Thinking of launching a digital product for your fashion brand? What is a digital product and how could that work for your physical product-based business?

All these questions and more in this episode! Don't miss this series! Listen now!

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN

• The WHY behind creating a digital product for my swimwear business Nicolita
• The importance of connecting your brand vision with powerful brand messaging
• How you can create demand for your product without even selling it
• The advantage of being so connected to your brand messaging
• Why understanding who your customer is a major factor to your brand's success
• Why perfectionism will actually do your business more harm than good

Key Takeaways:

4 Digital Fashion CEO Mistakes to AVOID and why:

1. Digital Fashion CEO Mistake # 1: Not having a the framework of your business
2. Digital Fashion CEO Mistake # 2: Not understanding who is your ideal customer is, what they’re doing that could possibly be enhanced with the digital product
3. Digital Fashion CEO Mistake # 3: Not niching down the product enough
4. Digital Fashion CEO Mistake # 4: Not launching until everything is perfect

EPISODE BREAKDOWN

[01:19] – The side of my business I have never shared ever

• Why I took my business online
• How I started to build my audience of Fashionpreneurs and Fast-Trackers, people that want to launch a brand or feel undiscovered
• All the struggles and all the frustrations that I had throughout the last 19 years

[01:51] – Running a business is a constant evolution of learning

• Just because you run a business for 19 years doesn't mean you know everything

[02:03] – Having a digital product: My first encounter with this new big idea

• I have a physical product business that’s why it always intrigued me how could I add this other revenue stream
• What is a digital product? “How could that work?”

[02:33] – Physical businesses are evolving especially through this pandemic. They pivot into:

• Digital experience
• Some type of membership
• For example, in the last episode:
  • Lululemon - monthly memberships, on demand training classes
  • Alo Moves – online training classes with instructors

[05:17] – My own “unintentional” version of a digital product

[05:57] – Digital Fashion CEO Mistake #1: Not having a the framework of your business

• Establish how your branding messaging all correlate together
• The more you know your brand messaging the more you talk about your products easily
• You will be able to create demand without even selling

[06:49] – The Sold-Out Launch Framework Exercise

• What is your signature story?
• Why did you start this business?
• What is over on the “Desire Island”?
• What exactly is your brand messaging?

[07:53] – My own signature story

[09:34] – Digital Fashion CEO Mistake # 2: Not understanding who is your ideal customer is, what they’re doing that could possibly be enhanced with the digital product

• For instance, if you’re someone who’s selling a fly-fishing apparel
• You can create a digital product around fly fishing: Learning How to Fly Fish, How to Get Started as a Fly Fisherman, What Do You Need to Start Fly Fishing, etc.

[12:28] – What is transformation you want your customers to experience

[13:25] - Digital Fashion CEO Mistake # 3: Not niching down the product enough

• Sell not only the product, but sell the lifestyle and the entire experience

[14:12] – Digital Fashion CEO Mistake # 4: Not launching until everything is perfect

• If you've been thinking about a product idea for a while, it's never going to be perfect
• When you are launching a digital product, even a new t-shirt or an entire brand, how are you going to know that it works or that it's successful if you haven't launched it yet?

[16:49] – Over to you

• If you’re someone who wants to start your own digital product and add another revenue stream or create a membership experience to your current product-based business, but not quite sure how those pieces fit or don’t even know yet what your niche is, click below!

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