The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast

Today we’re sitting down with freelance writer Ashley, to help her build her business while increasing her hourly rate. Ashley has been a freelance writer since 2007 until 2014 when she started ghostwriting. She does all of the research and writing for articles and posts it on clients websites and blogs. We answer her questions on how to get paid more for her work, create consistent recurring income, and how to always be asking how is my marketing content making a sale for me. [Tweet "You have to charge what you are worth. Stop undervaluing YOU"] Create more time for yourself by creating a system and process to eliminate the clients that aren’t serious about hiring you. You will learn Where to find clients that are willing to pay for your expertise Guarantee Your Income by Offering Recurring Packages The importance of charging more for a one off offer Use Your Customer’s Feedback to market to new clients Create a Plan to raise all of your rates to existing and new customers Keep Your Current Clients Happy by offering an extra bonus to your service. Set Boundaries with Prospective Clients Be Clear on Your Sales Page Convince People they Need to Hire a Ghostwriter through your Sales Page Content [Tweet "Don't give away your time. If you meet with people, charge them for their time."] Links and resources mentioned in today’s show Flip Your Life 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. We were able to go down to the surgery of one of our family members down in Nashville, took the kids to a science museum, swim at the hotel, spent time with the family member after their surgery was finished. You can connect with S&J on social media too!   Thank you for listening! 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 Ashley Grant take her ghost writing business to the next level. SHANE: 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 guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. Excited to have on a Flip Your Life member today. We ae going to be giving out a free consulting call to one of our members and helping them take their business to the next level. We are super excited as to have a good friend on the show, not only a Flip Your Life member but an attendee at some of our live events and somebody we actually just saw in person a couple of weeks ago. They were passing through. We had got to eat lunch with them. It’s our Flip Your Life member, Ashley Grant. Ashley, Welcome to the show. ASHLEY: Hey guys. I am so happy to be here today.

Todd Ferguson is a full-time seller on Amazon. He is looking to take that expertise and teach small business owners how to expand their markets by selling their products on Amazon. He’s already put together the content for the course and is looking to launch his membership site soon. We walk through his questions around the sales funnel, what you should and shouldn’t be doing with ads and landing pages. We cover some key principles about lead magnets and what it takes to actually make a sale from cold traffic. [Tweet "Do SOMETHING every day, even if everything you do isn’t perfect."] One of the most important aspects is identifying the perfect customer. We cover some tactics to go about this and why it’s so critical in the online marketing strategy. You’ll also learn the components of a highly effective sales page once your target audience has been identified. Problem Benefits Solution Testimonials You will learn How to make more money on products you are already selling. The importance of a free offer to get new email subscribers. Can memberships be a stand alone product? How to create an introductory offer from already created content. Why competition in your Niche is a good thing. Do I have the right product for the right person at the right time? What is the benefit for the customers you are targeting. [Tweet "Always test your introductory offers with the funnels you are setting up"] Don’t miss out on the bonus content at the end of the show.... Links and resources mentioned in today’s show 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. Walking on our new desk treadmill in our office space to avoid sitting while working! You can connect with S&J on social media too!   Thank you for listening! 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 Todd grow his membership program that helps small business owners sell their products online. 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 guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, great to be back with you again this week; we got another awesome interview with a Flip Your Life member, we’re going to take them today, down the path of success and we are going to help them take their business to the next level by answering three of their most pressing questions about their online business, and help them figure out what to do next. Our guest today is a good friend of ours,

