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I've turned down two sponsors this year and taken one I'm still not sure about. My list is small and engaged and I don't want to torch that, but I also can't afford to keep saying no out of nerves.…
Vancouver, running a small productised training business, team of three now. Churn is killing me — clients do the six-week program, get results, then vanish. Everyone tells me it's because I have n…
I'm a solo data consultant billing $165/hr for sponsorship and ads analytics. I keep getting asked for the same 6 things, so I spent two months building a template kit and starting to write a bank …
Churn is up and I think it's because people buy the course and then stall when nobody checks in. So I'm testing one thing this month: every new student gets a 15-minute call booked in their first w…
I have been running the sponsorship and ads side of my consultancy long enough to know exactly where enquiries leak, and it is not the top of the funnel. Sharing the changes and the numbers as I go…
I'm running a working session on why course pages get traffic but not sales. Bring the actual emails and stats from one launch that underperformed and we'll look at where people dropped off and wha…
I'm finally moving off freelance gigs and my newsletter is the thing I want to grow. But I've ended up with a mess of tools that don't talk to each other, and I can't tell if that's the real proble…
I shoot and I teach. I'm turning down video work every month because I'm the only one who can do it, and I've been sitting on this course launch for almost a year now because I keep telling myself …
Running 1:1 coaching under three brand names out of Durban. Each has its own booking, its own payment link, its own CRM. It works, but it works because I personally keep it working. I'm paying for …
A client asked us to build a needs analysis for a 400-person onboarding program. We ran focus groups, surveyed 150 people, mapped role expectations. Three weeks. At the results meeting the sponsor …
I put my Friday brief behind Stripe subscriptions last month, KES 1,500 monthly. I wanted to see if automatic billing would fix my follow-up problem — I hate chasing people. The setup took a weeken…
I run a self-paced course for videographers moving into agency work. Churn is killing the compounding, and I think the leak is follow-up after people stall. Logging what I actually try each week so…