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

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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.

cartoon of 1950s man in suit with his feet propped up on table saying "it's not my problem" about the so-called "feminist pendulum"

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?

The algorithm is NOT why your clients aren’t buying.⁠
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The algorithm could be obsessed with you and you could buy all the ads in the world but if your message is off, your sales won’t increase no matter how many people see it.⁠
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The REAL problem is that you don’t know what your client is trying to buy and the exact words that get them thinking HELL YES THIS IS THE ONE, SIGN ME UP.⁠
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And that’s the reason you’re creating content and getting crickets instead of sales and trying all the marketing things but still not generating the revenue your work deserves.⁠
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When you KNOW with forensic precision exactly what inspires your clients to buy and dial in your messaging to deliver that and only that, here’s what happens:⁠
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You do NOT need to fret about what the algorithms are doing or how to boost likes and engagement —⁠
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You do NOT need to post every day or several times a day —⁠
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You do NOT need to constantly be thinking up new ideas for content —⁠
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And you also do NOT need a creativity-assassinating Annual Content Calendar (thank goodness!).⁠
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Instead, your message can be so strategic and use such precise language that your dream clients sign up on the spot and pay in full *right now* instead of 10 months from now…⁠
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Listen, I was experiencing ALL of those things.⁠
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But then I combined two of my content frameworks and added some hot new elements and this new system has added pure jet fuel to my sales & revenue.⁠
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I’m adding $2K - $3K a week in ADDITIONAL, NEW revenue from brand-new clients who’ve never bought from me before, and they’re signing up on the spot from my content instead of months or years later.⁠
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My MONEY MESSAGING system & content frameworks speaks to clients so directly that I don’t have to fret about the algorithm (it was never the problem; it was always my message) while also delivering way more payment notifications :)⁠
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This is the work I do in my on-demand training, THE MONEY MESSAGING BUNDLE and in my high-proximity, high-accountability, get-shit-done program, THE MONEY MESSAGING MASTERMIND. ⁠
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(Our first meeting is on Fri October 18 so there’s still time to get in on it!)⁠
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DM me for details.
The problem is NOT that you don't have enough time to create content.

The problem is that you're creating the wrong kind of content so you’re not getting sales, and that's why it feels like a giant waste of time...and if there's no ROI then why would you bother or even enjoy it?!

Having PROVEN content recipes you can quickly default to-- ones that you know actually make money -- is how you STOP waking up in the morning feeling pressured to post but not sure what to post; STOP spending hours writing & designing from scratch; and STOP hearing crickets after you finally do post...

These days I spend less time creating content than I used to AND I enjoy myself a lot more, because I use my precisely designed sales recipes that convert like clockwork...

...and so I make money off every single post & email.

(I calculated my ROI this week, and for every hour I spent creating content, I made +$2,200. And that? Well that I can *always* find time for that AND enjoy myself while I do it.)

But most entrepreneurs do NOT have content sales recipes that they can default to, over and over again, that ALWAYS generate cash.

Here's how you change that up, fast:

* 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 take that Client Insight to develop irresistible copy blocks using the *Speak Client so You Get Clients System* that turns your readers into buyers and your offers into REVENUE⁠

* Stop over-posting random content and start using the exact content sales recipes (The Name It Money & Social Money Frameworks & templates) that deliver non-stop sales notifications (ka-ching!).

That’s how you stop having to dredge up the motivation to post, scramble for new ideas, throw spaghetti-at-the-wall, overthink, overpost, spend your life on IG or be tethered to your laptop sending emails ‘til you drop…

…and start turning your content into cash. CONSISTENTLY.

This is the work I do in my Name It Money and Social Money programs, and my high-proximity space, The Money Messaging MASTERMIND (starts 10/14). DM for details.
📍 📍 📍 Don't tell anyone, but I am not internationally known for my cooking, but I have heard a rumor that most of us have two, three or even four go-to recipes & go- to combinations that we default to over and over again **that always work**. 

It's the same with sales. You need a sales recipe, or a couple of go-to combinations that you know work, over and over again. 

We have that in our kitchens...but most entrepreneurs do NOT have sales recipes set up in their business that inevitably produce sales like clockwork. 

But when you do, it's a game changer. 

When you have it, you wake up in the morning and you're like, okay, I'm going to use *The Story Selling Framework*, or okay, I'm going to use *The Credibility Framework*, or okay, I'm going to use *The Game Changer Framework*. You default to these combinations and you can quickly execute them because you've done them over and over again. 

IMPORTANT: having proven content recipes produces sales for you with way less spinning and existential angst. 

That's *so much better* than waking up in the morning wondering what to post and trying to write from scratch without even a format to structure your thoughts. That takes so much time and it's rarely effective. Once in a while you might stumble on something that works. When you do turn that into a recipe, turn that into a winning sales combination that you use over and over again. 

This is what I've done for myself. 

I've developed a series of frameworks and default templates that structure my thoughts... 

...and they consistently MAKE MONEY. 

While saving me a ton of time and cognitive energy. 

That's what I want for you. 

I want you to have a series of sales combinations & content recipes you can default to over and over again, THAT ACTUALLY WORK. 

This is the work I do in The Money Messaging Bundle and in my high support, high proximity space, The Money Messaging Mastermind that begins Oct 14. 🔥DM me for details.🔥
Sometimes when we're overwhelmed by all the marketing things that need doing we start talking a lot of shit to ourselves, like how we're not good at business, we suck at social media, can't sell, and all the other gremlin-y untrue things that run like a ticker tape through our heads on the bad days...But maybe none of that is true. Maybe you're not actually bad at selling. Maybe it's 'just' an ADHD shutdown. Perversely, that's good news. A shutdown is easier to fix than being innately, uniquely terrible at selling & business :). And the way you get out of an ADHD shutdown/spiral is to reach for one thing you can complete, right now. (Also, pro-tip for entrepreneurs who experience collapses & shutdowns: google everything you can find about preventing and getting out of ADHD shutdowns.)Nix finishing the fancy funnel or the elaborate sales page(for now) and make your bed and post one simple thing to social and put one foot in front of the other. Reach for the easy, low-stakes thing you can complete, immediately. It all adds up and it stops a shutdown in its tracks -- love someone who knows (me) xoxoxo