When people come to me for marketing help because they feel like they’ve tried everything and nothing has worked yet, I often find that they’ve skipped a really important prerequisite: business boundaries. Here’s how I can tell.

Appealing to everyone at once is a skill exactly 0 people have mastered.

But when we take the entrepreneurship plunge, our brains sometimes trick us into thinking that having broad appeal is the safest way to do marketing.

Unfortunately, the more we try to target our messaging to everyone, the less our ideal customers realize that we’re talking to them and that they are, in fact, our ideal customers.

Here's what it looks like to get really specific about your ideal customer and where they are at upon first encountering your marketing.

July 2024 was my first $10K+ profit month. It’s a moment. It’s that goal number you hear about so much in the online coachisphere. And, to be real, I don’t feel how I thought I would when I hit it.

I’m gonna publicly take inventory.

A) To help it sink in for myself that: dang, I did that.

B) To light the path for those coming after.

C) To help you steer clear of some of the obstacles that I smacked right into.

Who are you picturing when crafting your marketing? It better not be your critical parent or ex, your skeptical friend, or that boss who fired you way back when. If it is… we can tell. And it doesn’t make us want to buy. Here’s how to fix it.

Your cells carry the memories of when it wasn’t safe to be seen as different. Which can make marketing quite anxiety-provoking. Get you a community that celebrates your visibility and reminds you that you can handle other people’s reactions.

Can you emotionally handle going viral? So many want to go viral, so few are ready.

I’ve got the perfect guest to give you the inside scoop on what it’s like. Alyssa Zander graciously dropped by The Irresistible Marketing Pod to share her personal experience with being seen by literally millions and millions of people and how she updated her self-care, boundaries, and reactions to be able to handle it.

Don’t assume that because it’s obvious to you, it’s obvious to them. Effective messaging usually requires you to spell it out. Oh, and be careful not to speak at a 400 level when new customers need 101.

Simplicity - both in terms of brevity & removing complexity - is a messaging skill you’ll need to invest in one way or another. It’s the difference between spray & pray marketing and marketing that hits bullseye after bullseye.

Imagine: replies to every email blast, clients regularly sharing your missives to their entire networks, sky-high open rates… These results - ones email marketers dream of, mind you, are just a regular day in the life of operations specialist extraordinaire Peya Robbins, author of Violent Confirmations- a daily throat-punch of love straight to your inbox. In this episode of The Irresistible Marketing Pod, she shares exactly how she does it and how you can too.