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Start Fresh: Your Mind – Wide Open – at the Marketing Table

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Many times we arrive at a conversation with a strong notion of the direction we believe the conversation ought to take.

This blocks out the chance for magical marketing ideas and future practices to burst forth.

  1. Open your mind, allow space for surprises – and abundance – to take form.
  2. Instead of listening for a break in the conversation so that you may say what you have said many times before, give yourself room to contribute differently. 
  3. Acquaint yourself with the power of using Beginner’s Mind: in doing so, you will learn to trust your intuition, become more creative and leave space for the genius who is waiting for the know-it-all within you to step aside.

How to practice this:

When you read something new, like this blog post, read a section and then take five minutes of quiet to allow the message to settle in without allowing your intellect to chase it around, to “understand what it means.”

When you are in a conversation with someone and they say something – especially if it triggers a specific thought in you – simply respond with, “Tell me more about that…”

Playfully experiment with this notion and then come back and let me know how it went. Then think how it may apply to your marketing.

What haven’t you thought of using in your marketing before that you will now? 

Get ready because we are about to start done a really fun, fruitful path: storytelling for marketing with your one page marketing plan.

I’m so excited!

Julie JordanScott is a Creative Life Coach and multi-creative known for her high energy, inspirational and simple to apply methods for writers and artists to bring more success into their small businesses and creative projects. To request your free transformational creative life coaching session, please make your request here now.

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What single significant question will help you achieve marketing results?

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What is the single most important question an entrepreneur starting with a fresh marketing plan ought to practice asking?

What is the single most important question to ask potential clients when you start marketing your creative business? It is so simple - and signicant.

It is such a simple question.  Itmay be used in a variety of circumstances and is not intimidating at all – especially when practiced regularly and in general conversation.

Are you ready?

The question is…

"Who do you know who...?" creates associations, opens infinite possibilities, paves the way for collaboration and invitation.

“Who do you know who…..”
or marketing my work I might say, “Who do you know who loves books,” “who enjoys making art with books” “who enjoys journaling” “who might be interested in doing a journaling challenge next month” “who might enjoy meeting more creatives in town for networking and fun”?

“Who do you know who…..” consider the sorts of “who”s you are looking for in your business and then, start asking.

Who doesn't want to feel valued? Who doesn't want to be seen as an expert? Affirm others by acknowledging their depth of experience.

Does your heart start fluttering when you think about asking people… for any sort of anything, even something as innocuous as “Who do you know who enjoys going to Amestoy’s?”

Our question invites people to collaborate: it encourages people to reach into themselves and back out to you AND it encourages a continued mutually beneficial relationship.

When we ask people for their opinions we are actually giving them a huge jolt of positivity. We are instantly making them an expert. We are saying, “Your opinion is valuable to me!” and “I noticed your expertise and I would enjoy talking to you more about (whatever it is we are both interested in.)

“Who do you know who…” opens you to more abundance through a very basic relationship marketing technique.

Your question brings so much more than it looks like at the outset. Mindful use of "Who do you know who..." opens abundance in immeasurable ways.

Who will you try it with first?

Julie Jordan Scott says: This is what I crave for you: soulful creativity, aliveness in your passionate productivity, and a deeper sense of knowing how you belong in the world so that together we will be able to create a context for the rest of your life via your next book or your next workshop or simply your next day, week, month or year.

The people who named me “Creative Life Midwife” found words and paint and laughter and flexed their courage muscles on the way to a deeper satisfaction in their daily lives via new blogs, books, webinars and friendships – just to name a few. Contact me now for your complimentary Transformational coaching conversation.  Click here to complete the request form now.  

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Marketing Your Creative Business: One Step at a Time

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Before we continue with our next conversation about effectively marketing your creative small business while having a great time, let’s pause to look at a possible process a creative entrepreneur may go through on the way to solopreneur success:

– Marianne makes a product

– She is so happy, rejoicing “This is so great, this is so fun!”

– Realization: Marianne (and you as well) asks, “Now, how do you create a long line of people who want to get what I’ve got and be financially sustainable for the long haul?”

– Next realization, “Oh, and I also have the honor and privilege of being both maker and marketer and PR person and the many other tasks that are a part of running a small, creative home based business… (through the ups and downs and in-betweens.)

We’re taking what is often called an “inside-out” approach here.

Yesterday, we talked about purpose and passion – which are internal “being” aspects of creating our marketing and business success.

The other side of the BEING is the action we take as a result of our being.

Barbara Walters reminds us, “One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.”


Today, our task is to be sure we stay in alignment with our purpose and passion while we simultaneously begin to take steps into our marketing success.


This isn’t a microwave making popcorn, this is like our raspberry teabag, slowly steeping and changing clear water into a glorious shade of crimson while we watch it happen and taste for the exact flavor that makes our hearts respond.


