Your Graduation Story
Wow! What a ride! This course more then delivered on value and content. It was frequently overwhelming to the point of feeling frozen, having to just keep checking in and doing a bit more. When I joined EPM my goal was to learn ways to best provide my tribe an experience along with teaching and information. I was not prepared or even thinking of building a course to launch, as I had been building an APP. I have been using what I have learned to best build a tribe using what Marisa teaches in EPM, on my original path and needs , as well as ending up having a desire to build an experience product as taught in EPM. I love how EPM is set up with its modules and timed released content. The communication and emails from Marisa was perfect in keeping me from a state of confusion. I have learned so many steps and have fallen in love with mind mapping. Mind mapping in the past, I had seen my brother use in his business and it hurt by brain at that time, as I did not understand it. It has become a powerful way for me to create my vision. Being able to have a mission, along with a birds eye view has been life changing! I love all the psychology at play with the gamification and being able to experience it first hand. Marisa has been added to my list of HERO's! This course is full of gold nuggets that I will need to go back and review. The pace at which this program moves is fast, yet there is support for those that are not sprinters. Marisa has for sure, over delivered with this program! So many bonus material that continues to add great value! So many concepts that I have loved, with one that I have to keep telling myself is "iterate myself to awesome!" as well as it does not need to be perfect. EPM for me was just what I needed in my growth in the new world of business! With EPM, I will be able to positively impact others in ways I would not have been able to prior!
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
That I Can Do This! I have talents and experiences to share!
How did EPM help you become successful?
Gave me so much needed information in all the steps in building my business!
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
I am growing, learning, connecting and contributing! It has helped in my journey of unfolding!
What has been the biggest change in your business?
Seeing the importance and learning how to incorporate wins to my tribe!
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
Getting better at it and knowing it will get easier!
What a great group of people with whom to learn. Yesterday #drj and team helped me determine whether a big change that would push out my launch was fear or an ‘iterate to awesome’ moment.
When I shared my thinking I anticipated polite discouragement to change so radically but instead my group jumped in with both feet and engaged and encouraged and made me feel completely safe about discussing it, as well as having a bunch of great ideas. Thank you Marisa for attracting lovely thoughtful people into this group!
I have tried previously to have a business and closed it when we moved, thinking that I was not cut out to be my own boss. After working in a major business, I had the realisation that I had a purpose to help kids develop positive eating behaviours, and am trying again. I have been struggling to get my business up and running for the past year. I realise I have been putting up my own blocks - fear of failure, discomfort selling, not wanting to be seen, which have all prevented me from moving forward and making the impact that I want to. I was excited to learn more about this program and expected great things.
It hasn't turned out as I wanted...I did not make mission accomplished, but I do have my first client. It is heartbreaking to put in so much effort and have so much hope for it to be deflated by failure, but after hearing all the stories of others and realising its the reality of business, that it takes time, effort, dedication, and even then, failures occur, I have not given up hope. I have a new tool kit of strategies, drive, and a support system to ask help from.
I have been doing multiple courses at the same time, trying to tackle my blocks from different directions so I can move forward, so from my scientific mind, I have too many variables to understand what is doing what, but I have made progress. I have made a great leap forward. This is just the beginning...
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
It takes a lot of work, dedication and effort to put out a product and even with that, there are going to be failures - numerous ones. Everyone experiences them, but you have to get up and keep trying.
How did EPM help you become successful?
I have cowered in the past with every failure and believed it wasn't possible. I haven't put myself out there enough to be seen, to give my gift to the world. I now know I have a gift and can make the difference I want to, just have to keep trying until I find what works.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
I'm more confident trying to sell and have a different mind set.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
Before I had no idea in marketing my product, now I have some tools to try to move forward.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
I have my first client so that I can try out my program and gain confidence. I think I need to make baby steps, so this is my first step.
