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Catch up on my story by reading my first GOLD post here: GOLD! - HOT! - EXECUTION - From a broke Uber Driver $9k behind on rent to $30k Per Month...QUESTIONS?
And my second GOLD post here: GOLD! - SCALING - From $9k behind on rent to a 7 figure business! Here's how.
I run an herbal tea company that I started from ZERO while doing Uber. We focus our marketing on Anxiety Disorder because that's our main selling blend and the one that started the company. If you notice in my first post, I had a goal to hit $100k/mo within a couple months after that post.
It never happened. Our highest month in the past 3 years has been $78k. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my herbal tea business - but growth has been difficult and because we sell low ticket physical items, it has been a pretty tough few years. Shipping sucks and buying all the herbs and supplies is a lot.
The Goal
I want to make $100k/mo. It's been a goal of mine for years and I know I haven't been truly putting my best foot forward. Over the next 90 days, I'm going to attempt to figure this thing out and scale up. When I run FB ads, I make between $30k - $50k a month depending on how aggressive I am. When I'm not running any ads and only sending emails to my list, I make $10k - $15k. The reason I know this is because I took like 6 months off from running FB ads to focus on organic.
I just started back running ads in the past week after investing into coaching so I can improve my FB numbers because that was the main reason I stopped - Facebook just started getting difficult. In hindsight, it was all MY fault for not constantly keeping up with updates and strategies to work around the total annihilation of the old Facebook interests I use to rely on for targeting. Overnight, FB became more about going broad and focusing all your attention on the creative and copy. I was slow to adapt so we went from consistent $50k - $60k months back down to around $25k/mo and my profits were dropping significantly. Eventually I turned off ads and have been milking my list for the past 6 months and only making $10k/mo which has kinda sucked.
I'm ready for bigger and better things in my life. I was 32 in my first thread and now I'm 35. My oldest daughter is 13 so I want to REALLY bring some wealth into our lives. We've had an amazing 3 years, we were blessed to hit 7 figures but it took too long. We only took home around $300k of that so that's not a lot of money in 3 years. I want to get rich. $100k/mo is my goal.
The Plan
My average order value is $35. First of all, I plan on increasing that to around $50. I'm getting ads back running and I know for sure my biggest mistake the past 3 years was not testing enough. I'm going to be testing 1 new creative every day or at least 5 per week. Before, I probably tested a total of 10 creatives over the span of 3 years. For one whole year I had a creative working well all by itself and I never tested anything until it started dying and I was left scrambling. I won't make this mistake again.
My focus is going to be on creating GREAT content for ads, youtube content, IG reels and Tik Tok. Before, I didn't put enough focus on creating a lot of content that I could test in ads and/or just use for social media content. We've gone viral many times with IG reels and have grown our following to 47k followers. Over the next 90 days, I plan on being extremely consistent by posting on IG, Youtube and TikTok consistently, while testing the 5 new ad creatives each week. I want to be figure out how to consistently spend $1k a day on ads and make $3k back.
That's my plan for the herbal tea side of things, but I also plan on focusing most of my attention on promoting my new coaching program for people who need more serious help with Anxiety. I have a Skool community where I am hosting the course and everything.
My only dilemma is I'm not sure if I should focus on building MRR or High Ticket. I've sold a couple early copies of the course to people on my herbal tea list for $1,497 but I plan on selling it for at least $3k if I run ads to it. But I also have some members signed up for $97/mo so I haven't decided which offer I should focus my marketing on. All I know is, adding in a digital product/service in the backend is a MUST for me to be able to hit that $100k/mo goal.
Whichever one I choose, I'm going to create a VSL and run ads to it to either book a call if I choose high ticket or I'll just attempt to sell the $97/mo membership to cold traffic after bringing them in the funnel with some kind of free training.
I'm not gonna lie, I'm kinda scared to post this and end up failing but hey I need some damn accountability if I really wanna get rich. Tired of living this middle class a$$ life haha.
