Episode 62

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Published on:

18th Sep 2024

62 | The Reason People Aren't Buying Your Offers

There are many factors that can help more people sign up for your offers, but the simplest solution I've found is to create a new "mini offer" at least once a month. In this episode I talk about what mini offers are and why they matter. Next week we'll dive into how to come up with mini offer ideas that your audience will love.

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Transcript
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I've coached nearly 100 women about their screen time,

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and here's what I've learned.

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Women actually don't care about their

screen time, they care about those things

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that are impacted by their screen time.

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Their ability to be patient with their

kids, the growth of their business,

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having time to pursue their creative

dreams, their relationship with their

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husband, the inner peace that they feel,

their confidence in themselves, their

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Connection with God, their friendships

not missing out on their kids' childhoods.

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I'm Alex and I'm here to

help you find inner peace.

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Enjoy true fulfillment

and be fully present.

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Welcome to the Mindful with Media Podcast.

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Hi friends.

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It is good to be back recording podcasts.

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I took a couple of weeks off as a.

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Was visiting my parents in Texas.

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And.

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Kind of figuring out what's next

for my life and for a business,

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especially as my son just started

preschool for the first time.

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And that's.

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Been a bit of a transition and

just figuring out what life

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looks like for us this season.

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All that to say, I'm really excited to

be back and recording episodes again.

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, I first started my business talking about.

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Screen time.

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And then that kind of got more specific.

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Not just screen time.

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For kids or for families, but more screen

time for moms of young kids and helping

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them keep their phone use and check.

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And then I got even more specific and not

just for moms and their phone use, but

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for business owners and their phone use.

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And that's still a lot of

the work that I do, but I.

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I have focused more on business

coaching and that part of it.

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But I do still do a lot of phone

use and how that plays into it.

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Into.

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Your experience as an

entrepreneur and a business owner.

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But I guess I just wanted to say so.

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It was about a year ago that

I launched in audio course.

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Called mastering intentional phone use.

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And it was all about.

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Just

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like I think it was 10

modules and how to workbook.

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Connected to it as well, but basically.

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Who's all about, yeah.

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Being intentional with your phone

news and how to really master that.

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And I marketed that course so hard.

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A month of constantly

talking about it and.

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I had learned a lot about messaging and.

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Promising certain transformations

and all the things.

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And.

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Yeah, I just marked it really hard.

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And one person signed up.

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Purchase the course.

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And what I.

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Found?

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There were a lot of things that I learned

from that experience about why more

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people didn't sign up for the course.

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But one of the reasons is because people.

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I didn't trust.

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That, what I promised was going to

happen was going to happen for them..

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Testimonials are powerful.

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And those are, those can be

a big piece of the picture.

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But what's even more powerful

than someone else's testimonial.

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Is somebody experiencing for themselves?

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That you can help them get what they want.

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And that's why I am so passionate.

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About this concept of mini offers.

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And I'm sure you've seen these

or heard of these or heard

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them called different things.

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I have chosen to call them mini offers.

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And essentially a mini offer is.

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A free.

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Or low ticket.

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Way.

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For your audience to get

a taste of your expertise.

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And get a taste of how you

can actually help them.

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And you've probably heard

these called freebies before.

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I in my mind, these are

different for than freebies.

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In my mind, the purpose of a freebie

is to get somebody on your email list.

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And I'm much more interested

in helping people.

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Experience a powerful transformation.

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Then I'm interested in getting

someone on my email list.

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And the way that I create

these offers is different.

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If I'm thinking about how I can

serve someone and help someone,

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then I'm thinking how I can.

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Get someone on my email list.

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these.

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Many offers would be things like a

certain digital product or a prerecorded.

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Video training or an email

series or a Voxer challenge

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or a Marco polo challenge or.

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Even something in your Instagram

dams, I'll get more into examples

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later of what these mini offers

are and what they could be.

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But these are just.

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Smaller ways to serve your audience.

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So that they can learn to trust you.

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So that when you offer them bigger

things, They are more willing to

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pay you because they've experienced.

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What you do and what you're all about.

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And I just want to make a note on

the price of these many offers.

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The purpose of these many offers.

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Are not to make money.

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The purpose is.

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Too.

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Serve your audience.

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And help them trust you so

that they're more willing to.

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To pay you later on.

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And so I like to price these either free.

