227 - How'd Our First Black Friday Deal In 7 Years Go? Growing Steady

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⏰ The doors are closing on March 11 to our monthly un-boring coaching program! Whether you're just starting a business or you want to take it to the next level, we can help with our 6-Month Coaching option or our WAIM Unlimited lifetime membership. ➡️ Get all the details at https://wanderingaimfully.com/join *** This episode goes out to anyone who has felt stressed during a launch! We want to help change that for you and we have 4 steps that ensure your launches are calm, profitable, and feel effortless. THE biggest mistake we see folks making when doing live launches is not enough planning and prep time (our own customer survey data showed 75% of people plan a launch in 4 weeks or less). Not giving yourself enough time leads to overwhelm, a lack of pre-marketing, and what we call a “floppy launch” (read: not many sales). We touch on four things in this episode that every launch needs to feel calmer while also driving more sales! We hope you walk away from this episode giving your next launch more lead-up time AND when your launch starts you are having that (stress-free!) twiddling-your-thumbs moment. 🎙️ Listen to Jason’s episode on the How To Money podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/launching-an-offbeat-and-sustainable-business-w/id1337718773?i=1000697828135 🍪 Try Jason’s fantastic chocolate chip cookie recipe: https://cooked.wiki/saved/5c71efb8-0c69-431f-957f-6d43e9a40daf *** 😏 If you’ve been thinking about using Teachery to build your online courses, take advantage of our Lifetime Deal at https://teachery.com/limited-time 💌 Want practical tips to help you grow your creator business-without burning out? Join our Growing Steady newsletter and every Monday you'll get 3 actionable tips for growing a Calm Business—one that is predictable, profitable, and peaceful: https://wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter…

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236 - Business is overcoming these 6 roadblocks 58:34

12天之前58:34

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⏰ The doors are closing on March 11 to our monthly un-boring coaching program! Whether you're just starting a business or you want to take it to the next level, we can help with our 6-Month Coaching option or our WAIM Unlimited lifetime membership. ➡️ Get all the details at https://wanderingaimfully.com/join *** Whether you’re JUST starting a business or you’re making a pivot, there are 6 roadblocks that likely get in your way. Are you stuck at just one of them or do all 6 have you in their grips right now? In this ep, we explore the thoughts that keep business owners from moving forward (especially early on). The 4 Qs we mentioned in the episode that every biz owner needs to be able to confidently answer are: Who do you help? Why does your business exist and why would someone choose you over your peers? What problem does your business solve? How do you help them solve it? We hope this episode gives you a JOLT of inspiration and motivation to move forward if you’ve been feeling stuck! 🔗 You can join our 6-Month Coaching Kickstart if you need additional support and coaching: https://wanderingaimfully.com/6-months 📬 Send us an email https://waim.co/contact if you want the coaching session mentioned in this ep! *** 😏 If you’ve been thinking about using Teachery to build your online courses, take advantage of our Lifetime Deal at https://teachery.com/limited-time 💌 Want practical tips to help you grow your creator business-without burning out? Join our Growing Steady newsletter and every Monday you'll get 3 actionable tips for growing a Calm Business—one that is predictable, profitable, and peaceful: https://wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter…

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235 - 7 changes in online biz you shouldn’t ignore 48:22

19天之前48:22

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⏰ The doors are closing on March 11 to our monthly un-boring coaching program! Whether you're just starting a business or you want to take it to the next level, we can help with our 6-Month Coaching option or our WAIM Unlimited lifetime membership. ➡️ Get all the details at https://wanderingaimfully.com/join *** When we started Wandering AImfully in 2018 the online business landscape was in a lot of ways the same, but in some ways VERY DIFFERENT. In this episode, we share 7 huge changes/shifts we’ve seen in the online business space. Some are obvious (🤖👀) and some have snuck up all of us. The most important takeaway: You can either fight the current of change or you can turn into it — as much as feels right to you — and make a few concessions to continue to have a thriving business in 2025! 🔗 Links: Use offermath.com to pick your next idea! Watch Jason build OfferMath: https://youtu.be/FMq4CRNBlw0 Our Lovable affiliate link: https://bit.ly/jasonlovable Content video: https://waim.co/previews/content *** 😏 If you’ve been thinking about using Teachery to build your online courses, take advantage of our Lifetime Deal at https://teachery.com/limited-time 💌 Want practical tips to help you grow your creator business-without burning out? Join our Growing Steady newsletter and every Monday you'll get 3 actionable tips for growing a Calm Business—one that is predictable, profitable, and peaceful: https://wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter…

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234 - We built an accountability app with NO CODE! 51:35

