it attracts also new colleages
6. Buy this whiteboard asap!
7. Let somebody else get materials (saves time) and/or check if everything is packed or let it deliver specific timing.
8. Make also a list of stock and keep updating with every project
9. Use a photo-upload/make up for every project to make sure every project is filled with the right materials and background info.
10. Get more ideal-clients/focus on ideal clients.
NB: From the Wednesday Q&A I adapted the question/struggle a little bit. Succes: get more insight in the problem.
(My struggle is how to implement CRM more consistently (send quotations). I asked the question: How can I (re-)gain complete insight and overview of my (potential-) projects including promises made and expectations raised? Now I realize I should change "projects" into "clients" and I should add: "-and meet the expectations/fulfill promises made".)
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1. Add a valuation + evaluation of each client (in terms of ideal or not)
2. Hire an office and plan office days
3. Buy an adapter so it is possible to use big screen + mouse and trackpad
4. Install airco
5. Go to bed early
6. Plan the important tasks regarding clients in the morning or evening before
7. Ask for recommandations/referrals/testimonials
8. Stop giving reduction on the offer, charge more/raise prices
9. Use social media to connect with clients/build network
10. Buy a drone
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1. Go to bed early
2. Buy an airco
3. Buy an adapter for a big screen + trackpad
4. Get myself an office
5. Plan everyday time in the morning or evening before to work on the sales
6. Validate/evaluate on quality of clients (ideal or not)
7. Ask for referral/recommandations
8. Buy a drone
9. Use social media to show our work/gain expert position
10. Raise prices.
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Interesting, I thought I lost my 10 ideas, now I reproduced them, see the 10 differences 😉
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Task 1
What is your biggest struggle in your business these days?
1. How do I get the most out of every day?
First I want to know why I am not getting the most out of my day before I start on the ideas with solutions. I do this on the basis of the five why questions:
1. Why don't I get the most out of a day?
Answer: Because I don't know what works for my business, I only do what is necessary in a day.
2. Why don't I know what works for my business?
Answer: Because previous approaches have not worked?
3. Why have previous approaches not worked?
Answer: Because I do not know clearly what my target group is sensitive to with which I can entice them to want to know more about me? I don't know enough about their biggest frustration. I once made an inventory of what they were struggling with, but there was nothing here that would get me their attention.
4. Why don't I know what they are most sensitive to?
Answer: Because their willingness to participate in a survey is low. I'll investigate another way to find out. Here comes the point where I needed a kick in the ass to finally get started on this. For this you need Nisandeh with this training.
5. Why am I taking action now to investigate this?
Answer: Because I now feel supported by the group with which I can share my ideas for solving this.
The 10 ideas you came up with – to solve this struggle.
My ten ideas:
1. See what my target group finds interesting to follow on LinkedIn.
2. Look at Bol.com what most management books are about.
3. Make a weekly plan for how I will collect and work out the information.
4. Look on the internet to see which retreats are available for managers and directors.
5. Make an overview of my results that I have found and offer them for free.
6. Participate in well-attended conferences by managers.
7. My coaching clients ask if they put me in touch with other managers that I can interview about what they find interesting and what their biggest frustration is.
8. Every day I set an achievable goal in what information I want to get from managers.
9. Contact employees at SMEs to find out what they experience in which their managers get frustrated or stuck.
10. Tomorrow I'll make a to-do list for the layouts of my days this week.
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1 BIGGEST STRUGGLE
My biggest struggle these days is making my promise to my customers concrete and thus the solution / result for them.
2 The 10 IDEAS
1. analyze the reviews of my coachees for similarities in problem and result
2. make a free e-book about the 8 mind tricks
3. write a vision paper on 1 A4
4. map out my coaching process
5. publish a gift e-booklet
6. briefly describe my own growth process
7. choose a main problem
8. set up a platform for my target audience
9. create a 3-month program
10. set up a VIP retreat
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How do I get students/clients?
