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Flipped Lifestyle™ Podcast

FL 48 – 6 Reasons Your Online Business Isn't Working

Flipped Lifestyle™ Podcast

Shane Sams

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2015

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In today's podcast we're going to talk about 6 specific things that might be stopping you from actually making your online business work. When talking with hundreds of people trying to start online businesses we've definitely seen the same roadblocks coming up again and again. Once you understand these foundational elements you'll be able to start to take the RIGHT actions toward creating a website (online business) that actually generates revenue. [Tweet "Online business is a series of small things that add up to big things"] You will learn Why you should focus on your audience and not your idea. Strategies for how you can test your digital product ideas. The importance of the product first mentality. Why you shouldn't "copy" someone else. Embrace the brand of you. Links and resources mentioned in today's show Podcast 41 on the FLIP principle Leadpages Chris Ducker Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family! Listen to what others are saying about Flipped Lifestyle Hey guys! I just finished my first eBook. It felt so good. My plan for tomorrow is to make my lead page and it live before I got to sleep tomorrow. Amy (from our Flip Your Life Course ) Click here to leave us an iTunes review and subscribe to the show! We may read yours on the air! Can't Miss Moments Each week Jocelyn and I share moments that we might have missed if we had not started our online business. We hope these moments inspire you to see the possibilities and freedom online business could provide for your family. You can connect with S&J on social media too!   Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. See y'all next week! Can't listen right now? Read the transcript below! JOCELYN: Hey y'all! On today's show, we're going to tell you six reason why your online business may not be working. SHANE: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us each week as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside-down by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right, let's get started. SHANE: What's going on guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast,. Always great to be back with you again this week. You know we get a lot form messages from people out there going, "oh my gosh how did you guys make it work? I have been trying this online business thing for months and months and I can't make my 11 cent moment happen. I can't make my money online. I feel like I am pouring a lot into this and nothing is coming back out of it and my online business is failing or my online isn't working. What am I doing wrong?" so we wanted to take this opportunity and go through here and first I will give you some encouragement and say listen it takes time. Don't give up. There is probably a few tweaks you can make and you are going to start experiencing more success. You might not just be hitting the right thing or you're prioritizing the wrong thing that you are working on. And we are going to focus this podcast on identifying six reasons,. Six things that you might be doing in your online business that may be preventing you from becoming successful, maybe stopping you from going to the next level. It's always important to point out these road blocks. If you know what they are, if you know what's holding you back, you can eliminate them from your workflow and maybe start taking that thing and making that successful, making that first money online and start moving towards your dreams. But before we do that, Jocelyn is going to read a success story that come...

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0:00.0

Hey, all, on today's show, we're going to tell you six reasons why your online business may not be working.

0:05.6

Welcome to the Flip Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work.

0:11.6

We're your host, Shane and Jocelyn Sams.

0:15.0

Join us each week as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside down by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right. Let's get started. What's going on, guys? Welcome back to the flipped lifestyle podcast. Always great to be back with you again this week. You know, we get a lot of messages from people out there going, oh my gosh, how did you guys make it work? I've been trying this online business thing for months and months and I just can't even make my 11 cent moment happen. I can't make any money online. I feel like I'm pouring a lot into this and nothing's coming back out of it. And my online business is failing or my online business isn't working. What am I doing wrong? So we wanted to take this opportunity to go through here and first I

0:55.1

give you some encouragement and say, listen, it takes time. Don't give up. There's probably a few

1:00.3

tweaks you can make and you're going to start experiencing more success. You might just not be hitting

1:04.9

the right thing or you're prioritizing the wrong thing that you're working on. And we're going to

1:08.5

focus this podcast on identifying six

1:11.5

reasons, six things that you might be doing in your online business that may be preventing you

1:16.8

from becoming successful, maybe stopping you from going to the next level. It's always important

1:21.4

to point out these roadblocks. If you know what they are and you know what's holding you back,

1:24.7

you can eliminate them from your workflow and maybe start taking that thing and making it successful, making that first money online, and start moving

1:32.0

toward your dreams. But before we do that, Jocelyn is going to read a success story that comes from

1:36.6

one of our Flip Your Life members. This is from Amy and she is in our Flip Your Life course and it says,

1:41.8

hey guys, I just finished my first ebook. It feels so good. My plan for tomorrow is to make my lead page and have it live before I go to sleep tomorrow. Way to take action. Good job, Amy. Online business is a series of things that, small things that add up to big things. And in our Flip Your Life course, we really lay it out that you have to finish your product first, then you start creating the sales pages, then you start working on the marketing, the advertising and all of that.

2:05.6

And we love to see people taking action.

2:08.3

You know, these success stories are not always about, you know, making that next buck or whatever it is.

2:13.3

It might just be getting that product ready that's going to help people.

2:16.4

It might be completing that sales page you've been working on for six weeks and you just haven't quite finished it yet. So we just wanted to give a big shout out to Amy and say, good job for her for creating her e-book. And for all of you guys out there who are listening right now, way to go for whatever action you took last week to make your online business move forward and try to get to the next level.

2:35.8

If you would like some help with your online business, head over to fliplifestyle.com

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slash flip your life.

2:40.0

We would love to have you a part of our community just like Amy so that we can help you take

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