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[SGC-25]-Create an Uncopyable Online Presence- The Three C’s of Courageous Web Copy With Guest, Sarah Whitbread

By Melissa Brown, MD


In this week’s episode of the She’s Got Content podcast, host Melissa Brown interviews Sarah Whitbread, a web copy and brand voice specialist from the UK. Sarah shares tips on crafting an unforgettable online presence and being confident in your authenticity through her three C’s of courageous web copy.

We discuss the importance of having a strong brand voice, understanding who you are through your values and goals, and the benefits of working with a copywriting expert to create effective web copy.

Tune in to learn how you can create an uncopyable online presence with your web copy so you can attract your just-right clients.

Don’t Miss Inside This Episode:

  • Discover the three C’s to crafting courageous web copy so you can create your own uncopyable online presence that converts ideal clients.
  • Find out what’s the one most important variable that you must get clear on first or any piece of your copy will miss its mark.
  • How imposter syndrome might show up when you’re thinking about writing copy and what you can do about it.
  • Hear how Sarah weaves pop culture into web copy to help her clients have a truly uncopyable website.

Links and products mentioned in today’s episode:

Sarah’s free Stand Up and Sell Out Swipe files are a web copy mini-masterclass.

Rachel Luna’s book, Permission to Offend; The Compassionate Guide for Living Unfiltered and Unafraid

About Sarah Whitbread:

Sarah Whitbread, Webcopy, UX and Brand Voice Specialist, is devoted to helping you craft an unforgettable online presence—so you truly have the confidence to stand up, and show the world who you are.

Sarah knows a sensational site will give you the courage to unleash your uniqueness—and liberate your life’s work. Her secret? Fearless, unapologetic webcopy that captures your voice in a way no one else can.

Sarah honed her craft under copy giants Alex Cattoni, Laura Belgray and Stefan Georgi. She’s an English graduate from Goldsmiths, University of London and has a First Class in Graphic Media from UCA. Before finding her calling as a copywriter, she worked for over a decade in the creative industry as a graphic designer and illustrator—but now it’s her words that paint an irresistible picture for her clients.

When not bringing your uncopyable message to light, you can spot this Renaissance woman flouncing around castles in the UK’s glorious Garden of England, or throwing colors on a canvas in her studio.

Sarah’s Website

Check out Sarah’s beautiful website at SarahCopy.com. You, too, can have a gorgeous website with copy that speaks to your ideal audience — just like Sarah. Keep the 3 C’s in mind when you’re creating your web copy!

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About Your Host

Melissa Brown, MD – Coach, Author, Speaker, Teacher, and Podcast Host.

After leaving medical practice in 2009, Melissa discovered the online world and never looked back! After coach certification, she began a healthy lifestyle coaching practice online and quickly fell in love with blogging, writing, and content marketing.

Melissa believes that coaches have the power to change the world. Unfortunately, too many coaches get discouraged by the amount of content they need to create for marketing their business and this can lead to overwhelm and giving up on their dreams. There’s such a ripple effect when a dream dies, so Melissa is on a mission to help coaches and solopreneurs overcome the overwhelm when it comes to content creation so they keep those dreams alive.

Your content can impact massive amounts of people and positively change the world. You’ve got content in there inside you; let’s get it out into the world.

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I've just found that the web copy project, in itself, it's just

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a really beautiful way to help someone get super

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clear on who they are and what they want. And that is,

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ultimately, I think, what we're all about. And really,

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the fact is, once you're clear on that, then anything, anything is possible,

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anything can happen. It's a springboard for greater

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visibility, for working with the right people,

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for attracting the right people to you.

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It positions you as an authority. When I work

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with someone, I really look at the stories that make them unique,

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the language they use, the words they use, and then

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it's a balance for me between that and their

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ideal clients.

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Hello there, content creators. You're listening to The

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She's Got Content Podcast, where it's all about creating content

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for your coaching business. I'm your host,

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Dr. Melissa Brown, and I'm here every week to help you get your

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content out of your head, out of your heart, and out

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there into the world, where that information and your services

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can impact the most people.

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Get ready to take notes today and then take action.

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Content creators, let's dive in with today's episode

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because you've got content to get out there. Welcome back

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to another episode of The She's Got Content podcast.

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I'm your host, Melissa Brown. Hey,

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content creators, have I got a special episode for you today.

