This One Thing Determines How Many Sales You Get Online

Getting more customers in your business is as simple as just consistently making more offers to more people, more often.

This means you need to show up consistently in front of your target customer, the person who's ready to buy from you, not just when it's convenient for you, but all the time.

When I started working with my coaching client Ryan, he had a lot of great ideas but wasn't making offers to people! As you can guess, he wasn't making any money as soon as he started making more offers his business jumped to 20 to $30,000 per month.

Now, this is impossible with our busy schedules. That's why we have tools for scheduling things and pre-planning, batch production, and eventually hiring staff to help create content more often to get in front of more people.

Put, if you're relying on what you can output, you're going to run out of ways to reach people.

If you can leverage tools like email marketing, advertising, videos, and social media posts, you can be in front of people all the time and become virtually omnipresent.

Now the key is to show up in front of the right people all the time, not just anybody. Random people for the sake of showing up to random people doesn't work!

For example, if you show up in front of people that are not ready to buy your product, say you sell beauty care to middle-aged men, they might think you're cute in your ads, but they're not going to buy your product for their girlfriends (if they even have one.)

This is why coming up with avatars for your target customer is so important.

Intentionally spend time writing down who they are, what drives them what keeps them up at night what they want what they need.

Start putting yourself in the shoes of your target customer and thinking in the ways that they think about things.

When you do this, you can create campaigns that move the exact person who's ready to buy from you from just being interested in your product to purchase what you have to offer.

It's that simple.

Unfortunately, marketers have tried to overcomplicate this simple process because it helps them sell courses and mentorships to make it seem like it's more complicated than it is.

Now yes, running a business is complicated, but reaching your target customer is as easy as following a few simple steps to get in front of people at the right time and create offers to them for what you have for them too.

If you don't know what to offer, people join my fre #GrowYourLife Community on Facebook. Click on the units section and go through my free 21-day "Internet Cashflow Formula" masterclass, where I walk you through step-by-step, creating an offer and reaching your target customer to sell more products to the people who are ready to buy from you.

If you have an offer, it's time to start running ads.

Advertising is the quickest way to reach the people who are ready to buy from you. You can put your ad in front of tens of thousands of people for pennies on the dollar and convert them to sales when you do just a few simple things.

In my course "Social Media Ads That Work," I walk you through exactly what those things are that you need to do to create ad campaigns that get customers in your business.

Stop trying to figure out just what to do with the latest system, the newest algorithm, the most exciting new funnel software, and just start making more offers.

If you don't know what to offer, that's the place to start. Develop your offer. Write it down on a notepad.

What you are offering people is not what you have for sale. It's the result that they get from buying from you.

That's why you need to tell more stories.

Start getting more results and customers in your business... Like my client, Rick: we helped get over 4,000 members to his membership using this simple system of making consistent offers with social media ads, (exactly what I teach you in my free internet cash flow master class and my social media ads course.)

It's time to get off the sidelines and start taking action.

Are you ready to be the next success story?

Getting People To Pay You Money On The Internet

With online marketing, we get to utilize systems and tools to lead people down the buying path and process.

When you are on the phone with people, you have the ability to ask for feedback on que, and answer accordingly.

When you are online, the process is much slower for feedback, so you must learn to anticipate the questions people have, and hand hold them digitally to find what they are looking for.

I am using content, ads, landing pages, email marketing, Facebook groups, videos, blog posts, podcasts, etc.

All of these are tools to meet people at different places to direct them to your offer.

When it comes to asking for the sale, you have to ask with boldness and confidence, but in a way that respects where the other person is at.

If your target customer doesn’t feel appreciated & heard, and what you are offering doesn’t resonate with them, they won’t buy from you.

You could have the best product or service, but without resonating with the people who you are selling to, no one is going to take action!

We have to start stepping out, taking the leap of faith to ask for the sale.

You are not an inconvenience to anyone for asking for the sale. You are not “unworthy” of people paying you for what you do. If someone doesn’t buy from you, it does not mean that you are less worthy than if they did buy.

Your mission is to increase the certainty in what you are selling, casting vision so that your target customer can see what you are offering them in their mind's eye.

