Aug. 18, 2022

How to Attract Clients With Just One Click with Catharine O'Leary

How to Attract Clients With Just One Click with Catharine O'Leary

Catharine has spent the last 25 years crafting market research and consumer insights for Fortune 100 companies across the globe including Apple, Adobe, and Pepsi. Companies that are essentially doing the exact same thing we all are – finding more clients and building relationships with them to increase client lifetime value.

Now Catharine has turned her attention helping entrepreneurs explode their subscriber lists and engage clients to be life long clients and raving fans. As a fellow entrepreneur she knows how hard it is to grab the attention of the ideal customer, engage and get to know them. By combining market research techniques with quiz funnel strategies the art and science of asking the right questions results in attracting the best clients in just one click!

Transcript
Tara Bryan:

Hey everybody, it's Tara Bryan, and you are

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listening to the Course Building Secrets® Podcast. Whether you're

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a coach or a CEO, the success of your team and clients is based

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on your ability to deliver a consistent experience and guide

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them on the fastest path to results. This podcast will give

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you practical real life tips that you can use today to build

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your online experiences that get results and create raving fans.

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Why? So you can monetize your expertise and serve more people

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without adding more time or team to your business? If you're

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looking to uncover your million dollar framework, package it and

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use it to scale you're in the right place. Let's dive in.

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Hey, everybody, it's Tara Bryan. And I am joined today with

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Catherine O'Leary. And she is going to talk to you about how

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to create a quiz to bring in the right people and dive them into

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your your program, your course your product, your service,

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whatever it is that you do. And so Welcome, Catherine, I'm so

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happy to have you today on the show. Tell us a little bit about

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yourself, your background and what you're up to.

Catharine O'Leary:

Yeah, thank thank you for having me, Tara,

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it's great to see you. And yeah, I have, I I'm known as the quiz

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queen, I did not grow up being the quiz queen, I wanted to be

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the Wolf of Wall Street. So I went through school for business

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and went into corporate, and actually did a lot of market

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research and consumer insights. And it's just a fancy way of

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saying that I was a translator between corporations and

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consumers, asking consumers what they wanted and needed and kind

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of what they you know, were challenged with. And taking that

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information and translating it for corporations into you know,

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what products that they should be coming up with services, you

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know, what their marketing messages might be, as well as

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their sales messages. So a little bit of a translation gig

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almost did that for 25 years, did it with Apple and Adobe and

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Pepsi. And decided that, you know, enough was enough, three

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hours of commuting enough of the, you know, kind of the C

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suite politics and nonsense and went out on my own and kind of

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found a way to utilize that kind of a unique skill set of asking

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questions and asking good questions, to help people with

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lead generation and really kind of that attract the best and

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release the rest. I mean, I don't know about you, Tara. But

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I had a hard time at the beginning with kind of

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attracting everybody. And their brother and I spent a lot of

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time and a lot of wasted effort on you know, on phone calls that

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weren't really good, you know, quality conversations on I was

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spending a lot of time with convincing, cajoling and, and

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crying almost. And, and, you know, that's just not, it's not

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good for anyone, it's not good for your prospects. It's not

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good for your clients. It's not good for you. So my analytical

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brain kind of kicked in, and I decided to find another way.

Tara Bryan:

Yeah. Okay, so. So I'm going to take this in two

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different directions. Okay, the first one. So one of the things

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we talk about a lot on the Course Building Secrets® Podcast

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is how do you like, package your expertise into something that

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you can turn into a business? So the very first question I have

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for you, it's fascinating to me, when I meet somebody who has an

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expertise from corporate from sort of the traditional job,

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and, and takes that and, and finds a niche, find something

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that they love to do, and turns it into a business. So I'm

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fascinated with the fact that you found this need that people

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were struggling with how to find and really filter their people,

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when they came in, from a lead gen perspective, get rid of the

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ones they didn't that they didn't fit, and then push the

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ones through who did through a quiz. And so personally, really

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personalizing the experience or you this or that or that, you

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know, I'll all the way through that. So tell us a little bit

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about like, how did you like go from corporate to I'm going to

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create, I'm going to be the quiz queen. And tell us a little bit

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about that because I just am fascinated always by that

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journey of sometimes what you do is what you end up going into

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but sometimes you take what you what your expertise is, you sort

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of flip it into something a little bit different.