In our first episode of 2016 we’re going to go through some of our favorite Can’t Miss Moments, things that went right, what went wrong, and our goals for 2016. What Went WRONG in 2015 We got hacked - everything, emails, bank accounts. All of it. This proved to be one of the biggest challenged we have ever faced running our online business. Listen in on how this happened and how we dealt with it. Sickness slowed us down. October - January our family has been sick with pneumonia, respiratory issues. The most important person on our team left to go to another job. This was problematic as we didn’t create a good procedure to hand over everything the previous employee was doing. What went RIGHT in 2015. We shifted our business model from launching products periodically to having all of our businesses operate on the recurring membership model. We worked less hours so that we could spend more time with our kids and attend their events. 40- 50 hours a week in 2014 now 10-20 hours of actual work from us. We hosted live events - this was a big goal that we accomplished. Goals for 2016 Goal to grow our Flip Your Life Community (possibly shedding some of our other stuff to focus on this) Hire a high-level business coach that is the level we want to be at. Financial Obligation = Accountability More 1 on 1 work with our Members Podcasts are going to be consulting calls with our members You will learn Importance of what happened in 2015 Creating Plans for 2016 How Can’t Miss Moments will bring Inspiration Get Prepared for the bad things with better systems Have Backups in Place if something happens to one of your team members Procedures of your business is Vital Predictable Growth With Membership Models Build Your Business the Right Way allows you to work less. Be Around Like Minded People Just keep Moving Forward even with little steps [Tweet "Celebrate Your Wins, especially the small ones. Little wins add up to big ones."] Links and resources mentioned in today’s show Click here to get the Flipped Lifestyle Goal Setting Guide.  How We Got Hacked What You Can do to Prevent Identity Theft What to do when you get Hacked Podcast Episode Screw the 9 to 5 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. Favorite from 2015: Traveled more in 2015 than ever before - going to Ft. Lauderdale, FL when Kentucky was going to have an ice storm so the only warm place we could find in the US was there. So we hopped onto a plane and left that same day. Ability to Bless others by creating jobs for people - surrounded ourselves with friends and family. You can connect with S&J on social media too!   Thank you for listening! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it,

Special Edition This week we have two former guests with us, members of our Flip Your Life Community who have some awesome success stories to share. Listen to these stories of thousands of dollars earned and jobs being quit so you can be inspired by today’s stories and take action on your goals. Brad Barrett Brad has gone all in quitting his day job this year while increasing his online income dramatically. He’s gone from one on one free calls to a course that individuals can sign up whenever they want - basically selling courses on auto-pilot now. By flipping his life he is now able to have lunch with his daughter during the day, greet his older daughter when she gets off the bus, and the opportunity to read books all day if he wanted too. Brad and his wife are looking forward to traveling the world with their children during the summer breaks which wouldn’t be possible if he was still at his full time accounting job. [Tweet "I would pick Flip Your Life over Harvard Business School in a heartbeat"] Shelley Hitz Shelley learned how to launch her beta group from her previous one on one call with us! Without having any content ready she was able to fill 20 spots at $199 during her pre-launch bringing in around 6k in just a few weeks. She is already getting AMAZING success stories and feedback on what students really want which allowed her to make money upfront and save time. One student published her kindle book in the first month after taking the course and became a number one best selling Amazon Author in the very first day! Another has published three books in the first month and is living out a 20 year dream of being a published author. [Tweet "Take the Steps and Take Action"] You will learn Importance of a Digital Product It’s about your mindset Why to Invest into your online business now It is possible to make money online Good to give value; but you need to make money also Video Testimonials are so vital to future sales How to bring new people onto your already large list. Links and resources mentioned in today’s show Flip Your Life Community Brad’s Episode Travel 101 Course Richmond Savers Shiny Objects Episode Shelley’s Episode Shelley’s Website 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! You can connect with S&J on social media too!   Thank you for listening! 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 and Merry Christmas! On today’s show, we are going to catch up on some Flip podcast guest to see what’s happening on their online businesses. SHANE: 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 guys,

