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December 10, 2021December 14, 2021

If you love to-do lists…

Hey Mama, is this you?

You find excel spreadsheets sexy.

You can organize a mess like nobody’s business.

Crossing off tasks in a timely and organized fashion is your love language.

If any of these statements gets you hot and bothered, let me introduce you to my friend Ashley Weigl.

Ashley is an Online Business Manager who joined the Free Mama community just over one year ago.

Today, she’s got a booked-out agency and even gave her husband a job!

So how’d she do it?

Well, she leveraged her natural type A abilities, applied them to online project management software tools, declared a niche, and literally blew up her business!

Project management is an integral part of running a successful business, and a lot of visionary entrepreneurs do not share your gifts for staying on track and getting things done.

Having a business without having project management tools (and team members to manage them) is like steering a ship with a blindfold.

And I say this because I know.

I am a naturally organized person, but I’m also pulled in a million directions every day.

There are people out there, possibly you included, whose absolute jam is making sure the business stays on track.

Ashley is one of these people. And she has leveraged it to make herself lots of money.

That’s why I asked her to join me to help you do the same thing.

On Monday, December 13, Ashley is joining me for “How to Set Up Your Client’s Project Management System to Scale for Success” as part of the Riches in the Niches workshop series.

Here’s what you can expect to learn:

-A tutorial on how to set up Clickup from scratch
-An in-depth overview on how to use Clickup to scale and grow your team
-Top tips and shortcuts
-A live Q&A Session

And in addition to all of that, she’s gifting you these valuable bonuses:

-Client tracker template
-Onboarding New Team Members template
-Standard Operating Procedure
-Delegation exercise

Project management is not for everyone.

But if it IS your jam, get your ticket to this workshop (replay included with the $30 price of admission), and start profiting from your skills!

See you there!

December 9, 2021December 9, 2021

86: House in Chaos? Grab a Cookie with Productivity Coach Heather Grecco

Is your house in a state of chaos?

This week’s Free Mama Radio guest, Heather Grecco, has built her business on the fact that it probably is.

Heather’s jam is helping you find the control in the chaos… and then treating yourself to a cookie.

Make sure you tune into the whole episode so you don’t miss our conversation about motherhood, authenticity, and the things we can and can’t control.

In Today’s Episode We Discuss:

Setting boundaries with your family to work on your business
Maintaining and controlling the chaos
Offering support vs. opinions

Following the crumbs in the chaos is a full-time job as a Productivity Coach. As a busy mom of three and the founder of Chaos N’ Cookies, keeping moms from crumbling is Heather Grecco’s main objective.

After gaining 10+ years of experience as a Director of Marketing helping build multiple 6 & 7-figure businesses for other women, she has created the Chaos Control System to equip moms to overcome their own objections so they can live the life they want to live and start the business they have always wanted.

The Family Playbook, or standard operating procedure, is the tool every mama needs to save time and stress-less when chaos ensues at home.

For the new business owners, she also helps simplify systems on social media and other platforms to automate processes to get their business up and running quickly and efficiently with how-to tutorials and hands-on coaching.

She has helped hundreds of women to be more productive and self-sufficient in their homes and businesses allowing them to reclaim control of the chaos.

Have you checked out my FREE training?! Would you like the freedom to work from home and spend more time with your family? In this training, you will learn how I became a highly paid virtual administrative consultant in just a few hours a day…. and how you can too! CLICK HERE for instant access.

Resources Mentioned:

Chaos Control System/Family Playbook

Instagram Bootcamp

Heather’s Instagram

Chaos n’ Cookies Facebook Page

The Free Training

Join The Free Mama Squad

Join The Free Mama Movement Facebook Group

** This post may contain affiliate links which means I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you if you use one of the links to purchase. This helps keep the podcast going and I only share products I have used, tested, and love.”

How We Can Connect:

Subscribe to the Podcast

Follow Me on Instagram

Join The Free Mama Movement on Facebook

Subscribe & Review on Apple Podcasts

Are you subscribed to my podcast? If you’re not, I want to encourage you to do that today, so you don’t miss any future episodes! I already have so many amazing guests and topics lined up, I would hate for you to miss a single one! Click here to subscribe on Apple Podcasts

Could I ask a big favor? If you love listening to this podcast, please leave me a review on Apple Podcasts. I read each and every review. Plus, you get to pay it forward because it will allow other mamas like you to find the podcast! Wondering how to leave a review? Click here to review, then select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review”. So easy and so appreciated!

