Have you noticed? We’re in the Digital Relationship age. Personal Coach
Don’t know about you, but have you noticed the shift? Wouldn’t you rather do business with individuals instead of doing business with brands?
Before we were in the Information Age, now we are in the Digital Relationship Age.
The thing is, we are learning to feel and share emotions through digital relationships now. With my personal coach and mentor clients, and in classes where I teach a How to Become a Life Coach Certification course, we talk about feeling emotions.
DEFINITION: Giggers – those who have started their own Gig (or want to start a Gig for extra cash) to live the New Gig Economy Lifestyle.
Jack MA says it, but can you apply it in your Gig? More later…
How do you rate? How well do you build up your Digital Relationships?
Remember…
Quiz yourself at this end of this blog to see how you fair?
Doc Warren Lifestyle Coach here…
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Giggers, we still feel emotions online. As The New Rich are effective Entrepreneurs, have learned to keep feeling emotions and building relationships online for experiencing optimal lifestyles.
Today we are aligning our Skill #7: Seeing Your Blind Spots with Gig Business Success Step-5: Enjoy your Gig business optimal freedom lifestyle.
The 5 Steps so you can build your Gig business to the next level and experience your optimal income.
| Step-1: Use inexpensive digital marketing. | (Yes, for local small businesses, you can “set it and forget it” to get your BIG DATA too.) |
| Step-2: Know your CLAN and build them up. | (Get to KNOW THEM WELL.) |
| Step-3: Automate and outsource to streamline processes to reduce wasted activity and space. | (Think Disney or McDonald’s.) |
| Step-4: Scale your business globally. | (E.g. A local bakery can sell an online eBook with recipes and Ideas for Entertaining.) |
| Step-5: Enjoy your Gig business optimal freedom lifestyle. | (Your goal is a 4-Hour Work Week.) |
We are learning to meet new people and create relationships with them online. The kids now are becoming fans with YouTubers like I’m a fan of Lionel Messi. The difference is the kids now can share comments and info from their favorite YouTubers. That is, they can build more of a relationship with YouTubers than I could ever build with Messi.
In school classrooms the kids are using tools to learn about and connect with people from all over the world. The kids love it. When I taught in University, my students used eWorkbooks to take notes, learn, and connect with others around the world in real-time. After getting comfortable, students were asking for more eWorkbooks and for me to teach eWorkbooks to other teachers.
Now friends are happening online. I must admit, online connections don’t feel as close as getting to know someone in person. Also, because the travel time is reduced, I can get to know many more people online faster than in person.
Meeting more people online creates new challenges because it may take more interactions to know someone. My client Nate, told me, “Warren, when we started working on my follow-up email sequence I thought sending 7 emails was a lot. Then I realized that it takes me at least 7 interactions with someone online to know them too.”
How does this relate to your Gig business? If a customers walk in your shop or ride in your Uber, when they leave, they are gone forever if you don’t get their info. The shopkeeper in the old days would create relationships with customers by creating genuine friendships. Now it’s vital to keep in contact and build a digital relationship with customers after they leave your shop. This is what I call building your loyal customer clan.
Now days, imagine if an old style shopkeeper was incredibly efficient and closed every sale. That shopkeeper is still lagging massively behind one who can offer products and services online.
As customers and as shopkeepers we are learning to enjoy digital relationships. In our digital relationships we now expect shorter, more frequent exchanges.
The lesson to learn: We, as customers and merchants, have been building digital relationships for 20 years. For the younger generation that means they have been building digital relationships all their lives. We’ve learned to expect speed and short digital exchanges of value, innovation, and vision.
Last weekend, a prospective client asked me why I offer a risk reversal guarantee. Good question, and I’m glad you asked. I do it to raise awareness. I give a free eBook and a complimentary mentor / coaching session to begin digital relationships. These reduce the pressure on our first meeting. Then we can be feel more comfortable to talk and see if we’re a good digital relationship fit.
Here’s to building your loyal customer clan with digital relationships and to enjoying your Gig Business Optimal Freedom Lifestyle.
The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you’ve got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Jack Ma
Cheers your digital relationships.
