Make Your Website A Sales Lead Machine With Aaron James (352)
11/17/20 • 53 min
Aaron James shares how to make your website a sales lead machine.
He's a digital software entrepreneur and founder of Webonli, a low-cost and user-friendly website builder for small business owners.
He got hooked on digital marketing after working for YellowPages.com back in 2006.
He was so blown away by what he learned he decided to buy a consignment shop to see have fast he could boost its revenues. Within months he tripled the stores monthly revenue, eventually boosting it to $250K per month!
Lot of great lessons in our conversation including:
- Why your website is your #1 employee.
- How to build your business without having to chase after sales.
- How to engage potential customers using social media without spending all your time on social media.
- The basics of building a digital sales funnel for your business and how to turn your website into a sales lead machine.
- How to get paid to learn.
Life Skills That Matter In This Episode
- Build community.
- Self-directed learning.
- Tell your story.
How Aaron Works and Thinks
- Wake up time: 7:30 am
- Core work activities + habits: 1) Oversee the VAs. 2) Oversee sales. 3) Building up other people’s roles to replace his functions.
- Ideal work environment: In the morning, with a good working run from about 10:00 am – 2:30 pm, followed by a nap.
- 90-day goal: Double the number of personal coaching students and increase the growth rate for Webonli.
Inspirational Quotes
“I keep everything as basic as possible and it’s real simple: in order to have a business, you need sales.”
“You have to tell people that you have something to offer and so that’s called marketing.”
“You’d be surprised at how far ‘basic’ can take you.”
“I’m constantly trying to see and gauge the market so I can steer the ship.”
“When I actually let go and stopped trying to force decisions and just went where I was being led, just by pure faith, my whole life changed.”
Coaching Advice
Want to get more curious? Aaron suggested the following actions to spark your curiosity:
1) Retreat from any type of outside stimulus with an influence by doing things like getting out in nature, going to the beach, or even just putting your cell phone down for an hour.
2) Picture what you want in life and just work backward to determine the steps.
3) Jump online and just try things like free bootcamps or looking into different people and groups.
Resources + Bonus Materials
Special Offer!
Learn all of Aaron’s digital marketing agency secrets when you enroll in his FREE COURSE ($497 VALUE). Enroll Now
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Connect With Aaron
Aaron James shares how to make your website a sales lead machine.
He's a digital software entrepreneur and founder of Webonli, a low-cost and user-friendly website builder for small business owners.
He got hooked on digital marketing after working for YellowPages.com back in 2006.
He was so blown away by what he learned he decided to buy a consignment shop to see have fast he could boost its revenues. Within months he tripled the stores monthly revenue, eventually boosting it to $250K per month!
Lot of great lessons in our conversation including:
- Why your website is your #1 employee.
- How to build your business without having to chase after sales.
- How to engage potential customers using social media without spending all your time on social media.
- The basics of building a digital sales funnel for your business and how to turn your website into a sales lead machine.
- How to get paid to learn.
Life Skills That Matter In This Episode
- Build community.
- Self-directed learning.
- Tell your story.
How Aaron Works and Thinks
- Wake up time: 7:30 am
- Core work activities + habits: 1) Oversee the VAs. 2) Oversee sales. 3) Building up other people’s roles to replace his functions.
- Ideal work environment: In the morning, with a good working run from about 10:00 am – 2:30 pm, followed by a nap.
- 90-day goal: Double the number of personal coaching students and increase the growth rate for Webonli.
Inspirational Quotes
“I keep everything as basic as possible and it’s real simple: in order to have a business, you need sales.”
“You have to tell people that you have something to offer and so that’s called marketing.”
“You’d be surprised at how far ‘basic’ can take you.”
“I’m constantly trying to see and gauge the market so I can steer the ship.”
“When I actually let go and stopped trying to force decisions and just went where I was being led, just by pure faith, my whole life changed.”
Coaching Advice
Want to get more curious? Aaron suggested the following actions to spark your curiosity:
1) Retreat from any type of outside stimulus with an influence by doing things like getting out in nature, going to the beach, or even just putting your cell phone down for an hour.