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Sarah Whitbread, web copy and brand voice specialist,

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is in the room all the way from across the pond in the lovely

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UK countryside. I guarantee you will love

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listening to Sarah's calm, soothing voice with her lovely British

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accent. During today's show, Sarah is devoted to

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helping you craft an unforgettable online presence so

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you truly have the confidence to stand up and show the world who you

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are. How does she do that? What's her secret to helping you unleash

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your uncopyable uniqueness and get your message out there

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to make a huge impact, fearless, unapologetic web

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copy that captures your voice in a way no one

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else can? Listen in as Sarah teaches you her

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three C's of courageous web copy. Welcome to the She's

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Got Content Podcast. Sarah hi. Lovely to be here.

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Melissa. Oh, I could just listen to you talk all day.

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Let's just jump right into it. Sarah, I know you describe yourself as

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a Renaissance woman, and you've had a crazy ride on this road

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to becoming a copywriter. Tell us some more about that. Tell us

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about your journey. Yeah, to say

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a crazy road actually is a bit of an understatement, although I think

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it's probably quite typical of a lot of us entrepreneurs. My first

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degree was in English, and I worked in various different fields,

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so I've worked in publishing journalism bookselling

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when my son was very young. He's 21 now, which is hard

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to believe. I don't believe that. No, I'm very lucky.

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He's. Yeah. Fantastic young man. Absolutely wonderful.

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For the last decade, I was a graphic designer. I did a

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little bit of freelancing and then in house, and that was really when

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my love for design began to disappear and

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it just wasn't creative enough for me anymore.

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And I really missed writing. I think writing is well,

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poppy, as I discovered, is absolutely my life's

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calling, really. It's what I always should have been doing. When the Pandemic

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hit, it was a good opportunity to take a step back and I made a

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transition and started writing copy and working for various

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fantastic women all across the world,

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entrepreneurs, business owners, really exciting. And it just opened

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my world right up. So it's interesting, there's so many

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people who pivoted or started a business during

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the Pandemic. So this was really your segue into

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it? Yeah, absolutely. And it's funny because when I was designing,

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I was always the person asked to write the captions for social

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media posts or banners or anything we

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were producing. And then I started to think,

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hang on, I could actually make a living out of this

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and learn the craft of copy as opposed to winging it,

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which I really was at the time. Obviously, when the Pandemic hit, that was when

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I really started looking into it. And yeah, I studied under some really

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fantastic people. Theresa Corcoran, for example, who, obviously we

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both know. And Alex Catoni.

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Laura Bell Gray. Stefan, Georgia.

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I'm not a person who does things by half. Yeah, it sounds like you

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jumped right in there. Yeah, I really learned from

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all the greats. Absolutely. And from

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that, really, I discovered that web copy was my thing. That's exactly what

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I really gravitated towards and loved. And having

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a website is such an important thing, especially for the coaches

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that are listening today. So I'm excited to hear more

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about that. But first, around the

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time that you started to make this pivot, I know

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that you got really sick. Can you tell us about that?

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Yeah, that's right, yeah, crazy time. And I

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I was feeling really unwell. It was a Saturday,

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nothing particularly unusual happening, and had

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tremendous chest pains and I

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was rushed to hospital. They did a bunch of tests and

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they told me at that time, it's absolutely impossible, it can't be your heart.

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You're relatively young. I'm in my nearly officially

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mid 40s, so I came home, obviously got on with my

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life and just put it down to bizarre experience.

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And then the same thing happened in December.

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It could almost be comical if it wasn't quite so serious.

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So I was at my parents house wrapping Christmas present

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for my boyfriend, which happened to be a pizza oven, which was

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obviously extremely heavy, and I carried it to the car without

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realizing, obviously I shouldn't have been doing this, and then bang, it hit me.

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And that time the paramedics caught it on the ECG

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and I went into hospital and spent Christmas in hospital,

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actually. And it's so scary. Yeah,

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really frightening. And the upshot is

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that now I'm in the care of an incredible team

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at Guys Hospital. They have saved my life. I'm absolutely convinced of

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that. And so the professor, as I

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call him, gave me a call on New Year's Day and said,

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I've looked at your results, I've looked at your MRI scans,

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and I think you have a pretty rare autoimmune condition, which I won't go into

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now. But essentially my heart was extremely inflamed.

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It was really terrifying time.

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So a lot of recuperation, a lot of resting.

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Really very scary. But it has I would say it's

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changed my outlook on everything. Absolutely.

