Take the leap. Don’t wait too long to feel that you have to know everything. I’m pretty sure you probably know enough to at least get started.

That’s the one regret that I have, that I waited so long to feel I needed to figure more stuff out before I just took the leap.🏃‍♀️

And when you come to this space, you realize, once you learn these skills, there’s nobody telling me how much money I can make today. There’s nobody gonna tell me that there’s only a certain amount. The potential, because we market on social media, the possibilities are endless.🙌

I can make what I need and I can make more than what I need. I can dictate that by how much I wanna work.

Everybody loves to see the underdog, everyone wants to see the ups and downs, everyone wants to see relatable content, everyone wants to see what you’re learning in real-time.👀

And so I always coach my people, don’t wait till you’re perfect. We’re always learning, the platforms are changing, the game’s changing all the time. So when you’re waiting to feel you know it all, you’re always gonna be behind. A day late and a dollar short. 

But if you can say, you know what, I am going to document my way to the top, while I’m making money and doing my business, the only difference between that person and the other person that hasn’t started is they actually said yes to starting.✅

I kinda took this approach when I first started. I said, I think I have this figured out, I’m not 100% sure, but this is my goal: “I wanna be able to make 5k a month selling digital products from my phone and I’m gonna walk you through everything I do.”🎯

And so I was able to add value and teach in real-time as I was learning the things. And I crushed my 5k month in 22 days by simply just staying transparent. I wasn't pretending to be a know-it-all, I was learning in real-time. And then obviously, my years of experience added to the value that I was able to give. 

But I think there’s something about just documenting your journey. People are gonna feel they're not too far behind you, so it’s a perfect way for beginners to start while you're learning. That’s how you entertain while being educational.💯

I’m a natural extrovert. So I don’t mind coming up and talking. When I first started, I’m not gonna act like I wasn’t. When I had a baby, I got hyperpigmentation on my face. So, when I first started, I was just thinking, people are gonna judge me, they’re gonna say comments about it.⚠️

I think once you just start recording and you put yourself online, now, I just feel like, nothing really hurts me. I’m putting myself on the internet, I am documenting my life. I am showing the ups and downs, the ugly. Now, I just do it and I get better every single day. You work through your insecurities, whatever those are, coming on camera.💪

If someone is struggling being in front of the camera, there are two things I recommend:

First, record a lot in your camera roll, not even worried about posting. This is so you can get familiar with what it looks like to look at yourself and to know what your voice sounds like. These are the two things that stumble people from putting themselves online. So before you go live or create a piece of content, just start recording yourself in your phone to take that edge off.🤳

Second, if you’re marketing something, and you’re needing to overcome some skills, find something that you naturally love and sell it to your friend on Facetime, and record that call. So you can actually see your face like your fluctuations are, how you show up when you really believe in something, and then try to channel that person when you go online. Because once you see yourself in that position, it’s easier to channel yourself when it comes to content.👀

I don’t work before noon. I don’t post content before noon. I spend my mornings with my baby, who’s 3 years old now, and with my family. I try to have strict boundary so that I can have about 3 to 4, sometimes 5 hours, depending on when I have a workshop. But I usually just start my workday at noon. I reply to DM’s, do the emails, create a content.

When you can learn your money making tasks, you can really time that, you can really manage your time better. I think in the beginning, I was doing a lot of work that I thought was producing but it really wasn’t.🚨

I recommend everyone to get a time audit in their business. To make sure that the tasks they’re doing are actually producing fruit. And so when I really start to hone in on the tasks that actually make me money, I do those daily. That’s responding to emails, responding to DMs, creating content on my platforms, checking in with my personal community, going live a couple times a week.

When you work on yourself and really nail down that schedule, it allows you to have the freedom to build a successful business while not being glued to the phone 24 hours.

When I work 3 to 5 hours, I still have most of my day. I spend the late afternoons doing bedtime and if I go back to work, it’s usually 10 pm when my son’s asleep.✅

It really allows me to have those pocket of times where I’m just a mom. And then when I’m at work, I’m just worried about work. I’m not trying to blend the two. And I think as moms who work out of the home, we’re never 100% present when we’re at work and we’re never 100% present when we’re at home.

So when I’m in my work zone in those 3-5 hours, I’m just Raine the boss, Raine the entrepreneur. And then when I’m with my son, because of this business, the opportunity, I can be a hundred percent a mom, and I can shut the other roles off. It really allows that focus work and that focus time with my family.✨

There’s gonna be long nights, but I don’t want to make it the norm.

