Episode 213: How To Lead In Your Niche By Creating Your Scalable Signature Program or Offer – with April Beach

You’re listening to the SweetLife entrepreneur podcast, simplified strategies to grow your service business and launch a life you love faster with business mental and entrepreneur activator, a probate. Hey everybody. And welcome to episode number 213 here today. I’m April beach, your host, and it is such a funny, Sure. To be able to talk to you again yet another week here on the show today,

we’re talking about how to lead in your niche by creating your scalable signature program or offer. It is one of my favorite topics to discuss, because this is one of my super powers is helping you create your signature offer and your unique methodology. And so we’re continuing the conversation we had on episode two 12 last week. And we’re diving into the signature program creation side of your business.

We’ve honestly talked about this so many times on the podcast, you can cruise to our podcast website at any point in time. All you have to do is type in the words, signature offer or signature program. And you’re going to be able to pull up all the times over the past four years that we’ve discussed this topic to help you get better results in this area.

So here we are for another show about this and let’s be really specific and who this episode is for. So this is for any of you guys who are really ready to scale your business, you have an established business you’re ready to, we’re going to talk actually about the fundamentals of scaling on this show, but you’re ready to increase your profit. And it’s time,

it’s time to create a framework of programs and offers that you have so that you can scale your business, increase your profit and duplicate yourself even faster. So that’s what we’re diving into. If this is you, this means that you are in phase three of my start to scale up system. If you aren’t sure what phase of the start to scale up system you’re in,

you can cruise to Sweetlife code.com forward slash quiz, and you can take a really short quiz. And you’re going to find out exactly where you are in this whole entire lifestyle business roadmap. This particular show is for those of you guys who are ready to scale, you know, you’re ready to scale, and this is phase three. This is a great episode for you,

entrepreneurs and experts who are ready to take the lead and become the undisputed leader in your space. Here’s the issue though. So this is why, you know, it’s good to hang out and listen to this show. So if you’ve been spinning your wheels and struggling to get noticed, you’re definitely not alone in today’s everything. Everybody is a leader expert everywhere.

You know exactly what I’m talking about. Everybody is an online expert of some kind. It’s really not a surprise that you might be struggling to stand out, even if you’ve been in business for a really long time and you want to become known, you’re probably very, very, very at what you do. And you might be struggling with communicating that across the board,

in your business, across social media and really across your messaging too. We’re going to dive into that today. The answer to that is to develop your signature offer and that’s guided by your leading framework method system or process, which we discussed last week on the show. When you create a signature program, an online course, a membership and event, or a service,

or really an offer, and it’s derived from your unique method, it will change things in your company and it will impact your message and your profit like never before. So that’s what we’re diving diving into on today’s show. And at the end of this episode, you can expect to be able to identify if you’re ready to scale with a signature program or offer,

you’re going to be able to identify areas of need that you may need to stand out in your niche. You are going to know the most common types of scalable offers, and you’re going to know the two different types of signature programs and offers. And you’re going to know the true definition of what a true signature program and offer really is. So if you’re ready for that,

let’s go ahead and dive in.<inaudible> Okay, guys. So first of all, I have to apologize to you because I’m slightly losing my voice. If you have been hanging out with me on clubhouse for the past couple of months, then it’s not a surprise. You totally know why I’m spending a lot of time. Our whole company and our whole team is spending a lot of time on clubhouse.

And we have actually talked about how to create your signature opera multiple times in private, in public rooms, on clubhouse. If that’s a topic beyond this podcast that you want to dive into more with me, please do so you can follow me at April beach on clubhouse, and we have our own clubhouse club. Now our clubhouse club sounds funny to say that clubhouse club,

our clubhouse club is called sweet life entrepreneurs. Of course it is. And you can follow our club or officially join our club. If you are on clubhouse, just search the word, sweet life, one word under the clubs. We jam a lot on this and I actually get to take your signature offer questions on clubhouse. But with that being said,

that is why I’m losing my voice. And I’m just super glad to be sharing this message with you on episode 213 here as well. So thanks for being here. So this is what we’re talking about. We’re talking about how to lead in your niche by creating your scalable signature program or offer. But first, let’s take a look at actually why this is important,

why this is an important conversation to have and why you may really need to be focusing in and leaning in with me here. Number one, it’s hard to stand out with your marketing. If you’re struggling with your marketing do usually because you aren’t being specific enough. And instead with this philosophy of going through in creating your signature program and offer, you’re going to gain an immediate audience who clearly understands what you do and identifies you as the undisputed leader,

that’s going to guide them. So the problem is you’re having trouble standing out. Your marketing is not specific enough. Problem. Number two is actually going through the process of creating a leading scalable offer. It’s important for you to understand how to organize your ideas, how to turn your thoughts into reality, how to turn your expertise into a signature program and actually regroup those things into your signature offer and the signature offer that scales.

