Trading course quality for a lighter schedule — and hitting the snag
I want to force a boundary between my week and delivery. The plan: cut my delivery hours by half over 8 weeks, but keep course outcomes intact. If it works, I…
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I want to force a boundary between my week and delivery. The plan: cut my delivery hours by half over 8 weeks, but keep course outcomes intact. If it works, I…
I run a self-paced course and the community around it. I'm the only one answering questions, and it was eating my mornings. So for the last two weeks I stopped…
I run a paid newsletter for independent consultants and I just moved three of them onto monthly retainers, which is the first time recurring revenue has…
I read somewhere that morning sending beats evening, but my sample is 4 clients so far, so who knows. I'm splitting it: proposals out before 11 am versus after…
I've been running a productised service for a while and I'm tired of shouting into a room that never reaches for their wallet. I'm publishing this journal to…
Two corporate academies book me by the cohort, and I had been quoting the same per-learner day rate for a year. I quoted 40% higher on the next two enquiries…
I have run group music classes for years and my income resets every month. I want a recurring layer that does not depend on me teaching more hours. I will…
I run a paid newsletter for music teachers and my problem is follow-up, not signups. Before I change the whole onboarding, I want to isolate one variable: does…
I've been a photographer for eight years, but only recently started treating it like a business. I want to share the messy middle: the pricing experiments, the…
I have been writing my paid newsletter for fourteen months and about 900 people open it every week, and maybe nine of them have ever paid me anything. So I…
I'm sharing this because the numbers are bad enough that I need to stop pretending they're not. Our traffic is fine, the leads are real, but almost nobody…
My cash flow problem isn't demand, it's that everything lands in the same two weeks. I'm testing a paid discovery call for the course buyers so revenue spreads…