FLEB: Results

KELLY COLLAGE_Female Empowerment Brand

The Female Lifestyle

Empowerment Brand

(It's not a good thing.)

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What is Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand? ⁠(FLEB)⁠

START HERE → She's The Perfect Woman, in the form of a business...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #1 Fake Authority

Day 1 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #2 Fake Scarcity

Day 2 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #3 Male Approval

Day 3 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #4 Predatory Payment Plans

Day 4 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #5 Weaponized White Femininity

Day 5 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #6 Relentless Positivity and Conflict Avoidance

Day 6 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #7 Re-enforces Gender Binary & Patriarchy

Day 7 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #8 Safe Status Quo Imagery

Day 8 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #9 Social Triggers = Social Conditions

This is Day 9 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #10 Testimonials as Triggers

This is Day 10 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand...

This page includes my definition of The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand + all my essays and blog posts explaining why it’s bad for women, our businesses and our culture.

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Definition:

A "perfect woman" archetype must comply with and embody in order to be deserving of rights and resources

AND

A marketing strategy that leverages social status and white privilege to create authority over other women.

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In Our Culture

Every Woman Is a Brand

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The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand. An introduction.

Somewhere, on the edge of consciousness, there is what I call a mythical norm, which each one of us within our hearts knows “that is not me.” In America, this norm is usually defined as white, thin, male, young, heterosexual, Christian, and financially secure. -...

Featured posts

Ixtapa, Mexico + John Rawls + No Pedi. Unthinkable now, right?

#tbt Toes in the Sand but NO PEDI. Also, The Beauty Myth then and now.

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Feminism, Femininity and The Swinging Pendulum. A Question for You.

The Context for The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brrand

Not Enough Compensation in the World

On Women and POWER

Let's build more of it and use it wisely Nearly every woman I know who is focused on her creative work or career is in ...

Actually, I’m a Huge Fan of Gatekeeping

This is an excerpt from my weekly email newsletter, The Sunday Love Letter. To get missives like this direct to your inbox, I invite you ...

December 8 2019

on “lying to ourselves”. (I’m not so sure we do.)

This is your Sunday Love Letter.  Many a delicious volume has been penned about the existence and adventures of elves, fairies, pixies and trolls.  And ...

September 23 2019

nope, ‘Queen’ is not a feminist business model

welcome to your Sunday Love Letter. Before we get started, here's what's going on this week at www.kellydev.wpengine.com: I'm teaching an online workshop on Saturday ...

August 11 2019

The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand, Mental Triggers, and Weaponized Imperfection

Business Tip for Culture Makers #811: Avoid Using Weaponized Imperfection or Leveraging Privilege to Build (Fake) Authority. If you haven’t seen this particular post, you’ve ...

June 9 2019

Who’s running our social media accounts? Us, or our social conditioning?

This week a friend of mine and I closed our eyes and imagined what a successful woman looks like. I'm a fat woman with biracial ...

May 31 2019

Business Tip for Culture Makers #1220: A Culture Making Approach to Stock Photos

Images are an essential business resource and they have culture-making power. For a long time, I knew that but I didn't know how to herd ...

May 17 2019

What it Means to Be a Culture Maker in Your Business and Media

On my website, the first thing you'll see is the statement: "We are The Culture Makers”. I say this because it's true. We have the ...

July 30 2018

Dear Women’s Empowerment Coaches: Is Your Teacher’s Teacher a Men’s Rights Activist?

Note: The following essay is an excerpt of a chapter of the book I'm writing about The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand; I first published it as ...

May 3 2018

Talking with My Hands and Trying to Be Good with Emelia

#tbt to those times I was on a radio show hosted by the incomparable Emelia Symington-Fedy of Trying To Be Good with Emelia . . ...

Every week, I send you a

Sunday Love Letter

I write them so that…

  1. You remember your life-changing, culture-making power
  2. You have the inspiration + tools you need to bring something new to the world
Are you in?