26天之前51:35

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⏰ The doors are closing on March 11 to our monthly un-boring coaching program! Whether you're just starting a business or you want to take it to the next level, we can help with our 6-Month Coaching option or our WAIM Unlimited lifetime membership. ➡️ Get all the details at https://wanderingaimfully.com/join *** If you can’t tell, we are pretty bullish on no-code tools right now and we’re excited to share this episode talking about how we built an accountability app/game for our membership community! We walk through why we think creating tools is an alternate marketing path instead of creating content for social media. While everyone is focusing on Reels, TikTok, etc, you could be making tools without the need of a developer OR any design skills at all. The tool we’ve been using is called Lovable and you don’t need to know anything about databases, code, Github, etc. You just need to be able to type in a chat prompt (like GPT). Let us be clear, no-code does NOT mean no effort. Building anything takes patience, time, and a willingness to learn new things and fight through the ups and downs. But, we are so excited with what we’ve been able to create with our WAIM of Stones accountability app for our WAIM Unlimited members. And we’d much rather spend our time creating long-lasting tools that solve problems as opposed to publishing vertical video content that lasts 24 hours at best. 🔗 Links: https://bit.ly/jasonlovable (our Lovable aff link) https://youtu.be/FMq4CRNBlw0 (watch Jason build a tool with Lovable) https://wanderingaimfully.com/join (join WAIM to use the app!) *** 😏 If you’ve been thinking about using Teachery to build your online courses, take advantage of our Lifetime Deal at https://teachery.com/limited-time 💌 Want practical tips to help you grow your creator business-without burning out? Join our Growing Steady newsletter and every Monday you'll get 3 actionable tips for growing a Calm Business—one that is predictable, profitable, and peaceful: https://wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter…

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233 - Is NOW the right time to diversify? 37:52

5 weeks之前37:52

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⏰ The doors are closing on March 11 to our monthly un-boring coaching program! Whether you're just starting a business or you want to take it to the next level, we can help with our 6-Month Coaching option or our WAIM Unlimited lifetime membership. ➡️ Get all the details at https://wanderingaimfully.com/join *** With all the hullabaloo around the TikTok ban, it’s got us thinking about the topic of diversifying your marketing versus focusing. Is it smart to put all your eggs in ONE marketing basket? How can you create safeguards for your business? We’ve been huge advocates of email list building for 10+ years and while social networks come and go, our email inboxes are still the most valuable channel in our minds. Whether it’s TikTok, IG, YouTube, etc, we believe it’s never been more important to grow an email list that gives you some control over your audience. Have a listen to this more casual conversation around the topic of marketing and what we’d do at all stages of your business journey (starting from scratch, some experience, or many years under your belt). *** 😏 If you’ve been thinking about using Teachery to build your online courses, take advantage of our Lifetime Deal at https://teachery.com/limited-time 💌 Want practical tips to help you grow your creator business-without burning out? Join our Growing Steady newsletter and every Monday you'll get 3 actionable tips for growing a Calm Business—one that is predictable, profitable, and peaceful: https://wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter…

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232 - Tools for managing self-sabotage 41:20

6 weeks之前41:20

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⏰ The doors are closing on March 11 to our monthly un-boring coaching program! Whether you're just starting a business or you want to take it to the next level, we can help with our 6-Month Coaching option or our WAIM Unlimited lifetime membership. ➡️ Get all the details at https://wanderingaimfully.com/join *** Ahhhh, self-sabotage, otherwise known as overthinking or just unintentionally getting in our own way. We’re all guilty of it, but how can do it a bit less? Whether it’s hiding in your “creation cave” or avoiding sending sales emails so you don’t feel sleazy, there are a handful of ways we limit our business potential that are of our own doing (we know, this is a tough love ep!) We highlight 4 ways we’ve encountered self-sabotage and that we see from a lot of our community members. Then, we give you action steps to overcome the sabotage and change things for the better! *** 😏 If you’ve been thinking about using Teachery to build your online courses, take advantage of our Lifetime Deal at https://teachery.com/limited-time 💌 Want practical tips to help you grow your creator business-without burning out? Join our Growing Steady newsletter and every Monday you'll get 3 actionable tips for growing a Calm Business—one that is predictable, profitable, and peaceful: https://wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter…

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231 - Invent a new social media app? (and other Qs!) 43:44

7 weeks之前43:44

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⏰ The doors are closing on March 11 to our monthly un-boring coaching program! Whether you're just starting a business or you want to take it to the next level, we can help with our 6-Month Coaching option or our WAIM Unlimited lifetime membership. ➡️ Get all the details at https://wanderingaimfully.com/join *** If we could create an entirely new social media app, what would we do? Do creators have a responsibility to share their failures? What are our biggest business risks we’ve taken? These questions and more came from our podcast producer (GPT 😂). There were some fun topics and we hope you enjoyed them. Let us know if you did and we’ll keep the AI-generated questions coming for future episodes. Also, we did mention Lovable again, the AI app we’re gushing over to help us build tools without code! 🔗 Try it for free at https://bit.ly/jasonlovable (aff link) *** 😏 If you’ve been thinking about using Teachery to build your online courses, take advantage of our Lifetime Deal at https://teachery.com/limited-time 💌 Want practical tips to help you grow your creator business-without burning out? Join our Growing Steady newsletter and every Monday you'll get 3 actionable tips for growing a Calm Business—one that is predictable, profitable, and peaceful: https://wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter…

