155: Make Time for Speaking with Content Batching (ft. Amanda Warfield)
If you're ready to explore more speaking opportunities, but you're just not sure how to fit it into your already busy schedule, this episode is for you. Time management coach and content batching extraordinaire, Amanda Warfield joins us to explain the benefits of batching content and creating consistency in your time and marketing efforts.
Listen in as she describes how to determine if an opportunity is the right fit, explain the benefits of batching, then shares her own personal approach to batching a month's worth of content!
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Resources mentioned in this episode:
Club Content Batching - Lesson 1 : amandawarfield.com/jessica
Meet Amanda Warfield
Amanda is a simplicity-focused time management & business strategist, and host of Chasing Simple - a podcast to help creative entrepreneurs uncomplicate their life and biz.
She traded in her classroom lesson plans for speaking and educating creatives on sustainably enjoying work/life balance, and her clients and students have gained back time, energy, and mental clarity.
She's obsessed with teaching her students to batch their content and get off the content creation hamster wheel so that they have time to move the needle in their business, take time off, and live the life they dreamed about when they first started their own business.
If her nose isn't in a book, you can find Amanda annoying her husband by slipping Disney into every conversation, or forcing her cats to snuggle.
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Running an Efficient Business
Whether you have a team behind you or you're operating as a one-woman show, we know how tough it is to navigate managing your time, not including all of the content you need to create for your speaking presentations, your marketing, or your blogs.
What keeps most of us afloat is running efficiently—that's where batching comes into play. Batching your content is a great way to get focused on the task at hand and complete as much of it as possible.
Amanda Warfield is an expert in time-management and content batching, so today's she's sharing exactly what content batching is and how to utilize it in your business.
Determining When to Say Yes/No to Opportunities
Before we dive too far into this idea of content batching, let's first discuss time management. One of the biggest struggles most of us face when it comes to time management is figuring out when and how to say no to opportunities. When you're deciding whether or not to take on an opportunity, whether it's a speaking gig or a client project, here are two steps you need to take:
Make sure it's a good opportunity.
Review your calendar and see what you have going on during that time.
If the opportunity aligns with those two concepts, then you should take the gig! If it doesn't then it's important that you understand how to say no.
Content Batching
Any content that you're creating in or for your business should be batched in order to efficiently save time! Batching is simply taking similar tasks on projects and focusing on those types of tasks. This eliminates the hamster wheel of content creation by allowing you to do more in less time.
There are a few ways you can batch your work. You can batch by theme, like marketing Mondays where you only focus on marketing in your business, or even client meetings, where you only take calls on certain days of the week. A second way you can batch content is by project type or task.
A few types of content you can batch include blogs, podcasts, youtube videos, newsletters, social media content, and more!
Common Mistakes in Content Batching
If content batching is brand new to you, it's important that you approach it with intention. There are a few common mistakes that are made when it comes to content batching that impact efficiency, capacity, and strategy.
Doing too much at once. The last thing you want to do it overcommit and burn yourself out. If you're planning to set aside a certain number of hours in your month to batch your content, make sure you're aware of just how long it'll take you to complete those projects.
Splitting up the work into a weekly task. While this is a common strategy, it keeps you distracted from your paid work throughout the month. Creating a full month of content can help you to stay focused on completing a full month's work at a time so you're not having to get back into the mindset of different batching tasks each week.
Not looking forward enough. While batching is so important, it's also important to include strategy—what will you be promoting in a month, what vacations are you planning, what type of content do you need to be putting out?
These three mistakes can often deter people from continuing to batch their content and give up on efficiency all together.
Steps to Being More Consistent in Content Batching
Now that you're familiar with common mistakes, let's discuss steps you can take to being more efficient in your content batching:
1. Mark off one entire week for content batching each month.
2. Look at the content you're putting out and cut it in half.
3. Stop reinventing the wheel—just keep saying the same things over and over.
4. Do the work and batch the content during batch week.
These steps will help ensure that you're efficient, focussed, and strategic.
If you're still struggling with the content batching process, you can head over to amandawarfield.com/jessica to grab the first lesson of Amanda's Club Content Batching for free!
