Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan - #223: Increase Sales & GROW Your Business FAST With Stacy Tuschl CEO & Founder Of The Foot Traffic Formula
Episode Date: June 7, 2022In This Episode You Will Learn About: Gaining more profit AND more happiness Thriving through trial and error Turning leads into SALES Learning from your competition Resources: Websit...e: stacytuschl.com & welloiledoperations.com Listen to Foot Traffic Podcast Read: The Implementation Code: Unlock the Secret To Getting It All Done Sign up for 5 Day Traffic Bootcamp Text COMMUNITY to (414) 240-1379 to join! LinkedIn & Facebook & Youtube: @Stacy Tuschl Instagram: @stacytuschl Twitter: @stacytuschl Overcome Your Villains is Available NOW! Order here: https://overcomeyourvillains.com If you haven't yet, get my first book Confidence Creator Show Notes: The key to any successful business is finding what the market is MISSING, and filling that need! Expert business growth coach, Stacy Tuschl is here to teach you how to work sales funnels, observe business trends, and make the BEST move for your business! Lean into what is working, and be willing to change things up that aren’t. The end goal is to convert visibility on your website or social media platforms into leads and eventually into SALES! You CAN gain new customers while keeping the existing ones engaged and happy. Tune in to discover the BEST ways to drive business up and diversify your existing strategies! About The Guest: Stacy Tuschl has made a name for herself as an expert in growing small businesses. Starting off at the age of 18, she began her very first company right out of her parents backyard, where she later went on to turn it into a multimillion dollar business! In addition to being a small business growth coach, Stacy is a best selling author, and Founder of The Foot Traffic Formula, which helps small businesses around the world get MORE customers in the door. This woman is on fire! If You Liked This Episode You Might Also Like These Episodes: How To Ask For Something The RIGHT Way with Heather! Finding Your Harmony with Ally Brooke Investing in Yourself & Others with Kerry Siggins
Transcript
Discussion (0)
go where it's saturated and look at what's out there and then find out what's missing.
I just did some market research and I went to a lot of people that I know that went to my
competitors before I was ever around.
They didn't know me.
And I said, what did you love about them?
And why didn't you stay with them?
Because a lot of people go and then they don't stay.
I start writing down all the things my competitors are missing versus all the things
they have.
Because a lot of us look at our competitors and go, oh, they have this.
I'm going to have that.
But that's not helping.
So you want to have what they have, but you want to go above and beyond.
and different angles.
I'm on this journey with me.
Each week when you join me,
we are going to chase down our goals.
Overcome adversity and set you up for a better tomorrow.
I'm ready for my close-up.
Hi, and welcome back.
I'm so excited for you to meet Stacey Tushel.
She's made a name for herself as an expert in growing small businesses.
Let's put it this way.
She started her own business at the age of 18 in her parents' backyard,
turn that company into a multi-million.
dollar business. She still runs it today. In addition to being a small business growth coach,
Stacey is a best-selling author, founder of the foot traffic formula, helping small businesses around
the world get more customers in the door, more profit in their pocket, and more happiness in their
homes. I mean, she's the 2019 Wisconsin small business person of the year. This woman is on fire.
She's featured in Inc. Magazine as one of the top 10 podcasts for moms looking to grow a thriving
business. She's been featured in Forbes, Fox, Huffington Post. The list goes on and on. Stacey.
Thanks so much for being here today. Hi, Heather. Thanks for having me. Oh my gosh. All right. So let's get to it. It's interesting. As you know,
my backgrounds in corporate America and running large companies. Now I run my own small. And here's what's funny or what I, a question to you, I guess. There's so much that I take from corporate America and I, it's business acumen, right? And I apply it to my business life every day. However, some of the challenges for those of us that are solo entrepreneurs is this idea of trying to,
and error and not having the ability to forecast out like we used to in a business built
out that we had 20 years in and I knew the cadence and I knew the pipelines, right? So when I talk
about conversions now and sales funnels, this stuff is like live and die type conversation versus
you know, when it was so predictable before, throw in a global pandemic to completely upset
business deal flow. And here I am, not only having you on because I want everyone here who's
listening to gain value, but I need your help. I need to find ways, Stacey, how can I improve my sales
funnel? How can I improve my conversion rates? Yeah. Oh, so good. And just so you know,
my opposite background is zero corporate, like started a business right out of high school. So I love
when I talk to corporate people because there's things you know that I'm like, teach me, teach me everything.
