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Sam, Taylor, welcome to the Success School Podcast.
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Should it be Taylor or Sam or Sam or Taylor?
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Is there a way?
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Taylor and Sam, always made first.
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Yeah.
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So I'll make sure I address Taylor first, otherwise she'll get pissed off here.
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How are you guys doing?
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Good.
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Coming well?
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Good.
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Okay, cool.
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They're nervous, they can't talk.
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We are on our business breakthrough section guys.
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The whole purpose of today is we're gonna find the constraint in the business of Sam and Taylor.
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We're gonna work through it one, two, three, and give you guys a look into what the process looks like of finding that and moving forward with a constraint.
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Guys, let's kick off.
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Like who are you, where are you from, and what's the big business goal?
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Can I have that one?
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So we are Sam and Taylor, we're from Melbourne.
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We have a online coaching company for women.
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Busy, professional, career driven women, 30 plus, wanting to lose weight essentially without making fitness their entire personality.
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I think a lot of people, a lot of fitness coaches online are very much obsessed with fitness and we're kind of the opposite.
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It's like something that we do but it's not our entire personality.
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That's kind of our point of difference.
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Okay, awesome.
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And what's the business goal?
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I think first off, getting to a consistent 100K months would be the first target.
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Awesome.
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And where are you guys at now?
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So at the moment, we're sitting between 30 and 40K.
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30 and 40.
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And what causes the fluctuation?
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It's just ink.
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We just...
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need to book more calls consistently.
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Need to book more calls now.
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Yeah, that's really what it comes down to.
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And how are you guys booking calls now?
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So it's the follower funnel, like running follower ads.
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We've got a set of the works in the account and books calls and then I will jump on the calls and try to close them.
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Try to close them.
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That doesn't sound confident.
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That doesn't sound confident at all.
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Okay, so follower funnel is the only funnel at the moment.
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Yeah.
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Okay, cool.
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And how hard are you running that in terms of like daily spend?
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Well, at the moment it's $100 a day.
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Last year we got it up to as high as, I think it was like $250 a day.
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And we had to make some adjustments this year.
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It's a bit of a back story.
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We've been working with another business coach for a couple of years and then at the end of last year, we had the bright idea that maybe we should go look elsewhere, even though we'd just come off a $110K month in November.
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For whatever reason, we decided that, oh, we need to change something.
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We need to change something.
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So we went and invested into another business program thinking that it was going to be really,
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it turned out to be not very good.
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We spent a lot of money on that.
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And basically everything that we were doing that was working for us, we blew that up completely and stopped doing all that.
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And then we tried to start doing other stuff.
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And then we kind of got to the point where we were burning cash and we got to the point where we had to turn the ad spend down right, and just really, really scale everything back to just
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preserve cash flow.
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We had no recurring at the time, because pretty much last year we were just doing paying fulls the whole time.
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So when all these changes happened, we had no sort of foundation of recurring.
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So we had no money coming in.
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And then, so pretty much the entire year has just been about building back up the recurring, back to the point where it is.
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So we've gone from like 9K recurring back up to like 30 odd.
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So it's getting there, but it's been a shit show.
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Well, congrats for hitting 100K.
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That's the elusive 100K, but you guys just decided to fuck it off and just blow shit up and start again.
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Love making that hard for yourselves, let's go.
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What happened, what were you doing to get to 110?
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Like what did you guys do to get there?
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So it was November, so it was a Black Friday promo which went really well.
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And then we did a, so we had another bright idea which wasn't our bright idea.
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It wasn't bright.
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It's what we were told to do.
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We basically did an internal Black Friday offer.
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So we offered nine months for the price of six as long as they paid up front.
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So we probably had.
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And we had a lot of people take that up.
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Yeah, probably had 25% of the clients take up that offer.
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So that was a massive influx of cash and then obviously collecting cash on the front end
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with the Black Friday offer.
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But that tanked out recurring.
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We had all this money coming in and then it was like December was nothing and then we're like, yeah, let's go find another business coach.
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And then that just all went to shit.
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And then we're like, oh fuck, we have no one paying us anything.
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Oh God.
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So that's like a, so you hit 110, but really it was like just taken from all the months ahead.
