650. "I’m not sure which of my marketing strategies I should be focusing on- help!" | Coaching Session

Summary

Episode 650: "I’m not sure which of my marketing strategies I should be focusing on- help!" | Coaching Session

Release Date: December 26, 2024

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Introduction

In Episode 650 of The Product Boss Podcast, host Jacqueline Snyder sits down with Elise (also referred to as Chelsea) Moore, the creative mind behind Tosi Mom—a brand specializing in stylish, breathable, and versatile nursing covers designed to seamlessly blend with a mother's wardrobe. This coaching session delves deep into Elise's current marketing challenges and unveils strategic insights to propel her business forward.

Guest Introduction: Elise Moore of Tosi Mom

Elise founded Tosi Mom out of a personal need for a nursing cover that offered both functionality and style, providing her with the confidence to nurse in public comfortably. Since its inception in 2018, Tosi Mom has seen significant success, primarily through Amazon and Etsy, with Amazon accounting for a staggering 95% of sales. However, Elise faces uncertainty about which marketing strategies to prioritize to sustain and accelerate her business growth.

Current Business Overview

Elise shared her journey, highlighting the transition from in-person markets and Etsy to a predominantly Amazon-based sales model. Her best-selling products are the cream, black, and gray nursing covers, with the cream color leading at 66% of sales. Despite her success, Elise struggles with determining the most effective marketing channels to focus on, particularly whether to drive more traffic to her own website or continue leveraging Amazon.

Main Challenges: Choosing Marketing Strategies

Elise's primary concern revolves around optimizing her marketing efforts. She questions whether to channel her resources into enhancing her website's performance or to capitalize further on Amazon's robust platform. Additionally, she seeks ways to build engagement, foster community, and increase sales without spreading herself too thin across multiple channels.

Coaching Discussion

1. Leveraging Amazon as the Primary Sales Channel

Jacqueline emphasized the importance of doubling down on what’s already working. Since Amazon is the powerhouse driving the majority of Elise's sales, the recommendation is to scale her Amazon ads and optimize her presence on the platform.

• Quote: “[...] Amazon is going to give you the tools to showcase your products beautifully, manage inventory seamlessly and to connect with your customers around the world.” — Jacqueline Snyder [03:03]

2. Scaling Amazon Ads

Elise was encouraged to increase her ad spend on Amazon, especially during peak seasons, to further boost visibility and sales. Scaling ads can enhance product listing performance, driving more traffic and potentially increasing reviews.

• Quote: “If ads are working, put more money and it's like printing money. A dollar in, you get $4 out.” — Elise Moore [15:58]

3. Building and Leveraging Customer Reviews

Strengthening her review count on Amazon was identified as a crucial step. Positive reviews not only enhance credibility but also improve search rankings on the platform.

• Quote: “You could use backwards that people have used for you. So if you get reviews from people and they're saying I love it because of blah, blah, blah, use that language in your Marketing to say it back to customers.” — Elise Moore [09:53]

4. Utilizing Instagram and Email Marketing to Drive Amazon Traffic

Elise's substantial Instagram following (10,000 followers) and an email list of 1,800 subscribers present valuable assets. The strategy involves redirecting Instagram and email traffic to Amazon, thereby leveraging these platforms to funnel sales to the most profitable channel.

• Quote: “You have this really large following, but that's 7,200 potential leads right there that you could make up.” — Jacqueline Snyder [34:46]

5. Growing the Email List

Expanding her email list is pivotal for direct communication and future marketing endeavors. Offering valuable incentives, such as breastfeeding tips or customizable birth templates, can entice followers to subscribe.

• Quote: “Don't underestimate a list. Small, big, whatever it is. Like, don't underestimate it because also when your list is smaller, sometimes it's a higher engaged community.” — Elise Moore [15:19]

6. Content Strategy: Attract, Bond, Convert (ABCs of Marketing)

Elise was guided to adopt the ABCs of Marketing framework to structure her content:

• Attract: Create shareable, relatable, and engaging content that draws in potential customers.

• Bond: Develop content that builds trust and strengthens relationships with the audience.

• Convert: Produce content that directly encourages purchases, such as showcasing new products or special offers.

• Quote: “Attract content is the kind that you're, it's like a wide fishing net. [...] Bond is the reinforcer. Convert is new color now available on Amazon.” — Elise Moore [44:45]

7. Encouraging User-Generated Content and Community Building

Fostering a sense of community among customers by encouraging them to share their own experiences with Tosi Mom products can build trust and loyalty. This can be achieved through campaigns that invite customers to post their stories or tips.

• Quote: “If you have something that's shareable by like relatable and shareable by other product bosses.” — Jacqueline Snyder [44:45]

Key Takeaways and Action Plan

1. Focus on Amazon:

   • Scale Amazon ad campaigns.
   • Optimize product listings to enhance visibility and conversion rates.
   • Actively encourage and manage customer reviews to build credibility.

2. Leverage Existing Platforms:

   • Utilize Instagram to drive traffic directly to Amazon.
   • Expand the email list by offering valuable incentives and maintaining regular, engaging communication.

3. Optimize Content Strategy:

   • Implement the ABC framework to ensure a balanced mix of content that attracts, bonds with, and converts the audience.
   • Repost high-performing content during relevant seasonal events to maximize engagement.

4. Build Community:

   • Encourage user-generated content by creating campaigns that invite customers to share their experiences.
   • Focus on relatable and supportive messaging to resonate deeply with new and expecting mothers.

5. Gradual Expansion:

   • Once Amazon is fully optimized and generating consistent sales, consider strategizing the gradual shift of some traffic to the direct website.
   • Continuously analyze data to identify what works and replicate successful strategies across other channels.

Conclusion

This episode underscores the importance of focusing on successful sales channels and leveraging existing strengths to drive business growth. By concentrating on Amazon, optimizing ad spend, and effectively utilizing Instagram and email marketing, Elise can streamline her efforts towards scaling Tosi Mom into a thriving, multi-channel business. Additionally, developing a robust content strategy and fostering a supportive community will further solidify customer loyalty and trust.

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Remember: Success in product entrepreneurship isn't about juggling every possible marketing strategy but about identifying and doubling down on what truly works for your unique business model.

Transcript

[Jacqueline Snyder]

Hi, I'm Jacqueline Snyder and this is the Product Boss podcast. I've helped launch and grow thousands of product based businesses, even one of my own. And over the last 20 years, I've seen behind the scenes of businesses just like yours. Whether they are makers, manufacturers, artists, or food and beverage businesses. I have spent so many hours studying it all. I've discovered what makes them successful, what mistakes they could have avoided, how did they turn their ideas into successful business, and what are the strategies that they have used to make more sales and be discovered by more customers. And this is what this show is all about. Whether you're just starting out or you're looking to become a million dollar product boss, I'm here to give you the permission to chase your dreams, no matter how big or small. All you need is the right mindset, a little courage, strategy and support, and you too can be the next million dollar product boss.

[Elise]

Let's do this. Hey. Hey, product boss.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

Welcome back to another coaching session. And today I'm chatting with Elise and she is the owner of Tosi mom. Short for oxytocin, right? The love hormone that bonds a mother and her baby. What a cute, amazing name. So creative. Now Elise sells stylish, breathable and versatile nursing covers that blend in with your wardrobe. And I mean, they're so cute, I wish I had them when I was nursing. And she started her company based on her own need when she was preparing to become a mom because she couldn't find a nursing cover that she felt confident using to nurse in public. And so Chelsea mom was born. Now she's been having tons of success selling her product on Amazon and a little bit on Etsy as well. But she's having trouble figuring out which of her marketing strategies have been the most successful and where she can improve to continue building engagement, building community and making more sales in her business. Now, while Elise thinks her best option to achieving this is focusing on driving traffic to her own website, that might not be the case. So we're going to dig into that today in this coaching session. If you're ready, let's get started.

