@Jan Appleton joyfully answered!

@Jan Appleton high five!

@Laura Duinkerken

@Brenda Rigney , this community, and all the fabulous women I have met in 1-to-1 exchanges, DMs, and as my members or collaborators give me not only huge inspiration and hope for my own business but - literally! - for the world! I feel a bit like a "political undercover agent" with my Stage Charisma Society community! Empowering women leaders to speak their truth, make money, and peacefully create a nonhierarchical, postpatriarchal world, one beautiful solution bringing business, an offer, and a client at a time. Grateful and honored to be one of the featured live speakers at this summit!

Marketing. I think I got so spoiled in my first ten years in business 1997 till 2006 back in Germany. Internet marketing, social media, spending daily hours online wasn’t there yet! I was a pioneer in Germany of the coaching industry. I had 3 established corporate partners - consultant and training companies - serving different niches. They opened the doors for me to their corpirate clients, and I went in and closed the deal! I had a nearly 100% conversion rate!!! My brilliant customized unusual training and coaching offers sold like hot brownies. Then my 1:1 clients started to recommen me to their peers and friends. Zero marketing! Minimal networking. That was more for socialing with other coaches, staying in the expanding conversation, and learning. My business was profitable, in the 6 figures and felt easy. Then I moved to the US, social media emerged … and my old in-person relationships referral based business world disappeared. Outsh! I miss those old simpler less tech depending times. A phone and a business card was all I needed.

Brilliant question! I have that one as well. Combined with my desire to be authentic and not offer things I don't like for example "empty gamification" and "fun posts that have zero to do with the topic focus" of my community. I don't engage as a member in other communities where they ask to share pet-photos, or dinner plans, or what fun they did the previous weekend. I find those posts forced and desperate for human interaction and they feel a waste of my time. In general I love the poll-function Skool offers that makes reacting to a post meaningful and deeper than just a thumbs-up but doesn't require straight away a real comment. I want to learn how to make tagging and DM outreach easier for me to especially personalize outreach to members on level 1 and 2 to onspire them to uplevel. I am currently working on my 7-day onboarding process and will turn it into a gamified yet meaningful quick-qin producing on-ramp into Premium and at a minimum more engagement. My weakness: Too much content, too long texts (see this comment! LOL!), too much academic passion for depth and scope. My brain is neuro-spicy and I easily overwhelm people with an abundance that my brain needs to simply wake up! Balancing these different neuro-needs - my members' and my own - is a challenge I am messily navigating...

@Louise Hesketh I got great help today on Brenda's Q&A call. She took a ton of my weight/stress/overthinking about my 7-day onboarding sequence of my shoulders!

Yeah!!!!! Congratulations! That is AMAZING!