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So it was just like, you just collected it.
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That month.
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Correct.
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And then you got a disgusting ATO bill and a bass bill and all that kind of stuff as well.
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Yeah, well, I mean.
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Didn't like 50% of what we made in November go straight to the ATO?
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Because we had all these outstanding tax bills anyway, so.
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Oh, dude.
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Sorry about that.
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Yeah.
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Apologies, sorry about the situation, but you know.
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It's a learning curve team.
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Learning curve.
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Oh yeah.
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You guys built this great kind of brand equity and then you cashed in the brand equity is essentially what I'm hearing here.
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Basically, yeah.
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Yeah, we had a lot of clients.
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We'd signed up a lot of
clients last year and that sort of around November time, a lot of them were getting to the point of needing to re-sign anyway, so.
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Yup.
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Yeah, but we obviously shot ourselves in the foot because the next six months was dog shit.
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Okay, cool.
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Well, we're out of it now.
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So from the 100 a day, how many are becoming followers?
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How many followers a day?
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Do you know any of the data around that?
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So the cost per follower is about between, anywhere between $2 and $3.
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$2, okay.
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Yeah.
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So about 50, 60, 70 clients per day, depending on the day.
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Okay, cool.
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50 per day.
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And are you reaching out to all of them?
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Yeah.
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And how many of them have been replied at like the intro message?
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So the reply rate's anywhere between 20 and 25%.
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20 and 25%, okay, cool.
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So that's probably like issue number one, you probably wanna get that to around 50%.
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So there'd be something with that opening message that's going wrong there.
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20, 25% of reply, okay, cool.
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And then from there, how many chats of these 20, 25 would go to a call?
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So it's about, it's about 1%.
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All right, 1%.
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Even last year in our- Bro, do you have like the worst AI ever, like in your DMs?
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What is happening in there?
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Well, this is the bane of my existence.
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Who is this person?
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We gotta like put a boot through the camera and fucking kick him.
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Come on, man, what's going on?
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Oh, I mean, so just a bit of backstory.
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So last year, so just to paint the picture, our, the way that we were doing things was like obviously like new followers, but then really heavy re-engagement.
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So we were sending out-
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I mean to hit around 300 messages per day.
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So we had setters in the account just fucking firing off messages to anyone that they could find.
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The account's getting shut down, it got blocked a few times.
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Okay, cool.
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So we sent out like, last year we sent out like, I don't know, 80,000 messages.
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And most of those were re-engagement.
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So one, there was about 1.5% of those outbound messages went through to callers' booking.
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So it looked really, really bad.
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But then this year, we haven't done that as much yet.
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It's still really bad, so that's definitely a problem.
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Okay, could be a problem.
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And I know you guys have had a bit of a niche change recently.
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Tell us about that.
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So you've got like 57,000 followers that I was looking this morning.
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I was looking at landing page, I was looking through your account.
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Of those, how many do you think are the ideal client?
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I don't know, it's hard to tell.
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I mean, so the follow-up, yeah, the follower ads that we've always traditionally run, just like your viral sort of style, calorie comparisons and like, just shit that gets you a lot of followers, but the followers that come through, yeah, obviously, and it's like basically trying to find a needle in a haystack.
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It's essentially our process that we've always followed.
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Okay, cool.
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So you guys, you've got your viral like trending shit and then you're putting boosts behind that and then like it's a fingers crossed thing.
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Basically, yeah.
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Okay, cool.
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All right, cool.
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So we got some strategic like numbery shit that we need to fix here.
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Then I'd say there's like a messaging thing as well.
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So the messaging you've got now isn't translating over to the actual like what you're boosting, is it?
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Well, we've changed that as of last week.
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So since we've joined you guys, we've literally just ripped everything up and completely started again.
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So like the ICP and the messaging and stuff, really, really good.
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Like Tay spent a lot of time building that out and then I got some ads scripted and they're actually performing quite well.
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Way more than these things.
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So in the last couple of weeks, we have pivoted.
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And the calls were booking much better.
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And the calls were booking, they're people that actually work.
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Look at that, that's great.
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Yeah, so what a lot of people get wrong is they try to boost the viral shit, but the viral shit isn't really like ICP.
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So the people that come through are not great.