[Chelsea]

Hey.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

Hey, product boss, let me ask you a question. Have you ever felt like you're struggling and spinning your wheels trying to grow your business online? I know, I know it can be so frustrating. I went through it with my own.

[Elise]

Product based business and, and I know.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

That you're dealing with so much like managing inventory, to shipping, to making all your products, to creating, to marketing all the things.

[Elise]

Right.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

I know you're wearing all the hats and you're worried about so many different things. And I need to tell you something. Your website doesn't need to be another thing to worry about. So that's where Shopify comes in. Now listen, Shopify isn't just a website builder. When I started my business back in the day, I mean there were just website builders. No, Shopify is amazing. I wish I had it. It's our go to and and number one e commerce platform built to make running your product based business even easier. So whether you're selling handmade jewelry, organic skincare, delicious treats, you might be a manufacturer, you might. It doesn't matter what you're doing because this is the deal. Shopify is going to give you the.

[Elise]

Tools to showcase your products beautifully, to.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

Manage inventory seamlessly and to connect with your customers around the world. Because listen, customers need a good experience, right? It's all about the user experience. And that's why I'm so obsessed with Shopify, because you don't need the tech skills required to create this amazing seamless customer experience. So with features like automatic payment processing and one click checkout, Shopify will actually help you focus on scaling your business and not having to worry about all the techy things that come with building a site and a site that converts really well. So my friend, if you're ready to make selling your products online easier, you can grab your free trial of Shopify today@the productboss.com.com Shopify. That's the productboss.com Shopify. Now let's jump into the show.

[Elise]

So before we jump in, I'd love to know like in your words to tell me about your products, what you sell, what your best sellers are and where your main sales channels are. Okay.

[Chelsea]

Yeah, so I sell like a versatile, stylish nursing covers that can blend into your wardrobe. And I started like back in 2018 and it was mostly just on Etsy actually. Etsy and in person markets was what I was doing at the time. And then I was pregnant with my first daughter right when I started. Actually I think my first market she was maybe just like four weeks old. So and I just sort of noticed there was like a, a disconnect in the baby world of like taking care of the postpartum mom. So while I was like preparing to become a mom myself, I had noticed that, you know, sort of where that was falling short, which is kind of where this idea came from. Like I had no experience in breastfeeding obviously or even really with babies, but so yeah, I in shopping for things for myself, I saw these nursing covers, and I just thought it wasn't necessarily something that I would like to wear. I loved the versatility of them, but I didn't think it would be something I'd be comfortable going out in public wearing and giving me that extra confidence that, like, I can nurse in public, you know? So that's sort of where the idea came from. And then, yeah, flash forward, we just did Etsy and in person markets, which Etsy was always stronger for me. The markets never did, like, super great. It was more to, like, get my name out there and kind of meet the community and that kind of thing. And then shortly after, I became pregnant with my son, and then there was, like, no time for anything. I also work full time as a hairstylist, so I was like this. So we were, like, fully online, and then we pushed over to Amazon, which is now where 95% of my sales come from. Amazon. And I would say then short, like, right after that would be Etsy. And then, like, zero sales, sales straight from my website.

[Elise]

Okay.

[Chelsea]

And I haven't done a market in probably two or three years. I have actually my first one coming up tomorrow just to, like, try to get back out there. I have a whole new booth set up this time with mannequins to show the versatile ways to wear the covers and, like, a stroller with a car seat. I just have more props this time. I'm hoping that'll kind of visually help out, but we'll see. So where we stand today, the best seller is the cream by far. Let's see. Yeah, like, 66 of my sales are the cream color. And then after that, it's black and then gray. And I used to have two other colors that I've discontinued, so those are the main three.

[Elise]

So I'm seeing that you have. I'm just on your Etsy site, so you have. There is a heart. Like, Heart Stripe Checkers. Are those.

[Chelsea]

Yeah. So I still have those. Those were supposed to be, like, these exciting drops I was doing. I was gonna try to do, like, a drop every, like, a couple of months. And I don't. I just. I'm not sure, like, the hype wasn't there. They didn't, like, sell out like I expected. Those were small runs, so that's not something I always have on hand. But I do still have some of that inventory, I think.

[Elise]

You know, I think thinking about it, if you think about when she needs it or when somebody buys a nursing cover, it's usually. Maybe it's a gift for baby showers or she's buying it in the beginning, and then I'm not sure what the average breastfeeding time is now of a mom, but you. We have to think.

[Chelsea]

You know, I was gonna say it's about 12 months. I mean, that's the goal. I wouldn't say, you know, everyone kind of falls around there.

[Elise]

Ish, right? Yeah. I think they say if you can do the first 12 months, but we see how far everyone, you know, can get. So I think the idea, like, when I was nursing, I had one that was terrible looking, but I had it right. It was like the polyester, gray and white, some sort of argyle print. I don't even know. I think my sister stripe one. But do you know when you do sell the return rate of customers? Like, how many they buy at once at the first order or like, how often they buy again?

[Chelsea]

I don't have the exact number. I would say I do get a lot of return customers on Etsy, and they'll typically message me and say, like, I loved it so much, I want another color. Or I, you know, liked it so much, I'm gifting it to a friend. Most orders, they just buy one. The return rate is super low. I know on Amazon, I'm under 10%, and I'm not quite sure on Etsy is much less than 10%.

[Elise]

Okay. So, you know, with the prints, as much as I love them because they're really cute, they look like shirts. I get it that it's probably. Maybe some of the things that, like, attract people to your brand is the fact that is these. These neutral colors. Like, if we think about Gap, like what Gap did for T shir shirts, sweatshirts, it's always kind of like neutral, solid. Perhaps that's what they're looking for. And they're looking for something that's just not. It's. It's a very specific kind of mom.

[Chelsea]

Yeah.

[Elise]

So. Yeah. And then the drops, you know, I think the drops. It is cool. But I guess you wonder how often she's thinking, oh, I need another breast cover. Like breastfeeding cover. Right. That's seasonal, you know.

[Chelsea]

Yes. Yeah.

[Elise]

The hearts are so cute. Yeah. I mean, I think that your designs are really lovely, but just thinking through the. The why behind it.

[Chelsea]

Yeah. I definitely try to stick to the solids. I thought it'd be fun. But those are the best sellers for sure.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

Data.

[Elise]

I mean, you've got the data that's telling you what they want. Okay. So majority is now coming from Amazon, and then from a price point, like Margins and whatnot. Do you feel like you're pretty solid with your margin selling on Amazon, for example?

[Chelsea]

Yeah, Amazon would be definitely like the highest margin. I want to say they take like a huge chunk. I think my take home is maybe 32%. So they're like a 68%.

[Elise]

It's a lot. But I mean for you, like from what the cost is for you to make them. Are you like, are you getting the right. Are you making enough selling at scale on Amazon?

[Chelsea]

Yes, yes, I definitely am. I do notice in the beginning I was like one of the higher price nursing covers. And now actually looking not necessarily on Amazon, but just like in general, if you just Google nursing covers, I actually feel like I'm kind of lower than like the ones that are going for the same look.

[Elise]

Okay. Looking at your Instagram as well. So do you think you have room.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

To move the margin up?

[Chelsea]

Yeah, I mean I would like to say yes.

