Dec. 2, 2025

Rachel Allen in The Business Spotlight with Dori DeCarlo

Rachel Allen in The Business Spotlight with Dori DeCarlo
Rachel Allen in The Business Spotlight with Dori DeCarlo
Word of Mom Radio
Rachel Allen in The Business Spotlight with Dori DeCarlo

Rachel Allen and data-driven, human-centered marketing for good people doing hard work that matters.

Rachel Allen is a fast-thinking, deeply nerdy marketer with broad-ranging experience in for-profit and non-profit sectors. She’s written for some of the biggest (and smallest) names in business, and excels at marketing that's equal parts data-driven and human-centered.

Having run a marketing business for 17 years with clients in 21+ countries, Rachel’s written for some of the top names in entrepreneurship, as well as influencers, brick-and-mortar businesses, and non-profits around the world. Her work has contributed directly to high-ROI launches, leaps in audience engagement, industry awards, relationships with top venture capital firms, and national-level honors.

Join host Dori DeCarlo on the Business Spotlight and connect with Rachel at BoltFromTheBlueCopywriting.com and on LinkedIn and Instagram.

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She is sure, she is true, she is strong. She

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is strong, she is true, is true, she is praise, pray,

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she is she is you.

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Hello, everyone, welcome to today's Word of Mom Radio Here

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on the Word of Mom Media Network. I'm your host,

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Dori Di Carlo. And you know we are here week

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after week, show after show breaking those myths that mompreneurs

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and business women, especially those of us building our businesses

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from home. You know that we're just dabbling in between

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big sales and getting our nails done. We're not. We

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are smart, we are savvy, and we are sharing the

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wisdom of women in business and in life. And I'm

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looking forward to bringing today's guest into our show. Rachel Allen,

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in her own words, is a fast thinking, deeply nerdy

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marketer with a broad ranging experience in not for profit

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and for profit sectors. She's written for some of the

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biggest and smallest names in business and excels at marketing

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that equals parts driven, data and human centered. Having run

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a marketing business for seventeen years with clients in over

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twenty one countries, Rachel's written for some of the top

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names in entrepreneurship as well as influencers brick and mortar

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businesses and nonprofits around the world. Her work has contributed

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directly to high ROI launches, leaps and audience engagement, industry awards,

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relationships with top venture capital firms, and national level honors.

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And I could keep going on and on, but I'd

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much rather have Rachel come in and share her journey

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with us. So, with all that being said, Rachel, welcome

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to the Word of Mom Radio.

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Thank you so much for having me. That was such

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a lovely intro. It's cool to.

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Listen to the stuff that you've done. It's like, wow,

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I've right out about that. Cool. Yeah, I would love

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for you to take us on your journey that led

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you to the work that you're doing now.

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Well, I actually didn't know about I didn't have any

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plans on being a marketer. I didn't know what copywriting

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was until the day I started doing it. I had

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gone to college for journalism, and then I graduated into

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the two thousand and eight recession, and so of course

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no one's hiring, and I sent out a whole bunch

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of resumes, couldn't get a job. The only place that

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I could find work was unpacking boxes in the old

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Navy warehouse in the five am shift, and I didn't

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want to do that for the rest of my life.

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So in my twenty two year old brain, I was like, well,

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what's the furthest place away from Tennessee. It's Hong Kong.

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So I bought a plane ticket and then went to

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Hong Kong, landed with about two hundred dollars in my

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bank account and didn't bother getting a work visa because again,

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you know, twenty two and I had to figure out

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a way to make rent. So I started googling how

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to make money online, which is only slightly less ridiculous

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then than it would be now. And I found this

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job that popped up, a freelance job for something called copywriting,

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and I was pretty sure it had to be a scam,

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because I wish I just couldn't imagine that anyone would

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ever pay me to write, But it turns out they did,

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and I just loved it, and I've built a business

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off of that amazing.

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And you know, it's funny because copywriting, writing that collateral

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material and finding the way to speak in that person's

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voice is something that is really important to find. So

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as you were doing this, what was the biggest challenges

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for you when you first really started doing this and

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getting yourself deeper and deeper into copywriting.

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So there were, of course the technical challenges I think

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of just learning the craft, because it's different than journalistic writing,

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it's different than literature writing. But honestly, the main challenges

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I had, I think were mindset based because I was

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so convinced that I could never be a business owner

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or run a business because like, I'm not a math person.

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I would have never majored in business, and none of

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the women in my family had ever been in business.

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They'd all been employed, and so it just never occurred

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to me that I could build this thing for myself

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and that it could work and be okay and be

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an acceptable way of moving throughout the world.

