Your Best First Website? A GoogleForm.
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[This newsletter is part a series: Your First Digital Tools. Part 3 of 4]
Wannabe business owners usually have a long checklist. They think they need it before they can start. Official entity, separate bank account, perfect name, logo, domain, domain-specific email address are a few.
You actually don't need any of that.
Not at first.
Paying for and setting all those things up will cost you time and money. They will feel cool, but you won't have any customers to show for it.
You only need 2 things to put your ideas into the world:
Easy.
When you are starting everything else can be so complicated that it smothers your idea.
How One PharmD is Using Simple Tools to Start
Last week I was working with a client.
She started putting her ideas out in the world on Threads. She is getting a massive response! Yet her problem is how to help them move forward with her, without having the trouble of new software.
She wants to keep up her momentum and run with technology she already knows (don't we all!?)
So, we came up with a simple solution.
Create a GoogleForm as her first website.
This will allow her to capture the information from people interested in being in her world. This simple software is easy to start. It's free to use and will track the email addresses of her potential clients. Plus, it looks clean, professional and polished.
When you start, you only need to gather people interested in what you teach. Then, you need to nurture the relationship. As you do that you'll find out their pain points and how you can help.
How To Create A GoogleForm as a Website?
This will take <30 minutes. Guaranteed. It took me <30 minutes to make this sample GoogleForm and write about how I did it today.
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Step One: Create a banner on Canva.
I copied my banner from LinkedIn and tweaked it a bit to make it make sense for a GoogleForm. Personalize yours to you name, picture, and a little blurb about what you are doing.
Step Two: Create a GoogleForm
Keep it simple. You are only asking 1 question: what is their email address. You want this to take seconds for interested people to fill out.
Step Three: Add your header and personalize.
Upload your header from Canva. Write a little blurb showing your personality and what people can expect from you.
Step Four: Make sure others can fill it out
Go to Settings and make sure that bottom "restrict to users in..." line toggle is flipped off or else nobody can access it.
This is important! I've sent many a GoogleForm to people only to have them not be able to access it because I didn't look at my settings.
Give it a trial run on a different browser or on your phone to make sure your link works.
Step Five: Share your link! It is ready to go.
Here is what the form looks like in real life. Copy it all you want, just don't fill it out. The form is live as an example, but I'm not responding to any input.
There you go.
You have your first website.
It took <5 minutes. It was clean, easy, and will hold the information for all people interested in being in your sphere.
Now share this page with your content.
Share this link with people who engage with your comments and show interest in what you are building. This is your easy way to help them join your movement.
TL;DR
Jamie
PS-Whenever you're ready, there are 2 more ways I can help you:
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11 个月Great tip!!!!
If only I contemplated this when I was starting The Farrell Group a few years back, Jamie. I spent heavy on "cool" tools, most of which I still have. But it might have been wiser to go a little slower. Thanks for this!