How to Create Content Pillars to Sell Digital Products
Summary
TLDRThis video script emphasizes the importance of strategic content creation for driving sales in digital business. It introduces the concept of 'tofu, mofu, bofu' as the three essential pillars of content: Top of Funnel for awareness, Middle of Funnel for trust-building through storytelling, and Bottom of Funnel for direct selling. The speaker shares insights on creating value content, leveraging personal stories to connect with the audience, and ultimately converting them into customers, all without the need for paid advertising.
Takeaways
- π§ The speaker emphasizes the importance of content strategy for driving sales and suggests that many entrepreneurs are creating the wrong type of content.
- π― The script humorously addresses the age-old 'jelly or jam' debate, using it as a metaphor for focusing on what's important in business.
- π The speaker has made over seven figures with their content strategy, which is divided into three distinct pillars: ToFu (Top of Funnel), MoFu (Middle of Funnel), and BoFu (Bottom of Funnel).
- π― ToFu content focuses on awareness and reaching a cold audience, requiring specific targeting and value content to attract attention.
- π MoFu content is about building trust with a warm audience through storytelling, which is a powerful tool in marketing.
- π° BoFu content is all about selling to a hot audience, using testimonials, case studies, and other direct selling methods.
- π€ Trust is a critical component in the sales process, and storytelling in the middle of the funnel helps to establish this trust.
- π The speaker suggests that to be successful, one must be confident in their offerings and not shy away from promoting their successes and capabilities.
- π The importance of creating an avatar or target customer profile is highlighted to ensure content resonates with a specific audience.
- π‘ Value content is essential for building trust and should be given away for free to demonstrate expertise and generate interest.
- π The speaker emphasizes continuous self-improvement and skill acquisition as a way to ensure a constant stream of valuable content.
- π Lastly, the speaker promotes their community for further coaching and support, suggesting it as a pathway to achieving business success.
Q & A
What are the two main questions the speaker claims to answer in the script?
-The speaker claims to answer why jelly doesn't shake like jam and how to make over seven figures online with just one digital product.
What is the speaker's advice on the jelly versus jam dilemma?
-The speaker humorously advises to stop questioning whether it's jelly or jam and to appreciate the shake instead.
What is the speaker's content strategy for driving sales?
-The speaker's content strategy involves creating content that fits into three pillars: ToFu (Top of Funnel), MoFu (Middle of Funnel), and BoFu (Bottom of Funnel).
Why does the speaker emphasize the importance of creating content with a paid advertising mindset?
-The speaker emphasizes this because creating content with a paid advertising mindset helps to effectively drive traffic and generate sales without the need for actual paid ads.
What does ToFu stand for and what type of content does it involve?
-ToFu stands for Top of Funnel and involves content focused on awareness, targeting a cold audience with value content given away for free.
What does MoFu stand for and what is its purpose in the content strategy?
-MoFu stands for Middle of Funnel and its purpose is to build trust with the audience through storytelling and providing value.
What does BoFu stand for and what kind of content is typically created for this stage?
-BoFu stands for Bottom of Funnel and involves content focused on selling, such as testimonials, case studies, or video sales letters, targeting a hot audience.
Why is storytelling important in the middle of the funnel according to the speaker?
-Storytelling is important in the middle of the funnel because it helps build trust with the audience, which is crucial for the know-like-trust factor in business.
What is the speaker's view on the concept of becoming viral with content?
-The speaker advises against aiming for virality, as it's like 'shooting buck shots' and not targeted enough, preferring a more focused approach with sniper rifle precision.
What is the speaker's advice on giving away content for free?
-The speaker advises giving away the best content for free to build trust and demonstrate value, which can lead to sales as people are more likely to buy from someone they trust.
How does the speaker define the term 'avatar profile' in the context of content creation?
-The 'avatar profile' is a specific and detailed target customer profile that the speaker advises content creators to focus on, ensuring the content speaks directly to that one person.
What is the acronym 'SYSTEM' stand for and what does it represent in the speaker's strategy?