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Amazing, it really is, and I love them moving about

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the world as somebody who has been on the road.

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When my kids all moved out, I put my stuff

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in storage and they looked at me and they were like,

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where are you going? I said, hey, I let you

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guys go. It wasn't my job to keep you right.

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It's a phone call away. And I've taken my life

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on the road for years, and it is awesome. In

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looking at the marketing trends, what are you seeing now, Rachel?

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So there's the obvious one of AI, right, I think

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that's impacting everything right now. But what I'm really excited

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to see is actually a swing away from automation to analog.

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AI slop, We talk a lot about market, the market

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being jaded. And so if you're trying to sell anything

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right now that is even the least bit, you know,

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anything that's not crazy cheap, you need it to be

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high touch, you need to be non scalable, and you

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need it to be in some way analog. So I

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know a bunch of people are going back to in

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person meetings and local business. In one of the offers

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that I do, what we would just put together one

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hundred and fifty page magazine, like it's a chunky, you know, lead,

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leave it on your coffee table, get it in the

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mail type magazine. And people seem to be really loving

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just things that you can touch and hold.

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I'm happy to see that back. We interview a lot

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of authors, and I love to read, and I truly

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love a book in my hand, but honestly, I might

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read eight or nine books a month from guests, So

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I started doing the e books or PDFs. Yeah, and

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I miss it. So I love that you're creating a

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coffee table magazine, you know, instead of the online ones

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that are going on. Why does I'm going to go

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in a different route? Why so often does the marketing

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advice out there actually set people up to fail?

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So I've actually been shouting about this on the internet

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for like five years, and I finally was able to

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articulate the reason why, because I kept seeing people being

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sold these courses, being sold these processes and it works

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for like two people and everybody else just feels bad.

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And so what I figured out is that for a

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sale to happen, you have to have four elements in place,

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and they all have to happen, which is, you have

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to have the right thing in front of the right

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person at the right time and in the right way. Now,

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out of that, you can only control like maybe two

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of those elements if you're lucky. Do you don't have

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any control over the timing with which someone sees your marketing.

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You don't have any control over the way in which

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they prefer to get the data given to them. But

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marketing advice is predicated as though you do have control

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over all four of those factors, and if it doesn't

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work for you, well, then there's something wrong with you. You

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didn't want it badly enough, you didn't hustle hard enough,

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you didn't follow the process. And that drives me so

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crazy because it's just not your fault. You just can't

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control every factor that goes into making a sale.

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It's true, and again it's those pain points. You know,

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it is really reaching that person, and people forget in

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marketing what's in it for me?

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Right?

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You can have all the marketing you want, but ultimately

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the consumer wants to know what's in it for me?

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Why you, why your product, why your service? And you

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have to find that way to show them that you

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are that person that can solve their problem. And I

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think that that's why copywriting, finding those words, find it

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a way to craft somebody's message, to make you effective,

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to make you be that person, because there are so

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many people out there. There are you know, no matter what,

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there are very few things that there is only one of. Right,

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how do you deal with that challenge when you are

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working with a client.

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I mean, I think while it is true that there

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are multiples of everybody. I mean there's thousands, tens of

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thousands of marketers out there, tens of thousands of coaches.

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There is something unique about every person or every product,

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and that is the person who's presenting it. You know,

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there is no one who can dory like you do.

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There's no one who Rachel's like I do. And if

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you can bring that, and if you can bring your

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values in your human quirkiness and complexity and those things

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that you truly care about, that's where I always start

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with differentiating because, as you said, there's only so much

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difference you can bring to say, a coaching session. There

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are only so many different ways you can make a candle.

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But if you get into like why did I do this?

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Why does this matter to me? Why does this matter

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to my family? How do our values align here, that's

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when people start to resonate with you. And studies have

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shown that that's what people are most focused on right now. Actually,

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they want to buy from brands they feel values aligned with, no.

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Like and trust, right, those very very important things, especially

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intoday's world. We are looking at who we are buying

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from supports what their values are. Because our values I

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think are being so challenged right now. And it's hard

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because so many people have gotten into the convenience of

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online shopping, this and that blah blah blah, and the

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mom and pop markets dried up so much, and now

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people are cognizant of it. They're really aware of the

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fact that you contributed tremendously to these businesses closing and

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that focusing on that small business being able to to

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go name brand coffee stores. You can go to mom

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and pop coffee store and get wonderful products and things

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like that, And I think more and more people are

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circling back to that. Yes, I think it's people like

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you that are helping.

