Chasing Simple

When I first walked into Conquer Live in January 2024, I felt that electric mix of nervousness and excitement. I didn't just hear amazing talks, I found a community of wildly supportive educators and attendees who blurred the line between stage and audience. Many of whom have become close friends. That weekend changed the way […] The post How to Get the Most Out of a Conference as an Educator appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Think SEO Is Voodoo? Here's What You Actually Need to Know Who is not obsessed with figuring out how to improve SEO for Small Business? I was deep into yet another book about SEO and loving it.  The explanations made sense… at least while I was reading. But the moment I tried putting any of […] The post How to Improve SEO for Small Business appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Let's talk about your sales funnel email sequence. You know that classic email marketing advice? Create a freebie.Write a welcome sequence.Then build out your sales sequence. That's the order I followed when I first started my email list. I did everything “right.” Checked all the boxes. But if I could go back and do it […] The post Prioritize Your Sales Funnel Email Sequence appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

When You've Created So Much You Don't Know What to Market Anymore You know that moment when your brain is spinning with all the things you could say in your marketing —but none of them actually make it to Instagram, your podcast, or your email list because you just have too many opt-ins and offers? […] The post Feeling Scattered by Too Many Opt-Ins? Here's How to Simplify appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Simple Email Ideas to Send Your List When You're Not Launching You open up your laptop, coffee in hand, determined to finally send an email to your list.But as soon as the cursor starts blinking in that blank email draft, your brain does the same, blinking on and off and feeling completely blank…….“What do I […] The post What to Email Your List When You're Not Launching appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Are You Drowning in Half-Finished Projects? Ever found yourself elbows-deep in a new offer, podcast pitch, or freebie idea … only to look up weeks later and realize nothing actually got finished? Then it is the perfect time to tackle project management for course creators. If you're juggling more to-dos than time, or if the […] The post Project Management for Course Creators appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

The Content Sundae Formula for Sustainable Content Creation Imagine this: You're scrolling through Instagram when you see yet another creator jumping on a trending audio clip. It's catchy, it's clever, and it's already been used a thousand times. And suddenly, you're spiraling.  “Should I be doing this too?” “ Am I behind?”  “What if I […] The post How to Use Viral Trends Without Burning Out appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

You Know You Want to Simplify—But When Do You Actually Find the Time? Let's be real: the idea of simplifying your marketing always sounds amazing in theory. Less stress. Fewer platforms. Clearer messaging. More margin in your day. But when it comes time to actually do the simplifying? That's where things get tricky. You've got […] The post 5 Powerful Ways to Simplify Your Marketing appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Must Have Business Systems for Small Business Today I'm sitting down with systems strategist and HoneyBook Pro, Dahlia Orth, to dive deep into how small business owners can streamline their operations and increase efficiency. In this episode we're discussing some of the most common misconceptions about systems and breaking down the 5 key systems every […] The post Systems for Small Business: What You Need and Where to Start appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Small Business Lessons from Disney Today I'm joined by Business Operations Strategist Nicole Boucher to chat about our mutual love of Disney, and lessons that small business owners can learn from Disney World, like: ✨ Disney's Laundry System and Magic Kingdom Tunnels and Creating Intentional Systems ✨ The Star Wars Galactic Cruiser Hotel and When […] The post Ep. 257 6 Small Business Lessons from Disney World with Nicole Boucher appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Lets Increase Traffic to Your Landing Page Are you struggling to get more eyes on your landing page? You created something wonderful, but since putting it out into the world you've heard… well, crickets. That's because it's not enough to create something and expect people to come. You have to actively drive traffic to those […] The post Ep. 256: How to Create Content that Drives Traffic to Your Landing Page appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Jillian Dolberry connects Business Impact to Core Values I probably shouldn't say things like this, but I'm going to — this is one of my, if not my favorite guest interview that I've ever done. That's right. With over 255 episodes under my belt, I'm claiming it. This interview is MAGNIFICENT. But before we get […] The post Ep. 255 : Create an Impactful Course that's Aligned with Your Core Values with Jillian Dolberry appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Tools to Make Marketing Easier Tired of coming up with content ideas? Feel like you're scraping the barrel on what to say or talk about in your content? Just want to finally get ahead once and create a plan? Today's episode is for you. I'll be sharing 7 tools that I use for my own […] The post Ep 254: 7 Tools That Can Help You Create Your Content Marketing Plan appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

