Building Partnerships and Dancing Her Way to Success (Laura Sprinkle)

Episode summary:  Laura Sprinkle always wanted the freedom of entrepreneurship. Sitting in a cubicle from 9-to-5 never felt right to her. When a client asked her to become their affiliate manager, she found her jam. 

     The two core values in Laura’s business, Rock Your Affiliate Program®, are partnerships and fun. She loves all things affiliates, all things partnerships. Her favorite thing when it comes to partnerships is taking completely opposite brands or topics and figuring out how they connect and how they can collaborate. 

     She does business differently, to the extent that she’s actually turned people off from her brand with her dance parties at the top of every group coaching call or team meeting.

     In this episode, Laura shares her view of what “making it” means; how she develops partnerships and having fun; and the importance of partnerships outside of the online space so you don’t get to the end of your life and think, “Oh, well, I made millions of dollars in my business, but I have no friends.” 

     That would not be making it for Laura.

“Actually stepping away is going to speed up the timeline of me being able to solve that problem.” 

 “Making it, to me, is not something that you're cooked and done. It's really about being able to experiment and tweak and learn.”

– Laura Sprinkle

Guest bio: 

Founder of Laura Sprinkle LLC and Creator of Rock Your Affiliate Program®, Laura Sprinkle is an affiliate partnerships strategist, and her business is founded on the power of relationships. As a creative launch and brand strategist, she combines intuition and sales funnel expertise to support soulful entrepreneurs in growing their businesses naturally.

     She’s been honored to share her story in dozens of speaking engagements, podcasts, and interviews and loves to sit down over a cappuccino and talk strategy and soul.

     Laura knows the difference between outward success and deep, heart-centered satisfaction in business because she’s experienced them both and can intuitively guide you toward your passion and purpose while making the money and impact you’re meant to. Her favorite things include helping business owners launch for profit in an authentic way, cute coffee shops, and autumn leaves.

     She’s the author of She's Got Guts: Your Personalized Guide to Self Healing and the host of The Laura Sprinkle Show, a podcast for entrepreneurs who know that they want to make a huge impact on the world while having fun and being true to themselves.

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:

MiraseeLaura Sprinkle’s websiteLaura’s  LinkedInLaura’s  TwitterLaura’s FacebookLaura’s booksLaura’s podcast “Laura Sprinkle Show”.

Credits:

Guest – Laura SprinkleAssociate producer: Danny BermantProducer: Cynthia LambAssembled by: Geoff GovertsenExecutive producer: Danny Iny Audio Post Supervisor: Evan Miles, Christopher Martin Audio Post Production by Post Office SoundMusic soundscape: Chad Darnyelle Snavely 

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Music and SFX credits: 

• Track Title: Sweet Loving Waltz

Artist Name(s): Sounds Like Sander

Writer Name: S.L.J. Kalmeijer

Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

• Track Title: The Sunniest Kids

Artist Name(s): Rhythm Scott

Writer Name: Scott Roush

Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

• Track Title: Everybody Loves Robert

Artist Name(s): AFTERNOONZ

Writer Name: Dean William Palya, Jr.

Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS

• Track Title: Happy

Artist Name(s): Empyreal Glow

Writer Name: Mike Payne

Writer Name: Chris Bevins

Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

Episode transcript:

     I'm Laura Sprinkle and you're listening to Making It! I run a business where I help entrepreneurs create profitable partner programs. 

     My email signature, it says "Partnerships first, fun always." So those are two of my company's values. The fun is something that people notice all the time right away, whether it's on my website or I'm doing a guest interview or hopefully you've picked that up in this right now. And I've got a little pinata behind me when you watch me on video and that is also part of my magnetization within my brand. I love having fun. I believe that life is an experiment and life is about having fun and that's me personally. I've actually turned people off from my brand with that and funnily enough, a lot of those people are based in the UK and they don't see fun as part of business and I do dance parties at the top of every call and so I can be a lot for people and I'm so glad that those humans have found other people to learn from so that I don't have to feel bad about my dancing. And I can attract the people who are like, yes, you do business differently, you bring in that human element and that fun element into the work. 
 
     Making it to me really means being able to bring your whole self to the table....