30 - 11 Critical Steps to Making $10k/mo in Your Coaching Business
I lay out the steps to make consistent cash flow through your online business.
“Know them better than they know themselves, love them more than their own mothers love them, and you will have the key to business.”
– Rachel Bell
In this episode, I lay out the 11 critical steps to make $10K a month, whether it’s your first time or you want those big paychecks consistently. You’ll learn what not to do for your own sanity (and the health of your business) and some key questions to ask yourself to make sure you’re on the right track. Listen in as I dive into tactical to-dos and high-level strategy – and learn how energy and attraction play a role in the creation of your dream business.
Here’s a glance at what you’ll learn from me in this episode:
How to make $10K/month (or more!) every. single. month.
The 11 CRITICAL STEPS to achieving consistent results (and fatty paychecks!).
What to STOP doing ASAP to protect your sanity and business.
Key questions to ask yourself to get on the right track.
How to maximize the ONE resource you’ll NEVER get back.
Energy, attraction, and how they relate to your biz.
The #1 priority. ALWAYS.
Show Notes
00:50 – Today’s topic: The 11 critical steps to make $10,000 a month.
01:10 – Who this is for: Those who want to hit $10k and more consistently.
03:15 – A little about me, my journey, and OCA enrollment.
06:45 – Critical step #1: Stop taking advice from anyone who hasn’t accomplished more than you or hasn’t constructed what you want to build.
07:15 – You will experience projection from others; don’t seek validation.
09:00 – Take advice from only a couple people at a time.
10:30 – For feedback, ask your mentors, ideal clients, and soul.
10:40 – Critical Step #2: Invest in saving time, the only resource you can’t get back.
11:00 – Invest in a mentor who is 10 steps or more ahead of you to collapse time and alleviate pressure and stress.
13:20 – Critical Step #3: Do not help everyone.
13:50 – Your energy needs to go deep – not wide – in the beginning.
14:40 – Stick to your core message and your ideal customer.
15:20 – Critical Step #4: If you can’t find clients, you don’t know them well enough.
15:30 – Interview them, have a running document of their complaints, desires, pain points, and vision.
15:50 – Love them and listen to feedback from your ideal client avatars; you’ll know when your marketing is working.
16:20 – Critical Step #5: Create content for your ideal client avatar, not for yourself.
16:25 – Do you open up IG and think, “What do I want to post about today?”
17:05 – Ask, “What does my ideal client avatar need to hear right now?”
17:30 – Use social media for positioning, branding, and creating great content so you can have top-of-mind awareness in your client’s mind.
19:30 – Critical Step #6: Document and clone every recurring action in your business.
19:40 – Create assets in your business; process and document everything that is important as if you were handing the business off to someone else to run.
20:20 – Document what you’re doing so someone can someday do it for you.
21:10 – Hire before you need to hire; you won’t have time to train if you don’t.
22:25 – Critical Step #7: Get real about your energy leaks.
22:35 – Be productive and manage your time: Is energy going towards the wrong things?
23:10 – Say, “I didn’t make time for this,” instead of, “I don’t have time for this.”
22:45 – Productivity is one of the best habits you can develop before you have a lot of clients.
24:15 – Critical Step #8: Follow parallel pathways.
24:35 – Forget what others are doing and build something better and different.
25:00 – What I was told when I shared my vision.
27:00 – Step outside the box and find different problem-solving routes outside your industry.
28:00 – Challenges make for beautiful lessons and messages.
28:35 – Critical Step #9: You attract what you are, not what you want.
28:50 – What type of client are you? Do you make decisions out of love or fear?
29:45 – When you embody this, things become clear.
30:10 – Critical Step #10: “Macro patience micro speed.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
30:30 – Have to-do lists and be quick and consistent in small, daily steps.
31:20 – Understand the big picture and don’t rush the process.
32:00 – Critical Step #11: Client results are a timeless, evergreen, and deeply spiritually fulfilling compliment to your skills as a coach.
32:30 – Deliver results, document them, and share them.
32:50 – People will experience transformation when you are clear, coherent, useful, and effective.
33:30 – If you don’t prioritize client results, you’ll constantly chase new clients; commit to exceptional client results.
35:00 – A recap of the 11 critical steps to making $10K/month consistently and how these steps have transformed my life and career.
“My only regret [in this regard] is not investing in myself sooner.”
– Rachel Bell