Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast

We surveyed our audience and got some incredibly helpful advice from other biz owners who have made the transition from working with clients to selling digital products.

From the ~200 responses, we found 6 common categories of advice. Within those categories, we plucked out the best 27 tips (along with a bonus tip or two from us sprinkled throughout!)

If you’re currently working with clients but want to move to selling digital products, we hope this episode gives you tons of actionable tasks and mindset strategies to make the transition more realistic and achievable.

🔗 Get the full episode show notes with 27 tips written out for you and a full transcript at wanderingaimfully.com/161

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Links mentioned in the episode:

Teachery Digital Product Ideas Hub: https://ideas.teachery.co

It’s so easy to caught up in all the online biz success stories. You see faces and businesses that look and sound similar to yours, only they’ve had some astronomical success in a short period of time (which you’ve never experienced). The more we read/see/hear these OUTLIER success stories, the harder it becomes to understand that consistency and sticking with something through the quiet beginning stage is so crucially important to reaching your goals.

In this episode, we want you to walk away feeling like a 6-month, no-results plan of action is OKAY. We hope you’ll commit to the input, the processes, the journey, and you’ll let the results come and measure them at the END of that timeframe. Now, there are of course caveats with all of that and we share them throughout this ep.

The next time you’re about to embark on a new biz journey, we hope this conversation can motivate but also reassure you that results take time and consistent quality is one of the most important things to focus on.

🔗 Get the full episode show notes and transcript at wanderingaimfully.com/160

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Links mentioned in the episode:

James Clear’s Atomic Habits: https://amzn.to/3F45YKN

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More goodies from us: 

⭐️ GET READY! Our un-boring coaching program WAIM Unlimited is opening for enrollment March 20 - April 4: wanderingaimfully.com/join

⚙️ Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

This is one of those episodes we wished more people would record. What are all the things currently on the to-do list? How do we manage multiple projects? Who is working on what behind the scenes??

We break down everything we have going on with WAIM and Teachery in Q1 of 2023. We hope hearing some of the stuff we’re working on motivates and inspires you to work on something in your biz! If it does, make sure to send us an email and let us know you want more of these types of episodes. 😘

🔗 Get the full episode show notes and transcript at wanderingaimfully.com/159

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Links mentioned in the episode:

Client Off-Ramp Starter Kit: wanderingaimfully.com

Our plan with Social Media: wanderingaimfully.com/140

HelloAudio (aff link) for private podcasting: bit.ly/jasonhelloaudio

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More goodies from us: 

⭐️ GET READY! Our un-boring coaching program WAIM Unlimited is opening for enrollment March 20 - April 4: wanderingaimfully.com/join

⚙️ Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

This week, we share how our Behind The Build LIVE project went. In that project we ran into a familiar friend: Being too ambitious and not being able to achieve what we’d set out to do. Now, normally our over-ambition just leads to a project taking longer to complete, but with only ONE day to complete our live project, it spurred some additional thoughts about a lesson we continue to learn over and over again.

We’re certain there’s a lesson in life or business that you continually run into. We hope in this episode, we share a few nuggets to help you EMBRACE learning the same lesson over and over and lessening the negative shameful thoughts that can come with it!

🌘✨ Also, do you agree, the phrase should be: Shoot for the stars and end up on the moon? C’mon, space engineers, let us know!

🔗 Get the full episode show notes and transcript at wanderingaimfully.com/158

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Links mentioned in the episode:

Noah Surf House: https://www.noahsurfhouseportugal.com/en

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More goodies from us: 

💌 Want a weekly email to help you grow your business WITHOUT sacrificing a calm, satisfying life - wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter

🤔 Feel like you might be experiencing a business roadblock? Let us help you get un-stuck with our free quiz - wanderingaimfully.com/quiz

⚙️ Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

🎥 Make sure you’re subscribed to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/wanderingaimfully

This week we are breaking down our affiliate program for our main offer (WAIM Unlimited). Just a few years ago we weren’t interested in “affiliate marketing” at all. We share those initial misconceptions and how our mindset shifted in a different direction, with the help of our paying customers who were asking if they could promote WAIM to their friends and subscribers.

Nearly 70% of our new WAIM customers in the past 3 years are from our existing customers (affiliates) and we love this for multiple reasons: Not only because it keeps us from having to spend money on marketing and advertising, but because we know our members are only going to attract people who share our similar values.

Some business owners might hear that we’ve paid our affiliates $166,000 and think that’s money that could’ve gone into our pockets, but we see it as a great way to re-invest in our members and thank them for their efforts!

We hope this chat about affiliate marketing can give you some concrete ideas on if setting up affiliates is right for your business.