How to Start Seeing Marketing Results If you've found yourself in that constant cycle of creating, posting, and launching without seeing the results you want, you're in the right place. You're frustrated because your efforts aren't leading to results. You're working hard and not feeling like it's worth it. The problem is likely that you […] The post Ep. 253: 5 Parts of a Marketing Game Plan (The Playbook) appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

How to Reach Your Ideal Clients Today, we're diving into a topic that every course creator has struggled with at some point—reaching their ideal clients. You've poured your heart and soul into your business, but somehow, the right people aren't finding you. You aren't seeing the course sales you want, the engagement you're hoping for, […] The post Ep. 252: Why You're Not Reaching Your Ideal Clients (And How to Fix It) appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

5 Marketing Ecosystems Your Business Needs You want to reach your ideal clients and customers with your marketing, but no matter how much you put out into the world, it seems like you never quite reach them. And next week I'll be sharing why it is you aren't reaching them and how you can fix […] The post Ep. 251: Marketing Ecosystems to Reach Your Ideal Clients appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

The 250 Milestone For the first time, I accidentally ghosted my listeners. If you're new around here, as you listen to more episodes you'll realize that this is something I actively teach against doing. In fact, my best selling course, Content Batching Bootcamp is all about how to set up a content system so that […] The post EP. 250: The Journey to 250: A Look at the Chasing Simple Timeline appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Conversation About Goals I did not set any business goals for 2025. That might sound crazy – okay, it definitely sounds crazy, but in today's episode I'm going to share why and what I did instead. Links and Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Did you love this episode? Don't forget to subscribe so that you […] The post Ep. 249: Coffee Over Conversations (Goals Edition) appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Sharing My Income Report One of my favorite activities is voxing my friends and discussing business finances and the different ways we each manage and view ours. As we've lamented time and time again, business finances feel so much more overwhelming than personal finances. With personal finances, your goal is to save as much money […] The post Ep. 248: My 2024 Income Report appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Dive Into My 2025 Marketing Predictions You've heard last year's predictions, you've heard my evaluation of my 2024 predictions; now it's time to give you my 2025 marketing predictions. I've got 5 predictions for you this year, and one really important action step to help take your marketing and your business to the next level […] The post Ep. 247: 2025 Marketing Predictions appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Taking a Look at My 2024 Predictions Last week on the show, I re-aired my 2024 marketing predictions. And today, I want to share more about how those predictions worked out. Because I believe it's important to evaluate what truly happened this year in marketing before we can predict what's to come in the new […] The post Ep. 246: Evaluating My 2024 Predictions appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Revisiting My 2024 Marketing Predictions Today we're doing something a little bit different here on Chasing Simple. For this episode, I'm going to be giving you a replay of an episode I released a year ago. Episode 190: My 2024 Marketing Predictions. This episode aired originally on December 12, 2023. And the reason I'm replaying […] The post Ep. 245: Looking Back at My 2024 Marketing Predictions appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Task Based New Year Prep This week is all about New Year Prep. Last week I walked you through exactly how I spend December closing out the year and preparing for a new year ahead. If you haven't listened to that episode, pause this one, because it's truly a precursor to what we're talking about […] The post Ep. 244: New Year Prep appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

