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Welcome to the Soulful Sales Show where we talk about believing in the value of your offers, getting them in front of your right people, and selling more of what you do in YOUR unique way.
Find out more at https://ruthpoundwhite.com or follow Ruth on Instagram @ruthpoundwhite
Last Episode Date: 19 November 2024
Total Episodes: 174
If you know you want to run a special discounted offer or a flash sale, but you need to keep it simple and low energy, this episode is for you.Quotes From This Episode:10:53: "Just send some emails out to your past clients, give them a special offer to come back and work with you."12:23: "Let it be easy."14:14: "If it doesn't feel good, you can totally sit this one out if that is what is right for you."Mentioned In This Episode: Lizzy Credit $9 Course (aff link)My Pre-Black Friday Daily Offer PartyMy Soulful Black Friday Sales $9 CourseLaidback Launching Course*** It's my biggest ever sale 🎉🎉🎉 Click here for offers up to 55% off until Nov 22***QUICK LINKS:🌱 Click here to sign up for my $7 Soulful Growth Club for my sustainable marketing and quiet visibility trainings, regular prompts, q&as, guided journalling & more.🗣️ Click here to find out more about working with Ruth 1:1 on your business strategy & self-belief to grow your audience & make more sales your way👋 Click here to follow Ruth on Instagram
No matter how long you have been in business, launching can bring up all the feelings. So in today's episode, I'm sharing 3 practical strategies to help you feel less anxious when you launch.Quotes From This Episode:03:49: "The more I can schedule in advance, the more able I am to detach from the launch."08:15: "Sometimes when a launch doesn't go well, we can debrief and we can learn from it, but sometimes it just doesn't go well for unknown reasons"13:13 "When the 'experiment' is still going, you cannot know the results yet. So there's no point in freaking out about it."Mentioned In This Episode: Laidback Launching CourseSoulful Sales Society*** It's my biggest ever sale 🎉🎉🎉 Click here for offers up to 55% off until Nov 22***QUICK LINKS:🌱 Click here to sign up for my $7 Soulful Growth Club for my sustainable marketing and quiet visibility trainings, regular prompts, q&as, guided journalling & more.🗣️ Click here to find out more about working with Ruth 1:1 on your business strategy & self-belief to grow your audience & make more sales your way👋 Click here to follow Ruth on Instagram
It is so easy to freak out, beat yourself up or start worrying about your entire business when you have a bad month. If you haven’t made as many sales as you wanted to this month, here’s how I suggest you approach it instead.Quotes From This Episode:02:12: "I often set goals that I fail to hit"06:49: "When I set a big and exciting goal, it totally changes things in my brain and helps me to think, okay, who do I need to be? What kind of business owner do I need to be? And what kind of business do I need to run?"10:08: "We often think when we have a goal that it will happen like a, b, c, d, e, goal done, checked off. Now I wanna invite you for a moment to think of a time where you had a goal in your life and to ask yourself, did it actually happen that way?"Mentioned In This Episode: Behind-the-Scenes: 200 Member ExperimentSoulful Sales SocietySoulful Growth ClubSoulful Sales Summit*** It's my biggest ever sale 🎉🎉🎉 Click here for offers up to 55% off until Nov 22***QUICK LINKS:🌱 Click here to sign up for my $7 Soulful Growth Club for my sustainable marketing and quiet visibility trainings, regular prompts, q&as, guided journalling & more.🗣️ Click here to find out more about working with Ruth 1:1 on your business strategy & self-belief to grow your audience & make more sales your way👋 Click here to follow Ruth on Instagram
It is so easy to freak out, beat yourself up or start worrying about your entire business when you have a bad month. If you haven’t made as many sales as you wanted to this month, here’s how I suggest you approach it instead.Quotes From This Episode:00:55: "It's important to allow ourselves to freak out if that's how we feel, but we need to find a constructive way to move past that"13:30: "Your business is not defined by any 1 month, but it will be defined by how you keep going. It will be defined by how you bring yourself back to a place of hope, back to a place of optimism, back to a place of motivation, to keep serving your people, to keep putting your work out there, to keep selling your stuff, even when it doesn't go great."16:10: "You never know whether in the grand scheme of things, this poor sales month could actually be THE key part of the journey to making it all work exactly the way you wanted it to work."Mentioned In This Episode: The Soulful Sales Society Membership$9 Aligned Black Friday Sales Course*** It's my biggest ever sale 🎉🎉🎉 Click here for offers up to 55% off until Nov 22***QUICK LINKS:🌱 Click here to sign up for my $7 Soulful Growth Club for my sustainable marketing and quiet visibility trainings, regular prompts, q&as, guided journalling & more.🗣️ Click here to find out more about working with Ruth 1:1 on your business strategy & self-belief to grow your audience & make more sales your way👋 Click here to follow Ruth on Instagram
