Your GRADUATION Story
As career consultants with a combined experience of over 60+ years, we wanted to take our content and create an online, do-it-yourself course by recycling it to a niche audience, thereby creating a residual retirement income with < 15 hrs/week work. I joined EPM and have worked full-time to follow the course milestones to achieve this goal and overcome our obstacles. As I complete Module 3 I recognize what a great contribution this course has made to our consulting methodologies, and we look forward to testing it in the first quarter of 2023. I have sold the course to 1 person that I have worked with 20 years ago: he needs this beta course now and not in 6 weeks so we are reordering our modules to meet his needs and testing our materials with him on a personal coaching call each week which we will charge the same price for ($5k) and in turn he will give us feedback on our materials. On our kickoff call we tested our most complicated business systems model with him and he understood it and liked it. Gave us the thumbs up! And so the beta begins!
Your PROVED MY IDEA Story
Our first sale is an unexpected pivot from our product. We are tailoring this to his immediate needs and it will either help us adapt our product course, OR it will help us create a 2nd course for a 1 off audience by swishing around our deliverables and adding more material as needed. Our 1 sale was more than $2500, per our original goal! We were having a problem figuring out how to chatterbox. I wasn't sure what to do but I told one of my former business partners what we were doing on EPM and as the CEO of a Family Business he asked us if we could start now. Of course, we said YES! So we flexed and are doing a 1:1 custom tailored beta version through weekly coaching calls. First call went great! He understood the complex model we tested on him and he loved it. That is when he asked us can we go ahead and start NOW.
Your MADE A WHOLE LOT MORE Story
Coach Melanie pushed back on us for the price we were initially going to charge (much less) and we raised the end product course to $10k, which means we can do the beta course at a 50% discount at $5k for the 12-week program... as a result, we didn't realize it at the time but we realized our goal of making back our investment with the first client. Looking forward to checking this off before Jan 30, 2023
What's been the biggest change in your business?
Having to use Social Media to chatter. finding cold clients on social media to chatter with. I'd really like to avoid SM if we can figure out how to sell it through another channel. For now, we'll try Linked In.
How's EPM and your success impacted your life?
It's been a great investment and value so far. Once we get through the beta and can launch this to achieve our objectives of a totally online course with residual income then we will call it a success. got us working together again
What's your biggest takeaway from EPM?
The power of coaching. As career executive business consultants and coaches ourselves for many years inside corporations, we never actually received or benefitted from coaching ourselves. The coaching support that Marisa has built into this course is a critical success factor and the most valuable part of EPM to us.
What's now possible for you because of your Experience Product?
We hope a residual income we can retire on. In addition, I plan to build another course in 2023, as well as add on a SELECTIVE business coaching offer somewhere in the $10k range where we limit the # of clients we'll deal with monthly to 3. We want to create a waiting list for coaching clients ultimately.
In 2023 I'm going to create a 2nd product. And I'd like to earn $14k by March in order to sign up for Momentum
Is there anything else you would like to add?
Coach Melanie made a big contribution and difference to us as a filter. Love her!