With the new year right around the corner, it’s a great time for everyone to get focused and organized for 2016! In this episode we’re answering questions about managing time and setting priorities. Creating free content, paid content, opt-in freebies, and marketing activities How you divide your time is dependent on where you are in your online business. Before you start your blog, you should be focusing 100% of your time on your lead magnet. Once that’s done, spend 100% of your time on setting up your website. After that, you might spend: 70% on free content 10% on opt-in bonuses 10% on marketing 10% on creating content for other people. These percentages will shift around once you open doors into your website. [Tweet "Prioritize things that serve others & solve problems. Do that, & you'll make money online"] So the key takeaway here is to always start with your lead magnets. Scheduling free content The next thing we discuss is scheduling free content. How often you release content is up to you, but the key is consistency. If you stay consistent, over time you’ll be successful online. The ‘To-Do’ list is something we all struggle with. Start working through it by breaking each ‘To-Do’ into bite-sized pieces and schedule them in your calendar (e.g. Google Calendar). Use any app or piece of technology available to help you block your time and stay on track. Be specific when you break down your tasks, set aside some catch up time every week, and focus on one thing at a time. Prioritizing Goals Next up, we talk about prioritizing goals. Look at all the things that you want to do - see what you can delete, what you can delegate, and what you can do. Prioritize the goals that can make you money the fastest. [Tweet "Calendar everything. To do lists don't work. You have to schedule time for your tasks"] You will learn The best way to divide your time Tips for releasing free content Best practices for delivering opt-in freebies Techniques for nurturing non customers Tips for tackling your ‘To Do’ list How to schedule tasks in your calendar to get more done Tips for setting and prioritizing your goals Links and resources mentioned in today’s show Flip Your Life Community US History Teachers Elementary Librarians Google Calendar Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what’s possible for your family! Click here to leave us a review on iTunes 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. You can connect with S&J on social media too!   Thank you for listening! 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’re going to help you manage your time and set the right priorities in y...

Today’s guest Lauren is a Flip Your Life Community member. She’s got a blog called the Corner of Hope & Mane where she covers topics related to women’s hair loss. Lauren works a 9-to-5 job and right now her blog is just a hobby. In the past year she began working on it a little more seriously and has 50,000 monthly page views along with a 2,500-lead mailing list. She currently makes about $1,000/month through ads and affiliate sales, which is great, but she’s ready to take her online business to the next level! The first topic we tackle is generating leads. Right now Lauren only has one lead magnet - that’s not enough. One of the ideas we gave Lauren is to look at her top 5 blog posts and create a different content-specific opt-in for each. We also discuss the best way for Lauren to monetize her site through a forum. The topic of her blog really lends itself well to a support forum, and we think there is a lot of value in creating a community where she is the leader and support backbone. Even if she only has a 1% conversion rate, Lauren could easily get 25 paying forum members within a month. At $25/member, that’s $500/month! [Tweet "Your product could change someone's life, that is too important not to do"] Another topic we touch on is how to introduce paid content to readers who are accustomed to free content. The key is to provide real additional value to them and make no apologies for it. To wrap things up we go into Facebook and Google ads, and how Lauren can best leverage them to drive people to her site. Even though hair loss is considered a very personal subject, we found hundreds of thousands of users who have liked hair loss support groups and products on Facebook. There are also thousands of different searches on Google Lauren could take advantage of through Google ads. You will learn Ways to generate lead magnets Tips for increasing your lead magnet conversion rate Creating a paid membership site based on community value Techniques for drawing readers to her membership site How to introduce a paid area or paid content to your audience How to leverage ads to drive traffic to your website [Tweet "You will always make more off your own products than ads or affiliates"] Links and resources mentioned in today’s show Flip Your Life Community Corner of Hope and Mane 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! 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 Lauren take her online business to the next level. SHANE: 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 guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. Great to be back with you again this week. We are feeling so much better. We are finally completely healed from--

