I get a lot of questions about sales and I've been designing an optimised sales funnel for a while now and I'm hoping I can push myself to start testing it out soon, but I figured why not give you guys a sneak peak into how it would work in case it will be helpful for your business. Okay first off sales funnels are only really useful if you are starting to or wanting to sell at scale, so if you're not at that stage yet, don't stress yourself out. I started my business over three years ago and only feel like maybe now is the time to really push things to the next level. My special sales funnel (currently in theory, testing soon) Step 0 - Be constantly present on social media building my trust and authority (in progress) Step 1 - Create/advertise a highly engaging, high value, curiosity driven live masterclass (30-60 minutes) This will be for free, targeting my ideal clients, they are the top clients I want all the way at the end of this funnel, but you will get a lot of other people coming through that might not be as much of a qualified lead. Sales is a numbers game. I will use organic reach and paid ads to get people signed up to the masterclass and reminders to have them show up. I have not been great with email marketing in the past, but that is also something I want to improve this year. Step 2 - Run the masterclass and tell people there will be a bonus gift for people that stay to the end (and also need to be on the live call, this will help in the messaging ahead of the call to increase show up rate) The bonus gift will be an AI diagnostic prompt to help them identify their personal and business weak points and where AI could be most valuable as well as identifying the opportunity cost of what would happen if they were to delay taking action (this will create a bit of urgency which will be important later) Step 2.5 - At the end of the masterclass along with the AI diagnostic prompt, give them a second bonus (always trying to overdeliver) and invite people to book a free 30 minute AI diagnostic call with me (this is a sales call, but there are lots of names for sales calls now because people do not want to be sold to, but they do want their problems solved and are willing to pay for the solutions. Other names for sales calls you might have heard of; A discovery call, a strategy call, an intro call, a consultation etc)

I absolutely love where I live, but my balcony is not a place I spend any time because it's gross. One downside to living in a penthouse is there is a lot bird poop from the birds that perch in the roof. So I decided as a birthday gift to myself to get the balcony cleaned up and give it a makeover! I used AI to help redesign the space, research items in my budget and render out visuals of the designs as they progressed. It only took a few hours from start to finish when I ordered new flooring, a divider, plant pots, and a furniture set. I'm on my way to B&Q now to grab plants and then we will see how it turns out. AI can help you do amazing things, but in this case, it's just a balcony :) I hope you're having a lovely weekend! Architect Anna

Hello! How are you doing??? How is May going, how are your ideas and goals progressing? Let me know and of course, let me know if you need any help or are feeling stuck! This leads me onto my second point. If there is something you'd really love to hear me talk about at length on my podcast please let me know. The lineup for the next few episodes I've recorded that will be published over the next few weeks are as follows: Ep. 311 - Season 2, Episode 11: Life Architecture 101 - released today 🥳 Ep. 312 - Season 2, Episode 12: Keeping up with AI - Scheduled for May 29th Ep. 313 - Season 2, Episode 13: Hack Your Businesses Success - Scheduled for June 5th Ep. 314 - Season 2, Episode 14: AI Copyright & IP - Scheduled for June 12th Ep. 315 - Season 2, Episode 15: A New AI Business Model - Scheduled for June 19th You can watch the full episodes on Spotify and Youtube, or listen on Apple and Amazon Music. https://www.youtube.com/@ArchitectAnna/podcasts I look forward to hearing how you're doing and if you have any content ideas you'd like me to cover on a future episode! Have a great weekend, you are smashing it! Architect Anna

I have a copilot training scheduled. The company wants to use Teams instead of Zoom. My presentation is created in Canva. I spent—I kid you not—4 hours trying to figure out how to share the presentation via Teams. I finally figured out it only works to share my Canva presentation if I connect with the desktop version and not the browser. Am I missing something? Would love to know if you’ve experienced this too

I published Season 2 Episode 10 of my podcast today about making your goals non-negotiable and honestly… I needed that reminder myself. The last couple of weeks have been a bit all over the place. Recovery from surgery, trying to get back to work, rebuilding routines, creating new partnerships, exhaustion, overthinking, all of it. And if I’m being totally honest, I’ve slipped a bit with posting every single day. After posting consistently for over 18 months, not posting every day has sort of knocked my confidence in myself. So when listening to this weeks episode it actually snapped my resolve back into place and I have recommitted to my non-negotiable of posting daily on social media. It helped me remember why I started all of this in the first place and what building daily consistency really means for my business and my long term goals. Sometimes it can feel pointless to do so much work and not see instant results, but instant results are almost never the way. The opportunities are still coming in, things are still happening in their own time and this is definitely not the moment to slow down or disappear. Life happens sometimes, you slip, you get tired, you forget why you started and you lose momentum for a minute. But the important thing is getting back on track instead of pretending you never fell off. So yeah… this is me getting back on track. And if you’re feeling a bit disconnected from your goals recently too, maybe Episode 10 will help you as much as it helped me today. Watch the full podcast episode here YouTube: https://youtu.be/H-idTF2cxDk?si=_oyOislOlYc3NLW_ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/05pYRwxo90DG826QxmVKhl?si=bf8e5b7d600044a3 I hope you're doing well! Architect Anna