Market research. It sounds clinical, doesn’t it? Like you’re about to don a lab coat and measure dopamine levels in your audience’s amygdala. But here’s the ugly little truth no one mentions on their $2,000 webinars: Your audience will lie to you. Not out of malice. Out of confusion. Because most people can’t explain why…
“Somewhere between funnels and freedom, coaching quietly became collateral damage.” Once upon a time, coaching was sacred. It was adaptive feedback. Real-time psychological nudges. Human-to-human transformation. Fast-forward: we traded depth for PDFs, play buttons, and “scale.” Coaching didn’t vanish—it got vended. We bottled it into templated modules. And ironically, in the rush to build courses,…
She had the job people manifest on moodboards. Google. London. Health-tech.A clean LinkedIn headline. Respectable money. Decent coffee. Just enough prestige to put “I’m doing well” on autopilot. But inside, the circuits were frying. Not all at once. Not loudly. Just a slow fizz in the background — like a charger that gets hot even…
In one week, I posted 19 times. Carousels cut sharper than a finance bro’s jawline. Threads engineered for maximum dopamine. Hooks so violent they deserved a trigger warning. Each one landed. Thousands of views. Comments by the dozen. Dopamine? Unlimited.Bank account? $0.00. Not a sale. Not a strategy call. Not even a pity purchase off…
You were sold ‘personal branding’ as liberation. What you got was a self-made cage—gold-plated bars forged from hot takes and hollow virality. Let’s autopsy the lie: The creator economy didn’t break you. It hijacked you. You boarded this train promising first-class tickets to autonomy. Instead, you’re shoveling coal into an engine that runs on: ☞…
What if I told you: a product priced at $999 is often worth $29… but feels like $3,000? That’s not a punchline—it’s the operating system of the modern info economy. And YES, building an info product is theoretically easy but… Somewhere between Stripe checkout buttons and those “Only 3 spots left” countdown timers, value stopped…
You’re smart, but still broke. Why? You’ve got the knowledge. You did the work.But your business still runs on your presence. Your content. Your cortisol. You don’t have a content problem.You’ve got an Expert Economics problem. Because the industry taught you to sell courses like T-shirts…Not to treat your expertise like capital. I’ve lived it.Burnt…
You’ve probably experienced it: you launch something smart, sharp, maybe even “revolutionary”… and crickets. Meanwhile, someone with a Canva slideshow about “mindset” just made six figures. Welcome to the Builder-Buyer Gap—where your insight becomes your enemy, and your brilliance builds a bridge to nowhere. I’ve lived this. I’ve built dead ends disguised as funnels. I’ve…
Everyone says you should “launch fast.”But in the creator economy? Fast can still be fundamentally wrong. Sure, you can ship 37 eBooks in 90 days. Doesn’t mean anyone wants them. Or that they work. Because what we’re really building isn’t a course. It’s not a product. Not even an offer. It’s a signal.A social contract…
I once built the cleanest, most systemized product of my life. Click flows? Sexy. Zapier? Humming. Notion dashboard? Sharper than a Japanese knife ad. Launch? Smooth. Sales? Flatlined. Transformation? Nonexistent. Audience reaction? A collective shrug. That was 2021, when I still thought efficiency meant success. It felt like I had built a machine, but forgot…