So we’re going to talk about that as well here on today’s show. And if you’re struggling, because you have a lack of systemization in the back of your business, so your systems aren’t able to be scaled. You might not even have systems yet in certain places, creating your signature offer certainly solves that problem in a faster way as well. So, first of all,

let’s talk about some fundamentals here. What is a signature offer? This is a definition I wrote, gosh, back in 2018, when we first launched your signature offer masterclass, it was important to define actually what this is because there’s a lot of businesses out there that just launched a signature offer because it might be the most popular one or the most common one that sells.

That’s not really what a signature offer is. Don’t worry. I’m going to give you a lot more resources here that will help you take this to the next level. But let me just start out by reading this definition, a signature offer is a unique program or service that you create from your expertise, method, and experience that delivers predictable transformational, measurable results for your client every single time.

Okay? So it’s created from your IP, your experience, and we’re going to dive more into this as well. The reason why we’re talking about this so much here on the show and on clubhouse is because right now our industry leading signature program call that your signature offer is opening. Again. We open it up a few times a year to help you so we can roll up our sleeves with you to create your signature offer and become the undisputed leader in your space.

And so we’re talking about this on the podcast, in our clubhouse rooms, in our live streams, in our one-on-one calls, it’s all about the most important thing I’m so passionate about for you is creating your signature offer because it’s all in an effort to help you do two things. Number one, identify if your business is ready to develop your signature offer.

And number two, if you’re ready for an expert to guide you through the process and give the step-by-step method to develop your signature offer. So if that’s you and you already know you want more help with that, please visit signature offer.com and we’ll make sure that is in the resources for you as well. But if you’re ready to dive in with us and have us link arms with you and give you our process to do this,

visit signature offer.com. Okay, so now let’s go ahead and dive into how we’re going to break out the business training of this episode. We’re actually breaking it out piece by piece from the title. So let’s read the title of what we’re talking about here again today. The title is how to lead in your niche by creating your scalable signature program or offer.

So I’m going to break this up into three different parts. That’s hopefully helpful for you to take these little pieces, wrap your head around them and start implementing them right here from the show. I love being known as a podcast that gives you step-by-step business trainings that other coaches are gonna charge you thousands for. So I want to make sure you’re leaving with awesome action steps to get profitable and clear.

Results just from this podcast alone. So part one, we’re going to talk about how to lead in your niche. Part two, we’re going to talk about scalable, what scalable really means. And the part three of this show, we’re going to talk about the actual definition of what is a true signature program or offer. So let’s go ahead and dive into part one first,

breaking out the title of the show, how to lead in your niche. I know some of you say niche, sorry, I just call it a niche. So how you do this is by number one, having the very best program that you are the best of the best of the best at what you do, that you are undeniably the program to go to in your space,

in your market, in your area, in your geographic area, whatever that is for you. Most people it’s online area so that you have the very best program. That’s a number one way. It’s a development of your content into your program. That is how you lead. And this is not in any particular order. These are all parts of the ways of how you lead.

Number two, that you deliver the most transformational results. You guys are probably especially those of you guys that listened to the podcast a lot in, in our, always in our online business community, you’re probably sick of hearing me say transformational results. I’d say like predictable transformational, measurable results. Those are the three words, and you’re probably sick of it.

But here is what that means. This is why you need to deliver a transformation through your signature program. There’s a bunch of different types of transformation you can deliver based on your area of expertise, but how you lead in your niche is by creating the very best program that delivers a transformation of your area of expertise in your area of expertise. Also how you lead is by becoming the most trusted leader.

Now, really let’s kind of break out what trust really means. That means somebody is submitted to your guidance and your leadership that they are sold out in buying into the fact that you are going to navigate the way when they might totally be blind in this area. They completely trust you when you develop a program. And this is all obviously around to developing your signature offer.

