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Planning a Course Launch - Pre Launch Stuff

dude a couple things I'm watching my so
I thought hey we got a couple things one
this little thing here has proven to be
okay at times I have another microphone
but it's cord is kind of a pain in the
butt so it's fun to work on tech issues
all right
is that any better Jeff still fuzzy but
it's less than before all right and then
we'll do okay better all right thanks
everybody
you're very patient and you know what's
funny it's like a I can't win now my
phone's tone hey it's a very bad
connection I'm gonna move closer to the
router in a second all right so we work
through the issues I'll just try and
talk a little out okay so here's a
couple things going on I will tell you
real quick I was working on stuff and I
have I'm actually built up a little bit
of a queue of videos on YouTube but I
thought I had something scheduled today
and it just slipped my mind so I have
been going to like publish new post a
new video on YouTube like five days a
week and sometimes those are live
streams we're getting a little bonus one
in today with this live stream so that's
cool but anyway I just published
something if you have the opportunity to
take a look go watch it and so we got
like seven people on it so what I'm
gonna do I'm gonna move here in a second
to another room where we have a little
bit more space and more people are
hopping on so if you're just joining I'm
going to talk about some of the
pre-launch that I'm working on for
my course five for your niche site it
comes out like a month or so some of the
people on are actually students in the
course already so you know like Jeff for
example Jeff if you need to set up a
one-on-one meeting just give me a shout
I think you have the link and we can go
through it but I have a big calendar
right here which I thought it was going
to use way more than that
I actually ended up using it but that's
cool is still nice to have like physical
paper to write on and stuff so I'm gonna
get this thing we're gonna walk into the
other room and we need some permanent
markers here a couple of these babies
right here and we're gonna walk out of
here so you'll be able to see a little
bit of my desk I should have moved my
drink I'm gonna end up spilling
something or dropping something all
right when I walk hopefully everything's
gonna be cool there's a big light kit
behind me which is nice
we're just gonna go into the other room
here and a little bit more space right
here-ish the angles probably funny what
I'm gonna do is I'm going to turn the
camera around I'm gonna face you towards
this calendar what I have right here in
front of me and hopefully I'll actually
be able to turn this I didn't test
beforehand so this is all alright great
this thing is not falling over anything
everything's great in can people still
hear me if so I'm just amazed
alright and there's a mess in here too I
didn't really prepare this is really
off-the-cuff here so this is this
calendar is showing September here so
maybe hard to read but September right
here and of course we are at this point
this is today right here this is the
26th that is what today is is I'm
recording this live right now then an
interesting thing is I have I've had
like relatives in town quite a bit so
I've had to plan things ahead and kind
of funny I mean I'm
project manager and planning is supposed
to be one of my strengths but a lot of
times I sort of have a lot of slack in
my schedule and I have a lot of slack in
my schedule so I kind of just like work
haphazardly unless I have a deadline the
course for me is a really good deadline
situation
I see the recommendation to have a stand
yeah that's a great recommendation I
would love to have a stand so one thing
I had like my sister and brother-in-law
come in on like the night and they
stayed all the way until the 16th I'm we
did a little bit of work on like one or
two days like right here so I mean
really this week leading up to it their
arrival I like did a bunch of planning
to make sure that I have videos
scheduled so that I'm kind of doing the
same thing right now because my in-laws
my wife's parents were showing up on
Thursday and they're gonna stay until
the beginning of the following week
actually until Wednesday of the
following week so they're here for just
under six days or so and that'll take us
to so that is kind of you know in the
crosshairs and that's gonna take up a
decent amount of time for me I'm gonna
try not to work too much just in general
so it could be present in the moment and
all that good stuff now here's the parts
that you should care about so the course
launch yeah stand would be great so a
course lunch will get me several things
the course Lodge happens in the tail end
right so the course goes live here on
the 23rd and then
closes on the 27th what I have is some
basically what I'm calling like
pre-launch stuff right so I've pre
launch things happening and some of that
is via email some of it is gonna come
out in video on YouTube some of it is
gonna be from different people I have a
few affiliates working with me and
that's kind of some of the stuff I'm
working on so like I contacted some
affiliates that I haven't had contact
with in a couple of weeks and basically
they're on board they have the materials
they need they're you're checking their
affiliate area within the course
sections so that they can basically like
get the links they need to they could
