my forgotten child
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We just got back from a camping trip and I spent most of my time keeping two small humans from overheating and not drinking pool water. It was a comedy of errors on the ride home with one kid sick and the other, well, you don't need the details, but I'm sure all parents can imagine. It blows my mind just how different I am as a person these days. Pre-kids Elise never not thought about business... and now my only focus is keeping the kids happy and alive. My business was my first-born child... and now it's mostly an independent teenager, taking care of itself 😅 Soon, I'm taking six weeks off this summer and hunkering down in Portugal and northern Spain. But before I go fully offline, I've been doing one thing every morning that's making the whole thing feel a lot less stressful: I'm done by 1. ⏰ Between swim lessons, a grabby baby, and a husband who's working with clients too, afternoons don't belong to me right now. Everything that matters happens in the morning, and then I close the laptop. Some mornings I have 20 minutes, some mornings I have 2 hours. Either way, the system is the same. I know yapping on camera is having a moment, but I've never in my life found it harder to formulate a coherent thought lol 🙃 And that's when carousel posts are especially handy. (This formula is pulled straight from One & Done.) I can make a carousel in a stolen 20 mins, and it drives engagement. Like this recent one that generated 857 comments. Those comments trigger a DM automation, which sends my followers to a sale page. (Here's a super easy automation you can steal, straight from Message Magic.) 👇 Set it up once, point it at one low-ticket offer (under $50 is the sweet spot), and let the carousel do the rest. If you haven't grabbed One & Done yet, consider it your secret weapon for making simple sales this summer. I'm curious... would being "done by 1" work for your life? If so, I can share some accountability tricks I've come up with that help me actually get my work done by 1pm. Let me know if that'd be helpful to hear! ~ Elise P.S. The carousel format is my most reliable tool right now, and One & Done is where I teach the whole system. |
Elise Darma, Online Educator For Small Business Owners
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