All the Best,
Your Personal Coach, Doc Warren
Seeing Your Blind Spots. Exercise #6:
As a Gigger in the global Gig economy, what is your digital relationship building next step for your new Gig, or to raise your Gig to the next level?
Look at these examples where Giggers say they took steps to build digital relationships to feel confident and build their Gig business and support their customer clans.
- I used automatic emails to talk and connect with new customers
- I have an onboarding sequence to introduce myself and help customers feel comfortable
- I offer value and ask for my customers’ preferences so I can hear about their needs
Write 3 Gigger steps you can see you could build digital relationships and tell yourself how you improved to feel stronger to develop your Gig and your optimal lifestyle.
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Look at your list and attack 1 (only one at a time but do try a new one every month) idea to apply this week:
- Write the step where you feel you could build digital relationships.
- List steps you see to build relationship value and hear your customer clan’s needs.
- Give yourself a metric to measure progress. (e.g. I will automate emails so they can feel more trusting.)
- Reward yourself after you have completed your step to build relationships.
Debrief: The point here is to get over your own “NO, I can’t,” response and develop yourself so you can have your business success and your optimal lifestyle.
If you are looking at this exercise and saying, “this feels awkward,” that is good. The important part is you will get used to it, as your life, family, and business depend on it.
The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you’ve got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Jack Ma
NOTE: If you don’t learn to build digital relationships, you may soon join the 80% of small businesses that fail within the first 5 years!
PS: Next time you will learn another step on your Gigger Recognize Your Blind Spots path to success. If you would like more developing your Gig business to the next level and living your optimal lifestyle, email me at drwarren@cict.co.
Hope this helps.
Doc Warren Linger
@DrWarrenLINGER
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Engagement background of Optimal Engagement Lifestyle
As a trainer and university lecturer in the USA, I had great success in my coaching, training, and classrooms by engaging my learners in ways I had learned from my Dale Carnegie Instructor Training. (optimal engagement)
After earning my Doctoral Degree researching engaging instruction in adult education and training and development, I started a training business in Hong Kong.
But something was wrong, I was struggling in this new culture (I’m a cattle rancher’s son from Colorado, USA) to find ways to inspire and motivate my coachees and students in Hong Kong.
With my coachees and in the classroom, I preferred having clients engage in learning activities instead of just talking. This is especially effective to keep clients engaged between coaching calls.
I struggled through trying several paper worksheets and workbooks to guide students, but I wasn’t getting the results I wanted. (junk engagement)
When the smart phone with the ability to search the internet came along, I could see my clients were curating (i.e. searching, finding, collecting, commenting, changing, remixing, and sharing.)
I thought, “Why not do that for learning?”, so I started asking them to answer questions, interact with information and colleagues, and go find examples of the learning content using their mobile devices.
eWorkbook development and success
I began searching for possibilities and I struggled testing several apps, until we created best practices using eWorkbooks, and after testing them, began to use eWorkbooks as my clients always had their devices with them.
Then we used eWorkbooks (Google Forms with the training slides as well as interactive questions, curating links and tasks, example images and videos, etc.) This became powerful for my coaching clients as they were able to share ideas and get the benefits of social learning even though they were not in the training course or classroom.
My clients [Engaging Screenagers] completed eWorkbooks using their mobile devices as they were learning interactively while, at the same time, they were developing habits of learning with their devices (optimal engagement) instead of killing time with them. (junk engagement)
Students used eWorkbooks to while I lead the discussion and guided them, and after they submitted their answers, they would get their responses sent to their inbox so they could review their learning Moments of Growth. (optimal engagement)
Because the students’ responses from eWorkbooks go right into a spreadsheet in real-time, as the teacher I can monitor what students are doing to give them guidance in the moment, as well as track their learning develop over time.
Since those early days, I’ve had great luck supporting my coaching clients and entrepreneur friends use Google forms for 360° reviews for evaluations as well as use eBrochures and eMenus to test new ideas and actively engage and actively interact with customers.
All client info has been scrubbed of identifying information unless they have given me specific, written permission to quote them.
*Entrepreneurial Foundation>Success Skills adapted from World Life Skills Expert, Jill Raiguel’s awesome book, “The Next Step,” (1991) Amethyst Books, New York.
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