Get Sales Now. Episode 163

Get Sales Now. Episode 163

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Today I’m chatting with Sylvie Roy the founder of Eclair Lips.

Sylvie is sharing the story of how she used a templated event that she pulled from the “Get Sales Now” unit inside of the Inner Circle Classroom.

Last month Sylvie used the “Mystery Box” event (formerly called “ninja event). Her goal was to make some sales and get rid of some labels for products that she had discontinued.

You’ll love hearing how Sylvie used this event and ultimately had her highest sales day ever. In fact, her revenue for this event was more than last year’s entire Black Friday weekend revenue.

It’s a great story in itself, but the real story is about transformation.

When you hear what’s happened in Sylvie’s business since January 2020, you’ll get clarity about managing your expectations for today’s results while being able to see what’s possible for you in the future.

The real lesson is in understanding your sales potential if you stay consistent and focused on a few marketing activities instead of jumping from “idea” to “idea”.

When you listen, you’ll learn:

  1. The reason that building an audience is the fastest way to scale
  2. Proof that Marketing is more important than product and pricing
  3. An example of how you can get sales fast, even if you don’t know where to start
  4. How to make “scaling” your sales possible.

You can visit Eclair Lips here: https://eclairlips.com/

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We’re Getting Consistent Revenue Now. Episode 202

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Build a Massive Audience with a Brand Video. Episode 162

Build a Massive Audience with a Brand Video. Episode 162

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Many Ecommerce store owners are surprised when they learn that they need a massive audience to keep growing and reach their long term sales goals. 

It’s not uncommon for higher volume stores to reach millions of people every month. 
They’re highly visible.

Even when you’re a new-ish Ecommerce store owner, you’ll need to make yourself visible to 100,000 – 200,000 people every month in order to create awareness for your products.

It might seem daunting, but the truth is it’s not that hard, or expensive.

Brand Videos are one of the fastest ways to build your product awareness, get more traffic to your site, and make your business visible and memorable.

You might be thinking that Brand Videos are only for “big” businesses, and that you need a high production value, big budget video, but I know that’s not the case.

Every Ecommerce store owner should have a Brand Video. When you have a Brand Video, you’ll be able to use it to:
→Attract the right people, by giving them a  taste of what they’ll find on your site
→Build a massive audience – for a tiny spend 

Listen in as our Inner Circle Traffic Coach, Cathy Hayhurst shares a simple way to create your Brand Video then use it to build a massive audience. 

Grab a pen, take some notes, and before you know it, your store will be visible, and your audience will be full of people who have a genuine interest in your products.

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New FREE Course

GROW YOUR SALES

(without breaking the bank)

Conversion School is a step by step process to grow your sales,
without spending a fortune on risky ad strategies, or discounting your products.

Works for Ecommerce stores at all stages.

Start getting consistent sales, and see significant sales growth every month.

How long will it take to reach your goals? Episode 203

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We’re Getting Consistent Revenue Now. Episode 202

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How to build an SEO Funnel. Episode 161

How to build an SEO Funnel. Episode 161

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Have you heard of an SEO Funnel?

Most of us understand the sales funnel where we’ve got our cold, warm, and hot audiences filtering down the funnel to the purchase goal.

You can apply that same method of thinking to SEO.

An SEO Funnel will bring consistent, high quality traffic to your site, and it doesn’t cost a dime.

Investing time into SEO can be beneficial for any ecommerce business, and you can use a content-based funnel strategy to grow traffic and sales without advertising.

What is a SEO Funnel?
It’s an SEO focused content strategy designed to warm up your audiences and bring them down a funnel, until they make a purchase. Your SEO Funnel has 3 audiences.
Top of funnel audience, middle of funnel audience, and bottom of funnel audience.

Specific SEO focused content is created to attract a top of funnel, middle of funnel, and bottom of funnel audience.

SEO Funnel

What kinds of Ecommerce stores should use an SEO Funnel?
Every product based Ecommerce business can benefit from this strategy.

Why is this Important to me now?
The SEO Funnel is a slow growing evergreen strategy. You can track and measure your results, so you can see that it’s working and your time is well spent. You can implement it by creating content consistently over time. This isn’t a paid strategy. Your investment is in time, not money.

Traffic that comes to your store from an organic search will often have higher than average conversion rates.

How to get started:
Start by optimizing your Collection and Product pages.

We recommend you do some keyword research, to determine the best keyword phrases to use for each of those pages.
Find the best keyword phrases by using a tool like ubersuggest.
It’s a cost effective way to do keyword research quickly.
You can also use a free tool like the Google Ads keyword planner.
Look for phrases that actually get searched by real people, so you can be confident that the keywords you are using are actually getting some traffic.

Look for keyword phrases that have 1,000 – 10,000 searches a month for products.

Once you’ve done that, make a plan to optimize your homepage, your collections, and your product pages. At a minimum, include your chosen keyword phrase in your title description and image alt text at a minimum.

In the Inner Circle, we have great training  that explains how to do this, step by step.
Learn how to keyword optimize your site. Get the free guide, Simple SEO for Store Owners.

 

 

TOP OF FUNNEL: Audience is in the awareness stage. They may not even know that they need your product. They’re asking general questions and considering multiple options. Create broad content that answers questions like What is X? is perfect at this stage.
MIDDLE OF FUNNEL: Audience knows they need your product and are still deciding on which option is best. They may be looking at your products and competitor’s products. Content that is more product specific helps them decide which product will best fill their need. Product comparisons or reviews are two examples of content to create for this stage.
BOTTOM OF FUNNEL: This audience has already made the decision to purchase and they are considering a purchase from you. Your job is to assure them that they are making the right decision by buying from you. Content like lots of reviews, “how to” guides, and in depth product descriptions with specifications can help them make the decision to purchase.