I had been tossing ideas about my business for years now. Running a family of 3 kids (partly homeschooled) with a workaholic husband I've had visions brewing in my head waiting to be organized and manifested. I was patiently waiting for the right time when I would align my desires and when I would find the right coach. That's when Marisa found her way into my inbox. Her passion and ideology instantly caught me and I am so glad I made the jump. It was a big investment for me/us and I had a lot of convincing to do with my husband. But ever since I opted in it was constantly reminded to me that I had made the right choice. I loved the approach and the community I was becoming a part of. I loved that I was constantly reminded that it was normal to struggle and feel overwhelmed and to take it one simple step at a time. I loved discovering the power of being a superhero. But mainly, I had so much fun delving into what was to become the manifestation of my dream: launching my singing training program.
Meanwhile, half way through, just as I was about to delve into the marketing part (the most daunting for me), my husband had a car accident and my life was thrown up in the air. No more structure, no more routine, no more assurance of any kind that I would be able to see this through. I just had to trust. Thankfully, Marisa and her team had make it clear since the beginning that this was to be expected. That when you're on the road to success every possible obstacle can come in the way. Just keep pushing through. Just keep your goal in view. And I did. I am blown away that I have made it to mission accomplished considering all the challenges I've been through. And they're not over. But at least this victory gives me strength. And now I have the strength and confidence to push through and deliver my product. Yay! What a rewarding experience!
The blessings keep revealing themselves. And of course this is just the beginning. I can't wait to delve into the rest of what this program gives me access to, bonuses and all I wasn't able to get to. I'm gonna take it one simple step at a time and have fun doing it! Sweet as! HUGE Gratitude for the whole LYM team and Marisa's generous and inspiring nature. Sonia.
Your Graduation Story
For a long time I've been accumulating information, trying to put together my life experience always around the performing arts, traveling around the world, spiritual development, to learn about internet marketing and technology. I had a need to design a virtual business that not only will enable people to unlock their hidden gifts through the performing arts, creativity and impart on them the hunger to operate on a higher creative divine ground. I thank you Marisa, that after so much information and financial sacrifices I did, You manage to inspire while digging out the definition of the vision as well as the provision with the prosperous outcome of it. I did the Chatterbox Campaign, Show up and Sell and got around 400 students, waiting for me to finish the Xperiencify and the Heroic website to launch. The price for the 10 weeks program is $197.00.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
The overall program delivered by Marisa, the coaches, the customer service and the group. The constant emails and engagement, absolutely inspiring and excellent.
How did EPM help you become successful?
How the program is designed from customer service to the beautiful website as Marisa is the teacher by example as well as a model for us; the inspirational messages and the constant attention and engagement, is a true inspiration.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
It is a product result out of lots of prayers at the precise time in my journey to fulfill the mission accomplished.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
The chance to capitalize with what I'm passionate about.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
I have no more doubt or wanting to be perfect. Lost of great expectations for the future.
I got my first client for my new group program! Celebration time... and... a question ;)
What type of email did you send to your customers when they register if you didn't have the time to prepare a module or a video,...? Thank you and huge success to all of you!
As an overachiever and avid helper I’d always felt that if I put in as much effort to my own business as I did for other peoples’, I would be hugely successful.
I’d had businesses in the past, but as an introvert, marketing and ‘showing up’ had always been a challenge for me, so I returned to the corporate world as a global HR Director, as well as consulting at the same time.
I dreamt of having my own coaching business, but knew from experience that there wasn’t enough demand on a small island with a population of 100k to make it a profitable business.
In 2017 I quit my job after completing a 90 hour working week and seeing so little of my son
I signed up to an online course to launch a product. There was just one problem – I didn’t have an online product.
Two weeks before the end, I started to feel overwhelmed, still no further forward in taking action and impending unemployment.
That’s when Marisa’s email about EPM landed in my inbox. I watched the video and it pulled on my heart strings – perhaps this was the course that would help me create and market my product? I signed up and didn’t know it at the time, but it was the best decision I even made.
From the very first interaction on the website, I was hooked, excited and motivated. I knew that if I followed each step of the process, I would succeed.
It took me three attempts to nail my niche and product. My coach was fantastic – she helped me to see through the eyes of a prospective client. The penny finally dropped and I felt confident in my product. It was what I have been doing for the past 20 years – I just didn’t know how to define the value and package my offering.
I kept on top of the programme, although had a few set backs, mostly around the technology. During those times, Don’s Friday sessions were invaluable and I replayed many of them.
