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Or you may have said, I'll focus on visibility once this launches behind me, or once this busy season is behind me, or once my kid gets married or whatever you have going on. I'll focus on that later. Right. Let me know if any of you have said anything like this. When it comes to growing your audience, audience growth tends to be something that is like a someday project for people where they're like, I don't really know how to do that, so let me just go do other things in my business, and hopefully, hopefully people will just kind of come find me. And hopefully I'll sort of stumble upon something that grows my audience. Right. Yeah, I have delegated that and no longer have. Oh, is anybody else having audio issues? Let me know. Can you guys confirm that you can hear me? Okay. Somebody was saying that they are having audio issues. I just want to make sure that's not me. You can hear me. Okay, good, good. Okay, thank you. Just want to make sure. Thank you. Oh, resolve. Okay, thanks. Yeah, Jill said, I have delegated that and no longer have any idea how it's going. Yeah. So that's. The other thing is, like, even having a handle on. On how this is going. Right. So be honest. Does this sound familiar? Any. Any of these pieces? Growing your audience has been on your to do list for months, maybe even years. You haven't been happy with growing your audience with how that's going. You tell yourself you'll focus on it after. Fill in the blank, this next launch, after things slow down, after you get organized, but then after never actually comes. Okay. You might be so focused on serving current clients and running your launches or selling that you've completely lost track of filling the top of the funnel. I see this all the time where people are just launching and launching and launching, but when I ask them, what are you doing to meaningfully grow your new faces? Most people cannot answer that question. So if you have a good system for that, if you were like, no, we are Filling the top of our funnel. Tell me in the chat, because it's pretty unusual. Then when enrollment opens, you're launching and selling, but mostly to the same people, which is fine. Like, sometimes it takes a long people a long time to convert. Nothing wrong with marketing to the same people over time. But you also need to be adding to the top of the funnel as well, and it might be feeling harder every round to meet your goal. That's something that a lot of people have shared with me in terms of their own businesses. So if you relate to this, it's not a discipline problem. This isn't something that you like. Oh, I keep saying I'll do it and then I'm not doing it. That's not what's going wrong at all. You're probably just don't have the right approach to growing your audience. And so that's what we're going to fix today. So let me ask you. I need you all to tell me to weigh in on the chat here. Who here would say that client work is your favorite thing to do in your business? Do you wish that just serving clients would bring in more sales, like, kind of automatically? Would that be really cool for you? Jill says yes. With, like a million exclamation points. Yeah. Julia says yes. And even though I've grown my visibility a ton, I have not gotten them into sales, only into social media followings. Exactly. So, yeah, Julia says that would be awesome. Yes. This happens a lot where we. That's why it's a myth and kind of like a misconception to think, like, if I just grew my audience, my sales would automatically get better. But we see this all the time. I've worked with many clients who who have, like, actually quite a large following, but they cannot figure out how to convert or convert well. So it is not enough to just have a big audience. Okay. Like, then they arrive and it's like, what's actually happening from there? Okay. So a bunch of you are like, yes, this is me. Yeah. So a lot of people tell me this because many of you are what I would call experts or practitioners or healers or, you know, people who are just like, you love your craft, you love what you do. You know, you could help people on your subject matter. And you're like, wouldn't it just be like, I just wish I could just work with my clients and that I didn't have to, like, spend all of this extra time trying to figure out how to sell. If I could just be in my corner with my clients, that would Be the best. A lot of people do tell me that. So if that's you, you're definitely not alone. But this is going to be really good news. If your answer was yes, what if attracting a new audience was not actually separate from your client work? What if it. This is one of the first, like, problems we need to blast through is a lot of you are seeing client work over here and selling and marketing over here. Very disparate to kind of separate things. But what I want to ask you is what if you considered that attracting a new audience could be a natural extension of your client work? Okay, here's the great news. The answer to audience growth is already happening inside your business. Okay? Most people think audience growth means going out there, wherever out there is and finding new people. But. But the most powerful growth engine you have is already running, and it's happening inside the work that you're already doing with your clients. Isn't that exciting. You're already doing the work. You're rendering services, you're coaching, you're helping people. You're fulfilling your agreements, and you are actually going to be able to tap into that much better to create audience growth. So