[Elise]

So right now you have less. You don't have a ton of reviews. So it's really working on how do we get your reviews up. So I would tell you on your Instagram to drive as much traffic as you can to buy on Amazon.

[Chelsea]

Oh really? Okay.

[Elise]

Because what we want to do is we want to flood Instagram or we want to flood Amazon. Like if you do a promotion or something like that, right? Like we want to, we want to take your traffic and drive it to Amazon, get people to buy and then it'll boost it. Right? And then say like, you know, leave a review. It'd be so helpful. We're growing, help a small business out. Plus, you know, it's prime. You can get it in two days because you're doing the work anyways on Amazon. And if we could kick up your reviews a bit, then it also will help like maybe you'll become Amazon's choice, for example, when somebody's looking at this. And then we can look at like there's a nursing cover that's 1898, there's 4.1000 reviews on it. So then when they're comparing like, okay, it's a higher price, but it's also, but it also has a lot of reviews. It kind of backs up the product a bit more. You do have a little bit of momentum to be able to like say like long lasting, you know, covers like whatever. And you can also use backwards that people have used for you. So if you're getting reviews from people and they're saying I love it because of blah, blah, blah, use that language in your Marketing to say it back to customers. Okay, someone said to you, I didn't have to drop 100 bucks on it. And it's quality. It's amazing. So, like, really high quality. They're really like, quality. If you get ones that are like, negative reviews, you can always. I don't think you can reply back. But another thing is, whenever. Here's another tip is if people are the positive reviews, ask people, friends to go in and say helpful on the ones that are positive reviews. It moves the positive reviews. Like, it just kind of reinforces the helpfulness and then can kind of push down some of the negative reviews. I know it's still. But it just. It's helpful to say, like, to send traffic input. Helpful.

[Chelsea]

Oh, that's great.

[Elise]

Looks like people are. The thing with yours is that they think it's too short. That kind of seems to be.

[Chelsea]

Yes. And I feel like that was because of a way that they were wearing it. There's. It's very versatile. So you can twist it one way and then it's long. You twist it. Okay, that's right.

[Elise]

So knowing that perhaps you do something, because that seems like that's the only negative that I'm seeing on your stuff. So what you can do is, like, ways to wear it or instructions, or you drop it in with a package which says, like, you know, if you're this tall, twist it like this. So looking at the reviews to be helpful to it so that they don't go on and say it's too short, but you're helping them before they even ask. Cause you know, it's something that is a problem for them. That means they don't understand how to wear it.

[Chelsea]

Okay.

[Elise]

Okay.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

That's like my Amazon feedback.

[Elise]

Alrighty, so let's dive into some of your questions. So the first question you kind of. You said was you want to focus on using your past data to improve your marketing strategies. I think looking too closely at my sales data and customer feedback can help me see what my customers like most about. Is it Toasty Mom?

[Chelsea]

Toasty Mom? Yep.

[Elise]

Yeah. Okay, great. By understanding their preferences, I can make better decisions about my products and marketing efforts to attract more customers, increase sales. I'd love to learn how to use this information effectively. So let's dig into what you're seeing. Kind of share with me your thought process in here, and let's see how I can help.

[Chelsea]

Okay, so like, beginning of this year, Q1 was great. Like, every year was just like more and more sales day after day. And it. I wasn't sure why or, like, what lever I pulled that made that happen. I would love to find it again because truly, I don't think I was doing anything different. And I don't know if Amazon was just favoring me that period or that's all it was, or if they're like, when was that? I think I was. That was like January to May.

[Elise]

Okay, so do you think seasonally wise it was baby shower season or if we looked at calendars?

[Chelsea]

I wondered that. I wondered that. And then possibly when the summer months hit, like, the sales, like, dropped. It was right after our little thing with the Amazon hijackers. But I thought maybe in the summer people aren't thinking they want a nursing cover like this because it's warm. But I see the competitors were still doing just as well as they always had been, which, you know, kind of confused me, I guess.

[Elise]

How did you see the competitors were doing just as well? Like, what?

[Chelsea]

How did you know that on Amazon there's some, like, different programs you can use that will show their, like, past history and sales and stuff. Or you can see sometimes at the bottom, like, 300 sold this month.

[Elise]

Right. Things like that.

[Chelsea]

Yeah.

[Elise]

Are you running ads on Amazon? Yes. Okay. Yeah. And did you continue to run ads during that time?

[Chelsea]

Oh, yeah, yeah. The funny thing is, like, I barely would tweak them. Like, they were always just kind of consistent. Yeah. So I wasn't sure what happened or what changed or what was good.

[Elise]

Do you have a rep at Amazon internally?

[Chelsea]

Yes, kind of. Yes.

[Elise]

Okay. What I would do, whenever it's like, within an ecosystem, I would ask them. And in that moment, I would ask them. I was just on a call with my mastermind and a couple people, you know, they were. One woman was saying how she's. She just started ads. Cause she grew her business to a couple hundred thousand on Amazon alone with one product without ads.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

So she's like, wow.

[Elise]

And it's crazy.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

And I was like, I mean, you.

[Elise]

Did this organically, so good job. She was an MSM student, did what we teach in there, and then, like, grew it. And now she's jumping into the next section working with me. But, you know, she's like, I talked to my rep. My rep was like, just do it like this. And so really it was like, first just doing the Amazon ads, like the. The automatic ones that they do, and then as you start to get the data to kind of tweak and test. So it could be that. It could be that it was being repressed for some reason. It could be if you were getting negative reviews at that point. But I think, I think what it tells you is like, from a data perspective, that you have more capabilities than just like allowing Amazon to do its thing. So like I said, if you can, you have a pretty good following on social. Do you have an email list?

[Chelsea]

Yes. How big is up to? Maybe. Maybe like 1400.

[Elise]

Great. I just had someone with 2000 people on their email list make $20,000 in the last week. So don't under. Yeah, so don't underestimate a list. Small, big, whatever it is. Like, don't underestimate it because also when your list is smaller, sometimes it's a higher engaged community versus, like, when you grow. Because when you grow, there's people have been on your list for years and then they. They're kind of really not opening emails anymore.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

So I want you to just think.

[Elise]

Through different strategies to drive your traffic there. So one, if ads are working, put more money and it's like printing money. A dollar in, you get $4 out. Then, like, you can scale your ads to grow your business online.

[Chelsea]

Okay. And really I'm only doing ads on Instagram. I'm sorry, On Amazon right now.

[Elise]

I would scale your Amazon ads. So if your Amazon ads are working, I would, I would consider trying a little bit more money to it. Especially because you said right now is kind of your season, your stuff is warmer. Maybe they do drop off in the summer because it's okay to have seasons, you know, so you could test scaling slowly and see if that drives more traffic and kicks it up. So I don't, you know, a lot of times people look outside and they're like, what else can I do outside of what I'm already doing versus looking at what they're doing and how they can improve it, optimize it, or like double down on it. So we know Amazon's working for you. You said like 80, 90% of your.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

Sales are coming in from that, which.

[Elise]

Makes a lot of sense for a parent, I think. And even like getting on people's registries and all that. Right. Because Amazon has Amazon registry and people do that and just makes it so convenient.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

So I would look at your ads.

[Elise]

And I would scale your ads to try and drive more traffic there because it's your season.

[Chelsea]

Okay.

[Elise]

And then I would do, hey, did you know we're on Amazon? Email to your list and say, get it in two days. Like Amazon prime, you know, Amazon prime, get it in two days. Did you know we're on here? Give the link to Amazon Send the traffic traffic there.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

And then you could probably.

[Elise]

What email provider are you using?

[Chelsea]

Klaviyo.