-SYSTEM stands for Saving Yourself Time, Energy, and Money. It represents the idea that once the content strategy is in place, it can work for the creator, saving them time, energy, and money.
What is the final call to action the speaker provides in the script?
-The speaker's final call to action is to join a community for weekly coaching, exclusive trainers, and a private community of entrepreneurs, all aimed at growing an online business with a digital product.
Outlines
π Content Strategy for Entrepreneurial Success
The speaker introduces a content strategy aimed at driving sales through digital products, emphasizing the importance of creating the right type of content. They explain the concept of 'content pillars' as a way to categorize content into three distinct areas: Top of Funnel (TOFU), Middle of Funnel (MOFU), and Bottom of Funnel (BOFU). The speaker shares their experience with paid advertising and suggests that a well-thought-out content strategy can be more effective than paid ads. They also stress the importance of thinking like a business person first and a content creator second.
π― Targeting the Right Audience with Top of Funnel Content
The speaker discusses the first pillar, Top of Funnel (TOFU), focusing on creating awareness among a cold audience unfamiliar with the brand. They argue against trying to appeal to everyone and instead advocate for building a detailed customer avatar to target specific individuals within a niche. The speaker emphasizes the importance of value content, giving away the best information for free to build trust and attract the right audience. They also challenge the fear of giving away too much for free, encouraging continuous learning and skill acquisition for content creators.
π Storytelling for Trust Building in Middle of Funnel Content
Moving on to the Middle of Funnel (MOFU), the speaker highlights the power of storytelling as a means to build trust with the audience. They compare storytelling's effectiveness in business to the strategies used by major brands like Nike, which sell stories attached to their products. The speaker encourages content creators to work on their storytelling abilities to connect with their audience on a deeper level, using personal anecdotes and relatable experiences to move from simple awareness to trust.
π° The Art of Selling Through Bottom of Funnel Content
The speaker addresses the Bottom of Funnel (BOFU) content, which is aimed at selling to an audience already aware and trusting of the brand. They discuss the importance of testimonials and case studies as effective selling tools, urging creators to overcome humility and confidently showcase their successes and the effectiveness of their products or services. The speaker also touches on the idea of creating a video sales letter (VSL) as a potent BOFU content strategy.
π Creating a Content System for Passive Income
In the final paragraph, the speaker wraps up the content strategy by emphasizing the creation of a system (SYSTM) that saves time, energy, and money. They explain how a well-executed content strategy allows for passive income generation, with content working for the creator 24/7. The speaker invites the audience to join a community for further coaching and support, positioning the strategy as a way to work less and earn more by leveraging digital products and online presence.
π Eliminating the Need for Paid Ads
The speaker concludes by teasing further content that will explain why paid advertising may not be necessary when a content strategy is effectively implemented. They suggest that the organic reach and trust built through the TOFU, MOFU, and BOFU approach can lead to greater success than traditional advertising methods, hinting at a comprehensive breakdown in a follow-up video.
Mindmap
Keywords
π‘Content Strategy
π‘Top of Funnel (TOFU)
π‘Middle of Funnel (MOFU)
π‘Bottom of Funnel (BOFU)
π‘Value Content
π‘Storytelling
π‘Sales Funnel
π‘Avatar Profile
π‘Paid Advertising Mind
π‘Testimonials
π‘System (S.Y.S.T.E.M.)
Highlights
The speaker emphasizes the importance of content in driving sales and shares their content strategy for success.
Three types of content are identified as essential for a successful content strategy.
Content pillars are introduced as 'buckets' for organizing content effectively.
A common mistake among entrepreneurs is creating content without considering the marketing funnel.
The concept of TOFU (Top of Funnel), MOFU (Middle of Funnel), and BOFU (Bottom of Funnel) is introduced.
TOFU content focuses on awareness and reaching a cold audience.
MOFU content is about building trust with a warm audience through storytelling.
BOFU content aims to sell to a hot audience that is already aware and trusts the brand.
