Stamping Is My Business!

Join Me On Twitter Tomorrow For Our Shark Tank Viewing Party!!!

Join me and your fellow stamping business owners on Twitter this Friday evening at 8:00 p.m. eastern for a 'Shark Tank Viewing Party!'

As you may know, 'Shark Tank' is one of my favorite TV shows, and certainly one of the best business shows on the air today.

Entrepreneurs and business owners pitch their ideas to 5 angel investors (the Sharks) hoping to get at least one of them to invest in their business.

There are always good lessons to be learned from the program, and the show gets me so worked up, I can't watch it sitting down. My wife says watching me is actually more entertaining than watching the show.

So, I thought I'd share that excitement with you all.  Here's how the Twitter Shark Tank Viewing Party works:

• Tune your TV to ABC at 8:00 p.m. eastern (if you're on the West Coast, you won't be able to do this part, but you can still join the party)
• Log into Twitter
• In the Search box at the top, search for STAMPINGISMYBIZ
• You'll then see any Tweets from me or your fellow Party attendees
• If you want to chat with me or them, just start any Tweet with @STAMPINGISMYBIZ

That's it! I'll give a running commentary during the program, and answer any questions you have, as well.

Hope to see you Friday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern!!!

This Week's BSCG Hot Topics!

Lots of "Member's Only" stuff happening on the Business Stampers Coaching Group message board this week, including:

•  Our BSCG Member's Only Webinar which laid out a plan for marketing in the next quarter
•  Exclusive How-To Video for incorporating the new Facebook Questions feature into your business

Of course, these types of business-building conversations happen every week on the BSCG... WITHOUT all of the other off-topic, time-consuming dialogues that take place in other groups!

For those of you who don't know, the BSCG is the premier online Coaching Community for profit-driven, business-minded stamping business owners.

The Group is fantastic, and the content is killer.  In addition to the Message Board, which is where Members communicate, ask questions of me and fellow Members and receive tons of positive, professional support from like-minded business owners (and me), Members also receive:

• Exclusive, monthly business-building webinars
• Business-building How-To Videos every week
• Weekly blog evaluation videos
• Twice-weekly Coaching Challenges
• Weekly writing prompts to help with your blogging
• Motivational audio messages to start off every week
• A private Twitter feed
• Hundreds of links to business-building articles to further your knowledge and education
• Exclusive discounts on various SIMB products & services
• AND... The Newsletter Co-Op - you write one article every month, and you gain access to over 60 others you can copy and paste into your monthly newsletter!

If you're on the fence about joining the BSCG, take the $1, 10-day trial.  If you don't think the information is worth the dirt-cheap monthly fee, or you can't benefit from it, just cancel before the 10 days are up and owe nothing.

To learn more or sign up, click here.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK: The System

"Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.”

 - Stephen R. Covey

List Building/E-Mail Marketing Boot Camp - EARLY BIRD BEGINS NOW!!!

I'm happy to announce the List Building/E-Mail Marketing Boot Camp!

The Boot Camp will take place beginning Tuesday, April 5th, at 10:00 p.m. (as always, don't worry if you can't make the live webinars. You'll have access to the recordings through July 1st)

This Boot Camp will teach you the process for adding 500 or more people to your mailing list in the next twelve months, and what to do with them once they're there!

The Boot Camp consists of the four webinars, tons of step-by-step video tutorials and a LOT more!

The Early Bird Registration Period begins NOW!!!

That means, if you register by March 29th, YOU CAN SAVE $20 off the cost of registration!

To learn more, watch this video!

Three Ways To Stop The "Demo Hop"

It's one of the most frustrating aspects of owning your own stamping business...you work like crazy to please your customers and they jump from one Demo to another looking for the lowest price.

You find yourself asking... "Where's the loyalty?"

While you can never completely eliminate the customer who hops from one stamping business owner to another, there are several things you can do to mitigate it.

Here are three of them:

1. Stop linking to the blogs of other stamping business owners!  In addition to this being bad for your search engine optimization, you're making it really easy for your customers to see if someone else is undercutting you (and someone always is).  Whether it's a blog roll or a blog hop, sending your customers to your competition rarely makes good sense.

2. Get on the phone!  If you want to set yourself apart and stop competing on price, add value to relationship you have with your customer!  Make sure you're calling them on a regular basis to see if they have any questions and guarantee their paper crafting needs are being met.  Creating this bond will make a customer think twice before even temporarily jumping ship.

