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If you are a service provider struggling with describing what kind of work you do with clients, this post is for you.

Try the following exercise and if you’d like, comment below with what you come up with. (You may also get inspired by reading others’ comments too.)

If you think by writing, then write down your answers. If instead you’re better at coming up with ideas by talking, then start a recording (e.g. on your phone’s voice memo app) and just allow yourself to imagine and intuit whatever…

To have your authentic business be financially successful, you need to learn how to frame your offerings (products/services) in a way that is resonant with your ideal audience.

We are usually only taught 1 thing:

Speak to the pain of the client, what keeps them up at night. Frame your service as a solution to their problems.

We keep hearing about this because it works -- people do spend money to resolve pain. However, we authentic business owners don’t like to stoke people’s pain!

Thankfully,…

Finding the “right” price for your services, programs, products.

Most authentic businesses have haphazard pricing.

Sometimes, you just pick a number based on how you “feel” about it. The problem is that your audience might not “feel” the same. No matter how intuitive, you are still a human being, with normal human biases. Pricing from a shoot-from-the-hip kind of way is not wise business practice. You're treating your business like a hobby.

Or, you might blindly trust a business/marketing exp…

​Once in a long while -- too rarely -- do I come across someone who is modeling authentic, simple marketing in a way that makes me go "wow" ...and want to share forward.

Alexandra Franzen is deeply resonant with her audience, yet without pushing. Gives so much value, with gentleness.

1. I loved her blog post about creating little miracles. It's a about simple question that helps us focus on making a better offering and doing better marketing.

2. And check out her newsletter opt-in page.…