This month has been a new challenge for me. Not the activity but working with new people with new points of view.
I have always exercised and been somewhat conscience of what I ate. I am a southern cooking kind of girl so we do cook with flavor. Except when I retired for some very relaxed crazy reason, I fell into a very dull routine. I call it lazy – even though I am not a lazy person.
Eating, sleeping and no exercise.
I reached out to a friend of mine who is a personal trainer to get real about what goes in my body and the effects of the choices I was making. I was not shocked at the consult… I mean… seriously we know that eating fast food – empty calories – bread – sugar and zero exercise results in a hot mess. I was shocked that sugar was making me swell and bread played havoc on my gut health. Removing those two ideas made me feel amazing.
My 50th birthday was on the way and I had said back in my prime of lifting weights, running and living clean I did not want to be FAT and 50. I looked in the mirror and said you have totally talked yourself into just what you didn’t want.
I said it out loud and somewhere in the back of my sub conscience it showed up. Hear me when I say this to you. What you think about shows up. It may not do so right away – but I made that statement 20 years ago talking about what seemed back then a long way into the future.
I had a vision when I was in my mid-30’s that I couldn’t see the details. I told my friends – I want to work from home on the internet. Of course, they laughed back in 1996 because the internet was new and no one really knew what you could do with it. I knew it was something I wanted. I had a lot to learn. I didn’t even know how to copy and paste!
I became super coachable in 2000! If I was given a task to learn I was all in – I didn’t wait to apply it. I did it right then. I took lots of notes and checked them off as I put them in place.
How to blog and how to find more leads.
The top two questions I am asked how do your blog and how to find new leads. Build the blog – write great value in the content and learn where to share the information for people to find it. Either using social media, your email list, in groups that you have permission to post in. Sounds super easy right?
Just because you wrote one great blog post doesn’t mean you’re done. You have to rinse and repeat. Yes, you have to do it over again and again. When? Every single week. Just like my diet change to feel better this is a change to see results in your business.
Number one source of traffic for my business
People are constantly looking for traffic from other sources they have no control over. Like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram. Those are great places to connect but your goal is to move them over to your blog and into this one secret step I am about to tell you.
This is a secret that most people don’t understand the importance. My greatest source of traffic that I own is my Aweber list. My list that I built from my blog.
When I write a new blog post – I email it out to my list for them to read first and to share. When I am promoting a summit that I am speaking in. I email it out to my list so they can get the free content. When I have a webinar coming up, I will email it to my list.
Until you have your blog set up to collect leads (names and emails) all the other traffic sources you are playing on is not yours. You need to have a free offer that people need and will exchange their name and email for the content. All your traffic should be pointing to your blog. Missing this one piece of information for your business is throwing money out the window.
I just gave you great value that will make you money. How coachable are you? Will you use the information or keep looking for traffic?