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So do you have updated stats on like the $2 to $3?
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Is that like a new cost per follower or is that like old cost per follower?
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No, it's about the same.
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Okay, cool.
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So you've just basically got better people in.
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Okay, and then the 20% to 25%, is that still, you know, that's the first message reply rate?
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Yeah, it's about that.
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That's okay.
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Okay, sweet.
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It's about that.
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It hasn't jumped up massively.
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Okay, cool.
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So messaging's fixed now, which is great.
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Okay, let's go further down.
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And then in terms of when you get on the call, what's the show rate on the call and then what's your close rate?
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So the show rate is about 60 to 70%.
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I'll tell you exactly what it is for this year.
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So for the year it's 61%.
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61%, okay, cool.
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And then what are you doing to get that show rate to 61% and beyond?
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Are you doing all the texts and pre-call messages?
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Are you doing any of that shit?
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So we have three emails that go out, three texts that go out when they book.
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24 hours before and then an hour before.
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And then what I do as well, I'll reach out via WhatsApp and just send them, I guess, an introductory message for me because I'm the one that takes calls and just send them.
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What I have been sending recently is almost like a, not a VSL, but kind of like, this is what it looks like inside the program, like showing them through the actual coaching software, some meal plans and how it actually works on the inside to give them a bit more context.
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Okay, sweet, sounds good.
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And what about the close rate from there?
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What does that kind of look like typically?
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So close rate this year is about 38%, 38%.
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38%, okay, cool.
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All right, so you guys listening back at home, so we've got a 25% reply rate and then a 1% booking rate.
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Then we've got a 60 to 70% show rate on the calls and a 38% close rate.
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If we had to double any of those metrics, and I'm curious to hear what you guys are thinking, what is the easiest metric to double out of all of those?
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Is it the reply rate, 25%?
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Is it the 1% of people that book a call?
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Is it the 60 or 70%?
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show rate or is it 38% of people that buy?
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I think it's the response rate.
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Would be the easiest.
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Response rate or the one or 2%.
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So if you doubled either of those, you guys would double your business and you'd go from 30 or 40K a month now to 60 or 80K a month.
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So you'd be pretty close to 100K if we just doubled that one metric.
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So a lot of people think that, you know, scaling a business is like, you gotta change all this crazy shit at once.
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And you gotta shut down the funnel, you know, run a call funnel, run a webinar, run all this other shit.
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And really it's just about fixing like a single metric.
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And that's what we're talking about here.
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So let's get into the actual plan if you guys don't mind.
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Cause I've got, well, we've got four problems, but we'll focus on one problem for now.
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So what is the like, what is the sell by chat sequence?
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Like tell us about, let's get into the nitty gritty of this.
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What does this actually look like?
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So this has gone through probably a thousand iterations in the past.
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So basically what we do is the opening message is, hey, thanks for the follow.
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We try and pick something off the profile.
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So like, oh, I see that you went on a holiday recently.
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Where was it?
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Or your dog's really cute.
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What's its name?
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Or just as an example, trying to pick off something personal from the page.
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If you can't do that, then it's like whereabouts you're from.
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Just something
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Then from there, it's like, you know, responding to whatever they've said, and then it's been like, you know, what made you hit follow, basically.
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And then from there, it's like, okay, cool.
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Are you working on any goals?
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And then it's into like, you know, what are your struggles?
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What have you tried?
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You know, why is now important for you?
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And then essentially, it's just making an offer for help.
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Like, hey, you know, it sounds like we can help you with this.
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Are you interested in getting some help?
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And then making the call offer, look at the goal.
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Okay, cool.
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And typically are these just like super cold people?
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Yeah, essentially they're just the new followers that come through.
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Okay.
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And is there any other nurture than that?
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Like are you extending them off to anything like warm?
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Like so in terms of like what, check out this podcast episode or watch this VSL or like any of that?
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Not really, we kind of shoot our shot.
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And if they're in a book, then we put them into like a re-engagement pipeline.
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And the re-engagement pipeline is kind of the senders know to message at certain time points.
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So it might be like three weeks later, a month later sort of thing.
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So we go back to them and re-engage.
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But outside of that, there's nothing that really gets done in terms of like sending them stuff.