3. Create an easy way for your customers to invest in your business!  This was covered extensively in our free webinar Monday - Increasing Customer Loyalty and Retention (and Your Bottom Line)!  Creating a "nano continuity" program where you deliver a small amount of content each month for a small monthly fee allows you to evolve your subscriber base from a group of tire-kickers to one with a vested interest in you and your business.  Because of this committment, they're MUCH less likely to hop around.

If you'd like to learn more about the step-by-step process to make #3 a reality, you can still listen to the webinar through Friday.

Click here to listen to the webinar!

Top Five Quotes From Last Night's Webinar (And The Link To Listen)

If you missed our free webinar on Increasing Customer Loyalty and Retention (and Your Bottom Line) last night, you missed a lot of great information that seems to have sent some stamping business owners' heads spinning.

Here are a few of the e-mails I received this morning:

"Already have my idea and am ready to get started.  Thanks for the great webinar" - Jessica

"Thanks for great info yet again, John :-)" - Julie

"Great webinar!  It really got me jazzed!  Thanks so much!" - Duana

"I had an immediate idea the moment I understood what was being discussed last night!" - Lynda

"It wasn't exactly easy to go to sleep after this webinar!" - Jen

"I woke up at 4:30 this morning with ideas from the webinar!" - Kari

If you missed it, you can listen to the recording right now by visiting

www.stampingismybusiness.com/nano.html

This recording will only be available until Friday.

As I said, there was a LOT of good info delivered by me, and my Coach, Ryan Lee. 

Here are my Top 5 Quotes From Ryan last night:

1. "When you can marry what you love with business and helping people, there's nothing like it.  It's just awesome.  At the end of the day, that's what it's about.  It's not about waking up saying, "I can't believe I have another day of this."  It's about waking up saying, "I can't wait to get back to what I'm doing!"

2. It's all about relationship building.  The worst business you can be in is the one where people see you as a commodity.  Where you can be undercut every time.  Because you can never win that game.  No matter how low you go, there's always someone who will charge less.  You can't play that game. 

3. A lot of people really minimize what they can do and how much they know.  You have to look within yourself and say 'I'm going for it!'  Do it with some passion and take a chance!  Stop worrying about the competition and put it out there!

4. People want to be consistent with their commitments.  And people who commit are going to listen more.  They're going to be much more loyal.  They're going to pay more attention because they're paying for it.  The worst advice you can give is free advice.  And the people you give advice to for free are less likely to be committed... less likely to respond... than the people who pay you even a small amount. 

5. Everyone wants to make things more complicated than they have to be.  It really doesn't have to be.  Don't over-complicate.  Keep it simple.

 

If you'd like to listen (or re-listen) to this webinar, or you'd like to share it with your fellow stamping business owners, here's the link:

www.stampingismybusiness.com/nano.html

 

Remember, the webinar (and the pretty awesome bonuses associated with the webinar) will only be available until Friday... so don't delay!

QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Ignorance

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

 - Derek Bok

FREE WEBINAR RESCHEDULE INFO - Increasing Cusomter Loyalty & Retention Webinar!

Well, if you attended last night's webinar, you know we had some technical difficulties that prevented Ryan from attending.  So, we're rescheduling the webinar.

THE NEW DAY AND TIME IS THIS MONDAY AT 10 P.M. EASTERN!!!

Even if you were registered for the original webinar, you DO have to re-register for this one!

If you're interested in learning how to increase your customer loyalty and retention, as well as how to create an easy point of entry to get mailing list subscribers and prospect to convert into paying customers, I'd like to invite you to a webinar I'm doing with MY Coach, Ryan Lee.

Lately, Ryan has been testing a new type of loyalty program I think is right up your alley! 

It's designed to increase customer retention AND your bottom line!  It's something every one of you can do, and something I believe you all should be doing to help grow and maintain your business.

So, I invite you to sign up for this free webinar Monday night! 

It'll be packed with content and ideas, and I think you'll leave buzzing!

The webinar takes place Monday, so don't delay!

When: Monday, March 14th at 10 p.m. Eastern

  Click Here To Register!

 

This Week's BSCG Hot Topics!

Some great conversations happening on the Business Stampers Coaching Group message board this week:

•  A Simple, Effective Copy Writing Formula!
•  How To Balance It All
•  Customer Calling

Of course, these types of business-building conversation happen every week on the BSCG... WITHOUT all of the other off-topic, time-consuming dialogues that take place in other groups!