let's talk about how we're going to do that right now, inside your offer, inside. If you have clients, people are having breakthroughs, right? Results are being created. Stories are unfolding in real time. Like, good stuff is happening, right? And most business owners let every single one of those moments evaporate completely. Okay? So you might be somebody who's serving beautifully. And I find that, like, a lot of times, the more talented you are, the more this is true. But you're doing it pretty silently behind the scenes. And the busier you get with your clients, the more silent you are, just kind of on the back end of your business. Okay? Another thing that happens is lots of results are being created in your program or with your offer, but you're not really tracking it or you're not really clocking it. And so it's kind of happening without you even realizing it or. Or maybe just even realizing the extent of it, right? And so I see this all the time, especially in really advanced businesses, where it's like every single time a client has a breakthrough, a result, a success story is a golden sales and marketing opportunity. And most people let it completely dissolve because you're busy, or maybe you don't know how to harness it, or, you know, you just kind of are like, yay, clap for. Clap for that person, and then you kind of move on. That's what we're going to fix today. So I want to introduce you to my concept that I have called the client growth flywheel. This is where we are going to put sales and marketing together with your client delivery. They are actually part of one system and they feed each other. So let's talk about it. Let's say you launch, okay? You enroll clients into your offer. You go out there and sell. You do a buzz blitz launch. You. Or you just, you know, go do some kind of sales campaign, and you enroll clients into your offer. Cool. It's a group program. It's one on one. It honestly doesn't matter. You enroll clients into your offer. Okay. Then of course you're going to serve them. You're good at this part. You're great at this part. You do your best work and you stay really close to their journey. Okay? Now here comes the part where most people miss is the third step we're going to talk a lot about is mine. You're mining, like, gold mining. You want to capture results and wins as they happen, not later. How many of you all are like, oh, shoot, this client's graduating. I better get a testimonial, right? Or, oh, yeah, that person's off boarding. Like, I wonder if they'd write me a review. That's how most people do it. Would you agree? That's how most people do it. But it's wrong, okay? It's wrong and it's missing a huge, huge, huge opportunity to capture stories when they're actually fresh and exciting. So that's what we're going to talk about. Number four is showcasing. So you want to be sharing stories that build belief and new people. So. So if you watched day three yesterday, predictable launches. We talked all about the window of possibility and creating belief. One way you can do that is by showing what is possible from your previous clients. And I have a podcast episode too, if you want to hear more about this. It's called possibilities over promises. It's never about promising. So and so lost £80. And you can, too. It's more, especially the more you showcase. And you'll showcase very different results. Right? Like, if you're a health coach, this person lost 80 pounds. This person has an energy surge. This person put their Crohn's disease into remission. Right? None of those are promises, but it is creating this, like, beautiful tapestry of possibility. And when you create a tapestry of possibility, it creates incredible belief for people because they're like, huh, I wonder what would happen for me. I wonder if what would happen for me If I worked with her, that is exactly what new belief sounds like. Okay. And we can do it by showcasing. Number five is attract. So the cool thing is when you have people in your audience who have been watching your success stories and taking in your case studies, they will arrive to your next event, to your next sales call, whatever the case may be. And they will already be warm. Okay. And then you go to launch again and you will have a bigger, warmer, more ready room. Okay. Does this make sense? New concept, brand new, never before taught here. It's been living up here and I talk to my clients about it all the time. But I'm curious what you guys think about this because it's actually a total game changer. Yeah. Yes. And I love it. Yeah. Exactly. Powerful mindset shift. Yep. And that's a good point too, Julia. You said group public following by 25,000 organically and 1,000 new email subscribers, but not really buyers. That's the other thing I want you all to be thinking about is it's not just about attracting a new audience. It's about attracting. It's about attracting buyers. Right. There's a huge difference. You can attract an audience of people who are just looky loos. Right. Who are just like, okay, that's cool. Versus how are we actually attracting new clients and new buyers? Yeah. Don't wait until the very end to ask for a testimonial. Huge. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. I'm going to do a post today about the program session we had yesterday. I never would have thought to do this. Isn't that so interesting? I hear that all the time. We're going to talk a lot more about that. But every single day in your business, there are moments that are happening. But behind the scenes, you are. Here's the thing. I never want you to forget this. After today, you are already doing the work. You are already spending your time and your energy and your brain cells. Why not use it in your marketing? Why not use it to create new clients? Okay. So let's talk more about this mining. Gold mining is the part that everybody skips. Okay? Your clients are getting results right now because you're good at what you do. I know you are. The question is, are you truly capturing the those results? Mining means staying close enough to your client's journey that you notice the moments worth sharing. So as an example, the week that somebody hits a milestone they didn't think was possible, we want to tell that story in the moment. Okay. The DM that says I have to tell you what happened. Right. The coaching Called breakthrough that had the whole room resonating. The first launch that worked, the first client enrolled, the first time something clicked. These are the types of moments that you're looking for. So the question for you to ask yourself, after every coaching call, after every, you know, if you're a website designer and you are turning over a new design, right, you want to ask yourself what just happened in that room that a future client needs to hear about today. It's so easy to do, right? You can be like, okay, I just hopped off a coaching call. And like, and you can make it totally anonymous, right? If you want, you can be like, and somebody asked a question about, you know, this moment that they screamed at their husband for not doing the dishes. And I want to talk about that, right? So that is content going back to content. Like, one of the things I tell my clients is you will never run out of content ever, ever, ever, if you use these client moments to fuel your future content. Okay? Okay. So this strategy, I want to introduce you to, this strategy that I call mine Shine and Sign. Okay? Mind Shine and sign. It's a three step strategy for exactly how to capture case studies. Okay? So the mind step is to extract the full story. So this, what I just was talking about is like inspiring content based off of what you're doing with your clients. What I'm really talking about right now is like collecting great testimonials. This is a question I get a lot from my clients. They're like, how do I get a case study? How do I get people to give me compelling stuff? I want you thinking about mind, Shine and sign. Okay? So when you're mining, you're like, oh my God, so and so just had a transformation. I want to capture it. Think about mining. You need to extract the full story, not just the win. Okay? Not just so and so, you know, drop 10 pounds. We want to actually extract their whole story in an interesting way. You need the details that make a future client think, that's me or wow, I resonate with that. Oh my gosh, that's so interesting, right? You, you're not just celebrating, you are capturing. Okay? And you need to be capturing in a format that creates belief for new people long after that moment has passed. Okay, so that's the mining step. The shining step is shining a spotlight. So then you shine a light on the story. Not just a vague, I'm so proud of my client. Right? That doesn't really do anything. You need a specific, vivid and believable account of a real transformation. Not generic not glossing over it. Details. Okay. We are nosy individuals. We want to know the good stuff. So you have to have a process for capturing that. Right? So this is where your clients result stops just living in your coaching relationship and starts living in your marketing. And then finally is sign. So this is where you're using it to sign new clients. Right? So the right story told the right way to the right audience does one thing, it makes your next client see themselves in your last client. So now we're back to the flywheel, right? And there's a complete step by step process for executing all three of these stages so that every client result becomes a case study that can live on your podcast, in your content, in video, on your sales page, and in your marketing for years. Okay, so mind Shine and Sign. This is new. I think it's. I mean to toot my own horn, I think it's kind of brilliant. I love mine Shine and Sign. Okay, so let's see this strategy in action because this is what we help our clients with and it's just game changing. So this is a life coach for working moms. This is Caitlin. I think I talked about Caitlin a little bit the other day, but I had to share the way that we did mine, Shine and Sign for Caitlin. So Caitlin, before being in SO GP was in a client drought. She had only signed two clients for the whole year. And she said that she was hiding behind confusion about her messaging and working too much on activities that didn't actually generate income. Back to our money making activities for Monday. Overall, she said she felt stagnant in her business. That was her word. So. So after. And she's still with us in SO gp. But her transformation today is she sold out her one on one coaching offer. That's where we started. She added her first group without having to do a launch. Then she hit her best goal in her first public launch and is now scaling an alumni group program that she's been working on. Okay, so I want to talk about how Mind, Shine and Sign filled Caitlin's offer because this was really cool. So after going from client drought to fully booked out one on one with a wait list, Caitlin was ready to put her first group program together. So here's exactly what happened. She pulled three people into her first small group and she did not have a launch to do it. Okay. She focused. This is, this is the key. She