 So that they can almost feel, taste, touch and smell what it is you are selling to them before they ever purchase it. All this happens during the process of “attention” getting.

Once you have their attention, you want to pique their interest in what you have to offer. Speak the language of the person you are communicating with. Not the language you are used to speaking with your peers or friends, but rather the words and even cadence that your target customer uses!

This is not about you ‘looking good’ or people ‘liking you’. If your goal in a sales interaction is to look good enough for people to like you enough to buy, you’ve already failed and lost the interaction.

You will look better to people, AND they will like you more when you stop trying to use your sales interactions as a way to get self-validation.

You are on a mission to validate the needs of the person you are selling to, so that they know that you hear them and understand the position they are in – and can offer them a unique, tailor-made solution to what they want.

You then want to get very specific and focused on who you sell to. You’re not going to please everyone with what you have to offer. That’s just the truth, so stop trying.

Focus on those who have an interest already in what it is you are selling, and once you have that interest, don’t be afraid to ask them to buy from you.

 Make offers, more offers, consistently, over time – repeatedly, keep showing up to people to offer them what you are selling.

Your goal is to build a relationship to where they might not buy from you now, but they will eventually later.

And if they don’t, that’s ok, but you’ll work on creating things to help serve them throughout the process in the future!

If you’re looking for a proven formula to close more sales online, join my #GrowYourLife community on facebook, we’re doing a 21 Day Masterclass in there called “Internet Cashflow Formula” where I’m going step by step through the process of making money using the internet!

Join the group here.

Turn Bad Situations Into Massive Success

What do you do when life throws you a curveball, and nothing is guaranteed?

Sit around and complain, hoping they change?

Or develop a plan and a strategy to breakthrough to your goals?

Life has thrown you a curveball right now. All of us have been. For you to be successful in reaching your goals in business, you must learn to make the best of every situation that you've been given.

Everything is not going to be perfect, and there's nothing you can do about that.

We must learn to roll with the punches. We must learn to be resilient, to get back up when life knocks us down!

Once we get past the initial trauma and pull up our bootstraps, we can see the path ahead!

In the beginning, it's hard. I get it!

In my life, I've been knocked down many times.

Just 2 years ago, March of 2018, I didn't know what I was going to do with my life - or how I was going to make money! I had just lost all of my income, and didn't have anything to fall back on except for the skills I had to help business owners make money online!

So I started offering services for free to people to build websites and run their social media campaigns! I had to start from scratch, at the ground level of everything and figure it out!

I taught myself things I didn’t know how to do, like communicating on video every day and podcasting! I wasn’t good at it first. It was super awkward, but I made it work!

Now a year later, I can say that I feel so comfortable on video that it’s my favorite thing ever to do!

In the beginning, I was scared because there was no guarantees of anything at all!

Things in my life didn’t pan out the way I had thought they would - but I had a choice to make, was I going to let this experience define me? Or was I going to choose to do what I needed to do to keep moving forward?

Since then we’ve helped multiple business owners grow their bottom line past the 7 and 8 figure mark with our consulting business, and continue to do so every single day!

Life is going to knock you down.

It's not about how many times you get knocked down! It's about how many times you can get hit, and keep standing up, moving forward!

Resilience and tenacity are the only way to make it in these times!

Be resilient to set some time aside to focus on your goals.

Take some time to learn new skills, be intentional about your actions.

Let go of the need for everything to be under your control for you to be safe and secure.

Plan your days out, and execute!

Take your time seriously during this season. You have to be as committed to your time management as you would if you were working in any job.

For you to grow and reach your goals, you have to start to shift things and do things differently.

Practical steps:

1.) Breathe. Take a little bit of time to rest and breathe. Sounds counter-intuitive, right? Actually, it's the fuel that will drive your results.

2.) Figure out the simplest, fastest thing you can execute on now, today this week.

3.) What don't you know how to do? Spend some time researching how to do these things!

4.) Ask for help. Find someone who can answer your questions. Be humble enough to say “I don’t know everything” and don’t be afraid to look bad TEMPORARILY for the sake of learning what you don’t know!

It’s not about looking like you have it all together, it’s about winning and making a plan that works - that get’s results, and creates the life you know is possible.

Are you ready?

