Sales page nearly done (just need to add bonuses). My marketing campaigns are in full effect and I can’t wait to come back and report big news. This course has been amazing and I am posting to keep myself fully accountable to following through and completing this with a bang.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
How to better organize and present the content.
How did EPM help you become successful?
I have a much better idea of how to structure a program now.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
A lot of positive reinforcement has helped keep my focus and helped keep me in a positive mindset.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
Before, I just had a lot of content. Now I have a much better formula for putting it together and talking about it in a way the prospects can "get it"
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
I have a new mindset about creating and marketing my services. Now that I know what to do, I can iterate until it is successful.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
How to better organize and present the content.
How did EPM help you become successful?
I have a much better idea of how to structure a program now.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
A lot of positive reinforcement has helped keep my focus and helped keep me in a positive mindset.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
Before, I just had a lot of content. Now I have a much better formula for putting it together and talking about it in a way the prospects can "get it"
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
I have a new mindset about creating and marketing my services. Now that I know what to do, I can iterate until it is successful.
Years after graduating from Business College and working for a wide variety of businesses, I went back to college. I became disabled and had to drop out of school just before getting my bachelor’s degree. I lived with and cared for my parents, and they in turn helped me when I needed it. Then my Dad developed dementia. As the years went by, my health didn’t improve and my hopes for a personal future had dimmed to a flicker. After my Dad’s diagnosis and multiple home disasters, I confirmed that my siblings wanted to tell us how to live, but not help in any way...and all visions I had for myself died. I would care for my parents, of course, but at a little over 50, I had already done it in some capacity all of my life.
This past year a tiny spark reappeared, and within the span of 6 weeks, I went deep into debt (something I promised myself I would never do again) to take online classes from 4 affiliated sources. One of them, the most interesting, was EPM.
I didn’t have a product in mind, but the class is only offered once each year, and I couldn’t live one more year like the last one. So I began a product sales training program without an idea—which went completely against my “research and plan everything” side. My “yay, let’s learn something new” side was thrilled.
After a couple of weeks, I decided on a program that I believed in, and worked hard. I chose a domain name and it wasn’t taken yet, so I worked on a logo and other things. I don’t know how many times I checked the domain name, but I didn’t buy it.
While I was helping a friend look for a product name, I realized why I didn’t buy the domain name...I didn’t want to do that project. I thought I did, but my subconscious had other ideas. I wasn’t fully invested in it! And given the way I had been feeling, I needed big-time motivation.
During those early weeks, I enjoyed one of my favorite unpaid habits... Helping people think about how prospective customers would receive their messages and the information they present. That details matter, that a readable logo is more important than a fancy one, and how to make communication as clear as possible. All of these years, I have donated my skills and offered suggestions to improve businesses and websites, and continued to learn new things to keep my skills sharp. This is my “work heart.” I just hadn’t found my ideal customers yet!
Thanks to my fellow EPM students, my Facebook help resulted in some wonderful testimonials!
Since I can’t work full-time, I located my state’s disability rules and it will take a couple of months to reach the EPM Mission Accomplished $2,000 minimum no matter how crazy-fast I sell. Always practical, I had hoped to pre-book for my program(s) in time, but I was mentally prepared for reality.
Status:
My 1:1 program will be ready in a few days, and a separate 1:few mixed media program will follow soon.
Learning really is one of my favorite things to do, so I look forward to additional fun as I access my bonus content and work to finish my product, then begin the fun of marketing!
The Experience Product Masterclass:
(Product Development For The ADHD Entrepreneur)
How to define your business purpose, develop and sell a product, and (nearly) everything between. Plus, how to make the experience a series of celebrations for completing steps, to inject fun and small successes into learning and improvement!
About the EPM Community:
In other programs, my experience has been that people with good intentions, talk about helping each other but don’t follow through. EPM is a true community. Maybe it is because so many people felt forced to ask for help and input from fellow students. Maybe it combined with the intense schedule and we all felt vulnerable. But this is the first group I have belonged to that demonstrated authentic desires by actually helping each other. Not just making idle suggestions, but providing (or arranging to provide) valuable services to help others achieve success.
Everyone that has actively participated, deserves a celebration for opening up and voicing opinions, and many of them for being so generous with their time and skills, and supportive comments and advice (even tough-love).
