Activity
Mon
Wed
Fri
Sun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
What is this?
Less
More

Owned by Terri

A
Authorlandia

1 member β€’ Free

Memberships

Skoolers

171.3k members β€’ Free

Between Pages & Profit

120 members β€’ Free

The Darkling Collective

422 members β€’ Free

AI Writing Easy AF for Authors

956 members β€’ $5/month

Get Grounded | Calm Marketing

57 members β€’ Free

Indie Author Plugin Lab

21 members β€’ $100/month

OpenClaw Easy AF for Authors

27 members β€’ Free

6 contributions to Get Grounded | Calm Marketing
Thursday / The Sales Page You Keep "Just Tweaking"
You've read it a hundred times now. You've moved the testimonial up, then back down. You've rewritten the headline in four slightly different ways and landed somewhere close to where you started. You keep telling yourself it's almost ready β€” just one more pass and then you'll share it. But here's what's actually happening: the tweaking isn't making the page better anymore. It's keeping it safe. As long as it's a draft, nobody can say no to it. As long as you're still "polishing," you never have to find out if it works. The truth is your page crossed the "good enough to help someone" line a while ago. The person who needs what you're offering isn't going to bounce because a sentence could've been 5% tighter. They're going to read it, recognize themselves in it, and want the thing. Done and shared beats perfect and hidden every single time. A page nobody sees can't convert anyone. It can't get feedback. It can't teach you the one thing only real visitors can teach you β€” what actually lands. So stop opening the editor today. Don't read it again. Put it in front of actual humans and let it do its job, imperfections and all. You can fix the headline next week, with real data instead of your own anxious guessing. What's the one project you keep "polishing" instead of publishing β€” and what would happen if you shipped it as-is today? πŸ‘‡
Thursday / The Sales Page You Keep "Just Tweaking"
2 likes β€’ 13d
I've got some serious grounding to do. It has been one rough week.
Saturday / Give Your Brain Something Different Today
It’s Saturday. Which means something different for everyone in here. 🌱 Some of you are finally getting two quiet hours to work on your business because the week job is done and the kids are occupied. Some of you are completely off and protecting it. Some of you are somewhere in between β€” half resting, half thinking about the email you need to send. All of that is fine. There’s no right way to do a Saturday. But here’s something worth thinking about regardless of which version of Saturday you’re having: Content creation β€” real content, the kind that sounds like you and actually connects β€” requires input that isn’t about your business. Observations from outside your niche. Conversations with people who have never heard the words β€œcontent calendar.” Experiences that have nothing to do with what you sell. When we’re in work mode all the time, our content starts to eat itself. You end up writing about writing about your topic. Your examples get thinner. Your metaphors get recycled. You start to sound like someone who only talks to other people in your industry β€” because that’s all that’s going in. The input has to come from somewhere. So whether you’re working today or not β€” see if you can let something in that isn’t business-related. A conversation. A walk. Something you watch or read for no reason. A weird rabbit hole that has nothing to do with your niche. That’s not wasted time. That’s next week’s analogy. The story that makes people feel like you’re a real human. Starting Monday we’re talking about content creation for people who hate content creation. Batching, repurposing, voice-first workflows, making your brain work for you instead of against you. But the raw material for all of it starts with you having a life outside the work. Whatever your Saturday looks like β€” what’s one thing going in today that isn’t business? Could be a show, a conversation, a snack you’re unreasonably excited about. Drop it below. πŸ‘‡
Saturday / Give Your Brain Something Different Today
0 likes β€’ May 23
A bit of rest first to see if my headache will stop. After that, I have list to choose from. It's raining here, so I might bake a loaf of sourdough banana bread. Or maybe a movie. Devil Wears Prada is on Hulu.
Today is Saturday. Take the day off. 🌱