The Monday calls with Marisa were hugely valuable and inspiring. Whilst I chose not to speak live on the calls, I received plenty of side door coaching – turns out that there were commonalities in the challenges people were experiencing.
The real challenge came when I reached the marketing module. This was the module I was most excited but apprehensive about. There were many choices and I knew that the Fast Results and Perfect Email campaign would be a challenge for me for three reasons 1) I had no list and had never used social media - not even Facebook! 2) I don’t enjoy writing and 3) I'm not comfortable showing up.
I decided to go for them anyway as I thought they would stretch me the most and hopefully deliver the biggest results.
During Christmas I felt like giving up, but remember Marisa saying, “when you’re about to give up, you still have 40% left to give’. I took the course specifically to develop an online business as my local market is so limited - there was no way I was giving up.
I launched my Fast Results campaign with an opt in page and free PDF. I knew I was targeting an online audience that didn’t know me but without a list, the only people I could email were my existing local contacts.
Whilst writing my launch email, I struggled with the positioning – I knew it didn’t feel right, but couldn’t pin point why. Instead of waiting to perfect the email, which is what I would usually do, I took Marisa’s advice and decided to get it out there and iterate based on feedback. Within 24 hours I had the feedback and knew exactly where I had gone wrong…
I had emailed my existing contacts and my online group contacts and had 21 subscribers in the first 24 hours. The split between online and local was about 50/50. Feedback from my online community was that I had given too much information in the initial email – they just wanted the content (the free PDF)! Feedback from my local contacts was that the customer journey wasn’t complete – they wanted a website, contact details and what next.
I knew straight away that I had two completely difference audiences and had blended my messaging. I contacted my coach, who recommended ‘give them what they want’. I set about creating a one page website in Heroic, which meant I also had to go through the legalities of setting up my business. This derailed me from the Fast Results campaign, but I knew I had to give my local market what they wanted. I also didn’t have enough people on my list to sell to, based on the conversion rates.
To ensure I didn’t lose momentum with my online audience (as small as it was), I reverted to a weekly news item, to keep them warm.
I set up my business, launched my website and continued chatter boxing as well as sending weekly emails to the people on my list.
Within days of launching my website, I sold one of my VIP products at £997 to one of my local contacts and have just launched campaigns on Facebook, LinkedIn and Pinterest.
Whilst I didn’t hit mission accomplished, my action took me down a path I hadn’t intended and as a result I now have a business, website, very small warm list (with no unsubscribes) and a marketing campaign. I even created a video for my website, which has been posted on LinkedIn and Facebook. Showing up has by far been the biggest personal development for me!
EPM has been the most intensive self development programme I have ever completed but it has given me greater results that I could ever have imagined or wished for. It has also been incredible value for money, although I see that as a bonus, in comparison to impact it has had on me and my business.
EPM guided me step by step and showed me the actions to take. It gave me the motivation to get started and the support and accountability to see it through to the end.
It has also given me the confidence to finally be comfortable with who I am. Whilst I may be unique in the tiny island I live it, I’m ok with that. There are lots of like minded people in the world who also want to make a difference and earn at the same time - I just need to find the right people who want what I have to offer.
Thank you so much to Marisa, Samara and the whole EPM team for a truly inspiring and action, fun filled experience. I look forward to meeting you all at Message to Money Live.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
My biggest takeaway from EPM was how to create a product, test it and market it.
How did EPM help you become successful?
EPM guided me step by step and showed me the actions to take. It gave me the motivation to get started and accountability to see it through to the end.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
EPM has given me the confidence to be who I really am. I have realised that whilst I may be unique in the tiny island I live it, that's ok. There are lots of like minded people in the world who also want to make a difference and earn at the same time - I just need to find the right people who want what I have to offer.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
The biggest difference EPM has made to my business is actually getting started. I had quit my job just before joining EPM and was unclear how to set up my coaching business and market it. I was not earning anything. I have now set up my business, am actively marketing it and sold 1 product @ £997. Now that I have the tools and know how, I will continue to iterate my marketing and products!
