So let's go build a community around ideas. It's important in your branding to have a community. Community is not the Facebook group forum or YouTube comments. It's the ideas you believe in. It's about what you teach. It's about you and your personality. And if you've been following me at all, you know a bit about me. People will come back because …

So the question is, why should you have a learning center? Well, this is going to be your signature offer until you develop one where you have social proof and where you have coaching and where you have a high ticket offer. But the learning center will be the thing that you upsell people in once they buy a product, because of course, you'll have ot…

Today, we're going to talk about production mode. So we're going to get into production mode, we're going to implement, focus and build. But what is production mode? So you decide on a problem that you're going to solve for yourself and for your business and it has to be relevant to your audience such that if you go and do the work to solve this pr…

Go to where your audience is and make the offers there. So if you're going to master one media for traffic, that means that you choose one way and use all of the other media to support the one. Why? Because most of us are all over the place. We are running a Facebook group, we are recruiting affiliates, we're on YouTube, we're on LinkedIn, and we'r…

And even now, you can use voice, create voices to say it, but it's not you. But whether or not you choose to use it to create articles and content, the way to move people to establish a personal connection, of course, is you. You must seek to have personalized content over and above any, AI content that you might develop it in addition to unique co…

So you're always networking from a position of strength. When you realize that, of course, you have something that is an asset and others may be interested in, you are looking for one or two individuals that can connect you and make a difference for your business. So you're looking for people who maybe know people that you know, that you want to kn…

So the strategic marketing fundamental framework is your USP, your unique selling proposition, your exponential marketing, which is your upsells and your gross sale. In Build your Business I go over the 15 principles in detail over 52 weeks. If you follow along and implement these principles your business will grow so follow this podcast for action…

For a product snow, every month, you're creating something new. It's just a small product based on the topic, which is a solution to a problem, very simple. And it basically gets your audience in the mood to buy what they find is relevant. So, of course, you have to find out what is relevant to your audience. So you can also increase your product s…

We teach through our weekly workshops, our products, our content, and our email marketing. So we're consistent and we're going to be authentic because we're going to hopefully be on camera for those of you who can get on camera, and we're going to do it weekly. In Build your Business I go over the 15 principles in detail over 52 weeks. If you follo…

In this episode of 'Work From Your Happy Place,' host Belinda Ellsworth interviews Scott Jeffrey Miller, a bestselling author, speaker, and podcast host. Scott shares his extensive experience from his 25-year career at Franklin Covey, where he served as Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President of Thought Leadership. He now holds the pos…

In this episode of Tuesday Tips, Belinda Ellsworth concludes her series on the top 10 mistakes to avoid in business by emphasizing the critical role of follow-up. She explains that a lack of follow-up with new customers, current customers, and future leads is a major oversight. Ellsworth recommends having a specific system in place to manage follow…

In this episode of Work From Your Happy Place, host Belinda Ellsworth introduces Andrea Nerep, co-founder of Petzbe, a unique social media app where pet owners share content from their pets' perspectives. Andrea discusses her journey from adopting her dog Angus in Sweden to creating the Petzbe app, successfully obtaining investors, and the importan…

So what is a brand? Well, a brand is not just your colors and your logo for your business. It is your mission, your values, your commitment to service, um, how you interact with your customers, et cetera, expressed in your social media, your website, your business, your publications, how you do business, what you sell, everything. In Build your Bus…

Today it's all about developing your entrepreneurial mindset. We're going to just do a summary of the principles on entrepreneurial mindset on build your business, implement, get into action and grow. We are week 49, I believe, and we're almost time to wrap it up, but we're going to just do the presentation. I might even just stay on screen just to…

We're going to talk about a way that you can promote your core ideas and also of course, get more people into your audience who are interested in your ideas and maybe want to follow along and get involved.. you will need to give back to your tribe and community by doing a special event. For example, this will be one of the few times when you will n…

One secret to getting more done and having less stress in your life and being more profitable, of course, is to have Systems. The secret is of course, Systems. So you have to have Systems. There are four essential areas of your business. You feel frustrated when your efforts don't lessen your stress, bring flexibility, produce big results, or elimi…

What not to do when raising an affiliate army. So what not to do in your community in order to build your affiliates. Be careful not to communicate that one of the selling features of your product is that the customer will be able to make money as an affiliate. You don't want your customer to join and be in your community just because they can make…

