Jesse and Richie stretch their internet marketing brain muscles today to provide advice to a site where
Hear from Antonette Montalvo who is a community health consultant and life coach for nurses. She has helped nurses find their calling beyond just nursing.
She uses 黑料门 to sell her
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Jesse: Richie, Happy Friday.
Richard: Happy Friday. We鈥檙e back again.
Jesse: Back again, another podcast. I鈥檓 excited about it.
Richard: Yeah, it鈥檚 fun. We always love helping 黑料门 users and we鈥檙e always looking for someone using 黑料门 in a unique way. I think we found one.
Jesse: Yeah. Interestingly, we had some merchants on recently and people were telling their story and I think that caused a rush of people submitting their information to the bottom of 黑料门.com/blog/podcast because we had several people submit and I had to actually choose between them. That鈥檚 a new thing and today鈥檚 guest is an interesting case because normally we have people that are pure
Richard: Yeah, I should be selling something to this audience I have.
Jesse: Yeah, I think a lot of people, that鈥檚 their journey, they鈥檝e built this whole following and they鈥檙e telling people how many followers and things they have and then someone鈥檚 like: Well, how much money do you make? Oh yeah, I should probably sell something on here too.
Richard: Sell get some affluence along with that influence.
Jesse: For sure. Also if our guest was probably doing that and then sold like an
Antonette: I鈥檓 doing great. Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it.
Jesse: Awesome. We appreciate you being on the show and your website is VisionaryNurse.com.
Antonette: Yep, that鈥檚 it. That is what I focus on, that鈥檚 my realm. I鈥檓 all about taking that visionary approach and using my vision to help elevate others.
Jesse: Awesome. So give us your story, obviously you must be a nurse.
Antonette: Yes, I am I guess. Gather that from the website although some people may not be able to gather that but yes, I am a pediatric nurse practitioner by trade. Nursing was my second degree. Education was my first, and I always had this passion for blending health and education in some unique way to better serve my patients and to improve access to care. And so through a series of events I found myself branding myself as the visionary nurse and working as a consultant and a coach, a mentor for nurses.
Jesse: All right. So coaching a mentor for nurses so how鈥 Go into more detail on that. So I鈥檓 a nurse, I need a mentor. How do I know I need a mentor? And what kind of mentorship would you provide?
Antonette: Right. So I guess I鈥檇 answer that question. A lot of it comes from the backstory of how I got into it to begin with. I wasn鈥檛 intending on getting into a small business or even necessarily holding a small little shop as you mentioned, or having some 黑料门 use in order to launch something. But it ended up happening that way through a series of events. As a nurse practitioner, I was always very focused on community health as well, and wanting to see more beyond just the clinical setting, beyond what I could do in that short
Jesse: OK. That really helps. Yeah. Because I understand it where you might think most people that are listening right now be thinking like: Oh yeah, I went to the doctors and the nurse is the person that helps you out with various different things and that鈥檚 it. The thing I was thinking of as this basically allows every nurse that you work with to essentially scale. Beyond the 15 minutes they have with the patient, they want to do more. And this allows them to scale in whatever direction they want. It just sounds like you don鈥檛 necessarily have a Here鈥檚 the course, you must follow. It鈥檚 more Tell me what you want to do and I can help you get there.
Antonette: I think you nailed it spot on. I think you should be my marketer. And that鈥檚 a perfect way of putting it. It鈥檚 really saying that we all can create a vision and a plan, and we can utilize our skill set and seeing nursing and what you learn as a tool, and not only just your profession. And also to not necessarily limiting it to what you think you should be doing but really honing in on what are your passions in addition to this. How can you best utilize it, so that you feel that you鈥檙e not stuck when you need to pivot. And I鈥檓 sure everyone runs into that place where I need to redefine myself but I just don鈥檛 know how. For a lot of nurses a lot of times it might just mean switching departments. Maybe I work in the ICU and I need to work in the ER or I need to go from working with adults to children. But it鈥檚 even looking one step further beyond that and say You know what, maybe I could be a nurse and be in business or I could be a motivational speaker. How do I need to think about that? What are some of the steps that I might need to practically take but also how can I show that there are lots of ways to influence health care beyond inserting an IV or taking a temperature?