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Or occasionally I will

price them at a low ticket.

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Dollar amount.

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For the purpose of like buyer psychology.

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If somebody paid you.

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Once they're more likely to pay you again.

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And not only that, like also if somebody

pays money for something they're much

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more likely to take action and actually.

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Do it and actually.

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Yeah, actually participate.

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And so then they're also more

likely to get more out of whatever

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you're offering because they've.

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Put a little skin in the game.

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And so sometimes I charge money

sometimes they're free, but

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it's all with the purpose of.

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Serving my audience and helping them.

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So before we get into some more

specific examples of many offers,

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I want to dive deeper into.

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Y these mini offers are so powerful.

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So I love Instagram.

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I love.

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Learning from Instagram.

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You might've heard me talk

about this idea that I love.

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Treating Instagram as if

it's a place that I'm going.

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So it's either.

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I'm going to school.

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I'm going to learn.

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And so I love.

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Saving content to certain folders,

or I love learning about marketing.

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I love learning about business.

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I love learning about parenting.

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I love learning about.

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Mental health and nervous regulation.

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So I love.

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Viewing Instagram as a place to learn.

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And then I also love viewing

it as a place where I work.

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So I love to go teach on Instagram and.

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Share.

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Share things that I'm learning

and give trainings and give tips.

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And I love.

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Yeah.

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If you, as a place of learning

and of teaching, But that

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being said, the reality is.

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Most of us when we go on Instagram.

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. We're not ready to take action.

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We're not, we're seeing so much

content on there with really

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great ideas and really great tips.

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And so we might.

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Save a bunch of pieces of content.

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And then never look at them

again or never actually do them.

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So while Instagram can be

a great place to share.

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Content most likely.

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Your people are not taking

action or applying any of the

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things that you're sharing.

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Even if they want to.

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It's hard to make that jump

from Instagram to application.

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I feel like these mini offers are this.

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This.

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Stair-step like this next level.

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That's not quite a jump to if you're a

coach, like becoming a one-on-one client

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or joining your group coaching program or.

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Signing up for your, or even like sending

up for a live call or something like that.

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They're not.

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They're just one step more than Instagram.

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Oh, I could join this little

challenge or I could do that.

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It's just.

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And

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it's helping people to actually take

action, even if they're things that

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you've already shared on your Instagram,

when you present it in the form of a

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mini offer, they're more likely to.

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Do it.

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And actually, yeah, take action.

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And

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and this just helps people too.

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Experience a transformation and then they

are more likely to want to work with you.

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Again, And with everything like.

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It's for my experience at least.

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Sometimes.

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Somebody is like full on, ready to be able

to become a one-on-one client right away.

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More often than not.

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All notice that they sign up for several

mini offers before they're ready to.

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To work together on a deeper level, on a.

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A higher level.

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And don't get attached to any timeline

or anything, or feel like you just do

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one of these this is something that's.

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Over time builds people's trust

in you as well in whatever you do.

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And the other thing about many offers is.

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They are a great way to experiment.

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Because.

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There's less skin in the game

for you and for your people.

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They're not investing a huge amount of.

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Timer money.

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And you also should not be investing

a huge amount of time or effort into

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these, just do what feels easy and.

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And fun for you.

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And experiment, try offering something.

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If someone, if nobody signs up.

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Tweak it offers something else.

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See what resonates.

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Try different forms of

presenting information and see

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what helps people the most.

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And you can always ask people

who joined too, of what was

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helpful and what would they like?

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Different and.

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These are just great ways to

experiment and kind of with that.

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And just a great way to learn.

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So I like to do lots of mini offers

to see what types of things my people

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are resonating with, so that then

I can know what I should base my.

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Bigger offers around because I can

see what things people are feeling

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drawn to or what they want help with.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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So let's get into some examples of.

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Minnie offers what they are.

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And I actually have a free download.

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All about.

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Many offers.

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It's more about like how to

create your own mini offer.

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Let me see if I can find.

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Let's see.

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Yeah.

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So I have a workbook.

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It's called your guide

to creating many offers.

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So your audience can trust you

enough to pay you more money.

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Okay.

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So just for some examples of

many offers, First I'll share

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some that I've done and then I'll

share some more that you could do.

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I did one.

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What did I call it?

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I think I called it

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I think I just called it.

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Create your customize.

