Ka Ching!????Made my FIRST SALE! I’m offering my BRAND NEW $597 3-month program for half price in exchange for a testimony at the end of the program. I have six spots left at $297 to hit MA. Add’l Discovery sessions booked tomorrow, Monday, and Tuesday. May not cash in by Monday but gonna try! ???? Getting Great response putting out phone calls to some of my favorite clients.
My Breakthrough: for the first time, I’m charging not for a RETAIL PRODUCT, but for my TIME!
Celebrating my first $497 sale for my 4 week program "Blue Moon Manifestors- Make 2018 your most magical year YET!"
I sent my copy I wrote to my VA to create the website page and get it on there, and she replied, "Save one of those 10 spots for me...how can I say no to this?"
You really can make sales EVERYwhere!
Today was the last day of my BETA offer and I made my VERY first sale at 7pm!!! It's $297, not M.A. but I'm sooooo excited about it :) My email list is very small - mostly my friends. I did 4 free sessions this week - 2 were friends and 2 were friends of friends. The sale came from a friend of a friend who I'd never met and at the end of our free session she told me she couldn't go through with it financially....so I'd given up on her.
I was actually feeling okay whether I hit M.A. or not since I got good practice and I could see possibility in future. So this was a pleasant surprise. I didn't realize we still have until Feb 12 so I might come up with another way to bring in more clients. Even one sale, converted from a free session gives me confidence since this is my very first time delivering. Very grateful <3
I’m at MISSION ACCOMPLISHED just on Chatterbox alone! Which is good, because I vapor locked on the creative marketing pieces. I have the artist client who’s bartering two classes with me ($680) – and I’ve been a student of his for 5 years so this is REALLY valuable to me. Four students for my beta tech class ($97 each) – 6 weeks over the shoulder website building, weekly group Q&A. One small business that’s hired me to teach their employee how to deal with the technology they have, help them finish their website and to do a little tech writing on the side (establishing templates they can use) for $997 for six weeks work (one day onsite a week). Yay! Love this Masterclass. Thank you everyone for all the help and encouragement!
Holy cow. For two years I'd been trying to create a group program to leverage my copywriting business. TWO years! I spent so much time trying to figure it out, getting lost in the little details, keeping fingers crossed I'd pull off a masterpiece. I had my head stuck in product creation mode and never really got anywhere with it. Sure a handful of students who loved it, but that's it. Meanwhile, my copywriting business was languishing because of my devotion to creating my program. It was getting a bit hairy. Ugh.
I absolutely believed I was capable of creating something great but how? HOW?! It was making me nuts. I wanted this sooo bad! I could see it and taste it! I knew emphatically offering a one-to-few program was the right path. But OMG I couldn't make the connections. I couldn't make my promise clear. I couldn't infuse it with excitement. I couldn't get any buzz. All this, despite having invested hundreds and hundreds of hours (I don't dare examine THAT # too carefully). No liftoff. Meanwhile, I'd been putting tons of effort into learning marketing tactics to rev up my business, hoping that in the meanwhile, the clarity would come for my program. That somehow, the stars would line up and I'd have a winner.
Sigh.
When I Marisa's Experience Product Masterclass come into my inbox...everything dropped into place. Well, after getting over the inital fears. I'd been in several other programs with other top experts--and little to show for it. EPM looked so good but really?!?? Could I finally do it? And ahhhhghhh, another $2,000? What if I flatlined with this too? So I waited and waited. Spoke with an enrollment coach. Then jumped.
It was the lifechanging program I hoped for.
THE BEST experience, most valuable and incredible implementation, the most over the moon happy, firehose, action-taking program I've ever taken. Ever. Undergrad, grad school, corporate banking training, other big guru programs and masterminds....nope. They can't compare.
Within the first two weeks I got my first client for my Best Clients Ever program! Then two more! AND, using the sales bonus training, a $5,000 VIP website writing client, which builds on the foundation of my program!!