Other Episode You’ll Enjoy

Redefining Yourself with Monica Froese

What Is The Most Common Niche as a VA?

Never Let Your Clients Down

3 Things You May Have Missed If You Skipped Freelance to Freedom This Weekend

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December 7, 2021December 7, 2021

Do you know who to turn to in a pinch?

What a comforting feeling, knowing exactly who to call when you need help.

Back in October, I experienced this firsthand.

I got really sick right before Freelance to Freedom Weekend. We had been planning for months, and I wanted to push through it so badly, but my body just wasn’t having it.

Unfortunately, there was literally only one weekend on the calendar that I could move the event to, but it meant that two of my essential team members would be out of town and unable to assist.

The only way I could host a successful event for hundreds of aspiring freelancers was with help.

Without even skipping a beat, I was on Voxer (a super cool walkie-talkie app used by a lot of virtual business owners) with my student Amanda Engler.

If she was available that weekend, I could make the announcement the event was being postponed with confidence.

Why? Because Amanda is darn good at virtual event planning and even without working on the event prep, I knew she could step in and do her thing so that I could do mine.

(In case you’re wondering, she was available, my body healed, my team members went on vacation, and Amanda saved the day and the event was a massive success.)

Now Amanda is pretty well known in the digital space for her event savvy, but guess what? She actually started out her Free Mama story as a Virtual Assistant.

It wasn’t until she niched down and discovered that she could use her years of hospitality experience to her advantage that she became a well-known name.

And just in time, because virtual events have become a multiple-industry phenomenon thanks to the global pandemic.

The good news for Amanda (and me, and possibly you) is that they’re here to stay! Online events are an incredible way to reach way more people, on a smaller budget, and earn a bigger return.

A big return means entrepreneurs are willing to invest to have their events done right, which is why I reached out to Amanda again and asked if she’d be willing to teach you how she does it!

Amanda is hosting “How to Quickly Niche Down into Virtual Events with the 3-Day Live Virtual Event Model” on Friday, December 10 at 12pm CT.

Here’s what is in store for her 90-minute session:

-An overview of the 3 day live virtual event model including:
-What a typical 3 day live virtual event agenda looks like
-Resources needed (tech & platforms)
-Example pricing strategies (ticket pricing)
-A deep dive into PLANS Method so you know what to focus on when (3-month timeline)

Plus, you’ll also get these helpful resources:

-Engagement Resource Guide (so attendees keep showing up each day!)
-Platform Resource Guide (gives you exactly what you need to know without having to learn a million different platforms)
-Day Of Event Checklist (so you can show up ready without the fear of any balls being dropped!)

If you are the mom who loves planning the perfect birthday party, the wedding guest that notices all of the little details, or the host who takes joy in the organization and planning that goes into events, this workshop is for you.

Did I mention that all of the details on this profitable niche is available to you for just $30?

And that includes the replay!

Get your ticket for the virtual event planner workshop, now!

See you there!

December 7, 2021February 15, 2022

Free Mama Movement Graduates (Best of Free Mama TV)

What better way is there to learn about a course than through the people who have taken it?

On this week’s Free Mama TV, we are taking a trip back to just a few testimonials from our past Free Mama Movement graduates!

Make sure you watch this video to hear some success stories from some amazing Free Mamas who have started and run their own businesses from home!

P.S. Wondering how to set your virtual assistant rates? Watch last week’s Best of the Best to get a head start!

And don’t forget to subscribe to Free Mama TV so you’re alerted each and every time a new episode drops!

December 6, 2021December 6, 2021

Social media managers: it doesn’t have to be this way

When I first started my freelancing business, I was providing social media management to small business owners.

Being a SMM back in 2014 looked quite a bit different than it does today…

I didn’t have to worry about trending sounds or ideal hashtag counts. There wasn’t TikTok or reels, and businesses certainly weren’t using DMs to nurture and sell.

The truth is, being a social media manager today can be stressful stuff.

In a landscape that is always changing, how do you keep up with all of the latest trends and platforms without being on your phone 24/7? And how do you figure out how to charge your clients when there are no real clear hours with social media work?

I’m always being asked if it’s worth it to take social media courses, and my answer is usually “no”, because they almost always teach tactics, which have an incredibly short lifespan (and can usually be modeled or learned just as quickly on YouTube).

What social media managers today need is a strategy that creates leverage, keeps you off your phone all day, and allows you to charge premium pricing.