[Elise]

Okay, great. So you can retarget. So if people click on the link, tag them that they've clicked on the link and do a follow up email sequence to them that says like, hey, did you buy? Like I'm here to answer any question, not did you buy? You know, put it in a nicer way. But hey, I saw that you checked out the Amazon listing or did you check it out on Amazon yet? You can give some reasons why they might want to buy it on there. Or like did you know where this, this, this and this. Or you can even put a quote from a great testimonial on there. Like you could screen grab it and put like Jacqueline in L. A thought they were so soft and so awesome and then just kind of reinforce it. So more than just one email, I send your list there. And then you could also do a promotion to your following link like toasty mom is now on Amazon.

[Chelsea]

Okay.

[Elise]

Drive traffic, grow the channel. And then you could do your own campaigns of, you know, leave a review. It's so helpful. Help, help a mama grow her business online. That kind of thing. Don't be afraid of it taking from one place to the other. The thing about meta ads and the thing that people sometimes come into conflict with, which is not a big deal, but if you're running meta ads and you're paying for meta ads, but then they click to Amazon, you're also the fees on Amazon, so you're paying for these ads but then you're also losing the fees. It's okay. Like I've, I've coached people that have had multimillion dollar companies that have done it because it's the awareness of the product. Ad teams don't love it because if the ad team is making money off of your sales, they don't get to make it off of Amazon. So like let's say some ad teams will be like, if we run your meta ads and then we get 10% of your sales from your shop by side that I don't love. I don't typically recommend my one on one, like my one on one clients or my masterminders to do that strategy because you could also just pay people flat fees. But that's why they'll, if you talk to an ads team, they'll sometimes tell you like, oh no, don't do it. Don't get on Amazon because they're, they're thinking about their best interests versus yours.

[Chelsea]

Got it? Okay. And then as far as like having teams run your ads, at what point do you think I should do that rather than trying to like do.

[Elise]

If you see that you're getting successful on here and you know you could scale unlimited on Amazon, you know, the sooner, the sooner the better. Like, try it for now, see how you're doing. But if you're like, I actually want this off my plate and I want an Amazon team because as your company gets bigger, there's more strategies. So if your pricing doesn't match between like Amazon and your website, like if you're undercutting Amazon, then they'll pull the listing down. So I think like, as the company grows and gets a little bit more complicated and you want to take that part off your plate, you could hire for that. But if you feel like it's within in the realm right now for you to still handle, you could test and try it and see what happens. Okay, so past data, when things are going well, write down what's going well.

[Chelsea]

Okay.

[Elise]

In the moment, hindsight, sometimes hard, right. And a lot of times you see what's not working. We remember what's not working, the pain more than we remember the like, oh, yeah, this thing happened. Whenever I see something happen in someone's business that feels kind of drastic, something probably broke, something somewhere in the back end broke. So I can't always tell you exactly what it is. So when it's working, write down what you did so that you can repeat that and if something breaks, stop and like take it. Like, check, check the boxes. Like look under the hood and see what's happening for you. It could just simply be that the algorithm was off in that moment.

[Chelsea]

Totally.

[Elise]

Or somebody else was outspending you in ads and so they were getting the traffic right.

[Chelsea]

Exactly.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

Okay, wow, we've already covered a lot here. So were you able to catch the main takeaway? Elisa's seeing her most success on Amazon. So when you're having such success on a platform, your easiest path forward is to use the marketing channels that are working for you to drive traffic to that sales platform. So in Elise's case, she wants to use her organic marketing platforms on Instagram and her email list to drive more traffic to her Amazon site. Now, not only will that boost her product listing because she'll have more views, but chances are she'll start seeing more purchases as well. Because who doesn't enjoy a one click Amazon shopping experience, right? I think so many of us, our Amazon prime members and it makes it so easy. And small businesses are on Amazon, just like Elise, right? Just like Donna Bom. So so many of you are on Amazon, right? You're still small businesses. It doesn't. It's a machine that helps us get in front of customers we could have never gotten on just a few years ago. So here's the deal. When Elise drives her own traffic to Amazon, she's going to be saving on her ad spend and it's not going to cost her as much and running more ads on the platform. Now, of course she can keep running ads, right, because we're talking about running ads and increasing her ad spend if she wants to. But a really helpful way to do this and to her customers who mamas out there, especially moms of babies that one click easy shop, they're already adding a bunch of stuff to their cart on Amazon. How easy would it be to know that they can now buy on there and add it, right? Just add to cart. So, so easy. And in fact, there's tons of baby registries on there. It just makes it easier. So I want her to start to drive her organic traffic there as well, to keep growing. Now remember, no matter how big or small your email says or your social media following is, I don't want you to underestimate the power of having raving fans, right? It doesn't matter how small they are. You have an email list, you have a social media following. If you can really pull them in, they will continue to buy from you. So make sure that you're using it. Now, I say this all the time, but my friends, you do not need a large social media following or even a huge email list to be successful. I keep coaching people time and time again on this podcast that are so many different examples, so many paths to profit for so many of you, right? You all sell different things on different sales channels with different ways that you generate leads and different ways that you're marketing. And it works for everybody in a different way. There is no cookie cutter way. Somebody once asked me, like, tell me exactly how you did it and I will repeat it. We can't do that because we all have our own variations. We all have our own superpowers. We all have different ways of running our businesses, and that's okay. And you can all be successful. So I just hope that listening to all of these stories and these coaching sessions are ways for you to see, oh, there's more than just one way and I can find my way, okay? And if you need more support in that, that's why I've got these programs for You. Right. That's why I've got the membership, which is the product boss, academy, multi stream machine, You've got the design to scale lab, we've got the inner circle mastermind, like at every level of business that you're at. I've got something for you, including this podcast. So I hope it's helping. But now what I want to do is I want to dig a little deeper into Elise's organic marketing strategies.

[Elise]

So how else can I help in this topic? What other questions do you have?

[Chelsea]

Let's see, what about. I think my, my. So I've never actually driven ads to Amazon because I was always sort of like, Amazon, people will find it. I was always pushing people to the website just because of course the profit margins are so much better. Would you say for now, like really focus on pushing Amazon or is there a way that I could also grow people to come to my direct website?

[Elise]

So overall, Amazon alone, do you have the profitability left over that your business is still able to function off that?

[Chelsea]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Elise]

Okay. So I would set a goal. You've got a great following on social. I would work on social to build your email list. So however an Etsy too, like you can. Do you know how to get emails off of Etsy?

[Chelsea]

Yes.

[Elise]

Okay. And are you emailing your Etsy customers?

[Chelsea]

Yes.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

Okay, so Etsy doesn't want you to.

[Elise]

Take people off of the platform. So you kind of have to. If you're going to email them, it's like, here's a coupon to use, come back and buy. But eventually what you could do with that is get them to opt in. Like using Klaviyo, like get them to opt into another option of sorts. Maybe it's like five breastfeeding tips from five different like lactation consultants or something. Right. Like you can do some sort of offer or like freebie that you have them opt in for that and now they've opted. You're not selling them on another channel, but you're, you're getting them to opt. It's kind of a gray area. But if you get them to opt in for something, you can tag them in on your other. Like you can segment the list and then that list you can do what you want. So if you want to say like, hey, here's the five tips from lactation consultants and 15% off coupon when you buy from toasty mom dot com. Right. Okay, so great. You can, you can start to think about how you're going to drive your traffic from your main traffic sources. I think the thing about Amazon is that it's very easy. It's also very easy for you to get on gift lists, work with influencers because they can easily sign up as an affiliate just through Amazon, and they can make money by recommending your stuff. So Amazon's a pretty easy route for you right now. And it's like, if you scale that, you can make a lot of money if you kind of focus on it. So I think for you, you want to really think, what do I want my focuses to be? And it could be per quarter. It could be like, great. I want to, I want to scale Amazon. I want to get Amazon to $200,000 or 150,000 or, you know, find the number you want to get it to and then think all the things that you're going to do to get that engine moving and really healthy. And then another segment of time you might say, now what I really want to do is I want to take people off of Etsy and move them over to see if I can get them to convert on my website. One thing you can do at the same time as growing Amazon is grow your email list. So keep trying to grow the email list. You have 10,000 social media followers.

