Summary: <br> Josh Rageth is a 4th grade teacher, that has been teaching now for 7 years. In his first year, Josh began selling lesson plans on occasion for a third-party lesson plan site.<br> <br> He took action, something we love to see! With our help and his consistency, his possibilities on his picture book membership site are endless!<br> <br> <br> What You’ll Learn:<br> <br> * How to take action! (6:50)<br> * Launch 101 (8:00)<br> * The ins and outs of opening and closing the doors to your membership (10:35)<br> * Price points 101 (11:35)<br> * How to do something next level. (14:00)<br> * Every business has a lull period. (17:00)<br> * The importance of one-on-one calls (20:45)<br> * How to capture your un-tapped audience. (25:00)<br> * How not to make it too hard. (27:30)<br> * The biggest mistake that anyone makes in online business. (30:15)<br> * Great marketers have to look into the future. (34:00)<br> <br> <br> Show Notes<br> Two years ago Josh and his wife found out they were pregnant. They were already starting to figure out ways to make more money. However, that pregnancy was a very hard one on his wife and she ended up having to leave her job as a Special Education Assistant.<br> <br> So in turn Josh had to double-down on selling lesson plans, so that he could provide for his family. Josh began making new week-long lesson plans for a different picture book every day! These lesson plans were made for existing books, he basically made these lesson plans for specific books. He did this for 223 days straight!<br> <br> These lesson plans help teachers out. If the teacher needed a lesson plan on this specific book, they could buy his plans and they had all the activities for the entire week.<br> <br> It started out with books that Josh was using in class. Then, he moved onto 1st - 3rd grade popular books, because that’s where picture books are most needed.<br> <br> The lesson plans started giving him $2/month, then $10/month. Now, for about the last year Josh is making over $1,000 each month!<br> <br> It took a large volume of traffic to get there. At $2.75 or $3 a piece, it takes a lot of sales to get that number! To do this, he utilize SEO and how to drive searches to him.<br> <br> Josh was listening to a lot of podcasts about being a “teacher-preneur” and while talking to other people, he kept hearing people recommendation the Flip Your Life community. He spent his summer listening to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast!<br> <br> <br> <br> Take action!<br> <br> We saw Josh in our community posting about how he was taking action.<br> <br> Josh joined the Flip Your Life community and within two weeks he had his membership ready!<br> <br> He took the extra time he had during the Coronavirus pandemic, since he was teaching from home.<br> <br> His goal was to launch before the school year was out, so he did just that!<br> <br> It took a choice. Josh made a choice. He took action. He woke up early. He stayed up late. He did the launch, that’s why things are happening!<br> <br> <br> <br> Launch 101<br> <br> Josh had a list of 1,200 people when he first launched. Since then, he has been trying to grow that list through Facebook ads and is now up to 1,600 people. That a healthy email list, especially for just launching!<br> <br> When Josh launched he also had 3 beta members. If he can find 3 he can find 300! They are there, he has proven the concept.<br> <br> Josh started out by simply sending an email that said, ‘hey, I’m thinking about starting a membership site, click here if you’re interested.’ He got around 100 people saying they were interested!<br> <br> So he thought:<br> <br> “Okay, we have 100 people interested.”<br> “Let’s start making this membership site.”<br>