Catharine O'Leary:

Yeah, it's a great question and there was a

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there was a step in between where, when I, when I started my

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online entrepreneurship and that journey, I actually started in

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network marketing. And I started in personal development. And it

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was, it was great. It was a really nice kind of business in

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a box idea. It didn't have to create a whole lot. But what I

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found was that the lead generation side of things was

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just so hard I was I tried everything I was throwing money

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at Facebook ads, and Google ads, and many ads, quite honestly, I

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was spending lots of time on one on one calls with people that

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weren't really ready for the process. And and, you know, you

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tried to build organically, and it was posting from night, you

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know, day to night, you know, dawn to dusk, and nothing seemed

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to be working. And like, I literally almost got to the

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point where I was convincing myself that three hours a day of

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commuting isn't that bad? You know, like, maybe I can go back

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to it, like, maybe it's not that bad. I'll do audiobooks, it'll

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be fine. And, and I just realized that there, you know,

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like, there had like, there were solutions. And there had to be a

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solution for this. And what I found was that if I really kind

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of sat back and listened to what I was good at, which was asking

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questions, and and asking good questions that people could

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answer that gave businesses really strong results. You know,

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that it was it wasn't, it wasn't the first thing I thought of

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doing. But as I realized that it was something that I needed in

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my own business, I realized that I could do I could kind of marry

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my expertise with this kind of a new newer twist on it, if you

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will, in quiz funnels, I didn't create quiz funnels, like, like,

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you know, they've been around for a long time. But you know,

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being able to really dive into that, and then help others

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create quizzes for their business, I kind of fell into it

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almost. It just became very, you know, when the when the jigsaw

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piece is all all started to put, you know, fall into place.

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That's what it felt like.

Tara Bryan:

Yeah, I just I love that just gives me chills,

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because I think that that's ultimately what people want to

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do, right is they want to find that, that expertise, they want

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to find that specialty, that is their zone of genius. And due to

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your point, like so often, there's, it's like this nugget

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that's in what you're trying to do that you're like, This is the

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thing, like if I could do this all day, like, like, life would

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be great. Alright, so so I love that. So congratulations, that

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you've found that I think that that's something that's always

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really exciting when you kind of find that thing that that that

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you can create the next, the next big idea with so for our

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for my listeners, some of them are having the same challenge,

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right? Where it's like, oh, my gosh, I have all these people

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and I get them on the phone and they're not qualified or I can't

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find people or how do I? How do I stand out differently? What

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tips do you have for them in terms of how to even think about

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a quiz as a quiz funnel? Or you know how to even think about

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like, creating something like that, because the the hard part

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is, that means you actually have to one you have to know who your

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person is. And two, it can't be everybody, right? I'm sure you

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work with people who are like, my person is anybody who wants

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to come in. And and my guess is that's probably your first thing

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that you're going to say is you cannot help everybody, right?

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You can if you help everybody you help

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nobody, right. So I always say that the quiz is only going to

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work if you are solid in your offer, you know exactly like

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where you're directing them to. So you have your offer, and you

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have to know who your target audience is. Because you only

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want to talk to those people. You want to create something

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that's going to attract just those people, because those are

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the only people that really are going to, you know, convert to

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sales. So one of the things I know that I did back, you know,

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back in the day was, you know, if I just talked to enough

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people hope that one or two, right, and that's not that's

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just a way to waste a lot of time and resources and get burnt

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out. So if you really start to narrow down and think about who.