have the information they need and so on
one of my friends Dom human proof
designs he's you know I he's gonna like
take some screenshots do some reviews on
inside the course so he could like show
people what it's really like in there so
that that's pretty cool and a neat thing
with DOM is he also has some form of a
course but he and I have a different
take on things so technically we're
competitors though I have a focus more
on the course and he has a focus on
selling premade sites and providing
services around sites but we have the
same audience and we worked well
together and we don't treat it like
we're competitors we just treat it like
you know people that could help each
other so he's a good guy I've known him
for years
and there's a few other affiliates in
the similar situation so the thing is
you know the course is launching in in
this period here and basically I already
have exactly what I need to send four
emails on Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Thursday and to
on Friday so like I already know exactly
what I'm going to send in those emails
and it's tens of thousands of words
right part of the reason why I could
like tell you and publish like what I'm
doing is it's very hard to replicate a
course launch and I mean it's it's
pretty tough to sell a course it's hard
to build an email list like every step
of the way there's like some basically
seemingly insurmountable piece of work
so just creating the material of the
course is you know tens of thousands of
words these launch material is tens of
thousands of words and everything is
like really intentional leading up to it
now one thing I haven't mentioned but
you may have noticed Jeff I know you've
probably seen this before
but I almost always do a free
mini-course the week before so I know
some people like Adrian and a few other
folks don't or maybe you haven't seen it
if you're newer to my channel my my
email lists and stuff you haven't seen
this pre-launch material which is a
actually it's a it's a great course
right I have students who have already
taken my course they redo the mini
course just because it's a good exercise
in understanding where you're at and it
takes you on a bit of a journey like
some of it is harmed right you have to
put time into and I remember you going
through this stuff Jeff and I know we
don't have a huge number of people
because this was an unscheduled thing
but like I said I mean the mini course
is good enough where people actually
like sign up for it because or not sign
up for but they participated in it even
though they've already done it before so
that material comes out this pre-launch
week now the other thing that I'm doing
and then I basically have been doing for
a while is webinars and this is like the
thing that I was gonna try and figure
out today so I'm doing webinars on
Thursdays so this is part of like my
livestream stuff and there's gonna be a
webinar every single week here even on
the launch week and I typically don't do
a pitch even when I'm selling the course
but I'll I may put in a soft pitch here
but it really doesn't matter cuz I've
spent all this time leading up to it and
there is a webinar this Thursday so if
you're not signed up or if you're
watching this later you can't go to a
niche site project com and I think if
you go check out a blog post there's a
link at the bottom of all the blog post
and here's what I'm gonna you know
figure out today so this week I'm
actually doing there's a keyword
research yep that's right yes seeing I'm
doing a webinar in the 28th so I'm doing
keyword research here on the 28th and I
actually wanted to like figure out what
topics I'm gonna do so I'm probably
gonna do I'll probably do content here
and by the way I've done you know
probably close to 20 unique different
types of webinars some on various topics
which some people don't care about some
maybe it's the wrong audience and I may
throw throw one in here that's not not
perfect but if people attend it and they
connect with that webinar in a certain
way then that's really good and I'll put
content here and we'll call it like
really well we'll kind of focus on
creating content that's what we'll do on
the 12th and hiring for content that's
what we'll do on the 19th and for the
week of I'll probably do something
let's see probably the perfect Amazon
review and if you've been around for a
while you'll notice that I go back to
the ones that have been good so I don't
I had like a new one every now and then
but I've created material and I go
through and improve it over time I get
better at presenting it also and you
know some people they just like to
attend these sessions so they pick
something up a little different each
time and I can't think of another topic
here but maybe something like here's a
ever-popular as SEO for niche sites so
easy enough I have all this scheduled
out and what all do additionally is let
my affiliates know each week like hey
here's the schedule here are the links
for each of the individual ones you can
send out whenever you want you can you
know share on social you could put it
wherever you want and I don't pressure
the affiliates to send anything out
specifically I give them email copy
based on what I've seen that works and
basically they have the option to send
this stuff out if they want I'm gonna
turn my camera here so basically they
have the ability if they want to to send
out emails like for a webinar if they
like but they don't have to they can
send out emails just as I wrote them