2) Picture what you want in life and just work backward to determine the steps.
3) Jump online and just try things like free bootcamps or looking into different people and groups.
Resources + Bonus Materials
Special Offer!
Learn all of Aaron’s digital marketing agency secrets when you enroll in his FREE COURSE ($497 VALUE). Enroll Now
Related Episodes
Getting Fired To Becoming Your Own Boss With Nathan Kauffman (097)
Learn About Yourself By Experimenting With Adventurer Calvin Johannsen (117)
Connect With Aaron
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She teaches women how to earn $10,000/month doing work that matters most to them.
Natalie is also known as the Suitcase Entrepreneur, helping people work from anywhere in the world.
Lot of great lessons in our conversation including:
- Practice telling your story.
- Getting paid to be yourself takes effort.
- Why she's not an advocate of having a backup plan.
- Identify your unfair advantage as the starting point for creating your business.
- How traveling the world helped her build her business.
- Why you want to build multiple revenue streams.
Life Skills That Matter In This Episode
- Build community.
- Self-directed learning.
- Tell your story.
How Natalie Works and Thinks
- Wake up time: 6:00 am
- Ideal work environment: Noisy, bustling cafes.
- Superpower: Making the complex simple.
- Regains focus by: Going outside to exercise or do something active.
- 90-day goal: Get her next book launched.
Inspirational Quotes
“It’s not that easy for people to see their own potential or their own superpowers.”
“It’s actually a really impressive skill to have, to give ourselves space and time to have independent thoughts about what we might want the world to look like.”
“My unfair advantage is that I make the complex simple.”
“There’s no business that can’t be taken online, taken digital, and expanded into multiple revenue streams.”
“What I love about niching is the more specific you can be, the more you can speak just to those people who need what you have.”
Coaching Advice
Thought about starting a course? Natalie suggested this first step:
1) Get really clear on what the problem is that you want to solve and who the person is that’s having that problem.
2) If you’re not quite sure, go talk to more people who may be able to help hone your idea.
Resources + Bonus Materials
UNTAPPED Episode 86 With Stephen Warley
The Freedom Plan by Natalie Sisson
Special Offer!
Get Natalie’s free guide on getting paid to be you!
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Isha Uppalapati shares why she started a nonprofit to teach girls entrepreneurship skills. She's a high school senior living just outside of Atlanta who started a nonprofit 2 years ago.
She founded A Girl's Frontier to teach disadvantaged girls entrepreneurship skills.
Lot of great lessons in our conversation including:
- Sharing the resource you have with others who have less access.
- The process she went through to start her nonprofit.
- How she got her very first donation.
- What she's learned about managing her time from remote learning.
- Girls entrepreneurship skills being taught by Isha’s nonprofit.
Life Skills That Matter In This Episode
- Build community.
- Self-directed learning.
- Self-awareness.
How Isha Works and Thinks
- Wake up time: Around 7:30 am
- Core work activities + habits: 1) Communicate with people constantly. 2) Consistently work on bringing in donations. 3) Stay in touch with people and continue to reach out to more people.
- Superpower: Being able to wake up at 7:30 am everyday.
- Book recommendation: Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
- Regains focus by: Putting her phone away.
Inspirational Quotes
“Education is incredibly, incredibly important. I think it is the most important tool in having a good foundation to start your life with, but also, education can be limited by the opportunities that you have.”
“Your mentors will teach you just as much, if not more, than a school education will; learning from experience and other people’s experiences.”
“As long as you learn from the mistakes and you improve, you have not failed, you have have just used that as a learning opportunity.”
“We can’t just learn at school, we need to learn in all aspects of our lives.”
Coaching Advice
Doubting yourself? Isha suggested the following remedies she uses:
1) Talk to people, even when you feel like you just want to take it on by yourself.
2) Sometimes it’s helpful just getting the reassurance from others that you’re doing what you need to do.
Resources + Bonus Materials
Her Toolbox by Isha Uppalapati
Donate To A Girl’s Frontier Here!
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