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30 minute content strategy

or something like that.

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And it was a Voxer group where

each day I would give a training.

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With information and the

purpose of the whole.

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Voxer group was to help people.

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Oh co content creation.

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Your personalized content creation.

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Strategy.

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I don't know.

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I think.

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I was like getting a loft, but basically

the purpose of it most to help people.

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Figure out

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when to create content when not

to create content and how to

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create content more quickly.

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So that was one that I did

and that was via Voxer.

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And then another one that

I've done is called the post.

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Then present challenge.

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And that was a seven day challenge where

I challenged people to post every day for

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seven days on their Instagram account.

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But only spend 30

minutes a day on the app.

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So just as a way to.

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One practice getting faster

at creating content and not

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spending forever on the app.

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And then also to practice.

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Regulating their emotions in ways other

than scrolling Instagram, which can

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be really easy to do as any person,

but especially as a business owner.

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Another one that I've done is a mom's

guide to building a simple business.

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And that was just a workbook to help you.

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Figure out.

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In each aspect of your life.

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What was most important to you

and what things to focus on

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and what things to set aside.

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And then.

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I'm actually working on one right now.

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That's going to be a

guide to creating content.

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And there are so many.

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Things about there, about creating

content and the thing about me that

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I feel like is different for most.

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Content creators, especially

content creators who are teaching.

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Instagram.

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Content creation strategies.

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Is.

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I don't even know how to say this, but

like I care a lot more about being.

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Mediocre and just getting it done.

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And having it, do the trick then.

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Doing all the right things and doing it.

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Perfectly in doing it.

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Really well.

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I don't know, basically,

I'm going to teach you.

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A very simple way to see results

in your business from your content.

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And.

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Teach you how to create content.

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So that's what I'm working on

next for my next mini offer.

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Another example of a mini offer that's

this idea of a stepping stone of.

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Helping people get a taste

of how you can help them.

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Is through your Instagram story.

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So I think I did one a few months

ago where I said what's the biggest

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thing getting in the way of you

making a thousand dollars a month.

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And then I had A poll on my.

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Instagram stories where they could choose.

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People aren't buying the offers that I.

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Put out, or I don't have enough time or.

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I don't know.

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What to sell or I'm feeling stuck or

something like that or other, and then.

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I said

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Depending on what you choose all DMU.

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And so that started a

lot of DM conversations.

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About.

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I just reach out and.

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Look into their business based

on their profile a little bit.

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If I didn't already know them and

just ask, Hey, yeah, just ask them

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more questions and I did some.

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Free coaching via Instagram.

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Sharing some ideas of

things that might help.

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That's another type of mini

offer that you could do.

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. So some other examples could be.

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Luxor group with a daily journal prompt.

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And for that, I would make sure

you have a really specific.

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Outcome or transformation

that will happen.

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As she works through those

daily journal prompts or.

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You could yeah.

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Do a prompt in your stories

that says something like.

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Share one thing that's making it hard

for you to connect with your spouse

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and all DMU, a personalized solution.

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Or in your Instagram stories.

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This would be more.

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If you're a.

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Fitness coast cer.

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Your personal trainer or something

like that, you could say Choose

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what your current workout goal is.

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And then I'll send you a customer

used to workout plan for this week.

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And then you could, give for.

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Specific options of.

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What people's specific workout goals

might be, even if they don't know it's

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their goal, like just give them options

of what they could be working towards.

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some other examples could be.

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Five to 10 minute video training,

sharing a step-by-step process.

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It could be a digital

workbook or a digital PDF.

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Download sharing a step-by-step process.

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Or it could be a 10 day

challenge of some sort.

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Held in an Instagram.

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Broadcast channel or held

on your close friends.

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Instagram, have people join

your close friends group or.

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It could be.

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Daily training that, you send.

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Certain a small training and action thing.

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Via email, this could be a via email.

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So those are just some different formats

that you could use for these mini offers.

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But the idea with a mini offer.

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I think I said this so far, but I

just want to make it really clear

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is it's just one specific thing.

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So you probably have.

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Either a course or an idea for a course or

a coaching package or something like that.

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That covers lots of things.

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This is just choose one teeny tiny.

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Problem and one teeny tiny solution.

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And actually next week's podcast

episode we'll dive more into how to

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come up with many offer ideas that.