like basically the promotion emails they
can take those as they are and I give
them full flexibility and I don't have
that many affiliates because I don't
want to make sure I know and trust
whoever I'm working with so you know
there's probably there's probably a lot
of other people I could work with but I
just haven't developed the relationship
with him yet now one thing that did
happen when I first developed my course
I would get
people that you know started some
internet marketing blog they basically
have no followers and they wanted my
course for free so they would say hey I
want to be an affiliate can you let me
into the course and I'll review it and
then I'll publish it on my blog and
basically I would you know ask them we
take a look at their blog to see if they
add like followers or comments or
anything like that it's pretty clear
like right away there's not much content
and at that point I know they're
basically a scammer or they're just
trying to take advantage of me which is
not cool and you know if they say hey I
have an email list and a bunch of
followers like then you know I could
work with them like we could see if it's
a good fit but even then there are
people that are not folks that I want to
like associate with and at that point at
that point I can you know work with them
or not so cool and what I'll do is I
guess schedule out the emails I mean I'm
looking down at the calendar but you
know I need to schedule the emails I
need to make sure each of the webinars
are done and basically I've done most of
the work up front and I could focus on a
huge part of launching such a course
which is customer service so I have like
one person helping me on some of the you
know common questions that I may get via
email but essentially I don't have
anyone on staff I don't have a VA like a
general VA that does like my email for
me so any questions that people send in
via chat any questions that people have
that they send in just to my email
account like I see all of those and then
inevitably there's always some people
that have some issues with checking out
or maybe they they purchased they
purchased the course and then they
decide hey it's not for them so I have
to like process refunds so there's a lot
of work around that and I've been talked
about this either but
I was just thinking about it as I'm
chatting here so there are some people
that will try to negotiate with me and
when I first launched the course I mean
I'm a nice guy trying to work with
people right so if people were like hey
I can't afford it I really want to take
the course I've been following you for a
long time blah blah blah and I have like
some you know story I'll like humor the
story like I'll listen to him for a
minute and see what they have to say
what happened was basically every single
person that I ever gave an exception or
worked with them they either refunded
their money or they actually like filed
a claim against me and PayPal which is
bad for me right so if you file a claim
against someone it's like a negative
case against you and I've only had you
know a few of those but basically it's
like a really kind of a jerk move to do
so anytime that I gave someone an a
exception or I tried to work with them
specifically they ended up screwing me
over so I don't negotiate at all if you
miss the deadline if you want to sign up
the next day you can't I say no you
can't do it and I you know I think I got
some inspiration from were meet safety
over at I will teach you to be rich and
basically you know he had the same
experience so I heard him say that but I
didn't listen to it until I went through
a few launches where people screwed me
over and then I was like hey you know
what like it was literally like a
hundred percent of the time if I gave
someone an exception they found a way to
make it bad on the in fact in a recent
situation someone they signed up for the
cheapest level of the course and then
they were a customer service nightmare
they sent multiple emails per week and
and then after the refund period I have
a lenient refund period 60 days is
basically no questions asked things
happen
understand you got a problem it's cool
so he went through did all the material
and then filed the charge back with me
hon Pay Pal and he took advantage of the
policy which is it's not built for
someone to take the full course and then
ask for a refund so kind of a jerk move
overall and I won't ever let him buy any
one of my products again I mean frankly
have I don't I want to help people right
but I don't want to be taken advantage
of at the same time so okay cool I see a
couple a couple comments you know
Adrienne mentions it's not nice and then
you seen says jerks we'll learn the most
from your course and then ask for a
refund and then sell the information to
their audience yeah that's kind of I
mean that's kind of the situation in a
lot of ways so all right cool I'm going
to end it up here hopefully you got
something out of the behind the scenes
here and like I said I did forget to
publish something at 10 a.m. today so I
just published it a few minutes ago
head over to that video we talked about
content for niche sites so anyway we'll
see you next time and hey you know I
don't think tomorrow is supposed to be a
scheduled live session at 10:00 a.m.
mountain time so check it out then I
don't know what I'm going to talk about
but I'll figure something out
alright see ya thanks for joining up

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