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!
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.
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.
EPM came along at the perfect time. My wife and I knew that we wanted to create something different--something far more engaging and effective than most of the programs we'd purchased over the last couple years. We'd already spent weeks trying to figure out how to move forward with our ideas, but we didn't know where to focus our energy.
We had a niche in mind and a product idea, but it was just raw concepts. I knew that without external direction and guidance we'd probably just stay stuck in the brainstorming phase. I had some vague ideas of all the things that had to happen to bring a coaching program to market, but I had no idea what do do next. We were spinning our wheels and it was clear we needed some help if we were ever going to get this thing off the ground.
Although I'd become jaded to all the marketing hype and programs for sale out there, as soon as I saw what Marisa was offering it was clear that Experience Product Masterclass was the way to go. It was like she read my mind and had created a program just for me. Pretty wild!
Going through EPM gave me the exact steps I needed to quickly gel my ideas into something coherent and compelling. It cleared the fog and helped us understand what we should be doing (and not doing) at each step in the journey. This helped us relax into the process and focus our energy where it was most useful. Now I know how to take any idea I have in the future and bring it into existence without wasting tons of time and energy.
EPM helped us move forward quickly and decisively with our product idea. Marisa took the stress out of what to do next and created a clear and fun path to progress from product idea all the way to marketing and selling. I enjoyed the ride and had a few breakthroughs along the way. The momentum we gained through the early part of the program carried me forward when I ran up against resistance to reaching out to potential clients. Now that I've had the experience of getting out there and talking to people about my product and ideas I feel like it's no big deal.
Marisa really is brilliant--her intelligence and creativity shine through every aspect of this experience. She has given us a powerful example of how to serve and create the ultimate experience for our clients.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
It's better to get something done "good enough", move forward, test it with your audience, and adjust rather than try to guess and get things perfect from the beginning. If you don't get feedback from real people then you could spend a lot of time and energy building something really cool that no one wants to buy.
How did EPM help you become successful?
EPM helped coax me out of my comfort zone and start connecting with other people in my niche. I was able to meet other influencers in my space and learn valuable insights about how to better serve my audience. I made some new friends and am now collaborating with one of them.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
EPM helped me move forward quickly and decisively with my product idea. Marisa took the stress out of what to do next and created a clear and fun path to progress from product idea all the way to marketing and selling. I enjoyed the ride and had a few breakthroughs along the way. The momentum I gained through the early part of the program carried me forward when I ran up against resistance to reaching out to potential clients. Now that I've had the experience of getting out there and talking to people about my product and ideas I feel like it's no big deal. Marisa really is brilliant--so smart and creative. She's given us a powerful example of how to serve and create the ultimate experience for our clients.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
Before EPM I had a niche in mind and a product idea, but it was just raw concepts. I knew that without external direction and guidance I'd probably just stay stuck in the brainstorming phase. I had some vague ideas of all the things that had to happen to bring a coaching program to market, but I had no idea what do do next. Going through EPM gave me the exact steps I needed to quickly gel my ideas into something coherent and compelling. It cleared the fog and helped me understand what I should be doing (and not doing) at each step in the journey. This helped me relax into the process and focus my energy where it was most useful. Now I know how to take any idea I have in the future and bring it into existence without wasting tons of time and energy.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
What I'm most excited about moving forward with my experience product is being able to use Marisa's methods to stack the deck in my clients' favor for maximum success and enjoyment of the process. I'm looking forward to watching my clients' confidence grow while having an amazing time on their way to achieving their goals.
Seriously improved my teaching style. Loved every lesson. I know I will go onto do a million dollars this year. I was slow to release as after learning how to teach better I started re recording a lot of my lessons. Absolute life changing course. Thankyou!
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
Techniques for how to price and market my product. What questions to ask when developing product.
How did EPM help you become successful?
As above. Staying motivated. Go to help from facebook groups.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
A bit early to tell. Improved my confidence and dialled in my direction.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
To create a product out of nowhere.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
That now I have the tools to use for more product creation.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
Putting things together. Better structuring of the development of the product
How did EPM help you become successful?
Finally setting up an online product, not selling hours
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
Moving closer to my overall plans of being self sustained
What has been the biggest change in your business?
Finally creating a product to sell. As opposed to consultancy and scientific research
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
Developing more products to enhance each product.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
I have learnt that I should allow my customers to provide input while I'm developing the product. The community I intend to serve know what they struggle with and help they need. I now have tools through EPM to understand the pain points of my customer base.
How did EPM help you become successful?
I have not reached mission accomplished but have confidence that it is only a matter of time when this will happen. I am implementing what I've learnt and will soon share my successes.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
I have an expectation that I will succeed and the guess work is out.
What has been the biggest change in your business?
I'm still a start up but I know that if I follow the blue print provided by EPM, success will follow.
What are you most excited about moving forward with your Experience Product?
I have a track to run on and I have success stories from my fellow that I can draw from. I have also first hand knowledge and experience on how to connect with the people you serve.