10 Steps To Turn Your Skills Into a 6-Figure Income as a Business Advisor
Jul 08, 2025
1. Discover what you're good at.
▪️You can't be good at everything. (good news: you don't need to be.)
▪️Ask others for candid "tell me if my baby's ugly" feedback.
▪️Listen for trends.
▪️At this point in life, you probably already know.
▪️Learn AI as quickly as you can.
2. Share your knowledge in public.
▪️Share your best, but not all of it.
▪️Share it consistently through social media, speaking, writing a blog, podcasts, networking, etc.
▪️Not all at once. Pick one and win a couple of clients first.
▪️Edify your employer and make your emerging brand valuable to them.
3. Attract people who have expensive problems and the money to solve them.
▪️Identify your ideal client avatar.
▪️Talk to as many as possible with no intent to sell. Just find out what their pains are. Use The MOCAA Method™
▪️Find out what it's worth to them, financially and emotionally, to solve their problems. That's where your new income lives.
▪️Build and nurture your list of these people as fast as you can.
4. Create an irresistible offer.
▪️Make your solution easy to understand.
▪️Make the transformational journey clear.
▪️Remove the risk for the buyer.
▪️Create a clear call to action.
5. Think of sales as leadership.
▪️Salesmanship and leadership, if done correctly, are impossible to tell apart.
▪️Reframing sales as a leadership process is critical in order to sweep out the head trash about this.
▪️Use my leadership conversation framework.
6. Create a transformational experience.
▪️Prospects don't care about you. They care about themselves and their pain.
▪️They're living in an emotional whirlwind.
▪️Provide a transformation experience that is as easy and painless as possible to move them from negative to positive emotions.
7. Write a story about your client's transformation and the better life you helped them create.
▪️Social proof is powerful. Prospects are asking, "Who's gone before me and experienced the outcome you're promising?"
▪️Show them as many as you can.
8. Ask for referrals.
▪️The best time is when your client is happy in their new and better place.
▪️Create a referral system.
9. Repeat steps 1 through 8
▪️Refine the process using the PDCA framework.
▪️Focus on the 20% that creates the 80% of your results (most leverage.)
▪️Eliminate, delegate, or automate the rest.
10. Live your life
▪️This one is all you have.
▪️Trust relationships are the only thing of real value in life.
▪️Build a business that's yours and allows you to maximize the time you have with the people in your inner circle.
▪️Entrepreneurship isn't for the faint of heart. It's okay to stick with employment income. Just make peace with its downside.
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