focused on getting 100% client results. She's like, I've got three clients, I'm going to knock it out of the park. With these three clients. Okay. And that is exactly what she did. 100% of the people in the program got their transformation. So she was able to send an email. What a killer subject line this is. In her first launch that said 100% client results. That was her subject line. Right. She used the Mind Shine and sign framework to capture compelling case studies. So we teach our clients, how do you get a case study? What are the questions to ask? How do you lay that out in a way that is actually interesting and compelling? Okay. And so she did that with all three of her group program participants. And then she. That was. Went onto her podcast and was in her marketing. Okay. So. So then when she did her first Buzz Blitz launch. Buzz Blitz is my framework for launching. I'm teaching it tomorrow. She exceeded her best goal for a new client. Sold. So documenting and sharing truly interesting and helpful client stories helps sell out her offer. And it also. This is the other thing. It makes you feel like a badass, right? When you see, like, when you hear your clients case studies. It's one of the number one things I do in my own launch. I. In fact, I have new client case studies on my podcast this week. And you go into a sales window or a launch being like, I. You remember yourself. You're like, I. Like, it's so easy. And I'm sure some of you, maybe many of you relate to this. Like, it's so easy to discount the value of our own service. You're like, am I even that good at this? Like, is this even worth it? Like, that's very normal to have those thoughts when you capture your case studies. It could put the little spring in your step. You're like, okay, this is awesome. Like, people are getting results. Like, I wanna. It makes you. It actually makes you wanna go out and sell more because you're like, hell yeah. Right? Kind of back to what we've been talking about all week of, like, what will make you wanna sell is remembering how much you're helping people. So every time I capture a case study, I'm like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. It's time for me to go sell my mastermind. Because I need more people to experience this. That helps me so much in my selling relationship. So you see how it's connected. Very, very connected. Yeah. So it bolstered her confidence about the work that she does in the world. Too many of you guys are not doing this, so you don't know how it's going with your clients. So you're like, am I. Is this is this even good? You need to have it for yourself as much as anything else. Okay, just another example. I actually love this example. This happened recently. My client, Melinda, her, she has programs about ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, which I think is so cool. She created client stories and use them to sell out a group program. So she does not have. Well, she has a podcast now. It's brand new. But when she did this, she didn't have a public podcast, but she'd been running her two group programs, one as a course and one is like a kind of more advanced program. And she had run them many times and she'd accumulated a lot of success stories. So she used Mindshine and Sign and worked with us to capture those client stories, put them on a pop up podcast, which was brilliant. And she put that podcast out into the world. During her recent launch, her client stories answered many of the most common objections. So this is the other thing is your client success stories become like a part of your sales team. Like they're like you by extension. Because she has stories, if somebody comes to her and is like, I don't think I have time to learn hieroglyphs, she's like, oh, I have a podcast about somebody who was able to do that even though they didn't have time, or somebody who feels like they're too old to learn. Oh, I have a podcast about somebody who thought that too, or I'm too young, or whatever the case may be. When you have a client story that addresses your key objections, it's so helpful. Right? Okay, before I go to the visibility roadshow, let me actually go back. I want to see you guys have put some things in the chat and questions. Yeah, you're different when you're feeling awesome. Absolutely. Yeah. You show up differently when you're feeling awesome. Okay, let me see about the what I have here in my Q A. When you share the testimonial, do you share the how? Great question. It's really not about the how. No, it's about like, it's really about telling a super compelling story. So it's. You have to have a good framework and a good system for getting people to tell you a story that is compelling. Because what happens. I learned this when I was becoming a podcaster. This is actually from the journalism world. When you ask people to tell you a story, most people give you a very generic, boring version. It's just like human nature. We kind of like, we skip. We skip stuff because we kind of feel like. Let me get to the point. But that's not what you want in your success stories. You want the details. You want the hard moments. You want the. You know, like when you watch a movie, there's like a cadence to it, right? So you want to be thinking about that. When you're capturing testimonials, do you give the client a form that asks the questions you want answered, or do you write it and ask them to edit? So we have a whole process for how we do this. I actually prefer. Prefer doing it with an interview, even if you don't have a podcast, Although I love putting it onto a podcast. But