[Chelsea]

Yeah, I think just under.

[Elise]

Yeah, about 10. Let's just call it 10,000 social media follower followers. You only have 1800 emails. Go get these people. Okay, right. So make your purpose right now on social. It could be sending them over to Amazon to make it easy for them to buy. But also maybe it's like, maybe you do some sort of campaign that's like dropping your, you know, click this link, add your email and then you're. I'll give you a coupon to use here. Or there's other ways to do it. It could be tips and like your marketing tips and different things like that. But I want you to use this to drive traffic to Amazon, to raise your reviews, to make it a sturdier platform and then grow your email list, maybe make those two things. Then once you've got a better email list, do a promotion right now to them, just drive them to Amazon. And then you get into a regular cadence of trying to drive them to your website. The website's going to be a slower growth point.

[Chelsea]

Okay.

[Elise]

Probably just because it's hard. It's hard to get people like to go to a website to buy, to put in their credit card. Amazon doesn't makes it easier.

[Chelsea]

Yeah. Oh, definitely.

[Elise]

I would probably in your link tree, take off Etsy, like in your, in your link tree. Make it where you want them to shop from. So I'd be pretty torn if you're like, shop now or shop Amazon. I'd probably just go to Amazon.

[Chelsea]

Right?

[Elise]

Do you.

[Chelsea]

But you think I should leave that for now? I've struggled with that one.

[Elise]

Do you have any data when people click on this, what they click on?

[Chelsea]

I don't.

[Elise]

Okay, see if you can track that.

[Chelsea]

Okay.

[Elise]

But if you're going to promote to Amazon right now to grow that platform, just leave shop on Amazon.

[Chelsea]

Okay.

[Elise]

If you want them to. But you've got like 10% off your first orders and you want them to opt in to your list. Maybe you do two things you could do. You could shop on Amazon or grab this. You know, go call a bunch of moms and ask them for their best advice for new mamas and like put together a one sheet, just downloadable thing and do like join our list. Get you know, 10, 15% off your first order on our website. And this, this download of tips, get their email addresses and then that will bring them to the, to your site. So they might organically start to shop on your site.

[Chelsea]

Okay, great. So put the offer in the link tree. Like. Okay, got it.

[Elise]

And then they just have to opt in for it.

[Chelsea]

Perfect. I, I did just recently create like a birth template that's customizable on Canva. So like if someone wants a birth plan and they're like, I don't even know where to start or like what questions to ask, so I put together a couple different versions of those. Maybe that could be my offer as well as like a 10 to 15% off coupon. Or do you think people who've had.

[Elise]

Their babies see you're solving a problem for when people have had their baby.

[Chelsea]

Mm, okay. Yeah, that's true.

[Elise]

So it would only really work for new mamas, which I think it's an okay thing to have as like an option. Like that's a, that's like part of your resources, right? Like if you also can be a resource for new moms. So more than just your yes, you've got the beautiful Instagram. Let's just look at your thing. You know, you've got a very like swoon worthy Instagram of like cute covers. If you wanted to add any sort of like educational tips in, you could. And then I would maybe you. This is you segmenting the list because you're either gonna like, if you think about your ideal customer, you've got the new mom. Never had a baby before prepping and pre, like pre prepping. So it might, you know, hospital bags or birds birth, you know, what to pack for the hospital and da, da, da. Then there's the mom who's had the baby who, you know, now is realizing, how am I going to go out of the house and do things? And they probably have it, but then they're like, oh, this thing covers the car seat and covers me and looks cute. They might discover it later. So you have to think about the customer journey and their discovery of your product. Then you have people who have had multiple babies and they're going in and buying another one. Maybe they, maybe it's dirty and they want a new one. Maybe they have had a boy and they want to go for the gray or, you know, and there's the giftable realm in there. So when you're thinking about your opt in from those freebies that are also helpful that you're kind of a resource to be supportive to mamas, you have to think about where she is in the journey of becoming a mom.

[Chelsea]

Okay. Yeah, that's very true. Okay.

[Elise]

And you could try like every once in a while on your Instagram, like educational tips on like a lactation consultant, a mom giving a bit of advice, you know, putting like quotes on there. And then you could say if you want our top, you know, 10 tips or 20 tips from like mamas that have breastfed, use like, you know, click the link in our bio to opt in the list and we'll, we'll send it to you. So you're kind of seeding that. But the whole point is, is that you're being helpful to them. Get their email address so that you can market to them.

[Chelsea]

Right. Okay, cool. And you could do that with like even just like a many, many chat.

[Elise]

Yeah.

[Chelsea]

Okay.

[Elise]

It could be like tips, like comment tips and then it like goes into the many chat. But make sure they're opting in. Don't just give a freebie, like make sure they give you their email address.

[Chelsea]

Right.

[Elise]

Do you do SMS texting?

[Chelsea]

Um, I just started.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

Great.

[Chelsea]

I don't have a ton of people's phone numbers yet, so that's why I haven't been doing it.

[Elise]

So you could do the two step often. I don't know if you're doing where when they opt in for the 10 or 15% off they put in their email. But then the second one is like, get it and then you have to do the text message. People do tend to respond a bit better to text messaging, but you have to be cautious of how often you use it. So you can email them way more than the texting.

[Chelsea]

Yes. Okay. Yeah, definitely.

[Elise]

But imagine you sent a text that's like, hey, Toasty mom's now available on Amazon. Even though you've been on. We're letting them all know, shop now, get it in two days. And you give the link. Think it's just another really easy thing, but then it opens in my app. It's just easy. We need to overcome as many obstacles for our customers as possible.

[Chelsea]

Definitely. Especially once with babies and trying to figure out breastfeeding.

[Elise]

Yes.

[Chelsea]

Oh my gosh.

[Elise]

So true.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

My mom had five kids.

[Elise]

And I remember when I was young, she's like, it's easy. You just breastfeed. And I was like, I don't know what easy? Like you have forgotten all of it.

[Chelsea]

Yes. My mom also had five kids.

[Elise]

Oh, it's.

[Chelsea]

I know. So I think I remember seeing her breastfeed all the time and I was like, great. It's just easy. The hardest part is getting the baby out. Not true.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

No, no, me neither.

[Elise]

And it's like either they were bred to be mamas of five and like everything was easy as they kept having kids.

[Chelsea]

Right.

[Elise]

They weren't also trying to run businesses. I don't know.

[Chelsea]

But.

[Elise]

But I think, I think that, and I think that sort of, you know, I had a friend that wanted to breastfeed. She's a pediatrician. She wanted to breastfeed her babies so bad that she went above and beyond. Like at. She had like a tube that she was trying to drip the milk into the like it was so. And she had a C section. It was so stressful to her that she had to be given the permission to be like, you've tried so hard, but your own mental sanity and all that also needs to be protected at this point. So I think there's, there's always like the guilt. I breastfeed. Do I not breastfeed? I can't do it. You know, my milk production, my sister was shipping milk to my sister in law because their first baby didn't have enough production. Right. So I think also a lot of women struggle quietly. We didn't have access to each other and information. So knowing that you're building, yes, you can be the brand, but you're also building a community of mamas who are there to take care of each other. And just thinking how you can continue to be supportive because it makes you top of mind in that way as well.