Pro tip: Stop selling programs and start selling your proven process for getting RESULTS. ⁠
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Because people buy proven processes for getting results, not programs. (And not messages!!!!)⁠
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Which means you need to articulate your method -- your proven process -- for getting results and named it out with language that speaks CLIENT not COACH so that your client knows, instantly, that you’ve got what they want.⁠
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When that happens, more of them buy faster, easier and more frequently.⁠
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Which, obviously, makes a massive difference in your sales, your profitability, your business and your life.⁠
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Here’s how you make this life-altering switch in your business:⁠
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1) Forensically investigate and uncover what your client actually wants to buy. (A lot of us are so in love with our subject matter that we lose track of what the client actually wants and how to talk to them!)Then use those revelations & intel to develop precise, irresistible, jargon-free language. I'll show you how to use the *Speak Client so You Get Clients System* to do exactly that so you can turn your readers into buyers and your offers into REVENUE.⁠
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2) Surface your result-making method (and you definitely have one, even if you think you operate in response to a client or intuitively). This is especially crucial if the work you do is internal & non-quantifiable because that's how your client knows you’re NOT a risk and you’re NOT winging it and it becomes safer & easier to buy from you. Repeatedly :)⁠
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3) Systematically name out every step & tool in your method with hell-yes let-me-buy-it-right-now language. I can teach you how to use the *Find the Right Words to Make Righteous Money Framework* so that you can make sure your client knows, at every step, that they’re getting closer to the outcome they wanted to buy in the first place.⁠
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This the work I do with you in my 1:1 VIP Days and in my Surface Your Methodology Mastermind and it’s the reason that my clients are able to surface their revenue-boosting proven process -- their methodology! -- that gets them unstuck and into money-making momentum in as little as one session with me.⁠
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DM me for details.
90% of the time your messaging problem isn't really a messaging problem at all.

It's a methodology problem and it's the reason your sales are stuck and you're not getting the attention or revenue you know your excellent work deserves.

When you're perpetually in a battle to write hot copy for yourself and it isn't getting easier or better no matter how much you learn; or it is a constant struggle to find yet another copywriter and then actually love the copy they write, the problem isn't the writing or the writer.

The reason it's been damn-near impossible to nail your authentic sales-boosting message is because the underlying pieces that the copy is trying to explain - your named-out process for getting results - are missing.

If it was just about finding the right words and messaging, then professional copywriters wouldn't have this problem, too.

BUT THEY DO.

Ask any professional copywriter: this is an ONGOING and routine copy-block. When pieces of the client's process are missing then the writer has to suggest or invent ways to fill in the gaps...
...which is totally out of scope and one of the reasons a messaging project can fail. 

I LOVE COPYWRITERS and they can be pure jet fuel for your business...
...but they cannot write successful copy for you if your process is unclear or pieces of your business are missing.

If you've ever spent eons writing new copy for yourself and then been disappointed that your revenue didn't jump as a result, then you've already experienced this unclear-method=unclear-message business block first-hand.

*New messaging does not solve a methodology problem* 

This is the work I do with you in my high-proximity spaces and in my Surface Your Methodology Mastermind.

I have a proven step-by-step process that reveals your method (and I promise you have one) and then messages it in a way that inspires your client to say yes and sign up NOW instead of ten months from now.

AND ensures that you finally land your client-converting, money-making, unmissable message with absolute precision & conviction.
DM me for details about my Surface Your Methodology Mastermind or 1:1 VIP days in Merida, Mexico (you see the pics!)
When you are starting out, trying things and iterating is GOLD. Ad-hocking and getting in motion are how we figure out what the business is.

And then there comes a time when you’ve accumulated so many ad-hoc services and programs and clients that your results become random, too. 

That usually coincides with the moment you want to uplevel and breakthrough and stop working so hard for unpredictable results.

You don’t solve that problem by doing more or trying all the latest marketing trends.

You solve it by cleaning out the garage of all the business clutter and forensically designing a business model that delivers you exactly what you’re envisioning.

Clients that sign up right away rather than 7 months from now. Clients who do the work. Knowing precisely how to price and position yourself instead of wondering what to say in your content or fretting about social media being a time-suck.

Let’s pinpoint the precise sales activities that work for you —your bespoke sales engine — and make an actual business and marketing plan. One that works. By design, not happenstance.

This is the work I do in my high-proximity spaces and in the Bespoke mastermind I teach with the incomparable Danielle Cohen. DM me for details.