Are you on the fence about whether to run a Black Friday offer? Maybe it feels too noisy or overwhelming, but you also don’t want to miss out on a good opportunity. Here are a few questions to help you make an empowered decision either way, and to do it all without the stress.Quotes From This Episode:00:02: "The energy around Black Friday in previous years for me has definitely been scrambling, stressful, overwhelming. I've gotta do this. I should do this. And I don't think that's the best place to be making any decision from."00:04: "Either I am doing it or I'm not doing it, but either way, I'm not deciding based on fear or pressure. I'm deciding based on what I really want to do in my business."00:09: "If you skip Black Friday, trust me, it is not gonna make or break your business. And if you do Black Friday and you experiment with something new and it doesn't sell the way you want, it's gonna be a great lesson for you and your business."Mentioned In This Episode: $9 Aligned Black Friday Sales CourseThe Soulful Sales Society Membership*** It's my biggest ever sale 🎉🎉🎉 Click here for offers up to 55% off until Nov 22***QUICK LINKS:🌱 Click here to sign up for my $7 Soulful Growth Club for my sustainable marketing and quiet visibility trainings, regular prompts, q&as, guided journalling & more.🗣️ Click here to find out more about working with Ruth 1:1 on your business strategy & self-belief to grow your audience & make more sales your way👋 Click here to follow Ruth on Instagram
So many of us are trying to sell our offers in such a strategically perfect way that we actually end up watering down what makes them stand out to our best-fit customers: and that is the unique personality and experience we bring to the table as individual and imperfect humans, which is what today’s episode is all about. Quotes From This Episode:00:28: "You, as a unique human with totally unique stuff to bring to the table, are your unique selling proposition"06:44: "What do your perceived flaws and failures actually bring to the table? What do they add to your offer? Why would people choose you because of those flaws and failures?"15:20: "Being a bit brave and sharing your personality is what's gonna make your offer stand out"Mentioned In This Episode: The Soulful Sales Society MembershipThe Magic of You, Unleashed*** It's my biggest ever sale 🎉🎉🎉 Click here for offers up to 55% off until Nov 22***QUICK LINKS:🌱 Click here to sign up for my $7 Soulful Growth Club for my sustainable marketing and quiet visibility trainings, regular prompts, q&as, guided journalling & more.🗣️ Click here to find out more about working with Ruth 1:1 on your business strategy & self-belief to grow your audience & make more sales your way👋 Click here to follow Ruth on Instagram
If you have ever worried that you’re annoying people by sending too many emails, bottled out of that final launch email, or buried your sales links within reams of content then today’s episode is for you, where I’ll share 6 tips to help you feel comfortable sending more sales emails. Quotes From This Episode:02:44: "Tip number 1 is for you just to be radically honest about how much you have actually been selling"05:57: "I always want to be in the headspace where I trust that no matter whether people buy, no matter whether they're interested in buying, there is always value in the emails that I'm sending, even though I ask for the sale in every single email."06:29: "You sharing about your offer is super helpful for the people who either do need your offer and will benefit for the from the transformation of your offer or are wondering whether they need your offer and might benefit from the transformation of your offer."Mentioned In This Episode: The Soulful Sales Society Membership *** It's my biggest ever sale 🎉🎉🎉 Click here for offers up to 55% off until Nov 22***QUICK LINKS:🌱 Click here to sign up for my $7 Soulful Growth Club for my sustainable marketing and quiet visibility trainings, regular prompts, q&as, guided journalling & more.🗣️ Click here to find out more about working with Ruth 1:1 on your business strategy & self-belief to grow your audience & make more sales your way👋 Click here to follow Ruth on Instagram