I actually am a big fan of recording my testimonials on Zoom because they can be disseminated into so many different places. You can put them on your podcast, you can put them in video, you can put them on your website. You can put it. Pull out their words, you can get the transcript, and then you. It's their words you can just take and kind of edit into a cohesive testimonial. So that's how we teach when we do mind shine and sign. That's how we teach our clients to do it. Because people, generally speaking, written testimonials respectfully, just are not that compelling. They just don't stand out the same way. Right. It's like, Christy was great, you know, and it's like that. Like, that's nice, but that doesn't tell the story of what actually happened. Okay. Okay, great questions. Keep them coming. Feel free to keep them coming. But we're also going to talk about another strategy. So that was really about using your client results and the current client work that you're doing to grow your audience. Now we're going to talk about. Just touch on a second strategy that I call the visibility roadshow. So with a visibility roadshow, you want to think about getting in front of new people on purpose. Okay, so the growth flywheel that I just taught you with those steps, right, that's your internal engine that turns client results into marketing. Right. But the flywheel really compounds when new people are finding you. So it still leaves us with the question, how are new people going to find us? Your client success stories can pull in new people, but what we really want to focus on is adding what I call a visibility roadshow. So with visibility roadshow, you want to think about having a quarterly system for getting in front of what we call borrowed audiences. So borrowed audiences is what it sounds like. It's an audience that's not yours. It's getting on somebody else's podcast, is presenting in front of Somebody else's audience. It's doing collaborations, right? Other people have eyeballs. You have a chance to tap into them. This has been for those of you who've been rocking with online business for a long time. We've been talking about this forever, and it is still the best way to grow. And so you want to think about how to get in front of more of those audiences. People who have never heard of you but are looking for exactly what you do are hiding in those other people's audiences. And having a visibility roadshow that you do quarterly will help you to do that in a strategic way. Because here's what makes it different than what most people try. Most of you have probably heard, yeah, go be, you know, go get on people's podcasts. Do collaborations. Okay? But here's the problem. Most people are doing it randomly or reactively. Okay? It's not. I should probably do a collab. A collab with somebody. Okay? That's not a visibility roadshow. It runs on a schedule. It's planned in advance. It's tied directly to your launch or your sales calendar, whatever you have coming up next. It is literally, I see it as, like, an extension of my launches is I need to be going on a visibility roadshow in between my selling periods. Okay? It's designed to bring warm and aligned people onto your bridge. Remember, we talked about the content to client bridge. You got to get people onto that bridge. And so you want to get people onto that bridge, ideally right before your enrollment opens. Okay? Most people have no system for this at all. They're like, oh, if I get on somebody's podcast, like, yay. Right? But you don't actually have a system or a process for repeating this in a quarterly way and having benchmarks that you are trying to hit every quarter to grow your audience. Okay? Most people wait for the opportunities to come to them. Oh, if somebody asked me to be on their podcast, I will, right? Or maybe I've seen this a lot, too. You try to burst into visibility mode. You're like, oh, shoot, I have a launch coming up. Or, oh, shoot, I. I want to sign more clients. And then you're trying at the last minute, and it's already too late. Okay? It has to be strategic. So all of this only works if the people that you attract have somewhere to go when they find you. Okay? So you see how it's all connected. It's just like what Julia was saying. You can bring a bunch of people into your world, but if you don't have a clear kind of like, this goes back to what we were talking about on day two. What is the bridge? If you bring a bunch of people to the. To the. The beginning of your bridge and then you have a broken bridge, they're all just falling off, right? So this is all very connected. And like I said, we talked about it on day two. When somebody discovers you through, for example, a podcast interview or a collaboration, the first thing they're going to do is go to your profile. Okay, no pressure, but you gotta be thinking about this. Somebody. I heard somebody say a while ago, and it really stuck with me that something like your Instagram profile, or for some of you, it's Facebook. For some of you, it's LinkedIn. That is like your online business card. Okay? Whenever I, like, hear about somebody or I hear a podcast, I'm like, wow, that person's great. The first thing I do is I go find them on Instagram. Right? Again, some of you, this is Facebook, depending on your audience. Some of you, this is LinkedIn. But you have to be thinking about, like, what. How are we creating a welcoming invitation? If I see this all the time, where clients of mine will be like, I just got on a huge podcast, huge opportunity, right? Hundreds of people are going to be listening to me, and I'm