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In this episode I share five essential steps to grow a successful multi six-figure online business. With over 10 years of experience helping businesses scale, I’m able to share the 5 key steps that all these businesses have taken to achieve their financial goals (and beyond!) I’ll bring in elements of my personal journey and adjustments I’m currently making in my business which will hopefully give you inspiration for your own. Listen now to start implementing the 5 step formula you need to take your online business to the next level. KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST

1. Demonstrate Expertise: Establish yourself as an authority in your niche by creating high-quality, long-form content.
2. Build Visibility: Utilize strategic outreach, social media, and networking to increase your visibility and reach your target audience.
3. Nurture Your Email List: Build a strong email list and nurture relationships with your subscribers to drive conversions.
4. Craft a Compelling Offer: Create a valuable and irresistible offer that addresses your target audience's needs and desires.
5. Master Launch Strategies: Develop effective launch strategies to maximize sales and generate buzz around your products or services.

  If you enjoyed this episode then please feel free to go and share it on your social media or head over to Apple podcasts or Spotify and give me a review, I would be so very grateful.   LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE September 2024 Masterclass Long-Form Content: Your Secret Weapon to grow your business How to become more visible and grow your audience Connect with Teresa on Website, The Club, Sign up to Teresa's email list,  Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter Transcript If you are looking to grow your online business, then this episode is for you. If you are a course creator, a membership owner, or a coach, and you have an online business, then I am going to be sharing with you the...

This episode is an insightful discussion of me and my very lovely guest Hollie Whittles, an award-winning TEDx speaker and director of two digital companies. The conversation explores the impacts of AI on businesses, highlighting practical applications that can save time and money, and provides examples and guidance on how business owners can effectively integrate AI into their operations.  We also touch on the ethical considerations and potential biases associated with AI use. Hollie shares her personal career journey from talent management to leading her own companies, and her ongoing voluntary work promoting digital skills and entrepreneurship in schools and small businesses. KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST

1. AI is a valuable tool for businesses: AI can automate tasks, improve efficiency, and provide valuable insights, leading to cost savings and increased productivity.
2. Ethical considerations are crucial: As businesses adopt AI, it's essential to address ethical concerns such as bias, privacy, and transparency.
3. AI is accessible and adaptable: There are numerous AI tools and platforms available to businesses of all sizes, making it easier than ever to integrate AI into operations.

  If you enjoyed this episode then please feel free to go and share it on your social media or head over to Apple podcasts or Spotify and give me a review, I would be so very grateful.   LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE Connect with Hollie on Linkedin, Website Connect with Teresa on Website, The Club, Sign up to Teresa's email list,  Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter   Transcript Teresa: AI is everywhere, but what does it really mean for our businesses and can it really save us time and money? And is there anything that we should be looking out for and steering clear of? That is what I'm discussing today with my guest, Hollie Whittles. Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the Your Dream Business Podcast, and thank you so much for joining me. Honestly, I appreciate you taking your time...

In this inspiring episode, I welcome Megan Tobler, the founder of Self Start Her, a thriving community for women entrepreneurs. Megan shares her journey of leaving the corporate world and creating a mission-driven business aimed at supporting and uplifting female entrepreneurs. Despite being laid off while pregnant, Megan focused on building a strong foundation for her community first before thinking about monetization. Listen in as she discusses her motivations, challenges, and the incredible support system she has built along the way. KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST

1. Mission Over Money Megan started her business with a strong mission to help others, putting community building and support before monetization. This approach not only set a solid foundation but also created a loyal and engaged audience.
2. Leveraging Skills and Passion Utilizing her sales and communication skills, Megan successfully launched the Self Start Her podcast, which became a pivotal platform for sharing the stories and insights of female entrepreneurs. This initiative was driven by her passion for connecting and supporting other women in business.
3. Navigating Challenges with Grace Megan's journey included significant challenges, such as being laid off while pregnant. However, she embraced these obstacles with resilience and grace, focusing on her long-term goals and leveraging the support of her family and community to continue building her dream business.