Like, I'm just winging stuff over here. And you really have to get good at using your past data. But
you've got to use the most recent history. When you have corporate, you can go back however many
years and go forward and it's just like plug it in. Oh, here's what's going to happen.
Not here. And when people are talking about funnels from a year ago or launches from a year ago,
I need to say to my clients, I don't care about any of that stuff. Because if you haven't
launched something in six months or you have just started running Facebook ads, now it is a whole
different ballgame. So I think you have to really ask yourself, like I think there's a couple
things, but you've got to get really good at finding, like, what is that new wave and not just
riding one wave at a time, because anything, like you said, can all of us and stop.
If you're relying on Facebook ads or you're relying on one funnel or one product and all of
a sudden something shifts, your business is just gone overnight and you're trying to figure out
what to do next. So I think the biggest thing is when I teach people how to work their sales funnel,
how to track all of that, it really is just as simple as you're not really predicting as much
as you're seeing what happens, and then you're using that data to start to predict and scale and grow.
Does that make sense?
It seems more like you're living in that moment and allowing that moment to help project that.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm setting goals of what I want to happen and what I want to see, but I'm kind of just guessing.
Like, people will say, well, what number should I put out there?
I'm like, honestly, you throw whatever number you want out there, but you better start to take
the actions that you think you're going to be able to do to create that success.
And once you actually get the real data, the conversion rates, the open rates, the click-through rates,
now we've got something to say, okay, well, I want that better.
If I want more results, what does my pipeline look like?
And where is the problem, right?
I had somebody a client that was working with, and she had this whole funnel set up.
And she was like fixing email number seven.
I'm like, listen, they're not even getting to email number seven, right?
We've got to start at the beginning.
Go in order.
Fix like the first thing they see.
and that's probably what we call like driving traffic, getting that visibility.
Is your visibility converting into leads?
Are your leads actually can, like, are they becoming consults?
Are they becoming that next person to raise their hand?
And from there, are they converting into sales?
Look at what's happening and figure out where your funnel is broken, right?
And even if you've got a great converting funnel, there's still places that could be
massively improved and we've got to get good at refining.
But if you're anything like me, we don't want to be doing the boring.
refining stuff, we're like, create this new and new product over here, a new platform and new,
new, new. And you've got to get good at the boring stuff of just the little tweak here and the little
tweak there and how do we get them to open more and click more and all of the things.
So when you're working with these companies, you know, no matter what size they are,
what are some of the biggest challenges people have that you have a pretty straightforward fix for?
Yeah. So for me in my foot traffic formula, it's driving traffic, getting that touch point,
which are leads in a transaction, but the secret sauce is tracking.
So you really have to track your traffic.
You have to track your touch points, track your transactions, right?
So the data determines what you do next.
You've got to get the drama out of it.
A lot of people, we've got big goals.
We think this thing's going to blow us up.
And then it doesn't, right?
Or at least not right away.
And we're like, well, only two people bought.
But when I look at the data and I look at, well, what is the percent?
What is the conversion rate, right?
And I try to give people benchmarks, not to say, try to hit it, but just to say, you're in the pretty normal range, right?
So when you're not happy, like people will say to me, it's not working.
I'm like, we'll give me numbers.
Like, give me, don't tell me it is not working.
Tell me what the conversions are, right?
So we start to see, well, this was their opt-in rate.
And it was 32%, which is not bad for a free opt-in, let's say.
And then the next page had something for sale.
And they converted at 2.5%.
Like, well, the standard is two to five percent. And if you convert it at 2.5, you're in there.
So it's not that you have a broken funnel. It's just you want more, which means we've got to fill the top of the funnel, right?
And sometimes people just don't have the traffic to even see, do you have enough data to decide if this is good or not, right?
