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What Counts On Instagram

by TwoBrain Media The ego loves likes. But the brain knows better. On Instagram, a string of hearts is a good thing: It means people took the time to double-tap and like your content. That’s engagement, and it’s important. A like is better than nothing, but a comment is even better still. Comments mean people stopped scrolling and took the time to write something, ask a question, offer a compliment, and so on. They didn’t just give you a high five in passing. They stopped to say, “Wow. I really like what you did.” That said, likes and comments are the singles and doubles of Instagram, to use a baseball analogy. Profile visits can be considered triples, and website clicks are home runs. A profile visit means you did enough to make someone want to learn more about your business. A website click means you moved a person to get off Instagram and get onto one of your properties, where you can educate, inspire, help and ultimately earn clients or customers. Not to be overlooked: shares and saves. Both are good. A share means a person thinks a friend would be interested in what you have to say, and the sharer is helping you get the post in front of a potentially interested party. A save means a person wants to spend more time with your content later on. It might mean someone is interested but rushed or it might mean a person wants to revisit your content. Either way, you’re winning. All of this insight is available to Instagram business accounts, but it’s very easy to miss it when you’re watching a string of hearts pop up in your notifications. Here are actual stats from three posts a gym made in January 2019: Photo 1: 72 likes Photo 2: 192 likes Photo 3: 230 likes The second and third photos were big hits for this account and generated far ...
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Episode 153 – The Tinker Phase of Entrepreneurship, with Jeff Smith

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Lead Magnet Success Quickstart Guide

Every day, you could have hundreds or THOUSANDS of people viewing your website. While any visitor to your site should find a ton of free content, ONLY those willing to trade their email address should get your most valuable content. This is where having a lead magnet can really help your business. Click the video below to learn how you can add 5-10 email subscribers to your list every day with lead magnets!
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Systems Before Sales

Last night, my son’s hockey team finally won a game. One of my service goals is to introduce kids to fitness and sport in our community. So Robin and I sponsor teams, manage teams, and coach teams. I’m not much of a hockey coach, but I do know this: offense wins games, defense wins championships. We won because we scored the most goals. But we scored the most goals because our defense created a lot of chances. When the defensemen keep the puck in the other team’s zone, the forwards get more chances to score. And their team really can’t score when the puck’s in their end of the ice. So a few of our kids scored–including mine–but the win can be credited to the defense. All of our offense is built on their foundation. When I sought out a mentor in 2008, I was looking for sales. I needed money badly. I didn’t even have the money in my account to pay him. So when he started teaching me business systems, I panicked. “Who cares how often I sweep the floors? I need more clients!” that was the thought I shared with my wife. But I did the work, built the foundation, and started selling. Many of the clients who were around in 2008 are still around NOW. Most of the same coaches, too. We can sell more memberships and keep people for a very long time because we built the foundations first. It’s very tempting to chase marketing plans before solidifying your operations. The story usually goes like this: Gym owner runs a short-term challenge for a bunch of people Gym owner sees some positive revenue for the first time in awhile Gym owner becomes a huge fan of the marketing “system”, and repeats it A year later, the “new” clients are gone, and have taken the old clients with them The owner still doesn’t feel safe in ...
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Theseusskeppet: Behålla er kultur och ersätt dig själv

Efter att ha besegrat Kreta återvände Theseus och hans krigare till Aten i sitt skepp. Skeppet bevarades i flera hundra år för beskådning som påminnelse om triumfen. Med tiden ruttnade skeppets plankor och de byttes ut en efter en. Till slut fanns ingen originalplanka kvar. Skeppet fanns kvar men frågan är om det fortfarande var Theseus skepp? Hur överlever er verksamhet förändring? När du rör dig till roller med högre värde behöver du ersätta dig själv. Först bör du sluta städa och sen kanske du coachar mindre. Till slut kommer era medlemmar lägga märke till det. Jag minns flera tillfällen då medlemmar frågat varför jag “sitter på kontoret, knappt coachar och inte bara hänger som Kalle och jag brukade göra”. Svaret är så klart att vår verksamhet inte växer om vi hänger i gymmet 10 timmar om dagen och bara pratar. Vi skapar inte en verksamhet som är robust nog att finnas i 30 år, eller skapar fantastiska möjligheter för våra coacher att ha meningsfulla karriärer om vi bara hänger. Människor märker när ni byter ut plankor. Betyder det att ni ska låta skeppet ruttna för att förbli autentisk? Självklart inte. Ert varumärke är inte er logotype. Ert varumärke är känslan som era medlemmar får när de kliver in i ert gym, och historien som de berättar om den. När medlemmar välkomnas till ett nytt pass, välkomnas de lika hjärtligt av alla coacher som du hade välkomnat dem? När en medlem kommer försent till ett pass, bemöts hen med samma respekt som DU hade gjort? Historien är vad som håller samman skeppet. Era policys, rutiner, regelbundenhet, bilder, blogginlägg är alla delar av historien. Ersätter du dig själv med system som upprätthåller er historia, eller med människor som ändrar historien? Om era anställda inte vet hur de ska berätta er historia kommer de berätta SIN egen historia. Ge dem förutsättningarna att berätta er historia – ge dem system: Så här välkomnar ...
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Flipping The Script on Value

“My clients would never pay $250 for a gym membership!”   Well, they’ll pay $250 for something. What?   If you asked, “What’s the worst way to price my service?” I’d give you one of these answers: Copy everyone else, and then drop your price by $5 Take the average of everyone selling “CrossFit” in your area Guess at “what feels right” Decide what you can afford to pay, and charge that. I know, because I’ve done all four of them. Here’s why they’re wrong:   1 + 2: other local CrossFit gyms probably have no idea how to price their service, so they did the same thing. Every new generation of gyms in your town now sells an identical service for $5 less per month. Guess what will happen two years from now? Yep: someone will do what you’re doing for less.   3 + 4: you’ll guess wrong. We all project our budget onto our clients. When we’re in the Founder phase, we have less money than our clients do. Stop projecting your own poverty and fear onto everyone else; it stinks!   The right way to set your rates is mathematical: you calculate your desired income and your projected expenses. Then you figure out how much money you need to break even. You should be able to reach breakeven on 50 clients or less; 30 is better. At 150 clients, you should be paying yourself and at least one solid coach.   “But…30 clients?!? I’d have to charge $250 per month! No one will ever pay that, when every gym around me charges $95!”   Maybe you’re right. Flip the script: instead of asking, “What will people pay for CrossFit?” ask, “What service can I sell that’s worth $250 per month?”   Maybe that’s a 1:1 package. Maybe that’s a small-group session. Maybe that’s a nutrition + group plan.   Sell it, and LIVE UP TO IT. ...
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