1. Send mailing to HRM employees
2. Create a HRM group of sales.
3. Create a consultants group to work together. They do the consultany, I do the training.
4. Platfom Springest
5. Plaatsen op andere opleidingsplatforms
6. Google Ads
7. Facebook campagne
8. Linkedinn campagne
9. Visit Beurzen HRM
10. Ask Rombout for advise
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How can my conversion in my funnel be higher?
1. Giving more value
2. Make more emails
3. Ask more questions
4. Send digital gifts
5. Show them a part of the program I offer
6. Share a personal story
7. Only for the prospects in the funnel a free webinar
8. Mail a new fact that will help them
9. Give the possibility that they can ask me anything in a mail or a free way call
10. Give the possibility that they can plan a call
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11. More leads in the funnel
12. Send a video of me with a tip
13. Send a personal video to leads who are further in the funnel
14. Mail with FAQ
15. Mail wit explaining the possible objections
16. Mail with a downsell
17. Repeat the offer
18. Aks if they have a personal experience to share on my blog
19. Aks them how there are going and in which stage of the diet they are
20. More about why I think this is the best program there is
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Hi Sigrid!
Happy birthday!!! Great to read your ideas to increase the conversion in your sales funnel. Which of these steps do you think will get you closer and quicker to your goal?
Am ordering your book today! 🥳 See you soon!
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MONDAY, JUNE 20. DAY 1/5:
My biggest struggle right now is to decide ”which fruit am I going to plant?”. Meaning: which business idea (from the many that I have) am I going to WORK ON (and commit to) first?.
This decision should be based on analyzing my passions, available means, family situation, talents, capabilities and external environment.
The 10 ideas I came up with – to solve this struggle are:
1. Make a detailed list of all the business ideas that I have in mind
2. Make a list of why questions and apply them to all the ideas
3. Study the business models of 5 successful companies that inspire me: IKEA, ZARA, HEMA, STARBUCKS and AMAZON
4. Create a set of variables (grid/ table) than enable me to compare my business ideas on a straightforward visual way
5. Make a SWOT analysis of myself and determine what Business idea suits me the best
6. Investigate the basics of a Franchising and Licensing entrepreneurial models
7. Make a list of possible products and services of each idea
8. Make a list of things that the business MUST do for me in order to support my family and lifestyle
9. For every business idea think of the raw steps that are needed to go from where I am now to where I want to be
10. Answer the following questions:
- [ ] Which pain(s) are you solving with this idea?
- [ ] What is the pain category of this idea? (Wellbeing, health, relationships, wealth?)
- [ ] What is the target audience?
- [ ] Is the niche big and small enough? How to know?
The coming days I will be thinking and answering these questions and my goal at the end of the week is to DECIDE WHICH BUSINESS I AM GOING TO BUILD/ fruit tree I am going to plant.
In my agenda I have planned to work on my business as follows:
- Monday 13:30 to 14:30 (done)
- Tuesday 20:00 to 20:30
- Wednesday 16 to 16:45 (meeting with WOMB accountability bodies) and from 20 to 21 hrs
- Thursday 19:30 to 21:30 hrs
- Friday from 12:30 to 13:30 hrs plus decision celebration from 20 to 22 hrs
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This is a great goal for the end of the week, Maru.
Can't wait to see what you will come up with.
And I love your commitment to the process with your very detailed daily plan.
Keep it up and you'll fly so high...
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Thank you so much Nisandeh 🙏 Your comment means a lot! I am already enjoying the process so much 🤩
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WOW Maru you did great thinking!
See you on wednesday
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Thank you so much Sigrid! Can not wait to see you Wednesday and order your book! 🥳💪
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Biggest business struggle is that I'm still trading my hours for money one by one.