[Chelsea]

And I love that like postpartum moms is such a soft spot for me. You know, it's just seeing your friends go through it. You're like, I want to do what I can to help you. But, you know, typically new moms are like, I don't want any help.

[Elise]

Yeah. And also shirtless all around the house. My sister loved me in the first three months of my son, and she's like, you just had no shirt on for three months. I was like, why did I need a shirt on?

[Chelsea]

Right? There's no need for clothing inside.

[Elise]

I was just a milk factory. So we get it. And that's the thing too, right? It's like, are you humorous? Are you supportive? Like, there's things that, like, people are going to post or push that will make sense and that's just going to bond them to the brand even more.

[Chelsea]

Okay. Always was sort of hesitant in posting informational things, even though it was stuff I had read, maybe from a professional. I just never wanted to come off. Like I was a lactation consultant or a pediatrician or, you know what I mean, giving advice that way.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

So my question is, is do you see the importance of gathering leads from social media and converting them to email subscribers? Listen, Elise has over 10,000 people following her on Instagram, but only 1800 people on her email list. So it's great, right? It's great that she has this really large following, but that's 7,200 potential leads right there that she could make up. In fact, those 10,000 people on our Instagram could be completely different than people that are on our email list. We just don't know. So what I really want her to do is start mining her Instagram followers and getting more and more of them onto her email list. Those are leads. 7,200 people that she can send an email to that will land directly in their inbox. Not worrying about whether Marky Mark Zuckerberg and the meta algorithm is going to show them the stuff she wants to show them. Let's just hand deliver it to their inbox. Okay, Now I've said this before and I'll say it again. Social media should be treated as just a tool tool in your marketing tool belt. It is not your entire marketing strategy.

[Elise]

Okay?

[Jacqueline Snyder]

It's not your entire marketing strategy because you don't own it. It's just another tool. It's a tool I wish I had more access to when I had my product business. But now at the product boss, we use it. It's one of our tools and our marketing strategy. But we're not a hundred percent reliant on it and we're not Thinking this is the only thing that's going to bring customers to us. It's just one of the sales channels. Remember I talk about multi stream machine, right? Multi stream marketing, multi stream sales channels. You need more than one, but I do want you to build one solid one, right? I want you to build a solid way of catching customers, of customers discovering you. But all of you, all of you should have an email list. Everybody, no matter where you sell. So that's why I'm pushing Elise to start gathering those followers from social media and getting them on her email list, right? Whether it's through an opt in or a one time coupon, ways to engage with them because the quicker she can get them on her list, the quicker she can send them through her welcome email sequence and start to show them why they need her products. She gets to start to show up in their inbox like a billboard. And the goal here is potentially converting them into customers. Now I want you to notice how I didn't tell Elise to drive her social media following to her website because right now her website isn't the sales channel that's working for her. What I really want you to do is figure out what's working and put more effort into that. That's why you hear me talk about bestsellers all the time, right? If you don't have the best selling data, then we start to look at other data and I talk about that. That's why we run our bestseller Secrets challenge in January and fe of each year, right? We start to dig into what data can we collect. Why are we making this so hard? Why do we think we need to add new things all the time, add new products? I think that's going to be the thing. Let's look at the things that are already working for us and double down on that. Let's make it work for us where we get to put in less effort because this thing is just working, right? And if you can do that instead of focusing on what's not working or always thinking I need to do something else, something else, instead of doubling down on things that are working, then things are going to start to feel easier. And then once you have that information, you know your best sellers, you get a sales, sales channel to work for you, you have social media or a marketing channel working for you, you start to send emails, then your next step is that you get to start to add on, right? Because you figured out certain things and you get to add on and add another sales channel, add other ways of marketing. But I want you to get really solid on the things that are working now. I know Elise says that she's a little hesitant knowing about like what to post on social media to continue to grow. So let's see if I can help your. Hey, hey friend. I'm just gonna jump in and interrupt the show for a real quick second because I wanna talk about the side of your product based business that nobody loves. I know. Tracking inventory, right? Managing all the costs of what inventory you need when you need it, and trying to stay organized while you blend it all together. And if this feels like it's resonating with you, I have a solution for you. It's something I wish I had instead of literally printing out Excel sheets and trying to write it all down back in my day.

[Elise]

Back in my day.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

Right, right. So the solution for you, my friend, is Crafty Base. Craftybase is the inventory management, bookkeeping and production software built specifically for product based business owners like you. And with Crafty Base, you can track your raw materials, components and finished products in real time so you'll never run out of stock or over order supplies again. And it even calculates your cost of goods sold automatically. Right. It monitors your expenses and it helps you keep an eye on those all important profit margins so you can grow your business. Because remember, I want you to be.

[Elise]

A profitable product boss.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

So if you're ready to feel organized, in control and never run out of your best selling inventory again, then head to the productboss.com crafty base and we've hooked you up to receive a 14.

[Elise]

Day free trial to try Crafty Base today.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

Again, that's the productboss.com crafty base. Hey friends, are you unsure of what to say on social media or what to even send in your weekly emails? Well, what if creating content could, could be easy? Would you be looking for a shortcut to creating consistent content? Yes, consistent content. Because you know, consistency is key. Well, let me tell you, you are not alone when you feel like you're struggling on what to post or what to write in emails. And we know that you have that product part of your business down. But as you're listening to this podcast, you probably already know that to get more people to your products, to buy your products, you need to create great content. Oh, I know, I see. I keep saying content and that's the dreaded C word. And we can't tell you how many product bosses tell us that they want to create great content for their audience and their customers, but they don't know what to say or they are so busy they can't find the time or they really, really, really don't want to be the face of their brand. Well, no worries, because that's exactly why we created A Year of Content. It is your shortcut to creating consistent content that resonates with your audience and brings more loyal customers who can't wait to buy your products. If you want to see how easy this is and how easy it is to create content for your audience and your customers, head to www.ayear of content.com.

[Elise]

Let'S look at your Instagram. Like, you have 20 out of all your views. The one that has 21,000 was 22,000 is four ways to simplify breastfeeding in public. Right, Right.

[Chelsea]

So exactly, Exactly.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

So that's the thing, right?

[Elise]

The thing for you. If we look at your. If we look at your social media and the things that have gone. The thing that went viral for you. The other one is breastfeeding mom the day after Thanksgiving. So humor. So it's already saying. And the other, you have a 14,000. Oh, look at this. 2.7 million. As a new mom, I used to struggle daily with this. So it's about the struggle. It's about the tips. It's about the relating to, like, not only like the. Because you're. You've got a very Instagramable brand of, like, look how beautiful and lovely it is to sit in my sheet, you know, like my chic, beautiful cream color in my beautiful home. Breastfeeding. And that's what we all want to feel, but we all know, in fact, we're like, topless, running around, there's puke in our hair, you know, but we still want to look or present in a certain way.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

So I want you to look at.

[Elise]

The data that your social is telling you that, no, you don't have to be an expert to be relatable and helpful.

[Chelsea]

Okay, I like that. I like that a lot. Because that's pretty much what it is, is I want to help new moms feel put together because we're all, you know, go through a phase of maybe feeling like a hot mess underneath. But if you can put something on that fits your postpartum body and gives you confidence to go out and meet your friends and get some sanity, like, and bring your baby and nurse in public, like, just something a little bit easier.