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And having started or made this transition to working

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online, where you can work for yourself and make your own hours and

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really just do your own thing, but probably has really impacted,

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you can take better care of yourself if you're not in the

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grind of the corporate world any longer.

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It was almost like the universe or someone was telling

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you that you needed to make that transition, and then this happened.

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Boom. So I'm so glad that right now you're healthy.

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Touch wood that all things are fine in that

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department, so hopefully they continue. That's scary.

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Thanks. Yeah, absolutely. It really

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did transform everything about the way I work

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with clients, the way I look at the work we do as entrepreneurs,

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and really on a practical level

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as well. I was able to keep working, so I just literally worked from my

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bed for sort of six months, which was liberating and

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terrifying all at the same time. But to keep independence is

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super important. I think that story,

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that's unique to. You, and I've never heard anyone tell that type of a

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story. And how is it that you can pull

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out those unique things about your clients?

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How do you do that? Because I know that's, like, your thing is you

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find how to make your clients web copy

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stand out, be unique, and nobody can copy

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them. Yeah. So really, I think number one is the designer

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in me means that I look at web copy as an holistic whole.

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So I look at the way the words and the images work together.

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That's very much a UX part as well, in terms of user

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experience. So I look at absolutely everything because it really doesn't

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matter how effective the words are if the design doesn't work and vice

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versa, it really has to work in tandem.

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That's a really nice point. That's because you've got the right words,

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but it's so hard to maneuver and move around on a website.

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The design is the best word that comes to mind is a

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mess because we've all seen those types of websites.

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It's not effective. Your journey through all these different

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things has really brought you here and made you so unique. I'm sorry to

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interrupt. Keep going. Thank you. But yeah. I've just found

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that the web copy project, in itself, it's just a really beautiful

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way to help someone get super clear

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on who they are and what they want. And that is, ultimately, I think,

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what we're all about. And really, the fact is, once you're clear on

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that, then anything is possible. Anything can

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happen. It's a springboard for greater visibility,

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for working with the right people,

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for attracting the right people to you.

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And also, like a cloak of it's almost

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like a confidence. It positions you as an authority. Yeah.

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When I work with someone, I think I've digressed to come

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back to your question, but I think when I work with someone, I really look

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at the stories that make them unique, much like the story

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I just told you, but the stories that make them unique, the language

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they use, the words they use. And then it's a balance

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for me between that and their ideal clients.

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I think Mackenzie mentioned on her podcast. With you,

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mackenzie Armstrong, yeah. Episode 20. She talked about Pinterest.

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Pinterest, that's right. Yes. Yeah. And she also talked

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about getting that kind of ideal client language and appealing

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to people so that really someone is flicking through your web copy,

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or whatever copy it might be, for that matter, but your web copy. And they

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see themselves and they think, this person understands me.

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So that's how I do it. Because the exciting thing about web copy I

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found, and that I've realized, is that it's an internal conversation

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when you think about it, a website that really works. You're on there

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and you're scrolling and you don't even think about it, but it holds your interest

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and it's an internal dialogue. That's my A to achieve

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that, it. Is so important to know who you're talking

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to, because if you don't know who it is that you're trying to attract

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or speak to in any kind of copy, whether it's web copy,

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email, social media, it's not going to land where you want

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it to land. So that's a really important point that you just brought up about

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knowing who it is that you're speaking to. Yeah, absolutely.

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And I think so much of that as well is about finding your niche,

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really dialing down. I know we've talked about this before,

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Melissa, but just really pulling back and thinking,

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who do I want to serve and who is right for me?

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And there are more than enough clients to go around. This is the thing

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I don't think. People realize more than enough to go around.

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Absolutely, yes. There's a lot of people in this world.

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We talked about why web copy is important,

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and you have a three C steps

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to courageous web copy for the coaches

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here. So let's talk a little bit about that, the three C's. And I'm talking

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C's like the letter C, not the

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ocean, the sea. So let's talk about

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the three C's. Yeah. Not the beautiful ocean. That I love swimming in,

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actually, frequently. Although I must say

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it's the English Channel here. Okay, my three

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C's. The first one is clear. So fundamentally,

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this means if you're not clear on what you do, you can't expect

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your clients to be. You need to be crystal

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clear on who you are and what you want to achieve,

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who you're talking to, all of those things. And that means your copy

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needs it really does need to strike that balance between sounding like

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you and appealing to this ideal client.

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And I found the more becoming clear is just this incredible

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springboard for everything else.