But when you develop a program and you move forward and you are the trusted leader for the people they’d have just bought your program, they actually trust you. And they’re trusting you to guide the way then that’s how you lead in your niche. Also, you have the clearest message and therefore the clearest marketing messages, if you do not have your signature offer or your signature program developed,

you might be struggling with this. You might be one of the many entrepreneurs that I talk to. Even those that have been in business for years, that there’s so many messages because frankly, you’re so good at so many different things you want to talk about at all, but what that does in today’s day and age of online business, way too loud,

overwhelming drowning noise is that it doesn’t create that clear message and that clear marketing of your specific primary superpower. And so how to lead in your niche is to have the clearest message and to have the clearest marketing. Also, we want you to have some of the best, highest, most profitable sales. One of the ways that we know you’re a leader is that you’re making the most money doing this because people trust you because you deliver transformational results because you have the best program.

So therefore naturally you’re going to be, if not the most profitable, one of the most profitable programs, because people trust you and you deliver that transformation. And this is what this means in order to become that leader in your space. When you do these things, it means you have the deepest client commitment. It means that you are sold out in love with giving your clients and your customers,

a transformation that you promise that there’s nothing that’s going to get in the way of you committing to do that for your clients. And it also means that you have the most thoughtful client experiences. And when we talk about client experiences, it’s really important as we talk about signature offer development, we teach this in our, your signature offer leaders program is that there’s so much psychology behind the tactical things you’re delivering as well.

That there are a lot of mindset and important psychological benchmarks that your clients have to hit. And you are responsible to plan out, map out and guide them through in order to be the leader in that space. Part one, based on the title of this show, the lead in your niche, you need to have the best program with the most transformational results that you’re the most trusted leader with the clearest message and marketing that you have some of the highest sales,

if not the highest sales in this area, that you have the deepest client commitment and the most thoughtful client experiences. So that’s part one. And I promise you, we’re breaking this up into three parts, part two, let’s go back and summarize our title again. We’re talking about how to lead in your niche, which we just covered by creating your scalable signature offer.

So now we’re diving into part two, which is by creating your scalable signature offer. So what is a scalable offer? Scalable well refers to a company’s ability to increase profit customers or services by creating systems and offer structures that deliver those results. So in quick terms, it basically means the ability to make more money by creating systems and offers the decreased time,

increase efficiency, customer served and profit. It means we are creating structures in your company. Systemization behind the scenes automation behind the scenes, but the offers, the programs, the services, whatever they may be, courses memberships. We’re going to dive into that here in a second is that they are built and designed the structure of them. The architecture, the texture of those programs is designed in order to you increase your capacity while either keeping your time the same,

or actually decreasing your workload. So that’s where we talk about when we talk about, about what a scalable offer really, really is eliminates or reduces one-on-one work by adding this traditional type of online service. In most cases, it’s a course or a membership community or an online event, but that isn’t it. I love to talk about other ways of that.

They’re unique, customized, scalable offer creation strategies as well, but those are the most common that people know scale is also reached by designing custom or disruptive programs. Now, this is usually a hybrid type of a program. So these are also offers in services unique to your business, business goals, profit in purpose. You probably, we have heard me say before,

and you’re probably thinking yourself, frankly, you know, just because everybody else is launching a course, does that mean I need to do it just because everybody else is, you know, creating this sort of a program, does that really what’s right for my business and my goals and my profit plan. And of course the most<inaudible> your customers. So when we talk,

talk about scale, it’s really about the, and the design of what you’re doing and how you’re delivering your services. And it enables you to deliver the same results to more people, either the same time as you were working before or reduce time scaling also streamlines the processes that you teach coach or deliver so that then you can grow in your scale and scale your team.

We don’t just scale the offer. We scale your way of delivering it. So we can actually scale your method, scale, your teaching scale processes so that we can grow your team. And that’s what we talk about when we work with businesses to actually scale your team. And it really moves you from overworking to what I call cluster working. That’s a very important thing,

especially for entrepreneurs, you became an entrepreneur because you want to quality of life. And this is how we do it. It’s in the process of scaling your business, that you really start to achieve this life design that you had always hoped for. And as long as you do it in a strategic way, and your entrepreneurial IQ has leveled up on how to do that.

