The Switch From Slow Going To Record Breaking
06/23/20 • 42 min
In this episode, my guest Bev Schweigert tells us how a slow start morphed into record breaking sales for her business. She teaches us that the offer is not in the product, it’s in the story behind why you sell the product.
Bev calls herself a “slow starter” in the entrepreneur world. Last year, she quit her job to focus on her true passion which is mission work. Before she could fully invest herself in that work, she needed to raise some money. She tells me about how her business turned into her mission.
Bev liked the idea of selling jewelry. After she attended my Because I Can talk about finding your why, she saw opportunity in her sales. Selling jewelry that supported your faith was an outlet for people to visibly represent their religion. It became her story and her marketing niche.
Bev tells me about how she started incorporating her story about faith into her offers and increased the amount of offers she sent from 4 to 30 a month. Her sales sky-rocketed. They were growing during the hardest economic month of the year. While small businesses were devastated by the impact of coronavirus in March, Bev told herself that she would not give up and continued to push offers. Her sales continued to increase through the month of may.
She tells me that her biggest success secret is organization. She uses Trello to keep track of her inventory and offers so she can compound her sales. A few episodes back, I talked about why we are meant to make money. In Bev’s case, she was meant to hit record sales so she can use the money to give back through her missions.
Key Takeaways
- Introduction of our guest, Bev Schweigert (1:00)
- Why Bev quit her job and decided to earn money to do mission work (4:48)
- Had a slow start to opening her business Blessed Be Boutique in 2019 (5:31)
- Went to my conference and learned why she wanted to sell jewelry (8:12)
- Bev started sending offers that told her story (9:50)
- Learning to focus on what’s important in the business, not stressing the small stuff (11:59)
- How she created offers in the beginning (14:35)
- Her big change in pace for distributing offers (15:39)
- Coronavirus and how she didn't give up on her business (17:02)
- Bev’s key to time management (20:20)
- Her technique to putting offers out each month (25:05)
- Her best offer (30:05)
- What Bev would tell the slow-starter entrepreneur (33:06)
Additional Resources
Check out Bev's website here, be sure to use the code "I Can" to get %35 off anything except t-shirts.
Connect with Alison:
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In this episode, my guest Bev Schweigert tells us how a slow start morphed into record breaking sales for her business. She teaches us that the offer is not in the product, it’s in the story behind why you sell the product.
Bev calls herself a “slow starter” in the entrepreneur world. Last year, she quit her job to focus on her true passion which is mission work. Before she could fully invest herself in that work, she needed to raise some money. She tells me about how her business turned into her mission.
Bev liked the idea of selling jewelry. After she attended my Because I Can talk about finding your why, she saw opportunity in her sales. Selling jewelry that supported your faith was an outlet for people to visibly represent their religion. It became her story and her marketing niche.
Bev tells me about how she started incorporating her story about faith into her offers and increased the amount of offers she sent from 4 to 30 a month. Her sales sky-rocketed. They were growing during the hardest economic month of the year. While small businesses were devastated by the impact of coronavirus in March, Bev told herself that she would not give up and continued to push offers. Her sales continued to increase through the month of may.
She tells me that her biggest success secret is organization. She uses Trello to keep track of her inventory and offers so she can compound her sales. A few episodes back, I talked about why we are meant to make money. In Bev’s case, she was meant to hit record sales so she can use the money to give back through her missions.
Key Takeaways
- Introduction of our guest, Bev Schweigert (1:00)
- Why Bev quit her job and decided to earn money to do mission work (4:48)
- Had a slow start to opening her business Blessed Be Boutique in 2019 (5:31)
- Went to my conference and learned why she wanted to sell jewelry (8:12)
- Bev started sending offers that told her story (9:50)
- Learning to focus on what’s important in the business, not stressing the small stuff (11:59)
- How she created offers in the beginning (14:35)
- Her big change in pace for distributing offers (15:39)
- Coronavirus and how she didn't give up on her business (17:02)
- Bev’s key to time management (20:20)
- Her technique to putting offers out each month (25:05)
- Her best offer (30:05)
- What Bev would tell the slow-starter entrepreneur (33:06)
Additional Resources
Check out Bev's website here, be sure to use the code "I Can" to get %35 off anything except t-shirts.
Connect with Alison:
>>>
Previous Episode
#1 Secret To Making More Sales
This episode is all about techniques to make more money using the same product. This week, I am going to talk about and share examples of my offers to help spark your creativity when it comes to writing offers of your own.
Everyone has their own reason for wanting to make more money. For my husband and I, we wanted to make sure we could support our family and also have money that we can donate to others. In this episode, I share my business secrets about what I do to make more money.
It is all about offers. I challenge you to think about the number of offers you send out on a monthly basis and double, even triple it. You won’t be disappointed. I am going to talk you through why offers bring more money into your business, the different types of offers you can utilize, talk about when and where you sell these offers, and simplify the process for you.
This episode is full of information guaranteed to increase your sales. Listen as I share examples you can follow.
Key Takeaways
- My husband and I are undercover givers (2:18)
- The reason we are supposed to have money (4:35)
- The number one secret to making more money (6:05)
- Why offers are the thing that can bring more income into your business (7:20)
- Types of offers (9:44)
- When do you pitch your offers (12:51)
- Examples of offers (18:30)
- Simplifying the process (29:46)
- Compound your offers (34:05)
Additional Resources
Connect with Alison:
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Next Episode
Does Your Brain Offer Up The Easy Way First?
In this episode, we take you through why a business coach is so important to you as you run your business. They get you on the business jet versus the business crawl as I talked about in episode 19.
A life coach will help you create consistency and constant momentum of moving forward in your business. This is so powerful as it helps you hit your goals and always move forward. They help you see things from a different perspective. If you have a run a business, you know why this is very important.
Misty takes us through why you need to commit before you are comfortable. She dives deeper and talks about our thoughts and how they lead to action or inaction. This then leads to experiences. We talk about how our brain works and how it always finds proof of what we are thinking. Changing our thoughts gives us completely different outcomes.
Misty shares with us amazing information and her amazing ideas so take your pen and paper and take notes as you listen to this episode.
Key Takeaways
- Questioning our thoughts and separating facts from what we are thinking (10:47)
- Our thoughts drive our feelings which then drive our action or inaction. This results in our experiences in the world (12:28)
- Believing and being open to creating something new and letting go of our past (15:50)
- Practice changing your thoughts (20:35)
- Be open to possibilities and put actions behind it (23:25)
- Adding ‘yet’ to your thoughts leaves space in your brain to learn new things (24:15)
- Why you need to move through the four Cs. Commitment, Courage, Capability, and Confidence in that order (31:57)
- Overcoming our brain’s need for comfort and the easiest way out (37:04)
- Red light doesn’t mean turn and go home. Red light are the obstacles we face (39:38)
- Our brain doesn’t think positive or negative, it finds proof of what we are thinking (43:08)
Additional Resources
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