Key points to remember:
1. All store owners should work on an SEO strategy, even if they use paid ads. This content will help buyers feel confident in purchasing from you.
2. SEO is a long term strategy. While sometimes we see quick wins in ranking and traffic, the reality is that bigger wins take months (and sometimes) years to attain.
3. If you use Google ads, working on your SEO will directly and indirectly help those ads. Google P-Max normally uses SEO product titles & descriptions, and optimizing your listings will help you be found more often.

Your next steps:
1. Perform a content audit of your site using the SEO Funnel as a guide.
2.Find the gaps and make a plan to start, or improve, your own funnel. 

For 1:1 help, Inner Circle members can book a call with our SEO Coach, Sarah and get personalized recommendations for your product.

Not a member of the Inner Circle? Use this link to get the details.
https://thesocialsalesgirls.com/inner-circle/

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Become a Marketing First store owner. Episode 160

Become a Marketing First store owner. Episode 160

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This episode is full of “aha” moments.

One of the most powerful things you can do for your business is to become what I call a “Marketing First” Store Owner.

It sounds fancy, but really it means that you prioritize marketing over all the other “things” that take up your work hours.

Today we’re talking about what a Marketing First store owner does – and how to stay on track

I invited one of my favorite Inner Circle Members, Melissa Davies, to join me today. When I think of a Marketing First store owner, a picture of Melissa pops into my head.

Melissa has generously offered to share her Sales Funnel with us, so you’ll get to see her actual numbers.

We’re going to talk about her funnel – and why she does this work, even though she has a successful store, and she’s really good at marketing

Melissa shared her Sales Funnel numbers for the last 30 days, and when I saw what she was doing, my jaw dropped.

We talked about what she did to grow her audience and traffic massively since she’s been using the Sales Funnel, and then we talked about what her strategy should be to maintain these numbers.

We wrapped up with 1-3 action steps that Melissa can take right now!

The Sales Funnel framework works beautifully for store owners at all stages of business

I love it because it makes it easy to develop an effective action plan for each month.

You know exactly what your business needs NOW, and once you know, it’s easy to become a Marketing First store owner.

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(without breaking the bank)

Conversion School is a step by step process to grow your sales,
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Works for Ecommerce stores at all stages.

Start getting consistent sales, and see significant sales growth every month.

How long will it take to reach your goals? Episode 203

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The powerful work that will get you to your goals. Episode 159

The powerful work that will get you to your goals. Episode 159

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What can I work on that will really move the needle in my business.

What’s the work that will get me closer to my goals, keep me on track, and lead to long term success?

This is the question that swirls around in almost every store owner’s head – all the time.

For years we’ve been giving our Inner Circle Members the exact work they must do in order to get sales.

More often than not, their progress comes in baby steps, and sometimes that’s really hard to see. That’s when many people start to wonder if all their effort is having any impact on their results. And they shift gears or stop altogether.

It’s a problem

This year, we developed new training that solves that problem.

We’re teaching our Members how to build a Sales Funnel for their shops.

When you build your sales funnel, you actually get to see:

  • How many potential customers are in your Sales Funnel
  • Where they are on their customer journey
  • The work you need to do to convert more people into buyers
  • What your business needs you to focus on this month.

You are actually able to see what your business needs each month. You’ll do the work, and you’ll be able to physically see the impact of your work when you build your Sales Funnel next month.

Building their own Sales Funnel, and being able to see the big picture has had a massive impact for our Members. They’re focused. And they’re making more progress than ever before.

This training is so important that I knew we must share it with you.

Join us next month for a live, hands-on workshop. We’ll guide you through the process as you build your Sales Funnel.

You’ll leave knowing the big picture for your store, and the work you’ll focus on that will get you closer to your big goals.

You can register here. The cost is $10. Join us live, and come ready to work.

A replay will be delivered to all registrants.

https://classroom.thesocialsalesgirls.com/build-your-sales-funnel-workshop

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New FREE Course

GROW YOUR SALES

(without breaking the bank)

Conversion School is a step by step process to grow your sales,
without spending a fortune on risky ad strategies, or discounting your products.

Works for Ecommerce stores at all stages.

Start getting consistent sales, and see significant sales growth every month.

How long will it take to reach your goals? Episode 203

How long will it take to reach your goals? Episode 203

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How to get control of your $. Episode 158

How to get control of your $. Episode 158

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Today I’m talking with my good friend Ciara Stockeland about how store owners like us can get control of our cash, understand our financials, and finally stop sweating about our cash flow.

I am a big fan of Ciara’s because she’s a long time Retailer turned Profit First Expert.

That’s important, because she understands inventory based businesses, and how common it is for us to struggle with cash flow because we are continually buying inventory or raw materials.

We’ve both seen too many smart store owners be stressed to max from continually juggling their cash. Even though it might feel like you’re failing, or “not good” at the money part, the truth is that managing your cash flow and profit is just a problem to solve.

And it is solve-able.

Listen in as Ciara and I talk about the strategies she teaches in her new book, Inventory Genius.

It might be the most valuable 20 minutes you spend this month.

 

Get your copy of Inventory Genius here: https://www.ciarastockeland.com/a/2147532113/2cz2f3cA

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Works for Ecommerce stores at all stages.

Start getting consistent sales, and see significant sales growth every month.

New FREE Course

GROW YOUR SALES

(without breaking the bank)

Conversion School is a step by step process to grow your sales,
without spending a fortune on risky ad strategies, or discounting your products.

Works for Ecommerce stores at all stages.

Start getting consistent sales, and see significant sales growth every month.

How long will it take to reach your goals? Episode 203

How long will it take to reach your goals? Episode 203

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We’re Getting Consistent Revenue Now. Episode 202

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