The importance of creating an avatar profile to target a specific customer is discussed.
Value content is highlighted as a key strategy for the top of the funnel.
Giving away the best content for free is recommended to build trust and showcase expertise.
The speaker shares personal experience with paid advertising and its relation to content creation.
Storytelling is positioned as a powerful tool for building trust in the middle of the funnel.
Examples from major brands like Nike are given to illustrate the power of storytelling in business.
The bottom of the funnel content focuses on selling and includes testimonials and case studies.
The speaker encourages entrepreneurs to step out of humility and confidently showcase their achievements.
An invitation to join a community for further coaching and support is extended.
The final message emphasizes the power of a content strategy that works for you, rather than you working for it.
Transcripts
since the beginning of time there's been
two questions that need answers number
one is that jelly cuz Jam don't shake
like that number two how in the heck the
Aston CEO Bank over seven figures online
in this business with just one digital
product doing a little over 900k well I
can answer one of those two questions
for you first of all stop asking if it's
jelly or jam and just appreciate the
shake and second of all content drivve
sales and I'm going just give you my
content strategy so you can use it
now look I'm so serious when I say that
content drivve sales and there's a lot
of entrepreneurs and aspiring
entrepreneurs that are making content
but they are making the wrong kind of
content it's only going to take me about
5 minutes to break down the three types
of content that you need to make I've
made over seven figures with this stuff
so if you don't have 5 minutes to spare
then you obviously don't want to make
seven figures so just keep on making the
wrong type of content and generating
those sales that is okay if that is what
you want to do completely fine with that
but you need to split up your content
into three separate
pillars and all that a pillar is when
you think about it it's just simply a
bucket so anytime you hear me say pillar
just think of a bucket so you need to
have three separate pillars of content
these are just going to be little
buckets here and the mistake that a lot
of entrepreneurs and aspiring
entrepreneurs are making are that they
think that they are creating content
buckets their content pillars when
they're really not so a good example of
this is say that somebody is in the
fitness industry for example somebody's
in the fitness industry and they'll
think of topics to create content about
and they'll put them into separate
pillars or separate buckets and it'll be
uh let's say here they're going to talk
about diet then they're going to talk
about workout routines and then here
they're going to talk about rest and
then this will be their three content
pillars so they're like okay here all my
content is going to be about diet food
nutrition hydration stuff of that nature
here they're going to say okay I'm going
to talk about workout routines Fitness
schedules what to do exercises stuff
like that and then here they say that
they'll talk about rest recovery sleep
stretching stuff of that nature and then
they'll just move around these different
quote unquote pillars and they're like
oh I have a content stry because I have
the three things that I need to talk
about and I'll be known for fitness and
that'll be the only three buckets of
content that I talk about well they're
kind of right but mostly wrong the three
actual content pillars that you need to
focus on are this and you need to think
about this with a marketing brand if
we're entrepreneurs we need to be
thinking business and that's where most
entrepreneurs are faing is that they're
not thinking business first they're
thinking business second and they're
thinking content creation first they
need to do a complete 180 so when I
create any type of content I create my
content with a paid advertising mind I
create content with my paid ad mind and
just to give you a little bit of info
about my background I've spent over
$100,000 in a single month's time on
paid advertising this is not about paid
ads not telling you to run paid ads you
actually don't even need to think about
running paid ads because this works a
lot better than paid ads and I I'll get
into it at the end of the video while
you don't even need to think about like
paid ads at all but the three pillars
that you actually need to focus on are
this
tofu
mofu and
bofu I know this might not make any
sense to you right now but it will very
soon because I know tofu that sounds
like some nasty stuff that's supposed to
be healthy and mofu sounds like oh you
mof you
moof but kofu stands for top of funnel
mofu stands for middle of funnel and
bofu stands for bottom of funnel and you
need to treat your free organic content
like an actual marketing funnel because
that's what it is because this organic
free content is going to drive the
traffic to get sales for you so if we're
thinking of these three buckets or
pillars of tofu mofu and bofu and we
