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BizPlan -- Authentic Business Planning

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Welcome! Take the onboarding steps...

3:32

Intake Survey

Course Platform Orientation

1 2

Bonus Q&A Webinars -- Live Support Calls

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General Questions (if you don't know where else to ask)

Start of Course Assessment

2 27

✨ Valuable Bonus Content

3 2

3:32

Intro yourself to our BizPlan community 🤗

Course Overview Philosophy & Misc.

25:15

4:58

The ART of Authentic Business

19:27

4 The ART Framework of Authentic Business + Alignment

4:34

A for Alignment (The ART Framework)

3 14

4:05

R for Reach

3 20

4:38

T for Trust

3 22

6:10

With patience, TRA is the ideal path...

11 38

Reflect Before You Plan

5:35

0:32

Let's reflect on what's already working and lessons learned...

1:23

What would you like your authentic business to be like?

4 65

1:16

Learn from what you've accomplished or integrated

3 60

1:22

Learning from your mistakes

2 79

12 What practices energized you and you'll keep doing?

1:02

Which practices keep you energized?

1 72

The 8 Practices of Authentic Business

59:35

5:42

Intro to the 8 Practices of Authentic Business -- why not focus on Goals?

7 32

8:09

1. Joyful Productivity

5 34

5:04

2. Healthy Money

5 15

11:55

3. Authentic Consistent Creation

8 34

5:36

4. Growing Content Reach

1 8

6:32

5. Netcaring to Collabs

2 21

5:07

6. Aligned Offers

2 10

5:44

7. Gentle Launches

3 21

5:46

8. Mastery of Your Craft

3 17

Planning Templates

57:39

5:22

Document -- Simple Annual Planning Template

5 14

5:37

Spreadsheet -- Annual & Monthly Planning

5 22

11:56

From spreadsheet to Calendar...

2 5

5:49

The "Weekly Planning" Tab

Other Ways to Plan

2:11

Get some handholding to fill out your Annual Plan

2:00

How to copy a new spreadsheet tab over to your own?

14:06

Example -- My Current Annual/Monthly Plan for 2023

5 28

11 Google Spreadsheet -- bringing new columns from updated template over to your existing sheet

4:51

(optional) Google Spreadsheet -- bringing new columns from updated template over to your existing sheet

1 2

5:47

If you don't resonate with spreadsheets...

1 9

Q&A about The 8 Practices

48:34

2:43

Stage 1 content? Keep it light - just blog or video, not both...

3 13

5:40

Netcaring without coming across as creepy? 😂

1 7

7:49

Market Research basics

3 8

0:59

Can you do market research with colleagues who do similar work?

5:16

Do I use a virtual assistant for the repetitive aspects of my business?

Getting back into momentum after a break - accountability helps

3:34

Getting back into momentum after a break? Stamina & Accountability

2 11

3:41

If launching new product, how to estimate numbers?

1 5

6:00

Make products lightly ✨

5 12

3:13

Launch before you build...

6 15

3:34

Launch lightly - build your systems bit by bit

6 9

4:32

"I didn't see your post, so I didn't sign up!" Don't worry about it - still launch gently - popcorn analogy

5 5

1:33

You are welcome to Rebel ✊🏽😄

5 5

Joyful Productivity CARE

14:40

6:32

Joyful productivity begins with self-CARE and gradually building up your productivity stamina...

3 6

6:13

The "CARE" method of time management

1 12

1:55

Focusmate group -- George Kao Community

Prioritizing Your 8 Practices

36:26

1 Prioritize the 8 Practices based on urgency of getting clients - ART Framework

1:24

Prioritize the 8 Practices based on urgency of getting clients - using the ART Framework

1 1

7:01

Alignment practices

3 3

4:32

Reach practices

1 1

2:08

Trust is long-term

2 4

5:39

Spacious strategies - Trust practices

4 7

6 Reach practices that are more spacious

2:57

Reach strategies that are more spacious

7 Alignment practices when you have an audience

2:34

Alignment practices once you have an audience

1:18

Mastery of your craft nurtures more Trust...