One way of taking this on is to read the prompts through jotting notes and getting the feel for where you are going and then re-visiting them after a few days and doing a more thorough job with the prompts, deepening them – yes, like the tea.


1. Look over your notes from yesterday’s exercise. If this is your first time here, yesterday’s exercise may be found at this link.

2. Consider the places and spaces you enjoy hanging out and spending your time. Are the people you listed from yesterday there, too?

3. Practice saying this phrase, perhaps slightly different but with the same meaning, “Do you know anyone who would be interested in….” (don’t mention your business at this point. It is one step at a time, one phrase at a time, one little step at a time.

4. If you are feeling at all icky from only saying “Do you know anyone who would be interested in…” it is time to investigate your relationship with what it means market a product. You could, after all, be saying. “Do you know anyone who would be interested in staying in an empty villa at the beach next weekend?”

5. My bet is what you’re up to is as interesting and in the long run, has more of a positive spin than the weekend at the beach. Sometimes when I get my blood pressure taken, I actually picture the beach. Perhaps for you, when you think about marketing or sales, do the same thing.


6. Follow up and take action on yesterday’s prompts – remember?

• Who did you want to reach with your message when you first started your business? Action Step: Circle three specific names or classifications of people you will reach out to next about your offerings.


• What was it that excited you specifically about your message and the people you would reach? Action Step: Take five minutes to close your eyes and remember what excited you. Remember an incident that reinforces this positive association.


• What story(ies) do you have about your business that move your emotions when you tell them? Action Step: This is the “what happened next” phased after the positive association – now, what happened next, as a result of the positive aspects of your business.


7. Applaud yourself for taking aligned action and getting additionally clear on where your plan is taking you AND ACTING in that direction If you have questions or would like to schedule a transformational coaching session so we might discuss any or all of these steps, please click here to go to the request page on the website. 


With Passionate Gratitude,

Julie JordanScott
PS – Leave me a comment if you have ideas or thoughts or anything at all… and follow me on my social media accounts listed above, too, so we may connect in any of the places you are most likely to hang out! Let’s make your creative small business a rousing success in the weeks and months ahead. You deserve it!

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Let’s Have Fun with the Seed of Your Marketing Success

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The foundation of your Creative Business Marketing contains the same seed that urged you to start your creative business.

For many of us, the starting point is passion. For me, the passion that stirred me was writing. I’ve ben revisiting one of the most influential books I have read for creatives, “Letters to a Young Poet” by Rainer Rilke. There is literally gold dust on every page.

When you read this quote, I request one slight shift – if you are not a writer, I urge you to exchange the word “write” with whatever you create in your business. The original looks like this “Search for the reason that bids you to write; find out whether it is spreading out its roots in the deepest places of your heart.” Now for you it may read like this: “Search for the reason that bids you to sew…” or “Search for the reason that bids you to sing…” or “Search for the reason that bids you to give talks to elementary school groups…”

Herein lies your personal business gold: not that you “have to” write a book to as a business card; not that you “must” have those branding colors just right to make money on Instagram; not that “without working 20 hours a day on my crochet projects I won’t be a success”.

I’m not talking about that and I am NOT talking about what some people call “Your Why”.

I’m asking you to look deeper.

I’m asking you to go beyond what you’ve done in the past and seek the call of your heart to this business – your purpose, your mission, your vision – and use that purpose to set your marketing aim.

Your aim, sometimes called a goal, is setting your “abundance in motion.”

Your purpose – with your passion as the fuel – sets your abundance in motion for your sustainable, successful creative business.

So – with that in mind – your task today is to remember back when you had this inkling of an idea. You may start the process with free flow writing and journaling your responses to these questions. Take only up to five minutes at first to get your process moving.

  • Who did you want to reach with your message when you first started your business?
  • What was it that excited you specifically about your message and the people you would reach?
  • What story(ies) do you have about your business that move your emotions when you tell them?

So this is our starting point: Your passion stirs your purpose. Noticing when and how and what stirs your passion will take you one step closer to the overall aim of your work and from there, your most effective marketing will be borne.

Julie JordanScott is a Creative Life Coach who loves challenging herself and those she works with to continually seek new methods of inspiration, to allow oneself to be delighted and surprised and to wake up, nurture, encourage and grow your inner artist, genius, explorer and best self daily.

Julie JordanScott is a CreativeLife Coach and multi-creative known for her high energy, inspirational and simple to apply methods for writers and artists to bring more success into their small businesses and creative projects. To request your free transformational creative life coaching session, please make your request here now.

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Have Fun While Marketing?

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We creative business owners and solopreneurs have the dream life, right?