I sell digital products, digital courses, and I do digital service. I think it’s best.

I really do believe this with  my whole heart, that anyone can sell a digital product in any niche.💯

You can build a brand and sell a digital product in anything you are knowledgeable about and find the audience that needs that.🙌

Especially for moms, they can take anything they’ve been through, whether it’s being a single parent or going through a divorce, sharing their journey through divorce and how you can heal from divorce.

I feel that you can take anything that you’ve been through or that you overcame, anything that you are knowledgeable in and you can build a brand online and sell a digital service or product or a community and make money.💸

I always tell people that the best thing to do is that you want to be known for something. And so, I would say niche really down, so when you build the brand, you can actually niche up and you can show more of different parts of yourself.💫

I use this in my workshop, like Lego, you get that bottom foundation, and once you have that, if you wanna stack on digital products and actual physical products, if you want to show more of your personality, fashion, or your life, you wanna talk about God and your religion. You can stack it up, but you can’t stack something up if you don’t have that bottom foundation.

To build an audience, you have to be known for something. Someone has to know what they’re coming to you for, and what they're getting from you, to follow. And once you build that reputation, business, the thing you’re known for, then there’s a time when you just feel like you can just start sharing more of your life.📸

And that’s where I am right now. I can talk about my products and the next time I can talk about my life with my son going to the park. It makes showing up a lot easier.

When something’s working, don’t be in a hurry to go to the next thing. I did that mistake at the beginning. I did my $5K challenge and I hit that in 22 days, and that’s kind of the thing that I became known for.🌟

When I reached my goal, I thought I wanna make more than $5k, so I want to move away from this challenge, per se, so I kind of started moving away from it. But I realized, I probably could’ve leveraged that a little bit better and stayed there and build that up a little bit before I move on to the next thing.🚀

Sometimes, we’re in a hurry to move on to the next thing, we forget to enjoy that time in our business or journey.

The best way to start in digital marketing is to set a goal.🎯 

I don’t know everything, but I’m learning, this is how much I wanna make and watch me crush it. Share your journey. I think that’s an incredible way to just start. Just get your foot at the door.

Think, “I’m not going back, this is gonna work, and move forward.”

I would really recommend investing in yourself. People think you can learn education for free. While you absolutely can, I do think that with building anything successful, you need to invest. Whether that’s time or money.

I would rather invest money because when you can learn how to save time, you’ll eventually make more money.💸💸💸

I have a mentor because I have blinders when it comes to my business. And so sometimes, someone looking in could just tell you a few little things and that could change everything. And so why waste time being stuck when you can have someone look into your business or feed in to you and switch it and change everything.💡

I’m a huge advocate of investing in a coach or mentor or yourself when it comes to learning something.

I love that I get to help so many people. I love making money but I genuinely love seeing my students make money. That excites me just as much as if it was my money.💯

But there are challenges, I work at home and I love my son, I love being able to work from home, but there are days when my husband is pulling him out of the room and he’s screaming, and that mom guilt sets in.

But I remember that I could be out of the home and be gone 9-10 hours a day and be tired. And there’s always gonna be that struggle — our babies are always gonna want us. I think working at home when we have kids can be that struggle.🚧

Sometimes, women feel guilty for declaring that we want to make a lot of money while still saying I want to be a present mom and I think we can do both. I think building a business online can give us that. But sometimes I struggle with,

Am I being too ambitious? What would people say when I’m too ambitious?

Don’t feel guilty as long as you can set strict boundaries, you are doing something that can absolutely change your babies’ lives. My husband and I know that through this business, we can buy a home and be able to travel. Our goal is to take our son out of the country next year for a month because we can work from anywhere. It’s just amazing.✨

Whether you believe you can do it or not, you’re right. It’s one of my favorite quotes. Know that if you’re gonna be successful, it rises and falls on you. You can absolutely build a business online and change a generation after you.🙌

We are just living in the day and time where we can easily find opportunities to make money online. You just have to have that mindset - I’m gonna do something different, I’m gonna blaze my own trail.🔥

There’s no better time to be an entrepreneur than now, and we’re not even at our peak yet. The industry is only growing. So if you’re in this industry or if you’re wanting to be an entrepreneur, wanting to get into marketing, any sorts, any type of business online, we are only going to grow.🚀