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🪙 Simple Authentic Moneymaking 3-Week Experience (SAM3)

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🗓 Dates of the Live Sessions + Zoom Link 🌐

Introducing Heather Lakatos

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Module 1

warm welcome to Simple Authentic Moneymaking

Let's begin by first looking at what you've already learned from your experiences...

joyful ways to make money

Joyful moneymaking

simple ways for you to make money

Simple moneymaking

what has already made you money?

What's worked for you thus far?

moneymaking what hasn't worked?

What hasn't worked for you thus far?

more simplicity and joy into your moneymaking

Simplicity and Joy into your moneymaking...

Action Buddies

moneymaking buddy

Moneymaking Buddies 🤗

focusmate

Focusmate 👩🏽‍💻

Module 2

Simplicity How to make money?

Simplicity: How to make money?

Overwhelm and overload and distractions blocking us from moneymaking

Overwhelm, overload and distractions -- blocking us from moneymaking

time and money

Time & Money

high impact low impact actions

High vs Low Impact/Effective Actions

Primer for market research

Market research primer

think in terms of events

Think (and act) in terms of Events in your business...

How to know if a moneymaking method is "working or not working"?

How to know if a moneymaking method is "working or not working"?

"Having" to do un-fun things that make money -- you can bring Soul into it ✨

"Having to" do un-fun or "unnatural" tasks to make money -- you can bring Soul into it ✨

Checkpoint

The success we aim for in this course

Action Checkpoint 1

Action checkpoint

Module 3

2 Sources of Grounded Confidence

2 Sources of Grounded Confidence

3 Keep your action taking simple

Let go of (most of) what you think you need before you reach out...

4 Values Clash

Values clash: "making money is exploitative"

4b Isn't it better to have a Gift Economy ala Charles Eisenstein

Gift economy ala Charles Eisenstein?

5 Immunity to Change

Immunity to Change...

6 Your friends don't remember what you offer unless you say it regularly

Selling to friends feels wrong? Then do it indirectly. If they don't know, they can't help.

7 Friend family discounts?

Friends and family discount?

8 What about bartering?

What about bartering with other service providers?

9 Actions & Lessons

⭐️ Actions & Lessons Document

Module 4

1 Progress Checkpoint 1

Progress checkpoint 1

Passive income or other ways of making money that intrigues you?

"Easy" or "Passive" income opportunities?

you have short vs long offers, which should you promote now?

Announcing short vs long-term offers + Concentric Circles Business Model

How much should you promote your books?

Promoting your books -- how much effort/money to spend?

quadrant uniqueness desire

🔢 Quadrant -- Your Offer's Uniqueness / Audience Resonance

Audience desire readiness to buy

Audience Desire/Resonance (readiness to buy)

how to improve uniqueness of offer

Uniqueness of Your Offer

trust desire quadrant

🔢 Quadrant -- Warmth & Want

how to improve trust & warmth

Trust/Warmth -- How to improve it?

my favorite reach strategies (SAM course)

Reach (size of your audience) -- How to grow it?

Module 5

1 Your trusted allies

Your trusted allies

2 Easily Referrable Offer

What's your Easily Referrable Offer?

3 Realistic projections

Realistic projections

4 Short vs Long Term strategies

Separate your short vs long strategies

6 Venn diagram re short vs long term strategies

Venn Diagram to better understand short vs long strategies

5 Staying motivated with content consistency

Motivation for Consistent Content/Offerings despite no response initially...

Module 6

1 Persist with an offer?

Persist? or let go of an idea?

2 Quantity Quality Action

🔢 Quality vs Quantity of Action

3 Local vs Global Efforts for moneymaking?

Local vs Online efforts for moneymaking?

4 Topic Format Delivery

Your Best Offers = Hot Topic x Proven Format x Profitable Delivery

5 Market Research cadence

Market Research -- how to do it?

6 20-person model

The 20-Client Business Model

7 Working Lightly to make money

Working lightly? It's really important 😄

8 Notice your overextending

Notice your overextending...

9 Working deeply

Working deeply as well

10 Collabs

Ideas for Collabs?

Thank you for taking the course!

Your post-course assessment 🙏🏼

Progress checkpoint 2 (one month later)

(Optional) Bonus Content

How to ease back into being in touch with one's network or audience, after a long break?

How to ease back into being in touch with one's network or audience, after a long break? How can it be authentic and not just transactional?

Make your calls-to-action direct and experiment with a variety of offers

Make your calls-to-action direct / experiment with a variety of offers...

Is it sometimes appropriate to Overcome Objections? When it's false beliefs they hold or misconceptions or myths yes

Is it sometimes appropriate to "overcome objections"? When it's false beliefs they hold or misconceptions or myths, yes.

The process of experimenting lightly with offers without exhausting yourself

How to experiment/test lightly with (many) offers without exhausting yourself...

The key difference between free content vs paid offerings

The key difference between free content vs paid offerings

Audience wants you to do something for free - you can still charge for it

Audience wants you to do something for free? You can still charge for it.

QA Content posts that mention your offerings - how to do it gracefully?

Content posts that mention your offerings (lightly sell) -- how to do it gracefully?

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