8:53

My favorite 7 reach strategies

A bit more about Gentle Launches

18:02

1 Gentle launches as a friendly invitation - making friends at scale - rather than us vs them conversion

8:29

Gentle launches as a friendly invitation - rather than "us vs them" persuasion / "conversion"

6 13

3:09

What gentle launch posts look like...

2 6

6:24

Why I don't use pain points in my selling...

2 6

The 111 Formula

1:34:48

6:48

Why the 111 formula works - learning from successful investors + Mother Nature 🌱

5 9

9:32

Overview of 111 formula - what are the components?

2 11

14:11

30 Content Experiments

4 33

11:51

10 Stage 2 Content Pieces

7 24

5:09

20 Market Research Conversations

1 6

6:36

20 Collabs

5:48

10 Market Discovery POLLS

4:37

10 Offers and Gentle Launches

3 17

3:32

6 Joyful Productivity Practices Integrated

3 10

5:01

5 Case Studies

3 13

1:18

111 ... 222 ... 333

3 3

10 Tracking our 111 progress + additional metrics and even life journaling

4:51

Tracking 111 progress + additional metrics and life journaling (spreadsheet planning template)

4 16

1:35

How to gently step into the 111 formula...

2 8

13:59

How to calendar in the 111 Formula?

1 2

A Simple Biz Plan -- Your Top 20 People into a Group

28:27

6 Simplest biz plan - your 20 top people into a group program

8:59

$2K-$10K/month -- your 20 top people into a group program -- simple bizplan!

1 16

4:44

20-person membership is like having a CSA 👨‍🌾

7:32

20 Person biz model - Eric Klein Q&A

1 2

2:48

Create a curriculum for your simple group?

2 10

Price your services based on EU and Americans

4:24

If you can serve EU & Americans, price based on them... not lower-income countries

Tracking Your Progress

9:16

5:02

Monthly tracking of the 8 practices...

1 11

4:14

Weekly tracking of business progress...

How to know if your offers are successful? Simple tracking of gentle launches

More BizPlan Q&A

1:00:36

1:26

In experimentation are you concerned with being seen as a flake? 😅

2 11

4:04

Experiment with different size offers...

1:38

Do you have to use a FB Business Page or can you simply use FB Profile?

8:03

Why I don't create content to seed the launch of a program/service... (and what I do instead.)

1 6

4:11

Why I don't post attractive or engaging photos... 🐶😻

8:17

Doesn't experimentation take too long to clarify message, offer, and audience?

1 13

0 What would be overdoing our content - overposting - too frequent? People get tired of us?

6:17

What would be overdoing our content - overposting - too frequent? Might people get tired of us?

1:08

Do I have a course on gentle launches? 🤔

6:30

Free vs Paid content and Separate content from selling

2 10

1:54

How is market research connected to launches?

3:12

Should you do webinars for your launches?

The connecting thread among your offerings and your energy signature -- you may need just one website

7:05

Connecting thread among your offerings + your energy signature (You may only need one website...)

2 10

6:51

New website for a service provider - bare minimum landing page?

1 3

Even more BizPlan Q&A 😄

39:37

You have diferent modalities - is niching needed? The two sides of authentic business and energy signature

10:21

You have different modalities - is niching needed? The two sides of authentic business & energy signature

3 4

9:21

Re: experimenting widely -- doesn't it confuse your audience / not "on message" and "aligned with brand"?

3 5

3:30

Stage 1 Content - lightly upload to just 1 platform where you have most engagement...

2 4

16 Should you start FB IG Ads right away or wait?

2:06

Should you start FB/IG Ads right away, or wait until you have something to sell?

17 How to untrain your audience away from pretty pictures to more substantive content

3:23

How to untrain your audience away from pretty pictures towards more substantive content?

5:31

Your website domain name or URL is ideally your own name...

1 12

15 If you're hesitant about using FB and IG

1:30

If you're hesitant about using FB and IG due to ethical or other reasons...

3:55

What do we use case studies for?

1 4

Final Pep Talk

5:20

0:56

The next time you see 111 somewhere...

