Someone tried to piss me off on Facebook. Instead, they accidentally made a fantastic advertisement for my free Closest to Cash training. 😂 I run an ad for the training, and it's basically the ONLY thing I do on social media these days because, you know . . . I'm busy working on my own business. Someone commented on the ad, "Well, it should be free." I replied, "It is free." Then they came back with something like, "Yeah, but I'm sure it leads to some big offer you're trying to sell." And that's when I stopped responding. Because YES, of course I sell things. This is a BUSINESS! The money my business earns pays my rent and buys my food. It pays for software, webinars, trainings, retreats, contractors, and all the other things that allow me to keep helping more people. The funniest part was that this person was spending their time scrolling Facebook and criticizing how somebody ELSE runs their business . . . . . . on an ad for a training specifically designed to teach people to stop wasting time and focus on the activities that make money. YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP. Meanwhile, I'm over here making $30K months. I'm not scrolling around investigating whether strangers on the internet are selling something. I've got work to do, baby. 😘 And THAT is the entire point of Closest to Cash. People who earn the big bucks focus on BIG actions. They start conversations, follow up, make offers, talk to the people most likely to buy, and sell life-changing transformations instead of hiding behind endless little admin tasks. I don't gatekeep that strategy because somebody hasn't paid me thousands of dollars. I teach the SAME strategies in my free trainings that I teach my paying clients. Because information isn't the problem. IMPLEMENTATION is the problem. You can watch 900 free trainings and change absolutely nothing.

If your business completely stops making money the second you stop working, then we need to fix that before Q4. 😬 Because October, November, and December are NOT the months when you want every sale, email, freebie, follow-up, and customer interaction to require you to manually show up and push a button. That’s what your tech is supposed to help with. And I know what you might be thinking, "But Sage, setting up all those automations sounds COMPLICATED!" Maybe at first. But spending a little time setting something up ONCE can save you hours (or even DAYS!) of work later. Case in point: I get sales from my tripwires every single day. 💵 Someone grabs one of my freebies → they see an irresistible low-priced offer → they buy it. And I don’t have to personally swoop in and make the sale. The system does its job while I’m coaching clients, writing emails, dancing badly at wedding rehearsals, or doing literally anything else. This is why I'm thrilled to be included in the Biz Tech Simplified Bundle that brings together 27 beginner-friendly trainings and resources from online business owners who understand what it’s like to feel overwhelmed by tech and want to help you move forward. I contributed my popular Tasty Tripwires course where I’ll show you how to: 🧁 Choose the right product for your tripwire and create an offer people actually WANT to buy. 🧁 Write a high-converting tripwire sales page without making things ridiculously complicated. 🧁 Set up countdown timers and automations so your tripwire can make sales 24/7. 🧁 Add tripwires to your freebies, bundles, evergreen emails, and more so more people actually SEE your offers. Tasty Tripwires is just ONE of the resources inside the Biz Tech Simplified Bundle. You’ll get beginner-friendly trainings covering email marketing, websites, automations, Canva, Google tools, AI, systems, and more all for FREE.

Leave a comment and share your wins from this week. What made you proud, big or small?

I have a dare for you: Try something this month that you might completely suck at. Not something productive, something you can monetize, or something you need to master or perfect. Find something that makes you think, HELL YES, that sounds fun! Jose and I are currently learning a choreographed dance for our first dance at our wedding. And let me tell you, this is WAY outside our comfort zone. But it’s also been ridiculously rewarding. We’re learning something new together, laughing at ourselves, and getting some much-needed private time together when life is otherwise BUSY BUSY BUSY. That’s why I love the idea behind the free Try This Bundle. It’s basically a giant invitation to get curious and TRY SOMETHING. A new hobby, a new skill, a new technique. Something useful, something completely ridiculous, something you might love forever. Something you might try once and say, “Well, THAT’S never happening again.” GET THE FREE BUNDLE I contributed one of my longtime popular courses, Minimalism Without Deprivation. Which is slightly hilarious because . . . I AM NOT A MINIMALIST! I have hundreds of printed books because I’m a former book editor and avid reader. You will pry my books out of my cold, dead hands. And my closet looks like a unicorn vomited rainbows all over it. 🌈 Wearing the same neutral outfit every day? NO THANK YOU. But that’s exactly why I created Minimalism Without Deprivation. GET MY COURSE IN THE FREE BUNDLE Minimalism doesn’t have to mean owning one pair of underwear, sleeping on the floor, or getting rid of everything that makes you happy. It can mean deciding where you want MORE and where you genuinely don’t care. I’ll happily own hundreds of books, but I also bought 30 pairs of identical white socks so I never have to waste brainpower matching socks again.

Just popping in with some wonderful wins from the amazing biz owners in our Goodbye 9-to-5 Mastermind. 🎉 @Devyn Price graduated from the mastermind after completing 6 full months, 4 Get It Done Weeks, creating 2 Skool groups, earning $5000+ in a week for her birthday sale, signing numerous vocal coaching clients, attending nearly every Monday night accountability call, and many more wins. She's now posting on her YouTube Channel and growing 2 Skool groups: Fiercely Vocal and Back to the Fire. 🎉 @LaWanda Engle completed her live webinar and repurposed it into a freebie. She's also growing her Skool group, Web Support Lounge for Women. 🎉 @Samantha Stefaniak has sold 25+ copies of her 100-page devotional. She's also filling her upcoming event, The Sacred Slowdown: A Free Fall Wellness Bundle for Catholic Women. She was also interviewed for The Catholic Woman Podcast. She's also keeping up with her weekly content for Carrying Your Cross Without Losing Yourself (with 6 founding members!) and loves seeing her clients' big wins.