105: Live Launch Vs. Evergreen Sales Funnel. Which Is Best for You?

Have you ever been told to live launch first before you go evergreen? There are definitely pros and cons to each method and quite frankly a lot of misinformation out there. In this podcast episode, I’ll cover when you may want to live launch and when to start with an evergreen sales funnel.

Episode Highlights

• What is a live launch?

• What does an evergreen sales funnel look like?

• When is a live launch a good option versus going evergreen

• What to do first before live launching

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Transcript:

Have you ever been told to live launch first before you go Evergreen? There are definitely pros and cons to each method, and quite frankly, a lot of misinformation out there. In this podcast episode, I'll cover when you may want to live launch and when to start with an Evergreen sales funnel.

First, let's define what I mean when I talk about a live launch.

A live launch involves a cart open and close.

You may have some live webinars scheduled, or you may choose to do something like a challenge where you warm up your audience by providing value over the course of three to five days and then interact with them in a Facebook group. There are a lot of benefits of doing a live launch, including the ability to create a high level of urgency around your cart close date. You also have many options around.

Offering like a limited time bonus or early bird pricing to capture even more of that kind of fear of missing out feeling. In addition, with a live launch you can interact with your audience in real time. This is a great opportunity to gain insight and feedback into their objections so you can address them during a live launch.

This gives you the chance to perfect your webinar or your live launch content so you can get the highest conversion as possible. And with the live launch, you have the opportunity to gain a huge cash injection into your business during that live launch period. So live launches tend to have a higher conversion rate.

Because of this live component, you're working hard.

To build that no like and trust factor with your audience.

Additionally, a live event generates excitement around your course, which helps with your conversion rate.
The cons of a live launch are that live launches can be stressful. You may be doing a live webinar 2 to three times during your live launch or leading along three to three to five Day Challenge event and during your cart opened. You are engaging with your audience to address their objections and present yourself as the expert to help them with your problem.

So you're doing a lot of interactions there, and this is in addition to the weeks and weeks you spent previously getting ready for your launch and warming up your audience. It is difficult to be constantly on during your launch with the other demands in your business in life. Now let's talk about what it means to sell your online course.

Membership via an Evergreen sales funnel. So Evergreen means that your course is available for sale all year round. In many Evergreen sales funnels, this is what that looks like. First you have a lead magnet for your online course. This could be a recorded webinar or some other type of lead magnet like that. Then after the webinar you continue to promote.

For online course or membership until the cart close date for the Evergreen sales funnel. And one thing I do want to mention is that you can still create urgency in an Evergreen sales funnel. For instance, one way to do this is to have a discount if they purchase by the cart close date and then after that date you know they can still purchase but the price goes up.

So let's talk about the benefits of going Evergreen. So Evergreen sales funnel are a lot less trustful as compared to a live launch. So you're spending your time setting up your Evergreen sauce funnel, which definitely takes a good amount of time and then you don't have to touch it except to make tweaks here and there after you're reviewing your sales funnel stats and the biggest benefit with going Evergreen.

Is that you can enjoy sales and new students coming in all year round without you having to put in that extra marketing effort that is required with the live launch. Now the con of an Evergreen sales funnel is that the conversion rate is typically much lower than a live launch event. So without that excitement of the live launch and the ability for you to.

Interact with your audience live while you're still going to get sales. They're going to be much lower now, but no matter what, an Evergreen sales funnel is a great way to infuse cash into your business all year round with low stress.

Now let's talk about when you should you do a live launch versus when should you go evergreen to sell your online course.

Now, for many newer entrepreneurs, I recommend that they start with an Evergreen sales funnel to promote and sell their online course.

And this is a little bit different from some of the advice that you may have been given in the past when you're ready to sell your online course. A lot of times people will say start with a live launch and then Evergreen it once it's converts. But here's why I recommend that you start with an Evergreen sales funnel.

For many newer entrepreneurs out there, and that's because, number one, when you're just starting out, you typically don't have a large enough warm audience to fill up a webinar or challenge group, even if you're running Facebook and Instagram ads. And some of you probably listening here can relate to the story that I'm about to outline now.

Here's a typical kind of a live launch experience for a lot of newer entrepreneurs. So you were told to live launch first, so you gave it a shot. You invited your e-mail list, which is relatively small, and maybe you got around 50 or 100 so registrants and but only a handful of them showed up live.

Not, not. You know, that's pretty normal, right? When you have 50 or maybe even 100 registrants and you maybe you got 5 or 10 sales either on the webinar or through your cell live launch sales funnel, not too bad, but still not the results you were expecting. And that's because to really see the results with the live launch and based on all that work you probably did for that live launch.

You need to have a large enough budgets for paid ads. For example, probably investing $1000 isn't going to cut it in many cases. The other thing you need you need a big enough warm audience to fill up a challenge or a big, you know webinar or challenge type event. The other thing I want you to keep in mind is that people coming into your world through your launch.

Even like through like paid ads, they're likely going to take some time before they're going to convert to a paying students. So if they don't buy in this launch, they may purchase down the road. So a good number to know.

And everybody should know this as you get more data from your sales funnel stats and your e-mail list. So a good number to know is how long do people stay on your list before they end up buying from you.
OK, so even if so, if you do a live launch and you you know you have some ad paid ads and you get some people through your paid ads.

They might not purchase the first live launch that you have. They may purchase, you know, two or three live launches down the road. So all of this is based on my experience as a form of Facebook and Instagram ads consultant and understanding who saw results in their live launches and who generally did not. So going back to kind of what I said earlier.

To be successful in your live launch, you need to have a big enough warm audience. So think about your e-mail list and how long have they been on your e-mail list. And you need to have a good enough budget, a large enough budget for paid ads. And keep investing in those paid ads to get those people warmed up and so they they know, like and trust you.

So my recommendation for newer entrepreneurs who still need to build and warm up their audiences to start selling via an Evergreen sales funnel. And then when you're ready, which means when you have the funds to really invest in paid ads and you've grown your e-mail list and you have a large enough warm audience, I want you to layer on that live launch over your evergreen sales funnel.

You get that large cash injection into your business, then you can do a webinar launch, a challenge launch or even a virtual summit launch where you you you're utilizing other people's audience to help you fill up your launch funnel. So if you can relate to what I talked about today about live launches and you're interested in exploring or setting up an evergreen sales funnel.

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Anything about what I said here about why launches versus Evergreen sales funnel. I want you to send me a quick DM on Instagram at at @destinicopp or screenshot this episode and let me know what was your key take away. I would love love, love to hear from you. Bye for now.