If you want to learn how to build a business and make a true, sustainable income for yourself online, join the Internet Cashflow Formula Masterclass (normal price is $1997, but I'm offering it for FREE right now) here: https://jeremiahkrakowski.com/1997-dollar-email

Failure Helps You Succeed

Growing up, I always thought that if I could do everything perfectly, I would be safe and happy in life.

Throughout my life, I made absolute perfection to be my goal in everything I did. I prided myself on the fact that I hardly ever made mistakes, and things came easy to me.

And then, reality struck. One day I realized the truth that I could not do anything perfectly in life. Even the things I thought were perfect - I had cognitive disassociation about and was believing lies about my life as not to feel the pain of admitting that my life was not perfect!

I think everyone can relate to this in some way or another.

You will never achieve your goals in life if perfection is your goal.

Sure, you might hit some micro-goals - small milestones of perfection, but those big dreams will always escape you.

Perfectionism is a pursuit to validate ourselves. It proves to us and everyone else around us that we know what we are doing, and they can trust us - or so we think.

Underneath, we are lying to ourselves and everyone else about what is going on deep down inside us. We feel like a failure at nearly everything and are avoiding that feeling with everything inside of us to avoid pain or punishment!

Sadly, this is the cycle many people are on. I was on this cycle for years.

Failure is one of the greatest things we can ever experience in life.

When we fail, we give ourselves a chance to learn.

Perfection is a pipe dream. We will never achieve perfection. Even if you live a life that you think is perfect, it's the flaws that make it beautiful. Eventually, we all come face to face with our humanity.

Did you know that you will achieve your goals faster by embracing failure than avoiding it?

So often people believe that to reach their goals, they have to do everything perfectly.

We could believe this based on an experience we had as a child - or something else.

Ultimately we must embrace failure as a teacher, to guide us to the things we need to learn.

Failure is such an excellent teacher and is one of the best things we can experience because it points us to the truth!

When we try to pretend everything is perfect and live a facade, we will repeat the same negative deadly patterns in our life.

When we embrace the fact that maybe we don't know everything, and it's ok to make mistakes, then we can grow!

This week, please make a list of 3 things that you're avoiding doing out of fear of failure.

Pick one of them, the easiest one to do.

How bad would failure hurt? What would happen?

Why are you avoiding it?

What would the benefits be?

Start to make a declaration to go after this thing - and a plan to execute on your goals.

We can not accomplish anything when we fear to fail at it. But we can when we are ok with failure happening and learn to grow.

We must open ourselves up to learning instead of stuffing down the part of us that wants to learn, treating that part of us as an inadequate version of ourselves.

Listen to the voice inside of you that is pointing to what you need to do, and start making a plan to take action this week!

Failure will not define you when you embrace it as a teacher - learning to grow from the lessons you learn along the way.

No one is going to come alongside you to pick you up either after failure. You are the only one that can kickstart your life to go after your dreams.

Are you ready? You are worth it. Let's go this week.

How To Write When You Aren't A Good Writer

Do you struggle with writing? I used to a while back but I started doing this simple thing:

I would record myself talking and then edit it later. What technology these days we have so many options to do this. We can record our voice to something like Evernote. We can record audio and get it transcribed. We can record a video and get it transcribed and edited.

We have apps like Grammarly that can edit our grammar with artificial intelligence to become a better writer. Learn the best flow to getting your information out on paper. Learn the best flow to get your thoughts out of your head.

This could be sitting down and just writing, rambling. This could be talking into your phone, this could be making a video and having the conversation edited but the most important thing is getting the thoughts out of your head and into time and space. 

Writing is not limited only to what you type with your fingers. Writing has to do with extracting what's in your head and refining it into something that other people can use. Writing is not merely words on a paper but creating thoughts in a construed way that flow and are easily understood to impart an idea to somebody else.

You may argue, “no writing is written on paper” the end of goal could be that. All of us have a unique flow, especially in 2019, to getting our thoughts out. If you're somebody that is more comfortable just talking and recording and having conversations with people, record your voice and get it transcribed.

Even this article right now, I decided to use this method. Opened up my Evernote app, I press record, I started talking into the app and then when it was done I got it edited.

I edited it it with Grammarly and now here's the article.