As long as you fully understand how to do that, you will achieve those results. Scaling also streamlined your operations and your systems. So it’s not just your team systems or your coaches system. It’s all of your system that your client onboarding system, it’s your client offboarding system. It’s your communication systems, your marketing systems. When we talk about creating scalable offers,

all of these things need to be part of it. And just for one clear definition, Webster’s dictionary defines scalable as capable of being easily expanded or upgraded on demand. There is a definition. So that’s the closure of part two. Again, part one, we talked about how to lead in your niche. Part two, we’re talking about by creating scalable.

And so we’ve kind of defined your really what scalable is. It’s not only the offers, but it’s the systems it’s taking your methods and reaching and serving more people at less time or reduce time to increase profit. And then the part three of the, this week’s episode, this is number 213 is by creating yours or scalable, which talked about signature program or offer.

And so we have to answer the question. What actually is that, what is a true signature offer or program? Again, I’ll read the definition that I originally wrote about four years ago, just to help you put it into context. So your signature offer is a unique program that you create from your intellectual property, that your experience, your method and your expertise that delivers people,

predictable transformational, measurable results every single day. Okay. So the note we have to make here is that there are actually two kinds of signature programs or offers. This is very important to understand because where you are in business, once we kind of understand this fundamental baseline signature program offer creation, it’s going to help you understand the lines of thinking that you can have to move forward to get results faster.

So there are two kinds and I’ll reference all the other podcast episodes over the last couple of years when I’ve talked about this as well, two kinds, number one is foundational. Number two is influential where you are in your business is going to dictate really what type of your signature offer you’re building both of those foundational and influential can scale, but which you choose truly depends on your business,

growth needs and capabilities right now. So a foundational signature offer. This is for those who have never created a signature offer or program before you may be new in your niche. And this creation of your foundational signature offer gets you on the map, either in a certain area of expertise online or in a geographical area based on where you’re located or it’s for those of you guys who are established business owners,

but you really have not gotten the traction or you really haven’t become known for something specific yet. So that’s a foundational signature offer in influentials signature offer is for those of you guys with an established track record of getting people Results. So you are known usually in a one-on-one setting for getting people results in this particular area that you’re creating your signature offer and program around.

And this influential signature offer stems from your unique method, process, framework, programming, mapped out steps, whatever you want to call it, which you have tested and proven to be true, your signature offer or your signature program stems from your unique method or framework, which you have used in the past, or you’re in the process of creating based on your experience or expertise and an influential signature offer makes you known for a specific outcome deliverable experience,

program service, and it makes your method well-known as well. And an influential signature offer when it is built correctly, can establish you as the leader in your industry so that other businesses are trying to follow along, trying to play catch up to you. This is how are your signature offer program is we’ve had this program for years. And honestly, people are just popping up trying to create programs like it,

but we’re well rooted in establishing our area of expertise in that because it’s our signature offer program. And that’s what I want for you as well. The, what you do, others are going to try to follow you, but you are the undisputed leader because nobody does it the way you do it. Nobody has your unique method, your unique process, and frankly,

your experiences that come into it, your personal opinions and the way you go about doing it and the method in which you get people results. So an influential signature offer can also really change the landscape of an industry and disrupt the space. Now let’s actually talk about kind of breaking down some of the fundamentals here. What makes a signature offer an actual signature offer?

Because we had talked about this in the beginning and they just cause it’s the thing that sells the most, or, you know, if you are, let’s say for example, a graphic design firm, the most common product somebody may purchase from you as a logo design, but that doesn’t mean it’s your signature offer. Okay. So I actually get asked this question all the time and I teach the components of a true signature offer and my,

your signature offer leaders program. But for the sake of this podcast and just wrapping up this post question again, we’re answering the question of the title of this particular episode, how to lead in your niche by creating your scalable signature program or offer. This is what I want you to take away. Your signature offer is unique to you. It’s created by you,

it’s derived from your experience, your expertise, your views, your theories, your styles, and your beliefs. Your signature offer is built from the foundation of your method, your process, your system, or your framework. And you can listen to last week’s episode 212 to dive all into how to create your unique method and your unique framework, and the difference between a method and a framework,

your signature offer delivers predictable transformational measurable results. That’s what a real true signature offer is also. And your signature offer provides the roadmap for your clients to navigate that physical, psychological, and or tangible roadblocks that they have hit while trying to do it on your, on their own. But now your signature offer is that roadmap that helps them guide through the way you are the trusted leader when they feel blind,

or at least partially unable to see, you know, how to navigate through and get to the end result that they’re looking for examples of business models of what your signature offer could be. So we don’t start with the actual business model. I’m a really big advocate for this. We don’t just say, Oh, I’m going to launch a course or I’m going to launch a membership site.

