FL 91 – Helping Vicki Take Her Retail Coaching Business to the Next Level

FL 91 – Helping Vicki Take Her Retail Coaching Business to the Next Level

Author: Shane Sams May 17, 2016 Duration: 35:14
The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast is a show where we give free consulting calls to our community members. On-air we go over their questions and help strategize how they can take their online businesses to the next level no matter what stage they are at. This week we have Vicki Adrian who has been in the retail business for over 30 years in Kansas. Vicki has starting coaching other small businesses online how to keep their customers and buyers as consumers for the long-term. Her goal is to help other local retailers, boutiques, main street type stores to build a group of loyal customers. We discuss where Vicki can put more opt-ins on her website and why it is so important for them to always be leading to a product to sell. With many content outlets a previous podcast, now Vicki is using periscope to answer questions to retail shop owners we give her ideas of how to maximize that same content while saving herself time. Content is important for your members to find you and yet they will stay and continue to engage because they want to hear from YOU - the expert in your niche. We go over steps Vicki can make to transition from giving away her expertise for free to charging people. [Tweet "Everything Doesn't Have to Be Perfect Before You Start Your Online Membership"] You will learn The right mentality for growing your membership. Importance of Opt-ins. Access to the expert (you) is a valuable thing online. Have a system for everything in place that you do online live or recorded. Maximizing your online content How to get over the fear of charging for things online. [Tweet "If you don't systemize your online business it will never scale"] Links and resources mentioned in today's show Adrian's Boutique Flip Your Life Community Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family! Click here to leave us an iTunes review and subscribe to the show! We may read yours on the air! Can't Miss Moments Each week Jocelyn and I share moments that we might have missed if we had not started our online business. We hope these moments inspire you to see the possibilities and freedom online business could provide for your family. This weeks Can't Miss Moment is being able to eat lunch with my daughter right in the middle of the day. I could have never done that before quitting my job. I would have been at work and there's no way you could leave the school in the middle of the day to go do something like that. You can connect with S&J on social media too!   Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. See y'all next week! Can't listen right now? Read the transcript below! JOCELYN: Hey y'all! On today's podcast, we help Vicki take her retail coaching business to the next level. Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us, each week, as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside-down by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right, let's get started. SHANE: What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. As always, it is great to be back with you again this week. The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, for those of you who are new to our program, is a little bit different. We do not bring on experts or gurus or anybody promoting anything. What we do is, we actually bring on our coaching clients, the members of our Flip Your Life community and we give them a free consulting call on air. We let you guys be a fly on the wall listening, so that you can learn from the discussion and to help that we provide for our F...

Hosted by Shane Sams, the Flipped Lifestyle™ Podcast is a conversation about building a business that actually fits around your life, rather than the other way around. It’s born from the real-world experience of Shane and his wife Jocelyn, a family who created a million-dollar income entirely online. They focus on the practical mechanics of selling digital products and running membership sites-essentially, creating valuable information and community that people are willing to pay for. This isn't abstract theory; each episode digs into the systems, mindsets, and sometimes surprising tactics that worked for them as they built a location-independent career. You’ll hear candid discussions on the challenges of shifting from a traditional job to a self-directed online venture, managing family dynamics alongside business growth, and the ongoing work of sustaining success. The aim is to provide actionable insights for anyone feeling stuck in a conventional routine and dreaming of a "flipped" reality where work supports life on their own terms. Tune in for a straightforward, often humorous look at the entrepreneurial journey from a couple who is still actively living it, sharing their lessons so you can chart your own course.
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