We are going to go over some mindsets and how to put systems in place for positive habits. Life goals should be a priority over your business goals. Always ensuring that your life is the first priority and what you want to accomplish over your day to day business tasks. If you take care of yourself and your family first, your frame of mind will be better as you know that everything else is taken care of for that day, week or month. It’s important to focus on one strategy at a time. In this episode we share our weekly schedule and how many hours a day we are working on average. [Tweet "It's not all grind & hustle. Life is more important than work!"] You will learn How to stay positive in your business Daily habits to stay motivated Doing the things that matter Focus on one thing at a time Filter out distractions The importance of focusing on your longterm goals Get your stuff done as fast as possible don’t waste your work time Set benchmarks Take the pressure off of yourself You need deadlines Celebrate your successes Links and resources mentioned in today’s show The Modern Parent’s Guide to Old-School Parenting 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! Success Story:Karen Colt a FL community member, has a podcast: weturnedoutokay.com "Hey everybody I wanted to share this milestone I’ve had 10,000 individual downloads on my podcast watching that number turn over from 4 figures to 5 figures yesterday felt so good, it was just one of the many things I am thankful for and I love that I reached this milestone on Thanksgiving Day. So thankful for Shane and Jocelyn and the Flip Your Life community your support keeps me going." 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. 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’re going to answer your questions about staying positive and inspired when working on your online business. 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 guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. We are very glad to be with you again this week. We have not had a podcast out in a week or two because we have been very, very, very sick. I got pneumonia for a couple of weeks, and Jocelyn just battled through bronchitis. Jocelyn is here and alive. JOCELYN: Yeah, barely and I still am not 100% well so, my voice may sound a little crazy. SHANE: And you may get a little coughing in this episode because we both are still kind of getting over that.

Today's guest Jeff Twiddy, is a member of our Flip Your Life Community. Originally a Football High School coach and Geometry teacher, he started a personal training business helping high school students who wanted to play college football. He has two online businesses -- one for high students wanting to play college football, Game Plan Your Future, and the second which we’re going to focus on today, Geometrycoach.com where he sells teaching plans online and has a membership. Jeff started listening to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast two years ago, and since then he made over $20,000 in online sales. Now he's ready to take it to the next level! We are going over how to attack holiday sales online - Black Friday, Back to School, Winter Holidays - first thing to identify your avatar and what applies to your audience. One idea we go over is to offer new packages, special annual prices, 6 month prices, and include bonuses that won’t be there later on. You can also have massive benefits is having your email list vote and whichever option they click on they receive the discount they chose and, “Everybody Wins”. We’ll also cover how to organically grow online from market places and bring people back to your own website. And finally, we discuss  how Jeff could be using webinars. We talk about converting off of automated webinars, once you do a few live ones how you can create a presentation going through some of the FAQ. [Tweet "When you send an email, is as important as what you send in the email"] You will learn Process Jeff went through Mistakes Jeff made initially Black Friday Online Sales Important to invest your time How to grow organically online Best ways to benefit from a webinar How to convert your emails better Pay attention to the timing of your avatars Splinter out your free offers What is a nurture sequence? Adequate number of people on your list for your niche. Don’t forget to look at things realistically [Tweet "Every niche is different, make every decision with YOUR avatar in mind."] Links and resources mentioned in today’s show Jeff’s Game Plan Your Future Jeff’s Geometry Coach Our Interview on Smart Passive Income Elementary Librarian History Website Ever Webinar Software 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! 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 Jeff take his online 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 guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast; great to be back with you again this week. Super excited because we have a Flip Your Life member on the call toda...