need to think of these as a funnel
because that's what it stands for top of
funnel middle of funnel and bottom of
funnel so if this is going to be our
funnel then we're going to separate our
funnel like this
tofu
mofu
bofu top of funnel middle of funnel
bottom of funnel another way that you
can think of these three pillars instead
of top of funnel think cold audience
middle is warm audience
bottom is hot audience these are going
to be our three buckets these are going
to be our three pillars and we make
different types of content for each
actual pillar because on each level the
viewer is going to have a different
level of awareness to us and we need to
be speaking to those people at the level
that they are meeting us at so our top
of funnel
content is all
about
awareness and that's it this is the
content where we're having a cold
audience people that are not familiar
with us people that are not aware of us
and we're making content just to get in
front of them simply for awareness this
is our content where we're saying hey
hey look at me I'm over here
look but where most people are failing
miserably is that they're trying to get
everybody to look that's why they can't
get anybody to look at them you don't
want to become aware to everybody you
don't want to become viral actually in
this game
becoming viral is one of the worst
things that you can actually do because
here's the thing when you go viral or
when you have the mentality of trying to
go viral to get really really super
popular and all this stuff you're
shooting buck shots it's like you got a
it's like you got a shotgun and you're
shooting buck shots and it's it's
spraying wide versus with this strategy
and if you have a top of funnel content
strategy to get in front of a particular
person or your perspective customer
instead of shooting butt shots
you're shooting with a sniper rifle and
you
just and you're shooting direct instead
of aiming for everybody so this is why
and I've mentioned this on the previous
videos but I just shortly get into it
here you need to build an avatar
profile and your avatar this is your
Target customer profile this is not
plural you need to get really really
specific and go deep out on building an
avatar profile and all of your content
is only going to be speaking to that one
person what most people do is that they
pick a niche where no a niche you can't
get seen you need to speak to a
particular person within that Niche and
then you'll be shocked to find out how
many more people fit that profile that
you built that's how you actually get
customers because that's how you
actually get people to see your content
because you're making that content for
that one person so I had some type of
Fitness product or service my top of
funnel content is not going to just be
some type of Fitness content right my
top of funnel cont content is going to
be Fitness content for single women who
are busy that has a child in ele school
or something like that right my fitness
content is going to be for athletes that
have knee pain my fitness content is
going to be for a busy working
professional that is putting their
career over their health right but I'm
going to make content at my top of
funnel to let them know like hey I got
what you looking for I got what you need
look over here and the best type of
content to make for awareness is what I
call Value
content value content is so key and
value content is where you basically
just give your gift away for free and a
lot of people they struggle with this
and this is why a lot of people struggle
to actually make any money online
because when I tell people that you got
to give your best stuff away for free
you got to give your stuff away for free
then they say oh well if I give all my
best stuff away for free then why
wouldn't you body buy anything from me
you got to understand this the only
reason that anybody will purchase or buy
anything from you is because of what
they've already gotten from you for free
I give all my best stuff away and
there's a reason why my free stuff is
better than most people's paid stuff and
here's the thing about giving your gift
away for free it builds so much trust
with people that they're like dang if
I'm getting all this for free what am I
going to get once I actually pay and
this keeps you on your pce and qes and
it keeps you becoming a better version
of yourself and it keeps you on a mode
of where you are forced to continue to
acquire skills knowledge and information
so you can stay ahead of your
perspective customer so you can continue
to provide value for them because listen
this and listen to me loud and clear and
I'm I'm really really serious when I say
this here if you are scared of giving
your best stuff away for free because
you think you are going to run out of
content to talk about then you do not
know enough and you need to get to the
books you need to get to studying and
you need to get to acquiring some more
skills because as an entrepreneur you
should always be working on yourself
working on your skill set working on
your mindset and working on acquiring
skills so you can continue to level up I
know for a fact that I'm never going to
