…here’s how you can implement this right away

Anette here… 

One of the best ways to educate your audience and sell your services is through online workshops. 

And the reason for that is because learning is more fun when done together. 

In fact studies have shown that when we interact with the learning material, with other people and experience heightened emotions, we retain the information better! 

And all of these are critical if you want to put people in a “buying mood”. 

However when you run any kind of workshop there’s one problem you’re going to face that will affect how successful your workshop is and how many sales you make…

…and that’s how many people actually show up! 

Let me tell you a story about Sally. (Name changed for privacy). 

Sally wanted to run a fitness workshop teaching ladies how to tone up and get fit for summer. 

She posted daily on Instagram for a week, promoting her workshop and driving sign ups. 

All her hard work paid off because she managed to get 100 people on board! 

Then comes workshop day. 

She sends an email on the day to remind everyone that today’s the day their lives are going to change for the better. 

Sally fires up Zoom. 

1 person joins. Then 2. Then 3. A few minutes later, her room is now filled with 10 ladies.

Just 10? Sally thinks…

Surely that doesn’t seem right, there were 100 people registered. 

Maybe they’ll come later?

In fact 10 was the total number of people that came that day and 2 dropped off within the first 30 minutes.

This meant by the time Sally delivered her value and then transitioned to her pitch, only 8 people were present! 

Just 8 people out of a possible 100.

Can you imagine how many more opportunities to sell Sally would have had if her show up rates were higher?

Jumping from a 10% show up rate to 20%, maybe even 30% would have a HUGE effect on her sales.

That’s why fixing this one thing is the key to successful workshops!

So how do you do it? 

One way would be to send more email reminders. You could do it 3 hours before, 1 hour before, then 15 mins before. 

However not everyone opens their emails, especially during busy times of the day. 

But there is something everyone does, all day, every day… check their phones! 

Once you add in SMS reminders, it’s possible to massively increase your show up rates and therefore sales!

Here is a simple template you can use…

It could be as simple as, “Hey Jenny, it’s [Your Name], just a reminder that [Workshop Name] is happening today at [TIME]. Hope to see you there!”

Now normally this would be a huge pain to do. 

You have to get special SMS technology, pay for the service, load up your contacts AND pay for the SMS messages (and hope it works).

For most coaches this isn’t worth the extra effort. 

Luckily we’ve been working on a NEW feature inside the Cohere platform to fix this problem. 

I’m pleased to announce you can now send SMS reminders WITHIN Cohere 🥳

And it’s completely free, included for everyone (you just need to pay for SMS messages, but they’re super cheap). 

This means… 

✅ You can create your workshops DIRECTLY in Cohere

✅ You can create your landing pages inside Cohere… 

✅ You can get sign-ups and collect contact details… 

✅ You can now send SMS reminders to get MAX show up rates…

✅ And then conduct the workshop in Cohere AND sell your courses/coaching after 💰

Our goal is to make Cohere the most powerful platform for coaches, healers and service providers and I believe everything we’re releasing will do that!

With love,

Anette

​​P.S. If you’d like to learn more about Cohere and growing your coaching business, here are some ways we can help: 

1. Learn more about Cohere platform, the all-in-one place to create, launch and sell your coaching services, programs, memberships, courses and more. https://cohere.live/  

2. Book a demo with Anette Oran, Co-Founder of Cohere and see how Cohere can help scale your coaching business. 

3. Discover the Cohere Academy – created for coaches, healers, online service providers to level up, gain new skills and impact their tribe. https://www.cohere.live/academy/  

4. Get access to our Free Training: How to Launch & Scale your Online Offers with Ease here.