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Yeah, okay, cool.
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I think the easiest thing here to take this, you know, like booking rate from one to 2% is just sending them content throughout this period of like long form stuff.
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This could be like podcast episodes, this could be VSLs, this could be you guys getting interviewed on other stuff, this could be YouTube videos, this could be literally anything.
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So Google have the 7-11-4 principle that prospects need seven hours of content produced over 11 touchpoints in four mediums.
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So not just like Instagram DMs.
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This is like emails.
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This is WhatsApp.
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This is all the different touchpoints that you have to create like a, well, not a parasocial relationship, but some form of relationship with people here.
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So I think that would tremendously help.
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So if you think about it, like Sam, you and I going on a date might be a little weird, but like if we actually went on a date and you were just like taking me through the process, going for a home run, like, and we just met.
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I feel like the kind of relationship or the kind of girl or guy you'd attract there would probably not be one that you wanna date long term, you know, so you can see why that doesn't work super well for you.
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I would add that in and I think that would take the, a lot higher.
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In terms of this like opening message, let's focus on this.
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So it's literally just like pick something off their profile and if not where you're from?
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Yeah, pretty much.
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Yeah, okay, cool.
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And that's text?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, okay, cool.
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You could try like a
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like a thumbs up photo, you could do some pre-recorded voice stuff, you could do pre-recorded videos as well.
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That works extremely well.
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Or you could have, it's off Taylor's account, so you could have Taylor just go and do all the openers.
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So someone could script it out, I'm not talking every single opener, but some because if you, you would get like way more replies if Taylor was like voice dropping like, hey babe, like whatever she would say, like great to connect with you.
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I think that would work super well for the open rate as well, so the opener.
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So there are two on how I would fix both of those.
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And then we've got the show rate is not a major issue.
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Talk to me about the show rate here, Sam.
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So you're establishing a relationship with them on WhatsApp and they are just no showing or they're canceling?
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What's kind of happening there?
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We don't.
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We don't get that many no shows.
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No, it's pretty much just canceling.
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So.
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We've got a question on the application form, like do you need to speak to someone before making a decision?
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If they say I need to speak to someone, I mean, it's always around money.
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So what I basically do in the WhatsApp message is be like, hey, just so you and your hubby can have that chat beforehand, this is the cost per week.
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Yeah.
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Sometimes they come back and they'll say, yep, that's sweet.
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Other times they come back and say, no, it's not too much.
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So that's something that's been happening.
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But yeah, outside of that, I mean, people just cancel.
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Okay.
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Yep.
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That's cool.
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You kind of want people to cancel and not just show up and like waste your time anyway.
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So I don't think this is bad.
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Honestly, those first two metrics will change your business if you improve both of those.
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I think that'll be like crazy for you guys.
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Just to give you guys a lot of sauce today because that was like very easy.
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So what's kind of next from here?
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Like what are you guys working on outside of this?
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Like the sales nitty gritty on the front end?
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Well, I guess, I mean, it's been building out all, like, essentially we've rebuilt the program.
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You know, we've used all the stuff that you guys have given us in terms of the GPTs to build out like the avatar handbooks and all that sort of stuff.
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So, it's obviously the messaging side of things where we're upgrading the program itself based on the new mechanism, again, from those GPTs, which is really cool.
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So, we're in the process of building that.
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So, it's going to be a really good client experience.
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I've been getting all the backend selling systems set up as well.
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We haven't got to that point yet, but I really want to do that.
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And then I guess from there, it's kind of just, if we are to introduce a new funnel, just getting that set up and rolling.
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Getting that rolling.
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Okay, epic.
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Yeah, so you guys have a VSL call funnel kind of booking at the moment.
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That's where you book most of your people or is it through DM?
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So it's all DMs.
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DMs, yeah.
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DMs, so no one's hitting that page that I see, or not many people are hitting that page in booking?
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We've had two.
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Have you ever had two bookings?
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We've had one other reply, but she didn't book.
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And we've only had it up for like not even two weeks.
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Okay, cool.
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So probably a little bit early for those.
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Yeah.
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So after I would, I'd fix both those things that I said today and I'll send you guys a recording of this so we can get that done before this episode comes out.
