Step #1: Create A Success Journal And Do This "Self Evaluation" Exercise
I personally use Google Docs. I have literally hundreds of pages recording my personal development over the last 14 years since I started in the home business industry
In order for your marketing to be effective, you must be crystal clear about who you are. This "self evaluation" exercise may be quite a revelation for you
Spend At Least 60 Minutes Getting Clear on YOU!
1. What's your MiSSION and VISION? for your company and personal brand (What are your goals?)
2. What MESSAGE do you want to deliver to your audience?
3. Are you “Smooth and polished” like Robin Sharma or “Raw and Polarising” like Gary Vaynerchuck?
4. What SKILLS do you have now? What can you teach your audience?
5. What are some of your talents…things you're naturally good at?
6. What excites you and what could you talk about endlessly without ever getting tired of it?
7. What or Who motivates and Inspires you?
8. Where do you turn to for entertainment? (Music, movies, books, etc.)
Step #2: Create a "My Story" Video & Share It with Your Audience:
You'll be learning a lot more about video marketing in Step 4 (Your Content marketing Strategy)... However, for now let's get your "brand building" off to a great start...
Tell Your Audience...
1. Why did you start your business?
2. If you could go back and change anything, what would that be and why?
3. What were your biggest mistakes when you first got started?
4. Go deep into the pains, frustrations and emotions that you went through
5. What changed for you? What was the fork in the road? What big decisions did you make?
6. What were the positive outcomes or successes?
7. How did that change your life?
8. What's your mission? What do you want for your target audience?
Don't Worry If You Don't Have Huge Successes Yet, Talk About Smaller Triumphs like...
😀 The skills that you've learned, like generating leads online or creating videos
😀 How much confidence you're gaining and how your mindset is improving
😀 That you've made your first few dollars or sales
Here's MyStory Video Script
(Pay attention to how I tell the story, not necessarily the facts of the story)
"I started my business because I didn’t like working for somebody else and I felt really trapped in the 9-to-5. I was tired of long hours, working weekends and holidays to try and climb the corporate ladder… And I wanted it to give me FREEDOM
If I could change anything I would go back and learn real marketing skills from the start
And all I had to do was invest in good marketing programs and find the right mentors
And that made it tough when I started my online business
Because all I wanted was the freedom to go to the beach in the middle of the day and spend time doing the things I love
And if you’re anything like me, then you know how heartbreaking it is when you try and try and try - And you keep on spending and nothing actually works. I spent years doing that
I spent one Christmas eve, ashamed and crying on my doorstep because I couldn’t afford presents…
Maybe you’ve gone through times so you know how that feels?
So 2008, I was $70,000 in debt, had been made homeless and was living in my mom’s spare room.
I finally got to a point where I knew I could keep following a broken business model and clueless mentors… Or I could make a change and learn real marketing skills combined with a lucrative business model
So that’s the direction I went and that’s when everything changed for me
❍ I was able to make $10,000 within 30 days
❍ I took my income to $40,000 a month within 6 months
❍ I moved beachfront to the Caribbean
These skills that I learned allowed me to bank $1,000,000 in commissions within just 22 months of being nearly bankrupt, living with my mom
Becoming financially free and living my dream lifestyle was life changing, but what was even better was teaching thousands of people how to develop themselves into Internet marketing leaders...
Seeing them go from struggling to flourishing and helping them change their lives forever - Is the greatest feeling in the world to be FREE and make a difference
And that’s what I want for everyone!
My mission is to teach entrepreneurs to become successful, highly skilled internet marketing leaders so they can have the FREEDOM that they want!"