Easier Than You Think! Strategies For Marketing Your Business

Posted on February 6, 2022 by Weekend Homesteader

For anyone who has their own business or interested in a side hustle (who couldn't benefit from some extra $) ... marketing skills and a marketing plan are critical to your success!

You can only sell to friends and family for so long. It may work in the beginning, but this method will not necessarily grow your business or be sustainable for a long period of time.

People pay thousands for a degree in marketing (not to mention college), I know I did ... not to mention law school and the student loans that I am STILL paying. What if I told you that for only $7 you can learn ALL the skills you need to start and/or grow your business.

For only $7, I thought "why not!" I've tried many things in the past, and nothing particularly worked well so what was a few more dollars and I gave it a shot.

In the past, I spent more than I made. After a few times of putting money out and getting nothing or minimal returns, I became somewhat skeptical... BUT in the big picture $7 was a small investment and I gave it a try ... and wow, I wish I had learned this stuff years ago!

In the 15 day course, which takes about an hour a day ... and can be completed at your own pace, I learned so much!

Check out these sales funnels that I learned to build. I was pretty happy with myself for creating these:

By the way, these are my affiliate links. (Disclaimer: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links and if you go through them to make a purchase I will earn a commission at no extra cost to you.)

Anyway, regardless of your business model, this 15 day course (applicable to almost all business models) will teach you just as much, if not more than you would get in a college course for FAR less money!

It's all very simple. Once I understood the system, after taking my 15 day course, set up an Aweber account, which is an email marketing program (and free) and started with Click Funnels to build my funnels.

It's easier than you can imagine ... And so much fun!

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Check out these cool dog items ... another company that I'm an affiliate. Although I don't have a funnel for these products, they are in my email campaign and go out to people in my email list. And even better - for anyone who purchases from me, they can get a 15% discount with my coupon code: PAWSITIV15. Nova & Finn have these coming! They are called Zoo Snoods! (Another affiliate link)

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Like bees? As in honey bees ... I do ... and I am an affiliate for an awesome bee course which I tied it into my blog post, which you can read here.

It's so easy to promote things that you like and use! Whether through Facebook, TikToc, Instagram, YouTube, Blog or email list, you can easily review and promote things you use every day. Check out this blog post about one of my beef jerky recipes. Another opportunity to share products that I use daily! The best thing about selling as an affiliate ... people can purchase regular products at no extra cost and YOU can earn a commission.

Does this sound familiar ...

For anyone who wants to start an online business but doesn’t know where to begin...

Here’s the online marketing expectation:

Start a business.
Share your link on social media.
Make a million dollars.

Here’s the REALITY:

Start a business.
Share your link on social media.
Launch to crickets and tumbleweeds.

NOTE: This "challenge" is a marketing workshop that can be applied to almost any business model. This is NOT an MLM. The information learned in the workshop can be applied to an MLM business model, as well as affiliate marketing, other online businesses and brick and mortar businesses. Learn marketing strategies that can work with any business model.

Your business is up and running and now what? Any of these sound familiar?

Freak out
Consume 29k hours of YT videos
Decide laundry doesn’t matter because your imaginary followers can’t smell you anyway
Download 20,000 freebies
Open none of them
Now you’re subscribed to 20,000 new email lists
Take 50 online courses
Get 2 modules in before your A.D.D. squirrel brain kicks in
Realize you haven’t eaten, peed, or talked to a human being in 3 days
Early mornings
Late nights
More coffee
Try to do all things and be all things to all people
Realize you’re making it way harder than it needs to be
Finally find your thing
Break through!