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The Best Strategies to Avoiding Burnout in 2022
We know how easy it is to feel totally burnt out in your business. In fact, you may not have even realized that you’re burned out! You may have convinced yourself that this is just the hustle and grind that it takes to get your business going or to scale past where you’re currently stuck.
In reality, this isn’t effective nor ideal. Growth and progress don’t happen during burnout, so you have to come up for air and create a clean slate. Keep reading to find out the best strategies to help you avoid burnout in 2022, so you can continue to grow and scale your business sustainably.
23 Ideas for Better Client Communication, Client Experience & Client Testimonials
When you think about it, client communication, the experience, and testimonials are the holy trifecta of an amazing service-based business. They also work as a kind of cycle– great client communication leads to a great experience, which leads to even greater testimonials when it’s all said and done!
We’ve had our fair share of not only working with clients but also helping other service providers work with their clients. In doing so, we’ve learned a myriad of ways to improve that client cycle. So today, we’ll be sharing our 23 ideas for better client communication, client experience, and client testimonials!
7 Tips to Streamline Your Services so You Can Boost Your Team’s Productivity
We see you, frazzled service provider. We see you bustling and overwhelmed, reinventing the wheel every time you perform any admin task in your business. You’re building your proposals and forms from scratch, manually emailing clients repetitive emails in your process, chasing down payments, etc.
The overwhelming majority of service providers are, well, overwhelmed (and quite frankly, underpaid). We understand because we originated as a service-based business. There are 7 tips that massively helped us streamline our services and made a huge difference in our overall productivity, which is what we’ll be sharing in this blog post!
If you want to take this a step further with us to help you create a High-Touch Signature Service on Autopilot™ so you can work less and make more, we invite you to apply for The Incubator.
How to Create a High-Touch Signature Service
We recently told the complete truth about the elusive “passive income” trend and how it’s a total sham. We also told you what you should do instead, and that’s create a High-Touch Signature Service.™
In a nutshell, a High-Touch Signature Service is what will allow you to go from working with 12 clients per month (and barely breaking even) to 4 clients per month (and making much more than before). It’s what will save your sanity, capacity, time, and pockets in the long run because you’re able to work less while making more!
In this post, we’re going to break down the 4 key phases to creating a High-Touch Signature Service, so you can be well on your way to putting your life first in your business while surpassing your financial goals.
Best Passive Income Ideas for Your Small Business in 2022
In this day and age of online business, it’s extremely easy to give into the elusive passive income trend. We talk about it with our family and friends, and we learn from marketing gurus on the internet that the end goal is to “make money while you sleep.”
Sure, it does sound great. Being able to give little to no effort yet still have money rolling in sounds like a dream. Spoiler alert: What they’re teaching you isn’t really passive income.
Keep reading to find out the true definition of passive income, our honest thoughts around it, and what you should do instead.
Roundup -The Best Business Resources for Creatives in 2021
This year has been a wild year of content for us! We’ve cranked out almost 200 total blog posts and podcast episodes, dropped almost 50 new collections of templates, updated some of our programs and added a new one, and overall have really been dedicated to helping creative business owners.
We thought the perfect post for the end of 2021 would be to gather all of the best resources for creatives and wrap them all up with a pretty bow. (Late Christmas gift, maybe?) We have a lot to dive into, so let’s get started!
The BEST Tool to Help Land High-Paying Clients Consistently
The biggest struggles we’ve seen service providers face includes difficulty landing high-paying clients consistently. They may land just one or two clients per month at their highest package, but the rest always fall on the smaller scale. This can lead to just breaking even each month, which leads to feelings of discouragement, worry, and self doubt.
But before we say “Just raise your prices!”, we understand that there are other steps that go into that as well. Part of being able to offer a premium package is providing more value through your client experience. That may sound to you like you need to start holding your clients’ hands more or putting more of your time into how you take care of them, but that simply isn’t the case.
You can completely transform your business with one single tool that we’re going to share with you in this blog post!
The Hard Reality of Pivoting From Services to Courses or Digital Products
Raise your hand if you’ve been personally victimized by the idea that the only way to really grow your service-based business the way you want to is by pivoting to courses or digital products. Don’t worry, we’ll wait.
It’s a resounding message in the online business world, and it’s an idea that gets circulated through so many service-providers’ brains a hundred times or more. They fall in love with those sexy phrases associated with pivoting to courses, like “passive income”, “work less while making more”, “make money while you sleep”, etc.
Honest Teachable Review - Why I’m Loyal After 8 Years
You’re ready to diversify your income by adding a digital product or course to your offer lineup? You’ve come to the right place. I’ve been in business 9 years, run a multi-7-figure online education business, and have built 388 digital products, 25 courses, 5 online summits, 3 group coaching programs, and 4 memberships. Nearly all of them in some variation or another have landed on Teachable.
How We Are Working With Clients in 2023
Sometimes, being in business since 2015, makes us feel a little prehistoric. Our company has certainly had its fair share of evolutions and pivots as not only we have grown, but our clients as well. We’ve had the privilege of working with folks from across the globe whether they tune in to our top-charting podcast, get sucked into our rabbit hole with our Trello for Business course, join our growing community of creatives, work with us in an intimate group setting or hang out with us 1:1 to tackle the big stuff. We thought it was time for us to update you on our suite of offerings and give you insight on how you can make magic happen with us.
Success in Your Service Based Business: This is the Key Factor You Must Get Right
There is, without a doubt, one thing that can make or break your service-based business: capacity. This is something that has dramatic effects when not practiced carefully or correctly, and the people who are doing it wrong are often those who are overworked and underpaid. By not understanding your capacity in an in-depth and intimate way, you’re constantly sacrificing your mental health and wellbeing, you probably feel like everything is working against you, and you may not be making the progress you’d like to see in your goals.
In this post, we hope to leave you with tons more clarity on how capacity works, its cause-and-effect nature, and how to finally leave the path of burnout.
The Best Way to Grow Your Service Business in 2023
We’re fresh into the new year, which comes the usual phase of absorbing as much information as there is available to help you better your business over the next year. To many service providers, this is actually a pretty fun time! Learning new tips and strategies is so exciting and motivates you to tackle them head-on and reach your goals.
As two gals with lots to share and talk about, we’ve released a massive amount of content about marketing, lead generation, relationship building, pricing and packaging your offers, getting referrals, building teams, the list goes on. So to make it easier on you without having to dig around, here’s a roundup of our top podcast episodes and blog posts on these topics!
How Your Service Pricing Needs to Change When You Build a Team
What we often see in the service-based industry is after 6-figures have been reached (sometimes multiple 6-figures), service providers will try to replace their current offer with something completely brand new. We know this is super tempting, especially when you’ve reached the point where you’ve started to tap out of what you can personally do within your business.
However, pricing is one of your greatest opportunities for expansion, especially when you can work with fewer people and make more money. While many may acknowledge price shifts over time, they aren’t seeing premium pricing as an opportunity to grow their team.
How Service Providers Can Identify Their Result and Deliver a Profitable Offer
Looking back there is something magical about the beginning stages of business. It’s like we all had this young naive way of thinking at the beginning. You’re learning all the things, you’re hustling, you’re saying yes a lot (probably more than you should have) but you’re doing it. You’re building something that is yours.
And then you get to a point where you’re hitting 10K months consistently. You did the thing! You’ve become an established business owner BUT you’re still holding onto that “beginner” energy. Yeah, you might be making more money but you’re still feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and stretched thin.
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Hey, I’m Abagail Pumphrey!
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