Richard: Yeah, and your leading by example here too because you realized, you thought you knew what exactly you were going to do and then you took a leap. You moved to a rural — I thought I鈥檇 be able to speak being a podcaster — rural town. And all of a sudden you realize what you thought you were gonna do transformed and that鈥檚 the nature of an entrepreneur. You set out with a goal, you start to do things and then entail you actually doing the things. You don鈥檛 really know what鈥檚 going to pop up. You think what your market is but your market started to talk to you and tell you. It sounds like what we鈥檙e needing these other things, we need to learn more about what you鈥檙e actually doing now, not this other thing. And it鈥檚 one of the beauties of 黑料门 and why we were excited about having you on is we don鈥檛 want to always have the same merchant on talking about the same thing, following the same process, because no entrepreneur actually ever does follow that same path. And what I wanted to know, just to bring back to 黑料门 for a moment here, is at what point did you start to realize I鈥檓 saying the same thing over and over again and I need to put this down in some format where I can get them to go download this book or buy this book? So although I can tell in your voice you have a passion and you would gladly say it over and over again. At what point did you realize: It鈥檚 probably a good idea for me to to get this down on paper get it down digitally and get it to people?
Antonette: No. And I think definitely again you guys are good at determining what people need to know but it鈥檚 just that I鈥檓 passionate about it one way or the other. But I recognized that in order for me to reach more people because it seemed like there were several and it just continued, nurses that kept wanting to hear this. How can I help people access this, whether they can contact me or not. And so I think when I first started off in this journey a portion of it. Again entrepreneurship wasn鈥檛 on my first track and like you mentioned it was definitely leading by example in many ways. I relocated to start a Community Health Initiative and I didn鈥檛 think it was about starting a business. It was just about wanting to do something innovative in terms of providing health care whether through workshops, whether through interfacing with students on vision plans or working within the local library to find ways to better manage illnesses and chronic diseases. I found out that maybe I could reflect on my process and a lot of it also came from just a lot of rejections trying to figure out what to do or just feeling a lot of resistance or pushback. And so I started writing down these notes of my
Jesse: Well, that鈥檚 awesome. It鈥檚 a very inspirational story and I think it speaks to a lot of things. But I can see it from the鈥 For me attaching in to the online world, Rich is more the emotional one, he鈥檚 going to get mushy. But for me I am more the facts side. So you went from a place where you were able to talk to people one on one on this and maybe you did some workshops and some speeches and such, but now taking this online and then taking it to a book, you鈥檙e able to affect such a wide amount of people.You must have customers all over the world, all over the country that are giving you positive feedback on this. Are you feeling like you can tell that it鈥檚 made a difference for people鈥檚 lives?
Antonette: Absolutely. And definitely on the business side has been great visibility where I was creating a market that I didn鈥檛 exist in before. This is a talking point. And so it launched me into platforms that I didn鈥檛. I could have gone and gotten organically naturally but it would鈥檝e taken a lot longer. And so now there are people literally from all over the world that can take this and utilize it. And in general there鈥檚 2.38 billion or million nurses, sorry billions probably over the top, million or so. Worldwide, that鈥檚 a huge market. And there鈥檚 this huge push for nurses right now in understanding leadership and innovation. And the world organization just declared the year 2020 as the year of the midwife. So this is urge of nurses as innovators and as leaders in certain spaces to be able to train even just their sphere of influence where they may not have resided before. So on a practical sense it really helped giving me a speaking place. The author events or web workshops as you mentioned, viewership conferences and being able to take a very tangible thing, utilize it as a product that someone can take home and say I can use this to build my own platform wherever I am.
Richard: I have a question for you. First off, thank you for that. That actually provides a little bit of insight as to why I ask this question now. The book gave you platform, you get to speak on other stages, you have access to getting in front of these people. There鈥檚 people who want to hear more from you now that used to, maybe never even know that you were even doing something like this. We want to be able to help offer you some advice and but I want to know a little bit about what the main product is. What helps you most? Does it help you most to move the book so you get people on an email list and you market your coaching to the email list? Do you want to get this book in front of other speaking associations or nursing associations so you can get on more stages? I鈥檓 sure you would also say all the above sounds great but what鈥檚 the main goal and what would help you most? We鈥檒l give you a couple of techniques and then let you get back to your vision right now.
