I have had a great week. The results are slow but regular right now. I described having to build your online profile like pushing a snowball uphill. It builds slowly. But when you get to the top and push it down suddenly there is real momentum and it builds quickly and huge! Still fiddling with building stuff - but I do feel like I am at the end of it. The biggest thing was getting Claude working INSIDE of Djangify. Now, when I set up a new store I can give Claude a run down of what the site is about and it will fill in the majority of what needs to be done, including writing a few blog posts. Stuff it won't touch relates to secret keys and information it shouldn't have. I have also decided that Pinterest and YouTube are my main two sources with Substack being a third that I am still not 100% sure about. DJANGIFY AND OTHER WORK While I am not promoting it I don't want to make the same mistake as I did with Inspirational Guidance of not having an audience ready - or at least having an audience but not telling them what I am doing. So the Coach Who Codes YouTube will go live and its mainly to help with promoting how I use Djangify and AI. I am sending everyone to my main portfolio todiane.com UPDATING SEARCH CONSOLE My site in search console identified issues with the way search engines are reading my schema-ld and what I do. Its all very dull but important - if the search engines don't know who I am they won't recommend me - anyway, I fixed it so everything is clear. OUTREARCH ON SOCIAL MEDIA The idea behind being an Independent Digital Business is that we need to bring people to us. That is why I encourage owning your "land" - the place that people land on should belong to you. Platforms, market places and social media - that's where we go to find our people and bring them back to our own site. Outreach is a great way to do that, but it hasn't been fun, more like another step to help me move forward. Reading replies from people looking for what I offer and sending a DM. Sometimes you get a response and most times you don't!!! I only spend 2 hours maximum on this right now.

Today is more of a reminder of what I am doing here. I think the 1st of each month is a good time to do that as it will change as things progress. My focus: To bring in traffic/qualified traffic to an independent digital business from scratch. It's about one business. Inspirational Guidance One audience. One message. One repeatable acquisition system. I am not including people already on my email list. Only new people. THE OUTCOME: I will show you how to drive traffic to YOUR digital business (Djangify owners) and get qualified buyers using email storytelling. I am teaching independent store owners that they don't have to rely on marketplaces and that they should "build on their own land" Is there work in bringing people to you - YES THERE IS - and if you are not willing to go that extra mile the marketplaces are better for you. THE INDEPENDENT DIGITAL BUSINESS PROJECT Starting with: no audience no paid ads no marketplace no shortcuts Building: traffic email subscribers qualified buyers digital product sales using nothing more than storytelling, SEO, Socials, email and my own website. The ONLY thing I can't tell you is HOW LONG it will take but one big thing that being on all these Arlan Hamilton calls is teaching me is it takes as long as it takes. My desire is sooner rather than later! I would like to end up with a 90 day process with step by step instructions from signing up to Djangify, putting your site together, and getting in traffic. If you don't have a Djangify site it will still work in help people drive traffic to their website, eCommerce store or Skool group. BUILDING A PROCESS "How do I build a repeatable system that consistently attracts the right people?" Once the experiment is complete I open the group and decide if I open Djangify because the option is there for me to just continually set up and run Djangify sites and earn an income from each one. METRICS MORE THAN MONEY I want to focus on metrics at the start that are useful to understand and learn from:

Another week of setting things up really. This time YouTube. A couple of videos up and running. https://www.skool.com/sell-digital-products-7402/inspirational-guidance-youtube-channel 4 new subscribers on Substack this week and I spent time creating connections and reading newsletters. I do love reading other people's point of view. 😃 8 new people joined the email list and I really hope the new videos help to improve that once I start promoting it more during this up coming week I really need to start writing down or keeping a note of what I have been doing because I feel like I got a lot done but now as I sit and try to remember it all not much is coming to mind! STILL BUILDING Really, the week was spent on building rather than sales activity because I have these extra tokens from Claude and I shipped out some new features to my eCommerce builder. The Progressive Web App was one I really wanted. Now I am going to add a way to track who is using it so I have the numbers there. SALES WORK IS NEEDED... I am really happy I am running this experiment because it is forcing me to focus on SALES rather than building or growth work all the time. I do love to build! I have been thinking about building a basic dashboard that will help me measure all of that and get it up and working so I track correctly. SALES. GROWTH. BUILDING. This week has not been a great week for focusing on SALES work though but I move forward from here. I asked Claude - Google in AI Mode (I love this one) - and Gemini - for advice on more GROWTH/SALES activities and will put that all together in one document and follow it. JUST DO IT... The annoying thing is I already know what I need to do, I have been doing it for other people for years, but I am so stuck in building mode where I have been for the last 2 years that I am struggling to get out of it.

I want to start giving a short out to amazing women on the net who are doing amazing things with their expertise and skills. The first woman is Teri Ijeoma who focused on just one product based on her knowledge and taught while she visited countries around the world. https://time4coffee.org/what-its-like-to-create-an-online-day-trading-course-become-a-millionaire-w-teri-ijeoma-invest-with-teri-re-release/

I have had 24 hours free use of Arlan Hamiltons AuthorityXPro which is brilliant for anyone who needs to find their flow with AI and of course wants the expertise of Arlan. The whole system is built on her 20 plus years of knowledge so it has been set up with some amazing content. In the free time I had I got some great insights to help me build my authority/personal brand. One great insight was about my YouTube channel which is called AgeRewired. It was suggested that a better name is The Coach Who Codes (at 57) and I get to talk about Inspirational Guidance and Djangify. Plus any other sites. I love the name. I started learning coding at 57 but I am 59 now - not sure if I will use my age or not. I have been having fun with prompts. Love and 100% recommend the Prompt Workshop for great prompts you can use to create content with AI. ChatGPT really is good with AI images although it didn't quite capture my face in the Boss Bitch image. Still, I love it anyway.