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I mean, it helps happen. That's what I've worked for

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very large organizations, and I've also worked for a bunch

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of individual people and regardless of the orientation there, what

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I love is being able to bring something to a

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local community and being able to help people find each

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other and really have a mutual win out of whatever.

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The relationship is.

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Agreed, and it is a win win, it really is.

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As you help that small business grow, as you helped

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that entrepreneur, that momrepreneur, that business owner that's out there

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doing something. Each purchase matters, It really truly does, and

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it helps the message get out there and further what

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they're doing. So when you work with somebody, Rachel, I'm

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a brand new client coming to you, I want to

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promote word of mom. Yeah, how are you going to

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work with me? How does that work with you?

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Well, the first thing that I want to know is

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just what do you want? You know, what do you

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want your marketing to do? What do you want to

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happen in your business? And let's say the next six months,

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because that tends to be enough time for people to

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hold in their heads. And then I say, okay, like,

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I understand your goals. Now what are you doing to

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reach them?

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What have you tried before? Did it work? Did it not?

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Do you know why? Most of the time people don't.

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And then I'll come to you with a plan and say, okay,

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based on your goals, this is what I suggest we

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do and here's how we're going to see if it

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worked or not. And I tend to work in ninety

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day chunks because that gives you enough data to really

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get a good understanding of what's happened. It saves people

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from shiny squirrel syndrome where it's like, oh, we did

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this last week, but we're doing this this week and

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then ah ah, and then you don't really know if

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anything's working or not. And so we check in about

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every ninety days, and if we're doing just a one

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off project, we'll close it off then and I'll send

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you off with some lovely support and implementation. And if

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we do ongoing work, then we'll just check in about

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every quarter, maybe even sooner than that, and keep the

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project going.

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it's those chunks, and then the chunk moves forward and

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you can space it out more. I think very often

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when we are looking to do marketing and things like that,

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most importantly, you need to know what you want, what

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you are trying to accomplish. And I think very often,

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and correct me if I'm wrong, a lot of times

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people they have an end goal in mind, but they're

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not really sure of who they are, what their messaging

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really is.

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Right well, and especially they'll have a goal that it's

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like I want more brand visibility and I'm like, cool,

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how are you going to measure that? What does that

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actually look like? Or I want more sales? How many

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more to whom?

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And so you really have to ground that goal in

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as you said, who are we, what are we doing?

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What do we want? Otherwise you can chase that forever

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because it's like you want more social media followers? Okay,

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when does it end? Do you have the whole world?

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Is that what we're going for? And so I try

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to give people just some like boundaries around it so

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that they don't end up spinning in this constant state

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of being not enough, you know, which I feel like

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so many women are primed to get into.

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And we're back here on Word of Mom Radio. We

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are speaking with Rachel Allen and I love what you

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just said because it is so true. I want all

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these social media followers, what kind of ROI are they

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giving you? It doesn't matter if you have tens of

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thousands of people following you if not one of them

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has bought your product or your services. All that means

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is that you've got the bright, shiny object that they

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like to click on. Mm hmm, but not do action.

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How do you get people to take actionable steps? That's

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the biggest piece about marketing. How what kind of advice

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can you give people to get people to take that

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next step actually hit the buyber button.

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So this is going to sound so simple and people

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hear it and they're like, no, that can't possibly be it.

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But the very basic thing that I tell people to

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do is make sure that you have an incredibly clear,

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specific call to action. So the reason for this is

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a little like neuroscience detour. When our brains get to

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the end of anything, it wants to look for the

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next easiest thing to do because brains are huge energy

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resource takers, so you want to find the next easy thing.

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They don't want to think about it. So if I

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get to the end of an email and I don't

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know what to do next, then it's like, oh, that's uncomfortable.

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I don't want to think about it. Just close it,

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just get it away. But if I get to the

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end of the email and it's like, hey, click here

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to buy this, okay, I guess I like click here,

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I guess I check it out. So have a clear

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call to action. And what I also specifically say, more

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so to women than men, is make sure that you

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don't accidentally apologize for your call to action, because I

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see so many people bring this stuff into their sales

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pages and it's like by my thing or not, it's

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totally cool. Even me instead, or follow me on social

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media or like, you know, like don't buy, it's fine whatever.

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And I'm like, no, just say by the thing and

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let people make their own decisions.

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I think you are so right when it comes to

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women men, it statistically shows a man will see a

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job application out there and he's maybe fifty percent qualified

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for it and will totally go for that job. A

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woman waits until they need all the qualifications. I've heard women, Oh,

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I've been home three years. I don't really have any

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marketable skills. It's like, what are you making? Resolutions? Scheduling, budgeting,

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I management? Are you kidding? You are a born CEO.

