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David Ziembicki: As I worked with clients
this past year in our agency program,

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helping them build or scale their expert
businesses one factor stood out between

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the successful and those who struggled.

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In this episode.

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I'm going to show you exactly
what that success factor was and

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how I'm learning from it as well.

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Hi, I'm David Ziembicki and you're about
to learn how to grow from struggling

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solopreneur, to successful virtual
CEO of your own expert business.

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Your knowledge and skills can change
lives and make the world a better place.

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Are you ready to hit the accelerator
to scale your results and impact, and

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it's time to build your expert business.

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Two of our clients.

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Let's call them struggling.

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Steve and successful.

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Sally had different
outcomes in their expert.

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Businesses, both were well qualified
and successful in their careers.

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Steve, in real estate and Sally in a
therapy practice, both had solid ideas

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for taking their businesses online.

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As I worked with both of them on
strategy, helping them build what we

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call their expert business blueprint.

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The detailed plan for their business,
both were proceeding nicely.

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Within a few weeks.

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Hints of the differences between
the two of them started cropping up.

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Sally had already been publishing
a weekly podcast episode for a

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year before joining our programs.

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Steve had done some sporadic
content as they started into the

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first phase of our agency program.

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One of the main activities is providing
input around branding messaging,

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course outlines and content successful.

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Sally always consistently
provided the input we needed.

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While also consistently publishing
her podcast every single week.

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She was a busy therapist and mom, but
published like clockwork, struggling.

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Steve on the other hand was also busy,
but he struggled to provide the raw input

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that we needed in our agency program.

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We have a team of up to 10
part-time resources that

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are assigned to our clients.

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Think tech guy, copywriting,
gal, editing guy, et cetera.

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All they need is the raw input
and expertise from the client.

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And then they do the rest.

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But without that raw input, it's like
having a Ferrari with an empty gas tank.

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the difference in results compounded very
quickly, Sally, since she was building

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and publishing started to see success,
uh, with her audience growth and revenue

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growth pretty quickly within six months,
we'd helped her double her email list

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and launched two new online courses,
which started to grow her revenue.

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Steve used up his time in the program
on just the first two of our nine steps.

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Even with the team, the tools and
the systems we provide, he wasn't

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able to build and launch his program.

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What was the difference between the two,
both were highly qualified and had solid

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business plans, both were in niches
that were, you know, where there were

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plenty of successful online business.

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Both had access to the same team
tools and systems one was successful.

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And the other was not, what was the
difference between the two successful

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Sally took consistent decisive action,
which was then amplified by her team.

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In this example, my agency.

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Every single week, no matter how busy she
provided the input, we needed to help her

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and recorded her weekly podcast episode,
which we then edited and published.

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Struggling Steve tried, but was never
able to consistently provide the input we

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needed and barely produced any raw content
for us to edit and amplify as time went

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on, the compounding effects of consistency
is what helps ally reach her goals.

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As I've worked with clients participated
in some high end masterminds in this.

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And interviewed seven and eight
figure expert business owners.

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This is one of the biggest indicators
of success, consistent decisive action.

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When you look at Russell Brunson, Pat
Flyn, John Lee, Dumas who I've interviewed

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Chris Ducker, who I've also interviewed
and many, many more, they all point

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to their consistency of action as one
of the key factors to their success.

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Publishing content is one of the key
action steps in this particular example

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for all of them, a podcast was one
of their key channels, but the lesson

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holds true for YouTube channels,
blogs and every social channel.

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If you're struggling with
consistency, that's okay.

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We all do.

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I've made some of the same mistakes as
the agency was growing last year, we saw

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success with our advertising strategy
and had a lot of clients signing up

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for our full done for you program.

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I was super busy building our
team and being a strategic

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advisor to those clients.

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I faded from publishing
content consistently.

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This slowed our audience growth.

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And then that wave of new
customers started to ebb.

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The key is not what has already
happened, but what you make happen

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from here forward, I will publish
this podcast at least weekly starting.

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Now, what consistent decisive
action will you take?

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Pick one thing from these three critical
categories, either content and growing

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your audience pitching and selling your
programs or supporting and ascending

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your customers to higher end program.

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Consistent decisive action in those areas
is the key to growing from struggling

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solo preneur to successful virtual CEO.