run out of stuff to say how do I know
that because I do this and I know I'm
not going to stop doing this it's like
asking LeBron James if he is ever going
to run out of information to talk about
basketball LeBron James can talk about
basketball
for 24 hours a day if he was able to
because that is what he does this is
what I do I ain't going to stop being an
entrepreneur this is me I ain't never
going to run out of stuff to do and I'm
never going to run out of stuff to do or
I'm never going to run out of stuff to
talk about because I do these three
things every single
day I work in
public I teach literally every single
thing that I
know and and I create every day so if I
work in public teach everything that I
know and I create every day I know that
I'm always going to have new content to
talk about I know that I'm always going
to have something new to teach I know
that I'm always going to have something
new of value to add to somebody else but
getting back to this content bucket here
so top of funnel is all about awareness
value content giving your best stuff
away for free giving your gift away for
free and just also just think about the
consumer mindset now all of us as
consumers include myself we have become
so used to getting stuff for free that
we feel like we shouldn't pay for a lot
of stuff like I was shopped in a Paul to
find out one day I tried to log on to
Netflix and Netflix said oh you can't
get on here because this aent your
password I've been using my best
friend's Netflix account for like 10
years and then one day a few months ago
it just said nope you can't get on here
I was
like how dare you ask me to pay
Netflix because I gotten so accustomed
to just getting it for free think about
this you're watching this video on
YouTube right now think of all the
entertainment think of all the education
think of all the value that you get for
free every single thing that you get for
free comes at an expense for the Creator
that's giving it to you for free think
about that and think about all the free
stuff that you get from music to movies
to YouTube content to free samples you
guys start giving your taste test you
got to start giving them your best stuff
for free but this middle of funnel
content here
this here is where I like to tell
stories and stories sell oh my gosh you
can make so much money if you work on
your storytelling ability and one of the
reasons why I say to work on your
storytelling ability because really the
whole middle of funnel right here is all
about building trust this whole middle
funnel right here is all about building
trust and one of the ways that I like to
build trust is by telling stories the
reason why I tell stories is because
stories sell and just think about this
from a big business standpoint I'm
talking about multi-billion trillion
dollar businesses right I study
businesses in my free time that's one of
the things that I like to do because I'm
like I'm an entrepreneur I'm in business
maybe I should study some of these big
businesses see how they work and stuff
so I can see what I can grab out of
their air from them and go ahead and
bring it down here to me and I'm telling
you it's applicable at all levels so if
we use somebody like a Nike for example
right Nike they don't sell Athletic
Apparel Nike sell stories just think
about all of Nike's biggest athletes
throughout the years Michael Jordan they
didn't sell bran Jordan by him just
flying through the air with his
tongue right because that's not
relatable to a lot of people and that
wasn't relatable to a lot of kids they
told Michael Jordan's story and then
they attached the product to the man and
his personal story I grew up as a kid in
the 90s I remember all the stories and
all the commercials about Michael Jordan
how he got cut from his high school
basketball team when when he was a
freshman that made us as kids be like oh
Michael Jordan he failed so it's okay if
I failed at this one my favorite Jordan
commercials when I was growing up he
wasn't even in his basketball jersey it
was just him walking in a suit and a
trench coat through the hallway in the
arena and it said I failed at this I
failed at this I had the ball in my
hands this many time with the game on
the line and missed I failed at this I
suck at that blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah and that is why I sit see boom
then the Jumpman logo came up used the
same thing for a Serena Williams right
when she was with nikee they didn't just
show Serena Williams just hitting the
tennis ball they showed Serena working
out with her pops Richard in Compton in
the hood around game bangers when she
was little then showing her Ascension to
getting the the beads on the back of her
braids and beating her sister and then
getting the wom then Champion then they
showed the whole story of her becoming
the best ever best of all time business
Mogul sex icon f Fashion Icon Serena
it's the story same exact thing Tiger
Woods they didn't just show Tiger Woods
hitting the golf ball they showed Tiger
Woods as a kid working out with his pops
all this this debt to Tiger Woods then
if you look at any of the late Nike
campaigns that they show with tiger they
