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In today's episode, I'm joined by my friend and incredible entrepreneur Jessica Stansberry. Jessica spills all the tea on how to crack the organic marketing code including how to master the Instagram algorithm monster, bossing up your SEO ranking, the biggest organic marketing mistakes to avoid, and more! Tune in to learn how to instantly improve your content marketing!

In this episode, I'm challenging you to run EVERYTHING you do in your business through the filter of "what am I the best in the world at?" If you can get ultra clear on this, I guarantee it will instantly improve your marketing, your messaging, the delivery of your product/service, and make your business stand out from the crowd. Tune in to learn how to find that clarity for your business!

Which is better, organic or paid marketing? While some marketers will have firm opinions one way or the other, I believe that they BOTH go hand in hand. The most successful marketing strategies I've seen are those that combine both efforts cohesively. Tune in to learn more about the keys to organic success, how to intentionally tie paid ads into your organic strategy, and the boundaries you need to set for yourself for how you choose to show up online!

In this episode, I'm reflecting on how far my business has come over the last six years, the mistakes I've made, the lessons I've learned, and how it brought my business to where it is today. There are five key business lessons that I guarantee will save you MILLIONS and result in tremendous growth for your business, your team, and yourself as a leader. Tune in to discover the keys to unlocking your seven-figure business status!

I've seen countless entrepreneurs struggle with their data and allowing it to drive their decisions. Yet, if they could get to that place, they would be much more profitable. In this episode, I'm providing all the clarity you need to relieve your data and metric overwhelm so that you finally understand what your next move is, where your attention should be being spent, and what is or isn't working in your funnel.

I made the mistake of not taking my own advice this year. I've been working on way too many funnels rather than focusing all in on one until it was converting really well. It's easy for us as entrepreneurs to fall into the trap of thinking more funnels equals more success, but that's not true. Focus and simplicity equal results. Tune in to learn about the mistakes my team has made, the powerful shifts we're making in Q3, and my challenge to you to re-evaluate your own business initiatives.

If you're not incorporating powerful touchpoints with your brand throughout your marketing strategy, you're losing out on tons of potential sales. Full stop. In this episode, I'm sharing how to create a holistic marketing strategy that incorporates strategic brand touchpoints, builds trust with your leads, and pushes them over the edge to become buyers.

Like so many other marketers, when iOS 14 first hit, several of our clients suddenly experienced a massive dip in results. However, unlike many other marketers, we were able to quickly shift and pivot our strategy to bring those results up almost instantly by following our SOS iOS response. Tune in to today's episode where I'm sharing this process that allowed us to take our clients from suddenly generating NO sales up to a 3-4X return on ad spend!

In this episode, I'm sharing two strategies my team uses to bring our clients' ad costs down whenever they spike that WORK. Every. Single. Time. Despite iOS 14, we've been able to cut costs down 3X less than they were after spiking just by following this process. So stop blaming iOS and start taking ACTION, starting with these two strategies!

In today's episode, I'm joined by my good friend and fellow CEO, Caitlin Bacher. She helps online course creators generate consistent, scalable revenue without launching. Caitlin's giving us an exclusive look into the five core pillars of her revolutionary Scale Method and how to leverage them to nail your evergreen course funnels. Tune in to join us as we discuss what every entrepreneur making $100K in revenue each month has in common and how to build a solid foundation for your business that creates sustainable success!

Your warm audience is one of your business's most invaluable assets. If you are not continuously building your warm audience, engaging them, and re-targeting them you are leaving stacks upon stacks of cash on the table. My team recently ran a marketing campaign to promote the re-launch of my Ignite Academy program that resulted in a 40x return on ad spend by targeting ONLY warm traffic. Turn in to learn what strategies we used to achieve that ROAS and how to harness the power of YOUR warm audience.

In this episode, I'm sharing my best strategies for leveraging a podcast with paid ads. Meta right? I believe that podcasts are one of the best forms of content to build and nurture an audience, and if you're already putting in the work to create that content you should be maximizing it to the fullest extent. Tune in to learn how to get the most value from your podcast by using paid ads!

