Marketing strategist + business coach

marketing strategist + business coach

GROWING a THRIVING ONLINE business doesn't have to be so COMPLICATED

Let’s get your brilliance into the world, get  you paid – and get your free time back.

REAL TALK:

If you're confused about marketing and sales,
your clients are too

You're determined to grow to the next level

You're determined to grow to the next level

(You've got a big vision and can figure out almost anything!)

You got a website online, created a service or course to sell, tested it, worked on being visible on social media, found ways to share from your heart, connect with people who need your help, and reply to all. of. the. emails. You wear 19 different hats during any given week.

If you’re a service provider or agency…
You’ve honed your craft, deeply care about your client’s experience, and love being a trusted advisor to your clients.

If you teach or run a group program…
You love turning insights into education, facilitating group calls, and are figuring out how to launch in a way that works for your life.

And while you’re planning your week, doing dishes, and checking notifications, there’s a stream of ideas, worries, and nagging concerns that run on repeat in the background.

To keep growing, you need more of the right people consistently discovering you and buying... and it feels like the ONE thing you can't control.

You find yourself thinking that:

 

  • You’re ready to take your business to the next level, but you’re so in the weeds that it’s hard to tell what’s a good next step vs. what’s a distraction

  • You’ve been doing a damn good job of putting the pieces in place, and have seen success – maybe more than you bargained for – but all the systems, ideas, solutions, still rely on you and you’re feeling the pressure

  • There are so many ways to grow! There’s SEO, content marketing, social media marketing, webinars, challenges, and social selling… you want to nail down a sustainable plan that wins more subscribers, followers, and buyers

     

  •  
  • You want to powerfully step toward your vision – but your big goals trigger a tidal wave of interconnected questions that get you stuck in your head as you ruminate on the right offers, marketing,  pricing, contractors, boundaries, workload, and more…

You want to feel in control and

grow your business the right way for you

And you know you can get there way faster with support

Here's the thing:

Your business is

perfectly designed

to create the impact, clients,

and income that you've got

Your business is perfectly designed to create the impact, clients, and income that you've got

Your business is perfectly designed to create the impact, clients, and income that you've got

Here's why that's good news:

Marketing can feel tricky because everything is time delayed, but it's 100% cause and effect.

With a trained eye and systematic approach, we can find what's not connecting, fine-tune, follow-through - and change everything. Here's the process I use to make it happen.

The Uncomplicated Marketing Process

① Do the right people reliably engage with and buy from you?
If not, we’ll start at phase one and build strong foundation systems. 

② Do enough of the right people discover you each month to meet your sales goals?
If not, we’ll start at phase two and expand your audience.

③ Do your opinions about marketing, sales, and your business feel good in your body?
If not, while we work on your business we’ll use phase three to manage your mind. 

Here’s what that means, in practical terms:

PHASE ONE:
Build strong foundation systems

For most clients, this is the primary focus of our work.

Do the right people reliably engage with and buy from you? 

If not, then I go into my library of marketing and business strategy tools, and we partner to refine your strategy. 

In the end, your potential clients understand exactly how you help them, are already being helped by you (with content), and have regular opportunities to show interest in working together, and to buy.

Work here helps you to…

  • Double check your pricing and revenue goals
  • Choose the right marketing platforms and tactics for your goals
  • Test and optimize your unique marketing system (from social media to consultation calls) to increase engagement and sales
  • Launch live or evergreen group programs with ease, and hold attention beyond the first launch
  • Attract more high-paying clients who love to pay you
  • Create systems you can automate or delegate to your team

PHASE TWO:
Expand with audience growth projects

Do enough people discover you each month to keep sales humming?

If not, then we explore energetically aligned ways to get your business in front of people who have never heard of it before. No sweaty palms or cold DM’s allowed!

Focusing here gives you a plan to…

  • Pitch mutually beneficial collaborations
  • Drive referrals and grow your personal network with people you enjoy, and at a pace that makes sense to you
  • Regularly pitch and land podcast interviews
  • Have a lead generation strategy that you don’t dread and avoid
  • Have ready-to-go signature trainings and a plan to teach to other people’s audiences
  • Expand to new marketing platforms
  • Use outbound social media engagement to grow your audience.

Note: We only move into audience growth once we know your foundation systems can hold water

PHASE THREE:
Manage your mind

Do your opinions about marketing, sales, and your business feel good in your body?

Here’s why this matters thoughts and opinions cause feelings, and your feelings determine all the actions you take (and avoid) in your business. Ignoring your feelings leads to working against your body, self sabotage, and burnout.