In this episode, we discuss some of the myths of online business. We cut through the junk and let you know the truth about how online business can make money. One of the most important places to start is figuring out who your customer is and where you’re going to find them. You truly need to know and understand their problems and be able to effectively deliver solutions that work. Promoting products online means providing value. Spend time investing in others and as you do you’ll receive knowledge and information that others are giving in those same communities. [Tweet "Stop trying to trick your customers into buying. Solve problems. Provide value."] To have a profitable and effective product it honestly has to be good, otherwise it’s simply a waste of time. If your product solves a real problem that people are looking for a solution for then your promotion will be easy. You will learn Promoting Digital Products Who are you selling to? It’s not all about the copyrighting Guest Poster on someone else’s Blog - Be Strategic Be a Guest on a Podcast Join Influencer Communities What does providing value in Social Groups look like? Connect with people in real life What to do and not do on your sales page What is your offer? Honest Solution - Be Ethical [Tweet "Marketing won't save you if your avatar is unknown and your product is awful"] Links and resources mentioned in today’s show FL 34 Episode FL 35 Episode FL 36 Episode FL 37 Episode Sales Funnel Episode Free Email Templates Finding Your Ideal Avatar Football Defense Site US History Teachers Flip Your Life Community Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what’s possible for your family! Tanya, who was on the podcast recently and she is also a member of our Flip Your Life Community. She says, “On Monday, I added the low cost introductory offer and reminder emails to my autoresponder sequence and so far I have 13 sales and one upsale to my membership. I am so excited about this. It is so fun to see that it is working. And the real bonus is that I am hoping these sales will continue since everyone will be getting the autoresponder emails at different times depending on when they came into my list. Of course the ultimate goal is to get more people into my membership so hopefully that’ll pick up a bit but for now I am happy with one since Monday. Shane and Jocelyn the training on sales funnel was excellent! 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 week's can't miss moment was taking our kids trick or treating early!  We got to trick or treat from 3 to 5, and then stay home to give out candy! 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 talk about the right ways to promote your on...

We are back at the Flipped Lifestyle Headquarters this week! If you didn’t check out last week’s episode we went over the importance of picking a focused direction, finding a group of people to stay accountable and why investing time and money is vital even though there is a risk. The reality we've realized is this: There will always be something in your way - the online world is competitive. We want to help you get better and make your online business get better! Not making excuses has helped us realize that we need to focus on the solutions and not the problems. [Tweet "If online business is important to you, you'll find a way. If not, you'll find excuses."] We've also had to help folks understand that the luxury and freedom isn’t always immediate and will come as you move forward but be content as you go through that process. Being content with where you are at and understand that if you want to move forward with your goals sooner there are decisions that you can make -- like canceling your cable, or moving into a smaller home with a smaller mortgage are some things we did to invest into our online business. Set reasonable goals that are relevant to your life and should be attainable. Get to that first checkpoint before setting new higher goals. Your dreams are made up of dozens and dozens of goals. You will learn What can you do better? We do not make excuses Time can’t be your excuse - there is always a way There are ways to get the money you need for an online service Why they are content Be patient with the process Set Goals that are attainable Keep Taking Action [Tweet "Stop focusing on problems, start focusing on the solutions. There ARE solutions!"] Links and resources mentioned in today’s show Flip Your Life Community  Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what’s possible for your family! Chris and Melanie from our Flip Your Life Community, “Hey guys, just wanted to report we made our second straight 1000$ + month and our email list went over 1000 subscribers and we still have a week left in the month so let’s see what happens! Super Stoked!” 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.   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’re going to share three more habits that made us successful in online business. 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 guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast; we are back at Flipped Lifestyle world headquarters this week.

We’re recording at the beach today, talking about 3 of the success habits that helped make us successful as online business. One of the things we've done really well is wisely choosing a direction and relentlessly pursuing that direction. Although you might fail you HAVE TO follow through with ideas and start learning and testing ideas, the worse thing you can do is nothing! [Tweet "Online business is scary; you have to be brave & take risks."] Surrounding yourself with great people who will keep you accountable and also compliment your mindset is vital to make sure you continue your growth and don't stall. Invest in yourself and your business, sacrificing time and money now so you can make your life the way you want it to be. If you’re not willing to put in the time to take the RIGHT ACTION, you’ll continue to spend money without seeing the benefits. Online business and entrepreneurship takes courage. Taking action and investing time and money is scary, those that can overcome the fear and take the right action are those that succeed. You will learn Online business is way more than just installing WordPress and understanding software. Do the research and really understand your customer! You have to do the work. Find an accountability person that is the opposite of you. Summary of something important talked about. Don’t be afraid to spend money. Why online business takes COURAGE. 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. 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’re going to share some of the habits that made us successful in online business. 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 guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast; we have got a very special podcast today for you because we are actually lying out on the beach. We are in the middle of a can't-miss moment. We are down in Clearwater beach near Tampa, Florida, and we just finished up our 'Flip Your Nine To Five' live event with 20 amazing entrepreneurs from all over around the country and the world. We are enjoying a few days by ourselves with the kids; I’m watching Isaac here to my left, he’s digging a sand castle, and Ana is there looking for sea shells in the water, kind of, walking around. We are covered in sunscreen, laying out, getting some rays, and just thought we would bring you guys on the journey. I’ve got the gain up a little bit, so the sound quality might not be what you are used to, but I wanted you guys to maybe catch some of the backgr...