  If you enjoyed this episode then please feel free to go and share it on your social media or head over to Apple podcasts or Spotify and give me a review, I would be so very grateful.   LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE Connect with Megan on Website, Instagram, Linkedin, Podcast, Youtube Connect with Teresa on Website, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook or https://twitter.com/theathwareing

Today’s episode of the podcast is an interview with Finka Jerkovic, a Sales Coach and Expert who helps people to sell in their business, in a way that doesn’t compromise their purpose, people or profit. Tune in to hear us talk about coming from love when you're selling and doing things that align with our values, and the energy in which we come from. This episode is practical in terms of marketing strategies, but also touches on the woo, in terms of thinking about the energy that we bring when we sell.   KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST   ●     Why aligning what you love to do with what is most valuable to your client is the key to growing your business (not fear-based tactics!) ●     The difference between selling from love and selling from fear ●     Why we shouldn’t resist the experience of fear ●     Why you need to stop buying into the stories that we make up in our head about selling ●     Why we need to view putting an offer out as an act of love   THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE   Feel the fear of selling and do it anyway! But be kind and compassionate to yourself in the process.   HIGHLIGHTS YOU SIMPLY CAN'T MISS   ●     Why love is the only antidote to the fear that is holding you back in your business ●     How to sell with confidence, attract clients magnetically and build a business you love ●     The three pillars to selling from love   LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE   Sell From Love podcast Sell From Love website Sell From Love quiz Finka’s LinkedIn Finka’s Instagram   TRANSCRIPT  

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. As I mentioned last week, I am still in Nashville. I'm recording this at the same time as I recorded last week's and we're having another interview because of the fact of, well, one, I forgot to and didn't forget, I ran out of podcast episodes and I had to do some recording over here.

And because I don't have my normal setup and things, I didn't really want to do a solo. Because it requires me recording more and thinking more. And for some reason my brain isn't working today. So I'm doing some interviews, but these are great interviews. And you know what's funny? Because I pre-record the interview so far ahead, I literally have to go back and re-watch them to remind myself what we're talking about.

And. Finka's episode today, the lovely Finka who's being interviewed. We talk about coming from love when you're selling, thinking about service, when you're selling and doing things that align with our values and the energy in which we come from. So it's quite practical in terms of, you know, marketing strategies, but also it's a little bit woo woo in terms of like thinking about the energy that we bring when we sell.

And I recorded this at the point The Club was just per open permanently, and obviously now The Club has been open permanently for quite some time, and it's really interesting to hear some of those conversations and actually how some of those conversations have impacted me going forward on what I've done.

Today’s episode of the podcast is an interview with Amanda Warfield, who talks all about content, long form, short form and how to be consistent, whilst still maintaining quality. Amanda is a simplicity focused content marketing strategist. Her mission is to help women entrepreneurs, in particular, really fit their marketing into their business without it taking over their business. I think this will be so useful to so many of you, as it’s something we look at a lot, so tune in, enjoy and then let me know what you think!   KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST  ●     Where to start with being consistent ●     Why you should put out less content than you think you need to ●     Consistency and quality matters more than anything else ●     The difference between perfect content, viral content and quality content ●     Don’t base what consistency looks like for you, based on what other people are doing ●     Everyone has to start somewhere, don’t be afraid to start small and then if you have time, add on later ●     The pros and cons of batching content   THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE However much time you can set aside, put it on your calendar for the rest of your year to make sure you get it done.   HIGHLIGHTS YOU SIMPLY CAN'T MISS ●     How to know if it’s quality content that you’re putting out ●     How to simplify the content creation process ●     Why you shouldn’t be afraid to repeat yourself ●     How to batch create your content   LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE   Mary Hyatt’s Podcast Amanda Warfield’s Instagram Amanda’s Warfield’s Podcast   TRANSCRIPT

Hello and a very warm welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. Now. If I sound a little different and if there's background noises that aren't all the same, it's because I messed up a little bit. And you know me authentic to the core. I will always tell you what's happening in my world and where I mess up because it's really important to know that because we are business owners, we make mistakes.

No one is perfect. And when we look at these people [00:02:00] online and think, Oh my God, they're so amazing. No, no, they're not. Like it's great show they're putting on, but everyone has failures, everyone makes mistakes. So I had a really busy couple of weeks. I had, well first I was off cause I had an operation, which I'm all recovered from.

All good now, which is great. Then I went straight into an in-person event that I held in Birmingham. Then from that event, I went straight into a week on of insider experience, which was phenomenal. So if you missed it this time, we're gonna do it again in January. So make sure as soon as I have the dates, I will get that in your diaries.

