I created a 5-step blueprint to growing a sustainable online business. If you are an online service provider or a coach and are struggling with getting a predictable flow of clients, here is the process that you should follow to start getting 1 high paying client a week.
STEP 1 – Online business foundation
Before I share with you the marketing and sales processes to grow your online business predictably, I want to make sure that you understand these two basic things:
To be able to spot your ideal clients online:
- You need to exactly know who they are
- What is their major problem that they have and you solve it
- What is the result they want to achieve
- What is stopping them to achieve that result
Secondly, you need to package “The How” – the solution on their major problem, into a high-ticket offer for which you can charge $3k-$10k
- For that you will need to be really good at what you do
- This will give you an opportunity to work only with a handful of high-quality clients who are committed to getting the results
- And you will only need 1 client per week (4 a month) to make 6-figures a year
STEP 2 – 2-hour marketing execution routine
Most of online entrepreneurs don’t get results, because they don’t stay consistent enough with their marketing activities to attract potential clients!
Now when you are very clear on who do you help and how, you will need to get in front of those ideal clients and present them your solution, your offer.
I broke down the marketing and sales process into three phases that can be completed via a simple 2-hour marketing execution routine that you should be repeating every day to drive predictable results.
- Networking and expanding
- Organic content creation
- DM/Messenger conversations and sales calls
With doing this 2-3-hour daily routine you will be able to book in 3-5 sales calls per week (or more) and you can convert 1 of them into a high paying client.
This are the tasks that you should be doing daily:
- 15-min: Engaging on your social media feed
- 30-min: Create a daily piece of content and publish it on social media
- 30-min: Send out 10-15 friend requests
- 15-min: Start conversations with accepted friend requests
- 30-min: Continue conversations with all who replied
Optional/extra:
- 30-min: Follow-up qualified leads
- 30-min: Additional engagement, liking, commenting
These activities are combination of tasks related to the 3-phases of online marketing that I am going to describe next.
Your long-term results come down to the discipline and consistency. I urge you to repeat this daily routine for 30-days in the row and with that you will create massive impact on your business and results for yourself.
Let’s dive into details of each of the 3-phases.
STEP 3 – Networking and expanding
The first thing that you will need to be doing regularly is expanding your network of potential clients. The good thing is, that we can do this manually, until we become more attractive and popular and people start following us themselves.
With expanding your network daily, you will be giving yourself more opportunities for your content to be seen by more potential clients, and that you will be able to talk to more of them.
Where do your potential clients congregate?
Your potential clients already exist. So, where do they congregate?
- They usually hang out in the same Facebook groups,
- they follow the same gurus, authorities and people with solutions,
- they use the same #hashtags,
- they visit the same portals, forums
- the comment under the same YouTube videos.
You could connect with potential clients through any of the options described above, but I will mostly focus on how to get in contact with potential clients quickly via Facebook/LinkedIn and Instagram.
Facebook/LinkedIn:
Join 5 quality groups – the leaders/admins of these groups are daily filtering in only the most quality people who they can help the most.
Start adding friends:
- People who are engaging and participating in the group
- Or find members list: New members list or Scroll the list and overview people’s profiles and add those who look like your ideal clients as friends
Instagram:
Create a list of 10 competitors’ profiles – they already have the audience of potential clients that will be the right fit to work with you as well
Check their audience:
- People who are engaging with their posts – commenting and liking
- Or direct list of Followers
Connecting with potential clients
After you spot the profiles of your potential clients, you will do the following:
- Deeply analyse their profiles, to see if they really look like your ideal client
- Comment on a few of their posts
- Like a few of their posts
You want to do this so they can see you in their notifications and they see that you are authentic and a real person.
- Then add them as friends – Facebook, follow them – Instagram
- If they accept your friend request or follow you back, you will be able to initiate text conversation with them and start a sales process
Only send them the introductory message if they accept your friend request or follow you back, otherwise your message will go to spam.
With that you will initiate the 1-on-1 conversation with the prospect and if they are in the right position/situation, you could potentially continue the sales process with them via DM/Messenger conversation.
But only a small percentage of the prospects want to solve their problem right now and are ready to buy immediately. So, beside of trying to having DM conversations with them, we will need to keep nurturing them with our content.
Mastering “connecting with people via cold message out reach” is important as it comes very handy with converting warm people into sales when they start reaching out to you.
But before we cover how to do DM conversations, let’s understand why content attraction marketing is important and how it works.