I got the COMPLETE program creation and marketing training I needed. Plus the encouragement--from Marisa and the FB group--that have set me up for a life-changing, kickass year. Moreover, as a copywriter since 2010 and before that, helping start-ups to Fortune 500 corporate clients access funding they needed to grow and thrive--I've spent my entire career doing research, organizing ideas and, through the written word, shaping vision, desire, values, expertise, energy, passion and personality into story. Into a transformative piece with the goal of helping the reader--whether a credit committee or ideal clients--transform their feelings, their thinking. And come aboard.
Having done EPM, I can say it's a masterpiece. Every step has been fun, filled with uplifting energy, beautifully organized (how that sings out to me!!), encouraging, and absolutely doable. For ten weeks I felt like a kid given the keys to the castle--and every treasure box ;)
And there's still so much to unpack and enjoy and revisit. It's truly the gift that keeps on giving.
Thank you so, so much, Marisa, for changing my world this year and always. xoxo"
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
How EXCITING my program can be! How FUN!!! And that I can create this!!! I'm so over the moon about creating a program people will love. It's not enough for me to put all my effort into marketing and selling my program, I want the experience to be WILD and WONDERFUL!!! I want people to say THAT’S THE BEST THING I EVER DID!! And I feel SO confident because of EPM that I've achieved that! AND that I'll continue to evolve my program and make it better and better. AND having my mission and "You know when..." as the foundation of my chatterbox conversations. HUGE for me.
How did EPM help you become successful?
BIG leap in confidence about what I was offering and that it's valuable and exciting. This is the only way I can go all out in marketing and selling it! Being so On Fire about it!! And that I'm so CLEAR about what I'm offering. Over the ten weeks, my program has really evolved AND jelled into something remarkable. People are really excited about it!
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
I've been wanting to do this, create a group program, for three years now. I've always had a central idea (help entrepreneurs write their own website), but through a series of fortunate events, that idea evolved into Best Clients Ever. It's so much more fun for me! And solves a much more "immediately accessible" urgent problem for people--attracting clients they love. This is the foundatinal work for my website program, so (wow!) people can graduate to that as a next step. Because of EPM, I can shape my business around this, my ONE thing, and GO FOR IT this year. Plus I have the toolbox of just right marketing techniques and understanding I need to market my program. I can keep it simple, stick to these , and build my momentum.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
Before EPM, I had an idea for my program, I had much of the stuff, but I didn't have a clear pathway. I was concerned that I would hustle to sell it and it might fall flat, or people might not finish it, or that it would simply be "ordinary". I was in a place of I didn't know what I didn't know. After EPM, I'm feeling 100% EXCITED and CONFIDENT and CLEAR about what I'm offering...and that I have a fun and valuable path for entrepreneurs to follow to their awesome. And that my program is solving a real need, as evidenced by students so eager to jump in.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
My beta program begins Valentine's Day! Eqipped with some awesome preliminary feedback (from my first student who started a little while ago), I'm really excited to go forth in this journey with my students, and uplevel again Big Time. And gain their testimonials to weave into my marketing. And build my confidence MORE. My intention is to bump the price of my program from $497 to $997 later this year. I'll be excited and ready to do that after my beta launch (in fact, my first student expected to pay $1,497!!)
Is there anything else you would like to add?
Marisa, this has been THE BEST experience, most valuable and incredible implementation, the most over the moon happy, firehose, action-taking program I've ever taken. Ever. Undergrad, grad school, corporate banking training, other big guru programs and masterminds....nope. I got the COMPLETE training and encouragement--from you and friends in the FB group--that have set me up for a life-changing, kickass year. As a copywriter since 2010 and before that, helping start-ups to Fortune 500 corporate clients access funding they needed to grow and thrive--I've spent my entire career doing research, organizing ideas and, through the written word, shaping vision, desire, values, expertise, energy, passion and personality into story. Into a transformative piece with the goal of helping the reader--whether a credit committee or ideal clients--transform their feelings, their thinking. And come aboard. EPM is a masterpiece. Every step has been fun, filled with uplifting energy, beautifully organized (how that sings out to me!!), encouraging, and absolutely doable. For ten weeks I felt like a kid given the keys to the castle--and every treasure box ;) And there's still so much to unpack and enjoy and revisit. Wow. It's truly the gift that keeps on giving. Thank you so, so much for changing my world this year and always. With love, Michele xoxo
Once Upon a Time, There was a little girl that dreamed about making a difference. She wanted everyone to be happy, fulfilled safe and living in harmony with each other and this included animals and people. But she did not know how, she did not fully understand why and she certainly thought she did not have the resources of time, money or team or even influence to do this. She longed for Fairy Godmothers and Princes Charming, but none showed up. Or maybe they did, but she failed to recognize them because she was unaware of their presence.