Antonette: I definitely think that latter option is where all the more I want to see it in academic institutions, associations and releasing it as a resource that can get to especially nurses in transition or in student nurses who are still trying to figure their journey out and know where to go next. So that they have something tangible from the get go. I think that鈥檚 probably even just making sure that I鈥檓 marketing in the right way in context because being for newbies and a lot of ways. I mean the social media platform a lot, I鈥檓 creating videos, I am interfacing on Twitter a lot, LinkedIn, every social media venue that exists to word of mouth and finding opportunities that come my way. But really wanting to hone it in so that the right voices are getting it. So that those voices can take it and market it to whatever their sphere of influence is because I can only do so much as one person. I need to get to a big audience, so that I鈥檓 not the only one making traffic but also to there other people who are gravitating towards it that can have bigger options.
Jesse: Got it. So it sounds to me that ideal customer if you will, and it鈥檚 really a follower or a reader or whatever, but I鈥檓 using the word customer but it鈥檚 primarily. And the good thing is I think you can actually target them fairly well. It would be maybe second year nursing students or recent nursing graduates perhaps. That allows you to鈥 People put that on their LinkedIn profile or they put that, probably don鈥檛 put that on Instagram necessarily, but I believe that there鈥檚 probably a lot of ways to target people who are either in nursing school or just recent graduates of nursing. Would you say those are the primary people you want to influence first?
Antonette: Right, definitely. That is a testing ground for those folks who need something moving forward in nursing career.
Richard: And then if you took that audience, is it fair to say you start to build a mailing list of them and or you鈥檙e doing some sort of a targeting campaign on LinkedIn or Facebook? Then you could take that, build your audience and then now also go to these associations and then maybe strategically target the people who throw, run the event or create the events to actually then show them. Oh, she has this following and she鈥檚 got a passion for it. She wants to help. They鈥檙e always looking for speakers, I鈥檓 sure because I鈥檓 not a nurse but I鈥檇 imagine there鈥檚 intel you鈥檙e doing something like what you鈥檙e talking about is probably more or less the same conversation over and over again. But I鈥檓 not in it so I don鈥檛 know that for certain. So would you say that those would be the two main markets that the person who鈥檚 second year in and trying to find their unique point in their unique鈥 I don鈥檛 know what鈥檚 the world鈥 Unique place in the space of nursing and then also getting in front of those associations. Will those be the two main places you would like to get in front of?
Antonette: Definitely. And I鈥檓 recognizing as it鈥檚 moving forward and focusing even more in the business. It鈥檚 the nurses and be the university level and incorporate into a curriculum or may mean a hospital orientation in orienting their nurse. They鈥檙e going process online, it is also included in that process for their new nurse.
Richard: Yeah. First, I would ask, are you aware of Facebook pixel? Do you have your site? Do you have a pixel on your website that you can actually track people that have ever seen you on Facebook or senior page you could remarketing on Facebook?
Antonette: I don鈥檛 have that now.
Richard: All right. We鈥檒l make sure we get you the blog post too on how to go through that whole procedure. It鈥檚 pretty basic but one of the things for sure if you鈥檙e driving people to your website. One of the things that you鈥檇 want to do is make sure that you can get your message back in front of those people one more time. It鈥檚 one of those things where you can鈥檛 really go back in hindsight. I鈥檓 sure you鈥檝e driven a bunch of traffic there already but moving forward, it鈥檚 just one of those things that everybody should have this pixel put in place already. The day you do decide to market, you could market to people who鈥檝e already been to your website and may or may not have bought.
Antonette: Right. OK.
Jesse: Definitely get the Facebook pixel on because there鈥檚 a lot of things you can do with that too. You can build lookalike audiences. I do have a hunch though that the book is fairly inexpensive. The bookings that requires local. So it might not be sustainable for advertising. Just being honest, it probably doesn鈥檛 scale well for advertising because you need a high average value per per customer. One thing I could see you doing here is taking this a little bit to the next level. You have a book, and you have, you speak and then. But I think there鈥檚 this big middle ground in there, which would actually help drive a following. And that would be some sort of a mini course or some sort of thing that can spread virally. So maybe it鈥檚 a Hey, you鈥檙e about to graduate from nursing school, have you consider options for the future, take this ten question quiz to help put you in a certain category. I don鈥檛 know, you need to figure that out but some sort of thing that it鈥檚 done fairly easily online. It鈥檚 free and it鈥檚 only targeted towards people that are either just about to graduate nursing school or have just recently graduated and maybe that helps them in some way. It鈥檚 probably a smaller way than them meeting with you or reading the whole book but at least it provides some little bit of value and you get their email and you start building a bigger list and it potentially spreads virally. If I鈥檝e found value from this as a nursing student and I鈥檓 like: Oh, that was really great. I鈥檓 gonna forward it to all the people in my class. And next thing you know you have a list of 50 people from that one person on on your email list.
