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The FTApr Webinar Strategy: A Simple, Soulful Way To Share Your Work

my favorite marketing strategy

I enjoy running free webinars. After years of experimenting (and fumbling through different formats!) I’ve landed on one I’ve come to love: a way of gathering a group of people live, many of whom I’ve never met, and spending 90 minutes exploring something we care about, together. It’s become one of the more joyful practices in my work.

It didn’t start this way. Like many soulpreneurs, I began with the default approach: teach something for free, leave the recording available forever, and hope a …

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Rethinking Marketing Strategy: An Authentic Approach to Ads


Ads cannot save a business. It only expands what's already working.

There’s a deep misunderstanding of what paying for Ads is about, for an authentic business. It begins with the common idea that marketing is about trying to convert visitors as soon as possible into buyers. The more successful your marketing, the quicker a stranger becomes a buyer, right? This is the core flaw that I see so many marketers doing.

Posted by George Kao, Authentic Business Coach on Friday, June 9, 2023


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10 Year Plan for Authentic Business

Here is a plan to help you create a business that expresses your soul -- and allows you to have a semi-retirement lifestyle.

​What’s possible with this plan:

  • Year 2: Part-time income with providing your authentic service.

  • Year 4: Full-time income by providing both 1-1 and group offerings.

  • Year 10: Full-time income, somewhat passively, allowing for semi-retirement, and being one of the best in your field.

Although this is called a 10-Year Plan, you might be able to speed things up. It de…

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Even if you're not posting any content, don’t neglect to do gentle launches 🌱

Maybe it’s my fault.  

I’ve written and spoken for years about how beneficial it is to be creating content consistently. 

Now, some of you are feeling guilty if you aren’t being consistent with it.

You might even be letting it stop you from doing gentle launches on a consistent basis.

What’s a “gentle launch”? Very simply put: it’s posting 1-2 messages on social media (and to your email newsletter) about your current service or upcoming program.

A client said to me (and I bet some of you ca…

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