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WDA Live Strategy Call 12-06-2022

This Week's Questions

Chat

00:00:36 Deanna: Happy Tuesday!
00:00:58 Amy K Ogden: Hey everybody! Long time no see!
00:01:39 MoonSoar Services: Win: Another 5-figure month when we did our invoicing at the beginning of the month. Bigger Win: We actually made it to the call today.
00:02:09 Robin Smith: Nothing to do with Web Design, but everything to do with the confidence gained to put myself out there. I was interviewed on TV for 5 different news segments for my travel writing.
00:02:13 Trish Bovell: my win is making the call today
00:02:26 Sharon Blalock OBM: Completed Mod 7 of WDA
00:02:27 Lisa Doiron: Wow Robin, amazing!
00:02:35 MoonSoar Services: Robin! On TV! That’s awesome!
00:02:41 Leigh: I replaced the revenue that I lost when I fired my cringy client
00:02:41 Kim Brock: Awesome!
00:02:44 Deanna: I am proud to turn down an offer to replicate the Ferrari site for a pool manufacturer for $5000 🤪
00:02:45 Kim Brock: I am working ahead for 2023 and I have two retainer clients that will equal about half of my income goal to quit my day job!
00:02:46 LaShae Dorsey: Amazing Robin!!!
00:02:49 Sharon Blalock OBM: Yea Robin
00:02:58 Kate Newnham: Wow Robin!!
00:03:10 Sharon Blalock OBM: Way to go Leigh
00:03:16 Robin Smith: Thanks everyone! Is it OK to post a segment.
00:03:17 Leigh: Wow, congrats Robin
00:03:18 Amy K Ogden: I have so many!!! This is way I’ve been out of the loop. Sold 2 premium packages, 1 mid range package, 3 proposal set to go out and I had someone (a stranger! )Reach out to me because they saw a site I recently finished and they loved it so much they asked for my info from my client.
00:03:24 Janet Hoover: I’m here , had one discovery and other on Thurs then need to work on 2 Patricks 🤪
00:03:41 Amy K Ogden: WOW my heroine!
00:03:41 Kate Newnham: Yay Leigh!!
00:03:41 Janet Hoover: NIce, Amy!!!
00:03:58 Leigh: ‘
00:03:59 MoonSoar Services: Go Leigh!
00:04:34 Sharon Blalock OBM: Can I be Amy when I grow up?
00:05:21 Amy K Ogden: Sharon, I don’t even feel like myself yet…I kinda want to be me when I grow up too! Lol!
00:05:37 Sharon Blalock OBM: @Amy that is awesome!
00:06:27 Robin Smith: If anyone wants to see the one of the segments I was featured in. https://youtu.be/wkLOWw0-yDU
00:06:45 Amy K Ogden: Yay Kim!!!
00:06:49 Amy K Ogden: So close!
00:06:57 Robin Smith: Congrats Kim! That is awesome
00:07:17 Kim Brock: Thanks WDA fam!
00:07:46 Robin Smith: MoonSoar that is amazing! 5 figures! Way to go!
00:08:31 Aisha Beauford: So awesome, Amy!
00:09:02 Robin Smith: Amy…that is wonderful! Great testimony for the course.
00:09:24 Kate Newnham: I asked for additional money to do more work on a website that wasn’t part of the original scope and got it!! Again!!
00:09:28 Becky Swan: Congrats Amy!
00:09:37 Kate Newnham: This group ROCKS!
00:09:57 Leigh: Congrats Amy! That’s awesome
00:09:57 Amy K Ogden: Thanks everyone~!
00:10:11 Kaila – HeyKaila Media: Wahoo great work everyone!!
00:10:12 Robin Smith: Just one segment.
00:10:16 Amy K Ogden: @Kaila, I love how Shannon just used the terms Patrix. LOL!
00:10:18 Janet Hoover: Such good stuff!!
00:10:33 Amy K Ogden: Great job, Kate!
00:10:47 Kate Newnham: Omg the CHOIVE is key!!
00:10:49 Kate Newnham: Thank u!
00:11:09 Kate Newnham: lol giving them the choice
00:11:15 Kate Newnham: Sorry driving
00:11:32 Amy K Ogden: The choice, so true, is the key
00:11:43 Leigh: I thought Choive was the Boston pronunciation of the green onion
00:11:57 Erica Nash: It’s also that
00:12:29 Leigh: Lol
00:13:04 Kaila – HeyKaila Media: incorrect
