Having written the book and created the program in 2011, I was excited to finally find a way of getting it out of my computer and into the world to serve. It is based on my own transformation from near death to healing myself from a severe autoimune disease and although I have been teaching and coaching in person, I never thought of putting it out there as an online program until I was inspired by Marisa and her promise to make just about anything that offered an expeirence, a product that works!
I dived into the course whole heartedly and sadly half way through, injured myself badly enough to not be able to produce the 20 videos I need for the 20 days as there is a physical instruction part to the course. However, this was yet another sign from the universe to say - SLOW down and SIMPLIFY!
I learned that I was trying to give people 22 years of transformational tools in 20 days - too much too soon! I realised that I was in fact designing version 3. So no I did not reach mission accomplished but will as soon as I have simplified!
Another BIG learning is that I have not told MY story and I think that I will have to re address my marketing approach to some extent by telling my story which is quite unique. I have been too busy trying to give them the answers but was not letting them into me - online is a new medium for me and I have a way to go to become familiar enough with it so I can be as authentic online as I am in person!
SOO much learning, so much content and soo much value through Marisa's course! I can not recommend her and her team and work highly enough - SUCH VALUE
I have huge gratitude for all , so thank you!
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
Just keep going. Don't give up and stop doubting yourself. HOWEVER - LISTEN to those you trust and listen to your intuition that never lies. If you are doing it for the wrong reasons, you will consistently come up with blocks. Walk your talk.
How did EPM help you become successful?
It helped me drop the I need to be PERFECT before I can share what I am offering to the world.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
It has given me more clarity on my weaknesses and urged me to let go of self doubt .
What has been the biggest change in your business?
I have realised that I need to simplify and I realise I need others to support me. Before I was doing it all alone and online is a new platform for me to reach my audience so I need help
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
Getting it out there and creating the value I know I am here to serve many with
Months ago I was working with my wife. We were traveling a hundred miles a day to deliver services to two clients. I loved that we were making a positive, permanent difference for people. I hated that we spent more time on reports and travel than teaching. It dawned on me that if we packaged the methods so they could be made available on the Internet, we could reach an unlimited audience. I did not want to produce a program to transfer from my shelf to the customer's shelf. I believed I could create something people would actually USE! I worked on writing and recording the material, without a clue about how to market it on the Web.
One day I received Marisa's video in my inbox and was hooked. I realized that an EXPERIENCE PRODUCT was what I REALLY wanted to create. The price was high and I thought this was not the time to get involved. The deadline passed. I was surprised my wife was actually upset. She WANTED me to do this thing! BIGGER SURPRISE. We got a phone call letting us know we could still get on board. EPM has been a part of our lives ever since. I learned to listen while driving to capture as much of the program as I could. Life happened. My computer locked up. The car transmission went out. I got a pinched nerve in my neck, which cost me use of my right hand. Meanwhile...with the help of coaching and group input, I realized our branding needed to change. I had several components in place, so this was not fast or easy. I became painfully aware of my lack of self discipline in doing what I should, when I should. I found it SO easy to drown in the complexity of all the "shoulds" when trying to start something new and put it out for the market to evaluate.
Although reaching Mission Accomplished is still a dream, the rungs on the ladder are now much clearer. Unlike many courses I have taken that had no continuing benefit, EPM has given me ongoing access to a genuine roadmap for product creation and delivery. I was blown away by the quality and quantity of the course material. I am very much looking forward to attending M2M for an "in person" boost to the work which has begun. I am also continuing to focus on getting something basic DONE, then working on perfecting it as I can. I am hopeful that in the months to come, I just might FINALLY help Caregivers like myself facilitate a better life for the people they love. If I do THAT well, my wife and I will earn the time and money freedom to give MORE, BIGGER and BETTER.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
Iterate to Awesome - changes are a part of the process, rather than an indication of failure
How did EPM help you become successful?
Provided a steady stream of knowledge, structure and encouragement to keep moving toward "getting it done not perfect" (yet!)
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
My wife's support for my participation has shown me that she believes in me.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
Branding - I showed up with "Low Vision Tips 'N' Tricks" and leave with "Senior Vision Secrets."
