I have had a busy almost overwhelming week of gaining access to different area's of my 360 Membership with Arlan Hamilton and yesterday I discovered something I knew but didn't KNOW. People make a ton of money selling prompts. I am in the Prompt Shop In A Box skool group. My first thought was who the hell is buying a prompt? Cue my introduction to Prompt Shop marketplaces! I have a license to add some of the training in her group right here in my group if I want to which is cool. Anyway, I thought I had already posted about this so I am either repeating myself or going slightly crazy 😁 I have a great image for my first YouTube video if I am brave enough to use it, thanks to Prompt Workshop (thank you @Manda Jackson ) Prompts for the win!

I think it was 2004 when I bought the domain name inspirationalguidance.com and my IRL Coaching and Speaking business began. An injury took me out for over 18 months and I found the internet. By 2009 I was working online and offering WordPress services. Now 17 years later my focus is back on the dream/vision I once had but never really focused on. That dream was to build a community of women who knew me and my work - and who I knew through their stories. I am not looking for millions of women. Just 1,000 of them that I have called "true fans" The thing that hasn't been sitting right with me is that it feels like I am just after people who pay! This upsets my INFJ / 29/11 and Expression 5 sensibilities 😃 so using Google in AI mode (which I am actually loving more than Claude right now for stuff like this) I came up with a more authentic version of my dream, vision and mission - that doesn't focus on me wanting money! THE DREAM: The Destination To build Inspirational Guidance into a personal development and growth sanctuary where thousands of women over 30 transition from living on autopilot to living with deep intention. THE VISION: The Picture of Success A thriving, intimate inner circle of 1,000 "True Fans"—women who are deeply engaged with my tools, whose names and stories I know, and who are actively invested in their own evolution. THE MISSION: The Daily Engine To design high-utility tools, authentic content, and transformational spaces that challenge women to move from passive consumers to deeply invested participants in their own lives.

Actually, this is not so much a mistake but something that needs to be set straight. I am here to sell low-ticket digital products. AND I ALREADY sell digital products. I earn a living from them. That isn't the problem. What I don't do is have $5k months selling low-ticket digital products What I had to do to make money online was sell my time for money. Someone paid me. Instead of being an offline employee I was an online one. For years I have been sat at my computer screen helping others with WordPress and their online visibility and they pay me. I have to find the work. Delivery the work. Get paid for the work. Chase the damn invoice for the work. Put up with client demands. Find new work. Making money online is NOT my problem. ENJOYING CONSISTENT $5K MONTHS WITH LOW-TICKET DIGITAL PRODUCTS Making consistent large sums definitely is something I am working towards experiencing. I haven't experienced it - YET! Anything over $5k - SELLING low-ticket digital products only - is a good month for me BUT IT MUST BE from selling digital products only and nothing else. No coming up with a $997 retreat or selling a $2497 high ticket service or teaching people "how to" do something. I AM DONE with clients (except any wondering Djangify ones of course ☺️) AUTHORITY BUILDING AND SOCIAL MEDIA So. What I am ACTUALLY doing in this experiment is building my PERSONAL BRAND. I need to build my online authority and social media so I can consistently sell $5k months worth of low-ticket digital products. Until I get to my 1,000 true fans goal spending $100 each which is around $8k months. That is the missing part. I haven't bothered with selling on social media or building a brand because I haven't needed it. Now I do! I need people to know, like and trust me enough to buy what I create. OPENING UP DJANGIFY TO CUSTOMERS The ONLY support and teaching I will do eventually is with anyone who invests in a Djangify store. Helping Djangify owners sell their digital products using their expertise is something I will offer. As well as using this space so they can ask questions/get help.

Doing some random research today and something came up (I was using the Vivaldi browser) for The Live It List. Turns out it is trademarked in the USA but not in the UK. The laws are different here so I could still use it but ethically that doesn't work for me. So, I decided to stop using it, change all my hard work and find a suitable alternative. I thought about A Living It List but that still seemed too close to the original. Eventually I settled on... AN ALIVE LIST I have been using the Arlan Hamilton's Authority XPro and Claude to come up with different angles. Because I always said A Live It - because A and Live spells ALIVE I settled on An ALIVE List. Seemed a simple even swap until I realized how much work I had done getting ready to promote the site. The videos (may decide to just remove the ones up there) The templates The free PDF Even the links to the builder Everything I have written MAKING THE SWAP Claude Cowork changed everything for in under 15 minutes. I really do love that AI 😁 It also set up a url redirect so anyone using the old live-it-list-builder will hopefully be sent to this link automatically although I haven't tested that yet. https://inspirationalguidance.com/tools/an-alive-list-builder/ Changes were needed to code, the dashboard, links, templates. EVERYTHING. I really had to manage my thoughts and my mood around this one. The desire to switch off and go watch TV was strong but instead I reframed the situation, carried on and played my usual tune very loud when it was all over.

The product going up is only the beginning. The product is maybe 10% of the work. The other 90% is attention, trust, and repetition and most of it is invisible, unglamorous, and slower than anyone tells you. Nobody is waiting for your product, and the algorithm will not save you. Selling digital products requires a relentless focus on marketing, psychological positioning, and long-term customer relationships. Volume and consistency are the actual product. One great post doesn't work. A YouTube video that doesn't get seen doesn't work. The algorithm, Pinterest, Google — they all reward pattern over peak. Showing up repeatedly, in the same place, on the same topic, is the mechanism. It's boring and it works. Most of your audience isn't ready to buy yet. At any given time, roughly 3% of your audience is in buying mode. The other 97% are warming up, lurking, comparing, or not there yet. Content doesn't just convert — it seasons people. The email you wrote six months ago is what sells today. The first sale is the hardest thing you'll ever do online. It will also be THE BEST! Trust doesn't exist yet. You're asking someone to hand over money to a stranger on the internet. Every sale before you have social proof is an act of faith on their part, and you're earning it manually, one human at a time. You will question the whole thing before it works. Almost every creator who breaks through does so after the point where most people quit. The gap between output and results can be 6–18 months. This isn't a motivation speech — it's just the actual timeline. Pricing is a positioning signal, not just a number. Under pricing says "I don't fully believe in this." It also attracts buyers who don't value it. The price is part of the product experience. You need a feedback loop, not just a funnel. Sales tell you something. Refunds tell you more. Comments, DMs, questions from people who didn't buy — those are gold. Without a feedback loop, you're optimising blind. Moving People Off "Autopilot" - Outcomes Over Features