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Your people will love.

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But for now.

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Just keep it small and simple and

that'll be hard because you know, so

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much you'll want to get into more things

like, oh, they can't fully understand

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this and they don't understand that.

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But.

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I promise just just do one thing and

they can work with you more later.

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I want to get into some.

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Helpful tips and tricks are how tos.

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As you are.

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Trying out doing mini

offers in your business.

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One thing is to be aware of the

level of commitment and effort

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that it requires of your audience.

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So I like to think of it as a scale.

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There's a scale on one end that

requires the least amount of

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effort, the least amount of.

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Time or energy or anything.

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On one end, that would

probably be something like.

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Choose what your goal is or

what your main pain point is.

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And I'll DM you.

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A.

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Workout plan or all a DMU, a.

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Five steps to help or

something more simple.

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They give you one thing.

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They only had to press a button.

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And then they get an idea from you.

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And then at the other end of the

spectrum, Those are things that

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require a lot more from your people.

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So that would be a live one-on-one.

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Call or a.

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Live training where they

have to show up and be there.

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At a certain time and a

certain place that requires.

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A lot of effort of people.

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And I think it's easy to think

I'm putting it out for free.

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Like, why aren't people signing

up or why do people sign up and

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not come, but if they don't.

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Trust you enough yet?

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Not that you shouldn't

be trusted, but if they.

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They don't trust you enough yet that

what you are offering is going to be.

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Significantly helpful to them.

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It's going to be really hard for them

to prioritize something like that.

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And so I like to start my mini offers.

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More on the range of.

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Less effort for my people.

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And then you can gradually.

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You can do several different

kinds of mini offers.

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That's why I highly recommend

doing at least one a month.

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But just being aware.

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Of what formats are

easiest for your people to.

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Actually take action and actually.

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Do something with the information

that you're giving them or the, yeah.

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What you're asking them to do.

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And the other thing that's really

powerful about many offers is.

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It provides a really great

opportunity to offer.

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The next level once they've

already committed to that.

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So , for example, I have in the

past on like those Voxer challenges.

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I've done those as free.

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So they get the trainings for free.

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And then at the beginning,

I'll say something like.

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If you are interested in more

personalized support, you can

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pay X amount of dollars for.

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One-on-one access to me this week as well.

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Or you can pay X amount of dollars for.

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Content prompts or done for you

content or whatever it is like.

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You can do an upsell

within that many offer.

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And that's a great way.

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If people do want to work with you,

if they're already ready for the

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next step, that's a kind of like a.

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The next level too, it's we're just

wanting to give people a little

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steps for depending on where they're

at in their journey of how much.

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Help they want and how and where,

what they're ready for at that time.

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And also I love at the end of many offers.

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Offering something else.

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So like either.

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If it's at like the end of a.

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PDF, you can say something like.

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Until this date, you can sign

up for a free call at this

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many dollars, or you can.

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Yeah, just give them like, That

one step closer for how they can.

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Work with you or how you can

help them, or, maybe , first

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you offer a free challenge.

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And then at the end of

that, then you offer a.

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Like a low ticket paid thing.

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Only offered to the people in that group.

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So it feels exclusive

and it's special to them.

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So those are ways that you can use

your mini offers to build on each other

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And just help your people to actually experience.

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The changes that you can provide for them.

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This concept of mini offers is something

that has literally changed my business.

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This is how I've started

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If you have any questions, I

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do this in my business, but I'm stuck.

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I'm more than happy to

chat with you and may.

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Instagram DMS about how

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And with that, like I said, next week's.

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Podcast will be all about.

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How to actually come up with mini

offer ideas, personalized for

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your business and for your people.

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And then you can also grab in the

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Your guide to creating many

offers and that's totally free.

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About the Podcast

Mindful with Media
This is the podcast for entrepreneurial moms who want to grow a meaningful, profitable business without sacrificing their other priorities (like spending time with their kids or getting enough sleep).

Host Alex Fales—business coach, mindset mentor, and mom—shares honest conversations, simple strategies, and powerful mindset shifts to help you and make money doing work you love and grow as a person while you're at it.

Expect solo episodes, authentic chats, and real-life stories that help you blend business strategy with personal growth, so you can build a business that supports your life (not the other way around).

Because you don’t need more hustle.
You need clarity, confidence, and the courage to do business your way.