@Darren Hopkins just shared this awesome doc he created. This will help with promoting so your copy doesn’t sound like AI. Thanks Darren! https://docs.google.com/document/d/11VhYyMDBVo6MTlNzN3kNJzi2vXBHvOfP_HslTIsWKNE/edit?usp=sharing

Hey there, I'm running a brand new program (won't have too much to do with this Skool group), but would love second set of eyeballs on my ad. First time running this ad copy for this new program which will be sold via a workshop. If you were still working in corporate, would you click on this ad? "You're not too sensitive and you're not "bad at handling stress." If you're burned out at a job where three different bosses forgot your name and you still got skipped for the promotion after doing the work anyway, that's not BECAUSE of you. That's a system working exactly as designed. Just not FOR you. I know because I lived it. Four years at a job that ran layoffs like clockwork and moved the goalposts every time I got close. I started a side hustle on the side of that mess, partly so I wouldn't be desperate if the axe ever swung my way. By the time I actually left, I wasn't taking a leap. I had 37 clients already paying me. Here's the part nobody tells you: you're not exhausted because you're not tough enough. You're exhausted because you don't own your own time. Someone else is calling the shots, cashing in on your work, and deciding when you're allowed to rest. That would wear anyone down. You were never meant to spend your career waiting for permission. You were meant to run something of your own. I'm Andrea Palten. I spent 25 years grinding from Marketing Coordinator to CMO, cutting my teeth at places like Ogilvy, Transamerica, and Camping World before building this business from inside a job that looked a lot like yours. If you're ready to see what getting out actually looks like, plus ideas on what kind of business you can do, join my free workshop, Corporate Escape Plan. Save your seat below."

Greg: I got your homepage audit in your email inbox already Charissa: Send me your top competitors for me to do some competitor research; and send me the link to your instagram video once live so I can give it some love and amplify it Lori: Once you figure out your AI thing, let me know if you need help, I LOVE your ideas Me: Greg's research - done; Instagram hooks and basic training (look at Brock's if there's anything good) - doing next, I will add this to our training library so everyone can see it PS: shedding corporate is going a bit better today 😉

This stuff takes time. Maria Wendt is a $22 million business owner, she made $63 in her first year. What makes most of us succeed is consistently and sticking with it, even when things are tough. The years of work compound and then all of a sudden you are making a good income. You got this ❤️

Hi all - Alex, 19, Ipswich, UK. Solo founder, launched a small local-business prospecting tool on Tuesday. Andrea suggested I introduce myself, so here's the one thing I've learned this fortnight that might be useful to anyone here selling to local businesses. Whether a niche is reachable by email at all is decided before you write a word. I've been checking, town by town, whether the businesses in a trade actually publish an email address on their own site. Some real counts from this week: UK marketing agencies, 8 of 8 had a live site and a role address (hello@ / info@). Accountants in Bristol: 25 checked, 0 published an email as text on the site - forms and phone numbers only. Hairdressers and beauty salons in West Yorkshire: a surprising number still print a web address on their directory listing that no longer resolves anywhere, and nobody has told the owner. So before building a campaign for a client, I now run the town and trade first and read the counts. If the answer is "phone and form", email is the wrong channel and no amount of copy fixes that. If the answer is "role addresses everywhere", you're fine, but check for the placeholder trap: a lot of scraped lists contain info@domain.com style addresses that were never real. Mostly here to listen. If anyone has a niche where the reachability surprised them either way, I'd like to hear it.