BizPlan -- Authentic Business Planning
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Intake Survey
Course Platform Orientation
Bonus Q&A Webinars -- Live Support Calls
BizPlan ✍🏽 Work Retreats to give you time to learn & implement the course!
General Questions (if you don't know where else to ask)
Start of Course Assessment
✨ Valuable Bonus Content
3:32
Intro yourself to our BizPlan community 🤗
Course Overview Philosophy & Misc.
4:58
Warm welcome to BizPlan + Spiral Learning
4:59
The 3 Frameworks I'll be teaching you + Your One Source
6:13
Entrepreneurship = Wise Disciplined Experimentation (Paper Airplane Analogy)
8:19
Set reasonable goals for business numbers...
0:46
Best software tools that I recommend for solopreneurs
The ART of Authentic Business
4:34
A for Alignment (The ART Framework)
4:05
R for Reach
4:38
T for Trust
6:10
With patience, TRA is the ideal path...
Reflect Before You Plan
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?
1:16
Learn from what you've accomplished or integrated
1:22
Learning from your mistakes
1:02
Which practices keep you energized?
The 8 Practices of Authentic Business
5:42
Intro to the 8 Practices of Authentic Business -- why not focus on Goals?
8:09
1. Joyful Productivity
5:04
2. Healthy Money
11:55
3. Authentic Consistent Creation
5:36
4. Growing Content Reach
6:32
5. Netcaring to Collabs
5:07
6. Aligned Offers
5:44
7. Gentle Launches
5:46
8. Mastery of Your Craft
Planning Templates
5:22
Document -- Simple Annual Planning Template
5:37
Spreadsheet -- Annual & Monthly Planning
11:56
From spreadsheet to Calendar...
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
4:51
(optional) Google Spreadsheet -- bringing new columns from updated template over to your existing sheet
5:47
If you don't resonate with spreadsheets...
Q&A about The 8 Practices
2:43
Stage 1 content? Keep it light - just blog or video, not both...
5:40
Netcaring without coming across as creepy? 😂
7:49
Market Research basics
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?
3:34
Getting back into momentum after a break? Stamina & Accountability
3:41
If launching new product, how to estimate numbers?
6:00
Make products lightly ✨
3:13
Launch before you build...
3:34
Launch lightly - build your systems bit by bit
4:32
"I didn't see your post, so I didn't sign up!" Don't worry about it - still launch gently - popcorn analogy
1:33
You are welcome to Rebel ✊🏽😄
Joyful Productivity CARE
6:32
Joyful productivity begins with self-CARE and gradually building up your productivity stamina...
6:13
The "CARE" method of time management
1:55
Focusmate group -- George Kao Community
Prioritizing Your 8 Practices
1:24
Prioritize the 8 Practices based on urgency of getting clients - using the ART Framework
7:01
Alignment practices
4:32
Reach practices
2:08
Trust is long-term
5:39
Spacious strategies - Trust practices
2:57
Reach strategies that are more spacious
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
8:29
Gentle launches as a friendly invitation - rather than "us vs them" persuasion / "conversion"
3:09
What gentle launch posts look like...
6:24
Why I don't use pain points in my selling...
The 111 Formula
6:48
Why the 111 formula works - learning from successful investors + Mother Nature 🌱
9:32
Overview of 111 formula - what are the components?
14:11
40 Content Experiments
11:51
10 Stage 2 Content Pieces
5:09
20 Market Research Conversations
6:36
20 Collabs
4:37
10 Offers and Gentle Launches
3:32
6 Joyful Productivity Practices Integrated
5:01
5 Case Studies
1:18
111 ... 222 ... 333
4:51
Tracking 111 progress + additional metrics and life journaling (spreadsheet planning template)
1:35
How to gently step into the 111 formula...
A Simple Biz Plan -- Your Top 20 People into a Group
8:59
$2K-$10K/month -- your 20 top people into a group program -- simple bizplan!
4:44
20-person membership is like having a CSA 👨🌾
7:32
20 Person biz model - Eric Klein Q&A
2:48
Create a curriculum for your simple group?
4:24
If you can serve EU & Americans, price based on them... not lower-income countries
Tracking Your Progress
5:02
Monthly tracking of the 8 practices...
4:14
Weekly tracking of business progress...
How to know if your offers are successful? Simple tracking of gentle launches
More BizPlan Q&A
1:26
In experimentation are you concerned with being seen as a flake? 😅
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.)
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?
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
1:54
How is market research connected to launches?
3:12
Should you do webinars for your launches?
7:05
Connecting thread among your offerings + your energy signature (You may only need one website...)
6:51
New website for a service provider - bare minimum landing page?
Even more BizPlan Q&A 😄
10:21
You have different modalities - is niching needed? The two sides of authentic business & energy signature
9:21
Re: experimenting widely -- doesn't it confuse your audience / not "on message" and "aligned with brand"?
3:30
Stage 1 Content - lightly upload to just 1 platform where you have most engagement...
2:06
Should you start FB/IG Ads right away, or wait until you have something to sell?
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...
1:30
If you're hesitant about using FB and IG due to ethical or other reasons...
3:55
What do we use case studies for?
Final Pep Talk
0:56
The next time you see 111 somewhere...
The most important thing I can say about creating a business (ABC: authenticity, beta, consistency)
3:27
🤔 Your main takeaway from this course (and progress to celebrate) 🙌🏾
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
Productivity & habits
Relationships & communication
Wildcard 😊