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The Chrome Extension is Up and Available to Download!
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The Chrome Extension is Up and Available to Download!
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This is cool. Now I want to sit and make up stuff just to see what it comes up with.
This week we're talking about minimum viable marketing. 🌱
Not as a cute phrase. As a real question you can answer for your specific business, with your specific energy, in your specific life. Most of us inherited a marketing system. We watched someone else do it, or read a course, or copy-pasted a strategy from someone with a team, a different audience, and 6 hours a day they don't use for caregiving or a day job. Then we blamed ourselves when we couldn't keep up. That's a design problem, not a discipline problem. So before we talk about what to add this week, let's figure out what's actually happening right now. Here's a quick audit — grab a piece of paper or open a note: List every marketing thing you're currently doing or "supposed to be" doing. Email newsletter, social posts, a podcast, a YouTube channel, SEO, collaborations, a Facebook group, daily stories — whatever's on the list, written or unwritten. For each one, answer two questions: 1. Is this actually bringing in new people or revenue, or do I just believe it should? 2. If I stopped doing this for 30 days, would anything measurable change? Most people find that 1-2 things are doing most of the work. The rest is either faith-based marketing (we believe it helps but can't prove it) or obligation marketing (we feel like we should, so we do). Neither of those is wrong necessarily — but you should know which is which. The goal of this week: figure out what your actual minimum is, get really good at that thing, and make peace with letting the rest go for now. Drop one word in the comments: what marketing activity are you most suspicious of right now? The one you keep doing but kind of wonder about. 👇
This week we're talking about minimum viable marketing. 🌱
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@Jill Cooper that makes sense. Years ago, IMers would argue they were different. They had a bunch of BS reasons, but I never understood.
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@Dana Sacco, thanks. I think of it that way, but there are many people out "there" who don't agree. I've reached the point that I don't really care what "they" say. I've found that the things you say make a lot more sense.
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My first love was reading. Then I realized I could write stories better than what I was reading. I work at my craft every day to do exactly that.

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