I'll update this thread at least once a week with everything I've done. (Hopefully I chose the right category for this)
OPEN TO ANY QUESTIONS OR SUGGESTIONS
And my second GOLD post here: GOLD! - SCALING - From $9k behind on rent to a 7 figure business! Here's how.
I run an herbal tea company that I started from ZERO while doing Uber. We focus our marketing on Anxiety Disorder because that's our main selling blend and the one that started the company. If you notice in my first post, I had a goal to hit $100k/mo within a couple months after that post.
It never happened. Our highest month in the past 3 years has been $78k. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my herbal tea business - but growth has been difficult and because we sell low ticket physical items, it has been a pretty tough few years. Shipping sucks and buying all the herbs and supplies is a lot.
The Goal
I want to make $100k/mo. It's been a goal of mine for years and I know I haven't been truly putting my best foot forward. Over the next 90 days, I'm going to attempt to figure this thing out and scale up. When I run FB ads, I make between $30k - $50k a month depending on how aggressive I am. When I'm not running any ads and only sending emails to my list, I make $10k - $15k. The reason I know this is because I took like 6 months off from running FB ads to focus on organic.
I just started back running ads in the past week after investing into coaching so I can improve my FB numbers because that was the main reason I stopped - Facebook just started getting difficult. In hindsight, it was all MY fault for not constantly keeping up with updates and strategies to work around the total annihilation of the old Facebook interests I use to rely on for targeting. Overnight, FB became more about going broad and focusing all your attention on the creative and copy. I was slow to adapt so we went from consistent $50k - $60k months back down to around $25k/mo and my profits were dropping significantly. Eventually I turned off ads and have been milking my list for the past 6 months and only making $10k/mo which has kinda sucked.
I'm ready for bigger and better things in my life. I was 32 in my first thread and now I'm 35. My oldest daughter is 13 so I want to REALLY bring some wealth into our lives. We've had an amazing 3 years, we were blessed to hit 7 figures but it took too long. We only took home around $300k of that so that's not a lot of money in 3 years. I want to get rich. $100k/mo is my goal.
The Plan
My average order value is $35. First of all, I plan on increasing that to around $50. I'm getting ads back running and I know for sure my biggest mistake the past 3 years was not testing enough. I'm going to be testing 1 new creative every day or at least 5 per week. Before, I probably tested a total of 10 creatives over the span of 3 years. For one whole year I had a creative working well all by itself and I never tested anything until it started dying and I was left scrambling. I won't make this mistake again.
My focus is going to be on creating GREAT content for ads, youtube content, IG reels and Tik Tok. Before, I didn't put enough focus on creating a lot of content that I could test in ads and/or just use for social media content. We've gone viral many times with IG reels and have grown our following to 47k followers. Over the next 90 days, I plan on being extremely consistent by posting on IG, Youtube and TikTok consistently, while testing the 5 new ad creatives each week. I want to be figure out how to consistently spend $1k a day on ads and make $3k back.
That's my plan for the herbal tea side of things, but I also plan on focusing most of my attention on promoting my new coaching program for people who need more serious help with Anxiety. I have a Skool community where I am hosting the course and everything.
My only dilemma is I'm not sure if I should focus on building MRR or High Ticket. I've sold a couple early copies of the course to people on my herbal tea list for $1,497 but I plan on selling it for at least $3k if I run ads to it. But I also have some members signed up for $97/mo so I haven't decided which offer I should focus my marketing on. All I know is, adding in a digital product/service in the backend is a MUST for me to be able to hit that $100k/mo goal.
Whichever one I choose, I'm going to create a VSL and run ads to it to either book a call if I choose high ticket or I'll just attempt to sell the $97/mo membership to cold traffic after bringing them in the funnel with some kind of free training.
I'm not gonna lie, I'm kinda scared to post this and end up failing but hey I need some damn accountability if I really wanna get rich. Tired of living this middle class a$$ life haha.
I'll update this thread at least once a week with everything I've done. (Hopefully I chose the right category for this)
OPEN TO ANY QUESTIONS OR SUGGESTIONS
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