[Elise]

If I were to analyze your social, the things that. This is what I want you to do. I want you to go back to your social and look at your reels and see the things that really, really have gone more viral for you. So you have one with almost 30, 000 views and it's when the kids are both asleep and you skip a little extra for me time. And then it's like 6:04am and she's getting coffee and you know, so it looks to me like while your stuff is cool and pretty, they want the stuff that's like, yes, we look, we want to look this way. This is how we want to appear. But also you freaking get it, you know, and it's funny and it's like there's the overwhelm or the like the messiness behind it all. Okay, so. And then there's the ones that show, like, why, why it's so cute and stylish. So go back to the data again. This is what I was saying in the very beginning. Don't try and reinvent the wheel. Find the stuff that was working and do more of that. Okay? And anytime you can get something to go viral and attach a keyword to it, like for many chat, then that's like magic, right? Because let's say you had your. Let's say your 20,000 or your 2 million one, 2.7 million went viral and it had a mini chat on it. Those like, comment, you know, know mom life for our tips for keeping your home organized with a toddler and a baby around. I don't know what it is, right? And they write tips. Now you're getting that 2.7. You're growing your email list because you're pulling in the right customer, you know, great.

[Chelsea]

So if I notice something's going viral, should I jump on and make it.

[Elise]

A many chat one? Is that too late? You could, I don't know, I don't know how it changed. I've done that before because we've had stuff that's gone viral and like crap. There's no word attached.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

Word attached. So I have gone and edited.

[Elise]

I don't know that it's changed anything, but you'll start to know the rhythm of what's going to go viral. And it doesn't always have to be your own content, which you can tell the stuff that you've kind of reposted, right?

[Chelsea]

Oh, that's me.

[Elise]

That is you. Oh, you're so cute. Okay, so look, you can like, you can. You actually also have been going viral, but you can also repost other people's stuff. So as soon as you kind of start to get the rhythm of it, then it's really thinking through the ways to and Four ways to simplify breastfeeding in public. Or let's say that. No, let's go back to that two point, the almost 3 million one that was Thanksgiving. Repost that again now. Now because we're at Thanksgiving. Okay, so anytime you have content that works, you can repost it. You put different words on it. You could do a different caption video trend to your music and you knew it went viral once, so do it again and maybe use some sort of keyword for it. Okay, so kind of led us directly into your second question which was customer engagement and community building. I'd like to focus on building customer engagement, a strong sense of community. I believe that sharing relatable stories and experiences on social and through newsletters I can connect more deeply with an audience audience new and expecting moms. I want to explore ways to encourage user generated content so customers feel inspired to share their own experiences with my product, fostering trust and loyalty. So I'll give you the example from the product boss. We in the last year have over doubled our following and it's because we started to hook into what actually worked to draw in our ideal customer. So the stuff that was shareable by like relatable and shareable by other product bosses. So anytime I have something that's like, you know, supporting a small business or like when you see another, let's see what's done really well. When you see another woman win, celebrate her if it's possible for that's proof it's possible for you too. They might share that, they might save it, they might comment on it. Um, so you want the shareable content. So a lot of moms want to be seen, right? They want to be seen for their struggles. And so if you have. Oh yeah, like if you see a mom, ask her if she's okay, you know, or it could be. So it's anything that you're going to send to someone. Like I send my best friend, the pediatrician, like I send her stuff all the time that's like super relatable from a mom perspective. Like the haha funny.

[Chelsea]

Oh totally. Yes.

[Elise]

So, so think about that. Can you be stuff that's shareable that one mom is going to send to another mom that's going to be like haha funny. Because we want it to go to the ideal customer. There's stuff that she'll save for herself. So four tips to breastfeed in public. She might save that for herself. So you want to think my ideal customer on social, what does she want? The content you're Going to probably post the least that's going to have the least, like least interaction will be your seller content. So I call it the ABCs of marketing. So it's attract, bond and convert. The attract content is the kind that you're, it's like a wide fishing net. You're casting it out to your ideal customers and you're trying to pull in as many people as you can so that typically might land in your viral content. Relatable. Is it funny? Is it snarky? Is it inspiring? And you can test and try and figure out what you want. You can always archive it if it doesn't work. I.

[Chelsea]

Okay. Yeah.

[Elise]

Okay. Bond is the reinforcer. How to wear your nursing cover. Maybe it's, you know, a quote or again those tips that's like, hey mama, like you're doing okay or you know, four tips for this or four different ways you can wear your cover. Right? Like that's kind of bond content that's getting them to know like and trust you. And the convert is new color now available on Amazon. Buy a three pack, buy one, get one, you know, or just like the really pretty images of her wearing it that'll show up. But she's engaging with you on these other, other bits of content. So when she does see it, she's, you're still top of mind. And she's like, oh, I need to buy it or now I'm ready to buy it or I'm going to buy it as a gift for someone.

[Chelsea]

Okay, perfect. Do you have like a ratio of what you typically post like in the ABCs.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

So you just want to come up.

[Elise]

With a, like a, a cadence for that. Do you post on weekends?

[Chelsea]

Not usually. Okay, so we got five I could schedule.

[Elise]

It just depends on if you find that their interaction is higher on those days or not. So we only do the. If there's anything posted on weekends, I'm doing it otherwise during the week now. Like my team does it after we've kind established at all and like I'm kind of in charge of stories. So I would say if you have five winners, if it attracts bonds and converts. Okay, so if it can do all three, that's a winner that they opt in and they're, or they like they buy from it or they're, you know, that kind of thing. It goes viral and it's like somehow sells the product. You can test, you could do one, attract two bonds to convert. You could test that you could do to attract two bonds, one convert. So I would kind of test it and, and do, like, one thing to go viral, one thing to lock them in, one thing to sell, one thing to go viral, one thing to lock them in. You know, you can kind of do your cadence like that, and then you'll just start to get in the habit and you'll start to see what's working and then you'll do more of that.

[Chelsea]

Okay. Okay. Yep, that works.

[Elise]

So I want you to spend some time really thinking through, looking at your data. So looking at your social, seeing, I kind of was able to pull from that, knowing what went viral, seeing what has gone viral, and saying, I'm just gonna.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

I'm gonna do more of the things.

[Elise]

That work really well. Just more of it.

[Chelsea]

Okay.

[Elise]

It'll kick up the algorithm. And then if you're thinking about newsletter or emails, there's obviously the E comm emails that are selling something. And if you felt like once a month or once a week you wanted to do some version of newsletter that was like, focused on moms, it could be they could submit, like, stories of moms. They could. They could give a tip.

[Chelsea]

Right?

[Elise]

Like experience mamas. So I think you just have to think back to what kind of support they're looking for and what kind of information they're looking for. It looks like you have a blog, so it could be where it just leads back to the blog. And there's a blog that's helpful, which is like backdoor SEO, but really you're just going to want to spend some time on, like, the pillars of content that's important to your ideal customer, and then think, as a mom, what would I have time for? What would I want to relate to? And then what. What is your, you know, for you? What do you. What are your capabilities? Because we can do everything. It's just hard to do it all at once. So I think if we go back to the beginning of this, I want you to focus on what I believe is focusing on Amazon, potentially scaling your ads and growing your Amazon and then growing your reviews, because that's going to be the thing that people are like, oh, a hundred people, thousand people. Like, that's the stuff that backs up me spending on Amazon. Letting your list know that you're available on Amazon and letting your social media know that you're available on Amazon and just spending a little bit of time driving traffic there.

[Chelsea]

Okay, okay.