In this episode, I'm speaking about the "knowledge gap" and why it is critical for marketers to understand their own. We often assume that when we speak about our area of expertise that other people already understand what we're talking about, when that is not the case. This leads to huge disconnects between marketers and their audience. Tune in to better understand where your knowledge gaps are and identify opportunities you could improve this in your messaging.

In this episode, I'm giving my honest answer to the question, "is using paid ads cheating your business growth?" In short, the answer is absolutely NOT. Paid ads amplify your current success and accelerate your growth much faster than organic methods alone will. You don't have to achieve X, Y, or Z things organically before you can start using paid ads either. Tune in to today's episode to learn more about why using paid ads isn't "cheating" and what you'll need to weigh before you decide to start leveraging them.

In this episode, I'm sharing Team Hirsh's current ad hacks for success in this new era of digital marketing. The iOS 14 updates have created massive changes in the backend of Facebook Ads Manager, and our iOS task force is constantly researching, creating solutions, and implementing new strategies to stay on top of everything. Everything we think we know changes by the day, and if you aren't up to speed you will lose money, without a doubt. Tune in to uncover 3 ad hacks you can implement to ensure that doesn't happen to you.

In this episode, I'll show you how to define your business's "one thing". As entrepreneurs and visionaries, we're often overwhelmed with an abundance of initiatives, projects, funnels, and offers with THINK we should be doing, when they don't actually move the needle forward in our business. Instead, if you can get ultra-clear on the one thing your business does better than anyone else and clearly communicate that in your messaging, EVERYTHING in your business will improve. Tune in to learn how to find that clarity on your business's one thing!

You will always experience periods of hardship in your business, that's just reality. Not enough entrepreneurs are open about these struggles, but we all face them. When things are hard, your instinct may be to start completely over. I've certainly had those thoughts. But often, the answer lies in what you already have, not in jumping over to a shiny new thing. Tune in to today's episode for a message that many entrepreneurs need to hear - that if you're experiencing hard times in your business, you're not alone.

In this episode, you'll learn how a more engaged audience will result in more sales for your business. Many people make the mistake of focusing on themselves. Their webinars, sales calls, etc all focus on their own credentials and experience. On top of that, they also place a strong emphasis on all of the components and features, hoping that alone will be enough to entice their offers. That's not how you get more sales. You get more sales by having an engaged audience. How do you do that? Tune in to find out!

In this episode, I'm dissecting the long term impacts of the iOS 14 updates to the digital marketing world. What we're seeing now is only the beginning, even Facebook themselves have said so. If you're not prepared to step up, adapt, and pivot to meet the new demands of this new era of digital marketing, your business will fail. Tune in to learn more about what to expect from all these changes in the long term, and what it means for your business today.

In this episode, I'm sharing two ways you can instantly improve your webinar conversion. I truly believe that creating a converting webinar is an artform. It takes several iterations to get it right. I have often found that the biggest breakdown in a webinar funnel is actually the webinar itself! You'll walk away from this episode with two clear actions you can take today to instantly improve your webinar conversions and make more sales.

In this episode, I'm sharing more about Facebook's push to AI that has been happening for the last two years. Essentially, Facebook wants you to give them, their algorithms, and their machine learning more control over your ads through features like campaign budget optimization, automatic placement, dynamic creative, etc. This episode will show you how to align your strategy with Facebook's goal for more control and leverage these features to improve your ad performance.

In this episode, I'm sharing why it is just as important to repel the wrong fit customers in your messaging as it is to attract the right fit. Oftentimes, entrepreneurs are too afraid to be specific enough in their copy so that they're deterring customers who aren't the right fit because they don't want to lose out on those sales. The problem in staying too broad in your messaging is that it prevents you from standing out, so you don't end up attracting anyone. Tune into this episode to uncover the importance of repelling the wrong fit customers and how you can go deeper in your messaging to do so.