My Personal Close Out Plan to End the Year September through December is the busy season for both my business, and my part-time job. And the way you close out a busy season is just as important as the way you prepare for your busy season— because you don't want your next season to start […] The post Ep. 243: End of Year Close Out appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Revenue Projections and Planning If you've taken my A Year in Preview Workshop, or done any kind of content planning with me, you know that I'm very passionate about ensuring that our business supports our lives, and not the other way around. And the first step I always have people take when mapping out their […] The post Ep. 242: How to Map Out Your Revenue Projections appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Yearly Planning for Your Business Last week I shared exactly how I determine my yearly goals for my business. Today, I'm back to share about the next step in the yearly prep process – yearly planning. When it comes to planning out our year in business, I often see students wanting to plop down their […] The post Ep. 241: 6 Steps for Planning Your Year in Business appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

6 Steps for More Intentional Yearly Business Goals When it comes to setting yearly business goals, it can often feel like you're pulling ideas out of thin air. Like you're trying on goals for size to see how they fit. Maybe this year I'll focus on building a course. Or, I'll try and hit six […] The post Ep. 240: How I Determine My Yearly Business Goals appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Revelations From My First Six-figure Year I have finally hit my first six-figure year. In case you missed it, earlier this year I “retired” my husband and became the main breadwinner in our family. I did this by continuing to run my business, but also by taking a part time job at my church. We […] The post Episode 239: What I learned From My First Six-figure Year appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Uncovering the Basics of Facebook Ads Facebook Ads don't have to be so complicated, but they are often a crucial part of a course creator's marketing strategy. Which is why I brought on my two favorite Facebook Ads experts to help us out today. With a contagious enthusiasm and a knack for simplifying the complex, […] The post Episode 238: Demystifying Facebook Ads for Course Creators appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

The Education Space and What to do Next Hi friend! Before I dive into the Education Space with Laylee, I want to give you a heads up on the audio quality. When we recorded this interview, I was not in my home office but there was no indication that my internet was not reliable. However, […] The post Episode 237: What's Working and What's Not in the Education Space with Laylee Emadi appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Learning to Thrive as Business Owners with ADHD Hello, Business Owners with ADHD? The longer I've been in business, the more and more I realize just how many of us are neuro-spicy. There's just something about owning a business in this space that works well for our brains. However, that doesn't mean that we don't […] The post Episode 236: Tips for Business Owners with ADHD appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

The Course Prelaunch Strategy Breakdown What should a prelaunch strategy look like for your upcoming course, and how should you create it? Is it really necessary, and how can it affect the long-term success of a course? Today I'm joined by my friend, Dolly DeLong, to help answer all of these prelaunch questions and more. […] The post Episode 235: Nailing Your Course PreLaunch Strategy with Dolly DeLong appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Conquer Your Course Launch With My Copy Breakdown There's more copy that goes into a launch than you think. Don't walk into your launch without a plan, or you're going to burn out and not see the finish line of your launch. In order to make sure that you're ready to launch your course without […] The post Episode 234: Essential Copy for Your Course Launch appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Title If you are a course creator, you probably started your business or at least creating courses, thinking “this is great. I'm going to sell them on evergreen. It's a passive product. Awesome.” And yet, it's turned out that you aren't seeing the course sales that you want. What gives? I know exactly what gives, […] The post Episode 233: Escape the Course Sales Slump appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

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Choose These Types of Emails to Send to Your List I get a torrent of questions through my annual survey each and every year asking about what types of emails to send to your list. Today I'm sharing the three types of emails you should be sending to your list, what they each look like, […] The post Episode 231: 3 Types of Emails to Send to Your List appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

The Essential KPIs to Track For Email Marketing If you've got an email list, you need to be tracking KPIs for your emails so that you can continuously improve what you are sending your people and today I'm covering the essential KPIs to track for email marketing in this episode. What's a KPI? A key […] The post Episode 230: KPIs to Track for Email Marketing appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Growth Marketing Strategies That Will Grow Your Email List A few episodes back, I put out an episode about the marketing messaging milestones you should be hitting based on your phase of business. Today, I'm back to share a similarly formatted episode, but this time I'm sharing growth marketing strategies that you can use to […] The post Episode 229: How to Grow Your Email List appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