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Who do I have the most fun helping, who do I have, like who

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do I want as my ideal client, right? Like and be as specific

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as possible? Like who do you want to hang out with on the

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beach? You know, and and, and that's those are the people that

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you should be targeting with your your verbiage with the way

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that you put your questions together with your offer. You've

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already done it, you've kind of already done it with the way

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that you've set up your offer. So it's really just taking that

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offer and honing it back into that target audience. And then,

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you know, using their language and attracting them. Because you

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know, if you get nine out of 10 people on the phone and nine out

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of 10 by, like, how much cooler is that than one out of 10?

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Right?

Tara Bryan:

Okay, so give us an example of a question that we

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would ask our ideal person to find out if they're going to be

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a good fit, like, is there like a standard question that you

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usually make?

Catharine O'Leary:

Sure. Yeah, I consider. Sorry, I consider

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quizzes more of a journey. So you've got your offer. And your

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offer solves probably a few questions. And so there's

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probably, you know, a quiz hook in there. Like, what's stopping

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you from being unstoppable? Or what's, you know, what's your

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online business personality type? It's a journey. It's not a

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yes, no question. It's, it's a little bit of a self discovery

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that the client can take on their own to find an answer to a

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question that they want solved. Right. So so it's not so much a,

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you know, if you think about, you know, what Disney Princess,

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are you? Well, you go through a couple of questions to find the

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Disney princess or what 80s rock band that at the end of the day,

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people are getting the aha moment. So they feel like

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they've been taken on a journey. They've been navigated the way

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through, and then they get the answer. They get the answer to

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their one question, like, what is stopping me from being

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unstoppable? What is stopping me from seven figures? Why am I not

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delegating when I should? You know, what, what is my next

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step? In my CEO, movement, that kind of thing. So there's a

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variety of questions that need to go into that. But if you

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think of it more like, almost like a coffee conversation, like

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if you sit down with somebody, and you usually ask them, you

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know, where are you in business? Now? You know, what's stopping

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you from the next step? What would your ideal situation be?

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And then you can give them a little bit of a, you know, wha,

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hey, here's a couple of answers. Here's some things you can do

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right now. And the key thing is really that warm handoff to your

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course. Right? So hey, the next step is check out my webinar,

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because we go way in depth in, you know, my six week course,

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or, you know, my coaching program, or my one on one call,

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or, you know, whatever that happens to be for you. So it can

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be very versatile.

Tara Bryan:

Yeah. So cool. That's, that's amazing. So that,

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absolutely, this is something that if you haven't looked at

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yet, as as you're kind of getting into your online course

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business, definitely think, you know, we talk a lot about having

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it be a journey. What this does is it helps tee them up to be

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ready. And then and then as Catharine said, like, it helps

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to make that sales conversation so much easier for you because

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they're already ready. When they come to you. You're not having

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to convince them or, like do any of those weird sales tactics

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that we don't like. Yeah, so awesome. All right, Catherine,

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give us a tip or resource or tool or something that you

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cannot live without in your business.

Catharine O'Leary:

Whoa, that's a good question. Um, so for

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anyone as you're going through and building your sales pages,

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landing pages, virtual thesaurus. Virtual, free free.

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Online thesaurus gives you a really quick, you know, like,

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it's not that word. It's it. You want to find the next word. I

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use it every day. Like I use it all the time. So yeah,

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definitely. That's a really, that's kind of a ninja trick for

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me.

Tara Bryan:

Yeah, that's awesome. I love that. I have not

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heard that one yet. So I always love new things that people are

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saying. Awesome. So for my listeners, how do they get a

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hold of you? How do they learn more about what you have to

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offer? And how do they meet the the quiz queen, the quiz queen?

Catharine O'Leary:

Weel, you know what, you can just go to

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thequizqueen.com and enter your information and we'll we'll set

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up some time to chat.

Tara Bryan:

Awesome, very cool. Well, thank you so much for

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being on our show today. It was great to meet you and thanks for

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giving such great tips to our listeners.