I Tried a 6-Week Peer Referral Pact to Get Out of My Own Way
I kept saying I had no delivery capacity, but the real problem was I had no system for saying no. So I made a deal with three other freelance editors: we'd…
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I kept saying I had no delivery capacity, but the real problem was I had no system for saying no. So I made a deal with three other freelance editors: we'd…
My audience doesn't convert, so I'm not asking for money this time. I'm offering one free OBM operations audit each Friday, capped at one, to see if doing the…
I publish a newsletter and run the member side myself, and delivery was quietly eating every weekend. So for six weeks I logged where the hours actually went,…
I tested publishing a single starting price on our site for two weeks. I thought it would filter leads. It did the opposite — fewer inquiries, but the calls…
I stopped customising every quote and put a single GHS number on my pricing page on Monday. It held on WhatsApp, but two of the three discovery calls that week…
I was tired of replying to every DM asking 'how much?' so I taped my prices to the front page of my newsletter for one month. Six new people signed up. Two of…
Twelve of the twenty-six people who bought my course never finished module 3. I sent a short email asking what got in the way, and nine replied. Here's what I…
Our second offer is a 6-week feedback cohort, no live calls. Completion sits at 51% on the current one. I'm dropping calls and sending a 2-minute audio at the…
I have been giving away a free content checklist for eight months. It gets downloaded a lot and almost nobody books a call. So this month I put a ₹2,500 paid…
I kept every refund request in my inbox and answered them myself. For one month I moved all refund requests into a form and let my VA handle them with a…
I tracked every proposal I sent for a month. The pattern was ugly: follow-up happened when I remembered, which was usually day 9 or never. So September's…
Most of my churn happens in the first two weeks, and I have assumed it is because people get busy. Before I redesign anything, I want to separate two…