We’re creating a product or service that delights us and inspires others and we have the joy of bringing our products and services to market and we also – have the joy of marketing said product or service in order to make our efforts sustain us financially, emotionally and… in whatever way our vision carries us.

Many of us, myself included, get so excited in the making, we forget the significance of the marketing in bringing us the freedom we seek as creative entrepreneurs.

Our aim for this series is to combine the fun of making – creating visual or healing art and more –  with financial abundance through making marketing another aspect of our creativity in a way that excites, delights and expands our hearts almost as much as our crafting, writing, sculpting, performing or… fill in your blank here… does.

I will come to you for the next 30 days with a short video and a blog post with suggestions, techniques, questions and exercises for you to playfully experiment with as you create your own marketing plans and campaigns. With the holidays right around the corner, doesn’t your bottom line – and your future success – deserve some passionate focus on your marketing efforts?

I’m so exciting to come alongside you as we see your business thrive – through creative marketing adventures to match your uniquely you making.

The list of each daily post will be below my PS – Visit as you may – lots of valuable information is here for you to insure your marketing success as a creative entrepreneur.

With Passionate Gratitude,

Julie JordanScott

If you missed our other blog posts, here is a listing for you. Before you leave, please take a moment to follow me on social media (links are above) and take advantage of the free resources I’m offering as we go along on this particular adventure.

Day 2: The Seeds of Your Marketing Success

Day 3: One Step at a Time

Day 4: The Most Important Question

Day 5: Beginner’s Mind

Day 8: Storytelling and Marketing 



PS – Leave me a comment if you have ideas or thoughts or anything at all… and follow me on my social media accounts listed above, too, so we may connect in any of the places you are most likely to hang out! Let’s make your creative small business a rousing success in the weeks and months ahead. You deserve it!

Julie JordanScott is a CreativeLife Coach and multi-creative known for her high energy, inspirational and simple to apply methods for writers and artists to bring more success into their small businesses and creative projects. To request your free transformational creative life coaching session, please make your request here now.

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Tired of Riding the Roller Coaster of Other People’s Urgencies?

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I have had a bit of a roller coaster week, well – to be honest, a tidal wave week, and yesterday –  I was what I would have called “slammed” if I worked in a restaurant for most of the day.

I love being busy. I love the feeling I get from having a lot going on and enjoy metaphorical plate spinning more than slow and stead, tortoise like pace.

When I sat at my desk my intention was to do some of “my own work” yet as I settled in just to write for five minutes “for myself” I was immediately ready to sacrifice my measly five minutes to work on someone else’s urgent project. What is up with that?

I started typing these words:

I am important enough to come first. I am important enough to be the top priority. I am important. I have value.

I am more than slightly embarrassed that I still gain benefit from such affirmations. People give me plentiful praise and then my own version of Glinda the Good Witch whispers… “Yes, you get praise dear heart and do you fully receive it?”

I am important enough to come first. I am important enough to be the top priority. I am important. I have value. I am important enough to come first. I am important enough to be the top priority. I am important. I have value.

I am important enough to be praised. I deserve praise, I deserve to feel positive about the efforts I make because they are valuable.

I turn my favorite music on. Close my eyes. The words find me. My shoulders relax.

I take the five minutes for myself amidst the hours of all those other projects that aren’t going anywhere – they’re right here with me and will get their attention as soon as I am complete here.

May these words I write for myself be a mirror for you to look into as well. For you, like me, are important, valuable and deserving.

How do you relate to this story? What is your most effective self love and self care strategy?

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99 Days of 2018 Left on the Wall Calendar so….

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Shocking, just a bit, to think there are only 99 days left of 2018.

I started this year with such excitement. Right off the bat I had gigs lined up and speaking engagements and it felt like everything was at long last flowing in my direction again and wouldn’t this be wonderful and then….

This morning I was doing my daily broadcast which had been postponed because of – as often happens – other people’s stuff and the need to sort things out and not starting everything earlier and there I found myself, stubbornly on my front porch nearly blinded by the son that thirty minutes earlier had given off the perfect golden slanted light but now was assaulting me with rays that would eventually lift up to around 100 degrees today.

So I started there and then walked to underneath my mulberry tree where on my seat in the much cooler, much more beautiful shade I found… a seed pod. I didn’t recognize the seed (is this mulberries? I don’t know) and I was instantly delighted.

The metaphor rich for the plucking. “When we stop thinking we are in charge of everything, the greatest and most yummy feeling gifts are discovered ‘by accident’ or so it seems.


I finished my broadcast in a shady, perfectly temperate spot just steps from where I started. I felt happy and I was even ahead of schedule (for a change).

My to-do list is present, accounted for and things are getting checked off.