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Confident. That's number two. So what

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are your ambitions? What podcast do you want to be on? I go

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through this with all of my clients. So who are your dream collaborators?

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Because everything is absolutely possible

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if we think of web copy as it's your stake in the ground.

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It's where you stand up and you show the world who you are.

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The first thing that somebody does when

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they meet you at a party or they're interested in collaborating

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with you or whatever you do, the first thing they do is Google you.

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Go to your website if you have one. This is it. It needs to position

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you as an authority. And my last is converting.

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And we did touch on this because obviously it doesn't matter how good your

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copy is, without the right user experience,

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it isn't going to convert, it isn't going to work for you.

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Yeah, so there we have it. Clear, confident, and converting.

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Sarah, these are really important things, these three C's, and I

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want to just unpack them for a minute, okay? Sure, go ahead.

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I want to just hone in here on number one, being clear.

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You talked about really knowing who you are as an entrepreneur,

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who you are as a website owner. And that's

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a little different than what a lot of coaches

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and our listeners may have been told, because they're told,

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go out and find out who your ideal client is. And that's important.

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You do need to know that. But they leave out the piece about

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themselves. It's like you can't be uniquely you or

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authentic you. You have to really focus on the ideal

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client, or at least many are taught that.

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So your approach is somewhat unique, finding out

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about your clients and what makes them unique, because that's going to make

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the world of difference in the copy. So tell us about

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that. How do you really get into the heads of your

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clients, who they are?

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Yeah, this is a really great point. So I

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think you just take a moment, if you're listening to this, and think about

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who are the brands you really admire, what do you love

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about them, why do you buy from them, why do

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you follow them on social media, all of these things.

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And it's because they have a very strong brand voice and it

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could be a brand voice for a product, or it could be that person,

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that individual, the entrepreneur or business of any description.

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And so when I'm working with somebody, we go really deep

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into what makes them tick. So it's really more

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than just the words that I would pull from them

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to use and splash all over their copy and their messaging

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that we would use together. It's about

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what legacy they want to leave behind at the core,

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at their very core. Who are they, their values,

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their hobbies? Never really been fond of the word hobbies. I'm not sure why,

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but their hobbies, their interests, their everything.

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And that's not to say that you need to let it all

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hang out. That's not to say you have to give everything of yourself

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away online. You absolutely don't. But I think the fundamental

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thing is you need to be true to yourself and you need to

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be absolutely clear on what you want your service to achieve.

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And the thing is, if you're not clear, we can work together.

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And in that process, it will come together for you. Because I

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think writing copy when you're writing for yourself, I absolutely

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cannot stand writing my own copy. It's so difficult.

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It's so incredibly difficult. But I think when you

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have somebody who can really pull that out of you, that's really

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important. That is a really good point, because when you're so

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in the weeds with your own stuff, if you will,

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it's really hard to write that copy. It is. People do

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it, but you're a copywriter. And even you say that

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it's not that easy to do it for yourself. It's so much easier to be

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looking at someone and being able to ask

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the questions, reflect off of them what they're saying,

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and then use that to create this unique,

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uncopyable website. Nobody else has

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the same exact values,

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hobbies, interest stories I'm

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sure you probably pull in. Also, what are the words that

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they use? Exactly. Or phrases

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and those sorts of things make that person unique.

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But it also makes the web copy totally unique.

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Exactly. I would also say it might sound trivial,

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but it is also things like pop culture references,

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what you watch on TV, what music you listen

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to, everything. All of those things. Just giving

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an element of being of a human side. Oh,

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that is so interesting because just in

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the last few days, I've been involved in this challenge, three day challenge

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online, and the hostess is obsessed

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with Backstreet Boys. It's like her thing.

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It's all about the Backstreet Boys and Backstreet Boy.

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Trivia. It really makes her unique.

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Nobody can copy that. Oh, how funny. Yeah.

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My mom actually, she loved the Backstreet Boys. I wouldn't say she was

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an obsessive. My mom has fantastic taste in music. Yeah, the Backstreet

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Boys, 20 years ago. It makes me think of

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her. But this is the thing, and it's exactly that. That's why we're

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having this conversation because if you're flicking, you're scrolling

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through somebody's site and you see these references,

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it may or may not repel somebody. But I think we're

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so caught in the fear of saying the right thing. We're so caught in

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the fear of projecting the right image of what we should be and how we

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should show up, especially as women.

