How Chelsea finally hit send after months of silence

This past weekend, I got away for two nights with five of my dearest friends for our annual getaway.

In addition to relaxing and unwinding - collectively we have 13 children! - and attending a local No Kings March, much of our weekend was filled with warm conversation, catching one another up on the with our families, relationships, and work.

I got to gush a bit about my current clients, all of whom are friggin' amazing and have built incredible businesses built on their years of deep expertise.

Like my client Chelsea, a clinical social worker and sex therapist.

In addition to running her own private therapy practice, Chelsea also offers clinical supervision, mentors social workers who want to start their own practice, and offers sexual identity coaching. And she started a nonprofit.

To say Chelsea’s got a lot on her plate would be an understatement πŸ˜…

That’s why she really needs to have her email marketing dialed in.

Except...it wasn't.

Every month she'd sit down to write her newsletter and spend hours rebuilding it from scratch. Finding photos, wrestling with formatting, trying to make Kit do things she couldn't figure out how to do. By the time she hit send, she was exhausted.

And that was just for the one segment of her list she was already comfortable emailing - her professional colleagues.

The people she most wanted to reach?

The 100+ potential coaching clients who had taken a quiz on her website over the previous year but had not received a single email from her, AND

the people who had expressed interest in clinical supervision.

Two distinct groups, both sitting in her account for months receiving absolutely nothing.

What Chelsea wanted was straightforward: stop spending hours on emails that should take her maybe 30 minutes, and actually start showing up for the people who were already interested in working with her.

(Without feeling pushy, salesy, or like she was bothering anyone.)

Within two months of our three-month engagement, we revamped nearly aspect of her email marketing setup and strategy, focusing on:

  • Creating branded, accessible email templates that take Chelsea a fraction of the time to use, so she can show up consistently for colleagues and potential coaching clients.
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  • Running automated follow-up for clinical supervision inquiries and coaching interest, without relying on manual one-off emails that were easy to forget or drop entirely.
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  • Giving every subscriber agency over what they hear about and how often, so Chelsea's distinct audiences - colleagues, coaching prospects, supervision clients - can self-select what's actually relevant to them.
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  • Reclaiming hours every month she used to spend rebuilding emails from scratch, instead of starting from zero every time she sat down to write.
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  • Welcoming 100+ ghosted quiz takers into a proper sequence, so that we could clear out the fake signups and engage people who actually wanted to hear from her.
  • Knowing exactly who's on her list and why, instead of avoiding whole segments because the setup was too confusing to navigate.

Durning this time, Chelsea sent two newsletters and scheduled a third within weeks of getting her systems set up, after months of silence - reaching all three audience segments for the first time.

And the potential coaching clients who had taken her quiz up to a year earlier started engaging with her emails immediately, with people writing back to say they felt validated and clicking to book calls.

Whether like Chelsea you're trying to finally show up consistently for the people already on your list, or you're sitting on a group of subscribers who signed up months ago and haven't heard a word from you since, I can help.

​Click here to learn more about my services or book a call to see if we’re a good fit.

Take it one step at a time,
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Bev

Bev Feldman (she/her), Your Personal Tech Fairy πŸ„

I help credentialed professionals who never set out to be marketers build simple, values-aligned email systems that save you time, respect your subscribers, and nurture without coming across as salesy.

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As a solo business owner, I strive to incorporate my values of environmentalism and anti-racism and to build an inclusive and equitable business. I believe Black Lives Matter and I stand for LGBTQIA+ rights, including the rights of Transgender and Intersex people.


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