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You were a family right, the hardest thing to do

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because there is no manual. They don't you know here

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you go love even don't forget to feed the kids.

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You're basically on your own. And it's amazing because women

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really do we apologize. You are so correct. Oh, I'm sorry,

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but you know, if you have time, right by it.

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Or pay me less, you know, like email me for

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a discount. Absolutely not, and that drives me insane. I

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actually ran a panel on the wage gap in entrepreneurship,

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and while women owned businesses account for four point three

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percent of the US GDP, women on average charge twenty

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eight percent less for their services than male owned businesses.

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And that drives me crazy because it's the same thing,

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equal pay for equal work. We've been talking about this

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for centuries, and yet we're so I suppose convinced of

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our own inferiority that we're like, well, this is just

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my little hobby business. I don't deserve to try arge

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as much. Absolutely not. You should charge what you are.

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Worth without a doubt. And it's amazing because women really do. Yeah,

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you struggle with ooh, you know, I can't at that price. Sorry.

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Jimmy sees that Joey's charging one hundred and fifty dollars.

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He sees they're charging fifteen hundred dollars or fifteen thousand

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dollars for their marketing plan, and so he's like, well,

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if he's going to get that price, then I'm going

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to charge that price. And when you see women undercut

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themselves because they're afraid of losing the sale, lose the sale,

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you're worth the money it's like going to buy a car.

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You go to buy a car, here's what you're willing

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to pay. And if you're not willing to walk out

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the door because they're not going to work with you,

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then they know their money's in your pocket and they're

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just trying to figure out how to talk you out

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of it. But if you're willing to walk out that door,

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trust me, you're going to find the place that you're

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going to get the car that you want because you're

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not buying a car that there's only one of right,

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and somebody's going to give you the price that you want.

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And it's the same thing so often. So women out

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there who are listening to this, don't be afraid to

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ask for what you're worth. It's worth losing the sale.

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It really is worth losing the sale. If you wind

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up at the end of the day it cost you

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money to do this.

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And even if let's say you make a bunch of

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money doing it, but it costs you in stress, or

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the client's are real pain to work with, or it

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takes up so much of your time that your opportunity

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cost doesn't work out like that, it's just not worth it.

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I understand how tempting. It is, especially if you're in

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a position where you really need it. But I can

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promise you if you just wait it out, something better

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will come along.

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It will because you're worth it. Yeah, we're worth it.

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And again, we as women, I don't know why we

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feel that need to step back and second guess ooh

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can I do this? Yes you can, and you're going

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to do it. Great. This cartoon, this woman sitting at

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a desk and she has just popped biol stacks in

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the inbox the outbox, and she says, I can't tell

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you how relaxing it is to run a company after

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I raised a family. You know, we have so many

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skills that we deserve to be paid for them. So

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I'm going to go back into give us a tactical

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change that people can make in their marketing today that

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are going to have these long lasting effects down the line, regional.

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So the first thing I always tell people is, if

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you don't have a website, get a website. It can

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be one page, You can get a little Squarespace template.

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It is very easy to make something for yourself. Assuming

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you have that. Though, what I always recommend is go

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around and update your bios on If you have a

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media page, do it there. If you have social media,

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do it on there. Make sure your bio is updated,

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make sure it is focused on your business specifically. I

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see a lot of people try to show their personality

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through their bio by being like mom of three, love

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this sports team, drink coffee he lol, And I'm like, okay,

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but you're you're more serious. You know it is. I

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am the CEO of blah blah, I do this. Let

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me help you. So just make sure that your bio

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is up to date, make sure it's professional, and make

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sure it's focused on what you provide in your service

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provider or brought product provider relationship.

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What for you has been the biggest challenge that you

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had to overcome? Sancial.

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I think the biggest challenge was I spent a good

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five years chasing somebody else's version of success, and I

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actually so I started out working by myself. I had

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gotten to the point where I wanted to do a

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little bit less writing and a little more strategy work.

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And so instead of doing a little bit less writing

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and a little more strategy work, I started an agency

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model in my business because that's what the successful people did,

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and I didn't actually want that. I didn't really want

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to run my own team. I enjoy working in other

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people's teams and then going home and after worrying about it.

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But I really tried to make it work, and I

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just pushed that boulder up the hill and it just

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never got easier. But then, of course, like three years in,

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we've got the sunk cost fallacy where I'm like, oh,

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but I like one more year and then it's going

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to work, And you know, it just never didn't. So

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I had to make the very hard decision to switch

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away from the agency model back to what I do now,

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knowing that it was going to harm my business for

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a couple of years. And I'm still I'm coming out

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of it, you know, I'm just now having cleaned up

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all the messes that I made for myself. But whether

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you go with an agency model or not, I think

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the lesson there is you really have to know your

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own version of success because it is so easy to

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spend a lot of time and a lot of money

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chasing somebody else's dream.