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I think these crazy kind of entrepreneurial

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shoulds there are going to be people that really

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resonate with your words. So it's just important to stand up and say

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who you are. And I think that really is fundamentally about being clear on your

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message. That goes back to being unapologetic.

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I can't please everybody. You want to attract the people

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who are meant to work with you. There will

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be people that you repel. There may be people that absolutely hate the

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Backstreet Boys and they are probably not on this lady's

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challenge, but that's really where being

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authentic is important and it matters. It really

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matters. So being clear about who you are, being clear about

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who you're trying to attract, what you're trying to do,

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and what is it that Marisa Corcoran always says?

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The best copy can't fix a muddied message.

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Yeah, absolutely. So being really clear with

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that message about who you are, who you're trying to attract and what you're trying

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to do is so important. And when you were talking about the

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second C, being confident, you said something about collaborations.

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The big thing nowadays is being collaborative collaboration,

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not competition. And when you're really confident with your web

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copy, I think that really attracts other collaborators

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too. Right? Yeah, absolutely.

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You're quite right about that. And I think this really comes back to,

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again, having the right words just to appeal to those people

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that you really want to work with and not being afraid, as we said,

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to repel the people that you don't, essentially.

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Exactly, yes. And when we're talking about confidence,

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also, one of the things that I think a lot of

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people, entrepreneurs, online, business owners,

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struggle with is impostor syndrome and being

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afraid to put out there really their authentic self.

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What I'm hearing you say is, it is so important to really know who

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you are, be clear, number one, and then just be confident and

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stand in your authenticity. And that confidence will

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actually help you with the number three C, the converting

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C. So how does that talk to us

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about this kind of aspect? Do you

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sometimes get pushback from some of your clients who you

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might think that there's really something so unique and great

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that's going to be attractive, but they may push back on

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things like, I don't want to be seen as an imposter here.

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You know what I'm saying? I don't know if I explain that.

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Yeah, I understand. And I think it's funny, actually,

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because last year at some point, I was listening to Michelle

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Obama's podcast and she was talking about suffering

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from impostor syndrome for decades,

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even now. And I found it really shocking. And then

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I thought, why? Why am I finding this so surprising?

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Because the fact is, I think, as women, so many of us find ourselves thinking,

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making excuses, just thinking, we can't do this.

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I'm not learned enough in this field, or I'm not experienced enough

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or I'm not good enough or I'm whatever it might be.

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And I think especially when it comes to coaches

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and your audience, it's more important than ever,

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I think, to walk your talk and to present

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yourself in the way that your ideal clients would.

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And that's all part of the conversion. That's where

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the confidence leads to the conversion as well,

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because it is all about yeah, I do have pushback,

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and I have had pushback from clients, for sure.

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And much of it is about explaining,

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asking people, really to step outside their comfort zone

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and challenge themselves in what they think they can achieve.

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And I do think the attitude that I have with this has come

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largely from obviously don't need to go back over it again,

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but being quite so unwell 18 months

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ago, this feeling of, if time runs out, what are you

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leaving behind? And for coaches,

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especially, I think it's very important that they think that they realize that

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this is what their audience needs from them. They need this authenticity.

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I think that answers to your question. No, that's a very good point.

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I love that example with the Michelle Obama interview. I got to

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go listen to her, not interview her podcast. It's so good,

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honestly. Yeah, it is great. She's such a likable,

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relatable person. Yeah. Love her. Yeah, she's fantastic.

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If Michelle Obama can have those doubts and those fears

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creep in of who am I to do this? Or who

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am I to say this? It's a mind shift that

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we, especially women, just need to say,

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okay, this is normal to feel this way. I'm doing it anyway.

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Just put it out there. And a lot of times, I think people

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think women especially, again, confidence will come

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later. I'll put it out there later when I'm confident.

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But it's the other way around. Put that confident shit out there now

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and live up to it. Own it. Own it.

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Yeah. Absolutely.

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Unapologetic. Rachel Luna has her book, permission to

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offend it's. Okay, if you think I can't put this out there

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because it's going to offend someone,

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read that book, and I'll put that in the show notes because

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I think that is a game changer book. Okay? So let's segue

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into converting. So why don't you

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just in case somebody doesn't understand what that word means,

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just give us a down and dirty definition of converting.

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Down and dirty. Okay. Yeah.

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When my sons were young, I was a bookseller for a number of years,

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and our conversion rate essentially was

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the number of people that came through the door and bought

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a book as opposed to just having a lovely browse.