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
With access to Heroic and coaching with Murray, I now know how to set up the "Website ATM.
"There is no more respected relationship expert in my circles than Ken Blackman..."
"I learned as much in that one session as I had learned in a year of group classes…"
"He is a role model for standing up as a grown-up successful male in our culture…"
"Ken Blackman understands women’s bodies better than most of us do ourselves…"
I'm good at what I do. That isn't the problem. The problem is, for most of my career I've been spared the need to ever market, sell, or even talk about myself. There were always others filling that role, and I could just focusing on coaching and teaching.
Which was a good thing, because I was comically, in fact famously, bad at it. As good a coach and instructor as I was, when I would participate in the marketing events, sales would drop. Training and coaching is simply a different skillset from marketing and sales.
Well, five years ago I separated from my business partners and took matters into my own hands. I'll tell ya the learning curve has been surprisingly slow and difficult. I've done decently, purely through referrals and reputation, and I feel good about that. (Again, others doing a much better job at selling me than I am at selling myself!)
But when it became time to scale, time to create a consistent, thriving business, I didn't seem to be pulling it off. And I couldn't identify why. I couldn't figure out what it was I wasn't getting. As a coach I can recognize when something is more of a mental block than anything else. That didn't mean I could just mindset my own way out of it, alone.
What's amazing about Marisa's Experience Product Masterclass is how thorough and complete it is. For other participants, those who needed to identify what it was they were bringing to the world, and EPM helped them with that. For me, the work we did on messaging shifted everything for me. So did the simple, highly effective, high-integrity marketing approaches. I didn't have to do anything other than what already comes natural to me, and yet I feel like I know what to do.
And as for the program I'm offering, I was able to take it far beyond good content. What makes a great design? What brings about a feeling of flow among the participants? What leads to high success rate on their part? What gets them to their goals? These are all things I learned to take my program from good to fantastic.
This is a system I can replicate. I now feel like I know how to design, market, sell, and host any kind of program I feel called to offer. I have so many ideas, I'm excited for the next one!
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
Oh there are several. If I set aside the embarrassment of riches of all the components we learned how to do... I'd say, again and again and again, it was the reminder that it wasn't a forever choice, just a now choice. That it was going to shift and change, and that part of the process of getting to the improved version I aspire to is to run with the current version I have.
How did EPM help you become successful?
1. By including all the components, all the necessary ingredients, and doing such a good job explaining each one. Most programs are either broad and have modules that are hardly more than placeholders... or they do one topic extremely well. EPM doesn't take on anything it can't explain really well, but it includes everything necessary.
2. The ordering of lessons didn't make sense... until it did. And then it was brilliant. Very well designed in that sense.
3. It modeled what it was teaching.
4. Plenty of support was available to make sure I got my questions answered, but even more importantly, to get the feedback I needed on what I was doing to really dial it in. Key for me personally, because of my big imbalance between my extensive experience running workshops and my lack of experience in marketing, was module 4.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
I feel confident that I can replicate this. I feel confident that I understand everything that's needed. There used to be an ambient doubt, a kind of standing I-don't-know... or even worse, I-don't-know-what-I-don't-know... that's no longer there, and noticeable for its absence.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
I believe I have the basis for consistency of income. That allows me to turn my attention to the long term vision of what I want to create, what I want to bring to the world, rather than always focusing on the urgency of firefighting and managing the immediate term fluctuations.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product? Ten couples fundamentally shifting how they think about their own relationship, and stepping out into the world as examples for others of what's possible.
Is there anything else you would like to add? Big thanks and bravo. And also, thank you for setting an inspiring example as a messenger bringing something to the world yourself.
I created my website, www.viesurmesure.com, about 10 years ago. I had started to become successful (but never sold a product) but I got scared and backed away.
Deep inside, I felt like Houdini : bound in chains, locked in a trunk and submerged in a water tank, trying desperately to get out! I knew I still had something to create and I wanted to get back out there, but I would overthink and change my mind, over and over again. And do... nothing.