And then because I'd been off and had these various things, all my meetings and all my calls and everything got pushed into one week. And then I was going to Nashville the Monday this week. And I thought I was organized. And then I sat at the airport on Monday morning and turned right to my husband and was like, OMG.

I haven't recorded the podcast like I'm normally so far ahead. [00:03:00] The interviews are so far ahead, but I just like everything I'd done ran out and I hadn't recorded it. So I sat here in the lovely Mary Hyatt's

Today’s episode of the podcast is a solo episode all about how I make personal connections with my community, even though I have an online business.   KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST  ●     Having an online business is about more than just a numbers game ●     The practical things that I do to ensure I truly know my members ●     The importance of being accessible and not hiding behind your team ●     I’m thinking of making some changes to the podcast, and would love your feedback on what you love and what you don’t! ●     Next year I will be running two more Your Dream Business Live events, and you can join the wait list now!   THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE You need to show up and let people get to know who you really are, in order for people to really be able to connect with you.   LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE Join the wait list for next year’s Your Dream Business Live Event Drop me a DM and let me know your feedback on the podcast TRANSCRIPT Hello, and welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. How you doing? Did you catch the two part podcast episode I did last week with Niki Hutchison. We decided just to mix it up a little bit and do a joint podcast. So half of the interview was me and the other half of the interview was on her podcast. Also, I've had some really lovely feedback about the podcast episode before, when we were talking about failing in business and the fact of sometimes you have to try things and they don't work. And you just do something else. So if you haven't listened to that one, purely from the feedback I'm getting, I think it's a good one. So go and check it out. This week I wanna talk to you about how I make personal connections with my community, even though I have an online business. Now, the reason I'm bringing this up is a few different things is one at the time of recording this last week. Was it last? No. Yeah. Last week was the Insider Experience. And the week before was my event, my in-person event. Like having those people around me is just phenomenal. Like they are the nicest, most amazing humans in the world. And it was so good to meet people in person, not only my existing members, but also new people who listened to the podcast or who followed me for a while. So that was so cool to actually meet people. And then this week, this last week just gone, we did the Insider Experience. And again, it was so nice to welcome all new faces into the club in order to show them what it was like. And lots of them have decided to stay as a member, which is ACE. And I love it so much. I'm so, so honored that that's the case. And I realized when I was doing part of the Insider Experience. Well, it wasn't part of the Insider Experience, it was actually this morning, we did it. We went Live in the group with a few of my members and someone asked a really good question in the chat saying, I obviously know my Executive Club members really, really well. Do I really know the Club Members as well. And. Do they still get that kind of relationship with me. And listening to what the members were saying. I kind of feel like it's a bit like a bit of a superpower maybe that I've got. And actually this falls in line with the fact of. I always suspected, but I'm, you know, fairly positive that I'm a, an empath and can feel, you know, I can feel things. I can feel people's emotions. I can feel people's moods and I can relate to them really quick. I don't know if you're an empath or if you just think I'm talking...

