Update, May 15th, 2019: Just a I predicted in 2017 (see my original post below – under the “Wild Speculation Alert” headline) Rainmaker Digital Services has now been 100% acquired by Nimble Worldwide. Needless to say (my prediction considered): it doesn’t surprise me. That whole joint-partnership thing Copyblogger / StudioPress did back then, seemed to […]
Simplero vs Teachable vs Kajabi – a Simplero Review Based on 8 Years of Experience
November 2018 Update:I sadly can’t recommend Simplero any longer, due to repeated, severe disappointment in some of their business practices I’ve experienced on behalf of myself AND some of my clients. Want an example? How about this: raising prices 4x (FOUR times!) and telling your loyal customers to pay up or move somewhere else??? Insanely […]
How to Market Yourself (and Make a Difference) if You Have Too Much To Do: Month 7 on My Journey to Joyful Digital Marketing
On my continued journey towards joyful digital marketing on the Rainmaker Platform, I’ve been wondering… how to market yourself (and make a difference) if you’re feeling overwhelmed by having too much to do? The answer seems to be: removing (even more) obstacles… Last month I shared why I decided to stop freelancing fully and completely. I did so […]
Letting Go of Clients – to Focus 100% on Digital Content Creation: Month 6 of My Journey to Joyful Digital Marketing
In last month’s Rainmaker Marketing Journey update, I shared how my lack of so-called WIP (work-in-progress) limits clogged up my content creation process. Realizing that is indeed helping me unclog my content creation process. However, I also mentioned a few other factors hindering my content creation process from flowing freely. I’m referring to freelance web design done for clients. That […]
How my Content Creation Process got “Totally Clogged Up!” (Rainmaker Marketing Journey – Month 5)
True to my promise in last month’s results update I’ll keep future updates from my Rainmaker Marketing Journey short’n’sweet, starting with this one! In this post, I’ll share how my content creation process got totally clogged up, leaving “almost there” blog posts unpublished! But first, without further ado: what I hope to be my last month […]
My Journey to Essentialist Marketing on the Rainmaker Platform – Month 4 (August) Results
To say that last month’s marketing challenge report was delayed, would be an understatement. Now, this month’s report has been even more delayed. Truth is, I’ve been thinking. About strategy. You see, I realized that I didn’t have any! Oh yes, what I did have was lots of scrappy notes in paper form, in Evernote, OmniGraffle, […]
My Journey to Essentialist Marketing on the Rainmaker Platform – Month 3 (July) Results (or lack thereof… but there’s holiday pictures!)
It’s high time for the monthly results report from my Rainmaker Marketing Journey :o) Somewhat overdue, the delay is due (pun intended) to most of July (and first week of August) being dominated by one vacation after another. I’ve been in England for the EDC (Electric Daisy Carnival) 1-day electronic dance music festival, with a luxurious stay in […]
My Journey to Essentialist Marketing on the Rainmaker Platform – Month 2 (June) Results
In April I began a journey towards simpler, more focused digital marketing. And hopefully as a welcome bonus: less stress – and more success:) I’ve given myself a 12-month digital marketing challenge: How much can I grow my business by using ONLY the digital marketing tools available on the Rainmaker Platform? Essentially reducing my digital marketing to the […]
My Journey to Essentialist Marketing on the Rainmaker Platform – Month 1 (May) Results
Last month I began my journey towards simpler, more focused digital marketing. And hopefully as a welcome bonus: less stress – and more success:) Basically I’ve given myself this 12-month digital marketing challenge: How much can I grow my business by using ONLY the digital marketing tools available on the Rainmaker Platform? Essentially reducing my digital […]
My Journey to Essentialist Marketing on the Rainmaker Platform – Month 0 (April – the baseline)
I guess you can say I went through “a phase” during my latest 3 blog posts. In vivid Technicolor (and with some ambivalence) I went from: admitting my failure to properly market my membership website (not taking full advantage of the Rainmaker Platform’s many built-in content marketing tools) and, as a result; contemplating how my business and solopreneurial life […]
One Conscious Marketing Channel to Rule Them All
Last week I wrote a blog post sharing what I see as my failure to properly market my membership website, products and services – not taking full advantage of the Rainmaker Platform’s many built-in content marketing tools. That realization got me contemplating: how would my business and solopreneurial life look, if I deliberately chose to […]
Great Idea? But… I Ain’t No Digital Marketing Specialist!
Hmmmm… I must admit that I have some doubts about this idea of “simplifying my marketing to its bare bones essentials” that I blogged about last week. Truth is, I’m not 100% confident it’s such a brilliant idea after all; for me to narrow-mindedly rely 100% on just the Rainmaker content marketing platform? I fear painting […]
My First Year on the Rainmaker Content Marketing Platform – a Review (how did it go?)
When I migrated my membership website from a self-hosted WordPress + WooCommerce concoction to the Rainmaker content marketing platform, I desperately wanted to escape the “plugin-updates-always-breaking-something” conundrum. Happily, I can declare that my switch to Rainmaker absolutely got rid of my frustrations. So far so good great! Secretly, I also had another, additional hope: to rely 100% on what the […]
How to Create a Genesis Child Theme From Scratch (inside Rainmaker)
Note! This is just one of several Rainmaker posts – Be sure you check out everything I’ve written on the New Rainmaker Platform! In my previous Rainmaker-series blog post, I discussed Rainmaker’s themes and design functions. Most of them are very easy to use, and customize to your needs. But what if you have… ahem… ehm… special needs… […]
A New Genesis Framework Review (on the Rainmaker Platform)
Note! This is just one of my Rainmaker posts – Be sure you check out everything I’ve written on the New Rainmaker Platform! As you could read in my previous blog post, I recently switched this, my whole website – from being a self-hosted WordPress installation on Media Temple hosting – to Copyblogger’s relatively new Rainmaker Platform. Rainmaker is a remixed WordPress-version, tailor-made for […]
This Website is Now on the New Rainmaker Platform!
Note! This is just one of my Rainmaker posts – Be sure you check out everything I’ve written on the New Rainmaker Platform! I did it. I’ve converted my whole website, including its membership area: to Copyblogger’s refreshing, relatively new Rainmaker Platform. In case you haven’t yet heard about Rainmaker.fm – or the Rainmaker Platform – it is Copyblogger’s WordPress-based, […]
An Unusual Rainmaker Platform Review – A New Membership Platform
Update! This is my first review of the New Rainmaker Platform. I’ve since written several follow-up blog posts on Rainmaker. See them all here! Welcome to my perhaps slightly unusual review of Copyblogger‘s new Rainmaker platform. A platform that can help you build an audience for your business, by letting you easily publish content, in the form of blog posts, podcasts, […]