I've taken numerous courses to jump start my business but am embarrassed to say that I used to be part of the 97% that never finishes their courses-statistic. Until I joined the extraordinary experience called EPM that is.
When I joined this program, I didn't know what I was getting myself into. I thought it would be "the usual online course" and even if I already knew that EPM was taking a different approach, I didn't realize actually how different.
It took about a minute after starting the pre-training and I was hooked, there was no way I would not finish this program, no matter what! So I lived and breathed EPM. For ten weeks I've not only learned how to create an experience product, but I've experienced the experience of being a student in one at the same time. It might sound strange, but I don't find any other way to describe it.
Apart from the never-ending support and brilliant coaching, this program also delivers on so many levels it's hard to list them all. How to build an awesome program, to find my voice and present it to others, confidence to take action and to believe in my ideas. That Done is better than Perfect and the invaluable skill of how to focus on one step at the time and finish it before even considering the next. Strategic, visual, personal, self consciousial (I'm sure that's a word :) and so many tactics for my business, that after finishing the last lesson I must admit I have a bit of separation anxiety.
But since I'm so much more knowledgeable, wiser, experienced and capable now than I was only a few weeks ago, I know that I've not only gained knowledge but also experience that I will last and serve my customers a lifetime.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
There are so many takeaways from EPM that I'm not sure there is enough space in this form to list them all! :) But, apart from the amazing experience and outstanding quality of Marisa's brilliant coaching skills, my biggest takeaway is that I'm now 100% confident that I am capable of creating an online course, that it will be awesome and that I will do it, not only dream about it.
How did EPM help you become successful?
I have gained a solid understanding of what it takes to create a high-quality product, sustainable thinking when it comes to building my business, long-term relationships with my customers and the confidence to do it as well.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
I have learned that passion and dedication aren't necessarily two separate things. I've learned to stay focused on one step at the time and to stick till the end. I've also learned not to compare myself to anyone more than myself.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
As I'm still a "newbie" entrepreneur I don't really have a before and after story, however, I know that my business will stand on a pretty solid foundation and I am so happy I found EPM at this point so I didn't have to spend too much time on things I don't need.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
I'm excited to launch, help people feel better about themselves with my program and at the same time make some money so I can save up and hopefully join the mentorship program next year!
I was on the isial piano teacher treadmill of seeing talented and potentially talented students practice less than they could have as they became complacent about what piano could offer them as an artform, recreation, and a wholistic challenge that is very rewarding. One thing with piano is that it is a long-term, often a decade-long project to become very proficient, so a powerful start is essential.
EPM gave me a powerful new pathway to pile on the requisite skill-building and content without losing the overall quality of the music making. Just because students are beginners doesn't mean that they can't play beautifully, and EPM showed me how and why to think about harnessing that love for the beauty of the piano and for music making, in a way that made my client desire more and more piano, not as little as they could get away with! Thank you Marisa and team!!
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
That the death spiral was affecting all of my existing piano students, no matter how well that they were taught because I never focused on the why
How did EPM help you become successful?
I connected with their why and I gave them a taste of bing a musician. Every one of them was able to read and write music with remarkable speed in the time frame.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
Never the same again!
What has been the biggest change in your business?
The way that I promote this year will be completely experiencified! I hope also to arrest the drop-off rate in practicing piano at home, because the kids in my new programme practice a lot and outdid the ones who have learned for a year or two, dare I say. My income probably is the same, as if I would have taught them the old way 1:1, but I have so much more in the way of fast results to promote in the future, and can keep my fees high. I can also share this with other music teachers. There are definitely business opportunities there peer to peer as I am an experienced teacher who is learning new tricks!
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
I would like to watch the videos again and again, and not just listen to them, as I had lots of internet speed issues in our tropical location due to colonies and flooding. I would like to share with others who teach.
Is there anything else you would like to add?
Love your work and thanks to coach Tiffany who did her best for me before I got flat out with senior students exams, reporting at a local school, music summer school, and holidays!
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
My program is important and needed and my work can make a difference in the world.
How did EPM help you become successful?
Structure and guidance and amazing business training - something I was lacking
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
It has given me confidence in my product and niche and has driven me to spread my own mission far and wide.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
Direction and structure. Previously, my program structure was a little lackluster, but EPM has brought massive clarity and direction to my program and my business too.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
Experiencifying everything in my business model. I'm sold! I'm excited because I know my clients will love the life that has been breathed into this program.