Antonette: Actually, that makes sense and that鈥檚 something that I haven鈥檛 necessarily tried effectively. I think how to build an email list because out of folks who are following what I鈥檓 doing, but I鈥檓 not capturing them effectively to keep that in a space that I can react to them again so that they think about what I鈥檓 offering. And the other pieces that I have recognized that can expand my coaching services more remotely and that there is even an audience that鈥檚 virtual. Depending on the situation or what鈥檚 the principle. There鈥檚 our membership, it is like that. So you鈥檙e definitely going in the direction where I feel like I need to go. It鈥檚 just practically making that happen.
Richard: One of the things I would also recommend when it comes to the content creation is just the title alone, Visionary Nurse, although I鈥檓 sure you have鈥 You sound very smart. I鈥檓 sure you know much more than Jesse and I as far as probably the human body and how things work and all that stuff so. But you鈥檙e also talking with another group of people that probably have a lot of the knowledge. The information what I think would be unique when it comes to content creation for you. We have a never ending debate around here, just podcasters in general on what do you lead with. Do you lead with information, do you educate people or do you entertain people? And in the ultimate scenario, you want to do both. It鈥檚 not like you want to do one or the other but we also see part of why we pay so much to go to sporting events and there are people who are famous just for being famous. Productions and these different people that they鈥檙e just entertaining. And so I tend to if you can find what uniquely keeps people entertained to pay attention to, education will just come with the territory. And I know that there鈥檚 a never ending debate. People say it鈥檚 should be the other way. But when Jesse was mentioning viral, it made me think about this because every single study that I can find, when it comes to creating a viral video, I wish you could just say This is the formula but it can鈥檛 really say that. But there have been five things that have come out of. Every viral video has one of these five things and potentially if they have all the five things, it can even go more viral and so one is an adventure. And a sense of adventure is a sense of taking someone on a journey. You鈥檙e just sharing your journey, sharing the process almost like you鈥檙e documenting what鈥檚 going on in this whole thing. There鈥檒l be nurses that will jump on board just because of that. That鈥檚 one of a comedy. And although you probably couldn鈥檛 go into a lot of detail and you couldn鈥檛 mention the people I鈥檓 sure there are all kinds of comedic stories when it comes to nursing. I would definitely think about that. Obviously, you鈥檙e going to know where that fine line is more than I. As far as where you should and shouldn鈥檛 do that. But sure there are all kinds of funny stories right through it. The third is like emotion. Just moving people emotionally and it just your story alone has that in it. And back to the same thing I probably wouldn鈥檛 go into the particular stories, but holy moly, of course, there鈥檚 a lot of stories that are emotional when it comes to nursing. Third, excuse me, the fourth word would be inspirational. Your story alone again. There鈥檚 gonna be tons of stories of inspiration with nursing and then the last one is basically going to be a surprise. And even though it might not seem like it on the surface, I think there would be all kinds of stories of surprise. That could be just the story that ended a different way than you thought it was going to end. It was a terminal cancer story and it turned out like this. But you could also see how when you see those other four in front of that, you might be going down the path of the perfect recipe, to be able to cover all five of these. Documenting your story, sharing funny stories that have happened. Emotional stories that have happened. Inspirational stories that have happened. Outcomes that you didn鈥檛 think we鈥檙e gonna happen that happen. I鈥檓 getting chills just thinking of it. But it鈥檚 also鈥 We really do like helping people, I get excited just talking about it with you. I really think you have a perfect recipe if you just focused on those two things for now. First off, kudos on just you being you. Because the one thing that Jesse and I definitely agree on, because sometimes we agree on multiple things, but this thing we do is one of the few things that no one can beat you at. If not the only thing that no one can beat you out is you being you. And it sounds like you鈥檙e very much stepping into. Just you being you and the whole lesson is how can I help these other nurses do what they want to do while they鈥檙e being them? And so if gather that community on social focus on that email list and also focus on how can you create these pieces of content in a way that gets you a group of following of those same nurses. Say that the second year whatever that ends up being that is your perfect target market there. There鈥檚 no doubt that now you鈥檙e going to be a voice in that community of nurses. And it鈥檚 just going to naturally lead to a trail back to your LinkedIn, and associations are going to be reaching out to you because they鈥檙e going to see that same content on there. I just think it鈥檚 a perfect storm for you.