1 4

The most important thing I can say about creating a business (ABC: authenticity, beta, consistency)

1 1

BizPlan main takeaway and progress to share?

3:27

🤔 Your main takeaway from this course (and progress to celebrate) 🙌🏾

1 31

0:57

Course Completion Assessment

Introduce Yourself 🤗

Find the one category below that best fits your current work, and add your introduction there 🙏🏼 Of course your work might be categorized in multiple ways, but this is a good exercise of just choosing the one that feels most called to you at this moment, for the purpose of your intro 😊

How to introduce yourself?

Animals & pets

Art & creativity

Business & marketing

Career, work, & purpose

Cultural & societal issues

Family of origin issues

Health & wellness

Money issues

Parenting & birth

Personal & spiritual growth

1 68

Productivity & habits

Relationships & communication

Wildcard 😊

Customer service

Terms and conditions

Course includes

BizPlan -- Authentic Business Planning

Access

Welcome! Take the onboarding steps...

Intake Survey

Course Platform Orientation

Bonus Q&A Webinars -- Live Support Calls

🎁 2 Months Access to Work Retreats

General Questions (if you don't know where else to ask)

Start of Course Assessment

✨ Valuable Bonus Content

Intro yourself to our BizPlan community 🤗

Course Overview Philosophy & Misc.

Warm welcome to BizPlan + Spiral Learning

The 3 Frameworks I'll be teaching you + Your One Source

Entrepreneurship = Wise Disciplined Experimentation (Paper Airplane Analogy)

Set reasonable goals for business numbers...

Best software tools that I recommend for solopreneurs

The ART of Authentic Business

A for Alignment (The ART Framework)

R for Reach

T for Trust

With patience, TRA is the ideal path...

Reflect Before You Plan

Let's reflect on what's already working and lessons learned...

What would you like your authentic business to be like?

Learn from what you've accomplished or integrated

Learning from your mistakes

Which practices keep you energized?

The 8 Practices of Authentic Business

Intro to the 8 Practices of Authentic Business -- why not focus on Goals?

1. Joyful Productivity

2. Healthy Money

3. Authentic Consistent Creation

4. Growing Content Reach

5. Netcaring to Collabs

6. Aligned Offers

7. Gentle Launches

8. Mastery of Your Craft

Planning Templates

Document -- Simple Annual Planning Template

Spreadsheet -- Annual & Monthly Planning

From spreadsheet to Calendar...

The "Weekly Planning" Tab

Other Ways to Plan

Get some handholding to fill out your Annual Plan

How to copy a new spreadsheet tab over to your own?

Example -- My Current Annual/Monthly Plan for 2023

(optional) Google Spreadsheet -- bringing new columns from updated template over to your existing sheet

If you don't resonate with spreadsheets...

Q&A about The 8 Practices

Stage 1 content? Keep it light - just blog or video, not both...

Netcaring without coming across as creepy? 😂

Market Research basics

Can you do market research with colleagues who do similar work?

Do I use a virtual assistant for the repetitive aspects of my business?

Getting back into momentum after a break? Stamina & Accountability

If launching new product, how to estimate numbers?

Make products lightly ✨

Launch before you build...

Launch lightly - build your systems bit by bit

"I didn't see your post, so I didn't sign up!" Don't worry about it - still launch gently - popcorn analogy

You are welcome to Rebel ✊🏽😄

Joyful Productivity CARE

Joyful productivity begins with self-CARE and gradually building up your productivity stamina...

The "CARE" method of time management

Focusmate group -- George Kao Community

Prioritizing Your 8 Practices

Prioritize the 8 Practices based on urgency of getting clients - using the ART Framework

Alignment practices

Reach practices

Trust is long-term

Spacious strategies - Trust practices

Reach strategies that are more spacious

Alignment practices once you have an audience

Mastery of your craft nurtures more Trust...

My favorite 7 reach strategies

A bit more about Gentle Launches

Gentle launches as a friendly invitation - rather than "us vs them" persuasion / "conversion"

What gentle launch posts look like...

How to untrain your audience away from pretty pictures towards more substantive content?