In this episode, we're chatting about rising Facebook costs and what this means for the future of marketing. While, yes, it's more expensive to market on Facebook than it was a few years ago, it remains the cheapest and most effective way to advertise online. You can and WILL find success with your Facebook ads, but only if you're able to adapt to the new era of digital marketing we're facing. There are two key components of your marketing that you must nail down in order to do so. Tune in to learn more about those two keys and how to survive in a more expensive and more saturated market!

In today's episode, I'm sharing the two components that will create ultimate success in your marketing if you commit to them. First, you must be intentional with your strategy and continuously test, refine, and repeat. Second, you must release your fear of failure and stop holding yourself back. A good friend of mine was able to do this, and a year after creating her new business, she was able to get her webinar funnel converting at 4%! Make no mistake, marketing always works, it's just a matter of when. Tune into today's episode for a much needed message on what it really takes to achieve marketing success.

In today's episode, I'm going on a much needed rant. There's this misconception that running a digital business is, and should be, easy and that if it's not that way for you then you're doing something wrong. NOT TRUE. Sure, you have the potential for more reach and impact with a digital business, but if you throw out the core foundational components of your business expecting things to be a piece of cake, you will never be successful. Nobody is talking about this, which is unfortunate as it's a message that so many people need to hear. Tune in for the full rant and why it's critical to put in the work if you want to achieve long term, sustainable success.

In today's episode, I'm sharing everything you need to know about hitting your first crucial milestone in marketing: breaking even. Most people go into it with the expectation that they'll be instantly profitable, when that is not the reality. Before you can become profitable, you first have to hit your break even point. How long should that take? What benchmarks do you have to set to get there? When do you know when it's time to make pivots to achieve that? Tune in for all the answers!

Too often, people overcomplicate their marketing by adding in all these technical components, shiny objects, bells and whistles. Those things don't equal a converting strategy or more sales. In some cases, it results in less because you're making the journey too confusing for your leads. That's not to say they're bad strategies, but they aren't what's going to move the needle forward for your business. Rather than over complicating and overthinking your marketing, focus on improving the core, which is your messaging, customer journey, and connection you're building with your audience. Tune in to learn how you can improve your marketing without all the overwhelm!

In this episode, I go on a bit of a rant. A lot of influencers out there promote this idea that you're only one funnel away from success. That you just need to create this one webinar, one funnel, one campaign, or hit the magic formula and then you'll take off and be successful without ever having to change a thing. That does not exist. If you think your company is going to reach a place where you don't have to do any work with your marketing, I hate to shatter your fantasy, but it's not true. True marketing success comes from continually optimizing, pivoting, and adjusting. Tune in so I can explain to you why I know that's a fact!

In this episode, I'm shedding light on the three main elements to testing your ads. Testing your ads can be extremely overwhelming, and many people think it requires a bunch of A/B testing for your buttons, small tweaks in your headline, different colors on your landing page, etc. All of those things are just bells and whistles that will overcomplicate things without actually improving your results. Your actual success with testing will come from three foundational elements. It's not a matter of using a magic formula, it's about following a clear process of testing these three foundational elements. Tune in to learn what each of those are and how you can confidently test your ads moving forward without all the overwhelm attached.

In this episode, I'm diving into my top strategic lead generation strategies that actually result in sales. Lead generation is absolutely critical, especially in these times where the online space is extremely volatile. That's because you own your email list, so no matter what happens online, you'll still have that list of people who will buy from you, IF you're doing this right. A lot of people are either teaching or doing lead generation the WRONG way. They're focusing on vanity metrics that won't help their business, their strategy doesn't tie in to their big picture, they don't consider their audience. Tune in to uncover what's been missing from all the lead gen strategies you're used to seeing, and learn the four main components of strategically growing your list into an invaluable asset!

In today's episode, I'm encouraging you to take the time to look at what's really driving the needle forward the most in your marketing, what's not and create a "stop doing" list. There's so much noise out there that suggests we as marketers need to show up on every platform every day, that we should try this new strategy or software, etc., or else we'll get left behind. If you continue to spread your time and resources across all of these projects that you can't put 110% behind, you will kill your business. There is great power in saying no to what isn't going to accelerate your growth and push the needle forward. Tune in today to get started on your STOP doing list!