Is there anything else you would like to add?
Marisa and her team are amazing. This masterclass is the most thorough, smart and authentic business training I've ever seen.
Before starting the course I was just coming to the end of a string of projects that brought in the money, but didn’t not bring me any happiness or fulfilment.
I’ve been meandering on these last few years with the intention of breaking free and ’making it’ while pouring myself in to more and more training in the belief that I needed just a bit more education.
While I fully intended to get launched, my ideas of a launch involved a huge workload and a massive investment of time and energy. Falling victim to procrastination is easy in that situation.
My mentor, with whom I just finished a full on apprenticeship with, brought Marisa and the EPM course to my attention. Not another course I thought! However, there was something different about this one.
It appealed straight away to the problem I too saw with info products and online courses. They lack real appeal and motivation to complete the work and implement what you learn. I can well believe only very few people actually finish these courses. There had to be a better way.
Being able to unpick the frame work and teachings behind Experience Products has really inspired me. Getting me to to question my WHY, really opened my eyes. I’m now on a mission to meet my destiny and start to share the wealth of knowledge I have amassed over the years due to EPM.
Having the framework to translate that knowledge into meaningful experiences that will really teach and help online entrepreneurs to make their businesses successful is extremely valuable.
Marisa is truly engaging and lays it out there in a no nonsense style that cuts through the BS and makes you sit up and take notice.
If anything, there is possibly TOO much to go through as you are challenged on every aspect of running your business both on an emotional and practical level.
I will be coming back into the course content often as I start to release my products to the world and build up my own Tribe.
There is also a great community of likeminded entrepreneurs that I feel privileged to be part of. It’s really encouraging to know you have people with the same dreams and challenges.
EPM has given me the path to success, I’m sure of that. It’s now up to us all to follow it and implement what we have learned.
I look forward to ‘iterating to awesome’ and living my message.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
My biggest takeaway is that's it ok to start badly and that everyone else was the same at one point. I'm a perfectionist so find that getting anything out there always stalls. "Iterate your way to awesome" is my big take away. I also hadn't realised that I'm not so clear won what I REALLY want to do down the line. EPM has made me have a good look at myself and what makes me get up in the morning.
How did EPM help you become successful?
It has put me on the right path to success. 2018 will be my year!
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
I'll wait and see
What has been the biggest change in your business?
I'm now really motivated to get my first products out there and to try and help more people with their funnels
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
That break through feeling when I finally start yo see success doing work I WANT to do
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
PPP, this business that I am passionate about and that I can implement within the security of my current employment, and leverage into something bigger when the time is right.
How did EPM help you become successful?
EPM provides the structure to manage my time, the questions to make me think, the perspective to make me decide and the people and tools to execute my idea. EPM also stresses critical mindsets such as earn while you learn, done is better than perfect, take small steps, iterate your way to awesome, and the creating your Minimum Viable Product.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
Once my PPP is being implemented at my company I am going to further reduce my daily hours and begin to plan the evolution of the PPP into a public program. I am enthusiastic and energized by the confidence and clarity that I’ve attained progressing through EPM.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
Leveraging my professional consulting expertise and experience with my coaching practice to develop a brand new and very valuable project that I am passionate about…and believe that will bring out the best in me.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
Helping all of the people who, like me, sabotage their creativity and confidence by sticking within a narrow, predisposed mindset. Using a familiar project based system to deliver life changing support will hopefully gain acceptance and popularity…and generate massive value for my clients and myself.
Is there anything else you would like to add?
Special thank you to my coach Devin, who recommended that I focus on the opportunity right in front of me, best aligned with my talents, passion and big why.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
Outstanding methodical structure to take action in building my business. Still have a long way to go, alot more to learn, and even more importantly alot more to put into action!
How did EPM help you become successful?
Gave me the format and structure I needed to make progress in growing my business.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
Providing increased confidence that I can do this!
What has been the biggest change in your business?
I do plenty of work with a colleague for his business, but now I've landed my first solo client for my business!
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
Help in establishing my own business website!!
I had been taking a few online courses in pursuit of a direction for another idea I had. However, as I took those courses, I realized that my Relationship Marketing experience from my previous business life could be a very viable online product and resource.
But I hesitated - the question that came in to my head was: how do I create a package of my skills so that it not only sells but fits my personality?