If you started running ads yesterday and you're not happy with what the funnel's doing, we don't even have enough information, most likely, to see if enough people,
even sought to get us the conversion what we're looking for. So in the day and age we're living in,
what are you seeing as some of the best ways to drive that top of funnel? So I think back when,
you know, like even a year ago, it was all about the freebie. And then it was all about the low ticket
offer, right? I honestly think both still work, but it has to be valuable and it has to really
stand out. So I'm friends with a lot of people in the online space. And I know who's doing well and
who's not doing well. And I will tell you, the people that are giving something tangible,
right, they are walking away with something versus like just pitching digital and online courses
and all the things, right? It's like, how can you give a system or a template or something
they're actually going to want? So one of the big things that I do, and if you go stock my Instagram,
you'll see this, but I do reels. And in my reels, I'm just talking. I'm not dancing or do anything
crazy. I just talk. I give an objection or I give something that I hook them with something, right?
And it could be something silly. I'm just going to make this up. But it could be something silly about
like, you're losing money if you don't have an EA. It's like attention CEO. You're losing
money if you don't have an EA. So I've hooked you and being like, wait, I don't have an EA.
I want to listen to this. Right. So now you start listening. And I'm like, listen, every CEO needs an
EA. Here is why. And I give you value where you are thinking, okay, I need to hire an EA.
and then maybe at the end of it, I say, and if you want my EA job description, completely free,
just comment below the word EA, and I'll send it to you.
This is blowing out my business, because here's the deal.
It's not some stupid freebie that you're never going to do anything with.
You're actually thinking, she just convinced me I need an EA.
And now she's going to give me her job description for free.
So what do you do?
You come an EA.
And we just did one of these posts on Monday, and today's Tuesday, as we're recording this.
And we had 100 posts like that morning, 100 comments from that one post.
It wasn't the EA one, but something else.
And we have all these people literally raising their hand of like, I want that thing.
But we only talk about the things that we can go even deeper with and help you on.
Right.
So now you've raised your hand.
I'm passing you over the template you asked for.
And now I can go like, so do you have any year?
You're trying to make it better.
You're trying to hire somebody new.
Like, fill me in.
And I can now start conversations in DMs.
So how do you serve where people actually want it?
Like nobody wants a boring freebie that is not helpful.
But what they do want is something that's going to get them results, get them fast-tracked, right?
And I think that's how you can create a better experience, at least in today's market.
Well, for those of you who don't know what an EA is and it's an executive assistant, so just in case anybody didn't know what that was.
When you want more, start your business with Northwest registered agent and get access to thousands of free guys.
guides, tools, and legal forms to help you launch and protect your business. All in one place.
Build your complete business identity with Northwest today. Northwest registered agents has been
helping small business owners and entrepreneurs launch and grow businesses for nearly 30 years.
They are the largest registered agent and LLC service in the U.S. with over 1,500 corporate
guides, real people who know your local laws and can help you in your business every step of the way.
Build your business identity fast with Northwest registered agent and get access to thousands of free resources, forms, and step-by-step guides without even creating an account.
Sign up for a free account to begin managing your business hub with lawyer-drafted operating agreements, bylaws, resolutions, membership certificates, bills a sale, and more, all at no cost.
Northwest is your one-stop business resource.
Learn how to build a professional website, what annual filings your business needs to stay in good standing, and simple explanations of comprehensive.
complicated business laws. With Northwest privacy is automatic. They never sell your data and all services
are handled in-house because privacy by default is their pledge to all customers. Don't wait,
protect your privacy, build your brand, and get your complete business identity in just 10 clicks and 10
minutes. Visit Northwest Registeredagent.com slash confidence free and start building something amazing.
Get more with Northwest Registered Agent at www. northwestregisteredagent.com
slash confidence-free.
If your anxiety, depression, or ADHD are more than a rough patch, you don't need just another meditation app.
Takayatry makes it easy to see a psychiatrist online using your insurance in days.
