Flipped Lifestyle™ Podcast

In today's podcast we're going to talk about how to get more traffic by using social media. Everyone knows they should be on social media, but what sites should be on and how should you be using it? Today we share our experiences from running our online businesses, everything from how to use Pinterest and why Twitter can work so well for driving traffic. [Tweet "Check out just how much traffic you can drive through using social media "] You will learn How to learn what social media channels you should use. Some of the tools we use to manage our social media accounts. The importance of scheduling out your posts. Why you should always bring people back to your site. Links and resources mentioned in today's show Buffer App Edgar Hoote Suite 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 I have some exciting news to share. Yesterday I sold my first two copies of my eBook. It was a snow day where I live so I was lounging in my sweatpants at my computer all day and I made my first $14 online. What a cool feeling it is to make money from home and such a boost of confidence too. I am using this excitement to keep the momentum going and make more products and more sales so I can make money while working from home every day. Thank you. It's a good reflection of how awesome your course is. My husband is doing really well with his product too. He has over 1200 likes on his Facebook page. Thanks Shane and Jocelyn." 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. Thank you for listening! 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 podcast, we're going to show you how to get more traffic to your website using social media. [spoiler] 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? Alright, let's get started. Shane: What's up guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. Awesome to be back with you again this week. We have a great topic for you today. We are going to be talking traffic but specifically, we are not going to get in to like SEO or anything like that, actually writing your content, we're going to talk about how everyone can use social media to drive more traffic back to your website, whether it's Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, whatever you like to use on social media. We're going to show you how to use that as a vehicle to get people back to your site and of course to your digital products that you can sell to those people. But before we do that we are going to read a success story from a recent member of our Flip Your Life, e-course. Jocelyn: Today's success story come from Nikita Isle, she is one of our Flip Your Life alumni members and it says: "I have some exciting news to share. Yesterday I sold my first two copies of my eBook. It was a snow day where I live so I was lounging in my sweatpants at my computer all day and I made my first $14 online. What a cool feeling it is to make money from home and such a boost of confidence too.

In today's podcast we're going to talk about the hardware we use in our online business. We get a lot of questions from people asking what are the tools and pieces of technology we use everyday in our business. We're going to cover all of that as we share what we use at home as well as when we're working and traveling. You will learn Why we now recommend use Macs over PCs The type of phone we chose (hint - it's not an iphone) and why we did The hardware accessories we've found most beneficial for our workspace All of the tools we use to record our podcast. Everything we take with us on the road when we're traveling and working. 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 Click here to leave us an iTunes review and subscribe to the show! We may read yours on the air! Links and resources mentioned in today's show Make sure to check out - Our Facebook Page The stand we use for our laptops Logitech solar powered keyboard The Apple Magic Mouse The Apple Magic Mouse battery chargers The Audio Technica Mic we use USB Hook Up Second Monitor Shane uses The wind filter we use for the microphone The mic stand we use The M-Audio interface we use to connect our microphones to the computer Extra Power Cords for the Macbook Extra Batteries Plus Wall Mounts (That's why we went with samsung) Car Charger Inverter Power Strip in Backpack Roland digital recorder 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. Thank you for listening! 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! Share on Facebook Share on Twitter 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, in today's podcast, we're gonna talk about the hardware we use in our online business. [spoiler] JOCELYN: Hey guys, welcome back to today's Flipped Lifestyle podcast. We are excited to be back with you; Shane and I are here in the freezing, cold tundra of Kentucky. SHANE: There's like eight inches of snow on the ground; we've been trapped in our house with our kids for three days. Everybody is bouncing off the walls. [Laughs] JOCELYN: Yeah, it's zero degrees Fahrenheit right how which is really, really cold. We are really not used to those types of temperatures here where we live. But we are excited to be here with you and talking to you on the podcast; it gives us something to do, a little break from the monotony of these snow days. We are going to start off today's show by reading a Facebook comment. SHANE: All right guys, we like to start off all of our shows by sharing a comment from you guys either from Twitter or Facebook or iTunes and today's come from Shon Gerber from the Flipped Lifestyle Facebook page. Shon is actually a member of our Flip Your Life e-course and he came over to the Facebook page last week and said, "Oh my gosh! I can't believe how wonderful your Flipped Lifestyle course is. Your topic on keyword research is incredible, the free video podcast that you put out is amazing but the one in the course just saved me way more time and money than what I paid to join Flip Your Life. Just one training in, holy cow, thank you guys so much; feeling excited." He's added a little excited emoticon there. So, it's awesome Shon, thank you for leaving that comment. If you guys would like to leave us a comment on Facebook and m...

In today's Q&A, we are answering whether or not you really need a shopping cart or should you just rely on Paypal. Do you have a question you want answered on our podcast? We would love to help you! Click here to ask your question! Resources Mentioned in this Episode Today's question comes from Douglas Andrews at JobInterview-Coach.com Ejunkie - for delivering digital products Paypal - for accepting payments online Check out our consulting page to see how we automate this service Acuity Scheduling - our scheduling tool of choice Let's dive into this week's question! JOCELYN: Hey y'all, you're listening to Q&A with S&J. 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. JOCELYN: Hey guys, welcome back to the Q&A with S&J. Today's question is from Douglas Andrews at JobInterview-Coach.com. SHANE: We've got a string of good domain names. People looking up around here, it's pretty good stuff. JOCELYN: Yeah, it's pretty good. Douglas says: "I understand how to use E-junkie and PayPal to collect money and deliver an ebook but can I do the same thing with just PayPal to create a link for services rendered? For example, I want to offer one on one interview services." SHANE: Okay, that's a great question. Let's take that into two parts. Let's look at just the ebook. If you take payments from PayPal for an ebook or some kind of digital product, the problem is, you've got to get that file to the person who paid you money for it. Now if you only have PayPal, you can do that. Starting out if you want to save $10 here and there and not set all that up, you could just take payments. You see it come through that someone paid you money. You can email them the file manually. Now, there are a couple of problems there. #1) You're not creating passive income. You're having to physically touch every transaction. It's like you're having to go to your shelf and get the product off the shelf for the person every time they come in. #2) People are used to downloading things instantly. When they pay with PayPal and they are on the internet, they want their file now. They don't want to wait for you to have to email it within 24-48 hours. They want to get their product. PayPal doesn't do that. PayPal is not going to send them a file or anything like that. So you are going to need a shopping cart solution to deliver things like ebooks. PayPal will take the payment. A shopping cart like E-junkie is going to send the file. Both of them are doing what they do. For coaching, you could just set up a button and you could say, "Oh yeah, I want to do a coaching service or interview process." You could take the payment and then you could do that. But the thing is, there are also other products out there that lets you schedule things automatically. For example, when we take consulting, you can get consulting with us at FlippedLifestyle.com/TalktoUs and if you sign up for our consulting services, you don't get a file but what you do get is an email with a link to a calendar and then the person can go schedule the consulting call on their own so we never have to touch it. We always want to create systems where we don't have to touch anything. So even with something like interview services or coaching service, take the payment and then automate your scheduling, and you'll be much better off. JOCELYN: We use a service called Acuity Scheduling. We'll put a link to that in the show notes. I love that one because you can take a payment for things like consulting and then it will take them actually directly to the calendar right after the time of payment. So that is a pretty cool way to do that. We really like to try to use services for what they are used for,