I use an evidence-based approach to coaching that’s grounded in psychology to align with my client’s goals, get to the root of what holds them back, and help them find their way forward.

Work here allows you to…

  • Stop overthinking and second guessing yourself
  • Follow through on what you start
  • Run your business in a way that supports your body, brain, mental health, and nervous system.
  • Build self-trust, confidence, and resilience
  • Feel safe being visible, setting boundaries, and selling

In 90 days you could...

KRISTA RAE, DEVELOPER

KRISTA'S TINY CHANGES ADDED $45K OF RECURRING INCOME

"Before working with Kyla, I wasn't paying attention to where my clients were coming from and actions I could take to keep them coming. Now, I know where my clients are coming from, and precise steps I can take to increase inquiries when I want to"

Krista Rae was a WordPress developer who had launched retainer services to create recurring revenue, but after months of sharing the offer her clients didn’t seem to understand and weren’t booking. After checking her offer to make sure it was amazing, the audit moved on to her sales page, and the sales emails she had been sending.

She made small copy changes to her sales page and emails to make them more emotionally relevant and specific to her clients experience. After publishing the changes, her clients and website visitors saw the value in the exact same offer. Now they couldn’t get enough, and the bookings came pouring in.

Highlighted results:

  • Within three months, her new retainer packages were being snapped up by excited clients
  • The packages added over $45k per year in recurring revenue to her family’s income
  • Krista had another $4000 of new invoices closing in related business, from clients who now understood how she could help them
  • Krista was able to expand her support team and hire five new contractors to help grow her business even more

You both love what you’ve created

and know your business could be
so much more

You’ve got so many pieces of the success that you pictured when you first started, and you’re really good at what you do. But trying to solve all the problems alone is getting old.

You’d love a compassionate co-conspirator to help you shoulder the strategic thinking,and close the gap between you and your goals.

Hi, I’M KYLA!

Since 2009, I‘ve been a trusted advisor to over 600 one-on-one online business owners, like you.

I know what it takes to build and run a small business, because I’ve done it, twice. I went from charging $500 for website designs, to running a web design agency of top bloggers and having a 6+ month long waiting list. I fell in love with business, become a trained, licensed business strategist, and have been consulting and teaching ever since.

I’ve created, taught and launched many online courses and group programs, managed a large team, pivoted my business, been a leading social seller on $2.5+ million dollar launches, spoken from the stage, revived failing launches, trained as a conversion copywriter, and hit send on $30k proposals.

I have lived experience with building a thriving business as a multiply neurodivergent person with anxiety, depression, and ADHD.

Past clients include:

And I was named one of 50 must-follow women entrepreneurs in 2017 by Huffington Post

My speciality is helping online business owners
grow their business, become known,
and help others - without burning out

Because a business that really works should work for:

TO GET THERE, WE WORK ON...

OFFERS + PRICING

Pivoting your business
Adjusting pricing
Designing sustainable offers
Raising prices with current clients
Building online programs or courses

MESSAGING

Uncovering your brand’s promise
Client or audience research
Using ethical persuasion
Shifting to be more client centered
Reducing scarcity techniques

Clients

Getting more clients
Finding better fit clients
Improved client experience
Improved member experience
Lead generation strategies
Boundaries and expectation setting

marketing + SALES

Creating a marketing and sales ecosystem
Evergeen, live, and hybrid launch strategy
Screening and running sales calls
Lead generation
Social media plans
Social selling
Lead magnets
Email marketing
Pitching podcasts
Designing sales funnels
Designing and delivering signature trainings
Search engine optimization
Conversion copywriting and optimization

Sustainability

Hiring and training a VA
Building and leading a self sufficient team
Delegating more of your workload
Scheduling content further in advance
Creating evergreen sales systems
Hiring content creation support
Hiring social media support
Creating more space for your personal life
Knowing what works and what doesn’t
Leveraging your strengths
Setting clear internal boundaries
Dismantling perfectionism

It’s the kind of work that sees my clients raise their rates and get fully booked, watch their engagement rates jump, and hit their launch goals without being levelled by the process.

…Aah, can’t you just see yourself relaxing by the pool, as ice clinks in your fancy drink?
Palm Springs, here you come! You’re leaving your laptop at home, and don’t even feel guilty.

THREE MONTHS OF SUPPORT INCLUDING:
INCLUDES TWELVE WEEKS OF:

Packages start at $600 USD and $1200 per month

What to expect

02. Connect

You’ll share your goals, and I’ll share the opportunities I see for you and let you know if I’m well-positioned to help you solve them.