Takayatry is 100% online psychiatry practice that provides comprehensive evaluations,
diagnoses and ongoing medication management for conditions like ADHD, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder,
OCD, PTSD, insomnia, and more. Unlike therapy-only apps, psychiatry is psychiatry. That means
you're seeing a medical provider who can diagnose mental health conditions and prescribe medication
when it's appropriate. All their 600-plus clinicians are in network with major insurers
so you can use your existing insurance instead of paying monthly subscriptions or out of network fees.
You'll meet with an experienced licensed psychiatrist who takes the time to understand what's going on,
builds a personalized treatment plan, and can prescribe medication when it's right for you.
Your care stays consistent and evidence-based.
Head to tachiatry.com slash confidence and complete the short assessment to get matched with an in-network psychiatrist in just a few minutes.
That's talkiety.com
slash confidence to get matched in minutes.
Starting the year with a wardrobe refresh,
Quince has you covered with luxe essentials that feel effortless and look polished.
They're perfect for layering, mixing, and building a wardrobe that lasts.
Their versatile styles make it easy to reach for them day after day.
Quince has all the staples covered,
from soft Mongolian cashmere sweaters that feel like designer pieces without the markup
to 100% silk tops and skirts for easy dressing up to perfectly cut denim for everyday wear.
Their wardrobe essentials are crafted to last season after season.
Their Italian wool coats are real standouts.
They're beautifully tailored, soft to the touch, and built to carry you through years of wear.
Not just one season.
The quality shows in every detail, the stitching, the fit, the fabrics.
Every piece is thoughtfully designed to be your new wardrobe essential.
And like everything from Quince, each piece is made from.
premium materials and ethical trusted factories that are priced far below what other luxury brands charge.
I can't tell you how much I am loving my new cashmere sweater. It's a stable for sure, and I can't wait
to give one to my best friend for her birthday this year. It is timeless, gorgeous, and the softest
thing I've ever touched. Which quince pieces are you interested in? I mean, from the bags to the denim,
to the sweaters, to the jackets, they're all incredible luxury high-end products.
without the high end price.
Refresh your wardrobe with Quince.
Don't wait.
Go to quince.com slash confidence for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns.
Now available in Canada, too.
That's Q-U-I-N-C-E.com slash confidence to get free shipping and 365-day returns.
Quince.com slash confidence.
When I'm hearing you describe that, it's reminding me of a strategy that I have been developing
over the last year to drive downloads for my podcast.
And so we've done a ton of different things on LinkedIn
where I have the largest, most engaged following.
And so we did this DM strategy where my team was, you know,
in the background testing and trying different copy
that they would reach out around, some around,
oh, we saw that you like Heather's posts if you want to hear her talk about this topic,
click on the link and, you know, she'll speak to you about it.
And it's a podcast, right?
That one didn't do that well.
Then we tried, oh, saw that you like Sarah Blakely's post
because, you know, they commented on it or whatever.
And thought you might want to see this amazing interview she did with Heather Monaghan.
There's some great takeaways.
That one is the highest convert.
Wow.
Insane, Stacey.
Why did that work versus all these other ones?
I have no idea.
But the only thing I do know for sure is that you have to constantly be testing and trying,
even if it sounds like it's a crazy idea.
I don't know.
I just have to test and try.
And like you said, look back at that data to steer us to make better decisions.
And what's really weird is we're testing these and then we're picking our winners and we're running them as a Facebook ad, like a real ad, right? And the ones that are winning organically are not winning on Facebook. So we'll have different winners organically than we do with paid traffic. So you've just got, you cannot just assume, oh, like, oh, we should run that as an ad with Sarah Blakely. You can try and then you have to test it and see if it actually does well. Because just because you split test it over here on one platform does not mean that's the thing that's going to work on the other platform or in paid versus organic.
So that's why I say like tracking is the secret sauce. It is everything you need to be doing on a daily basis.
And so what are your thoughts on paid versus organic growth for anyone in business?
Yeah. So right now, really, I mean, we are spending 80% of our time organically. And when we're doing it
organically, we are then looking at what are the winners coming from our organic traffic.