Special Thanks:
Marisa has been an inspiration, and sometimes suspiciously like the Duracell bunny that keeps going and going (minus the fluffy pink ears and tail). Don Crowther is always more entertaining than the subjects warrant. Christine is a brick. The coaches are cool, and I appreciate Murray and the staff...everyone that has been so helpful and patient with me and my quirks. And thank you for helping me learn so much!
Thanks to my friends for your kindness, for the laughs and entertainment, and for letting me bug you about “suggested corrections.” You’re all very good sports!
Your Graduation Story
I have been trying for over 4 years now to come up with a niche and a focus with what I do. I have spent $1000's on over 8 courses in the that time and hadn't finished any of them and wasn't able to come up with a niche and a way to communicate it that would be marketable and wanted. I LOVE Marisa's program and am beyond grateful for it and all the support staff. This is a world class training. Although I didn't make my minimum goal, I'm going to continue marketing and reiterating my way to awesome along the way. I have half my minimum goal met so I just need a little more to make it all the way and maybe even beyond. I'm looking forward to Message 2 Money Live and am excited for all that I will learn and the motivation and direction that I know will come from that. I couldn't have asked for more in a program. My weakness is feeling uncomfortable, unclear and unsure with the marketing - I have a lot more. The cool thing though is that I witnessed so many others doing it and so that means it's possible for me to do as well. And I fully intend to get this part conquered.
Just to let you know even more how wonderful this program is, I've been going through some pretty major health challenges during the time I've been in it. I've pushed through time and time again when I was exhausted, couldn't think well and wanted nothing more than to just go to bed because I needed it. Because of the way this program is structured, including the guarantee, I was driven to finish it. The only thing I didn't get far into was the last module because Marisa mentioned we should wait on it if we were still in the marketing process. And all that being said, I decided about a month ago, if for some reason I didn't make my minimum goal, there was no way I'd use the guarantee because to me this program is worth every cent I paid and I don't want to cheapen it by asking for my money back.
So bottom line - I am a raving fan! I'm bringing a friend to Message 2 Money and have been talking to lots of my colleagues about EPM. Thank you!!
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
That I am capable of so much more than I thought I was and that I have found the place I want to get my support from while I grow and nurture my business.
How did EPM help you become successful?
It kept me on track, It gave me tons of support from the coaching calls, to the Facebook group to the immense amount of content to learn from.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
It's given me a roadmap to my own success. Priceless.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
I have created a habit of working on my business every day even when I'm tired from working in it. I'm more driven now than I have ever been.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
Becoming good at marketing, having the life I imagine and helping many people have the life they imagine. There's nothing better than that!
The 8th anniversary of my own business happened to be this January 2018! What a great gift I offered myself when joining EPM!
When I left my job position end of 2009, I did not know yet what would turn up, but I had faith and knew deep inside that starting my own activity would be the right move. And I never regretted it since then.
When I heard of EPM 8 months ago through a friend of mine, my intuition told me that this could be a new step forward, a way to take my business to a next level by developing a new business model including online. I found myself in the same type of situation as in 2009, when I needed a new breath. I believe EPM has shown me potential paths that I knew existed but that I did not dare take.
Marisa, Don, Kate, Christine and all the participants I came crossed in EPM have contributed to give me the confidence to implement new ways to make business, to design my workshops, to create my trainings, even to write my emails. And above all, it fed me with new motivations to chat and listen to my customers and my network even more carefully than before. I am now implementing online follow-ups in my consultancy and training business to make sure to lead my customers to implementation success and impact creation.
Briefly speaking, sky is the limit now and it 's being revealed consciously to me. Thanks Marisa for your great inputs and the wave of inspiration which touched me.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
EPM changed my mind about the way I am doing business as usual. It revived my creativity and my daring.
How did EPM help you become successful?
I have now a new approach even to my existing customers. It gives me the motivation to carry on developing the product I imagine and to implement and test online training and coaching methods.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
It has been very demanding over the last 10 weeks and I spent many evenings on the calls and not with my family. BUT I regret nothing!
What has been the biggest change in your business?
Before I was launching a course without checking the audience interest, Now, I start using and benefitting from a better approach to market study prior to product launch, thanks to the chatter box and the use of surveys.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
Designing the product and making it real with an online side.