It took me no more than 5 minutes to do this and I have an article. Weirdly enough I made up so many excuses for why I wasn't able to do an article.

You'll notice this is the first article I've had since July and then I had an epiphany, I was being too hard on myself about my method for writing.

I went back to my original writing method that I use so well five, six years ago by recording my voice, transcribing it and editing the transcription.

I think often we become embarrassed because we use non-traditional methods to reach the end result. You have to find the method that works best for you. For some people, writing is sitting down and typing. Others, it is talking.

For me, I can talk a narrative much better and easier than I can write it with my fingers, which is why I often when I make my video content on social media. I may have paragraphs written at the end but that's only after I got the idea out on video. Find the flow that works best for you.

Just because somebody else said to do it one way doesn't mean that’s the only way to do it. Sadly we have a culture that's restricted to believing that there's only one way to reach an end result. This is a lie.

Find the one that works best for you. As long as you got to the same end result, how you got there doesn’t matter!

The saddest part about our culture is that we shame people that don't get to the same place, the same way that we do. This creates division and is divisive instead of connecting and unifying us. We're all different. We're all unique.

We have different purposes and different ways that our brains operate. It’s time to start having more self respect for yourself and not paying attention to just what other people say or what you were taught in school by your third grade English teacher. We have tools now that help us with grammar. 

I am terrible with grammar and spelling. I will be the first one to tell you that I'm not good at it. It's my worst skill. That's why I'm thankful for an artificial intelligence platform like Grammarly that helps with grammar. So try it today! If you have something that you want to express to people write it out, talk it. You can make pause.

While I recorded this audio I made massive pauses verbally because I was thinking about what I was going to say next. I wasn't subject to having to do it perfectly. Then I was able to go and edit it.

When I go to record something on video, it's often because I can string it together in a fluid thought. This topic is one of those areas that I'm not the most confident in but I know that what's in my head needs to get out on paper. So I decided to use the method that I'm telling you to use to record this. You'll notice how well this article came out. In the end, try it yourself.

Use some of the tools that may be on your phone. Most of our phones these days have voice to text and it's very accurate. Google and Apple have both invested millions and even billions of dollars in artificial intelligence technology to translate voice to text. Utilize it to help you create better content and write faster. 

As you do this more often you'll be able to come up with better articles, better video content and better snippets for social media content but you have to start with something. 

Often inaction and the excuses that we tell ourselves of what we're not good at, limits us to stay stuck where we are right now. It's time to break the box and take the lid off and start utilizing what we are good at. To shore up and hone in the areas that we aren't good at, we can use technology and other people around us to help us.

When it comes to writing, apps like Grammarly and the voice to text on your phone make it great. If you're a good talker, a good speaker, if you're somebody that is really good at writing already, I'm surprised that you got to the end of this article but that's okay.

I would recommend that you write and then take what you wrote and speak it on video and use your writing as notes for video. That'll help you become better at articulating things on video as well and it'll be a loop that's where you can help extract what's in your head and get it into one place to impart it to someone else.

The written word is a way of imparting energy to other people, same with the spoken word, same with video. Find the format that works best for you. We want to use multi-channel forms of media, written audio and visual. You will need to learn how to do all three but find the one that you have the strength in and use other people and technology.

Mainly technology when you start and don't have the budget for staff to reach more people across all of these various media channels and methods.

These Powerful Choices Will Help You Reach Your Goals Faster

For you to get a different result in your life, you have to be willing to learn something new!

So often, I find people are looking for a mentor or coach to validate that they are on the right track.
 
 This becomes very counter-intuitive and co-dependent on the coach continuing to either affirm or correct what’s true or not.
 
 For us to grow to the next level, we have to be willing to learn something we’ve not done before, and even tear down the shaky foundations of our life that we’ve had up to this moment in time.

One of the biggest things I’ve seen people struggle with reaching their goals is looking up to others for approval and validation that what they are doing is “ok” and right.
 
Then, double whammy, they never make themselves vulnerable enough to learn something new – and ask questions because of fear of realizing that they didn’t have it all together in the first place!

So we stay stuck in this delusion of “I will be ok when” and “One day I will reach a place where” – while we continuously rely on other people to give us the power to go after our dreams.
 