We then go to Facebook and Instagram and we are having a very, very small.
budget because we're doing mostly video views and getting people warmed up to us.
So I'm not spending, I mean, I used to spend tens of thousands of dollars a month on Facebook
ads. We do not do that anymore. It is just a different ballgame, which is great because
our expenses dropped drastically, right? So we're really just warming them up, getting people
to watch our videos. And then from there, we can do that same, you know, executive assistant
posting. And if people comment, all of a sudden not we're driving paid traffic to that post and can do
the same thing with DMs. That's so interesting. Tell me about Audit.
and what your thoughts are on that because I have gotten some terrible feedback from some of my
automation strategies I've implemented and then I have some that are working okay.
I am a big believer in automate anything you can.
But when it comes to clients and potential clients, right, sometimes it's just not as effective,
right?
You have to really weigh the pros and cons and you also have to test.
So do something manual, see what your results are, and then do it automated.
Maybe it doesn't convert as well, but the volume is there that the outcome that you're looking
for is higher than your manual, right? Are some people going to hate that it's automated? Yes,
but what you're looking for is that end result. Where were you able to serve at your highest level?
So I love automations. I'm all in. Somebody had said, why aren't you using, I mean, I'm using myself and
real people in my DMs. And people are like, well, just use many chat or just use the automations.
It's like, well, then it's not custom. And we have custom conversations in our DMs, right?
We're really helping people and coaching them. And you can only do so much.
with like many chat and places like that, right? So because I'm a big tracker and I can see my results,
I don't try to fix something that's not broken, right? I am leaning in to what is working for me at
this moment. And to me, it's that manual strategy. Will at some point it become a lot less
effective? I'm sure. Because as you know in this online world, you've got to ride waves as they're
happening. And then once everybody starts ruining the wave, you've got to fix something and go someplace out.
So we're just really trying to diversify and be smart about it.
Like when you say you love LinkedIn, I'm like, okay, I should be on LinkedIn more.
Like, why am I not doing that, right?
And I just know that little by little we've got to keep adding on.
So we're not just one platform with one product, with one strategy, because we just don't want to be that fragile.
Guys, for anyone listening right now, if you are not on LinkedIn, five years ago is the right time to get on.
Today is the only time.
Get on there today.
Stacey, this includes you.
It is the only algorithm.
But show up every day.
It's the only algorithm that you can grow organically so fast.
I coached this woman last year and she had no presence on LinkedIn at all.
She now has as engaged following as I do.
I think she has maybe 80,000 followers.
And I mean,
her engagement is off the charts and she does it all herself.
So it really does not take a lot of time.
If you want to grow quickly in a community where business is getting done
and people are talking about business, get on LinkedIn now. And LinkedIn also has a great feature.
If you're saying, oh, I don't want to go pay to, you know, use automation to test it,
one of the ways that you can do it for free on LinkedIn is, and I've done this before,
if I change my title, right, I do this strategically. Whenever I have a new product launch or
something, I change from author to, you know, whatever, I launched a candle line. So then I put,
you know, oh, co-creator of blah, blah, blah. Immediately a notice goes out to your entire
community saying, hey, Heather just changed her job. Do you want to say congrats to Heather? And so what
happens is a large percentage of people will go to your DMs to find out like, oh, what's this all
about, Heather? Or like, I want to have a conversation or I want to buy or whatever. You can set up,
there's a feature in LinkedIn that says set away message. And so you can go in there and set,
you know, for the next seven days, I want to put this notice out. Hey, I'm swamped right now with
the new candle business. If you'd like to order your own custom candle, here's an opportunity.
for you to do that with a 20% off coupon. No, this isn't me. This is automation because I am producing
candles for you. I'll get back to you soon. And now here you, you know, presented an opportunity for
a conversion without one of the cost to you. Okay. I'm obsessed. I love it. I will go stock your LinkedIn
when we're done. Okay. But all right, so to that point and with social media, it doesn't have to just be
LinkedIn. One of the things that I noticed in my business, the majority of my leads come from social media,
which then my goal is to try to convert them into my email list so that I can have some level.