In this episode I'm diving into the do's and don'ts of your ad creative. It is critical that you nail this because it is one of the most important components to the success of your ads. If your copy and creative don't connect with your audience, stand out, and stop the scroll, your ad results will suffer horribly. Tune in to learn about Team Hirsh's best practices for ad creative, including: using dynamic creative, how many copy and creative versions you need, how often you should refresh your creative, how to test new creative, and more!

In this episode, I'm sharing all my best tips and strategies for scaling your business both horizontally and vertically. First, I'll walk you through potential reasons you haven't been able to successfully scale in the past, actions you can take today to grow and scale your business, the key differences between scaling vertically vs. horizontally and why you should always be doing a little of both. I guarantee that if you can master the art of scaling, your business WILL grow, and that growth will be limitless. Tune in and I'll show you why!

In today's episode, I'm walking you through a case study of how we were able to improve our ad results for a client's webinar in just 30 days by following the process of testing, refining, and repeating. Specifically, we looked at optimizing the client's messaging, targeting, and offer. These are the three most important components to improving your marketing results. I guarantee that if you commit to continually testing and refining these components, you will be wildly successful!

In this episode, I'm sharing a hard marketing truth: your audience doesn't care about you. Too many marketers make the mistake of highlighting themselves in their messaging, their story, their expertise, their business, the impact their offers have made for them, etc. Speaking to all of those things is NOT what is going to get your audience to convert. Instead, you have to focus on your customer, their frustrations and desires, and the results your offer will get them. It's easier said than done, and there is ALWAYS room to improve this in your messaging. Tune in to learn more about why this is so critical, and how to apply a filter to ensure you're nailing this in your marketing.

You're in for a treat with this episode my friends, because I'm sharing strategies you can implement right away to instantly improve your ad targeting. One thing Team Hirsh is seeing right now is that there are a lot of audiences that are becoming increasingly oversaturated. So how do you still find success with those audiences? How do you find new audiences to test? How big should your audience size be? How long does it take to determine your targeting isn't working? Tune in to uncover the answers to all of the above!

In this episode, I'm diving into the difference between marketing a brand versus marketing a funnel. There's a misconception in the digital marketing space that once you get one funnel "perfect" you'll have a massively successful business and you'll never need to do any more work. But that's not true. The only way to create long term success is to market your brand/business as a whole and create multiple avenues and ways of consistently bringing in new leads and growing your business. Today, I'm sharing the keys you'll need to pay attention to in order to create that holistic strategy that will yield success in the long run.

In this episode, you'll learn how to go several layers deeper in understanding and defining your ideal customer avatar than you ever have before. Most people think that they've already nailed this, when in reality, their understanding and definition is extremely surface level. Having a crystal clear understanding of your ICA will make everything in your marketing easier, and will result in much more powerful results. Tune in to find out what's been missing in your ICA definition and the steps you can take to nail this down!

In this episode, I'm uncovering the truth about retargeting ads that nobody talks about. People in the industry who teach Facebook ads and marketing make retargeting ads sound so sexy and cool, that they'll make you a ton of money. Retargeting ads do work, and can reach a very hot audience for a minimal amount of spend… but only if done right. Tune in to find out if you're doing your retargeting ads all wrong and how to ensure you have a strong foundation that amplifies their effectiveness.

In this episode, I'm challenging you to focus on the experience you're creating for your leads and customers and ensure that it is better than your competition. It's not about the product you create, your webinar, your video, your marketing strategy, the end product that you're giving. It's not about that. It's about the experience you're creating. Yes, people care about the problem your product or service solves for them. But the key to keep them coming back, to get them talking about your company and your offer, is to create an amazing experience that nobody else can replicate. Tune in to find out what you need to consider to create that one of a kind, stellar experience.

