Online Resources For Experts, Coaches, Speakers and Consultants

It may sound counterintuitive, but disqualifying clients is an important part of business growth. And although this may sound scary if you’re still working to become profitable, but this concept comes from the idea that concentrating your sales and marketing on only the most qualified leads is more suitable for business growth.

"When you have a great working relationship with your clients, then it's gonna be much more successful for both of you and therefore for the financial success of both your clients and your company."  April Beach.

When you disqualify clients, you make more money, because the qualified clients you do accept have: 

1. better results with your programs
2. a deeper commitment to their own success

6 questions to ask yourself when vetting a prospective client to determine who really wins with your coaching?  

1. How committed do they need to be? 
2. What time allotment do they need to have? 
3. What attitude do they need to show up...

• Straight as is with your ™ - Clearly presented with your name and logo with no doubt as to whose content it is.
• Co branded - Licensing with partnership meaning the content is yours but the licensee also adds their brand to the content being used.
• Editable or white...

If you’re ready to make traction in your niche and be a business that stands out, it may be time to create a signature Program of Offer.  If you’ve been in business, any length of time, you’ve probably heard the term but may not know the full meaning, although you probably have an idea.  

“A signature program or offer is a unique service, that you create from your experience, method, framework, or expertise, that delivers predictable-transformational-measurable results”  - April Beach 

There are two kinds of signature offers; A Foundational Signature Offer and an Influential Signature Offer.  Let’s break it down.

A foundational signature offer, this is for those who have never created a signature offer or program before. You may be new in your niche. And the creation of your foundational signature offer gets you on the map, either in a certain area of expertise online or in a geographical...

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ONLINE COURSE INDUSTRY HISTORY AND IMPORTANT TRENDS 

If you are considering licensing your content or courses from your online business for others to use, you probably have questions. Lots of them.  But let's begin with the most obvious:

What kind of content do companies want to license from an online business owner?

There are three types of content that companies will be interested to license from you. Let's dive in.

1: Actual Content

This is content that feeds every distribution channel.

Blogs, articles, newsletters, emails, images, and videos are all examples of this type of content; anything that another company needs to build its content distribution channels.

It is time-consuming and exhausting to constantly create new content so if you can ease that process by delivering amazing content for other companies to distribute on their channels you have a potential licensing opportunity.

2: Assets

Assets are anything that other companies need to support an end result or to add to their...

We were extremely lucky to chat with Lorraine Dallmeier about her journey into entrepreneurship and her six steps to building an online empire without using paid ads.

An award-winning CEO of formula Botanica, the organic cosmetic formulation, and business school, which has trained over 13,000 organic cosmetic formulators and ND beauty entrepreneurs in 177 countries.

She was voted the most influential person in natural beauty for 2020 and was awarded the digital achiever of the year for the cosmetics industry by Google.

Lorraine, can you give everybody an introduction, share who you are, how you started out, and explain this amazing online empire that you have built?

I'm Lorraine. I run formula Botanica, I'm a biologist, I'm a chartered environmentalist and I am on a mission to teach the world to formulate.

I run formula Botanica, the online organic cosmetic formulation school, training people how to make their own natural skincare and haircare using botanical ingredients.

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By April Beach 

Licensing your online courses, programs, and content is one of the best ways to exponentially increase profit and revenue in your online business.

But you may be wondering what licensing actually is.

Licensing is creating content for other companies to use so that they can grow faster, make more money, or provide better services and training for their people.

The Benefits of Licensing Your online Course, Program, or Content

1. Licensing can help to establish you as a leader in your industry/niche/area of expertise.
2. Licensing increases your credibility with your own audience - when your audience knows that other companies are buying your content they are assured of your ability to get them results.
3. Licensing enables exponential scalability - you are now able to reach more people more easily as your name and expertise spread in new circles.
4. Licensing enables an easy transition into new target markets without starting from scratch - you have the backing of existing...

Have you been thinking about planning your own team retreat for your online business but are wondering how to not only make it fun but also beneficial to your business?

Here are my top three tips for planning your next team retreat.

I'm a big advocate of creating opportunities for my global team to come together; the ideas that we produce, the energy we create, and, frankly, the love, respect, and admiration we show for each other are just amazing!

So here are the steps that I think can help you to make the time that you've invested in spending together even more productive and frankly so much more fun than you ever imagined.

Set a primary objective.

These are working retreats and so as a leader, it's important to set the primary aims and objectives;

• Where are we going?
• What are we focusing on?
• What are the goals of this particular short period of time together?

If you schedule for a five-day retreat, those five days are going to fly by in what feels like five hours so...

Lead magnets for your business are nothing new but trends in what actually works to attract today's audience is always changing.

You need to ensure that you are up to date with what's working to allow your business to continuously generate amazing high-quality leads towards your ideal clients.

So, what IS working when it comes to lead magnets right now in 2021?

First, let's clarify, what a lead magnet is - something of high value that you give away for free in exchange for a person's contact details or other information.

We call it a lead magnet because its purpose is to literally magnetize leads to your business and get potential clients to come to you.

What is working right now are customized and curated high value, low time lead magnets, and here are a few ideas of how that might look;

Entertaining Content

Think quick accomplishments or challenges, maybe something with group interaction - keep people entertained, have them laugh or feel good, allow them to be part of...