September 27th, 2013 was the very first day that we stayed home working only for ourselves, and today we’re taking time to reflect on the last two years and talk about the most important factors in our success. As full-time teachers, we both were working on average about 50 hours a week, even though we had summers ‘off’ but we were never ‘happy enough’. We're going to share the story of trigger in our lives that drove us to change our lifestyle. [Tweet "Once you quit your job, you can never work a 9 to 5 again.."] We’ll walk through the exact mindset and thought process that we went through that lead us to quitting our jobs and the sacrifices we made to do that. What we wanted out of life was freedom, so that is what we set out to accomplish and then help you do the same. You will learn Success Story The story of where we came from. Some of the struggles we’ve faced over the year. The reasons that we made the shift to working for ourselves. The sacrifices we made to go full time with our online businesses. What this whole journey is really all about. Links and resources mentioned in today’s show Flip Your Life Community Eric & Sally’s Online Music Teaching Resource Elementary Librarian Online Business is for Anyone but Not for Everyone Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what’s possible for your family! Success Story: Eric & Sally are active Flip Your Life Members they wrote: “3 weeks ago we went from selling one off products to selling memberships. After 3 weeks we have 4 monthly members and 16 yearly subscribers = 3,750$ recurring 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. 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’re going to celebrate the two-year anniversary of quitting our jobs. 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 guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast; got a very special and awesome, fun episode of Flipped Lifestyle podcast for you guys this week. We are taking a departure from kind of our series-based stuff, where we cover you know, huge topics and get into the nuts and bolts of online business, and we wanted to just step back and look at the last two years of our online business since we quit our jobs. We just celebrated our two-year “quit-aversary” that’s what Jocelyn calls it, the quit-aversary where we actually became unemployable, we will never go back to the nine to five ever again, and so I think what, it was September 27th? JOCELYN: Yeah, 2013, that was. SHANE: Two years ago, that was the first day that Jocelyn and I stayed at ho...

Today we learn how Jill and Josh went from a cycle of online launches to a predictable business that generates revenue every month - all online. The launch model can be really appealing. Lot’s of potential cash and a rush of adrenaline, but followed by a lack of income and consistency after each launch. You will hear how they tested the subscription model with one of their smaller products - saw an immediate drop in their income yet through mistakes and learning they realized that as the memberships began to increase they are able to predict their income for the next month. It only takes a few months to figure out your retention and value of your lifetime customer when using the membership model. If you are delivering value to your membership they’ll stick around, if not they’ll leave. [Tweet "Memberships create predictable, steady, growing income. Launches do not."] You will learn Why a Launch Model was too complicated for them. Difficult to know your launch model numbers Quick fire products consume a lot of time Find the business model that works for you How to switch from the launch model to the continuity model Income will drastically decrease immediately Membership Sites - a slow process Make more for the lifetime of the customer rather than a one-time buy Customer has more benefits Links and resources mentioned in today’s show Screw the nine to five.com BB Press Forum Profit First Book Flip Your Nine to Five Live 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. 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! Introduction: Hey on today's podcast represent a successful membership case study. Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your host, 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? Alright, let’s get started. Shane: What's going on guys welcome back to Flipped Lifestyle Podcast great to be back with you again this week. it is membership month here at the Flipped Lifestyle, and in a last three episodes we talked about, Why is deuce the membership model for your online business, how we switched to it and how to sell all that up. And today were going to be bringing you a successful case study of a couple that switched from we called maybe the launch model and other models to make money online to the membership models and were really excited because this are two of our best friends in the world it is Jill and Josh Stanton from screwtheninetofive.com welcome to the show guys. Jill: Ye-hey! Josh: Ye-hey! Jill: Business Besties Shane: Wohoo! Josh: We're here Shane and Josh: Yes!