Antonette: I appreciate every single word that you鈥檝e shared. And it鈥檚 incredibly humbling to get this knowledge from you because that鈥檚 what you have to get into a place, where you don鈥檛 know everything and you really need other people to support you in order to execute whatever you鈥檙e trying to do. So everything you鈥檝e said is incredibly helpful but also to just I appreciate the validation and knowing it鈥檚 OK to be you. It鈥檚 OK to be OK, and in terms of where you鈥檙e going, and what you鈥檙e doing. This is valuable for me.
Richard: I would say not only it is important, I actually think it probably is the only way to do it. I won鈥檛 get into political and religious beliefs but let鈥檚 just say, at least for thousands of years, if not multiple thousands of years, if you stood out from the tribe, you鈥檝e got kicked out to the tribe. Now if you don鈥檛 stand out, you can鈥檛 build a tribe and so keep it up. I reached out on LinkedIn to you, so you鈥檒l see me there. And at your leisure, if you want to connect, we can go in more. But we鈥檒l definitely get you some more information on building the list and the Facebook pixels too.
Jesse: For sure, building a list on the internet, you want to have those emails. You might have to give some freebies on the book here and there, but the emails gonna be worth it because you can communicate to them for multiple years. Particularly if they鈥檙e early on in their career, maybe five years later they are ready to hear your message. Maybe at first, they are just like I have to pay for loans, so I鈥檓 just going to work and suck it up. But after four, five years they are at a burnt out stage that you mentioned. And then they鈥檙e like I keep following this Instagram profile with these awesome stories, I鈥檓 ready.
Richard: I would just toss on one thing on top of that because Jesse just actually said a really good point that I鈥檓 surprised we didn鈥檛 say earlier. I would even consider giving out the
Jesse: The book is the new business card.
Antonette: Yes, it鈥檚 is my calling current giving me space to talk in. Then I didn鈥檛 necessarily have something physical to hold onto. I can continue to be consistent whatever I鈥檓 talking about. I鈥檝e definitely toyed around should I release the entire
Jesse: Sure, and I would probably push for not give it away for free because you want to have the perceived value of it as the price on the website. But I would probably give it away more often as a promo in exchange for Send me an inspirational story from your rural situation. Or when you get on something like nurses do their trips and things like that to other countries like Send us a story, an Instagram story and we鈥檒l send you a book. That way you鈥檙e not giving it away for free but in effect, you are actually giving it to the way for free to a lot of people.
Antonette: No, that鈥檚 ideal, I like that idea. Because before any free copies I gave for download was when I would speak at local high schools to high school students. But I think they鈥檙e just not in the space that they need to be yet, they have to figure a lot. But doing more promos as you said and leveraging the following that is there and saying: If you interface with me then that gives more opportunity to get something into your hands too. So I really like that idea.
Richard: That鈥檚 great and just first off again we thank you. I mean it got to be a thankless job at times because you鈥檙e dealing with people going through hard times. I鈥檓 sure it鈥檚 extremely鈥 It feels really good and it probably is really hard at times so we thank you first and foremost for being a nurse. Thank you for continuing to do what you do and trying to inspire other nurses. Please, keep in touch, we will do what we can to help spread the word of this. If you have any other additional questions, anything like that, please, feel free to reach out on LinkedIn.
Antonette: Thank you so much, this is a huge honor. Thanks for taking comments on the nurse unicorn so to speak. I appreciate even just the atmosphere. It鈥檚 really great to reach out and get practical steps of things even though it maybe looks softer than you usually do but this is really helpful and really tangible results. Thanks for helping me use this as a leveraging point to get some solid advice.
Jesse: Absolutely, we鈥檙e happy to help. Antonette, I really appreciate you being on the show. Everybody, check out Visionarynurse.com. For everybody listening, send in your information, we鈥檇 like to have you on the show. Antonette, thank you again.
Antonette: Thank you.