Today’s episode of the podcast is an interview with Niki Hutchison, and we are talking all about content, and how to be seen in as many places as possible, through organic reach; as well as sharing our thoughts around the online world. Niki has spent most of her career creating and implementing marketing strategies to grow businesses. She has helped hundreds of small business owners, as well as large organisations like The NatWest Group, The Scottish Government, The UK Space Agency to improve their marketing strategies and effectiveness. Her goal is for entrepreneurial women to enjoy marketing and the results that it brings. This is such a great episode, and you’ll feel like you’re having a chat with us - so go grab your coffee, sit down, and join us!   KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST ●     The difference between organic marketing and paid marketing ●     Why organic marketing is the solid foundation you need in place ●     The importance of an authentic brand consistency ●     Different ways you can build your audience ●     How getting negative comments can actually help you show up more naturally as yourself ●     Why you need to pay attention to your insights and use them to be a detective in your own business ●     Why purpose is more important than how often you post ●     Why joining a membership isn’t enough, you need to join in too ●     Whether it’s possible to accelerate not caring what people think of you and showing up more authentically   THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE You are the only person who sees 100% of your content, so never think people will get bored of hearing from you; if they do, they’re not your people!   HIGHLIGHTS YOU SIMPLY CAN'T MISS ●     How to grow a business using organic marketing ●     What needs to be in place before you start doing organic marketing ●     How to choose the right place to be, when you’re just starting out   LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE Head over to part 2 on the Audience Growth Podcast   TRANSCRIPT   Hello, and welcome to this episode of the podcast. How are you doing? So we've got a really cool episode today. It's something a bit different. We thought we would try. And I'm really excited about it. Today is an interview with the lovely Niki Hutchison. And we're talking all about content and we're talking all about how to be seen as many places as possible. And we're talking about organic, so things that you don't have to pay for. So it's a great episode, loads of good stuff in it. And we have some cool conversations about being employed and then being, you know, having your own business and what that's like. But what's super cool about this is we decided to do a two-parter. We decided that we would do like a podcast swap where half the episode was on my podcast and then to listen to the rest of the episode, you need to go and listen to her podcast. So we thought that would be a really cool idea. And obviously half of the episode is on hers and hopefully her audience will come and listen to this half and if you are from Niki, Hi, welcome. Nice to have you. So yeah, so we thought we'd do that. We thought it was cool. We had a great chat. We got on so, well, I really, really like her. Uh she's. She came to my September event, which is ACE and yeah, it was just so, so good to have a conversation with her. So many things in common. We loved it. So I'm really excited about this episode. It's a really good conversation. It's definitely a one of like, get your coffee, sit...

Today’s episode of the podcast is a solo episode, where I am talking to you about why I introduced a lower price option to my membership earlier this year, and then closed it just a few months later. I share with you what I did once I realised it wasn’t working and how I went about closing it, as well as the lessons I learned from the experience.   KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST

• There is not a single person in business who hasn’t experienced failure, or something that didn’t go to plan.
• If the only thing stopping you from making a decision is what other people will think, then stop worrying and do what fits best for your life and business.
• Just because something doesn’t work out how you planned, it doesn’t mean you’ve failed, everything is a learning experience.
• What the club looks like today, and what’s included at each level.

  THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE   It's your business and your life, if something isn't fitting for you, then don’t do it.   LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE   Sign up for the Insider Experience   TRANSCRIPT  

Hello, and welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. How are you doing? I hope you are well. This week. It's a solo one and it's a bit of a conversation this week. I wanna talk about the reasons behind me closing the lower level of the Club. Because I think it's super important to be honest about this stuff. I think. I don't know about you, but we watch a lot of people online.

We see a lot of people on Instagram and a lot of other people's businesses, and sometimes we can look at them and think, why is it all just so perfect for them? And isn't working out that way for me. Because let's face it. There is not a single person in business that has not had some failure or something go wrong or something not go as planned or, you know, not be perfect all the time. That just isn't business. That isn't true.

And I think the problem is when we don't see that people are honest about stuff, we start to think that we are the only ones. So, and I'm not saying that, you know, what I'm talking about today was a failure, but it certainly was a learning thing for me. And I certainly learned some lessons and I made a change.

So that's the first reason I wanna talk about, cause I want you to know that it isn't all sweetness and light and perfect and amazing and beautiful in business cuz it's so isn't. The other reason I wanna talk about it is I want to give you the knowledge and to empower you to know that if something's not right, you can change it.

It's up to you. It's your business. Don't care what anybody else thinks. Why anybody else might say if something changes or the fact that you think, "Well, I'll look a failure or I'll feel this or whatever." who cares? It's your business, your life. And if something isn't fitting for you and I've got some great examples of other people, who've done things.

If it's not fitting for you. Then don't do it. You shouldn't do it. So let me talk about the club and I talk about the club a lot, and this week as I record this, there's an open house in the club. So if you are listening to this on Monday and you wanna join the open house, you can still do that. Please come and see what we're all about.

