Rachel Pedersen, “The Queen of Social Media” is CEO of SocialWorks Digital marketing agency, full-time Social Media Consultant and Strategist, and founder of Social Media United.
Rachel is a top social media marketer and consultant, worldwide viral sensation, and leading authority on storytelling through social media and Facebook ads.
Rachel’s journey began in 2016 while working in her 9-5 (actually, it was an 8-5) day job. Within 6 months she replaced her income and built a clientele that she loved working with.
Rachel is also a mother to 3 beautiful children and wife to her supportive husband!
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Here are a few key secrets we talked about in this episode:
- Michelle introduces Rachel.
- Rachel shares a brief overview of who she is and what she does.
- When Rachel first started out, she wasn’t charging premium prices. She shares how one of her first clients offered her $600 for the month, and she accepted.
- “You cannot convince someone that you’re worth it, if you don’t believe it yourself.” ~ Rachel Pedersen
- Rachel shares how she improved her self-esteem and realized her value and worth.
- The $600 a month client ended up being a true struggle for Rachel, which led her to fire the client, stack her wins and gain other awesome clients.
- Rachel helped a client go from $4k a months in revenue to to $180K a month in revenues, but she still fired them. She shares the FULL story in this episode!.
- Momentum is something you should never let go of. Make sure to maintain it at all costs. Rachel shares how she keeps her momentum’s going every day.
- “If we only do the things we’re supposed to do on the days that we feel like it, we’d only work probably two thirds of the time” ~ Rachel Pedersen
- Music is a HUGE momentum builder for Rachel because she uses it to help replace her soundtrack in her own head with someone else’s.
- Rachel has folders of proposals that she received several NO’s on. It has not been a straight path to success for her.
- Early on in her career, Rachel sent a proposal for $1K a month in fees. The potential client said that was too much money, but then came back recently to ask to work with Rachel again. Rachel now charges $1K per HOUR. Needless to say, the potential client still said NO.
- Rachel has sent out 30 to 50 proposals before she’s gotten a YES.
- Rachel shares three things you can do that will help you start increasing your rates and fees.
- Rachel had to fire a client that wouldn’t respect Rachel’s boundaries (she lost around $12K per month in revenue by turning them down), and tells the whole story in this episode.
- Now Rachel takes the time to share her boundaries clearly, and if clients are unwilling to abide by them she lets them go.
- It’s not worth building a business you resent. Rachel shares how you can create a business you actually love.
- Every time Rachel has let a client go because they weren’t a good fit, a better more qualified lead came around that WAS a good fit and hired Rachel.
- Rachel shares what she would tell her younger self.
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