03. Collaborate

If we’re a good match, I’ll send you a  private invitation in writing. If you decide to move forward, you’ll choose your start date and we’ll make it official!

CLIENT RESULTS

We might be a great match if:

  • You want a collaborative relationship with a trusted advisor who can act as your sales and marketing sounding board, and offer hands-on help making your best ideas irresistible

  • You want help to define a big-picture, delegation friendly strategy, and would love feedback and coaching as you or your team executes

 

  • People matter to you and you wouldn’t follow a marketing or sales plan unless it is genuinely helpful, empathetic, and without pressure
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I might not be a good match for you if...

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT VALUES:

I am deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. I commit to practicing anti-racism as a verb, to accept and celebrate people regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical, sensory, intellectual ability, chronic health conditions, mental health, body size, neurotype, or any other trait. Read the full values statement here.

If anything here doesn’t enthusiastically align with your values,
I strongly encourage you work with someone else
☮

Are you ready to grow your business, become known,
and help others - without burning out?

Prefer to get some quick wins while you see if we’re a good fit?
Book a one-time Strategy Sprint Session for $350 USD

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Absolutely! I call that the “Pre-marketing foundation” and I work with all of my clients to make sure theirs is strong.

If that’s what you would like to focus on, I would love to support you in that. Click here to book a discovery call, and see if we’re a good fit!

Yes, I’m an Autistic ADHDer myself, and have deep lived experience that I share with my clients. 

My formal training is that I went through a rigorous business strategy licensing program in 2014 that was developed by Tara McMullin, a business strategist, bestselling author who is Autistic.

I’ve also successfully completed an ADHD coach training program offered by Kristen Carder, from I Have ADHD. I completed a year of mentorship and training with her in supporting neurodivergent clients, completed over 80 hours of coaching with clients.

No, none of my clients market the exact same way, and I don’t have any “required” ways of marketing. I focus on what works for my clients, and what gets them results.

My work holds up outside of the bubble of online business and digital marketing. That’s how I’ve worked on strategy for the University of Minnesota, the National Film Board of Canada, and with non-profits like Social Planning Council which went on to form the United Way.

I often work with clients on “one-to-one” marketing strategies like: building your personal network, generating referrals, and designing mutually beneficial collaborations.

I also work with clients on less traditional “one-to-many” marketing strategies like going on tour with 100% educational trainings, landing podcast interviews, lead magnet swaps, and others.

Personally, while I’ve built a significant social media following for my own business (140k followers on Pinterest, 6k on Twitter, 3.5k on Instagram) but I’ve also taken years at a time off of social media because I wanted to. My first business was a fully booked web design agency, and we accomplished that without social media or newsletters.

Business structure
My clients range from solo service providers, consultants, and freelancers, to business partnerships, medium sized teams, non-profits, and agencies.

Offer styles
My clients offers take the form of done-for-you services, done-with-you services, digital courses, digital products, group programs, paid communities, masterminds, memberships, hybrid programs, and more.

Niche Experience:
I have worked directly with over 600 one-on-one clients, including:

Health and Wellness
Therapists, physiotherapists, nutritionists, dieticians, running coaches, and health coaches

Marketers, Writers, and Designers
Digital marketers, social media managers, web designers, bloggers, copywriters, content writers, web developers, brand designers, community managers, marketing consultants, and more.

Coaches
Imposter syndrome coaches, career coaches, life coaches, business coaches, and health coaches.

Photographers
Wedding photographers, documentary family photographers, birth photographers, and editorial photographers.

Education
Tutors, professional development trainers, in-classroom assessment.

Creatives, Artists and Podcasters
Interior designers, podcasters, painters, fine artists, fiber artists, printmakers, t-shirt designers, and brick and mortar shop owners.

Yes, I have over 13 years of experience with instructional design and launches for online courses, group programs, masterminds, hybrid programs (and more) for myself, and with my clients.

If you need support designing or launching a learning experience, please apply and we can talk about it. 

Absolutely. There are a few reputable, free VA matchmaking services that I connect clients with, and excellent VA’s I have personally worked with. I often coach my clients through their hiring process, and help them create training for their new hires.

I’m a former web design agency owner, with graduate level Human Resources Management training, and I’ve hired over 18 contractors in my businesses. I have a lot of experience with hiring, screening, and onboarding team members.

Hell no – and you should run from anyone who does. It’s not realistic or ethical.

What I can do for all clients is help them see unexpected opportunities, to understand their choices, so they can make decisions that they love.

If that sounds good to you, you should apply to coaching.

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