Catch the Show Notes:
Get to Know Amanda & Her Mindset (3:01)
Determining When to Say Yes/No to Opportunities (7:59)
What Amanda is Batching (9:11)
The Impact of Consistency in Content Marketing (11:08)
Common Mistakes in Content Batching (18:55)
Steps to Being More Consistent in Content Batching (24:57)
How to Ensure You're Consistent in Batching for the Rest of the Year (28:15)
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Transcript for Episode 155:
Jessica Rasdall 0:00
As a business owner and a speaker, there's a lot that goes into creating content beyond our signature presentations. So how do we get off that hamster wheel of content creation and find a flow that is consistent and impactful? Well, on today's episode, we're going to talk about it. Let's discuss. Welcome back to another episode of The speak to scale podcast where we're helping small business owners just like you grow and scale their business by speaking on stages, podcasts, webinars, and more. I'm your host, Jessica Rasdall. And I am so excited to introduce you to today's guest. See, Amanda is a simplicity, focus time management and business strategist. And she's the host of chasing simple, a podcast that helps creatives uncomplicate their life and business. But Amanda Warfield is also a good friend of mine, a raving fan of this podcast, a longtime listener, and a member of our speaking strategy Academy. Now, Amanda has really mastered the art of simplicity when it comes to business, and she's a pro at batching content and helping small business owners get a handle on that hamster wheel of content creation. So I've brought her in today to share with us some strategies for how to free up space in our calendar. So we can dedicate more time to speaking and growing our company, and how we can be more intentional with the content we're putting out into the world. So if you have ever struggled with creating content or thinking about what you're going to post today, what you're going to share next week, today's episode is for you, friend, grab a pen because Amanda's dishing out some great tips for you. listening to the podcast is a great first step, but I want you to go take action. So if you are ready to apply everything you've learned here on the show, listen up, we took all of our best resources, like our plugin, play crafting your story workbook, or how to select your speaking topics, workbook, resources on crafting your talk, finding and pitching events, we put them all together inside of the speak to scale vault, and we put them in order, so you know exactly what to do and when to do it. to scale your business with speaking, ready to unlock the entire vault, head on over to speak to scale vault comm or click the link in our show notes. But be sure to use the code podcast for a special discount for me.
Jessica Rasdall 2:47
Before we get into the nitty gritty about all things batching and content creation, tell us a little bit about you and your business and how batching has really played a role in your business today.
Amanda 3:00
Yeah, well, first, I'm just so so excited to meet you No idea. I've been eagerly awaiting this day for so long. But yeah, so I'm Amanda Warfield. I'm a time management and business strategist. And my big focus is making sure that other creative entrepreneurs can fit everything they need to win their business from a simplicity focus. So content, marketing batching your content. We overcomplicate it 99% of time, and I know that we're going to get to that later. But that for me, when I finally figured that out for myself, it was a huge lightbulb moment of Oh, this doesn't have to be as hard as I've been making it. And so then I made it my mission to make sure that everyone else knew that it doesn't have to be so hard. Because when you batch your content, and you're able to get consistent with your content, and think long term, those are all huge things that made a huge difference in my business. So thinking long term, having to plan in advance made me realize that, oh, all of my strategies, and my marketing strategies need to be planned in advance, in order for me to make sure that I have enough build up for whatever it is that I'm marketing, being able to be consistent made, my audience begin to know like, and trust me, which leads to sales, and which leads to increased revenue and bigger audience and growth and scaling. And not only that, but when I batch my content, that means I have three weeks out of every single month that I can move the needle in my business and I'm able to step away and be the CEO, I'm able to step into the back end and work on whatever projects need to happen so that I'm constantly moving my business forward and not just staying in place.
Jessica Rasdall 4:36
I love that and what I can tell you guys, the Amanda seeking coach, is that so as inside of the speaking strategy Academy, right, like everybody has access to the same stuff, all the same content. But there tends to be there's a difference you can tell in how quickly you have been able to move through the content, how quickly you've been able to To implement all of the content, you've already done a presentation inside of the Academy, you know, you've done a showcase. Like, it's been very clear to me that the way you have your business set up and the way that you set aside time, like you're saying, for those needle moving tasks for those CEO tasks, you've been able to actually implement and see your return and the things you've invested in more than other people, because they're not just collecting virtual dust on your computer.
Amanda 5:29
Yes, 100%. And for everyone listening, a peek behind the curtain, I'm a one woman show, I don't have a VA, I don't have a team behind me, I do outsource my podcast editing. But that's a, she takes eight hours a month off my plate. And that's it. So being able to move through whatever education you're working on. Whatever goals you have, like speaking was a huge goal for me this year, obviously, is an ongoing goal. But that means I had to make time to go through the speaking strategy Academy. Keep up with those calls, make time to pitch myself for different opportunities week after week. And then once I got those various opportunities, I had to have the time to create tweak presentations, make sure I had it perfect for whatever summit virtual presentation or live conference out those are starting back, you've got to create the presentation, you've got to communicate with the host or whoever is organizing the event, you have to show up for the event, it takes a lot of time to be able to do those things. But if you don't have time to do those things, you're not going to see that growth in your business.
Jessica Rasdall 6:37
I cosign all of that. But it's true, I think a lot of times we look at speaking and it just feels so glamorous, right like this big shiny thing I want to do. And we forget that there is a lot of work behind the scenes, and it takes time. And maybe over the last year and a half, we've gotten a little more comfortable because it doesn't take as much time because we're able to do things from home. But now that there will be traveling again, and you'll be having to block days out of your calendar, not just hours from your calendar, I think the more space you can create in your week, the more you have an opportunity to say yes to the right things. No, I'm crazy about that. saying yes to the right things. Because those like you and I have no idea who's going to be in the audience whose life you could change how an opportunity will transform your business because you didn't have the space to say yes to it. So because you have this kind of space in your business, thanks to your magical batching and consistency and all of this stuff working for you. When you are saying yes to an opportunity. How does that feel? Are you stressed? Do you know how to put this on? Like what does that look like for you say, an incoming request comes in or something like this where you are said yes. Like we'd love to have you on the show? What does that look like for you?
Amanda 7:59
Well, honestly, it's as simple as one, making sure it's a good opportunity. You'd be very proud of me today I actually sent back a no, because I realized it was I couldn't teach them what they really wanted me to teach on. Oh, I'm so proud. I'm so proud. But that's the first step, of course, because you've taught me well. But then it's just a matter of looking at my calendar. I know my entire marketing calendar for the rest of the year, because I've taken that time to intentionally plan in advance because you have to if you're going to batch them up at a time, I look at the calendar and say okay, do I have big promotions going on around this time? Yes or no? If not, then it's a yes. And it's as simple as that. Because I know that my batch weeks, those are knows I'm not leaving my office during that time. I'm not presenting during that time. But if it's not a batch week, and I'm not in the middle of a pre launch period, then it's probably yes. And it's that simple once you have it all set up.
Jessica Rasdall 8:53
I love that so much. So okay, let's talk about the content. If you are you know, like you kind of alluded to this already. And I know because I follow you on Instagram and I get to see all the behind the scenes, when you're talking about batching. What does that look like? What are you batching? What What does this process look like?
Amanda 9:11
So as far as what I'm batching it's literally any content that I'm creating, whether you do blogs, podcast, or YouTube is your long form content. It's your long form content, your email newsletter, and your social media content. It's literally any content you're putting out during the month, except stories because those aren't schedulable and offer them which is not meant to be like that. But any other content you're creating. That's what you're doing during that one week each month for you batching and it all gets created and scheduled so that you have to think about content for another three weeks.
Jessica Rasdall 9:45
Oh my goodness after the show. I'm gonna put a pin on this and tell you how I've been batching my stories. I'm going to change your life. It's blowing my mind. But okay,
Jessica Rasdall 10:00
so I think it's easy. Like, I've definitely seen a lot with myself with our students with our clients that when you get to a certain point in business, and your plate just gets more full, right, you're, you're getting, you're seeing traction and you have a lot of clients or you're making a lot of sales, whatever the case may be, that sometimes that content creation starts to kind of not be as much of a priority anymore, you start to think, Well, you know, what the sales are coming in, people are coming in, maybe I could slow down on that. And I know that's not true, right? Because, like, what the sales that we're receiving this month are usually indicating the activity we did the last three months. So there's that. But when it comes to creating our content, if we're wanting to scale back a little or be more intentional with what we're creating, what are the things that we should be or need to be putting into our content to make sure we are consistently growing our audience that we're getting new leads coming in, so that you know, as the months go on, that that source of revenue doesn't trickle out?
Amanda 11:07
Yeah. Okay. So I want to go back, because I think you kind of skimmed over a really important point there is that content marketing is a long game. And what you're putting out this week isn't affecting this week, in this month, it's affecting a few months from now, because your content is nurturing your audience and warming up your audience for you. So even if you've got a great month happening right now, and because they're so busy, you want to scale back, you're actually harming future you and future use business. But the the two things, there are two things that your content needs to have in order to keep growing your business. And the first is consistency, continuing to show up for your audience. If you're dropping weeks with your podcasts, and you're just oh sorry, guys, I just got really busy and I downtime. That's a huge problem. Because consistency is what builds the know like and trust factor. It's not how much you engage with them, although you should engage with the audience. But it's not any of these other things that we get taught. It's the fact that you're showing up for them. When you've said you're going to show up for them. So when you hop on Instagram, you're like, Hi, Mia, don't tell people that if they didn't notice great, but don't know that you weren't being consistent. That's my biggest pet peeve. Show for your audience when you say you will. Now here's your permission to show up less than you think you need to. We get told all the time that you need to show up on all these different platforms and you need to show up all the time you need to be five days a week on Instagram every single day on stories, make sure you're showing your face. Your YouTube needs to have three episodes per week. And if you've got a podcast every single week, guys, you have to show up that often you don't have to show up constantly, in order to be consistent. All's your audience needs is consistency. And if you are only showing up once a month, if you're only putting out one podcast episode a month, that's okay, as long as you've set that expectation with your audience and they know to expect one a month now. This podcast is one of my favorite podcasts ever. But my other it's true. The old episodes. My other favorite podcast is Pixy dust in profits, and they're a bi weekly show. And every Tuesday is episode day, or am I disappointed because it's not episode day in every week, I'm still so excited. I've been listening to this podcast for multiple years now, I'm still so excited, despite the fact that they're not posting every single week. So here's your permission, that you don't need to post to ideal standards, you just need to create a schedule that you can stick to consistently. And then the other thing that you we've got consistency, that's the first thing your content needs. The second thing is that it needs to be high quality. So often we get told you need to have buckets, and you need to be educated or you need to be motivated, you need to do this kind of this kind this kind. Just listen to your audience and put out high quality content that you know about and that you can actually teach on and educate on. And if you're posting high quality content, your people will find you and they will share. In order to help grow your business they're going to do that word of mouth sharing for you don't focus so much on Okay, I need to have this type of content and this type of content because frankly, there are some educators that are great motivational speakers. And I think you've talked on this recently, Jessica, there are different speaking tiers, not everyone is going to teach in the same way it's going to put out content that's the same. I'm not a motivational speaker, I'm a very like ABCD educational Here you go, here's what you need. And if I'm trying to do motivational content, it's gonna it's gonna fall flat because it's not going to be high quality because it's not my strong suit. So here's your permission. You don't have to post as much as much as you think you do, as long as you're consistent. And you don't have to make your content plan super complicated as long as what you're putting out is high quality.
Jessica Rasdall 15:00
Oh my goodness, I love that so much. I love that you love the podcast. I know you've been a longtime listener, it's so fun to have you on. I'm so glad we could have you on. But I get those DMS every single week, Wednesday mornings like they I get DMS from some of our very loyal listeners before I'm even like up an Instagram because we set our podcast to go live early in the morning on Wednesday. But there are certain people who it's part of their Wednesday routine, whether that's driving to work or dropping off the kids or in their morning walk, but it's a part of their morning on Wednesday. And like that, like knowing that somebody has made your content a piece of their weekly routine, like, you don't want to stop pushing that out. Like that's a relationship whether you know it or not like you're in a relationship with them. Now you got to stick this thing out. I was in a meeting this morning with one of our team members. And she was sharing about a podcast that she is bingeing, that she loves, I guess it's it's not super business II, but it was something that was like a pop up podcast, during lockdown. And they put out two episodes a week. And that every week, she was listening to it when she dropped her boys off. And she was telling me like this was part of our meeting this morning, she's like, I'm just want to tell you that I'm really sad, because this other podcast is ending. And now I don't know what I'm gonna do during that time. It's like, we need to see that we need to really look at our content through our audience's eyes and think about how are they experiencing this? Not just what are we putting out? But how does this play a role in their day in their life and their business strategy, you know, are your newsletters going to a special folder that they're looking at a certain day of the week or is your podcast one that they're listening to while they're working out? Like our content is so much more than checking a box off in our project management software. But it's it's truly the way that we're connecting with our audience that I think if we can start to look at it through that different lens, we can have a different feeling about it. And maybe it won't feel so much just like a task, but more of an activity that we want to be consistent with. So thanks for all those tips.
Amanda 17:21
I think that's a great analogy. And if you think about, if you've got plans for a coffee date with a friend every Tuesday morning, you're not going to just ghost your friend at the coffee shop, you're not going to leave him there hanging, you shouldn't leave your podcast listeners hanging either.
Jessica Rasdall 17:37
It's a big pet peeve of mine of like, you know, like, obviously, I research podcasts and speaking opportunities all the time for you guys. And I'm trying to look for places where we can pitch ourselves. And when you go and you start doing research on podcasts that you might want to be on. And you see that all of a sudden, like they just stopped putting out podcasts. I'm like, how could they do that to their listeners, like know that I will never do that to you guys can I promise I will never do that I will never do that I won't. I will never just give up. If I'm going to close the show, I will at least give you an episode explaining why I promise. I'm doing that to our relationship. So that's a big pet peeve for me when it comes to I'm not perfect. I am not like content is not my strong suit. But I do look at the podcast as a relationship with my people. And I'm not going anywhere on that. So for you, being someone that works with business owners and creating that consistency and simplifying these different parts of their business, especially their content, where and how are we as business owners and speakers going about batching or content creation the wrong way? Like what are those common mistakes that you're seeing that maybe we can correct or avoid?
Amanda 18:55
So the first is trying to do too much at once, which we've covered a lot, episode. But that's the big one is every single student that goes through my membership is doing entirely too much content. And a lot of times, they'll go through the simplification process, and then I have to send them back to it because there's too much you can only handle so much, especially those of you that are solopreneurs and your one woman shows or one man shows you can only put out as much as you can put out. Okay, so stop spending days and days and days every single month, creating content that you really don't have time for. Second thing is that one of the objections I hear most often is I batch a week at a time. That's plenty. But what happens if you get sick? What happens if Monday is your batch day and that's where you're doing all of your content creation for the whole week. What happens when next Monday you're sick, then you have no content for an entire week. What happens if your child gets sick or breaks an arm and you've got to spend the day in the gym Emergency Room What if you know your car died, there's 1,000,001 life emergencies that can happen, where you just can't get into the office that day. And then, oh, all of a sudden, you're behind, you're stressed because you have no content for the week. But now you also have all this other work that you had planned. And you have to decide, do I move the needle and not show up for anybody? Or do I take a day to create this content, and then have only this much time now to work on moving the needle before I jump right back in to content creation. And also, if you're doing it one week at a time, you're going to get burnt out really quickly. Because it takes a lot of creativity, to create content, you've got to be in this creativity mode. In order to do that. If you're trying to make yourself be creative, every single week, you're going to be so burnt out really, really quickly, which is why people tend to just abandon ship. And then the third biggest problem I see is that people aren't looking forward enough with their content, because they're creating one week at a time. Okay, what am I doing this week? Well, I want to say this week, maybe they're looking at next week. But when you're only creating one week at a time, you have a very narrow focus in viewpoint for what your content is saying. Whereas realistically, content alone game, so you should be thinking at least a quarter ahead, if not more than that. What's coming up, and what should I be slowly bread crumbing?
Jessica Rasdall 21:26
You know, I love that so much. And I can't take credit for that, because I don't do that. But Latasha, listen, she is our like content. We had adjure and copywriter. And she's amazing. And I love her. But we do we have meetings and plan it the minimum, the next quarter of content, like we're talking right now at the very end of June. But I know what we're putting out there October, at least. And it's really giving her the control on that and letting her say back into it all has helped. Give me the space for that creativity, because I'm no longer stressing about when it's time for me to sit down in batch, not stressing about what is it? What am I talking about the right stuff? Are we going to, like we don't even live launch? Oh, I don't have to worry about that. But like our stuffs always open. We're not launching,
Jessica Rasdall 22:18
I am not doing that anymore. But oh, but I don't even have to worry about that. But for me the idea of Am I taking intentional action with this content? Am I just talking about stuff to talk about stuff, and knowing that there's a long term plan. And that the stuff that we're putting out fits into that plan allows me as this, you know, squirrelly seven, to have a little bit of a box to be creative with it. And for me, like I need that box. It allows me to create better content. I think that when we have some parameters, I'm not saying to be like, over sketch because I'm, I'm a seven, I'm gonna book that so hard. But like overscheduled. But having that guideline, knowing you know what the next step is for our audience. I truly feel that those those parameters allow make being creative easier, if that makes sense. Do you? Are you the same? Because like forced creativity is hard.
Amanda 23:18
Yes. Yes, absolutely. Yeah. And heavy. It's like the idea of niching down, the more you niche down in whatever your your topic is, or your audiences, the easier it is to know what to say because you have those guidelines, and you've still got flexibility because any schedule that zoom rigid, any anything super rigid, you got to have flexibility, or else anyone's gonna buck it. It's just doesn't. It's stressful and overwhelming. But giving yourself some guidelines. And some idea of these are the specific things. But also within these specific things. There's so many things I could talk about, that's when you get really great content is by narrowing in on whatever it is. But if you were to talk about speaking and for any business, in general, any person ever really wants to be a speaker, it's a little harder to know what to say to them. But when you narrow down into creative educators, oh, I can talk about digital marketing. I can talk about how to make space in your business. I can talk about what types of presentations work well, because it's a narrow audience versus trying to talk to everyone. It's the same kind of thing there.
Jessica Rasdall 24:24
Yeah, I think I love it so much. Because it is it's overwhelming to sit there and be like, well, what am I gonna post about today? That could be 3 million different things. So what if, what about our listeners who right now are saying okay, SOS Amanda, I'm, I'm on that hamster wheel right now. Like, how do I get off? Like, how do I start to make the shift from doing it on the fly or batching week by week like you're saying how can I start shifting to a place where I'm being more intentional and more consistent.
Amanda 24:58
First thing I want you to do is I want you to go Do your planner, your calendar, whatever. And mark off one week for batching your content, choose a week, don't schedule anything else at all. Don't schedule summits or interviews, or doctor's appointments or anything like that, keep that week open so that all you have to worry about is batching your content and put that on your calendar, and then put batch week, during that same week for the rest of the year in every single month so that you have that space in your calendar to actually do the work, then I want you to look at what you're actually putting out how much content are you attempting to put out each week each month, cut it in half. Seriously, just do it, cut it in half, do way less than you think you need to, then I want you to stop reinventing the wheel. This also is similar to what we were just talking about what the hell, what do I talk about today, stop trying to come up with new things to say and keep saying the old thing over and over and over. Because the way you become an expert and people begin to see you, as whatever it is you're trying to be seen as is by saying the same thing over and over. And over. If I just talked about content batching one time, people would be like the talking about one time and then they will never remember that I talked about it. I'm so tired of talking about content bashing realistically, because it's all I've done for a year and a half now. But every day someone new finds me, and they need to hear that same thing. So stop reinventing the wheel. And just keep talking about whatever it is that you're talking about over and over again. And then that last thing is to actually do the work in batch the content during the batch week. Because a lot of times, we want to go off and do this. So when do I have to research all this stuff, and all I need, I need to come up with all these ideas just didn't work. Just sit down and do the work. Turn off your notifications and get busy.
Jessica Rasdall 26:54
Oh my goodness, I love that. And I can say on like the flip side of that. As an introvert. I find that those batch weeks are like the ultimate recharge week. Two, I don't know about you. Like I know content. creating content is exhausting. But it's a different kind of exhausting. And not having any meetings or appointments or podcasts and interviews or like showing up that way. It is magical. Like it just feels like oh, we get the spa almost done for your business.
Amanda 27:36
The introvert in me does love looking at a blank calendar like, ooh, all I have to do is work on my to do lists this week. Okay.
Jessica Rasdall 27:44
Bring on the battery. It feels so good. Okay, so let's say one last thing is if somebody is like, Okay, great. I did that once. How can we ensure that we're going to be more consistent? And why is that so important? Because I know you've mentioned it quite a few times today. But I want to make sure we leave here with that top of mind. Why is being consistent with this so important? And how can we hold ourselves to it?
Amanda 28:15
The biggest thing to hold yourself to it is to put it on your schedule for the rest of the year right now. So that you have that week set aside and so that when it comes time to make your next doctor's appointment, you see Oh, I can't do it during that week, because that's my batch we get it's already on your calendar, you're more likely to follow through with it. And the reason that consistency is so important is again, because consistency is what builds the know like and trust factor. It's what showcases you as an expert in your field. And when you have that know, like and trust. And when you are seen as an expert, that's when people start to actually buy from you, that's when they start to invest in you and your products and your services. But if you're not consistent, people aren't going to see you as an expert. And every time you don't show up when you say you're going to you eat away at that foundation of that relationship. So don't ghost, your audience. Don't leave them hanging at the coffee shop, and make sure you're being consistent.
Jessica Rasdall 29:13
Okay, so first off, I can't say thank you enough for joining me today. One, I just adore you. You're the best. I love having you in the academy. I love being your friend. I love that you're an avid listener of the podcast, and it's just so cool to have you on the show Finally, so thanks for coming on. Thanks for sharing all your genius with us. But for everybody else who's like just meeting you for the first time and they want to go down the rabbit hole. Where do they go? How do they follow you? Where do they learn more? Tell us all the things.
Amanda 29:42
Well first, I am just so thankful to be here. I keep like looking back to when I first started listening to this podcast and I was out taking walks around the neighborhood because we were living with my parents in the middle of a transition from my husband getting out of the Navy to figuring out where we were going next. This podcast was My refuge a lot of nights to get out of the house and be that introvert. So looking back on that I just can't believe I'm here. Oh, my goodness. You can all find me over on Instagram. I'm at Mrs. Amanda Warfield. And I'm always happy to answer questions, send me a DM and say hi, I would love to know that you found me here. And I'd love to chat.
Jessica Rasdall 30:20
And then I think you have a way that we can start taking some action when it comes to learning about batching. Right?
Amanda 30:26
Yes, absolutely. So I have opened up the first lesson in my membership club content batching for free for everyone to go check out if you had to Amanda Warfield comm forward slash Jessica, you can get in there and this is his absolutely free. There's no gimmicks No. If you don't cancel within a certain number of days, you automatically get enrolled or anything, nothing like that. It's purely you can go take that free first lesson and check it out.
Jessica Rasdall 30:52
That is amazing. And we'll link all of this in the show notes. So you can easily just go click and binge and go connect with Amanda again, I just I can't say thank you enough. This is such a treat. Thank you. Thank you so much for tuning into today's episode of The speak to scale podcast. It would mean the world to us if you could just take a second and head on over to iTunes and leave us a review. Your support of this show allows us to continue creating this content for you each and every week. And we appreciate your reviews and you sharing about the show more than you know. As always, I will be over here cheering you on friend. I'll see you next week for another episode of The speak to scale podcast.
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