Hi Friends,
Alas, I don’t have the answer for you today, but we do have a compilation of wonderful responses, wisdom, and advice from fellow Heart-Based Business Owners in this week’s two-part series on What to Do When You Lose Your Biggest Client:
🎧 Part One — featuring Kelli Thompson, Kristoffer ‘KC’ Carter (of Tiny, Bold Moves), Pamela Slim, and Charlie Gilkey. Show notes, transcript, and permission slips are here:
🎧 Part Two — featuring Marisol, khe hy, Stephanie Polen, Chris Wilson, and Maya Middlemiss. Show notes here:
Now onto this week’s round-up + Plus extra goodies over the paywall rainbow at the end . . .
⚙️ Tips & Tools
In today’s solo Free Time episode, I’m sharing my only slightly tongue-in-cheek Framework Framework™️ — a process for harnessing your IP and communicating it clearly. I shared this in June 2023 as a follow-up to the fantastic workshop that Pamela Slim did for us on Certification and Licensing.
The show notes are full of bonus resources, including a favorite from Wes Kao’s detailed LinkedIn post on how to turn your ideas into frameworks and a photo of my journal where I first started trying to piece the Free Time Framework together, brainstorming themes before eventually shifting from Mind/Time/Team to Align -> Design -> Assign :)
🎧 Listen to the episode here »
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🎙 February 13 — live podcast taping with Joey Coleman on his strategies for billing corporate and speaking clients, based on his mantra for getting paid on time: “I am not a bank.” Together, we’ll explore this topic—and his billing best practices—in delightful detail.
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💻 February 21 — Office Hours hang: ask me anything about a question or challenge in your business, and get extra input from fellow Heart-Based Business owners!
🎙 March 7 — live podcast taping with Todd Sattersten is the publisher and owner of Bard Press, on strategies for hitting The Magic Number of book sales. This will be a follow-up conversation to our Free Time podcast episode launching on February 16.
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💬 Quote
“I have learned to be ruthlessly myself.”
—Gwyneth Paltrow, The goop Podcast — 15th Anniversary Episode
💭 Questions
Have you ever lost a “big gorilla” client that made your business vulnerable to bigger wobbles than usual? What did you learn from that experience? What would you advise other business owners to do in the same situation?
📝 Permission
“Give up the idea that you are in control of the success of your business. When you release that idea, then you can be more curious about how to step in and fix things that aren’t working.”
—From Pamela Slim, author of The Widest Net in What to Do When You Lose Your Biggest Client (Part One)
🍩 New at Rolling in D🤦🏻♀️h with Jenny Blake
🎙 Recent Episodes
Free Time:
264: 🦧 What to Do When You Lose Your Biggest Client: Part One, Part Two
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Pivot:
360: 📦 Unpacking a Big Business Decision and Dissolving Related Doubts with Adrian Klaphaak
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Thank you for being here reading and listening!
❤️ With Gratitude,
P.S. Extra Goodies Over the Paywall Rainbow 🌈💰
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