For those of you who don't know, the BSCG is the premier online Coaching Community for profit-driven, business-minded stamping business owners.

The Group is fantastic, and the content is killer.  In addition to the Message Board, which is where Members communicate, ask questions of me and fellow Members and receive tons of positive, professional support from like-minded business owners (and me), Members also receive:

• Exclusive, monthly business-building webinars
• Business-building How-To Videos every week
• Weekly blog evaluation videos
• Twice-weekly Coaching Challenges
• Weekly writing prompts to help with your blogging
• Motivational audio messages to start off every week
• A private Twitter feed
• Hundreds of links to business-building articles to further your knowledge and education
• Exclusive discounts on various SIMB products & services
• AND... The Newsletter Co-Op - you write one article every month, and you gain access to over 60 others you can copy and paste into your monthly newsletter!

If you're on the fence about joining the BSCG, take the $1, 10-day trial.  If you don't think the information is worth the dirt-cheap monthly fee, or you can't benefit from it, just cancel before the 10 days are up and owe nothing.

To learn more or sign up, click here.

Meet MY Coach! Free Webinar Thursday 3/10!

Many of you know I work with several Coaches who help me build my business.  Each of these Coaches is a leading expert in their respective areas.

One of my Coaches is Ryan Lee.

Ryan is an expert at customer retention and loyalty, as well as recurring revenue generation through continuity programs and membership sites.

In some circles, seriously, Ryan is known as the 'Continuity King.'

Why?  Well, one of Ryan's membership sites has 4,000 members, each paying $97/month (you do the math).  Many of them have been members for the last eleven years!

Why so loyal? 

I think it's because Ryan is one of the most genuine people I've ever met.  He's a devoted family man, with four beautiful children, and he really places a priority on balance and family over making money.

Lately, Ryan has been testing a new type of loyalty program I think is right up your alley! 

It's designed to increase customer retention AND your bottom line!  It's something every one of you can do, and something I believe you all should be doing to help grow and maintain your business.

I've asked Ryan to do a webinar with me this Thursday to explain to all of you what he's been working on.  

This is the first time in eleven years working with stamping business owners that I've done this.  Usually, I'll learn from my Coaches and filter the info down to you, but I think Ryan can do a better job explaining this that I can.

So, I invite you to sign up for this free webinar!  It'll be packed with content and ideas, and I think you'll leave buzzing!

Space is limited to the first 1,000 registrants, and I absolutely expect it to fill up.  Don't delay!

(Please note: I'm going to try and make a recording available for anyone who can't make the live webinar, but I haven't asked Ryan's permission yet, so I can't promise anything)

When: Thursday, March 10th at 10 p.m. Eastern

  Click Here To Register!

 

Hope to see you Thursday!

BSCG Newsletter Co-Op - New Members Being Accepted Now - Here's What One Member Has To Say...

I wanted to share a great testimonial from BSCG Member Jill St. Angelo about the Newsletter Co-Op:

"I hated working on my newsletter because of the number of hours and DAYS I would spend putting it together.  Newsletter Co-Op... THANK YOU!  This was my first month with the Newsletter Co-op, and I have to say it is awesome. I got started on my March newsletter this morning (Feb. 22), and guess what???  I am DONE and already have it scheduled to be sent out in March. What a time saver this group is!"

If you're not familiar with the BSCG Newsletter Co-Op, here's how it works:

• Each Co-Op Member is assigned a newsletter article to write
• They submit the article to the Co-Op
• They then have access to all of the other articles submitted that month
• That means, you can write one article and have access to more than six dozen others! 
• You don't have to give credit to the other Co-Op Members who write the articles
• Because there are so many articles, Co-Op members each pick and choose their favorites, so no two newsletters are the same!

The Newsletter Co-Op is included in your Membership to the Business Stampers Coaching Group, along with daily business-building information, videos and challenges, exclusive conference calls, discounts and more!

If you're on the fence about joining the BSCG, take the $1, 10-day trial.  If you don't think the information is worth the dirt-cheap monthly fee, or you can't benefit from it, just cancel before the 10 days are up and owe nothing.

Registration for the March/April Newsletter Co-Op will be closing soon, so don't delay!

To learn more or sign up, click here.

March Newsletter Coming Later Today…..Get On The List!

Are you on the Stamping is My Business mailing list?  The March newsletter will be released later today.  This content is exclusively for SIMB mailing list subscribers. 

If you’re not on my mailing list, sign up using the form on the right.