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
I'm excited about iterating my marketing to sign up premium paying clients, so that I can give women all over the world the confidence and motivation to step up in their own businesses or careers, whilst having the flexibility to work when and where I choose, spend more time with my family and make money.
I have done many programs in the last five years trying to get online. My offline businesses both the clinic and the seminars were doing ok. I recognised the biggest opportunity was online
I got incredibly frustrated because until everything lined up, I could not take off. This is how I have always worked and I have stopped beating myself up for it. So I spent almost 5 years and almost $100k in programs, airfare and accommodation, and opportunity cost. No online business takeoff.
EPM allowed me to string everything I had done together in one continuous piece. From the types of bonus, to the campaigns, to the nuances of the communication it all came together. I also wanted my EPM product to be the front end of my funnel for all my back end products. While I had all the pieces together, I did not know how to string them together.
As I worked through the modules the static inside my head died out.
I can take the same introverted approach that I take to my offline business to my online business. It’s all about who I am and meeting people where they are.
I sold 3 units at $997 before the due date with Chatter Box Campaign. I am gearing up for launches throughout the year and I have so many more events lined up now that the structure is in place.
I have the front-end funnel for all my high ticket back-end products. Now finally after 5 years and almost $100K later, I have a plan, a schedule and a system. The end of madness.
My team and I have a one year plan and we can follow it and stick to it. We can create endless iterations of this plan. The way I grew my offline business, only much faster.
I have my life back.
Thanks to Marissa and the team and my Coach Devin for the framework, structure and hand holding.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
I can take the same introverted approach that I take to my offline business to my online business. Its all about t who I am and meeting people where they are.
How did EPM help you become successful?
EPM allowed me to string everything I had done together in one continuous piece. From the types of bonus, to the campaigns, to the nuances of the communication it all came together. I also my wanted my EPM product to be the front end of my funnel for all my back end products. I did not know how to do it before.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
Now finally after 5 years and almost $100K later I have a plan, a schedule and a system. The end of madness
What has been the biggest change in your business?
My team and I have a one year plan and we can follow it and stick to it. We can create endless iterations of this plan. The way I grew my offline business, only much faster.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
I have the front-end funnel for all my high ticket back-end products.
The biggest gain from this course is the confidence to own who I am, my message, and how I wish to deliver it. Through a chatterbox campaign at a social gathering someone asked if I did private 1 on 1 mentoring and I said no, and shared info on my upcoming online training.
Sure I could’ve offered a package and most likely ticked mission accomplished. But it wouldn’t have matched who I’ve become through this process. Excited for the future and honoring the future self I’m creating today
."Before I felt like I gauged business success solely in dollars. If I didn't reach my financial goal, I questioned if I was even capable of being a business owner.
Now I am the embodiment of Thomas Edison's quotes: ""I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.""
However, I know with having the knowledge from EPM, it won't take me 10,000 tries. ????"
Marisa, even though I was not able to sell anything, I learned so much. I'm considering this more of a college class on product creation and marketing. I started with nothing. Not even an idea for a product. Now, I feel that even though I wasn't able to make any sells, I can use what I learned to make a new product. I understand the process. The coaching sessions with you, our coach, and Don were terrific. This was my first experience with coaching. The tech stuff was all new to me, and the way Don taught made me look forward to the tech classes, not dread them. My coach (Coach Paul) was great at giving pointers that I needed to work on. Watching you coach people so quickly and helping them get to the point of what they were trying to say was amazing! I definitely see the reason why coaching is so important to the success of this program. Thanks for everything you did!
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
I'm a lot dumber than I realized. I have a lot to learn. Maybe I don't have anything worth sharing after all? I have learned a lot about how product creation and marketing work. If I could think of anything worth sharing, I now think I could do it. Or at least I would know how to start!
How did EPM help you become successful?
I have learned a lot about how product creation and marketing work. I think I could do it again.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
I think I now understand a little about the process of product creation and marketing.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
I found out that another person, locally and in the Facebook groups where I was trying to market, offers a FREE seminar teaching what I was offering for sale. They offered it the same week I offered my course for sale. SO... I think that maybe I need to find a way to expand where/who I'm marketing to and try this again later, or just change product/market completely.