 We’re looking for others to be the catalyst for us to reach our goals.
 
 The fact is this will never work. Me saying that right now may be offensive to the delusion that some people believe because what else could be the case?
 
You have to take responsibility for yourself for your choices. Discipline yourself to do the things that you want to do, without ever needing anyone else to hold you accountable!

It’s time we stop looking to others to validate that we are on the right track, and we start just moving the path forward on our own.

And now we come face to face with our fears: judgment, not fitting in, punishment, getting in trouble, criticism.

We have to be ok with criticism to go after our goals and move forward in the face of it!
 
 Stop allowing critics to disempower you from going after your dreams!

You have to believe in yourself enough to do the thing that’s inside you!
 
 You have to set up a filter of what you take in, and sometimes shutting down voices that are not benefiting you!
 
 These could even be voices of your past, family members, friends, people who you’ve respected before, and they have your best interest in mind – BUT – because they have to also come to grips with the responsibility in themselves for why they are where they are – you can no longer allow them to dictate your choices or direct your path.
 
 Now, this becomes very lonely for a second because we are left with the shell of who we’ve been in our lives, and the future that we are becoming.
 
 As soon as you leave the past behind and stop trying to resurrect the old ways of being, you will be able to reach your goals so much faster.
 
 You will attract the friends, the help, the mentors, the leaders, the resources that you need to reach your goals!
 
 You will start to notice by turning your reticular activating system on that you were headed in the right direction all along.
 
 The truth is this: We don’t need other people to change for us to reach our goals. We don’t need even to get anyone to agree with us to achieve our goals.
 
 We have to give up the need to try to control everything around us, the messages, the people, the influence – and learn to control ourselves: what we are letting in.
 
 This is knowing when to ignore things, and when to pay attention. This is not letting everything that comes at you distract you. This is being focused on where you are going – by being PRESENT at this moment in time to trust the process and know that you are on the right path.
 
 If any doubt creeps in, we often rely on going to others to tell us if we’re on the right path or not, and there’ a time a place for this, but you need to make your circle small that you take input from — less than 3-4 people.
 
 You can have a relationship with many others, but not to the point where you let them influence the direction you are headed!
 
 Choose wisely the voices you listen to – and believe in yourself to know that the path you are on is the best path for you.
 
When new information comes along, it’s ok to change your choices and change directions. Eventually, we reach a crossroads: where we can decide to circle the same mountain again or move in the course of our destiny.
 
 If you’re someone who’s at that crossroads, or maybe you don’t know what direction to go, that’s what this group is for, the grow your life podcast. To help point you in the direction that will help you reach your goals in the fastest possible manner, without sacrificing your integrity, your family, your health, or your relationships!

 Sometimes there’s time to set boundaries. We have to learn to say “no” when we mean “no’ and “yes” when we mean “yes” and not let the fear of what other people might do keep us stuck, living a life that is opposite of what we were both made to do – and desire to live.
 
 When we align our lives with the divine call of God on our experience, there’s a convergence that happens where our desires and God’s desires are the same.
 
 Then we reach a place where we can ask God, “Direct my footsteps.” We know the voice of God in our life because we are attuned to hearing it! We can trust that what he says is true and right!
 
Then it comes to having wise counsel around you. Sometimes there’s wise counsel for one season that is no longer wise council for another season. We have to learn to let the old stay where it is in the past and keep moving forward toward our destiny!
 
 No one is keeping you from your goals but yourself. No one has the power to do so, but you.
 
 It’s time for you to pick yourself up and start walking forward without looking back – one foot in front of the other!
 
What’s the right choice to make? Ask questions! Start asking people that you can trust. When you get differences of opinion, consider the source of where you’re getting your answers from and then ask yourself, “Is this going to serve me towards my goals or hinder me.”

Pay attention to the voices that you’re listening to. Are these people who’ve been there before and gotten the results that I desire, or are they just repeating something that sounds good and tickles my ears?
 
Then learn to trust yourself. Keep the promises that you make to yourself. Have a track record with yourself to reach your goals. There’s nothing terrible about trusting your instincts. You can trust yourself.
 
 This will be the only way for you to go to the next level, and start making the decisions that will have a lasting impact on your life!