Well, Life happened along the way and brought valuable lessons and experiences, and from this stormy time she realized she needed to start her own business so she could step into her Purpose driven by her DNA. Again, Fairy Godmothers and Princes were very conspicuous by their absence.
And then with the help of some coaches and valuable mentors (and she had begun to discern who could be trusted and led by example) she began to learn that she was the Fairy Godmother and the Princess Charming all rolled into One. So she began to wave her magic wand and behold! She landed into a world of hope, of teachers that appeared in droves , to take her by the hand and tell her, The time is Now to make that difference you were born to make. The whispers grew loud, until finally...she jumped!
That little girl was and still is ...Me. I decided I would start where I was and in my employed career as a Project Director, I had earned credibility for working with international multi-skilled professionals across different cultures/languages and time zones and one of my Superpowers being Humour and Compassion, was quickly able to bring harmony and Efficiency to any team I was a part of. Still, I was constrained to the work arena of the company I was employed with. I need to take a bigger Leap of Faith and launch my service into the world, to a larger audience.
I started with teams I volunteered with, world changers, cross country teams unified by a common mission...to make a difference to the world we live in. I realized that to achieve anything of significance we need a team (we can only go so far by ourselves and through our own efforts)
Soon it was time to launch a paid program, My Team Optimization System. Because a team can only function as well as the sum of all its parts and when you are on the team, you cannot see what is and isn't working. (It is like the saying goes, "You cannot see the picture when you are in the frame").
That's where I come in...as an external to the organization team coach, I have been called "the People Whisperer" or the "Team Whisperer" because I can help the team understand the gaps between where they are and where they want to be and help them define, align and implement their goals, shepherding them towards their dream Team and Outstanding results.
But where to Start? How do I reach the people who needed to hear my message? Would I succeed at playing my part with my life and gifts to make a difference? I was paralyzed by fear and the seeming impossibility of it all!
Until I met Marisa and signed up for the Experience Product Masterclass.
I learned that the First step we take towards clarity and bringing our Message to Life is to overcome Inaction and we can only do this if we are willing to Fail. It's Ok. We can iterate our way to awesome. But we can only do this if we start and make a few mistakes. I mean even God made Man first, before He got it right and made Woman! (No offence intended, gentlemen, but just saying!)
Also I tended to get paralyzed by the technical know how I thought I lacked and needed to launch my product. How wrong i was. We already have the skills we need, and the rest can be learned. We don't bring our Message to Life because we are uncertain and afraid.
Once I got past that I started speaking to everyone I met over Christmas and at Pre-Christmas parties where everyone thinks no business is going to happen. Wrong again! (Happily so)
My first client signed up from a conversation started at a Christmas party, followed by a small workshop which led to a biggish 3 month contract.
My second client also came from a connection made just prior to leaving on a short Christmas break... I might not have got that sale had I not followed up, upon my return. And my third client (still under discussion) is coming from a referral from the first one. And that's how we gather momentum.
This Little Girl is seeing her dream come true, of aligning teams to make a bigger difference wherever our path takes us. Wishing the very same for you, dear Reader! Because the Fairy Godmother and the Magic Wand...is You!
As a naturopath and mind-body practitioner in private practice for over 16 years I was struggling with burnout from delivering a 1-on-1 service. I had tried several times to create an online program to create leverage in my business so that I had more time and location freedom. The frustration was that each time I created a new program I would only get a few people register and then would have to create and deliver a program for the. This was very time consuming and just created more stress for me. Joining EPM allowed me to get way more clarity about my program offer (mission), how to create marketing content that spoke to my potential clients frustration and pain. And clear marketing strategies to help me get the clients.