In this episode we take a free consulting call from Tanya Bryant, a mother of three from Minnesota who said goodbye to corporate life 2.5 years ago. Now working from home as a virtual assistant, she wants to develop a website she recently acquired to help fellow virtual assistants into her primary source of income and freedom business. After re-branding and putting a lot of work into different products on her site, Tanya wants to use the membership model to take her site to the next level. Listen in as we guide Tanya through the process of transforming her digital sales business into a successful and sustainable membership model. [Tweet "People buy a membership for the content, but they stay for the leadership & community"] Tanya asked some great questions along the way, and we end up covering A LOT of material, including practical tips on how to drive membership numbers through advertising and free content. We also touch on where the real value lies in the membership model, how offering membership differs from selling individual products, and share our thoughts on selecting a price point, sharing content, and managing Facebook groups versus forums. If you’re like Tanya and have a great idea for a membership model site but aren’t quite sure how to turn it into a sustainable business - this is one episode you DO NOT want to miss! You will learn The advantages of the membership model over offering individual products. What type of free content to include on a membership site. How to use blog posts and other free content to drive membership sales. Tips for increasing membership through Facebook advertising. Strategies for retaining members over time. The pros and cons of maintaining a Facebook group versus a forum. Tips for setting your initial membership price point. Links and resources mentioned in today’s show Flipped Lifestyle Star VA Elementary Librairan US History Teachers 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! 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’re helping Tanya take her online 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 guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast; got a great episode for you today, we have a Flipped podcast where we bring on a member from our Flip Your Life community, and we give them a free consulting call, and we put that on the air so that everyone can learn from the answers to the questions asked. Today’s guest is Tanya Bryant; Tanya, welcome to the show. TANYA: Thank you, great to be here. SHANE: We are really excited that you are coming on today because we are going to be talking about membership websites, which is kind of the theme for this month.

Membership sites are the best online business choice for predictable and recurring income. Listen in on today's episode to learn how to build and grow your own! Today we are talking about how to set up a membership site and the tools you need to know about so you can successfully make money online. Exciting News! Jeanette, a member of our FYL Community (and on FL55), messaged us recently sharing how she was making enough money with her WordPress membership site to quit her job! We’ll cover all the tools you need to host your community. A forum is one of the core pieces that really isn’t a complex plugin but gives you a lot of ability and flexibility to organize the conversations, resources and training your members will have access to. With a forum on your website (not a Facebook page or group) the content is under your control not under the control of Facebook. We’ll go over some ways to protect your forum, allow people to pay you and how to manage your forum threads and conversations. Don’t promise new daily, weekly, or monthly content, simply say there will be Regularly Scheduled Content. (this is critical!) [Tweet "People quit memberships because they stop getting value"] Two critical factors for member retention are community and accessibility to the Expert (you). Although they might come for the education or information they’ll stay for the community and ability to get their questions answered. You will learn Why you need a website for your membership The best tools for a membership site Why to Use a Forum Plugin Types of Forum Categories Way to Protect Your Forum Third Party Gateways for Payments Managing Your Forums Content Strategy Procedures for Handling Customer Service Links and resources mentioned in today’s show Flip Your Life Community Flipped Lifestyle Podcast 60 Jeanette’s website algebra1teachers.com BB Press Paid Membership Pro Imember 360 Paypal Stripe Authorize.net BB Press Notify Canned Responses James Schramko Screw the 9 -5 Flip Your Nine to Five Live Event 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. 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’re going to tell you about how to set up a membership site to make money online. 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.