Welcome back to the Soulful Sales Show. It has been a while since I have released a new episode, it's actually been two and a half months. And that is exactly what I'm here to talk to you about today. Quotes From This Episode:4:58: "One big theme of this year for me has been accepting the mess."10:43: “It's okay to take breaks. It's okay to recalibrate.”11:34 "In what way is you trying to do it “just right” getting in the way of you actually doing it?”Mentioned In This Episode: The $7 Soulful Growth Club*** It's my biggest ever sale 🎉🎉🎉 Click here for offers up to 55% off until Nov 22***QUICK LINKS:🌱 Click here to sign up for my $7 Soulful Growth Club for my sustainable marketing and quiet visibility trainings, regular prompts, q&as, guided journalling & more.🗣️ Click here to find out more about working with Ruth 1:1 on your business strategy & self-belief to grow your audience & make more sales your way👋 Click here to follow Ruth on Instagram
Whether it’s productivity advice, or content creation advice, or whatever fill-in-the-blank sales strategy is the “must-do” of the moment, for some of us, the usual advice just doesn’t seem to work, no matter how hard we try. If whatever the “gurus” are telling you to do feels like pushing boulders uphill, today’s episode is for you. Episode Highlights:💭 [03:36] "It's so important then to be able to run your business in a way that works for you and for your brain and for your body."💭 [11:47] "Your stuff is good and good for people, and, therefore, people want to hear about it, and it is of service to sell in that way."💭 [38:33] "We're all human, and we screw up sometimes, and that is part of the process. It's part of the experience of being a human being, and especially a human being who is very in tune with their values and their ethics, and you are going to mess it up sometime."Claire's Links:>> Sign up to the Neurodiverse Entrepreneurs Summit [Starts Jul 22nd] << *affiliate linkWebsiteInstagram$9 Values Offer (Attract the Best, Repel the Rest) *affiliate linkMy guest today is obsessed with helping neurodiverse and spoonie online entrepreneurs build their businesses in a way that works for THEM, and she is on a mission to prove that you ABSOLUTELY can build a successful online business, even if you do things differently than you’re “supposed” to. I’m so excited to introduce you to Claire Paniccia (she/they), business coach for neurodivergent and spoonie online entrepreneurs and creator of the Neurodiverse Entrepreneur Summit.*** It's my biggest ever sale 🎉🎉🎉 Click here for offers up to 55% off until Nov 22***QUICK LINKS:🌱 Click here to sign up for my $7 Soulful Growth Club for my sustainable marketing and quiet visibility trainings, regular prompts, q&as, guided journalling & more.🗣️ Click here to find out more about working with Ruth 1:1 on your business strategy & self-belief to grow your audience & make more sales your way👋 Click here to follow Ruth on Instagram
Ever set yourself big goals only to find that they didn’t feel so great after all? So many of us are setting goals from a place of self-doubt, and today’s episode is all about how to shift to a place of self-kindness and still set goals that stretch us in the right ways.Episode Highlights:💭 [01:00] "Courageous sales goals are bringing it back to you and the bits that you are in control of."💭 [08:23] "If you fundamentally don't believe in what you are selling and yourself, it doesn't matter how many things you are doing, how busy you are, how many emails you send, how many reels you create, how much you get yourself out there, it won't convert."💭 [12:50] "What if this was delighting people on the other side? What would you do then? How would you then show up to sell?"Vicky's Links:>> Sign up to the Business Backed By Belief Summit [Starts Jun 18th] << (affiliate link)WebsiteFacebookInstagramVicky Shilling (she/her) is a Self-Belief Business Coach, helping wellness professionals overcome self-doubt and take action to make an income from their passion for health. She shares tips and straight-talking action steps through her Just Start Now book and award nominated podcast, community as well as 1:1 coaching*** It's my biggest ever sale 🎉🎉🎉 Click here for offers up to 55% off until Nov 22***QUICK LINKS:🌱 Click here to sign up for my $7 Soulful Growth Club for my sustainable marketing and quiet visibility trainings, regular prompts, q&as, guided journalling & more.🗣️ Click here to find out more about working with Ruth 1:1 on your business strategy & self-belief to grow your audience & make more sales your way👋 Click here to follow Ruth on Instagram
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