I feel a whole range of emotions about my EPM experience. I am grateful for the amazing amount of high-quality content that was shared during this program. I am grateful for the coaching available through Marisa, Rono, & Don. It was a sprint but I felt able and supported for the challenge.
However, I felt like I was getting green lights through the whole process from my Coach, Pod, and people I was Chatterboxing with as I developed the program. So it was a great disappointment to me that I didn't make any sales.
Your Graduation Story
I did a free beta test in the fall of a program and realized midway through that I was including way too much and needed to focus in on getting people results and cut out the rest. I had some ideas that EPM confirmed (make it about earning a certain amount of money, offer a results-based guarantee, walk people step by step through the process rather than just *telling* them what to do, etc.). Ultimately, I was hoping EPM would focus more on keeping people motivated and excited in the program rather than spending so much time on refining the program idea itself, since I'd already more or less honed my idea by doing the beta test, but it was still a very valuable experience.
Marisa had some great, clarifying ways of phrasing concepts that I was already considering for my program, and in the end that was the biggest benefit to me: confirmation that I was on the right track, and confidence that in fact, my ideas were really good and maybe I could actually do this (though in the end, I did not make any sales before the deadline). The other main benefit for me was watching how other people progressed through the program because that gave me some insight into how much and what type of coaching my own future students will likely need.
I think EPM would've benefited me more if I had less business knowledge going in, but I definitely learned new things, solidified concepts, and had some ""aha"" moments because connections I'd been struggling to make were suddenly laid out in a very clear way. I also appreciated hearing that marketing could be as simple as just talking to people, as I tend to overcomplicate things.
This program was extremely high-value for the price.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
You need to talk to a lot of people to get a few yeses, even if you have the best product in the world.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
I realized that I'm smart and capable and have great ideas — I just need to trust myself more and follow through.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
I trust that I know what I'm doing and just need to keep doing it (and be more vocal about it).
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
I have the pieces in place and just need to keep going to find clients.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
Oh, SO many.. Don't think I could point to just one. Perhaps the value and support of the fb group was what kept me going on the course at all. And so learning to really point people to using that in my product.. And give them incentives to do so. You did that really well. (And so many other things). Oh, and I think I finally got that Done is better than Perfect, though I've been hearing that for 2 years! Thanks for saying it in a way I finally got. AND, learning to frame things from your customers' point of view. Still learning this.. but excited..
How did EPM help you become successful?
It hasn't yet, but I KNOW the experience and the wisdom I have gained from the course will propel me forward..
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
Just made me very tired so far! And a bit stressed. BUT of course also FULL of ideas and strategies to make things work.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
Finally launching my BIG course.. The one I've been planning (and putting off til I was "ready") for 2 years.
Your Graduation Story
Here I am at the finish line, with no student enrolled yet to my program but I still have 1 week and a half to get people in my program.
It's a bit disappointing that I didn't hit Mission Accomplished as I thought I would.
I felt overwhelmed with the marketing module and wanted to learn everything, but it held me back because so many doubts crippled in.
EPM is an amazing program. The best I've done so far. And actually the ONE that I stick to and finish all the modules.
Although I'm still in the implementation phase, I still running my launching campaign.
I would love to go to M2M event, but unfortunately I can't go.
I just want to thank you and congratulate you Marisa and Murray for the awesomeness of this product and for all the effort in trying to help nearly 700 students all in different levels of learning.
I've learned a lot, not only from the content, but from the coaching calls, the coach-a-ton, and from your e-mails.
Thank you for everything. I hope to get other of your products in the future. :)
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
There is lot of pieces to put together even before starting creating the content for a course.
How did EPM help you become successful?
I'm not successful yet because I haven't sold any membership to my course, but I'm feeling more confident that I can structure and deliver my knowledge.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
All the modules on EPM are rich in content and the community is phenomenal in supporting and encouraging each other.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
The biggest challenge was to know who is my targeted audience, who I can serve better.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
I'm excited about delivering my content through Xperiencify and get my students to finish the course and have more confidence in using Facebook the right way.
Less than an hour ago posted my free Money Karma Diagnosis offer in 3 places on facebook. I have 5 signups so far! :-)