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byShannon Mattern
WDA Live Strategy Call 03-15-2022

This Week's Questions

Chat

00:01:05 Janet Hoover: Getting work knocked out but no progress on my own site and have been ghosted by the person I had a discovery chat with after I sent the proposal. Have followed up a few times- that had me down in the dumps for a bit, but moving on! So my wins (besides getting work done and making my current clients over-the-moon-happy) is not letting that get me down! 💪 🤗
00:01:13 Erika ⚡ Brazen Babes Design: Win- Redesigned and launched my site
00:01:22 Erika ⚡ Brazen Babes Design: Also off daylight savings time
00:01:22 Janet Hoover: FYI Erica Nash lol
00:01:39 Erica Nash: That is a win, Janet! Being able to move on is hard sometimes!
00:01:43 Erika ⚡ Brazen Babes Design: *hate, not off.
00:01:48 Erica Nash: Erika, saw your site, looks amazing!!!
00:01:54 Janet Hoover: Thank you! 🙂
00:02:47 LaShae Dorsey: I finally figured out how to transfer ownership of files between different google workspace accounts
00:02:49 Erika ⚡ Brazen Babes Design: Thanks Erica!! ❤️
00:03:03 Racheal Graham: Finally sent my price increase email to my oldest retainer client. Was super nervous that they’d be all WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS. They just picked my highest package which is easily more than double what they’re paying today. No questions asked.
00:03:24 Erika ⚡ Brazen Babes Design: YES Racheal, get it!
00:03:25 Erica Nash: LaShae, I LOVE that feature!
00:03:35 Erica Nash: Racheal!! Yes!!
00:03:58 Deanna: They were kidnapped by martians – my story and I’m sticking to it 😂
00:04:23 Caitlin Harrison: Had my kickoff call for my new client and felt confident to set the roadmap and set all the calls and milestones at once
00:04:33 Racheal Graham: Deanna that’s awesome 🙂
00:05:18 leighscott: My project from h*** paid me the final payment!
00:05:38 Lisa Doiron: Woo hoo Leigh!
00:06:10 LaShae Dorsey: Woo hoo go Janet! and congrats Rachael. Gooo Kate! Yes Leigh for the paid and dusted.
00:06:13 leighscott: Thanks 🙂 I was about to just write it off or put them in my CRM to send a daily remind for the next month
00:06:29 Janet Hoover: Thank you. LaShae! 🙂
00:06:40 Janet Hoover: Yay, Leigh!!!
00:06:43 Erica Nash: What a huge weight off your shoulders, no doubt!
00:07:08 LaShae Dorsey: Oh @Erica man I've been struggling with that for a week. Should have posted the struggle in the group.
00:08:07 leighscott: Thanks everyone 🙂
00:08:15 Erika ⚡ Brazen Babes Design: YAY Erica!!!!
00:09:00 Erica Nash: ☺️🖤🖤
00:09:08 Trish Bovell: it's so scary!
00:09:44 Erica Nash: @LaShae, I’m not sure what you’re referring to … can you give me some context? Daylight Savings has me messsssed up, lol
00:10:20 Erika ⚡ Brazen Babes Design: It’s terrifying but I also just lean into the fact that they chose me… out of all of the options they have they decided that it was worth it to work with me. It makes me strive to bust my ass that much harder to make their decision so worth it to them. (Within reason of course)
00:10:42 LaShae Dorsey: Oh @Erica transferring ownership files – it changed and all the old instructions don't work
00:11:36 Erica Nash: OH lol, I’m telling you, my brain is not working today. It changed! I might hit you up for instructions, I haven’t had to do it in a while!
00:12:27 LaShae Dorsey: Now I just realize it's normal to be super scary and because we're NOT trying to run a flimflam on someone, that it's okay for that feeling to appear when doing something really new and big
00:13:18 Deanna: OH CRAP and I are the oldest of friends 😍😂
00:14:09 Erica Nash: Deanna 😂😂
00:15:13 Erica Nash: From Erika: It’s terrifying but I also just lean into the fact that they chose me… out of all of the options they have they decided that it was worth it to work with me. It makes me strive to bust my ass that much harder to make their decision so worth it to them. (Within reason of course)
00:15:24 Erica Nash: From LaShae: Now I just realize it's normal to be super scary and because we're NOT trying to run a flimflam on someone, that it's okay for that feeling to appear when doing something really new and big
00:15:59 Erica Nash: indebted
00:18:16 LaShae Dorsey: That's so awesome @Kate – being in total alignment
00:21:18 LaShae Dorsey: Feedback is trust and means that you're trustworthy.

I don't remember if that came from here or a call w/ my coach a few days later.
00:22:22 Erica Nash: That was me LaShae! That was my recent breakthrough ☺️
00:23:20 Deanna: It really helped me to break it down into steps from the most basic to the detailed…I start with their mood board – gathering images from the Pinterest board they created and presenting it to them for approval – then the color palette, then the fonts, then the logo/wordmark – 99% of the time if they’ve signed off on each step the final product is approved
00:23:52 Kate Newnham: totally!
00:24:03 LaShae Dorsey: YES! @Erica!
00:24:36 LaShae Dorsey: Nope Erica said that
00:26:18 Janet Hoover: I LOVE the idea of setting up to get “good” feedback and making sure the process works that way
00:29:41 Deanna: Do you prefer A or B? Exactly!!!
00:29:50 Erica Nash: Yes!
00:30:58 LaShae Dorsey: As I'm doing this more, I'm seeing that ppl actually want the “which do you prefer a/b”? instead of open ended
00:31:23 Deanna: Definitely LaShae!
00:31:34 Kate Newnham: Yes LaShae – I love that!
00:32:32 Laura Kåmark: Decision fatigue gets me every time
00:32:41 Janet Hoover: Same, Laura
00:34:24 leighscott: I love that they have a podcast this year!
00:38:48 Kate Newnham: Thank you!!
00:38:55 Janet Hoover: Thank you!
00:38:55 Lisa Doiron: thank you
00:38:56 LaShae Dorsey: Thank you Shannon and everyone!
00:39:01 Rachel Briscoe: Thank you xx