The result was that I enrolled 9 brand new clients into my beta 1:few program totalling over $8,000 AUD in product sales. The really exciting thing is my biggest take away from doing EPM is that I may not get the result I want the first time I deliver the program and that is ok. In the past I would give up after the first attempt. My first intake of my Holistic Weight Loss Masterclass has well and truly given me a proof on concept and I'm so excited to see the results as I continue to role out new intakes of the program in the future.
Thanks Marisa for creating such a complete program from program concept, marketing and delivery. No other program I have purchased in the past has covered everything you need to be successful. THANK YOU
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
Creating a mission statement and future vision really helped me to be specific in what I was going to help people to achieve. Letting go of doing things perfectly the first time. I fell short of my goal and was really beating myself up, then I realized what I had actually achieved through the 10 weeks was huge. This is only the first time marketing this program and I can see that overtime I will be able to enroll many people into it. I have just started delivering my EP and really need to focus much attention to this now that I've finished marketing the program. Although I have 1 more email to send out, final registration closes in 6 hours. :-)
How did EPM help you become successful?
Gained lots of clarity for marketing communication. I made the decision to run my program at a beta price point. They actually only paid for the physical products required over the 3 months (supplements). Once the program is finished I will decide if I continue the same way (hoping that I will have created long term product users and will still make money from them in the future and ongoing). Or I may add an actual program fee also. Before EPM I would never have considered only charging for products.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
Hopefully I have created something that is easy to scale and leverage. More location and time freedom
What has been the biggest change in your business?
Previously when I had created group programs I would only have 2-3 participants and would end up having to create an entire program without making any money. Whilst this time I haven't made a profit I had 9 full registrations as well as another couple people who were already product users join the program and purchase more products. Plus this program will lead to ongoing product sales with the participants even after the 3 months finishes. Rather than just a 1 off sale
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
Fine tuning creating the experiences within the delivery of the program so that people get the results and then recommend to their friends and family.
Is there anything else you would like to add?
Thank you for such an inclusive program. All the pieces that I needed to do this were included which I've NEVER received in previous programs. And I've done a lot of them.
Over the last couple of years I had a combo of fear of failure and perfectionism stopping me from taking the leap to launch my first online program.
Marisa and EMP inspired and empowered me to just go for it. As a result, in less then 10 weeks, I've launched my first online program with 91 people, made $8827 and I'm having a positive impact in all of my participants lives!
How did EPM help you become successful?
Making my product experiential, having a time line for completion and our weekly coaching calls all contributed to my program becoming successful.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
EPM and the success of my first ever online program has empowered me to believe that I have what it takes to be a successful online marketer and to have huge positive impact in the world.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
Before EPM I was procrastinating launching my first online program, because I had a combo of fear of failure and perfectionism stopping me. Marisa and EMP inspired me to just take the leap and go for it. Now in less then 10 weeks I launched my first online program with 91 people, made $8827 and I'm excited that I'm having a positive impact in all of my participant's lives!
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
I am excited to have broken though the inertia that I felt over the last couple of years that stopped me from taking the risk to launch any programs. I'm also excited to keep making a positive impact in the people that have registered in this program and to use everything that EPM has taught me and launch more programs in the future.
Is there anything else you would like to add?
I'm super grateful to Marisa and EPM for giving me the tools I needed to reach mission accomplished and launch my first ever online program, enrolling 91 participants and making almost $9,000 in less then 10 weeks!
I have spent years taking LOTS of internet marketing, sales, course-building, copywriting, you-name-it courses, from big names and no names and everything in-between, and while I’ve gotten nuggets here and there, I never felt like I had the roadmap to the big picture. You were either up in the ether “be a 7 figure authority” (how?) or down in the weeds “do some content marketing to build authority” (but then what?)
EPM is the first and only program I’ve taken which takes you from wherever you are at – YOUR starting point, whatever that may be – and shows you an explicit roadmap to achieve your goals.