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230 - The BEST tool we've used in years! 1:08:18

8 weeks之前1:08:18

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⏰ The doors are closing on March 11 to our monthly un-boring coaching program! Whether you're just starting a business or you want to take it to the next level, we can help with our 6-Month Coaching option or our WAIM Unlimited lifetime membership. ➡️ Get all the details at https://wanderingaimfully.com/join *** Today we’re excited to share what we feel is the biggest game-changing AI tool since OpenAI released GPT a few years ago. We’ll talk about why this tool has consumed all our free time and how we think it can be impactful for your business too! The tool is called Lovable and it’s a no-code, prompt-style, app/idea development interface (that does NOT require you to know how to code at all). 🔗 Try Lovable for free at https://bit.ly/jasonlovable (aff link) Lovable is the first AI app we’ve used since GPT that truly feels groundbreaking (for us). We have immediately been able to take ideas in our heads and see them come to life just by using a prompt chat interface. You can probably hear our excitement for it in this episode! *** 😏 If you’ve been thinking about using Teachery to build your online courses, take advantage of our Lifetime Deal at https://teachery.com/limited-time 💌 Want practical tips to help you grow your creator business-without burning out? Join our Growing Steady newsletter and every Monday you'll get 3 actionable tips for growing a Calm Business—one that is predictable, profitable, and peaceful: https://wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter…

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229 - Predictions for 2025... 1:00:46

9 weeks之前1:00:46

1:00:46

⏰ The doors are closing on March 11 to our monthly un-boring coaching program! Whether you're just starting a business or you want to take it to the next level, we can help with our 6-Month Coaching option or our WAIM Unlimited lifetime membership. ➡️ Get all the details at https://wanderingaimfully.com/join *** We don’t normally do prediction episodes, but this year we thought it would be fun! At the end of 2025 we can look back and see how right/wrong we were (spoiler alert: we will probably be wrong in all of them — lol). This year, Caroline will be focusing mostly on Wandering Aimfully (WAIM) and Jason will be focusing mostly on Teachery. We each shared two predictions that the other person didn’t know we were going to share about those businesses. Then, we each brought 3 predictions for the online business space (digital products focus). Did any of these surprise you? Which one do you think we’re right on? *** 😏 If you’ve been thinking about using Teachery to build your online courses, take advantage of our Lifetime Deal at https://teachery.com/limited-time 💌 Want practical tips to help you grow your creator business-without burning out? Join our Growing Steady newsletter and every Monday you'll get 3 actionable tips for growing a Calm Business—one that is predictable, profitable, and peaceful: https://wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter…

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228 - Our 2024 review and 2025 preview 1:21:11

12 weeks之前1:21:11

1:21:11

⏰ The doors are closing on March 11 to our monthly un-boring coaching program! Whether you're just starting a business or you want to take it to the next level, we can help with our 6-Month Coaching option or our WAIM Unlimited lifetime membership. ➡️ Get all the details at https://wanderingaimfully.com/join *** 2024 is in the rear view mirror and we have an episode reviewing what went well, what didn’t go well, and our look ahead at 2025! We love doing these reviews and hope you enjoy hearing about the good, the bad, the disappointing, the tough, the awesome, and also all the things we thought were going to happen but didn’t (hey, that’s life 🤗). 🔗 If you want to read the full 2024 Review/2025 Preview (with photos and charts): https://wanderingaimfully.com/2024-review *** 😏 If you’ve been thinking about using Teachery to build your online courses, take advantage of our Lifetime Deal at https://teachery.com/limited-time 💌 Want practical tips to help you grow your creator business-without burning out? Join our Growing Steady newsletter and every Monday you'll get 3 actionable tips for growing a Calm Business—one that is predictable, profitable, and peaceful: https://wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter…

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227 - How'd our first Black Friday deal in 7 years go? 47:12