*How do I generate more income without putting in more time?*
1- Increase my hourly rate
2- Automate / systemize parts of my work to save time and in that way, increasing my hourly rate indirectly
3- Detach my work from my client's infrastructure, again saving time ,about 40%, and indirectly increasing my hourly rate
4- Create more unscheduled time / add more breathing space
5- Create a product
6- Invest money in income-generating assets
7- Package my expertise as an online course and sell it
9- Focus more on a niche, become an expert in that and increate rate
10- Get clients that want to pay more for the same value
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My biggest struggle at the moment is getting more clients. There is growth, but it is slow. I realised one new client a week would be amazing and two a week would crush all my goals. So I brainstormed on...
How do get three new customers each week?
1. Offer more free events with a good offer
2. Market my free events better
3. Better opt-ins on my website that match my target audience
4. Ask my current customers for a referral
5. Offer my services on different channels, such as upwork and freelancing websites.
6. Finish one of the websites I am working on now, so she can start referring.
7. I have a list with people to call and tell about what I am doing. Find it and start calling.
8. I have a great Search Enging Optimisation plan waiting to be executed. Start writing and updating.
9. Update my profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram to show what I stand for.
10. Go to more networking meetings or join a BNI.
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Day 2.
Also, small update. I am at 2 new customers this week already.
How do I get three new customers each week?
1. Give my customers a voucher for 2 coaching sessions that they can give to someone else
2. Organise an event/something that gives value for my bigger customers for their customers.
3. Develop a support strippenkaart (like a credits system)
4. Continuously let everyone know what is available
5. Write specific posts/ads where I feature the websites I made for other trainers/coaches.
6. Create bring a friend deals for the opt-in programs
7. Focus on writing content about what I want to sell first.
8. Ask all my customers for online reviews/testimonials at Google My Business
9. Actively follow how my ad campaigns are doing.
10. Align my social Media (one of my buddies gave the feedback that there is no coherent message)
11. Write & publish my book.
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WOOHOO...
Well done, Max.
And thank you for sharing your progress already.
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How do I get three new customers each week?
1. Give potential customers deadlines to make a decision. (I just realised that's how I got number 3 yesterday)
2. Make offer/products very clear.
3. Advertise in my village
4. Change my e-mail signature and put in an opt-in or front-end
5. Have a clear front end offer or opt-in on all my social channels
6. Start joint ventures/partnerships. (There might even be something possible in our accountability group)
7. Stay top of mind with current customers. So newsletter. (and specifically, for the ones that pay me for monthly support, give them feedback on what I do for them)
8. Get my customers to write reviews online
9. Deliver fast and beautiful
10. Write a post for some of the facebook groups I am active in
11. Search Engine Optimisation. Even if it is just 30 minutes a week.
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How do I get three new customers each week?
1. Create great follow up emails for people who participate in my Website Basic training
2. Create a series of automatic lessons to send to new website clients.
3. Have fancy goodies for live meetings/events
4. Cooperate with branding agencies/sellers
5. Have my own under construction plugin
6. Make a landing page specifically for the "Made by Improve Your Tomorrow" link
7. UWV ( Dutch job center) needs job coaches. (and apparently I have someone who can connect me)
8. Improve my ad on friday already instead of next week
9. Invite personally to next tuesdays webinar
10. Work ahead on marketing
11. Plan the rest of the year
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ah great, I just stole your ideas of give customers a voucher. I'm going to give them a voucher for a book to give to their friends! Brilliant!
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Day 5.
How do I get three new customers each week?
1. Focus on live events
2. Focus on no big data with my websites (as a promise, we will not use anything with cookies in our shared businesses)
3. Ask W if he can use something for his team. Offer to support the first team member for free.
4. Offer the recente workshop group the coaching.
5. Talk more often with Sebas (fellow coach)
6. Ask L what it would take to be recommended by her organisation
7. Get CASH (Coach academy support hub) together and make a joint offer.
8. Ask A to make a shared or single offer to all her customers
9. Find another 10 ambassadors like M (She is a zzp HR person and she wants to connect me to all the businesses she works for as the coach)
- How do I find more?
- Does she have colleagues who need the same?
10.Be in more relevant facebook and linkedIn groups