of ownership, right? Is that the correct process, Stacey? Yeah, that's what, not that there's not more
than one right way to do it, but that is what we are doing as well. Okay. So that's my goal. Well,
I started looking at, oh, yeah, my numbers are growing and I get more shares and likes and followers
than anyone. Yay. Okay, but what does that mean to my bottom line? So I had to sit down with my social
media team and, you know, every month they're cheering. Oh, we're growing. We're growing. Great. But
here's what is important to me. I need to drive more revenue. I need better process.
aspects, better lead. I don't just want anybody anymore. I'd rather get less likes, less followers,
and get the right ones that might convert. So we've started, to your point, massive tracking on
everything. And for anyone who's ever had a post go viral, one of our new strategies we implemented
is on every viral post. Once it hits a couple hundred thousand likes, we go in and alter the post
because it's already being picked up on the algorithm. And we include a conversion link right in front
of everybody's eyes. Okay, I love that so much. And when you bring up about the social media,
it's not about likes and followers. One time we had like a record week and our Instagram following went
down. And I had to show the team, do you see that growing Instagram does not mean growing our bank
account? In fact, we shrunk for some reason last week, but we made more money than we've ever made
in a week, right? So we have KPIs key performance indicators for every role. And social media,
a lot of times people will have Instagram following, like the growth, right? The likes, the comments.
For us, what we're looking at is first engagement, right? I'm not looking at likes and followers,
but I'm looking at engagement because you do want people to engage with your content. I'm looking
for a number of comments under what we call our CTA posts. So when I do those reels and I say comment
the word this, those are leads, potential leads. So to me, I do count comments when they're literally
raising their hand to say, I want your thing. And then from there,
I look at how many of those people that raised their hand booked a console. Because once they book a
consult, it's out of social media's hands. Like, they have done everything they could to get to draw you,
draw you in and get you on your way to booking a console. But once they pass you off to other parts
of our team for sales, like that's where their KPI stop. So now that they're focused on how do I get
people on a call with one of our specialists? How do I, now it's like they're thinking a whole new way
of posting, engaging their calls to actions, all of it, because that's what they're getting measured on.
So your process looks like creating content to build some expertise, some credibility in a relationship,
call to action to find out who's interested in could be a potential lead,
and then converting that potential lead into a customer discovery call.
Yeah, so we're qualifying them in the DMs.
Not everybody gets offered a call because if they're just not the right fit,
like sometimes people raise their hand for the executive assistant,
and they're an executive assistant.
Like they just wanted to see it.
You know what I mean?
It's like, okay, do not let these people jump on it.
Because we're giving coaching and strategy and like, no, no, no, this is not a good fit.
So then we, they qualify them in the DMs to then decide who gets to jump on a call
with one of our team.
And then from there, our team over delivers gives value.
And people will not naturally say, so like what does it look like to work with you?
Or tell me more, right?
And now all of a sudden we're converting from what started as just like a simple post about
grab this if you want it.
Okay, that was a great piece that I miss qualify that prospect before you waste your time
getting on that cop.
Can you share one strategy to help increase existing client retention?
Existing client retention.
Ooh, I love client retention.
Okay.
So first, stop thinking of just like new people, more people, right?
Think about who you already are serving and what does that look like.
I think it's all about people not wanting to get more of the same thing.
People want new stuff.
Let's say somebody has a three-month program and you're like, buy it for three
more months. They're thinking, I already have it. It wasn't working, but let's be real. They didn't work it.
And then it didn't work. So that's what they're saying, right? Which you want to share with them is
what is coming on the other side. Like people feel FOMO. So you want them to understand what they're
going to unlock by retaining with you, by staying with you. If all you're doing is letting them
keep the same thing they already have, people at some point are like, no, thank you, right? Unless they
happen to be a rock star clients already getting results, right? So what can you do to let's
them know when you do this, you'll get this, right? So I like to even say phase one, phase two,
next level, right? Because when you hear phase one, you don't think, oh, I have everything.
You think I'm only in phase one. I wonder what's in phase two, right? So we even will sometimes
unlock alumni Facebook groups where you don't even get in to the Facebook group with certain
players in our community, right, until you've been in our programs for a certain amount of time.