This is all about how you can build your tribe or build your fans of people, build your audience who are interested in what you talk about into a community. You're building a community around your ideas so that people collect around those ideas. In Build your Business I go over the 15 principles in detail over 52 weeks. If you follow along and impl…

The purpose of your learning center in your business is to sell your products, to sell multiple products that are in your learning center. You also going to put your free training courses and free training ideas and free training case studies and sell them in your learning center. And you're going to gather and you're going to interact with your cu…

You will want to be doing something interesting that is relevant to your business and your brand. It will demonstrate that you're learning as well as applying core principles. There's a principle in content marketing called build in public and this is basically what we are doing that will formulate your content factory. It's a unique experience whe…

So you have to decide which media is going to be your thing. So the reason that you're doing this is that you're looking at determining your profit margin. In Dan Kennedy's book no BS time management, he says that all we need is determine how much an hour of our time is worth. It's basically the goal we've set, broken into hours. So 10,000 monthly,…

Who are the information product creators? Who are the people out there who are creating products that are informative, that are relevant and of interest to the people who are on your email list. So you want to develop a list, a sublist of your dream 100 and you probably can guess who these would be. These are the people that sell information produc…

I want you to think about taking your customers on a journey. So the journey and teach method is a method that will help you to create content. You're going to create hyper unique products and services. Because once you take your audience or your customers on a journey, you save that journey and create a product from it. Because of course it will h…

This podcast is a brief discussion on the importance of having solid internal organizational practices in place, so that you can deliver consistency with your clients.By Polly Ingram | Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales Training, Homebased Business Consultant, Profit Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Mentor, Executive Leadership Skills Trainer, Entreprenurial Supporter, Process Leader

You can build affiliate relationships for every product launch. So if people know that you are doing products monthly and that there's always going to be an offer next month, then they'll be attracted to you in terms of being an affiliate for you as well as maybe using your product as a bonus for their launches. And you will always have an upsell a…

So, every business has research and development, and this is a part of a business that is basically research. So you are learning in an area where you have an idea of what the questions are but don't know the answers to. So you're doing your research about your audience and finding out what their problems are and figuring out a one problem, one sol…

The podcast show today is a conversation about how to run successful daily huddles with your team, while assuring you have the correct team. It's an encouragement to hire those who are better than you and fire those who are not performing quickly, so your team will be more successful.By Polly Ingram | Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales Training, Homebased Business Consultant, Profit Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Mentor, Executive Leadership Skills Trainer, Entreprenurial Supporter, Process Leader

n doing a weekly workshop, you're teaching, right? It's not a sales webinar. You're not always selling. You do make an offer at the end of the program, but the idea in the session isn't to get customers to make an emotional decision and buy anything. So it's not a sales webinar, it's a teaching webinar. In Build your Business I go over the 15 princ…

We know we are an expert and we're an educator and that we want to educate on this subject. So we're serving people that don't know yet if they need our help or not. So you have to have the mindset that you have value. You want to train on that value and you want to share that value with others because you know about what the value is as an educato…

Today we're going to be talking about your brand because we have 15 principles that if you use them, you will build your businessIn Build your Business I go over the 15 principles in detail over 52 weeks. If you follow along and implement these principles your business will grow so follow this podcast for action steps to grow your business and subs…

The impact employee theft is having on business profits. Employee theft is often unrecognized until the profits of the company have lowered so significantly that an audit is required.By Polly Ingram | Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales Training, Homebased Business Consultant, Profit Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Mentor, Executive Leadership Skills Trainer, Entreprenurial Supporter, Process Leader

If you are here and you're thinking about having your own business and you've already started thinking about growing and being an entrepreneur, so you're on the right road. So the mindset of the entrepreneur, there are certain traits of a successful entrepreneur, and I think we can all agree that having a positive attitude about your business is al…

Let’s review a few methods to identifying productivity killers every business should utilize to determine if you have inefficiencies negatively impacting your profit growth. They are as follows: listen to employee feedback, perform observations on processes, implement software for evaluation, assess business technology needs and evaluate KPIs.…

So we're going to talk about identifying your own personal core values and you then can identify what your business core values will be and how you're going to communicate them to everyone associated with your business. So we've got to use strategies to help you implement your core values to make sure your business stays on track. In Build your Bus…