🔗 Get the full episode show notes and transcript at wanderingaimfully.com/157

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Links mentioned in the episode:

Restrict Content Pro (WP membership plugin): https://bit.ly/jasonrcp

AffiliateWP (WP affiliate plugin): https://bit.ly/jasonaffiliatewp

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More goodies from us: 

💌 Want a weekly email to help you grow your business WITHOUT sacrificing a calm, satisfying life - wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter

🤔 Feel like you might be experiencing a business roadblock? Let us help you get un-stuck with our free quiz - wanderingaimfully.com/quiz

⚙️ Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

🎥 Make sure you’re subscribed to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/wanderingaimfully

🚨 If you’re listening to this episode on Feb 16, join us LIVE (kind of) as we do a 1-day project sprint and let you watch the (good enough) action: https://wanderingaimfully.com/behind

If you’re anything like us it can feel like a project is never quite done. There’s always SOMETHING you can continue to tweak, design, edit, etc. But, we all know not finishing a project and moving on is a form of procrastination and perfectionism (we’re very guilty of this!) So, what the heck do you do and how do you embrace a “good enough” mindset in your standard of work?

We believe we’ve found three ways to help you define what “good enough” can look like in your work. We’re using those three ways for our own work and moving projects forward so they don’t drag on forever! Hopefully, what we share in this episode can help you if you’re like us and can get stuck in the weeds with your business.

🔗 Get the full episode show notes and transcript at wanderingaimfully.com/156

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More goodies from us: 

💌 Want a weekly email to help you grow your business WITHOUT sacrificing a calm, satisfying life - wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter

🤔 Feel like you might be experiencing a business roadblock? Let us help you get un-stuck with our free quiz - wanderingaimfully.com/quiz

⚙️ Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

🎥 Make sure you’re subscribed to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/wanderingaimfully

As you’ll hear in the minisode, we’re doing a 1-day challenge to redesign our Wandering Aimfully homepage and lead magnet. We will be sharing this entire day of work LIVE for you to watch. We hope this inspires you to do a 1-day project sprint, while also giving you a template and checklist if you want to accomplish a similar task for your biz!

If nothing else, we hope you’ll join us live on Feb 16 just to be part of something different and unique in the online business space.

🔗 Join the LIVE fun on Feb 16 at wanderingaimfully.com/behind

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We know relationships can often be positioned as “perfect” on social media, but we all know that’s not the truth. In fact, constantly seeing a “perfect” relationship can be harmful in that it doesn’t normalize the reality that we all often are experiencing. Relationships are wonderful, but they can also be difficult as we’re two humans trying to operate in the world with unique brains and (potentially) opposite ways of thinking/feeling minute to minute.

In this episode, we share the “problem” we’ve run into and the five solutions we’re using to work through it. We are NOT relationship therapists, or coaches, we’re just two normal people who think relationships should be shared more authentically more often!

🔗 Get the full episode show notes and transcript at wanderingaimfully.com/155

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Links mentioned:

“Fair Play” Book/Game - https://amzn.to/409YZc6

Stutz Netflix Documentary - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21819228/

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More goodies from us: 

💌 Want a weekly email to help you grow your business WITHOUT sacrificing a calm, satisfying life - wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter

🤔 Feel like you might be experiencing a business roadblock? Let us help you get un-stuck with our free quiz - wanderingaimfully.com/quiz

⚙️ Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

🎥 Make sure you’re subscribed to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/wanderingaimfully

We’ve built up a bit of a “creative dam” and are trying to figure out how to not overwork ourselves and get into burnout territory (no thank you!) In this episode, we share a couple of important ways we ensure we notice when we’re reaching maximum capacity and how to create a more sustainable pace.

Whether you’ve been working for yourself for years (like us) or you’re just getting started, there are times when you’ll put too many items on your to-do list and we want to help you navigate those moments.

🔗 Get the full episode show notes and transcript at wanderingaimfully.com/154

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Links mentioned:

“Fair Play” Book/Game - https://amzn.to/409YZc6

Everything Everywhere All At Once - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6710474/

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More goodies from us: 

💌 Want a weekly email to help you grow your business WITHOUT sacrificing a calm, satisfying life - wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter

🤔 Feel like you might be experiencing a business roadblock? Let us help you get un-stuck with our free quiz - wanderingaimfully.com/quiz

⚙️ Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

🎥 Make sure you’re subscribed to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/wanderingaimfully

In our first episode of 2023, we’re zooming the lens way out and sharing the results of a few lonnnnng planning days we had to kick off the year. We set a new “enough” revenue goal for all of 2023 and we talk about how that breaks down between our two businesses: Wandering Aimfully and Teachery.

Hopefully, this episode can help you think about your 2023 revenue goals (that are unique to YOU!) and how to break those goals down into actionable steps you can take. And don’t forget, it’s all an experiment 👍👍.

🔗 Get the full episode show notes and transcript at wanderingaimfully.com/153

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Links mentioned:

Marketing Bridge podcast ep -  #078

Content Strategy Salad podcast ep - #065

2022 Review/2023 Preview article - https://wanderingaimfully.com/2022-review

Lingo Language app - https://www.lingolegend.com 

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More goodies from us: 

💌 Want a weekly email to help you grow your business WITHOUT sacrificing a calm, satisfying life - wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter

🤔 Feel like you might be experiencing a business roadblock? Let us help you get un-stuck with our free quiz - wanderingaimfully.com/quiz

⚙️ Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

🎥 Make sure you’re subscribed to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/wanderingaimfully