And if Saturday is actually your busiest day β€” if you work retail, have kids home all weekend, or your business runs on a schedule that makes Sunday your Monday β€” then pick a different day and take that one off instead. This is not a wellness post. This is a business post. Here's the practical case for intentional time off: Most of us think we're being productive when we're in low-grade work mode all the time. Tabs open, phone nearby, half-thinking about the email we need to send while we're supposed to be watching a movie. It feels like we're staying on top of things. What we're actually doing is never letting our brain fully disengage β€” which means we never get the creative recovery that happens when it does. The ideas that solve your problems, the reframes that unstick your copy, the decisions that have been sitting in a pile in your head β€” those tend to arrive in the gap. On a walk. In the shower. The Tuesday afternoon you gave yourself completely off and just read a book. You can't manufacture the gap while you're still half-working. What intentional time off actually looks like (vs. what we usually do): What we usually do is stop the official tasks but stay in "available" mode. We check Slack. We scroll Instagram and call it research. We answer one quick email. We're technically off but cognitively still on, which means we get none of the restoration and all of the guilt. Intentional time off means closing the tabs. Turning off the notifications β€” not forever, just for the block of time you're protecting. Doing something that has nothing to do with your business and not framing it as inspiration-gathering. It means telling yourself the business will still be there when you get back. Because it will. If you can't take a full day, protect a window. Two hours where you are actually unavailable, actually not thinking about it, actually doing something else. That's not nothing β€” for a lot of us, that's significant. One thing worth setting up so time off doesn't break everything:
Today is Saturday. Take the day off. 🌱
2 likes β€’ May 16
I do half-days on Saturday and Sunday. That's a whole day.
A 30-Minute Weekly Marketing Routine That Actually Holds
Here's a thing to try if your marketing feels chaotic, inconsistent, or like it's eating your whole Sunday. β˜€οΈ This is a 30-minute weekly routine built around the minimum viable principle. It's not glamorous. It's not a content machine. It's the smallest thing that keeps you moving. The 30-Minute Weekly Marketing Session Minutes 1–5: Check your one number. Pick one metric that actually matters to your business right now. Email list size, revenue, DMs from new people, whatever. Write it down. One number. This is your signal β€” not a dashboard full of vanity metrics, just one thing you're watching move. Minutes 6–15: Write the one thing. One email, one post, one piece of content. Not a batch, not a strategy session β€” just the one thing you're putting out this week. If you have an AI draft already, clean it up and make it sound like you. If you don't, use one of the prompts from Wednesday to get moving. Minutes 16–20: Reply to something. Find one comment, one email reply, one DM from the past week and respond to it. Community is marketing. A real response to a real person does more for your reputation and retention than most content you'll ever create. Minutes 21–25: Do one small backend thing. Update your link in bio, clean up your welcome email, add a line to your about page, fix that broken link you've been ignoring. Small maintenance that compounds over time. Minutes 26–30: Note what's next. Write one sentence about what you're publishing next week. Just the idea. You don't have to write it yet β€” just capture it so you're not starting from zero again in 7 days. That's it. Thirty minutes. One number, one piece of content, one real interaction, one maintenance task, one note for next week. Will it grow a business to 7 figures? Not by itself. But it will keep you in the game, which is the thing most marketing strategies fail to do. What would you add or change for your own version of this? πŸ‘‡
A 30-Minute Weekly Marketing Routine That Actually Holds
1 like β€’ May 15
Great checklist. And you know I love checklists!
The Chrome Extension is Up and Available to Download!
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/cifcjlnhmgcebjcejlimjbklbndjadhg?utm_source=item-share-cb
The Chrome Extension is Up and Available to Download!
1 like β€’ May 11
This is cool. Now I want to sit and make up stuff just to see what it comes up with.
1-6 of 6
Terri Stevens
2
13points to level up
@terri-stevens-9134
My first love was reading. Then I realized I could write stories better than what I was reading. I work at my craft every day to do exactly that.

Active 1h ago
Joined May 9, 2026
Asheville, NC, USA
Powered by