This week we're talking about minimum viable marketing. 🌱 · Get Grounded

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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:

Is this actually bringing in new people or revenue, or do I just believe it should?
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. 👇

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