[Elise]

Then using your Instagram to try and grow your email list. So you can keep growing your email list. And then potentially in the new year, you could also then let's say you've grown your list. You're at 1800. Can you get it to 3000? And then you can start to try and drive people to your website. And then you know you have more people to sell to you and trying to get them to your website. But I just want you to think through this in segments, like, there's a lot you want to do. It doesn't all need to happen in the next 30 days.

[Chelsea]

Okay. Yeah.

[Elise]

And during the holidays. So what are the biggest needle movers for you? Right? Like, what are the biggest needle movers? What's the easiest lift for you right now? To me, that's I'm going to Amazon. Amazon seems like the biggest lift. The majority of your sales are happening on there. People are buying, you have low return rates. You've got the thing working. So let's double down on that. Make that thing functioning right, of making a hundred thousand, two hundred thousand on Amazon. Then you can grow. And you're like, okay, great, in 2025, I want to make 50,000 direct to consumer. Now you have a $250,000 business, and then you're growing that channel.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

Raise your hand, my friend, if you struggle with having the same feelings as Elise of not knowing what to post or where to focus when it comes to Instagram or social media in general. So when trying to plan your content, the biggest thing to remember, which is exactly what I told Elise, is use the data from your Instagram, meaning look at the numbers of views, likes, comments, and share shares, and find the pieces of content that are working for you and then do more of that. So just like Elise and I talked about, you need to have a combination of educational content plus emotional and relatable content. Because I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. Shareable content is queen on Instagram, right? The Instagram CEO himself said so. So just like how Elise had one piece of content get 30,000 views. That's really good for her account. So that number tells you to do more content around that top topic or use a similar video with a different hook to see how it performs. So if you're thinking yourself, I can barely get 1200 views on my reels or even a hundred views on my reels. That doesn't mean that you're doing anything wrong. It's still great, right? That's still. If you think about it, I want you to think about this. Small airplanes. What 200 people are sitting on an airplane. Like a hundred people seeing your stuff, or a hundred views or a hundred followers, or 200 followers. You can fill an entire airplane. Imagine standing like the flight attendants in the front or the captain of the plane and speaking to these people. That's incredible that you have the eyes of that many people in front of you. So wanting to first realize that number and how great it is, the next thing I want you to do is think, all right, cool. Now they've got these eyes, and I want to get more eyes. Let's figure out what content or topics your audience will resonate with, which will then help convert them into customers. Because it needs to relate to your product and the problem it solves or the need, want, or desire for your customers.

[Elise]

Customer.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

And remember, while Instagram is working really well for Elise, if it's not working for you, then consider if it is the channel you want to learn more about and you want to dive into or not. Because I'll tell you, in Multi Stream machine, we teach you how to do it without social or to do it with social. It's what you want to do. Okay, so now let's see if Elise feels any better than when we started the call.

[Chelsea]

Yes. Okay. That makes it so much more digestible. Then waking up and being like, okay, all the things. Here we go.

[Elise]

Yep. Yeah, just prioritize it, you know, like, just for you. Like, write it down and then prioritize it and find what's the easiest lift. For me right now, that stuff that's like, don't go for the harder stuff, go for the easier stuff and double down, pour gasoline on the fire of the thing that's working.

[Chelsea]

Okay. Yeah, I like that.

[Elise]

All right. Any other questions?

[Chelsea]

I don't think so. I think we covered a bunch. Yeah, no, thank you. I really appreciate it. I was so excited for this.

[Elise]

Good. I think you're. I think you're on your way, and it's just about streamlining, planning. But you've got a lot of really positive data points in certain ways. So keep your blinders on, stay focused, look to what's working for you and your business right now, not what other people are doing, and double down on stuff that's working for you. Right. Because you have this machine working already in this way. So I see your Instagram working really well, and I see Amazon working really well. And then think, how can I use these assets to grow the things to then lead to something else? It's way harder for you to try and drive, you know, the 1800 people to your website to get them to convert. They have to get their credit card. They have to navigate your site like that's a little bit of a harder lift to start. But it's a, it's a plan because you've got a great website and you've got a list and it's a plan. And then think, okay, now I want to, you know, if I'm 90% here, how can I go to 80, 20 and have 80% Amazon, 20% direct to consumer. And then you can kind of percentage it and add like 1% up into direct to consumer. You know, it doesn't have to be huge, huge leaps.

[Chelsea]

Okay, yeah. Okay, that makes sense. So it's normal that it's so hard to get people to convert to your website.

[Elise]

It's just a lot more effort on your part. It was. It'll either take you doing a lot more list building and growth on social from an organic perspective or it'll take ads. Right. To drive traffic there you pay for it, you get it organically or you partner with people. So you thinking through like partnerships with like affiliates or influencers. Right? Because those influencers are huge thing in your space. It's just another project. So you have to think about when you want that project and then that's what you're going to execute in that moment of time. So let's get the business making money for you on Amazon. Cause that's kind of hands off. And then you can focus on okay, what's my next thing I want to. Maybe it is. I want to break through for my, my website in the spring. So I'm going to right now let build my Amazon, let Amazon start to make me money. It's a machine that's running and then I'm going to put together a list of influencers and do an influencer campaign and then drive traffic to my website. But it just needs to be a bit of a plan. It's just a heavier lift driving your own traffic. Not that it's a big.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

It's not the worst.

[Elise]

It's just that you have to come up with a strategy that's going to work for you and your budget.

[Chelsea]

Exactly.

[Elise]

Okay, so how can we shop from you, follow you all the things.

[Chelsea]

So I'm on Instagram at Tosi Underscore mom or my website is tosi mom.com and that's T O C I mom.

[Elise]

Okay. And then if you heard my tip about going on Amazon, if you want to go to her reviews and mark them as helpful on the positive reviews and or if you buy from her on Amazon, Amazon, leave a review. It's good product, boss. Karma, right?

[Chelsea]

Yes, thank you. So much. Thank you.

[Jacqueline Snyder]

This is just a great episode and I'm so excited to be able to coach Elise because I love her product. I love the story behind how and why she created it. And I will tell you, I know a lot of mamas out there that would really appreciate this product. So she's doing really well on Amazon and she's definitely on her way to continuing to grow her business and build her Instagram and through her Instagram, build her email list. Now, the main theme here is that if Elise wants to drive more traffic to her products and her Amazon site, she needs to focus more on her organic marketing and strategies, including her Instagram, because that is the channel she wants to work on and growing her email list. And then she can continue to create content that resonates with her ideal customers. She can build community around this, especially the kind of products she's selling. So if Elise is able to lean into this and continue to expand on it, I know she'll see the success she's looking for. And I'm really excited to work with her in one of my masterminds that are coming up. So if you are just like Elise and you're looking for higher level strategy just like this and you're making six figures, multi six figures or seven figures, I have a program for you. Now, the doors are going to be closing in the first couple of weeks of January once we kick off. We're kicking off. But if you want to learn more about my Design to Scale Lab, which is a mini mind, it's three months plus group coaching, or my Inner Circle Mastermind program that will also get access to everything that's inside of the Design to Scale Lab. So that's my $300,000 to multi seven figure businesses. I'd love for you to check out the Inner Circle Mastermind or design a scale app. Click on the links in the show notes. I'd love to see if there's a way that I can support you in 2025. Now, I'm excited to work with Elise Moore because she has joined the Design to Scale Lab and I cannot wait to take her business to the next level. Working through that in the first three months of the year. Now remember, my friends, I want you to figure out what's working for you and double down on that to find your simplest path to success. Follow the clues, okay? I know you can do it. All right, my friends, until next time.