The saying goes that when the student is ready, the teacher will appear... and wouldn't you know that within days of me asking that question I received an email about the Experience Product Masterclass!!
Although I admittedly loved the goofiness of Marisa in zebra ears and Murray parading in various costumes, I was hooked by the the promise of an agressive results-oriented course that would kick my butt into gear quickly. I was hooked by the promise of five-day-a-week coaching support. I was hooked by Marisa and by a very clear mission that promised to help me find my mission.
And unlike so many other courses that I have seen (or heard of from others), EPM met its promises... and more. Despite my having unexpected surgery in the second week of the course followed by complications and health issues, I was still able to follow the lessons.
I wasn't one for clicking on all the XPs but I am a great observer of process, thereby gleaning great joy from Marisa's detail and brilliance. She not only gave us every tool we will ever need to produce our own product(s) - now and in the future - Marisa also gave us, in the form of the EPM course, a concise example of how an amazing course should be created.
Like many, I appreciated Marisa's transparency in showing her journey in creating the course, including mistakes she had made. Many other instructors talk about transparency and generosity but Marisa demonstrated both with enthusiasm and unprecedented honesty.
My thanks not only to Marisa for "over delivering" and pouring her heart and soul in to EPM but also a big thank you for the support of Don, Matthew, Murray, Christine and the rest of the coaches.
EPM has helped me understand the clarity needed in presenting a mission, a clear "bird's eye view" while giving me the tools to create core experiences while avoiding the "downward death spiral"! My chatterbox is taking me on my way back to success.
I look forward to using all the tools learned in EPM to make a difference in the lives of many businesses and entrepreneurs in helping them build a stronger future by creating intentional Relationship Builidng Practices and Customers for Life.
PS
As I have mentioned previously-- an added bonus for me was that Marisa is also a great example of my belief that the strength in the fabric of great business is in the threads of Relationship Marketing being skillfully woven in to every facet.
You are indeed a marketing ninja Marisa.
You are an inspiration as a coach and mentor.
You are an inspiration as someone who wears goofy headwear!
You are an inspiration as I continue to pivot toward my best niche.
You are an inspiration as I iterate my way to awesome as I lead my "Relationship Marketing Revolution"
Going through EPM really confirmed + clarified my desire to soon get involved in bringing some one on one + one to few coaching to the market, and I am at peace with my decision to allow more preparation time before coming out with an actual product offer.
I learned a lot more about what goes into the creation of a successful program or business. I realized that my style of learning and preparation gets me to want to study from several well-known teachers what is going on in my field of interest, so I chose to give myself more time. It was a great inspiration to see how Marisa delivered EPM + I also enjoyed discovering the I'm Powerful coaches (I have gotten some online courses with many of them: CM, BD, BB, DR, NL)!
In a nutshell, my biggest takeaway is that EPM has confirmed and 10x my commitment to study and prepare to get involved in some form of coaching + teaching in the months and years to come!
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
The importance to focus on a specific mission.
How did EPM help you become successful?
I got a specific offer/product in place.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
I've got more confidence, and am taking the first important steps to move my future in a new direction.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
Before I was procrastinating about putting together an offer that would take my business into a new direction. Thanks to EPM I have taken the first steps to transcending my business career.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product? Experience a new future for myself, where my revenues comes from activities I'm more happy about doing.
Since 1963, as a young boy, I was astonished of the NATURE CYCLE OF LIFE, and I take this to the next step by establishing a FIELD SCHOOL, at the dead sea in Israel. Later as an industrial engineer, I started to consult with Industry and municipalities in environmental subjects, especially in solid waste and transforming it to clean energy..(electricity and synthetic fuels ).
The EPM brought me to combine the two subjects and to look for the way to enlarge the activity for better environment and income.
I want to build a global community based on economic benefit while environmental keeping..
It will be my donation for the better life to all of us.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
The intensive study of product accomplishes in the digital format.
How did EPM help you become successful?
It keeps me on the right direction without to leave it.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
Not yet, maybe in the future.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
There was no change, it took all my time during the last 10 weeks. Before I was busy with marketing my consulting services, after I am busy with EPM full time, but without any results, yet.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
I love the target , but less they to it.
Is there anything else you would like to add?
Yes, your program is excellent and well established, but your service is poor. I send more than 5 emails with questions without any single answer.