This is exactly what you’ll learn in Ellyse Colson’s upcoming workshop “How to Quickly Repurpose Content to Increase Your Client’s Digital Footprint.”

She will share with you how to get your client’s amazing results by giving their content a longer digital shelf-life, without you feeling like you’re constantly working and chasing after the latest trends.

Here’s what else you’ll get in her workshop on December 8th at 10am CST:

-An overview of the Dos and Don’ts of content repurposing
-A live walk through of my 3-step content repurposing framework
-Tips for exactly how to position yourself to potential clients looking for help with content online

Plus, she’s also sharing with you her:

-Networking Blueprint (Vault of trainings)
-9 questions to ask during a strategy session
-Training on how to build a portfolio without any clients

Sounds like something that should cost hundreds of dollars, no?

Well, Mama, right now it’s just $30.

You read that right, $30!

I am so excited for all the value and knowledge Ellyse will be bringing to this live, interactive workshop, giving you some peace (and a revenue boost!) as a social media manager.

When you grab your ticket now you’ll also get the replays which will be available for you to view over and over again!

Can’t wait to see you there!

December 2, 2021December 2, 2021

Want to get paid (A LOT) to write emails?

What would you say if I told you there are clients willing to pay top dollar for you to write emails?

And what if I had a friend who could teach you everything you need to know to get those clients to pay YOU top dollar to write emails?

You’ve probably heard me say once or twice that the first freelancer I hired at the Free Mama Movement was a copywriter.

Do you know WHAT I hired her to write?

Email.

Specifically, an email sequence, which is just a fancy name for a bunch of email messages we automatically send someone when they sign up for a training or download a free handout.

So, for example, if you signed up to watch my free training on the Freedom Framework, you got a series of emails afterwards, inviting you to enroll in The Free Mama Movement.

Anyway, I hired a copywriter to write those emails for me.

I paid her $1200, because she was still kind of new at writing email sequences.

Let me repeat that. I paid her $1200 for something she was kind of new at.

In other words, people pay A LOT for email sequences.

In fact, today, that same copywriter — my friend Abbi Perets — teaches her students to charge AT LEAST $750 for their VERY FIRST email sequence. Most of her students quickly get to the point where they’re charging $2000 or more. (And some of them charge a lot more than that.)

So, I asked Abbi if we could help YOU get in on this goodness.

And she put together a 90 minute training to show YOU how to get paid $2000 OR MORE to write premium email sequences for clients.

You can join us and get:

-A live overview of what email sequences are, and why ALL of your clients need them
-A live, step-by-step walkthrough of a welcome email sequence you can IMMEDIATELY use and sell to clients
-A live Q&A with Abbi — ask ALL your questions and get DETAILED answers on the spot

It’s on December 6 at 10 am Central.

Yes, there’s a replay, and we’ll even send you the slides so you don’t miss a thing.

PLUS, you’ll ALSO get:

-A detailed workbook you can use to map out welcome sequences for your own clients
-A copy of a welcome email sequence you can adapt and use for your own clients
-Abbi’s discovery call script so that you know EXACTLY how to pitch this premium service to your clients

Basically, at the end of this 90-minute workshop, you’ll have what you need to go out and get work.

And it’s just $30.

Which is INSANE.

So, what do you say? Are you ready to invest $30 and 90 minutes to learn a $2000 skill?

Just click here to sign up.

December 2, 2021December 2, 2021

85: Redefining Yourself with Monica Froese

Why fight for a seat at someone else’s table when you can build your own?

On this week’s episode of Free Mama Radio, I have an amazing conversation with Redefining Mom’s Monica Froese, where she shares her journey and how important it is to her to always be reinventing herself and evolving her company.

Monica shares some incredible insights from her time working in a Fortune 100 company, her battle with postpartum PTSD, and a conversation with a former president.

Make sure you tune into the whole episode so you don’t miss a thing!

In Today’s Episode We Discuss:

Postpartum PTSD and returning to the corporate world
The inspiration behind Redefining Mom
Monica’s invitation to the White House

Monica is a digital product coach for women business owners and host of the popular podcast, Empowered Business.

She has an MBA degree in finance and marketing and runs two brands Redefining Mom, a site for helping women thrive in both motherhood and business, and Empowered Business, where she’s committed to empowering 1000 women to earn $100,000 through digital products.

She spent 11 years working for a Fortune 100 company running multi-million dollar marketing campaigns with large brands like Microsoft and HP.

Now she provides online marketing education to small businesses that are looking to build a profitable revenue stream through digital products through her online courses and podcast.