Back in May, I decided to take another info course, and immediately started falling into the 'Deadly Death Spiral'. By the second week, I wasn't even attending the coaching calls, because, even though the information was pertinent, it was lackluster and hard to digest, and I felt disgusted with myself for having once again spent money on a course that I knew I wouldn't even finish.
Several months later, I received an email in my inbox and opened it (miracle in itself!) and was intrigued by what I read. I had never heard of Marisa Murgatroyd, but what she said, struck a cord in me. Somehow I knew that what she was saying was true, and although I kept trying to talk myself out of it (what? buy ANOTHER product??), I ended up clicking the button and signing up for EPM. I was excited and scared... but I was reassured immediately.
First off, EPM was FUN! The videos are great, not too long, and really hit home! I loved coming home from my day job and watching my assignments, and attending the live calls and being able to participate with the others in the group.
The support is great... where else do you get all of this information, as well as your own personal coach??? There was technical support, moral support, and new-found friend support from the other EPMers on our FB group. What a great group! We helped each other through thick and thin, creating our product, asking questions... it really made me understand how to present MY course and the importance of group support.
My greatest takeaway has been that I don't have to be perfect to get out there and do it! In the past, I would have weighed the pros and cons, overthinkoing everything, and finally ending up saying to myself, 'oh well, I'll do this next year!' I had never heard that I could just go out there and sell, find new customers, and THEN create my product. But it is really the best way to go! I have 10 new customers (and I haven't even started my internet campaign) and they have all inspired me to create a great experience product! I can't let them down, and that is great motivation, believe me! Can't wait to let you all know how it goes, but I feel confident that I've got this, and that this is just the beginning of my new career.
My goal was to be able to quit my day job by the end of 2018... we shall see. But no matter : what I have learned in EPM has been priceless, and I know I will be coming back again and again to all the points that I have learned.
Thanks y'all : you've given me a whole new start. I can't wait to see what the future brings!
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
My biggest takeaway from EPM? Stop overthinking and wanting to be the perfect (presenter, coach, course designer... you name it!) before getting paying clients.
How did EPM help you become successful?
The fact that the videos were short, the support incredible, and the fact that I really had to do it!
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
I'm excited about creating my EPM product! And have more money in the bank ;-)
What has been the biggest change in your business?
Just getting out there and DOING IT after years of thinking about it.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
I am excited to help the people who have signed up... they have inspired me to make the BEST COURSE EVER! They are depending on me, and I will come through!
When my friend first introduced me to Marisa's work I was really interested but was so busy I didn't have time to look her up. Then a few days later I received an email mentioning the new idea of the Experience Product, it caught my eye and as I read more I realized it was the same person my friend told me about. As soon as I signed up to the videos leading up to the webinar I was hooked. I had been out of work for 10 years with chronic ill health and now I was ready to step out there again. The main reason I was hooked was because I knew I needed to get super clear on my message as I had a great product idea but no business and I didn't know how to bring the three areas of my product idea together to make it compelling and profitable. As soon as the program started I was blown away by the Superpower training, in fact it was probably my biggest takeaway as it literally made me cry because I realized how much I had supressed the real me for so long. I have absolutely loved the entire course, I unfortunately couldn't get clear on my mega/micro niche around my original idea because I wanted to position myself in Business and as it was a different approach, so needed deeper support. So I went with a great get started choice which will definitely be part of my future business and products in some way. Once I had made the simple choice, the clarity and mission statement became very clear and the rest just flowed. So from this process I know that as soon as I can get super clear on where I really want to position myself I will definitely fly. I didn't make any sales in the time available but I am not giving up. I would love to join the mentorship program and if I don't manage it financially this year then I will be back next year!
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
The Superpower training - it gave me a huge wake up call as to why I hadn't achieved my full potential in my career before as I had repressed my superpower.
How did EPM help you become successful?