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I can't think a better way to start wrapping up

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that conversation, Rachel, as we do close out, what do

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you want to leave our listeners with what do you

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want to say to those women out there that are

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working on their business and trying to figure out how

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to make their marketing work and how may they reach

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out to you.

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So something I've said for a really long time is

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that human is the only move left. And as we've

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all seen, we go through these periodicions in the marketing

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world where whatever was working before it doesn't work anymore.

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You know, it's the SEO changes or reels takeover or whatever.

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But the one thing that pulls businesses through every single

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time is the quality of humanity they're able to bring

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to their marketing and the relationships they're able to build.

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So that's what I would just remind you. Whatever technique

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is falling apart on you, don't worry about it. You're

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going to learn a new one, but focus on your

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relationships and focus on being as human as you possibly

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can in your marketing, and I promise it will pull

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you through.

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It's amazing because authenticity is so key right now. You know,

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people doing videos, there was that push to be so professional, right,

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edit this and do this and everything else, and now

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people are realizing, you know what, I get more response

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when I'm just holding my phone or being a little

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something because people want real right again, going back, No,

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like trust. When they know you, they like you, they

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trust you. It's funny because it's that balancing act. Sometimes

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they know you so well your trust aspect goes down

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a little bit that then you'll say something and they're like, hmmm,

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I'm not sure. But then somebody they don't really know

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well says the same thing and it's like oh, and

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then repeter back to you, going I said that last week.

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But again, you know, it's that fine line that we

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walk right in building those relationships because it is relationship marketing.

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And again, I really think intoday's climate, the more people

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know you, the more they want to support what you

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are doing. Absolutely, I think it is critical to just

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authentically be you. Nobody does you better than you. He said,

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that's it. How can people reach out to you, Rachel?

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You can find me at bolt from the Blue Copywriting

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dot Com, connect with me on LinkedIn, or you can

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email me at hello at bolt from the Blue Copywriting

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dot Com. It is the olden days and I will

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email you back.

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All of Rachel's links are going to be live on

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Wordofmomradio dot com I really suggest reach out as you

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are honing your marketing, as you are doing things, an

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outside I can really help you crystallize your message. So

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here's somebody with a lot of experience and a willingness

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to help you go for it. Rachel, thank you for

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taking the time to share your journey with us here

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on Word of Mom Radio. I really appreciate it.

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Oh, thank you so much. It's been such a delight.

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It's been my pleasure into all of you tuning in.

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Thanks so much for being here. We're going to close

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out with our fabulous theme song from Smith's Sisters and

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the Sunday Drivers. So till next time, This is Dori

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di Carlo saying, go out and create a marvelous you.

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Bye for now.

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She is sure, she is sure. She is straw, She

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is straw, she is true, is true, she is braise,

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she is bold, she is you. She is she is

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she is sure, she is she is strong, is strong,

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she is true, is true. She is braised, she is bold,

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she she is you. She is she sure of herself. Yes,

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she takes care of it. Powerful and strong. Yes, she

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knows who she is has integrity, woman, strong and true.

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You know her by name. See this woman is you.

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She is sure, she is strong, is strong, she is true,

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is true, she is brave, she is she is you,

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is you? She is she is sure, she is strong,

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is strong, she is true, is true, she is brave,

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she is she is, she is you.

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She is she is.

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She adds value and hope, has proved to be brave.

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See it's never too late, never time to behave Reaching

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for dreams doesn't matter. The age believes in herself, unleash

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from her cage. She is sure, she is sure, she

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is strong, is strong, she is true, true, she is brave, brave,

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she is bold, she is you, she is she is,

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she is sure, she is she is strong, she is strong,

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she is true, is true, she is brave, is brave,

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she is she is you.
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Marketing Strategist, Fractional CMO, Copywriter

Rachel Allen is a fast-thinking, deeply nerdy marketer with broad-ranging experience in for-profit and non-profit sectors. She’s written for some of the biggest (and smallest) names in business, and excels at marketing that's equal parts data-driven and human-centered.

Having run a marketing business for 17 years with clients in 21+ countries, Rachel’s written for some of the top names in entrepreneurship, as well as influencers, brick-and-mortar businesses, and non-profits around the world. Her work has contributed directly to high-ROI launches, leaps in audience engagement, industry awards, relationships with top venture capital firms, and national-level honors.

Find out more at boltfromthebluecopywriting.com