I'd love it. It's called an insider experience, but I keep calling it an open house because I feel like you'll know what I'm talking about by an open house and our cool name of insider experience, although it's cool. And it

Today’s episode of the podcast is an interview with Emily K Thomas, an energetic advisor, podcaster, blogger and educator!   Emily helps people to be more in line with themselves, and her mission is to help you remember your soul's calling. She loves the deep soul work of energetics and helping people to live an aligned life, especially creative entrepreneurs.   This episode pushes the ‘woo’ boundaries, but I really encourage you to listen to this, even if you're a bit skeptical about things like energies, alignment and souls purpose, because throughout the interview I ask lots of questions for the same reason – but we had such a lovely conversation and I think you’ll get a lot from it!   KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST

• How different opportunities start showing up for you, when you start showing up differently in your business
• Why you need to look for the subtle signs that are telling you that you are misaligned
• How to discover your true energetic DNA and make empowered patterns of choice
• How understanding your energies can help you outsource more successfully
• Why you are an exact energetic match for your current circumstances
• Why your energy is subjective, and even people with the same energies, will experience it in individualised ways
• Our businesses are an energetic extension of us, so it's extremely important that our products and services, our marketing, our sales, and our systems are at the same vibrational frequency of what we want to create.

  THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE Even if you’re a sceptic, if some of the tips and advice you take from this episode make you feel a little bit nicer, then that’s all that matters!   HIGHLIGHTS YOU SIMPLY CAN'T MISS

• What energetic DNA is and how to utilise it in your business to be successful
• How to raise your energy and vibrations when self-doubt sets in
• The chance to get a free mini session with Emily!

  LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE Emily K Thomas Website and Quiz Emily K Thomas Instagram   TRANSCRIPT

Hello, and welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. So as if I planned it this way, which I can assure you, I am not that organized. I was just back recording and I've just recorded the last week's episode. And this next week's episode, this next week's, as in today's episode fits really, really well, which I didn't intend it to do that.

How odd that it has, but how perfect. So last week we were talking all about values and why you need to know your values. We talked about heart centered businesses and coming from what makes you happy and your passion and your purpose and making sure you have a business around not making sure you have a business around that or how you have a business around it.

And this week I've got an interview with Emily K Thomas, who is a, I'm just gonna pick her like her proper bio and read what it says. She's an energetic advisor, podcaster, blogger, educator. And basically she helps people to be more in line with themselves and to her mission is to help you remember your soul's calling and my heart center.

I'm a girl who loves deep soul work of energetics and healing people to live an aligned life, especially creative entrepreneurs. And. I just thought this was really interesting because...

Today’s episode of the podcast is a solo episode all about the power of networking, what it’s all about and what it should never be about.   I share with you my recent experiences of re-entering the world of networking and invite you to my open house event, taking place this month!   KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST  

• All the things that I have unlearned about networking and what I am now doing about it.
• The reason why you want to build your network is because you're looking for reciprocity, not to sell to people.
• The world has changed a lot, and we need to be considering our network and the people that we surround ourselves with as a key strategy of our business.

  THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE   Networking is not about selling, it’s about finding people who you have a connection with, or people who complement your business.   HIGHLIGHTS YOU SIMPLY CAN'T MISS

• I am having a Club Insider Experience, to give you a sneak peek into my membership – and I would love you to join me!
• During the Insider Experience week, you will get to join me and all of my amazing members for training on systems and getting organised, coaching calls, mindset workshops, content hours and networking.
• This all takes place from 12th to the 16th of September and is a chance for you to join me and my members in the Club for FREE!

  LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE   Sign up for the Insider Experience Natalie Hurdley – Networking Queen Becci McEvoy – Dream Business Club Content Expert In Person Live Dream Business Club Event   TRANSCRIPT  

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. How the devil are you? I hope you're good. I hope you've had a great summer and I'm back. I'm back after doing the replay ones. I had some great feedback from them. It's just really nice to hear some of like the old episodes.

Some of the people I've interviewed before. I think probably the one I got the most feedback was Michael Hyatt's. So if you haven't been there, listen to that. You definitely, definitely want to, because it's a great episode. So before we get started today, I want to talk about something that's happening in The Club.

And actually it's, it's really relevant to today's subject. Because I am doing an open house in The Club from the 12th of September through to the 16th. And basically we're calling it the Insider Experience where you can come and see what it's like to be inside the Club for free with all the Club members.

So I am opening up everything in the Club that you can do. And we have got so many good things going on that week. And you can see it as like either a pick a mix. You come in and do the bits you want, or you attend as many as you can. But really the idea is. I get lots of people asking me questions. I get people joining the Club to see if it really is the way I say it is.

And if I'm the way I say I am, because I don't know about you, but I've been a member of other memberships and other groups where I've been swayed by the person who's the face...