I could have gotten angry and self-talked myself into a tizzy about how bad things have been and how the world and some specific people in it have consistently conspired against me but instead, I went with the flow.

So while sputtering out for the rest of the day and the rest of 2018 could be the choice I make, I am choosing, instead, to find the gifts as they open themselves to me and making the best with each day ahead – even if the gift is as simple as a seed pod that I don’t recognize.

What are you looking forward to for the rest of 2018? Perhaps you are ready to join a Passionate, Purposeful Writing Circle with the dynamic group that’s assembling. We are in the final days of assembling – find out more and join now by clicking the image below.

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Bridges: It is never too late to learn the glory of the ordinary.

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One of my favorite bridges at Hart Park was my visual prompt of the day. 

It is the ordinary architecture, the everyday bridges we drive over and over and over again we will, in the end, remember with the most love.

Most of our tiny snippets of memory don’t get remembered. Like that morning so many years ago when I was overheard saying “I don’t like going nowhere and not even knowing where nowhere is.”

This is what I grumbled many years ago as several friends and I walked on some random street in New York City, desperately seeking an egg cream to drink.

I was a cranky, early twenty-something then – me without the wisdom that was to come later born from pain and angst and loss. 

I finished writing that sentence and I look up and over my laptop screen to see my neighbor of twenty five or so years is wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the word “Grateful.”  Earlier today I might have smirked until I started writing this brief essay.

If I were to die tomorrow and the newspaper reporter called her for comment, what would she say?

“Julie loves Tulip Magnolia trees. She was excited to see the Valentine’s present my husband Robert gave me and made a point to compliment me about it.”

The other memories we share are of different flavors: sour, scratchy, bitter, wistful and early on in our neighbor relationship, optimistic.

It is always the right time to build new bridges, to repair those that are less crumbly, the bridges that will get us from where we have been to where we want to be… or we just go back and forth and back and forth and both are brilliantly significant and well loved. Open your heart to remember the good – and craft the better from what might not have been so empowering before.

It isn’t too late to recognize the glory of the ordinary.

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Three Conversations on the Day After…..

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I had two conversations of note with two young men this morning. The first young man wondered if I had a hangover. “Only if you consider the day after an incredible day in nature feeling ridiculously good to be a hangover!

The second was a young man who was fundraising in a grocery store parking lot. “I just got out of jail,” he said and when I apologized for my lack of cash he said, “That’s what everyone says.”

Then I did what probably other people don’t.

I asked “What were you in for?”

“Assault,” he answered, coming closer so I could see the tattoo above his eye brow and feel more of the surly energy bouncing from his skin. “Oh, did they help you at all in there?”

“No, all I got was an assault charge. He hit me first!”

So there you have it. He was an honest guy, anyway, and he did call me ma’am, which shows me someone taught him respect and manners. At one time he was a newborn, in someone’s arms who probably didn’t think he would one day be asking for spare change in a grocery store parking lot.

“Good luck,” I told him. I meant it. I wish him well and thought about contrast. I thought about how easy it would be to get upset or angry or tumble into what a horrible place we live and why do we have such problems we didn’t used to have and then I remembered yesterday.

I spoke with these two gentlemen shortly after I made this video. Take a moment to watch it.

Now I am off to do the normal things normal adults do: chores, meals, planning for the week, finding and wearing my glasses instead of sitting here wondering where they are…

I will carry this blissed out feeling into other conversations and other experiences.  recognize there is a process to it as well, not entirely one thousand percent hooray over the top hooray and… I am remembering what it feels like to be something other than sad to middling back to sad. This in and of itself feels good. It feels good. 

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Intentional Collaboration: Past, Present & Future You

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Today in my review of notebooks, I found this statement; “Affirm and act in one fluid motion.”

It rang out for attention when the 2014 version of me sang out with utter confidence, “Affirm and act in one fluid motion.”

There was a paragraph after that which tried too hard and wasn’t true-in-that-moment – which is one of the challenges with successful affirmations.

I replaced those words with these and plan to revisit this writing for the next seven days as I continue to collaborate with “me of the past” with “me of the now” to create an even more empowered “Julie of the Future and Infinitely Ever After.”

In the past, I wasted time concerning myself with trivialities. In the past I made the mistake of consenting to believe it was ok to feel inferior or in less than the grand and glorious creation I was and now, I am aware. Now, I am clear instead that I am gutsy and glorious. 

I am entertaining and engaging. People who matter to me like me.

Today and all of the tomorrows to come I will remember this and am remembering this:

Any people who matter, truly like me for who I am, with my frailties and past moments of missing the mark – they choose then to love this authentic and gutsy and glorious me.

Today I am affirm this and am this. So I am simply being it.

Coming soon:

Downloadable Affirmation Work-Play-Create-Be Coloring Page

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