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The Guest Star
Guest Stars are magnetic, creative, and dynamic. You love to be in connection and also really value time to create and integrate new information. The Guest Star values variety, community, connection, and freedom. Your natural curiosity means that you know your area of expertise well and your varied interests give you a pulse on the outside world. You may find yourself feeling frustrated when trying to fit into a cookie-cutter marketing or business strategy. The Guest Star's gift is: they see connections that others don’t and their creativity means they are able to offer their expertise and gifts to benefit a wide variety of people and communities.When using their gift to their full potential, the Guest Star gets to live in multiple worlds and create powerful and transformative experiences, alongside other creatives.People are grateful to receive insights from the the fully-expressed Guest Star. When they are generous with their gifts by connecting and collaborating, the Guest Star experiences abundance, multiplied. This way of working allows the Guest Star to do what they love, share their message, and create an impact in a way that feels fun, expansive, and freeing. How to magnetize clients as a Guest StarGuesting on podcastsWriting guest posts/articlesFacilitating workshops in other peoples' communitiesSpeaking engagementsCreating partnered offerings with complimentary creators/practitionersThe beauty about being a guest star is that you gain access to existing communities and the fact that you have been invited into that community to teach gives you credibility before you even open your mouth or put your fingers on the keyboard. Guest appearances can skyrocket your reach overnight. Just like any great opportunity, to make the most of it, it’s important to be intentional. Here are a few ways to plug energy leaks and make the most out of being a Guest Star. How to sign more clients or paying customers as a guest star:Focus on opportunities to engage with audiences/communities that are in alignment with your ideal client/message.Talk about your work! You want to make sure that the people listening/reading/watching get a sense of the work that you do.The best way to do this without coming off as promoting is to do it in a way that is valuable to them. Client stories that are relevant to the conversation are a great and natural way to share the benefits of your work and plant the seed of what is possible when working with you, without it feeling like an ad.Have a clear call to action that brings them into your world. In marketing-speak this is a funnel. It doesn’t have to be complicated. Imagine someone showed up to your talk, read your article, or watched your youtube video. They LOVED it and they are hungry for more. What would best serve them in that moment? Is there a way for them to deepen their knowledge, apply it to their life/business, practice one of the techniques? Can you offer that to them in the form of a downloadable PDF? A quiz? A video?Offer them something of value that is a logical next step to whatever it was that they resonated with and deliver it to their email. ❗ Note: it’s important to be respectful of your host and community. The Guest Star creates magic through relationships. This is all about working in a generative way. You are offering value with your guest spot and an invitation for even more value with your opt-in. As long as you are being open and transparent and coming from a place of abundance, I’ve found that there’s always a solution that will benefit all parties. The beauty of being a guest star is that you get to play in multiple worlds and communities, share your gifts, and create magical partnerships, all while maintaining your freedom.If you’d like to dive deeper into how to set your business up to magnetize clients by doing what you love, join me live for my workshop: Zero Audience Abundance: attract more clients without relying on social media. I’ll teach you how to expand your business by creating a system that maximizes your unique gifts. 👇👇👇