13 weeks之前47:12

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⏰ The doors are closing on March 11 to our monthly un-boring coaching program! Whether you're just starting a business or you want to take it to the next level, we can help with our 6-Month Coaching option or our WAIM Unlimited lifetime membership. ➡️ Get all the details at https://wanderingaimfully.com/join *** It’s hard to believe we haven’t sold anything on Black Friday/Cyber Monday in 7 years! But, this year it made sense for us and we break down why and how things went. We cover: What we sold, what it took to put the sale together (emails, sales page, automations, etc), what mistakes we made, and the final revenue numbers! You can see the sales page we created, learn more about the Calm Launch Formula ✌️🚀, and even get access to the free course preview we forgot to email about (lol!) at: https://wanderingaimfully.com/deal *** 😏 If you’ve been thinking about using Teachery to build your online courses, take advantage of our Lifetime Deal at https://teachery.com/limited-time 💌 Want practical tips to help you grow your creator business-without burning out? Join our Growing Steady newsletter and every Monday you'll get 3 actionable tips for growing a Calm Business—one that is predictable, profitable, and peaceful: https://wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter…

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226 - A (real) messy convo about social media 1:20:51

14 weeks之前1:20:51

1:20:51

⏰ The doors are closing on March 11 to our monthly un-boring coaching program! Whether you're just starting a business or you want to take it to the next level, we can help with our 6-Month Coaching option or our WAIM Unlimited lifetime membership. ➡️ Get all the details at https://wanderingaimfully.com/join *** We went back and forth on sharing this episode, as it’s one of our more “real” and honest conversations. While we love sharing polished thoughts with you all, our relationship with using social media is SUPER messy and so we figured we’d just record and have at it 😂. Not sure there are big takeaways from this episode? Maybe just to find out if you’re #TeamJason or #TeamCaroline? Where do you stand with using social media for your business? We’ll definitely record another episode (or two 🙈) as we solidify our thoughts and plans for using/not using social media in 2025. *** 😏 If you’ve been thinking about using Teachery to build your online courses, take advantage of our Lifetime Deal at https://teachery.com/limited-time 💌 Want practical tips to help you grow your creator business-without burning out? Join our Growing Steady newsletter and every Monday you'll get 3 actionable tips for growing a Calm Business—one that is predictable, profitable, and peaceful: https://wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter…

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225 - Top 5 marketing tactics to use in 2025 (draft style + Thanksgiving!) 53:54

15 weeks之前53:54

53:54

⏰ The doors are closing on March 11 to our monthly un-boring coaching program! Whether you're just starting a business or you want to take it to the next level, we can help with our 6-Month Coaching option or our WAIM Unlimited lifetime membership. ➡️ Get all the details at https://wanderingaimfully.com/join *** When this episode goes live it’s Thanksgiving in the U.S. and we’re drafting our Top 5 dishes we’d want on our plates. We keep the draft fun going by also drafting our Top 5 marketing tactics we’d use if we had a brand new business we were starting in 2025. Feel free to send us your version of the Top 5 lists we mentioned in the order you’d rank things! Jump to 21:42 if you only want the Marketing Tactics list. 🔗 Here are a few links mentioned in this ep: Onyx Advent Coffee Calendar 19 Grams Advent Coffee Calendar Tony Chocolonely Advent Coffee Calendar Priorities Card Game *** 😏 If you’ve been thinking about using Teachery to build your online courses, take advantage of our Lifetime Deal at https://teachery.com/limited-time 💌 Want practical tips to help you grow your creator business-without burning out? Join our Growing Steady newsletter and every Monday you'll get 3 actionable tips for growing a Calm Business—one that is predictable, profitable, and peaceful: https://wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter…

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224 - We're back from 5 weeks of travel in the U.S.... 58:41

16 weeks之前58:41

58:41

⏰ The doors are closing on March 11 to our monthly un-boring coaching program! Whether you're just starting a business or you want to take it to the next level, we can help with our 6-Month Coaching option or our WAIM Unlimited lifetime membership. ➡️ Get all the details at https://wanderingaimfully.com/join *** The Zooks are back behind the mics! After a 5-week trip back to the U.S. that included two hurricanes, two doctor’s visits, three bouts of sickness, and some sticker shock at prices and quality of things, we’re sharing how it all went. In this episode, we’re also giving you an update on our fertility journey and the new findings with a bunch of blood work Caroline did to find some genetic conditions. We DO have a plan in place to move forward with our goal to grow our family and we’ll keep you posted. We also give a glimpse at how we’re feeling about work/business right now and what’s “shifting in us” as we like to say. We’ll have a lot more to share in the coming weeks/months as we always do this time of year. If you listen on Spotify, please comment with what you want to hear more of with our podcast? We’re always keen to hear from you folks! ❤️ *** 😏 If you’ve been thinking about using Teachery to build your online courses, take advantage of our Lifetime Deal at https://teachery.com/limited-time 💌 Want practical tips to help you grow your creator business-without burning out? Join our Growing Steady newsletter and every Monday you'll get 3 actionable tips for growing a Calm Business—one that is predictable, profitable, and peaceful: https://wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter…

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223 - Our fertility journey (so far) | Two early miscarriages in 3 months 1:35:51

23 weeks之前1:35:51