So now you're in advanced level conversations.
You're not with the newbies that joined yesterday, right?
So any language around next level, next phase, that's going to be really helpful for them
to see how they can ascend versus just stay with you.
Oh, I love the phase one.
I have not used that, but I definitely am going to use that now, for sure.
Markets can be saturated.
Can you share with us a way to create or position ourselves as a best seller to stand out
in a crowd that's busy?
I actually heard Steve Larson say this, and I loved how he said it, because people always say, like, find a blue ocean. And he's like, no, I actually go to red oceans, but I become the blue ocean opportunity in the red ocean. I'm like, ugh, game changer, right? So he's saying, go where it's saturated and look at what's out there and then find out what's missing. I just did some market research. And I went to a lot of people that I know that went to my competitors before I was ever around. They didn't know me. And I said, what did you love about them? And why didn't you stay with them? Because a lot of people,
go and then they don't stay. And I started to hear, well, I really wish they had this or if they
would have had that, I probably would still be using it. I start writing down all the things my
competitors are missing versus all the things they have. Because a lot of us look at our
competitors and go, oh, they have this, I'm going to have that. But that's not helping somebody
who's maybe comparing you, right? So you want to have what they have, but you want to go above and
beyond and different angles. So I think that's probably the biggest thing is what is out there. We do
SWAT analysis on our competitors all the time. We're doing a team retreat next week. And one of the
activities is everybody's bringing their computer and they need to go find our competitors. Find a new
competitor we've never heard about because trust me, there's a million out there, right? So start
Googling certain phrases and then tell us what did you Google that popped him up or how did you
find this person and then go find reviews on them and find their Facebook group and what are people saying
and go see their testimonials. Like we need to use that information to see who are we up against. And how do we
become the blue ocean opportunity in this super saturated market. Will you break down for everyone
listening what a SWAT analysis is? Yes. So it's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
And the way that you look at that is strengths and weaknesses are internal. It's about me or the
company itself. Opportunities and threats are external. It's about what's around in the marketplace
competing for their attention. So you literally look, you do one on yourself.
and then you find a competitor and you say, what are their perceived strengths?
What are their perceived weaknesses?
And then, again, you do it for them as well.
Now, we're guessing we do it for them, right?
We can only use as much knowledge as we have.
But for us, we can be super honest and share, well, we're really fragile in this situation,
or we really don't have this set up, right?
Or we're maxing out on our capacity.
And, right, you can really get deep here and then figure out how to fix that.
Oh, my gosh.
We can talk forever, but unfortunately, you're the busiest woman in the entire United States.
I know I need to let you go.
So tell everybody, how do they find you?
Where do they get the podcast?
How can they work with you?
Okay.
So the podcast is foot traffic.
That's by far probably the best place to go.
We're dropping three episodes a week right now.
So it's loaded with content.
And then Instagram is my personal favorite place, not LinkedIn yet, but Instagram.
So if you go to at Stacey Tushel, you're going to find me there.
If you want to experience all of the stuff, go find out our reels.
Go check them out and see how that works and like what that process looks like.
if you want to be nosy and see, it is a game changer for us. I do have stuff on LinkedIn. I'm just not
personally like there, but I'm doing LinkedIn lives and all of that. So I do have content over there.
If anybody is a huge LinkedIn fan listening to you. And if people want your business coaching,
is that one-on-one coaching? Is that group coaching? And where do they find that information?
Yeah. So you could go to well-oiled operations.com. So that's basically what our signature method is and how we get
people to become a well-oiled machine. So well-oiled operations.com. And all the details are there.
Even if you go to Instagram, we are very called-to-action heavy. So if you ever want to work
with us, you're going to see it and find it and be able to direct you to the right place as well.
Okay. Start using call to actions and everything you're due. This hasty did not become successful
by accident. This is definitely strategic. Congratulations to you, Stacey. And thanks so much for being here.
Thanks, Heather. So fun chatting. All right. Until next week, keep creating your confidence.
