Today’s episode features entrepreneurs Emma and Carla Papas, ”The Merrymaker Sisters” who are also real life sisters. Khierstyn has invited them on the show today to inspire you with their delightful story. The two of them were working full time in jobs they hated when they first started blogging. After a while they began to think it was more risky to stay in their hated jobs for years than to step out and find their dreams by creating their own income. Sound familiar? You’ll be inspired by their journey and the steps they’ve taken to build those dreams into a reality. You’re going to enjoy this one.
Emma and Carla (The Merrymaker Sisters) are health and happiness advocates and health coaches who are on a mission to merrymake over the world! They offer real food recipes, positive mindset advice, and ways to find and follow your purpose. But that mission has come to them over time. The clarifying of their blog and purpose took time, and that process was instrumental in helping them determine what they were about and what value they wanted to give to the world. This episode walks through their bubbly, fun-filled story and highlights the steps they took to get their blogging business profitable within a year’s time. Interested? Give it a listen.
After quitting their full time jobs to build their blog into a business, Emma and Carla Papas knew they had to get some money coming in right away. But they weren’t sure how to do it. One of the projects they took on was creating products, primarily recipe ebooks at first. Their approach was to create the product, put it on their website, then move on to the next. But their eyes were opened when they attended a conference and discovered that there was much more they could be doing to promote their products in a way that would take advantage of the opportunity they had to make those products available to their followers. Their journey is one of learning and application, learning and application, and you’ll learn a lot by hearing how they tweaked things over and over to make their blog profitable.
The 4 week detox program was the first thing Carla and Emma Papas created after they had learned how to do a better job promoting their products, and they began promoting it and taking money for it before it was even created. By preselling their program through an effective landing page (complete with a video that explained the benefits of the program) they were able to get money coming in before the program was even completed. The launch was a huge success and the people who have been helped by it number in the thousands. And all of that came about because they learned how to create a buzz before the product was actually ready. You can do the same thing by learning how on this episode.
Focus. There are so many ideas, opportunities, and distractions that come across an entrepreneur’s path every day, it’s easy to get side tracked. New entrepreneurs need to know that reality and prepare for it. Focus is the word that makes all the difference. If it takes productivity apps, time blocking, stronger accountability, or whatever, you’ve got to learn how to focus your attention on one project - the most important project - until it is complete. It’s that discipline of focus that will translate into methodical steps of success that will make your business thrive in the ways you want it to. Learn the lessons that Emma and Carla Papas have learned the hard way by hearing their story, on this episode of Entrepreneur:Uncut.
http://www.themerrymakersisters.com/
The 4 week plan: http://www.themerrymakersisters.com/make-life-merry/