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For the first 6 months of my business, I made exactly . . . ZERO SALES. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. 😭 And do you know what I was doing about it? Sitting on my couch watching Star Trek reruns, tweaking my logo, changing my fonts and colors, and writing blog posts no one was reading. Basically everything EXCEPT telling people my business existed. Eventually, I figured out the painfully obvious thing I’d been avoiding: No one was going to magically find me. I had to GO where my ideal clients already were, get in front of them, prove I had useful solutions, and give them a reason to come back to my website. So I started leaving helpful comments on blogs and YouTube videos. Not 5 comments and then taking a nap. Not “I’ll do some outreach when I have time” and doom scrolling for hours. My goal was 80 comments PER DAY, and within 3 months, I grew my email list to more than 3,000 people and finally started getting paying clients. Fast-forward to today, and I now earn $30K months. The specific marketing tactics have changed since 2011, thank goodness. 😂 But the lesson hasn’t: You need to get in front of your ideal clients, and you need to do A LOT more outreach than you’re doing now. Posting randomly and hoping someone notices you isn’t a marketing strategy. Waiting for people to start conversations with YOU isn’t a marketing strategy. Your business probably isn’t broken. You just haven’t been telling enough people you exist. That’s why I loved contributing to the new Before It Clicked guide. Fifteen business owners are sharing what things REALLY looked like before their businesses finally started working. This is absolutely NOT the polished highlight reel. You'll see the failed strategies, the wrong turns, the messy middle, and the realization that finally changed everything. GET THE FREE GUIDE Inside, you’ll discover:

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Your customers do NOT need everything you know. I know. 😱 As a coach or course creator, it’s incredibly tempting to prove how helpful you are by dumping your entire brain into your offers. ▶️ Here are 60 videos! ✏️ Here are 30 worksheets! ✅ Here are 10,000 strategies! 🎁 Here are a billion lousy bonuses you didn’t ask for! LOOK HOW MUCH VALUE YOU’RE GETTING!!! Except . . . More information doesn't automatically equal more value. Sometimes it just creates more DECISIONS, and more decisions create more CONFUSION. And confused people do nothing. That’s exactly what happened with one of my old courses, Startup In 60. It has 60 daily videos and 30 worksheets because I crammed basically everything I knew about starting a business into one gigantic course. At the time, I thought that made it incredibly valuable. Instead, it created 3 problems that I bet you're dealing with too: 1️⃣ Nobody wants to finish the damn thing. Sixty days is a huge commitment when you’re already overwhelmed trying to start a business. 👉 Is your timeline so long and tedious that it feels like a never-ending quest with no treasure at the end? 2️⃣ It becomes outdated FAST. The world of online business changes constantly, so maintaining a gigantic mega-course became ridiculous. 👉 Is your digital course able to weather changes to software, marketing strategies, and even social trends? 3️⃣ Finding one specific answer is exhausting. Imagine thinking, “Wait . . . where did Sage explain that thing I need?” Was it video 17? Day 42? Worksheet 23? WHO KNOWS?!?! 😂 Sorry, Life Editor. Even I don't know where your answers are in my mega-monster-sized course. That’s why I teach something completely different now: ONE solution for ONE problem. ❌ Not everything your could possibly teach. ❌ Not every strategy you’ve ever tried. ❌ Not dozens of different roads they could theoretically take. One specific problem. One specific solution. One quick win.

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