Rebel Coaching Series 1

Welcome to the Coaching Series!

How This Started

What You'll Learn

At Rebel, we strive to give you the best possible advice for every obstacle you may encounter in your entrepreneurial journey, however, we recognize that sometimes building your business can be a lonely experience. That is why Alan came up with the idea for the coaching series! To let all you entrepreneurs out there know you are not alone. We wanted to do that whilst giving you advice that is applicable to your business and helping you to get going quicker.

How to take the word "side" out of the term side-hustle
Ways to get new customers and grow
Strategies for tackling feelings of overwhelm
Ways to market and sell your business
When it's the right time to quit your job
Why it's a good idea to leave your comfort zone

Our Guest of Honor

Meet Christina Russo, the owner and founder of Fresh Print Media! Christina randomly showed up to a meetup online Alan ran and they got talking about growing Christina's business. Alan thought "why not turn it into a podcast episode that helps other people at the same time?" Over 12 episodes, we witness Christina's transition from a 9-5 employee with a side-hustle, to a full-time entrepreneur!

Listen to her journey for helpful tips and tricks that you can implement for your small business, side-hustle, or business idea. The main thing we want you to do is to take action alongside Christina each and every episode and start to really build the business of your dreams. Join the Rebel Entrepreneurs as they build businesses and make money doing something they love!

Grab a drink as Alan works alongside Christina to build and focus her photography business - Fresh Print Media

Listen to Season One now!

#1: Finding New Customers

The number 1&2 things entrepreneurs need help with when growing their side hustle or launching their own business are Sales and Marketing.
Without customers you don't have a business.
In the first episode Alan coaches Christina through target marketing, the dream 100 client campaign and finding customers

#2: Sending the First Emails

The number 1&2 things entrepreneurs need help with when growing their side hustle or launching their own business are Sales and Marketing. Without customers you don't have a business. In the first episode Alan coaches Christina through target marketing, the dream 100 client campaign and finding customers.

#3: Everything You Want is Outside Your Comfort Zone

Everything you want is outside your comfort zone. Otherwise you would already have it! In this episode we explore making sales fun, reaching out to new people and blowing your own trumpet!

#4: Hunting and Farming

Sales come from two main places; people you know and people you don't! What percentage of your time do you spend hunting for new business? What percentage of your time do you spend connecting with your network and speaking to existing clients? If you aren't hunting and farming how do you expect to have customers?

#5: Should I Quit My Job?

You have started a side hustle. It's going well, you are bringing in money and you are having fun. It isn't quite enough to live on but you are overwhelmed by doing a full time job, running a side hustle, and family! How do you know when it is the right time to quit the day job and go full time on your side hustle? When should I quit my job?

#6: Dealing with Overwhelm

Do you ever get the feeling that there is more to do than can be done? Does it ever get on top of you? Do you feel overwhelmed? Of course you do; you're human! If you are building a business, have a job, and have friends then there is more to do than can ever be done. In this episode Christina and Alan discuss practical methods to deal with overwhelm and make progress on your business on a daily basis.

#7: When Should I Quit My Day Job?

You have a full time job, you have a side hustle, you're making some money in the side hustle, but it isn't quite enough to live on. How do you know when to quit the job and go full time on your own business? In this episode Alan and Christina discuss how to make that decision and the criteria to feel confident going full time in your own business.

#8: Cold Email Marketing

How do you generate new sales opportunities, contacts, and partnership opportunities from thin air? How do you just make it happen? At some point you are going to need to reach out to new people, and this episode shows you the tools needed to get cold email to work for you. Eric Finnigan from Transform Your Copy helps decode cold marketing emails and more.

#9: Give us this Day, Our Daily Sales Activity

If you don't sell you don't have a customer. If you don't have a customer you don't earn money, have a business, or get to do the thing you love. Sales, marketing, and generating business is at the heart of creating the company you want. In this episode we explore authentic sales, daily habits, and marketing.

#10: The New Business Drive

How comfortable are you cold calling people? Sending out cold email? How much of your time do you spend selling, marketing, and growing your business? Sales is the underlying activity that will build your business and it is something that you need to get comfortable with if you are growing a small business.

#11: I QUIT

What's it like quitting your job to go full time on your side hustle? How does it feel? In this episode we get to talk to Christina as she has just quit her job to go full time on her own business, Fresh Print Media, and to work to build her dream life.

#12: The End of The Side Hustle

You are thinking of going full time on your side-hustle? What do you need in place? This episode Alan works with Christina to prepare to leave her employment and go full time on her business. This is where the magic really starts to begin building! We talk smoothing income, things that could go wrong, and being your own supervisor.

Season 2 of the Coaching Series

Season 2 of the Coaching Series has already started! In season 1 we worked with a service business, Fresh Print Media so I wanted to mix things up in Season 2.

Meet Jaymie Dylan and artist from Canada who loves to draw and create but doesn't know which way to go with her art! She really wants to turn this into a full time thing so she can make money doing something she loves but she is a little lost as which way to go!

Join us in Episode 1 where Katie Coombes from Rebel Business School helps us unpick the options and decide where to go next.

see all season 2 episodes

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