Ep. 050 Building a 5 Million Plus Email List with Dynamic Digital Marketing with Dawn McGruer

Welcome to the Cracking Content Podcast, helping entrepreneurs to amplify their expertise through storytelling, content, and PR so they can get more sales and make a bigger impact. Every business has a story to tell. Don't be afraid to tell it. This week I am so pleased to welcome Dawn McGruer to the podcast. She is the bestselling author of Dynamic Digital Marketing, and also runs a successful academy and agency. Dawn started her first business 20 years ago at the age of 21. She now helps people master the art of online influence and business success and how to avoid common pitfalls along the way. Episode Highlights: {1:14} Dawn describes when she decided to start her entrepreneurial life and how starting off so young enabled her to learn a lot quickly. {1:56} Dawn talks about releasing her first book Character Building.  {3:56} How important it was to learn from her business failures. {4:49} Stop procrastinating and start doing, you can always think of reasons not to do something. {5:39} On her signature product the Fast Track Academy.  {6:25} How the pandemic pushed her to create her latest product the Power Circle  {7:07} On how the Power Circle will take people through six steps to enable them to show up powerfully online in a way that's really authentic and comfortable for them. {7:41} Thinking about what's going to have a real impact, what's going to drive your business forward. {9:12} It's about addressing the things that we want to do, not that we think we need to do.  {9:28} It's about working smarter, not harder, and having this true passion and vigour about why you're doing something and not just thinking about leads, money, goals, but dreams.  {10:31} The content that I'm creating at the moment is really asking for opinion, getting people involved in trends and insights, getting people to really show what they're feeling right now in business.  {10:47} I feel that the content for me is about driving a deeper connection on social media. Quality, not quantity. And just slowing the pace down and thinking about posting with purpose.  {11:12} I think it's all about resonating, relating, showing my true experience, pitfalls and challenges, the good, the bad, and the ugly, and stepping out in that way. And I think that's really what people want right now. {14:26} I would encourage people to look at their social media and if you go through your newsfeed and you've got no comments, no likes, no shares, quite honestly, your content's either boring or nobody wants it. And it's time to then shake it up and change it. {15:00} It's taken me 20 years to get to 30,000 connections and 5 million subscribers. If you carve out 10 quality people per day that you choose to connect with, then you can't fail in building a solid, powerful audience. Connect with Claire:  You can download my free PR guide here https://clairewinter.info/freebies/be-your-own-pr/  To find out about 1:1 content coaching go www.clairewinter.info. Free Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/crackingcontent/ Website: https://clairewinter.info/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clairewinteruk  To get your content sorted join the Cracking Content Club Membership for just £35 a month: https://clairewinter.info/cracking-content-club/ About Dawn McGruer: Dawn started her first business 20 years ago at the age of 21, became a best-selling author of Dynamic Digital Marketing, speaker and strategist in the world of digital marketing and mortgage free at 33. She helps people rise to meet today’s challenges and master the art of online influence and business success and avoid common pitfalls along the way. She believes in dreaming big, working hard and making it happen. She is the host of Dawn of a New Era; a business and marketing podcast with a difference for people who want to start, scale and grow their own business. She shares tips to improve marketing, motivation and mindset as well as her own real-life challenges and experiences as a highly successful entrepreneur.  She was incredibly artistic at school and although she didn't follow that path it has creatively influenced her entrepreneurship. But her underlying driver was being extremely ill as a child with kidney disease, and later at 19, losing 6 people in as many months. Naturally someone who bucks the status quo these life changing events fuelled her to live and work to the max. Hence her stratospheric road to success. Her social footprint Linkedin: 25K Youtube: 75K views, Facebook 6K, podcast #17 in the charts, twitter 5K and an email subscribers list of 5 million. Connect with Dawn: Website: https://dawnmcgruer.com/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/businessconsort/ YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIxofJB2ZKh7xZQ7HVd8Ybw Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/businessconsort Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dynamic-digital-marketing-show/id1448903495?mt=2