In today's episode, I'm sharing the behind the scenes of my experience enduring the Texas winter storm. I was without power for over 50 hours in freezing temperatures with my husband and three kids, and we were very fortunate and blessed to have had a wood burning fireplace and a freezer full of food to eat during that time. I believe this experience happened for a reason, and it taught me many valuable lessons about leadership. Tune in to uncover those lessons I would not have learned otherwise.

In today's episode I share why, in my opinion, focusing on one funnel or offer until you get it converting really well is more powerful than trying to create a value ladder in your business. In theory, the value ladder sounds like an ideal business model to adapt. In reality, it's incredibly difficult to pull off successfully. Still, I see several influencers promoting the value ladder and how everyone should be using it in their business. Tune in to find out why I don't think you should blindly take their advice and what I believe will be most beneficial in helping you scale your business.

In today's episode, I'm uncovering the one asset that will guarantee the success of your business, even if social media marketing stops working tomorrow. Surprise! It's your email list. If you are consistently growing your email list, nurturing those leads, and building up a relationship with them, you will always be able to sell your product or offer, no matter what's going down online. However, you have to be strategic about it in order for your email leads to become an audience of true believers in your brand/business. Tune in to find out how to leverage your email list and maximize its potential.

In this episode, I'm talking all about the bane of every marketer's existence: tracking. While tracking may not be your favorite thing to do, it is absolutely necessary. I believe that numbers should drive our every action and decision, and if you're not tracking your metrics, how can you make sound, logical decisions for your business? Tune in to find the clarity you need to accurately track your Facebook ad metrics as I dive into what to track, how you should tie your goals into your tracking, and how and why you should tie a third party component into your sales funnel with your ads.

In this episode, I'm uncovering all of my best practices and strategies for visibility and brand awareness ads. Too often, people get overwhelmed with all the technical components and try to overcomplicate these by throwing in a bunch of call to actions and strategies. They forget the true goal of visibility and brand awareness ads, which is to build your warm audience. Tune in to find out why running visibility and brand awareness ads is much simpler than you might think and for all the best practices, including the content you should utilize for them, what budget you should set, how often you should refresh your content, understanding different visibility ad objectives, and more!

In today's episode, I go on a bit of a rant about the culture of marketing overwhelm being promoted in the digital marketing space, #sorrynotsorry. There are so many influencers in our industry that say to be successful you should be doing everything from posting on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, running Facebook ads, Google Ads, doing Dream 100 and PR outreach, writing a book, creating a webinar, etc. I disagree. It's impossible for a single entrepreneur to do every single one of those things, it's even impossible for my business to do all of those things well. Tune in to find out why I believe giving 110% of your effort into one platform, funnel, offer, and strategy is the true key to success.

In this episode, I'm pointing out one of the biggest components of messaging that I see people miss the mark on over and over again. Far too many people focus on what their offer or product is, why they created it and what the components are. Yes, that information is important, but there is a time and place for it. Truth is, that's not what your audience cares about! They care about the results that your offer will get them. Tune in and discover why it's critical that you clearly communicate the results your offer will deliver in your messaging and how you can ensure that you're effectively conveying those results in everything you do.

In today's episode, I'm answering one of my biggest FAQs, "when is it time to increase my budget?" There are two key reasons for increasing your budget: A) your ads are converting and it's time for you to scale, or B) You're not currently spending enough to get traction with your ads. In both situations, many people freeze and don't give themselves permission to increase their ad spend. Tune in to today's episode to receive your greenlight if it's time for YOU to start increasing your ad spend budget!

Never underestimate the power of your warm audience! Your business growth and success is heavily tied to your ability and commitment to consistently show up and build your warm audience. There are two main ways you can do this: through visibility content or some form of lead generation. So what does that all entail? Tune in to today's episode of The Not For Lazy Marketers Podcast to find out!

In today's episode, I'm exploring a question that's circulating online (especially with the new iOS updates) of "what happens if Facebook marketing stops working?" Does that mean it's the end for anyone who advertises on Facebook? Possibly… but not if you have a solid marketing foundation. Tune in to learn how you can guarantee the success of your business for years to come even IF Facebook dies.