That is the last thing we do is actually building out the structure of the business model. But first thing we do is extracting your thoughts, turning your thoughts and your expertise into reality in the form of your signature offer. And then here are the most common business models that signature offers manifest and build into that could be a full blown program, could be a corporate program or a healthcare program or an educational program.

Our clients develop amazing signature corporate educational industry, leading signature programs. It’s really impressive. So that’s one of them. It could be a course in how you deliver that course, whether it’s live or on demand. That’s those are, we have a million other podcasts we can, you know, dive into about those. You’re welcome to search our podcast website,

just literally type in the word course. And it’ll bring you to every other podcast episode about courses and how to create your course. It could be a membership community. It could be an event, a live virtual event or an in-person event. Your signature offer could be a service. It could be a one hour service. You could have like the crazy,

most amazing transformational one hour service that is your signature offer that you are known for. It could be a mastermind. And of course it could also be a hybrid business model, which most of our clients are building hybrid business models in order to get there science Results. And of course, I always want you to be realizing and remembering. And frankly, just thinking along the lines of the fact that it can be anything else,

just because a business model hasn’t been created yet doesn’t mean that you can’t create it. If that what works best for you, you or your clients. So if you’re thinking, wow, well, I just kind of want to do and deliver my, my signature content this way. And my signature offer this way and my signature program this way. But nobody’s really doing that.

Please listen to yourself. You can do anything that you’re willing to build and strategize through. Here’s a quick story about that. And then we’ll just wrap up this episode for you. In 2008, I had a crazy thriving consulting firm. I had licensed my trademark to offices in seven different States, and I had three babies at home at that time, by 2008,

they were all under the age of six and I could not do one-on-one consulting work anymore. I did not have the bandwidth. And so I, without even being some strategy, decided to launch an online course. And it wasn’t because it was the sexy thing to do. Nobody was doing online courses and you guys, I mean, it was like we had to duct tape the thing together with a prerecorded Cisco WebEx.

It was really, really, really clunky. So I didn’t copy what anybody else was doing because nobody was doing that yet. I did it because I literally had to figure out how to scale an increase profit while not even keeping the same time this mama, I had to decrease my time because I was fricking exhausted. Okay. So I just want to inspire you that it wasn’t something that I just was following the crowd.

I literally had to do it because that’s what worked for me. And frankly, the companies that were coming to me to learn, to launch their own business, a lot of them were international in my time here in Colorado, didn’t work for their time in Australia, we’re Switzerland. And so they wanted things on demand. So I launched my first and one of the first evergreen on demand courses because it needed to be done.

So I share that story with you because if you’re thinking about delivering something some way that has never been done before, do it like go through the process. I would love to roll up my sleeves with you and help you develop out that new business model. I’m a big advocate that we’re always evolving and there truly is always a better, deeper, and more efficient way where we can get our clients Results.

So I’m just going to end this episode with encouraging you to be disruptive, to be creative on purpose, if that’s what works best for the creation of your signature offer. So thank you so much for hanging out with me today. Again, this was episode number 213 here on the Sweetlife entrepreneurial podcast. I’m April beach host here on the show. We’re going to begin re begin bringing a lot of our experts back into the show coming up here in the next few episodes.

So I’m excited to dive into back to some business trainings in the form of interviews. And today we talked about how to lead in your niche by creating your scalable signature program or offer. If you would like to work with me and my team to create your signature offer. We have two really fun things coming up. If you’re listening to this podcast in real time,

you can very simply go to signature offer.com. We have a one day live virtual event to create your signature offer. And we have our, your signature offer leaders program, which is opening up in the end of February as well. And I would love to link arms with you and give you my system to make sure that you are creating your signature offer and process to become the undisputed leader in your space.

I would love to do that for you. Okay? I hope you guys have a great afternoon or morning or night wherever you’re listening to the, whenever you’re listening to this and I’ll look forward to talking to you. Bye-bye for now.