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And then I think a webinar funnel would crush for you guys.
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Like I think that's the best option.
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A lot of people in the fitness industry don't want to do it.
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I don't know if it's like they're scared or it's like a lazy thing.
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but the opportunity for you guys is if everyone else is not going to do it, you can do it and fucking kill and you can, which is great.
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So VSL call funnel, I think your, um, your tagline is like 10 to 20 K loss.
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I think that would just be a really good VSL.
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Oh, that would be a really good webinar topic just on the outset.
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Cool.
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Yeah.
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All right, guys, uh, questions.
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What questions do you have in terms of, we found the constraint in my opinion, I think it's sales.
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Uh, do you have any questions around that?
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So you said it's getting the open rate up, but also the booking rate as well.
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Yep, yep, so reply rate and booking rate are the two.
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What do you recommend for the opening message?
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Dude, a voice is best or an extremely detailed message.
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So it depends because you've got a B2C audience, so some of them are on private, which is a little bit more challenging from there.
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You could start with some value as well.
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Like honestly, you just need to change it.
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So a friend of mine, Sean, Sean Ferris, he has a, hey, are you here for the content or for my good looks?
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Like a bit cheeky, and that does super well.
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I think it's like 60 or 70%.
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and then he gets into a chat for them.
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It's about being creative really, like it's not just like one thing, do this, because they've seen it all, like they've got all these other fitness coaches DMing them.
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So I think it'd be like, you guys put your heads down and be like, how can we be creative and just put something that they've never seen before there?
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I mean, could you bang out 50 voice memos?
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Easy, I could do that like first thing in the morning.
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I reckon maybe that would be something we could try.
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We tried doing 11 labs and cloning her voice, but it was like, I don't know.
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I sounded like I was underwater.
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It was so bad.
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I don't know if we're doing it wrong or, cause I know people have success with it, but we just couldn't figure it out.
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Yeah, it definitely works.
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You just need a lot of audio in that different audio.
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Do you guys have a podcast or anything?
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No, but I started doing YouTube this year.
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Okay, cool, just export all of those and I think that'll go well.
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Yeah, if you can get the integration working at 11 labs and just have your VA do it, that would be much better than you having to do it, Tay.
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Yeah, okay.
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I mean, we send a voice memo for the follow-up message, so if they don't reply to the open ads, it's like,
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hey, just letting you know it's me here.
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It's still generic, you know what I mean?
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I feel like if it's their name that they hear, it's going to be a lot more like, oh, she's talking to me.
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Yeah, and especially with your account size as well, they're like, whoa, she's talking to me, she's sending me a message, she said my name.
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It's very, very, it's kind of fake.
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Yes, yeah.
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Yep.
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Okay.
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give it a whirl.
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Yeah, I think we can do that.
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We'll try 11 labs again, but I think if you can, yeah, if you can send them yourself, it'll make a big difference.
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Awesome.
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All right, guys.
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Sorry, just in terms of like, booking rate, that's obviously, do you, so sending long form content within the chat, is that what you meant?
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Yeah, for sure.
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Long form within the chat.
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Like it's something you wanna test, but if they're coming to you with a problem, say they're like, hey, can't lose weight, struggling for this, got belly fat, like all the shit, you should have resources for that, for the main problem.
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So you can send it to them, nurture them and then warm them up.
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I'm assuming Taylor, you're gonna have tons of YouTube content, it's gonna be great.
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Also a good hack is for your confirmation videos, so if you guys have a confirmation page after someone book, you can put a YouTube video on there, and then as soon as they get on YouTube again, they'll constantly see your stuff, Taylor.
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So you'll be in the algorithm all the time for them, which is essentially what you want to do.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I'm going to do that.
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All right, I'll go for a wrap up and we'll wrap this up.
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All right, guys, thanks for joining us for our first business breakthrough.
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So this is a bit of a back.
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So this is a bit of a BTS look into how we run our constraint-based model here at Successful.
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If you guys are interested in having this done for your business, go to www.startsuccessful.com and book a breakthrough call now and we will chat to you guys soon.
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Sam, Taylor, it's been great.
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Thanks, guys.
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Awesome.
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Thank you very much, Tim.
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Thanks for having us, Tim.