Monica and I were able to cover so much about motherhood and starting your own business in this episode that although it may be a little bit longer, the time flew by! We hope you enjoy it!

Resources Mentioned:

Monica’s Free Live Training

Monica’s Website

Empowered Business Podcast

Monica’s Instagram

Monica’s Facebook Page

The Free Training

Join The Free Mama Squad

Join The Free Mama Movement Facebook Group

How We Can Connect:

Subscribe to the Podcast

Follow Me on Instagram

Join The Free Mama Movement on Facebook

Subscribe & Review on Apple Podcasts

Other Episode You’ll Enjoy

What Is The Most Common Niche as a VA?

Never Let Your Clients Down

3 Things You May Have Missed If You Skipped Freelance to Freedom This Weekend

How to Start a Profitable Bookkeeping Business with Noemi Aguilar-Horta

November 30, 2021February 15, 2022

Virtual Assistant Rates (FMTV THE BEST OF THE BEST)

So, you’re getting started in your virtual assistant business?

Perfect! I have all of the tips on how to price services as a virtual assistant!

In this virtual assistant training, you are going to get a clear vision of how to set up your virtual assistant pricing structure so you can set your virtual assistant rates.

You’ll also be prepared when the time comes for raising your prices as a virtual assistant!

P.S. Wondering how to do start a business that will stand out? Watch last week’s Best of the Best to get a head start!

And don’t forget to subscribe to Free Mama TV so you’re alerted each and every time a new episode drops!

November 26, 2021December 2, 2021

Monetize your skillset with this Sweet Deal

You have mad skills, Mama.

No, for real. You actually do. And it’s time you started to use them to make you money!

The “Riches in the Niches” workshop series is designed to help you do just that.

I’m partnering with 6 experts who are going to deliver deep-dive workshops into highly sought-after specialties including podcast management, sales copywriting, youtube strategy, virtual events, project management, and content strategy.

All of them started where you are now, and they have exploded their businesses by niching down to make the most of the skills they already had.

So why can’t you do the same? The answer is, you can… AND you should.

Going forward, the market is demanding results from service professionals.

That means if you want to succeed in 2022, you’ve got to stop trying to be a Jill of All Trades and start hyper-focusing on becoming absolutely amazing at one specific niche.

Our awesome hosts are going to show you exactly what to doin each of their 90-minute power-packed workshops.

These aren’t webinars where they just show you the what and not the how… our experts are going to give you their step-by-step frameworks AND answer your questions live!

And guess what, each workshop is only $30!

Grab your ticket now so you don’t miss out on this amazing deal!

November 25, 2021November 23, 2021

84: What Is The Most Common Niche as a VA?

I always say, if you have a laptop you can most likely become a Virtual Assistant.

But once you declare you are a VA, you have to pick a specialty, which is where a lot of Free Mamas struggle.

On this week’s episode of Free Mama Radio, I am breaking down the different niches you can have as a VA, the most popular ones right now, and the importance of having a specialty.

Tune in to the whole episode because I reveal how you can start making up to 10x what you’re currently charging by finding and utilizing your niche!

In Today’s Episode We Discuss:

Lauren shares an embarassing story
Going over the most commin niches in the virtual assistant industry
Announcement for Black Friday Sale!

It can be a bit overwhelming, trying to find your own niche, but it is incredibly important that you do.

Finding your niche and becoming an expert at it is what will make you well-known, and indispensable in your field!

In order to find your niche, you need to decide what bucket you’ll be in as a Virtual Assistant. I have broken it down to 7 different types: Administrative, Design, Social Media Management, Tech, Writing, Marketing, and Organization/Systems.

Within these fields is where you will be able to find your specialty.

A niche isn’t just “copywriting” it’s “writing email sequences for ActiveCampaign” it’s not just “Management” it’s “project manager specializing in Asana”. These are just examples, but you get the point.

Here’s a hint, just because it’s popular, like how Virtual Event Planning may be a popular niche right now, does not mean it’s for you. If you enjoy something, you are more likely to be good at it. Leverage what comes naturally to you.

There are opportunities in all of these buckets! You just have to choose what’s right for YOU!

And if you are struggling with finding your niche, The Free Mama has teamed up with 6 amazing experts for the Riches in the Niches Workshop Series! This workshop series is designed to help you find your specialty and have you put in the work so you are prepared to start charging up to 10X what you are currently charging! And until November 29, it’s 50% off with code SAVE50WORKSHOP.