Following My Path
ACEO #35
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ACEO – textiles, beaded, thread
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Coaching
I hired Christine Kane as my coach this year and joined her platinum level mastermind coaching circle. I’ve learned much from Christine over the past couple years and appreciate all she has to offer and very highly recommend her Uplevel Your Life Mastery program and retreats.
Christine has leveraged a very popular and successful method of marketing online, ie The Client Attraction System + variations from other online gurus, and is now fabulously successful and teaching marketing along with the mindset work she is so amazing at.
I have no doubt Christine will be excellent teaching the business and marketing stuff also and I’m sure her clients will be equally successful when they follow these formulas because they do work.
Problem is that style of marketing is not for me. Doesn’t fit my personality, doesn’t fit my goals, doesn’t sound like fun to do, etc. The result was a lot of friction in our coaching relationship and so last week it came to an end.
I still think Christine is fabulous and am grateful for all she gives the world, she just isn’t the person to help me with my business decisions. I am now working with a local coach here in Denver as I find in person meetings to be a better fit for my needs.
Transparency
The standard of success in life isn’t the things. It isn’t the money or the stuff — it is absolutely the amount of joy you feel.
— Abraham
My way of writing and marketing is very simply stated with a single word: transparency. Pretty much not much happens that I don’t write about the “why” of it. Like pricing of my artwork or this post, explaining this decision. This is me at my authentic best and where I find joy.
I’m not a pioneer in this type of marketing (Steve Pavlina is an example of a very successful blogger using a similar style) and over on makebigart I’ll write more about the different styles of online marketing some day as it is interesting look at the marketing on the internet and think about how the different ideas can be leveraged in selling art online.
I absolutely believe in abundance and I have no doubt that my style of marketing will bring me exactly the success and joy and I am looking for.
Posted by Lisa in: About Me
Tagged: ACEOs, authentic, Christine Kane, coaching, Joy, marketing
Lisa, I’ve always been very interested in how to dovetail marketing and personality, so I read your post with interest. I’d love to hear in future posts a little more about how you see your own style and how it differs from other approaches. I was impressed with your post on pricing, and would welcome hearing about how else “transparency” affects your marketing and the way you present yourself to the world.
It would be interesting, too, to hear more about your progress with your new coach. I’ve been considering working with one, and am eager to better understand the process.
Thanks for your posts. I do enjoy your blog.
Sounds like the coach put her coaching model/product ahead of the client. I think a coach should be able to adapt to the client’s strengths and values – client-centered instead of product-centered.
If my financial situation were different, odds are good I would have bought one of your pieces by now – partly because I really like your work and partly because I feel like I know you a little, you are generous with information, and you appear to be genuine.
Lisa,
I love your transparency, and appreciate your generosity in sharing so much info. Thank you!
I do have one request though. Could you put up an easy link to makebigart, maybe on the side bar or your links page?
Thanks!
Nikki.
Clara – those are all interesting topics for future posts – I’m adding them to my list. There are so many different types of coaches out there. Thanks for your comments.
Fern – While I don’t blame anyone for what happened, I take full responsibility for it. I knew within a month or 2 it wasn’t going to work and kept trying to make it work without being totally honest (a pattern of mine – not wanting to hurt her feelings telling her it wasn’t going to work and thinking I should change to make it work – which is silly – but something I’ve seen myself do before). So certainly a big learning experience for me to realize this pattern never results in the desired outcome. I need to trust my instincts and follow through with action when I know a relationship isn’t going to work for me. Christine coaches the way she does – and it is a huge huge benefit for so many people – and prior to it being about my careers/business – she was a huge help to me also. The shift away from mindset to marketing didn’t work for me
Thanks Nikki! Yes – I need to rebuild my sidebars (a plan for this weekend) and I’ll include a link to makebig art – really great idea – thanks!
And thanks – some day the right piece will
Hi Lisa,
I appreciate your blog and style of marketing. I think the reason I read your writing is that it feels authentic to me as a reader. You write about many things that I know wouldn’t work very well for me, but that doesn’t lessen my interest. I appreciate hearing about your process.
When someone is doing something that isn’t a good fit for them, it shows. Thanks for sharing your insights and staying true to yourself.
Once again, I find myself admiring you for transparency, strength, your willingness to be open, and your ability to stick (eventually) to your convictions about what is best for you and for this situation as much as about other parts of your life.
I think one of your watch words was bravery – it shows.
You gotta go with what you feel is right. It’s very easy to get sidetracked by bad advice or advice that doesn’t fit your personality and art. Glad you decided what’s right for you.
I agree with you about transparency…though I have also enjoyed Christine’s emails and positive words over the past year and feel the same about Alyson Stanfield, the type of marketing suggested doesn’t ‘feel’ like me. I think clients can feel authenticity, and I know that I need authenticity in my life. I would also love to read more about your experience with ‘transparency’.