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TRUTH: “You Can’t Be Friends With Someone Who Wants Your Life”
I know that when I’ve wanted someone else’s life, it made me transactional, strategic, subservient, and sometimes envious. In other words: not a safe friendship or business bet.
And I know that when friends, lovers or colleagues wanted what I had, we always ended in conflict and destruction. Always.
We Are Each Other’s Necessary Tendernesses
The best thing we ever do is lean on each other and lift each other up because we are the culture makers, and together we rise.
What Looks Like Personal Choices are Often Framed Up for Us By Society
The way we use our time is predetermined and overdetermined by our society and gender roles, and society frames our productivity as “personal choices.”
We are Not Worker Bees. We are Humans…and CREATORS.
“In fact, many full-time artist reports that they have become more creatively rounded into full-time people.” – Julia Cameron. I struggle with this exactly!
Business Tip for Culture Makers #531: Ask for Way More Than You Need
When we don’t have institutions underwriting us, we have to underwrite each other. Feminist Marketing Tip #531: how feminist makers can flourish.
Business Tip for Culture Makers #54: The GDPR is Good for Consent Culture
I know there’s a lot of hullabaloo about GDPR and that it’s going to be bad for business, but I think it’s something culture-making entrepreneurs can champion.
Talking with My Hands and Trying to Be Good with Emelia
This photo makes me smile. Admittedly, talking with my hands is perhaps not the most effective way to communicate on the radio.
Dear Multi-Passionate Maker
Entrepreneur spaces will often tell people with multiple passions and focuses that we are flaky, but I think we are cultivating a rich body of work.
Sorry! The Lifestyle You Ordered is Currently Out of Stock
Graffiti awesomeness by Banksy. Looks like we are all circling around the same phenomenon, trying to figure it out…and maybe change it.
“Prettiness is Not a Rent You Pay…” by Erin McKean
“Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked female” – Erin McKean. A note on checking our sources, and citations as culture making moves.
There are 3 potent, money-making content shifts that can take you from posting for the sake of posting to posting to SELL...
....because there’s a precise framework built into posts that actually convert (and most of entrepreneurs are not using it).
This protocol is what I teach in my Social Money & Name It Money trainings AND in my high-proximity spaces, and it’s the reasons my clients go from spinning out on social media & spending months courting leads who are on the fence, to seeing their clients sign up on the spot from the power of one precisely designed post.
And when your post on social media actually make you money day in and day out, it’s a lot harder to hate it. (10/10 recommend). DM me for details.
Sep 10
Hating social media is NOT the problem.
Pseudo-selling IS.
RELATED: My kid was pushing the vacuum back & forth but the floor wasn`t getting cleaner.
I call that “pseudo-vacuuming”…
which is what happens when you don’t correct a process that isn`t working (like, say, stopping to empty the filter), which makes it seem like the stupid vacuum is broken and I’m the pickiest mother ever, GAWD…
I digress.
I used to do the same thing in my business: PSEUDO-SELLING.
In other words, I was posting A LOT on social media without increasing sales, so then I posted even more, hoping that volume was the trick…
But pseudo-selling was the real culprit, and it’s the reason you’re:
🚩Giving away your best ideas on social media & endlessly teaching free webinars hoping it will generate sales (but it doesn`t)
🚩Pouring massive energy into launches that do initially do well but then decline
🚩Wasting MONTHS throwing spaghetti-messages at the wall, hoping something will stick, instead of knowing precisely what to say to get clients to sign up on the spot
Here are the 3 ESSENTIAL content corrections that fix this, fast:
✅️Figure out what your client actually wants to buy. Hand to god, 99% of entrepreneurs struggling with sales don’t know what their clients actually want to buy, IN THE CLIENT’S WORDS. (Don`t feel bad, it`s universal). That’s why I developed the Speak Client So You Get Clients System: so you can uncover what your client actually wants to buy and then successfully SELL IT TO THEM
✅️Use the *The Systematize It Wordbank & Protocol* to translate the names of every single tool you teach into ones that that get your clients throwing their credit cards at you because these are EXACTLY the solutions they’re looking for
✅️Template your success by building your irresistible new names & unmissable client language into reusable blocks of sales copy that convert readers into buyers & offers into REVENUE
That’s the work I do in both The Name It Money Framework & Social Money and it’s the reason my clients stop pseudo-selling and start generating non-stop sales without being tethered to their laptops, hating social media, or living on Instagram 24/7. DM me for info
Sep 9
You don’t have a messaging problem.
The problem is that you don’t know WHY your clients buy.
(And you don’t have to feel bad because this is normal, routine & totally fixable, fast.)
Almost everyone who comes to me thinking they have a messaging problem usually isn`t clear what their clients want...
...and it’s a recipe for chronically working too hard for not enough sales.
If you don’t know what your clients want to buy, all the clever messaging in the world won’t get them signing up.
Not knowing what & why your clients will buy is the reason you’re still…
🥺Turning your best ideas & tools into free content on social media, hoping it will generate sales (but it actually undermines them because why buy the cow if the milk is free?)
🥺Wasting precious time & energy teaching free offers that people learn so much from that they do NOT need to buy the actual program you’re selling
🥺Constantly inventing new offers to fill revenue gaps
🥺Spending MONTHS nurturing leads instead of having clients sign up on the spot
Here’s how you change this, fast:
💸 Forensically uncover what your client actually wants to buy and then develop precise, irresistible, client-centred language THAT SELLS using the *Name it Money Framework* that transforms your readers into buyers and your offers into REVENUE almost instantly (watch your DMs blow up)
💸 Systematically translate every step & tool you teach into hell-yes let-me-buy-it-right-now names using the *The Systematize It Wordbank & Protocol* that rapidly generates outcome-signalling names that do the selling for you— so that your client knows, at every step, that you’ve got precisely what they want (because you do!)
💸 Instead of using broken sales systems that rely on you teaching your best work for free (that’s a recipe for over-giving, over-teaching and burnout and no thank you, no more), use *The Anti-Hustle What-Not-How Lens* to build your new outcome-signalling names into re-useable blocks of sales copy that actually sell without giving away any of your best how-to’s, EVER
This is the work I do in Name It Money & it`s the reason my clients stop over-teaching for free and start EARNING, ASAP. DM me for deets
Sep 3
It’s not the size of your social following.
It’s not whether or not you can afford a star coach.
It’s not differentiation or tech.
It’s not motivation; mindset; leadership; message or personal charisma.
It`s a business gaps problem, and that`s the reason your sales aren`t where you want to be AND the reason feel like you`re throwing spaghetti at the wall (instead of knowing exactly what WILL stick!), and having to scramble and send more emails, run more launches, invent more new offers and develop an exhausting, toxic relationship with Instagram because you`ve got to be there 24/7...just to hit your basic revenue goals.
So the problem most pre-momentum businesses are encountering isn’t a lack of founder talent, quality of work, being ‘bad at marketing’…
It’s simply that some of the pieces are missing AND they’re not working together, on-plan and by design.
The reason for hustle is business gaps. When a critical system is missing then you have to fill in the gaps with your never-ending effort.
Here`s how you shift this:
There are 6 core business competencies that EVERY business must have in place to financially flourish. Businesses that aren’t yet where their owners want them to be usually only have 1 or 2 of these competencies in place. You deserve all 6...and when you`ve got them, you get traction. Momentum. More sales & meeting or even exceeding your STRETCH revenue goals almost automatically, WITHOUT all the frantic effort. (Finally!)
This is the work Danielle Cohen and I do in our high-proximity space, The Bespoke Mastermind starting Sept 4. We only have 3 spots still available. DM me for details.
Sep 2