like, cool. So, like, where are we directing them? When they hear your episode, they're like, huh, I don't know. My website girl. No, that's not going to get it done, right? So many people are going to just fall right off. I'm curious if you guys have run into this. Most people don't really think about this. They're like, well, isn't that what my website is for? Not exactly. We kind of are right back to, how are we going to hook them into our world? What's the call to action? So you have to ask yourself, what are they going to find when they arrive? Okay, I would love to see client results and stories. Whoa. This person's experienced. This is not their first rodeo. I will tell you, some of you have been asking me this week, like, what's the deal with people's sales being down? And I've shared with you, there's a lot of reasons for that. People are using outdated strategies that don't work anymore. Buyers are being really discerning. They're absolutely buying, but they're doing more due diligence. One of the ways that they are using their discernment is client results. Nobody wants to be a trailblazer. Nobody wants to work with somebody who doesn't have Some kind of experience or some kind of credential or some something to substantiate your like, offer. Right. Back in 2020, you could be a cowboy who throws up an online course about the ukulele and you could sell it, but that's not the reality of where we're at. And I don't say that to be discouraging. You can have, I share, I've shared this with people privately, but myself and many of my clients had our strongest revenue years ever last year. In 2025, I had at least eight people in sold out group programs have their first ever six figure year last year. Okay. And that. So it's absolutely possible. But you have to understand that people are shopping with a, with more precision. They're like, you got me in 2020 when I bought your course about the ukulele. Right. Nothing wrong with ukulele, by the way, if you're, if you can show that people get results in your program. So that's what we have to be thinking about is what are the client results? What are the stories that are going to create belief and show that you're legit. Okay. You want to have a clear point of view that makes somebody say she gets it, he gets it, they get it. Right. And an obvious next step. So a podcast to binge, a wait list to join, a way for them to raise their hand and be in conversation with you. And so the flywheel and the visibility roadshow bring people to your door when you put these together. Okay, so here's a really simple way of thinking about it. Your clients can come from both directions. Our growth flywheel is all about shining a light on your current clients and on your success stories. So this will help you grow from the inside out. Right? You're taking what you're already doing in your business. You're telling stories about it, you're making it compelling and you're pushing it out to the world that's inside out. And then with visibility roadshow, we are working from the outside in. Okay. We're going out there into the world. By the way, networking events. Networking events would be another example for some of you. I have some clients who do like in person lunch and learns in person speaking. These would be examples of outside in. When you put the two together, you really have a comprehensive strategic plan. Plan for growing. And you will solve the problem of being like I keep saying I'm going to grow my audience, but I'm not really doing anything to meaningfully change my, my, my audience growth gap. Okay. When the Flywheel is turning, and the visibility roadshow is on your calendar doing its job. Here's what happens. Your client work feeds your marketing. Every result, breakthrough and win becomes a story that attracts your next client. Okay? So new people find you every month through those borrowed audiences. They're warm, aligned, and curious. Okay? Every launch goes out to a bigger and fresher room than your last one. Your audience gets to compound over time. Growth builds on growth, launch after launch. Okay? Serving your clients and growing your business are no longer two competing demands. This is the problem a lot of you are having is you're like, so busy working in your business, you're like, crap, I haven't marketed in six weeks. Right. You're seeing them as disparate when actually they're connected via the cycle. And so when you solve for all of this, you stop feeling like the best kept secret in your niche and start feeling like the obvious choice. How many of us want to feel like the obvious choice in our niche? Right. Okay. Yes. I think it's important. And just reposting what I sought or interviewed for attracts clients even just to repost. Absolutely. These are great reminders. Yeah. I go on people's pages all the time and can't. Thank you for saying this. I go on people's pages all the time and can't figure out what they do or how I might work with them. This is so great. Like, again, this is one of those examples of, like, we can't see our own. Like, we thank you, Julia. Julia said you really know what you're talking about. Steph, so impressed. Thanks. I've been doing this a long time. I appreciate you, but we really can't see our own blind spots. Right. It's like when you go to somebody else's page, you're like, what the heck? How do I work with them? I have to jump through 16 hoops. Forget it. Forget it. Right? Versus when it's our own stuff, we're like, oh, I'm not actually being that clear myself, but that's really instructive. When you have that experience as a buyer, clock that.