Hi! I'm Damon. I help creative businesses share their message online. I also send sporadic newsletters about creative life.
The wondrousness of ideas vs the grit of reality 🦄
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Happy Tuesday Reader, I did it!! I put together my 3 new Content Repurposing offer packages. The biggest thing I focused on was "repurposing" — i.e. using the same content multiple times. These offers are aimed at creative business owners who've already made great content, but are now burned out and stuck. Sure, creatives can repurpose their own content, and it'll be wayyyyyyy easier than starting from scratch. But even repurposing takes up chunks of time and mental space. There are still so many little details to sort out. And patterns of perfectionism and fear of being seen to overcome. I wanted to create something where I'd repurpose their content FOR them. So they can TAKE A BREAK. While still sharing ideas and messages that are specifically THEIRS (rather than outsourced). One big... "Thing" with creative work is all the little fiddly bits you encounter when you go from ideas ➡️ reality. And I encountered it a lot while putting these offers together. I got so, so frustrated. I felt that I'd vastly underestimated how much work it would be. What was happening was: I'd encountered all the invisible things that appear when you cross the line into making something real. The intake forms, the various site pages, the things included in each offer... They can be soooo frustrating. But really they're proof of existence in the real world. These offers felt like an absolute dream when I came up with them, in the realm of ideas. Bringing them into the realm of reality revealed the grit of them. Problems I needed to solve, etc. Neither of these states is better or worse, it's just how things are! While I was busy being frustrated and feeling like everything was taking soooo long... I remembered how so many people say it's a huge mistake to not share while you're still "building". So that's what I've tried to do with this email (even though I have finished building them now. But close enough) Here they are, take a look 😊
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Damon Siseman
Hi! I'm Damon. I help creative businesses share their message online. I also send sporadic newsletters about creative life.
How's it going Reader? I thought I'd do a little end-of-the-month review with you so we can discuss what's working or not working 🤔 Sound good? You're welcome to reply and tell me about what you've been up to! This month my theme was taking action + celebrating it as much as possible. A few months ago, I wouldn’t have had the capacity to: start selling consistently, show up on social media again, create new resources, or make decisions about pricing. It took time, patience, practice, and...
Hey Reader, I had a BEAUTIFUL burst of inspiration on Wednesday 😍 You know when you go to put some small tweaks on a bit of work... but then something clicks and you're like OH F*** YEAH and you spend the day redesigning the whole thing. This is what happened with my free content repurposing guide. I decided to watch Lizzy Goddard's "Clicks Don't Lie*" training. (*affiliate link. Plsss get this if you are offering freebies or digital products it is genuinely ENLIGHTENING!) I went to tweak my...
Pre.S. I'm going to be sending more emails about these new content repurposing offers over the next few weeks. Know you're not interested? Just click here and you won't get them, but you'll still get my regular newsletter :) Hey Reader, There’s a fun kind of exhaustion that comes from trying to make content when you’re already burned out 😑 As a creative, you care A LOT about your work. You have plenty of ideas. But every time you sit down to write content that SHARES your work, you overthink....