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I want accountability and maybe some useful friction from people who've done this. I'm sharing what I learn here so the mistakes are at least documented. My…
I have steady one-off clients but the work resets to zero every month and I want to fix that. Berlin's ad market is slow in Q1 and I keep pretending that is…
I run a paid newsletter for photographers — mostly location scouting notes, pricing breakdowns, and behind-the-scenes on commercial shoots. Growth is fine but…
I'm a solo community manager for a nonprofit membership with commercial education programmes, and I've been the only person who can set up a new member…
I need to stop relying on referrals from the same people. This journal is to force myself to show up where I'm not known. That's the only way I'll find out if…
I’m sharing this because I keep saying I’ll raise prices but never do. My follow-up is weak, so I lose momentum after the first call. I want to test a higher…
Two months into deliberately handing work off, and the shape of my weeks has changed. I still don't have predictability where I want it, so I'm writing down…
I'm writing this down because I keep saying I'll build partnerships once I have room, and I never have room. The honest version is that I'm the room. So this…
I keep a public build-in-public journal to stay accountable and to show the unglamorous middle of scaling a professional education business. I thought…
I keep this log because my own students tell me they want to see the middle, not the launch highlight reel. Early revenue means the numbers move, then don't,…
Most of my retainer work comes from people who already know me, which means growth is capped by my network and my calendar. I am running a few small tests to…
I run a group programme for boutique digital agencies. Right now it's mostly one-off cohorts, and I want to shift to a recurring model — but completion rates…
