Day Two of the UBC. No need to leave a comment today – that function is still being fixed.
Currently, I am hosting The Youth Empowerment Telesummit. It’s a gathering of 18 parenting and life skills professionals who are talking about current trends and strategies in parenting and life skills training. The interviews have been great and the information shared is fantastic. In that aspect, it was a huge success.
However, success is relative – relative to what the goals are. Obviously the overall mission was to get this information out to the people who need it – parents, teachers, coaches, mentors and anyone really who works with tweens, teens and young adults. One of the business objectives was to add 1000 names to my list. That didn’t happen. There was a gain for certain, but not anywhere close to 1000. Considering some of the speakers, that was an entirely obtainable number.
So what happened that we didn’t have a lot more registrations? After all, the event was free and we offered replays. Well, some of the speakers may not have promoted as much as they could have, I think that much is obvious. Some simply clicked like every time I put something on the Facebook page. I started posting on the speakers’ Facebook pages and that always got one or two more registrations.
Could it have been the copy? Very possible. I used to be a great writer, now not so much. My coach and fellow classmates have been great about feedback and suggestions. I sort of have to march to my drum because my business isn’t about helping others break through to seven figures or get more clients. I am trying to attract the people I mentioned above. Maybe I didn’t make it interesting enough. Most days, it was all I could do to get those emails out with the call in information and replay links.
The event isn’t over yet and I’ll continue to analyze the numbers and figure out why there wasn’t more participation. I can say I learned a lot of lessons so far and there are more to be learned before this over. The feedback from those who listened to the talks was very positive and that makes me feel great. The Youth Empowerment Telesummit website turned out great – the art work was from Fiverr, and the graphic for the CD package we’re selling looks great. All the systems I need to do this again are in place so there will be a lot less work involved for the next time. I’ve developed some great relationships from this project and added to my professional network and support system. So all in all, I think this was a huge success and there will be a next time.
So what does this have to do with empowering young adults to develop an entrepreneur mindset? I’m sharing my experience so they can see what is involved and how to look at things that don’t work out the way you want them to. There’s success even in things that don’t work out exactly the way you want them to and it’s all about attitude.
I will be blogging more about the event and may even turn this into a Kindle single entitled How To Have a Telesummit Without Exploding Your Head.
If you are interested in The Youth Empowerment Telesummit, you can find the link here – http://TheYouthEmpowermentTelesummit.com. And you can also reach it from our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Youth-Empowerment-Telesummit/158566284296005.
If you’d like to purchase the recording of the event, you can find that information on either one of those pages and be eligible for our VIP discount through April 14th when the price will increase by a lot.