Today we're looking at putting the systems in place. So there are four areas of your business to systematize, at least. And if you don't focus on all four areas, you will become stressed, become, um, overworked. So you need to lessen your stress. You need to bring flexibility and freedom into your business. And having these systems in place will al…

So today it's all about raising and building your affiliate fans, getting your customers to be your raving fans and promote you to their audiences. So one of the ways that we can do that is by free offers and viral applications within your business. Free can always attract fans, so you've got to be able to produce freebie contact almost on autopilo…

Today’s episode features an interview with award-winning magician and mentalist Josh Pele, who shares his origin story and journey in the industry. He emphasizes the significance of saying yes to opportunities and networking to secure more gigs. The importance of finding one's niche and combining talent with business skills is highlighted. Belinda …

In this episode of the podcast Belinda discusses the importance of having a good bookkeeping system in business. She emphasizes that bookkeeping is not only important for tax purposes, but also for understanding the true profit of the business and managing expenses. Belinda shares her personal experiences of hiring a bookkeeper and the consequences…

Brian Sachetta is the author and owner of Get Out of Your Head®, a brand and book series that seeks to help folks overcome anxiety and depression. By trade, Brian is a software developer. He combines his experiences in the tech world with previous mental health battles to draw parallels between computer systems and the human mind and give readers p…

So we are looking at what is an online community for your brand? Your brand will be different from my brand, so your community will be different from my community. So we have to look at a structure online for people to interact with you and possibly each other around principles that you're teaching in your workshops and your products. It is a place…

Successful Business Years don't just happen, they must be planned out. Today's episode is a discussion on the thought process and things you should be thinking about in the planning process and then encouragement to implement your business goal plans, so you may achieve success.By Polly Ingram | Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales Training, Homebased Business Consultant, Profit Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Mentor, Executive Leadership Skills Trainer, Entreprenurial Supporter, Process Leader

Risa Schwartzman, president and founder of Gridley Games and Cape Construction, discusses her background and involvement in the toy industry, focusing on educational STEM games. She emphasizes the importance of experiential learning and creating products that appeal to both boys and girls. Risa shares her superpowers of having a positive mindset, p…

In this episode, Belinda Ellsworth discusses the eighth mistake people make in their work, which is not focusing on the main thing and getting caught up in urgency. She emphasizes the importance of setting goals and prioritizing tasks to ensure progress towards the main goal. Belinda shares her personal experience of sacrificing important tasks for…

So why do we want a learning center? Well, this is going to be your signature offer until you develop one where you have social proof and you've developed your coaching model so that you have your high ticket offer. So this is going to be the initial continuity offer. You want to consider what your signature offer is going to be and then divide it …

This podcast is a discussion covering the challenges businesses face when they allow other businesses to charge for the services they provide, rather than collecting for those services upfront. We'll dive into alternative options to avoid the crisis of an out of control accounts receivable balance.By Polly Ingram | Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales Training, Homebased Business Consultant, Profit Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Mentor, Executive Leadership Skills Trainer, Entreprenurial Supporter, Process Leader

Have you ever had an event that upends your life? One of those things that makes you take stock of who you are, what you’re doing, and what’s most important? Today, Belinda talks with Kevin Hoover, who transitioned from corporate management to executive coach. Kevin's journey was spurred by personal circumstances, notably his son's cancer diagnosis…

During our podcast today, we will be discussing a couple reasons why performing a cost analysis is important. Given my manufacturing engineering background, I think more in those terms sometimes where others forget about the need for performing a cost analysis. It's a critical point on impacting the profit growth potential or making a bad financial…

A key to success is to have a growth mindset. What Growth mindset means is you are willing to change, adapt or alter your direction as an Entrepreneur as your business develops. It can not grow if there is no fertilizer or ideas that develop. An Entrepreneur has to be willing to learn from his/her mistakes, failures as well as accept advice by othe…

Today's podcast is a conversation discussing the risk of not paying attention to the potential consequences of someone performing internal fraud against your business.By Polly Ingram | Christian Business Growth Coach, Sales Training, Homebased Business Consultant, Profit Growth Coach, Sales To Profit Mentor, Executive Leadership Skills Trainer, Entreprenurial Supporter, Process Leader

To be a successful entrepreneur you have to have or develop a growth mindset so that you are willing to take action, change direction or overcome challenges and grow rather than staying in the same patterns.