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Honestly, I love browsing in the bookshop. Oh, me too. And leaving.

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And that's really about conversion. It's the number of people that come to your

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site having a poke around all the different pages

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and get a feel for you and leave, opposed to the ones who

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come back repeatedly or sign up for

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your freebie or your service or whatever it might be.

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The ones that actually buy into what you have to sell.

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If your web copy is clear, you know

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your message, you know who you are, who you're trying to attract and what you

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want them to do, and you're confident in that. Web copy,

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then conversions or having people show up,

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click something, sign up for your lead magnet is really the

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object. You want somebody to do something, not just,

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oh, that's nice, and then click away. Yeah, absolutely.

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Because the fascinating thing is that it can take somebody.

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This is something I do find with clients, actually,

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and I think entrepreneurs, business owners in general, because when

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you spend so much time creating something,

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creating a piece of content, creating a lead magnet

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or your product, whatever it might be on any scale,

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as soon as we put ourselves out there, we then want and expect it

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to convert. And it can take somebody.

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I'm trying to remember the statistic now, but it could be something like,

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on average, 38 touch points, 38 separate

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visits to your site, to your social media, to your Facebook

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page, your Instagram page, one of your emails,

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anything before they actually then purchase from

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you, which is crazy when you think about it. In this day

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yeah. In this day and age of everything being so instant.

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We're talking about days, weeks, months of building a

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relationship with somebody. Yeah. So it's funny,

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I almost like to think of it as if you put your house on the

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market so somebody comes around,

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you want people to come in, look at every single room

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browse, decide that they absolutely love it, that they've fallen

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in love with it, and then they walk away with it. And I almost feel

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that's how your website should be has

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multiple pages, multiple facets, perhaps, but they're

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all engaging and they all, as a whole, add up to something that make

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your ideal client want to buy from you. All in love with you. Yeah.

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You swept them off their feet, essentially. I love that.

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So, yeah, if you're selling a house, you want them to

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come in, they want to look around.

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You don't want them to look around and say, no, not for me, I'm out

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of here, and not even look at the whole place. Oh,

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that's a beautiful analogy. All right, so the three C's.

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I just think this is really so beautiful, and I think

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that our listeners, the coaches here, are just going to

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love this. So the three C's of being clear,

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confident, and converting you want to think of those three

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things when you're writing your web copy. Sarah, this has just been

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so great. I know people are going to want to know more

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from you. Where can they find you? How can they connect deeper

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with you? So, number one, Melissa,

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I would say, because I don't know about you, but I absolutely love a juicy

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swipe file. They always seem slightly naughty

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to me, as if you're peeking behind the curtain. I love that.

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But essentially, a swipe file is one of the best ways

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to grab instant inspiration for your business.

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And my stand up and sell out swipe files are a

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web copy mini masterclass, and they're jammed, packed full of before

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and afters, so you can see a website before

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I collaborated and after. And you can pick that up

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at www.sarahcopy.com.

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Swipe. Beautiful.

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Thank you. I have a copy of this, and I have to

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tell you, it is so juicy.

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It's great. So everybody's going to want to run over there

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to Saracopy.com Swipe. I will put that in the

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show notes so you'll be able to get over to Sarah's website and

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grab that. And what social

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media are you? Yeah, I'm on LinkedIn,

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so you can find me. Sarah Whitbread. I'm on LinkedIn

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and also Instagram as well. Okay.

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Yeah. All right, great. I will put those links as well

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into the show. Thank you. Okay.

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Thank you so much, Sarah. It has been a pleasure to have you

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here, and I just can't wait to hear all

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the great feedback because I know that there's going to be a lot of

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comments about this episode because you just gave us a

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whole ton of great information.

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Thank you. I absolutely loved it. Melissa, I absolutely love

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the work that you do. I think you're fantastic. So thank you so much

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for having me. All right, thanks so much.

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And thank you so much, listeners, for being here another week.

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And until next week, make sure that you're getting your copy

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out there because you've got a message and you've got copy to get out

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there. Bye bye. Thank you for tuning in to

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this episode of the She's Got Content podcast.

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Dr. Melissa Brown's career journey has always had an element of teaching. After retirement from clinical pediatric practice, Dr. Brown has taught and mentored as a healthy lifestyle coach, author, and speaker. She currently teaches solopreneurs and coaches how to stop being the world's best-kept secret. Her mission is to help you: Create great content. Impact people. Change the world.

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