It helped me realize that I am not alone in the world with what I have struggled with in business. That I have had some great ideas over the years I just needed the right direction and a laid out plan to make it happen.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
It has made me realize that I can be really successful I just need to position myself in the best way and then I will fly.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
I don't have a business yet, this was one of the reasons I joined EPM to get clear on what I want to do and Marisa's messaging was expressing the importance of this. I was bed ridden for 7 years and out of work for 10 years, previously having worked as a Clinical Psychologist/hypnotherapist. So it was quite a big step for me. I am still not clear on what I will be doing, not because the course wasn't great or that I have too many ideas. I only have one idea but I knew from the start I needed to talk 1:1 with a mentor for maybe just 30 mins, to help me get clear on how to best position myself in the right mega/micro niche. The email coaching was great but I knew I needed a mentor. Then I know EPM would have been a life changing step for me as it was awesome. As I mentioned to two of your team, I had previously been through another course that said I didn't need a business for the course to work and whilst the course was brilliant and I learnt loads, I came out the other side still lost and without direction. I had made a get started choice for the sake of the course but didn't know where to go next. Unfortunately, I feel the same again now, but that is not being said in anyway against EPM I loved it, I just feel lost again. It was a huge decision for me to join EPM, I have no income and the only $2000 in savings which were for my heart operation. I also chose to spend them on EPM, over a house that became available, which I had been desperately trying to find to rent, for two years; so I could bring my animals back home (I lost them, when I lost my home due to my health). I am not telling you this as a sob story, but to show you how much faith I have in your company. I have had a great learning experience and I am actually really sad I can't continue my journey with you. I was relying on making enough money to at least pay for the first few months of mentoring. Never mind onwards and upwards and I hope that one day I will be able to come back to you, I am not giving up :-)
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
I am looking forward to getting even clearer on the delivery and positioning of the course.
As an Independent Educational Consultant, I've worked with high school students to develop a Plan for College, for over 8 years. During this time I've been quite successful as a 1:1 coach but I've always had a limit on my earnings potential due to the number of hours available to coach; especially since the students are in high school during the day.
While completing the course, I've been forced to "organize" my coaching. This has helped me to improve the structure and content of my 1:1 coaching and will help me be a more effective coach. My new online membership site is allowing me to go beyond my immediate geography and work with more students in the same hour of time.
DID NOT REACH MISSION ACCOMPLISHED but Even though I had a massibe brain hemorrhage which caused lots of mental and physical dysibilities I wanted to prove to myself I could return to the GENUIS I WAS BEFORE THE STROKE which completely distroyed my right temporal lobe, IT HAD TO BE REMOVED, SO i do not have a temporal lobe NO BRAIN MATTER THERE MRI SHOW ITS JUST SPACE, A HOLE, which by the way is the CREATIVE SIDE OF THE BRAIN I wanted to prove to myself I can create and succeed at developing and designing a product of product that clients would say WOW To!!! I want to join YOU MEAN THIS GIRL WHO HAD A MASSIBE BRAIN HEMORRHAGE created and successfullylaunched A PRODUCT if SHE CAN DO IT I CAN , So I will take the classes slower create a KICK BEHIND WEBSITE AND EENTUALLY REACH MISSION ACCOMPLISHED ON MY OWN WITH THE LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP THANKD MARRISA SOMER SKYS:-))))
I just want to thank Marisa and the coaches for an amazing EPM experience. Even though I did not hit "Mission Accomplished", I feel super confident that it's just a matter of time before that happens. EPM is no doubt one of the best investments I've made in my life!
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
Buidling a business and an EPM product is a step-by-step process, and to be successful one needs to follow a proven blueprint like the one provided by EPM.
How did EPM help you become successful?
I feel much more confident about my business and have much more clarity about what I need to do to be successful.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
It has definitely made me more excited about my future as an entrepreneur.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
It has completely changed my mindset about building a business and made me so much more confident than when I started out. I've also learned a lot of the nuances which I did not know are so important to building a EP-based business.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
I'm super excited to finish the rest of my EPM training and bonuses which I have no doubt will help me become super successful and hit "Mission Accomplished" and much much more.
I was having a challenge growing my business because I was afraid of marketing. I didn't feel comfortable doing it, I felt like I was annoying people when I sent them an email or told them about what I offer. I joined the LYM program and learned how to speak with people about my business in a way that is enjoyable and that people are excited to hear from you. I've come to now realise that if I don't let people know about what I do then so many people would not have the opportunity to learn a simple and powerful way of eating and living that can improve their health and life.
A life where they now have the energy and clarity to experience more and live a life they love. I started chatting with my audience more and offering them tremendous value, education, and inspiration, and as a result, my audience grew. I also listened to what my audience really needed. Then created an experience product event that people are super excited to attend and to be part of.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
To focus on promoting my business
How did EPM help you become successful?
Taught me to listen to what customers want and need and to then communicate in a way that lets them know I can help them with that.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
More enthusiasm and confidence that I can repeat the process to continue building my business to help even more people improve their health and life.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
More activity promoting the business to find new customers
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
Developing a new online product
I'd been stuck at a plateau in my healing business for some years, wanting to move
away from one-to-one sessions and reach more people. Although successful, I was maxed out, exhausted and frustrated. What I lacked was a 'front door' that could bring people in. I knew I needed this, but didn't know how to shift the way I presented my work to achieve it. I wanted to launch a group programme using my years of experience in helping women overcome their traumas and negative conditioning, but didn't know how to produce something people would want to invest in - I knew I was focusing on the very deep stuff, and that most people don't realise my work even exists, let alone that they need it!
EPM looked to be exactly what I was looking for to translate my expertise into something which people could understand and want to buy!
Coming from an academic scientist background, I was well aware that I spoke too much through the 'how' and always explained exactly how all the theory worked, but I didn't know how else to approach things. EPM flagged up the weaknesses in what I'd been creating before and gave me the tools to start thinking in a completely different way. It soooo did not come naturally to me, but after a while I began to get the hang of it.
Big changes I made were to shift from 'personal development' niche to 'love and relationships' - I'm doing the same work, but under a different banner. My coach, Domonique, was fabulous and patiently explained why this step was essential, several times!! I thought of a great name 'Cinderella Bootcamp' and totally ditched the 'how' of what I was doing. It was very much a leap of faith for me to take such a radically different approach but I decided to follow Marisa's process through exactly.
The marketing was an even bigger challenge for me, as I had all the usual blocks around sales, talking about money, combined with a phone phobia, and worries about sending too many emails, but I decided to take the bull by the horns and just do it. I still have a way to go, but I've made big progress in simply being able to promote what I'm doing at all! You could not have met anyone more reticent and shy about promoting herself and her work than me.
On my first day of launch I reached mission accomplished, and at the end of launch I'd signed up an amazing 23 people, and had sales totalling $11974. I never imagined I'd be so successful.
What's worth noting here is that a number of the women who signed up had been on my list for years and hadn't been tempted by my previous creations, but they were ready to invest in my Cinderella Bootcamp. This shows that what I produced on EPM was vastly more attractive than what I'd done in the past. Hopefully this is the start of major expansion for my business and I'm already planning where to take it next.
I do feel that EPM has given me the tools I need to fulfil my mission of empowering women by enabling me to reach the people I'm meant to help. It's very exciting to have reached this point, and I'm looking forward to the next steps!
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
biggest takeaway forget the 'how' and done is better than perfect!
How did EPM help you become successful?
Helped me choose a great title, my downfall in the past! Got me out of my academic's scientist brain (which loves the how!). Also, I stopped promoting myself as personal development, and shifted to love and relationships.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
I've been wanting to launch a group programme for several years. Now it's out there, with 20 students signed up....hopefully the start of great things!
What has been the biggest change in your business?
It's too early to say as delivery doesn't start until next week, but I see this as the start of really doing my own thing and being free of teaching other people's modalities and being tied to other people's trademarks! HURRAY!!
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
My mission has always been to reach women who are ready to be empowered, and this is the way to achieve that goal.
Is there anything else you would like to add?
Really enjoyed the course. It flagged up several things I had been approaching in the wrong way in the past. Definitely worth the investment. I actually needed some of the information sooner than it was given. For example, I had already launched and got all my people signed up a week before the module 5 training was available, so I didn't have the welcome email sequence information when I actually needed it which was a bit frustrating. Pretty much everything else in the training was very good though. Domonique was brilliant.