AI is one of the things that is probably at the forefront of every business owner’s mind, and if you feel like you don’t quite know what’s going on, you are not alone! In this conversation, marketing entrepreneur and digital nomad Zach Boyette joins us to discuss how to stay SEO-relevant in the age of “robots.”  Join The Co-op - The Membership for Online Businesses Connect with Abagail Instagram All the Links! AI is changing so many parts of marketing right now. A great way to get on top of these new changes is to focus on the SEO side of things. Many of you might know how to get to the top of Google searches but may be clueless when it comes to doing the same on ChatGPT and Gemini, for example. Today, Zach walks us through what brands can do to improve SEO using AI.  Episode Highlights How to Leverage AI to Improve Search Engine Optimization. [0:04:54]  How to Become a Top Search Result on Large-Language Models. [0:14:39] The Future of Marketing in the World of AI. [0:32:24] Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to bossproject.com/podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When looking to make positive changes in your life, why not start with making sure you’re sleeping well? If you are having a hard time falling asleep, staying asleep, and battling with overall energy levels, then this episode is for you! Joining us is the incredible health consultant Tanessa Shears to discuss how you can sleep smarter and share bio-hacks to become a better-performing entrepreneur.  Join The Co-op - The Membership for Online Businesses Connect with Abagail Instagram All the Links! Tanessa started her business as a personal trainer and nutrition coach and she very quickly realized that so many of her clients were entrepreneurs who needed that extra push to optimize their health. Sleep is often a forgotten component of health and when Tanessa was pregnant, she became more aware of how little sleep entrepreneurs are getting and how that is affecting their businesses. That is why she incorporated a third pillar into her business, sleep! Tune into this conversation to hear a breakdown of the architecture of your sleep, how to sleep better, creating the right environment to help your brain and body wind down for sleep, wearable sleep tracking devices and so much more! Episode Highlights The Architecture of Your Sleep. [0:08:37]  How Do We Sleep Better? [0:12:51] The ‘Zone Out’ Period and How to Fall Asleep Easier. [0:16:43] What Slowing Down Can Look Like. [0:25:33] Tanessa’s Favorite Wearable Tech and How She Incorporates it Into Her Work. [0:30:47] What to Do When Either Your Deep Sleep or REM Sleep is Suffering. [0:36:20] Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to bossproject.com/podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever ghosted your email list and wondered about how to make a comeback? Or if you even could! You're not alone, and I’m here to help. In this episode, I’m diving deep into the art of reengaging an inactive audience authentically and strategically. We’ll talk about why the gap happened, how to assess the situation, and, most importantly, how to craft a comeback plan that feels true to you. I’ll share actionable steps to get your email list going again, from providing genuine value to maintaining consistency. Join The Co-op - The Membership for Online Businesses Connect with Abagail Instagram All the Links! I know it can be overwhelming, but you’re not in this alone. I’ve heard your stories, and I’m excited to share insights and strategies to help you move forward. Whether it's finding inspiration or knowing how to avoid the pitfalls, we’re covering it all. Ready to turn that ghosted list into a thriving community? Your comeback story starts here – let’s make it happen! Episode Highlights Evaluate Where You Are At [0:03:25] The Risks of Reviving Your Email (And How to Address Them) [0:06:27] Are You Ready to Commit to Email? [0:08:37] How to Reengage Your Audience [0:10:54] Crafting Your Comeback [0:13:00] Finding What Works [0:15:35] Templates and Resources [0:20:34] How to Move Forward [0:21:33] Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to bossproject.com/podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I’ve dedicated today’s episode to telling you how I increased my downloads by a whopping 43% in just 30 days while multiplying my new subscribers by 12! These are crazy numbers at this scale. This is usually the kind of growth you would see over a year when you already have millions of subscribers. Today I’m sharing what I did differently and how I was able to drive so much more traffic and so many more sign-ups in real-time. Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our last episode, Mariah Coz joined me to discuss our predictions for what the future of online business could look like. Today’s episode continues where we left off and gets into how these predictions will impact marketing in the online business world. Tuning in, you’ll learn why there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to marketing, and how you should tailor your marketing strategy depending on your business model, whether that’s one-to-one, hybrid, or one-to-many. I unpack the answers to some commonly asked questions, including how niche you should go and how to identify who you’re talking to, before taking a look at how audiences have changed over the past few years. You’ll also find out how your audience impacts your efforts to be more visible and nurture leads, plus advice on what you can do to take your next steps! I want you to market your business in a way that works for YOU, not just now, but also in the future. So, join me as I break down everything you need to know about the future of marketing for online businesses! Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There have been so many upheavals in the past few years, from COVID to the rise of AI, that making any predictions about the future can seem like an exercise in futility. But when you’ve spent enough years in an industry you become attuned to customer needs in new and surprising ways, allowing you to gain a deeper sense of where things may be heading next. Today on the podcast I’m thrilled to be talking with the wonderful Mariah Coz, Founder of Fearless CEO, where she helps creators monetize their business, through community content courses, and other creative digital products. Mariah is someone I’ve known in this online industry since the early days of my business. And over the last couple of years, I've had the great honor and pleasure of getting to know her as a personal friend. For today’s episode, Mariah and I get into a topic we are both extremely excited to discuss, namely, the future of online business and what this looks like. We get into how online business has changed since we first started in the industry, what to consider when choosing the path that makes the most sense to you, how we expect selling to evolve in the online space, and much more. Whether you’re a newbie unsure of where to start, or a seasoned professional taking stock of where to go next, this conversation covers all of it. And while we can’t predict the future with unerring accuracy, we can share what we expect based on everything we’ve learned over the past few years. So, for an expansive conversation on industry predictions and our advice on how to adapt from myself and the wonderful Mariah Coz, be sure to tune in today! Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During today’s episode, I tell the story of how I went from a full-on crisis to the most clarity I have had in years! I want to invite you to join me in this movement. When I was able to take a deep breath for the first time, I knew that other people needed to experience this. I believe that everyone deserves the financial freedom that lets you go from social security to true financial freedom and lasting wealth that creates a secure future. I want you to have that gift! It’s not just about me. It’s not just about helping people to become stable. This is for every person running a business. I want you to be a part of it, so tune in today to learn how I went from crisis to clarity, discovered what’s next for my life and career, and how you can too! Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen in on the phenomenal live webinar we offered this week. This information will change countless lives and give more women opportunities. I'm sharing clear strategies for scaling a business that most people don’t know about. We aren't messing with trendy marketing tactics that don’t work the same way for everyone. Every business is different and one person’s success does not define your own. That’s why I'm sharing the exact strategies and facts that will bring you success (and not just the shiny, sexy ones). You need this information. I will redefine what transparency looks like in this industry because it was not easy to get to where I am today. This is my genuine desire to see you succeed! If you'd like to see the slides that went along with this, you can watch the full video replay at bossproject.com/untitled-training. Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I went from one sale to 439 leads in just 48 hours and I’m going to tell you exactly how I did it! I recently took the biggest gamble I have ever taken in my business. I refunded tickets to my upcoming Sales Flow workshop and scrapped everything my team and I had spent weeks preparing for. I did this because only one ticket was bought in 24 hours when I announced my workshop. This mission is far too important to me to let one dry season put me under. You only have one life and I want women everywhere to have choices, opportunities, and freedom! I can only make the kind of impact I want to make if more women in business know what I know.  So, I came up with a plan to save this workshop, this business, and a plan that will change countless lives and give more women opportunities. In nearly a decade of business, I have never seen numbers rise this fast! There are clear strategies for scaling a business that most people don’t know about. Instead, they have to rely on trendy marketing tactics that don’t work the same way for everyone. Every business is different and one person’s success does not define your own. That’s why I want to share the exact strategies and facts that will bring you success (and not just the shiny, sexy ones). You need this information. I will redefine what transparency looks like in this industry because it was not easy to get to where I am today. Sign up for my Untitled Workshop now at bossproject.com/untitled. This is my genuine desire to see you succeed and you have nothing to lose!  Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I like to see this time of year as the opportunity to dive back in and come up with a fresh approach to plan for the future! This season can be about refining what you have built so that your business can continue to support you for a long time. I know that many of you use this time to make new goals and create new opportunities, but today I want to talk about what it looks like to prepare your business so that you’re ready when life comes at you again. Shit is going to hit the fan whether you want it to or not and I want you to build a business that can survive that without being so dependent on you. Personally, I never want to be financially dependent on anyone else and I know that many of you feel the same way! You want your business to work even when life gets thrown your way. You aren’t trying to fix the ‘shit,’ you’re trying to live and work while it’s happening! I do not think enough people understand the reality of the added stress being a business owner brings. The tiniest thing can happen that will completely derail your day or even your life. These things are part of life and will happen whether you have a business or not. So how do we deal with these challenges as they come up and prevent them from completely altering our future success? I know so many of you wish you could wave a magic wand and be at the point in your business where you could rely on it consistently in challenging seasons. And not being there yet is fine! What I want you to do is create a business that allows you to prioritize what you want and that is built to survive if you have to walk away for a while. If you want a business that can handle these things, you’re going to have to make some changes. Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chances are, you started your business because you want to make a real impact. Like the badass you are, you wanted to do this independently and quickly took on clients and catered to their needs, often at your own expense. This, unfortunately, can only lead to burnout. There comes a point where you need to fix the situation or you’ll seriously consider quitting. I know, because I’ve been there, and I’m here to assure you that there are some very tangible ways to get out of this dreaded cycle that keeps people feeling trapped in the business they built that is supposed to be this opportunity for freedom. It’s time to address the underpricing epidemic plaguing the industry and in this episode, that’s precisely what we’re doing. So, buckle up and prepare to discover the power of proper pricing and building a strong financial foundation. Find out about the pricing calculator that takes all aspects of your business into account, helping you find the appropriate price points for your services. Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I want to talk about where you’re going; whether you know what that looks like or not. I know that for many of you, you may not even be sure where you want to go and that’s okay! It’s really easy to overlook the value of your past experiences but you are, in essence, a cumulation of them and they can be so valuable in shaping where you want to go. I know a lot of you may not know the answer and that is okay! It’s not about knowing the answer, it’s about using this as a jumping-off point. Even all the previous jobs you’ve ever had shape the business you have today!  The real question now is how does your past inform where you’re going? These moments and experiences, big or small, can have a huge impact on what you want to do next. So how do we leverage it? It’s important to point out that this is not about speed but rather about pace! That’s why I came up with the PACE method and today, I’m sharing how these facts ultimately help you apply your findings to something that is actually actionable by breaking down PACE. Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we’re delving into the world of passive income and how to truly build substantial wealth – the kind that leaves a legacy and transforms not only your life but also the lives of your family and future generations. Discover the reality behind passive income and how to create genuine financial security! In this episode, you’ll learn how the magic is in the mix with insights into the best active/passive combinations. I'll also be sharing details about an upcoming workshop that's all about building a real asset – your business – that will fuel your wealth journey. If you're ready to make your business a sustainable income source and gain control over your financial future, this workshop is a must-attend! So tune in for insight into finding the right mix for you, giving you the freedom to live life on your terms. Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the incredible potential of generative AI to the allure of fully customized experiences, there are numerous innovative ways to elevate your email strategy. While I can’t predict the future, I can share what I’m seeing in the world of email marketing to help you stay ahead of the curve! By leveraging industry research, inbox analysis, and deep reflection on my own business, I’ve compiled some of the hottest trends for 2024. These insights will help you harness the power of email marketing and take your campaigns to the next level. Join The Co-op - The Membership for Online Businesses Connect with Abagail Instagram All the Links! If you haven’t yet considered email marketing as an opportunity for your business, this is your sign to start! Whether you're a seasoned pro or just getting started, these trends will guide you in creating engaging, relevant content for 2024 and beyond. Don't miss this opportunity to revolutionize your email marketing strategy and stand out in the ever-evolving digital landscape. Episode Highlights: Why Email Marketing Matters for Your Business, Even If It's Not Your Core Focus. [0:02:01]  Unlocking the Power of Email Content. [0:08:58] Harnessing AI Innovation while Maintaining Your Personal Touch. [0:11:58] Trends in Mobile-First Email Design (and Why It’s So Important). [0:14:46] Boosting List Growth Through Recommendations. [0:19:30] How to Leverage Customization in Your Email Campaigns. [0:23:24] Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to bossproject.com/podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today’s episode, I am going to be talking about what it looks like to budget when your income is inconsistent. Perhaps your business’ revenue and your pay is inconsistent and you want to create more sustainability across the board so that you can get paid more often and more predictably. I know the economy is insane at the moment and there is a lot happening right now so everything I am going to share with you today is what I would do when I want to have a more conservative approach in a time of uncertainty. I know that this will have an instrumental impact on how you change your business’ finances, create more personal financial stability, and solidify the future health of your business.  I need you to get the idea out of your head that businesses grow linearly or exponentially. They just don’t and you need to embrace these waves of inconsistency. I don’t want you to think that this sort of change means you’re doing something wrong because that isn’t true and running a business is simply too unpredictable. I want to help you find ways to manage these waves of inconsistency. I have been through periods of making huge amounts of money and periods of not even making enough to cover my family’s groceries for the month. In the first few years of running my business, I would take every dollar that would come into the business and use a percentage of it in a certain way, so I got paid when the business got paid. The problem with this is that it is very inconsistent and while it may work early on in the business as the most stable way to handle finances, it won’t work in the long run.  In your developmental years, you need a place to start because those dollars don’t always fall linearly even when you’re doing fantastically! While there are definitely things that you can be doing to create consistency in revenue, that’s not actually what I am going to be talking about today. I am going to be talking about creating consistency in your income and your pay; the money that goes into your personal bank account. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t about taking every bump out of your business because bumps will happen! This is about creating predictability in your personal financial future and helping you save appropriately so that you can manage the unpredictability that will inevitably come. Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, I’m sharing an incredibly personal story about a crisis I faced in 2022 and the profoundly transformative impact it’s had on my life. Clocking that I was the same age as my mother when he had her brain surgery 30 years ago triggered a deep existential crisis in me and in this episode, I open up about my personal journey of self-reflection. With the insights and exercises I learned along the way, I’m eager to provide you with the tools to move through your own transformation. Out of necessity, I’ve become well-acquainted with what it looks like to truly reflect deeply, and I want to share my process so that you, too, can understand what's important to you and learn how to prioritize it going forward. Feel free to treat this episode as your compass to navigate the uncertain waters of self-discovery! Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we are talking all things Barbie; specifically, the marketing budget which is the biggest marketing budget we have seen for a movie in a long time! This company has taken a brand we all know and love and made it more relevant decades later. So what will this massive budget mean for entertainment moving forward and what can we learn from it as small businesses?  The Barbie movie team spent $150 million on marketing on top of the $145 million they spent on the actual production, and the ROI is there, as the production already made the entire amount back in the first weekend alone! There are hundreds of collaborations, and this is absolutely incredible! There have recently been loads of discussions about the profitability of femininity, and any nay-sayers have been proven wrong time and time again. Amazing things happen when women are supported; this movie is more proof! There has been a very interesting shift in toys recently, and Barbie has seen some controversy for not being diverse and inclusive enough, representing enough of a variety of jobs, and being body positive. This movie helps us remember what Barbie felt like when we were children, before all of this stuff mattered to us! This age-old brand has the heart of many women, and the movie, which was produced for millennial women and not children, reawakens this nostalgia. The movie is even fairly satirical and makes fun of the Barbie world in many ways. There is a lot of power in looking at totally different industries from your own to find things you can learn from! Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is it just us, or have you also noticed the major shake-ups that have been taking place in the social media space recently? From Threads to TikTok Shop to the Twitter rebrand, we’re taking a deep dive into some of the wild stuff that’s been going on in this episode! We’ve been following things very closely and, from our perspective, more has happened in the month of July 2023 than in the last three years! So, we decided that now is the time to catch you up on all the developments on social and the impact that these changes are likely to have on your small business. We know change can be challenging, but trust us. If you embrace it, it can do wonders for your business! Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quitting corporate and striking out on your own can be a daunting task. But with the right preparation and strategies, you can build the business you’ve always wanted without feeling totally overwhelmed. Today on the show, I share the story of how I quit corporate and started my own business in 2015 and how I would go about doing it again in 2023. Back in 2015, the online landscape was totally different, and starting your own company had far more barriers to entry than it does today. In the intervening years, technological advances have made it easier than ever to earn money online and organize your systems. While it’s wonderful that these tools have made starting a business more accessible, it also means that it can be more difficult to get your name out there. Tune in for a breakdown of my journey, the lessons I’ve learned along the way, and a rundown of my advice for anyone looking to quit corporate and set out on their own in 2023! Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do grief and grit mean for women who are balancing life and business? Sometimes, experiencing enormous hurt and pain turns you into the most authentic version of yourself. The topic of grief is incredibly personal and important to me because it is one of the primary reasons for my growth and success. Grief is equally as frustrating and painful as it is beautiful, hopeful, and inspirational. In simple terms, grief is the ultimate shapeshifter! There is no right or wrong way to grieve as it impacts everyone differently. Today, I want to share some of my own experiences with grief before diving into how you can turn your grief into grit in both your personal life and your business! Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Boss Project is going through its biggest transition yet! For the last 24 months, Abagail has been almost exclusively in the finance and sales side of the company. She’s been creating spreadsheets, thinking about company benefits, sales processes, hiring, HR, and more. That has meant she’s been out of the marketing game. She simply hasn’t been thinking about social media and sales funnels for two years and she’s excited to dive back in! You can expect experimentation as she gets her feet wet; trying and testing different things. It’s going to be focused, it’s going to be intentional, and it’s definitely going to be fun! Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Abagail interviews our very own Emylee to talk about her shift into full-time authorship, what she has learned thus far from her rapid transition into this new field, and the leap of faith it took to pursue her passion! If you missed out on parts one and two of this series, we encourage you to go back and give those a listen so that you’re all caught up for this latest conversation. While we are sad to see Emylee leave her role as Co-CEO of Boss Project, we are so excited to see her embarking on this next chapter as she pursues her passions. Tune in as we talk about Emylee’s journey as an author, how she’s been navigating the writing process, and what it’s been like going from a partnership to working solo! Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we look back at the last eight years and celebrate all that Boss Project has accomplished! We’re sharing our journey as business partners, what it’s been like to work together, and some pearls of wisdom we’ve picked up along the way. Let’s dive into how we got here!  If you missed Part One of our four-part series, then you must go back and listen immediately! There are details and nuances that are going to be noticeably absent if you don’t go back and listen to that first episode first. Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here at Boss Project, we’ve had some pretty big changes happening offstage in a surprisingly short amount of time! Today, we’ll be chatting about these changes, how we’re navigating them, and what you can expect from Boss Project going forward. Tuning in, you’ll hear some pretty big news along with our thoughts on what we’ve learned from adjusting to these new developments and an overview of our upcoming four-part series. While periods of transition can be intimidating, they can also be incredibly exciting. This may all be happening a lot faster than we expected, but we have full confidence in our plans going forward and we invite you all to be a part of it! Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writing funny copy is an excellent way to make your brand memorable and connect with customers, but it can feel pretty risky. What if it’s not actually funny? Or worse, could you end up inadvertently offending someone? Join The Co-op - The Membership for Online Businesses Connect with Abagail Instagram All the Links! Joining us today to set our minds at ease is Lianna Patch, a conversion copywriter and comedian whose greatest dream is to make your customers pause, smile, and click – in that order. She’s written copy for Fresh Books, Igloo, and Manly Bands, among many other delightful clients, and regularly speaks at E-commerce and software conferences around the world. Today, we dig into how to write funny, memorable copy that sells, for your online business. In our conversation, Lianna shares practical tips and strategies she uses with her one-on-one clients for creating engaging and authentic content. Tune in to hear all her actionable advice on how to start using humor (even if it scares you), and create content that brings joy to your readers! Episode Highlights: The Power of Funny Copy [0:03:35] How to Start Adding Humor to Your Copy [0:04:30] Where to Avoid Being Funny [0:08:30] How Manly Bands went from Matter-of-Fact to Hilarious [0:10:05] Using Humor to Accomplish Goals [0:15:09] How to Create Irresistible CTAs [0:16:45] Don’t Be Afraid to Play with Language [0:20:05] Finding Humor in Unexpected Places [0:28:19] Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to bossproject.com/podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we’re talking about what it means to have a culture of curiosity and how you can deliberately cultivate it within your organization. This can be one of your biggest assets and can help your team members take ownership of projects, tasks, ideas, and even strategies! It takes intentional building blocks to get there and we want to help you put those blocks together. In our previous episode, Experimental Mindset Part 1, we talked about what it means to develop an experimental mindset, questions you need to ask yourself, things you need to let go of, and some of the different headspaces that we have been in throughout our business journey. Following on from that episode, this one delves into the strategic side of how you can actually go about fostering a culture of curiosity!  Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does an experimental mindset mean? How can you foster one in yourself and your team? That’s what we’re talking about today. Both Emylee and Abagail experience a constant push and pull that comes with mixing intuition with analysis. We see so many business owners that stay in the planning and research phase for so long that they never take action in one direction or the other. That’s so frustrating to see! That’s what sparked this training. Everything in your business is evolving. That includes your goals, what it takes to get there, and the headspace you need to be in to get there. We can say all day that business isn’t linear, but you’re not going to understand that until you’ve lived it! When businesses meet a challenge, they usually fail and give up entirely or succeed and seek a new challenge because they believe the journey should be harder. That’s really hard to watch. We want to arm you with some thoughts and ideas that equip you to live in that experimental space that sees failure as information. We want to equip you to take the steps that allow you to incrementally move towards your goals. Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We didn't realize how much we would come to rely on our business values. They are central to how we operate our team, answer questions, and so much more. Initially, your company operations are typically a reflection of you personally, but as you grow, that doesn’t always make sense. As you work with more and more clients, we recommend identifying one to three values to shape how you serve clients, what your boundaries will be, how you prefer to communicate, your work style or ethic, and beyond. Especially as you engage with employees and contractors, having an internal value that is very specific to how your team runs is critical to your team culture and getting everyone on the same page. It helps settle conversations about what to do next by providing a lens through which to view things. When you need to have a redirecting conversation with a client, your business values are the strongest tool you have at your disposal to explain what you do and do not offer.  Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

By now, you should all know that we are the queens of tweaking and repeating. In this episode, we spill the beans on how to revolutionize your client experience by (you guessed it) tweaking and repeating! After a quick debrief of our thoughts on outsourcing and AI, we uncover the often-overlooked aspects of client delivery and discuss the significance of investing time in developing consistent processes. From creating efficient systems and templates to ensuring clarity and alignment in contracts and proposals, we explore the strategies you can implement to create a streamlined client experience and bring in the referrals and testimonials you deserve. Join us as we reveal the benefits of continuous improvement and offer practical insights to help you enhance your client interactions and boost your business to new heights! Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we are talking about the art of the follow-up. You’ve pitched your service and the potential client is either ghosting you, being passive-aggressive, or fighting against the process you want to put them through. This can be a very strange experience and sometimes prospects convert with quite a lot of resistance. Closing a prospective client happens in the follow-up process, and a lot of us struggle with that phase. Today’s episode gives you some examples of what you can say and do to confidently and effectively follow up with your leads. We’re tackling what a proper follow-up is and how to handle hearing ‘no’. Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we are unearthing an episode that we recorded at the end of 2022 because it’s important that you hear this. The strategy this client used is still extremely relevant and effective in the current sales climate where leads are a little bit wonky. This is the perfect time to seek improvement opportunities within your sales cycle and work on increasing your close rate.  We walk you through how our client was able to increase her close rate by a whopping 40%, and how you can be just as successful in your own sales process. In this season, focus and refine how things are looking in your business. Evaluate what’s working, what’s not, and use that critical information to make strategic, educated plans as you move forward with your business. Start gathering this data and figure out where you want to place your focus and where your biggest opportunities are right now. Today we’re using particular examples from a previously aired episode to help you learn how to improve your close rate.  Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, we address a major issue in the business education industry that is causing our clients to waste time and money. While marketing is important, we believe that many marketing pros are teaching people to become marketing minions instead of teaching foundational business concepts. Unfortunately, this often results in a misconception of what marketing entails.  Let’s update our perspective on marketing from a "necessary evil" to a vital component of your business' success that can be tailored to suit your own strengths and needs. Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re talking about food stuff today! Emotional eating, disordered eating, cycle syncing, and all things diet, mindset, and health. Consider this a non-judgmental space packed with practical techniques you can employ in your own life today. That said, if this isn’t your jam right now, you have our full permission to skip this episode, listen to an old one, or go hang out on Instagram and wait for our next one. So many women struggle with binge eating, emotional eating, cycle issues, hormone imbalances, and weight loss or body image blocks. Amber Romaniuk has been through it all! Through healing herself and working alongside her clients for over ten years, she has helped many women overcome these issues and find freedom. In this episode, she offers the insight that there is a close relationship between people-pleasing and weight gain and offers self-priority as an alternative. Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are more ways than ever to get in touch with customers and sell your services. But how do you know which methods are right for you and your business? And how do you ensure that you’re implementing them to the best of your abilities? One method that has gained a tremendous amount of traction over the past decade, is social selling. Not only do the stakes of a DM feel lower than getting on a high-pressure sales call, but it’s also more accessible to people with unusual schedules or chronic illnesses. But what are some of the drawbacks of social selling, and are they worth the payoff? In today’s episode, we talk about why we stopped using social selling and how you can determine whether it’s the right choice for you and your business. We unpack how using social selling affected our boundaries outside of work, our values as a life-first business, and why the downsides of social selling ended up outweighing the benefits. While we believe that social selling can be a great sales tool, we want businesses to consider their options and make informed decisions based on the facts, and what will work best for them. Tune in to hear what our experience with social selling was like, why we stopped, and how to find out whether it’s right for you! Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we’re talking about one of our favorite things: how to work less and enjoy your life more! A lot of us like the idea of slowing down in the summer and taking some more life-first days, but sometimes it gets really hard to do that! We recently read an article called Ten Red Flags That Show You’re Addicted to Work According to a Psychotherapist. It’s a neat perspective from a mental health professional, and today’s episode is dedicated to sharing their insights with you. We hope that afterwards, you’ll be able to look at your schedule and see exactly where you could be a little bit more self-aware about the areas where your relationship with work is teetering on toxic. You don’t have to tick all these boxes to be a workaholic. If even one of them feels true for you, it’s time to reflect! Consider them as useful guides to help you identify workaholism. Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many entrepreneurs set ambitious targets but often find themselves falling short. In this episode, we explore the REAL reason why you’re not achieving your goals, unpack the underlying beliefs that might be holding you back, and provide actionable insights to help you break through these barriers. Join The Co-op - The Membership for Online Businesses Connect with Abagail Instagram All the Links! Join me as I delve into how you might be standing in your own way and offer strategies to move your business forward in alignment with your life goals. I share key mindset shifts to help reduce the pressure and constant stress that many entrepreneurs experience as their businesses scale and the goalposts keep shifting. Unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all roadmap for success, and self-doubt is often the biggest limitation. Luckily, by cultivating self-compassion, acting like the person you want to become, and focusing on small but consistent actions, you can overcome these hurdles! Tune in for some real-life examples and practical steps to help you transform your business, embrace the journey as an experiment, and start showing up as your best self today! Episode Highlights Reasons I’m No Longer Setting Goals for My Business. [0:02:41]  Why There’s No Road Map for Success. [0:09:35] Breaking Free from the Self-Sabotage Cycle. [0:15:41] The Power of Acting like You're Already the Person You Want to Be. [0:25:10] How Worrying about Future Potential is Slowing Your Present Momentum. [0:36:39] Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to bossproject.com/podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Not every client relationship runs as smoothly as we’d like and, generally speaking, it comes down to communication gaps and unspoken expectations. In this episode, we break down a scenario that one of our clients experienced and share our advice for dealing with the situation. In this particular scenario, our client found that her client was treating her like an employee, despite the fact that she's technically a contractor. Because this problem is more common than you might think, we’ve decided to share our perspective and insights into how one might navigate a situation like this. It’s easy to get frustrated, but there are ways to address communication gaps with clients and continue to nurture long-term relationships. Join us as we shed light on how to enhance the client experience while maintaining healthy boundaries for your business. Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we want to chat with you about how to future-proof your industry, expertise, and career in the AI age. Recently, we’ve been having the conversation about AI a lot and sharing some perspectives as well as talking about some software companies we’ve enjoyed using; including a conversation with the CEO of ChatGPT. This is a conversation that needs to be addressed often so we can understand how it can best support us.  The Harvard Business Review has come up with five ways to future-proof your career in the age of AI and we have also come up with five ways so today, we are sharing 10 actionable steps you can take to do this. Tune in today for a jam-packed episode and make sure to grab a pen and paper to write these tips down! Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s episode is an overview of a recent conversation we sat in on, which discussed navigating change in 2023. The panel included a list of industry leaders, the CFOs of AirBnb Midjourney, Masterclass, Step, and Aon PLC. Although these businesses are all incredibly well-funded and resourced, we have found that what happens in larger businesses tends to have a trickle-down effect, and smaller businesses will mirror their patterns. That’s why we’ve dedicated this episode to sharing some key insights from the discussion with our audience at Boss Project. Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What can we expect from the future of AI? How quickly will we be asked to evolve and adapt alongside these changes? Abagail recently had the opportunity to sit in on a fireside chat with Sam Altman, the founder and CEO of OpenAI and ChatGPT. This episode is dedicated to sharing the highlights of what she heard. Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here at Boss Project, our mission starts with wanting to see more women become financially free. We want them to be able to take care of their household financially and, ultimately, build and scale a business from the ground up. Our goal is to help create a stable foundation that will give them confidence as leaders and support them in pursuing continued growth. Unfortunately, the differences in how men and women are treated in the workplace can harm women's ability to grow and flourish as leaders. A recent study of 146 mid-career leaders explores the gender differences in how men and women are given feedback in the workplace. Their findings identified four key problem areas: vision, political skills, asserting leadership, and confidence. In this episode, we break down these four categories and take a closer look at how men and women are treated differently when it comes to guidance and feedback and what can be done to begin to adjust for these discrepancies. Tune in as we discuss the four key ways in which men are getting more actionable feedback than women and what to do about it! Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated, for show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We see so many business owners who think that the answer to scaling is more about cash than relationships. Yes, cash is a component but it is not the primary problem! First of all, we want to talk about growth versus scaling. They are used interchangeably in this industry but they simply are not the same. Growth is primarily centered around financial and revenue changes in your business and scaling is more about the actual behind-the-scenes operations of how your business is pieced together.  Often, when people try to scale their business they are so focused on growing their revenue that they forget about all the foundational pieces that are required in order for the revenue to grow. When you put the time and energy into these architectural pieces, you will be surprised at how quickly the revenue growth follows. You can kind of think of these things as the SOP for how you’re doing business; how the business as a whole is being operated and you need to define what that looks like. We find that people get to a certain point where they hit a type of sales cycle and our goal is to help you scale past this point by productizing literally everything! Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every decision we make takes us down a different path, each with its own set of consequences. Decisions aren’t categorically good or bad, right or wrong, but today, we discuss how you can learn to make the best business decisions for YOU! This conversation was sparked by an interesting article that we came across in Forbes that highlighted some of the key points that we have been expressing on the show about goals, outcomes, and living in alignment with our values.  Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re sharing a bit of our progress when it comes to delegating. We started out being bad at getting things off our plates, but now we are getting better and better and we want you to learn from our mistakes. Delegation is truly the stepping stone to get the right people on your team! Ultimately, you’re going to need to hire extra team members to take on some tasks in your business. Most of what we’re talking about today is how to delegate to an employee properly and while there are overlaps when it comes to delegating to a contractor, there are definitely nuanced differences. Today we are specifically looking at delegating to existing team members who have been through the full onboarding process and understand you and your business very well. To us, proper delegation comes down to communication! Listen carefully because we want you to document all of these things we are discussing today and explain them to the person you want to delegate to.  Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the past 30 days, more than 2,000 new AI tools have been released. There is no doubt about it; AI is going to have a major impact on how we work, how we ask questions, and how we search for information. No industry will go untouched by this technology and significant changes have already begun to take place. This causes fear in some people, excitement in others, and often a combination of both! A few months ago, we had a conversation on the podcast about AI, but because of how much everything has progressed, we decided to have another one. While we don’t know what the future will look like, we know it will look very different from the present! Join us today as we discuss eight new AI websites that can help you optimize your business processes and add value to your life. Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An overwhelming majority of female-owned businesses (88%, to be exact) are run by women who do not have a single employee. That means they are essentially doing everything on their own. And if you are pursuing growth, then running your company without any support is not a sustainable business model! We are seeing many seasoned entrepreneurs reach a breaking point where they can’t decide whether they should give up their business or commit to becoming a leader and bringing on a team to support them. If this sounds like you, and you want to create a change, then it may well be time to re-envision your role within your business. Our goal is to see more and more women occupy a true CEO seat. Our C-Suite on Demand program is designed to help more women take the step from being a solo CEO to becoming a leader that has the team she needs to support her vision. Tune in as we take a closer look at the options available to CEOs who want to re-envision their role and enter the next phase of leadership, all with the support of our team at Boss Project!  Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you know what your customers really want? Or are you mostly relying on assumptions to drive your sales? In today’s episode, we are joined by Lisa Smith, Founder, CEO, and Business Growth Partner at Smith Co., where she works with female and BIPOC business owners to help them remove sales roadblocks. Join The Co-op - The Membership for Online Businesses Connect with Abagail Instagram All the Links! What stands out most about Lisa and how she serves her clients is her powerful, data-driven approach to figuring out what they truly need. In one of her latest studies, Lisa did more than just survey her audience; she dug deep into the mindset and potential obstacles that people encounter in sales. Lisa has also generously made this work publicly available. She is committed to seeing others benefit from this information and will continue to grow the study in years to come! There’s a lot to unpack in today’s episode, from the fascinating results of Lisa’s study to the opportunities this represents for other business owners. Be sure to tune in as we explore what women really think about sales and discover what this means for your business! Episode Highlights Why 46% of Women Feel Negatively About the Word “Sales” [0:05:29] Sales as a Service [0:07:00] Debunking Myths About Women in Sales [0:11:11] Carving Out Time for Sales Success [0:12:57] How to Modernize Your Follow-Up Processes [0:20:44] What We Know About Optimism in 2024 [0:29:31] Lisa’s Future Surveys [0:33:03] Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to bossproject.com/podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As a business owner, you will unlock different tiers of problems that you need to solve. While working with folks inside the Incubator, we’ve encountered many questions that we would categorize as ‘next level.’ We realized we have a lot we can help those people with. That’s what’s led us to introduce a brand new offer. We are so excited to talk about our new opportunity for people! These are people who entered the Incubator, thinking that the next step for them was to start hiring more people. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t that! Instead, we worked with them on refining their offer so that they could start getting paid appropriately. Once they start getting those achievable results, they’re in the position to start looking for more people to hire. How much do you save for hires? How much should you plan to pay them? What can you expect the return to be once you’ve brought someone on? How do you ensure you’re creating an incredible, ethical culture? We realized there’s a lot we can help you with.  Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You may have been tuning in to our podcast alongside the Incubator and looking for something better suited to where you are in your journey. We love that for you! Today’s episode is dedicated to you. We’re here to discuss some of the challenges you may face and how you can approach them. Many of our Incubator graduates reach a point where they slowly want to remove themselves from some of the deliverables of their service. They want to be involved with strategy and direction, but they’re ready for everything else to fall to their team. They’re ready for the next phase, and this can be intimidating! This is not less work for them. In fact, at first, it’s more work. After that, it’s different work. This isn’t about removing your job from the business. It’s shifting your focus to different aspects of the business. It will require you to grow and evolve as a manager, leader, and CEO. You’re going to go from just being the person who founded the business to sitting in a true CEO or leader’s seat. It’s such an exciting thing for us to see! Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does your input feel aligned with your output? If you are billing hourly, chances are things are beginning to feel unbalanced. In this episode, we fill you in on how we can help you make the transition from hourly billing to value-based pricing, creating a more predictable business and recurring income. Today, we want to introduce you to new pricing models and provide insight into how to prepare your clients for the changes.  If you don’t want to be trading each of your hours for a dollar, it’s time to consider value-based pricing. If you continue to only get paid for the time you’re physically working on clients’ projects, you’re never going to be able to scale beyond a personal income. You need to be paid for every aspect of your job! There is a way to transition without dismantling your current business and our Incubator program will walk you through the steps. Stay tuned as we break down how, exactly, our Incubator program is structured and how we can help you calculate the ideal pricing for your unique business. Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review The Strategy Hour Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. For show notes, go to thestrategyhour.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices