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Alan Robarge - Relationship Coach & Online Entrepreneur
Sophia, working with you is the best decision I have made for my business. I knew I needed guidance. I knew I needed a leadership coach. I knew I needed help. And – you have delivered beyond my expectations. You have offered trust. It is an amazing feeling to know that I can trust your guidance for decision-making. I trust that you understand my business and vision. I know you are truly cheering me on and want me to succeed.
036: Four areas on which I blog about on sophiaojha.com
Two years ago, I created reflectionpond.com, a platform where I shared my personal insights on cultivating simple daily practices to experience a deeper sense of inner-peace happiness. I created that site to help women entrepreneurs move forward in their business by overcoming one of the major obstacles we face: self-doubt and negative thought patterns.
The interesting thing is that in the course of building that website...
035: Customize Your ConvertKit Email Template With these 5 Videos
If you'd like to customize your ConvertKit Emails to match your brand, this blog is for you. Below I've listed five most asked for videos/tutorials when it comes to customizing the look of emails inside ConvertKit.
Take a look at the following blog posts that have step-by-step directions with screenshots, code for copying into your template as well as complete video walkthroughs.
034: My No. 1 Tip For Writing Email Subject Lines: Give Value
There are tons of ways to write the subject line of an email. And you can experiment to find out just the right way that suits your style. But whether you write long emails or short ones, follow this zen approach to writing subject lines which help to make your email opened, clicked and most importantly valued by your reader.
In every action I take in my business, I ask myself: how can what I am doing right now be of use to my reader. And if you start at this place too, I am confident that whatever you produce will reach the goal you set for it.
So when it comes to writing subject lines for my emails, here's my no. 1 tip...
033: How to Come Up With Email Topics (Free Worksheet)
Brainstorming is a key step in email content creation process. It helps you to get your ideas down on paper, sort through them, select the best ones and throw out the rest or keep them for a future time.
The goal here is to come up with a bunch of ideas without censoring yourself or editing yourself while you are brainstorming. Let's dive a bit deeper and come up with the email topics for an entire month.
032: My Complete Weekly Email Content Creation Process
One of the pillars of a successful email marketing plan is Keeping In Consistent Touch with your audience - by sending them regular emails. Of course, how often you email your list will be based on the stage you are in your business and the frequency that is best suited for your audience.
Whether you email your list once a week, once a month or twice a month, you need to have consistent content going out. But how to come up with new topics and have them all ready without burning the mid-night oil?
Take a look at this complete Email Content Creation Process that I use for my business.
031: How to Create an Evergreen Sales Funnel Using Visual Automation in ConvertKit
In September, I put together an indepth introduction to ConvertKit's new Visual Automation feature. Here is the video recording of it.
030: How to import your lists from Mailchimp to ConvertKit in 22 Mini Steps
Moving lists from Mailchimp to ConvertKit is one of the last steps in any migration project. Watch the video or see the screenshots as I walk you through 22 Quick Steps to bring over your lists from Mailchimp to ConvertKit.
029: How to remove the announcement bar just from one page on Squarespace?
This one is short and sweet. On your Squarespace site, you are able to add an announcement bar on the very top. This is really nice because you can draw attention of the visitor to something that is current or most important. But how do you remove it from displaying on just a single page of your site? I show you how in this mini-video tutorial.
028: How Often Should You Email Your List?
No matter what approach you take to emailing your list, one thing is clear ⏤ you must start writing to your list, regardless of the size of your list.
But how often shall I send an email to my audience?
This is a question that stumps a lot of people.
027: ConvertKit's New Visual Automation - What's the buzz?
In June 2017, ConvertKit announced at the Craft + Commerce Conference that they would release a new feature - the visual automation. Everyone oohed and aahed as the audience gasped (yes, I was one of the nerds getting excited to see the demo). So what's the buzz about? Here's my take...
026: How to remove date on Squarespace blog posts [Hayden or Pacific Templates]
Here's a quick tip on how to remove the date feature on your blog in Squarespace (templates Hayden and Pacific).
025: The Power of Daily - What I learned from Sean McCabe
What I learned from Sean McCabe at the Craft + Commerce Conference?
The moment he showed a graph of his income, I knew that I had to start writing daily.
024: How to Create Multiple ConvertKit Forms on My Squarespace Page?
I took the cue from a facebook question to create a video tutorial showing you how to have three different ConvertKit form pop up from a button on the same page AND do this without Zapier.
Yes, you heard that right! Without using Zapier! And there's a detailed step-by-step video in the blog as well.
023: How to Create A Custom Opt-Out link (Path 2: Custom Template)
In ConvertKit, there's one unsubscribe link. It is at the very bottom of your email in the footer.
And there's really no way to have your subscribers update their preferences. So what if you have a launch sequence or a free email course sequence and you want to give your audience to opt-out just from those emails. But still stay on your list. What do you do?
You create a Custom Opt-out Link.
022: How to Create A Custom Opt-out Link in Your Email (Path 1: Within Each Email)
In ConvertKit, there's one unsubscribe link. It is at the very bottom of your email in the footer.
And there's really no way to have your subscribers update their preferences. So what if you have a launch sequence or a free email course sequence and you want to give your audience to opt-out just from those emails. But still stay on your list. What do you do?
You create a Custom Opt-out Link.
021: How to Add A ConvertKit Opt-in Form To Facebook Page
In this video tutorial, I show you how you can collect leads on your Facebook page by connecting it wiht a ConvertKit opt-in Form. And in this way, give multiple opportunities to your viewers/readers to join your list!
020: How to Use Clickable Buttons in Your ConvertKit Emails
Let's say you want to have your readers click a button in your ConvertKit emails that goes to a page on your website. This could be for really anything - link to blog post, link to a sales page, link to a video on YouTube - really any link. Let me show you how to set this up!
019: How to Link Your Pinterest Image with a ConvertKit Landing Page
Today I will show you in a quick video how to link your pinterest image to a landing page you have on Convertkit.
018: How to Change "Unsubscribe" into German or other languages in your ConvertKit Emails
This video tutorial is specifically for you if you are writing your emails in a language other than English.
Yes, a lot of your readers may be bilingual or multi-lingual and may understand what it means when you write "unsubscribe". But let's say everything you write is in Dutch or French, then to have this one lone English word in the footer of your emails, just stands out unnecessarily.