started showing tiger and his son
Charlie so they showed that whole story
arc and then they showed his son Charlie
right there with Tiger Woods because his
son Charlie is a splitting image of
tiger on that Golf Course all their
mannerisms are the same so with this
second pillar of content here in the
middle funnel I like to tell stories
because these stories they built trust
because everything in business and
everything in entrepreneurship it comes
down to this to the know like and Trust
Factor people buy things from people
that they know like and Trust so if
we're here and we get people here on the
top of funnel once we get them aware of
us then they go down through this funnel
and here the middle of funnel this is
where we build that trust there's no
better way to build trust than by
telling the story but you don't just
want to sit there and just tell some
story like well it was a Tuesday and it
was a Cloudy and a rainy day and then I
woke up and then I went and did this and
that's a boring story so I still give my
value content giving value or teaching
about something but the lesson that I'm
giving is in the actual story which
leads us to the third pillar of content
which is our bofu bottom of funnel
remember this is hot hot they're already
aware of us they're already starting to
trust us we're starting to build our
trust because they're learning more so
about our story here on the bottom of
funnel this is just all about selling
that's it bottom of funnel it's all
about selling I ain't got to get them
aware I ain't got to tell them my story
they already know it and here we're
selling so the type of content to sale
you can just have straight up
testimonials if you don't have any
testimonials you have to be your own
testimonial I know and I'm like this too
whether you want to believe it or not
you may not like to talk about yourself
much I don't really like to talk about
all of the things that I have done but I
have to show people that I know what I'm
talking about by showing them that it
worked for me then I may not have to
talk about myself as much because I have
testimonials of other people that I can
show that the stuff that I'm talking
about not only did it work for me but it
worked for them because I have
testimonies look you got to stop being
humble actually being humble nobody
doing better than you will ever tell you
to be humble it's always somebody that's
doing less than you that'll tell you oh
be humble be humble I know you're the
Sun but why don't you go ahead and stop
Illuminating everything so I can shine
my candle a little bit no you got to be
loud poke your chest down and tell
people what it is that you do y oh this
is what I do look one my favorite
basketball players I don't know if you
watch sports tonight Steph Curry Steph
Curry he looks like he's a great guy off
the court looks like he's a great guy
Family Man all about his faith but in
between them four lines when he's on
that Court he is the most disrespectful
cocky basketball player I've ever seen
in my life he does not have problems
showing people his gift so if you don't
have testimonials from other people you
got to show people that you are the
actual testimony get out of get out of
that humble stuff when you doing what
you do you got to be the best you got to
talk about that you got to you got to
you got to pump your chest a little bit
about this all right now other types of
content that you can make for this could
be case
studies or you can do uh what's called
vssl vssl stands for video sales letter
all this would be great bottom of funnel
content to make but you already have
people in your ecosystem because you're
funneling them all in with the top of
funnel content you're hitting them
you're building that trust with the
middle of funnel content then you're
selling with the bottom of funnel
content once you get that down they say
get numbers coming in online your
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I'll see you on our coaching call this
Wednesday but this is all that it comes
down to tofu mofu bofu and when you
think of creating your organic free
content with this paid advertising mind
of mine I'm telling you I was like oh I
Ain even got R ads because this stuff
works way more than the ads and then you
can start to create a system that works
works for you instead of you working for
it and system is an acronym s y s t m
system stands for saving yourself time
energy and money this content can be
working for you every single day
247365 I don't have to do that much work
because I have many versions of myself
all over the Internet working for me and
selling for me every single day because
I have this content strategy down so go
ahead and click the link down in the
description if you want to tap into the
community and I see you on our coaching
call it's Wednesday I didn't forget I
said at the end of this video I will
break down why you don't even need to
think about running any paid ads check
out this video I break it all down on
why you don't even need to think about
running any PID ads and I'm telling you
it'll clarify a lot for you you'll be
like
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