00:13:12 Kate Newnham: Not true
00:13:30 Kate Newnham: Investment minded people don’t care
00:16:27 Amy K Ogden: I love that term, “putting together solutions”
00:17:42 Janet Hoover: Thank you!
00:19:57 Amy K Ogden: Sorry everyone, something just came up, I gotta run. Hope to see you all soon!!
00:20:08 Sharon Blalock OBM: Bye Amy
00:28:30 Sharon Blalock OBM: I have a client meeting, have to jump off… will catch the reply for the rest of the call.
00:28:47 Lauren N.: Yeah I can chat with you offline
00:29:47 Lauren N.: Sorry not in a place to talk directly
00:30:55 Lauren N.: What are their expectations with SEO? Do they have other marketing methods? What is their budget? Do they have specific things they want to promote?
00:32:05 Lauren N.: Ask for competitors
00:32:09 Shannon Mattern: Meg Casebolt
00:32:14 Lauren N.: Neil Patel
00:32:19 Robin Smith: Love at First Search is a great SEO site. She covers both the business side and how to.
00:32:20 Lauren N.: Yes Meg!
00:32:51 Becky Swan: Ryan Stewart has some good resources and free SOPs you can download
00:34:10 Lauren N.: I work with a lot of agencies and can share my structure of packages with you if you’d like!
00:35:06 Lauren N.: Shannon’s right. Many businesses don’t know what it takes for successful seo!
00:35:37 Cynthia Norman: perfect!! thank you Lauren!
00:36:02 Kate Newnham: I submitted one!! Did you get it yesterday Erica?
00:38:10 Erica Nash: Kate, I think it went to the work reviews! I thought it maybe could be a live call question. Let me go pull it up.
00:38:20 Kate Newnham: Oh no I’m sorry!!
00:38:34 Kate Newnham: Yes live would be great 🙂
00:38:41 Erica Nash: Oh no, it’s all good! I thought maybe you just wanted to discuss it privately. I’ve got it!
00:38:51 Kate Newnham: Sweet
00:39:15 Erica Nash: So when I click that we’ve answered it, it’s going to send you an email saying you have a work review ready. Just ignore that email.
00:39:23 Kate Newnham: Perf
00:40:51 Kaila – HeyKaila Media: PREACH
00:40:59 Trish Bovell: YES!
00:41:07 Kate Newnham: Mic drop
00:41:57 Trish Bovell: sometimes saying if the fee is going to go into effect by some date, that gets the client moving .
00:45:45 Kaila – HeyKaila Media: And they were the ones that ‘wanted it done yesterday’ *shrug* Always the biggest dawdlers.
00:46:07 Trish Bovell: it's payment for the time you're spending with their delays, etc.
00:46:29 Kaila – HeyKaila Media: True Trish! So much more PM time having to babysit.
00:46:39 Trish Bovell: your time is worth it
00:46:45 Janet Hoover: True!
00:48:17 MoonSoar Services: Wow, this sounds so so so so so SO FAMILIAR.
00:48:29 Janet Hoover: Same here, Kate lol
00:49:49 Deanna: Yes – get it done based on HER upholding her end of the project
00:52:26 Lauren N.: I have the same issue! I think about work all weekend when there’s no closure
00:53:31 Janet Hoover: And then it has to built and a scramble to get it done during the holidays when you want to be off lol
00:55:01 Deanna: VIP Day her basically ♥️
00:55:21 Kaila – HeyKaila Media: I hate phonecalls but I implemented them into my project currently for feedback and it’s been great. Once the call is done, we’re moving on.
00:55:59 Kaila – HeyKaila Media: CHOIVES! :p
00:56:13 Erica Nash: All I can hear is Schmidt lol
00:56:14 Kaila – HeyKaila Media: Sorry had to
00:56:15 Leigh: LOL
00:57:47 MoonSoar Services: lol
00:58:52 Deanna: Shannon can we continue our email conversation today? Still not 100% decided ♥️
00:59:29 Deanna: 🥹
00:59:46 Janet Hoover: CHOIVES!
00:59:54 Cynthia Norman: lol
00:59:55 Kate Newnham: Bye all!!
00:59:57 Deanna: ♥️♥️♥️