I have struggled for years trying to explain what I do, generate leads, make sales and build a business I can sustain. Ever since completing the Iditarod Sled Dog Race to celebrate my 50th birthday, I have known that the dogs have taught me far more than I taught them, and that my mission was to figure out how to share that with other people. I have had so many false starts with all the other programs I have joined - it’s been frustrating and expensive (time, money and health-wise). I tried EVERYTHING, from freebies to monthly membership programs to $15k mentorship programs…nothing helped me crack the code.
Until EPM.
Marisa’s program, with Coach Samara’s support, has been so refreshing and revealing. Some of the items were very basic on first glance, but I plugged through them as though I had never been trying to develop a product before, and the results were revolutionary. Clarity and specificity I’d never had before. Support and guidance that gave me what I needed, when I needed it.
The big reveal for me came 7 weeks into the program, as I realized through feedback from Marisa, the coaches and the Facebook group that my approach to my offering was confusing (to everyone except me), and once I realized that, it required a pretty massive pivot and redo in order to bring everything in line with my new direction and positioning. I am beyond grateful that happened during the program, otherwise I’m pretty sure I would have continued to struggle as I had been for years, until I utterly ran out of time, energy and money.
Thus EPM has given me the gift of clarity and focus, and the tools to fully implement that. Right after my big reveal I fractured my spine, so my EPM development energy has been redirected into healing for the last few weeks of the course. But that really doesn’t matter – it doesn’t change the trajectory and clarity I’ve gained. Can’t thank Marisa, Coach Samara, and the entire EPM community enough for that! I am truly excited to see where this all goes and how my life, business and impact will be so much different by the end of 2018.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
Be clear on THIS step, finish, then focus on and get clear on the very next step. Step by step gets er done. Multi-tasking is a myth, lol.
How did EPM help you become successful?
EPM is the first and only program I’ve taken which takes you from wherever you are at – YOUR starting point, whatever that may be – and shows you an explicit roadmap to achieve your goals.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
Clarity = confidence, enthusiasm, focus. EPM is ensure I am successful, and can live my mission, because following the program does not allow for distractions. Iterating your way to awesome works in all aspects of life!
What has been the biggest change in your business?
Before I spent lots of money and time and had nothing to show for it. Kept going round and round the hamster wheel without any progress. NOW I know I have the clarity to iterate my way to awesome, and serve those I was meant to serve.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
Building a vibrant community of those I was meant to serve. Sharing the lessons from the dogs to help drive positive leadership changes so desparately needed in this world.
I knew I wanted to use my unique gifts as an artist and a teacher to help other artists find their authentic voice so they can share their art with the world wholeheartedly—but I was stuck in thinking within the narrow confines of what I’ve already done as a university teacher. I knew I wanted to start a business, but never having done this before, I was simply floating around the internet trying to understand how to go about it.
EPM helped me understand how to create an inspiring, impactful and successful product. But I also learned the much deeper lesson that when you create something that helps people transform their lives, your life transforms too.
I’m on a mission to help artists quiet all the external noise so they can step up into their power and make art that comes from their soul. In the process, I learned how to claim my own empowerment. Moving forward, I’m eager to discover how I can serve even more deeply, so that I can help others unleash their creative gifts, and help them manifest the vision of what they want to create in the world.
How did EPM help you become successful?
By continually reinforcing a success mindset, and by giving me a comprehensive set of tools to understand how much my own success is a product of my own energy and effort.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
It's really helped me rewire my thinking about how I show up in the world. It's helped me understand my true value and how I can claim it, and how deeply serving others is the true path to creating the changes I desire in my own life.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
Um, the fact that I AM in business! (This is my first entrepreneurial adventure!)
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
I'm excited by what I'll learn from delivering it. I know what I learn will be invaluable in helping me determine the next best steps for new products to add to my customer journey.
Is there anything else you would like to add?
But my biggest, most humongous, ginormous takeaway is that I now know that I can serve and inspire in a much more empowered and empowering way after witnessing Marisa do it with us for 10 weeks. She truly lives her message in everything she does and it's so evident in the way she shows up in the world. I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to learn how to be in the world from such a beautiful, inspired and inspiring human being.