A Welcome Sequence Strategy That Will Build Relationships If setting up your welcome sequence has been hanging over your todo list, you're in luck because today I'm sharing my EXACT welcome sequence strategy with you – exactly how many emails I send, what they each cover, and how it works together with your opt-in sequences. […] The post Episode 228 – My Exact Welcome Sequence Strategy appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

The Cornerstone of a Successful Marketing Strategy If you want to build a loyal audience and boost your sales, you need to focus on email marketing. And while I focus on cohesive marketing as a marketing strategist, if I had to choose one most important area for you to focus on? It would be email. […] The post Episode 227: The Corner Stone of a Successful Marketing Strategy appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Marketing Messaging Milestones Based on Your Current Phase of Business Today I'm going to dive into the three phases of a business journey and exactly what marketing messaging milestones you should be focused on hitting. Links and Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Did you love this episode? Don't forget to subscribe so that you never […] The post Episode 226: Marketing Messaging Milestones for Your Phase of Business appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Questions to Ask Yourself to Keep your Marketing Message Fresh If you're feeling like your marketing is boring and you're struggling to come up with what to say, you may be tempted to take a left turn and start exploring a new theme in your content. However, this can lead to confusion with your audience, […] The post Episode 225: 4 Questions to Ask Yourself to Keep Your Marketing Messaging Fresh appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Marketing If there is nothing else that you ever learn from me, the most important thing that I hope I can share with you is that your content is part of your business, but it's not your entire business. Not sure what I mean? I'll explain more […] The post Episode 224: The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Marketing appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Growth versus Nurture Marketing: Why You Need Both Tired of spending countless hours creating content for your blog, your podcast, your email list, and your social media but not seeing any results? There's likely one very specific reason why you aren't seeing results – When it comes to a full marketing strategy, there should always […] The post Episode 223: Why You Aren't Seeing the Reach You're Looking For appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

How I Would Start an Email List from the Beginning I started my email list 7 years ago, and when I did I researched the heck out of how to start one. How to get people to join your list, how to set one up, how to choose your email platform, how to create a […] The post Episode 222: How I Would Start An Email List from the Beginning appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Marketing Advice NOT To Take There is a LOT of marketing advice out there. Some of it is truly incredible. Some of it is incredible for the right people at the right time. And some of it? Is a terrible hunk of garbage. Today, I wanted to talk about 7 of the worst pieces of […] The post Episode 221: Marketing Advice NOT to Take appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Finding Time For Marketing We all love to see the behind the scenes of how other entrepreneurs spend their time. With so much freedom comes a bit of overwhelm and it's always nice to hear how others are structuring the vast amount of time and vast amount of to-do lists and still finding time for […] The post Episode 220: Finding Time for Marketing [My Latest Weekly Schedule] appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Power Your Business with a Content Engine One of the best ways to make the most of your marketing time is by building a content engine. You want to power your engine with your content and drive people throughout your various platforms and spaces online (and your offers!). Essentially, you can think of a content […] The post Episode 219: Power Your Business with a Content Engine appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Content Batching Tips: Stop Waiting For Inspiration To Strike One of the top reasons business owners tell me they couldn't possibly batch is because they prefer to create their content only when they're feeling inspired. And while in theory that's great, in practice, you're actually doing more harm than good by waiting for creativity to […] The post Episode 218: Stop Waiting for Creativity to Strike: Use This Content Batching Tip appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Tools That Help Keep Up With Marketing Demands There's nothing I love more than a great business tool that will help me simplify a process. And when it comes to marketing, I obviously love all of the tools. Right now, everyone is talking about AI and ChatGPT – for good reason. But I wanted to […] The post Episode 217: Tools that Help Keep Up with Marketing Demands appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

Finding My Content Creation Groove Ever since July, I have found myself stuck on the content creation hamster wheel. Yes, the queen of batching has been inconsistent and all over the place with her own content. Why? Because I haven't been following my own system. Or, more correctly, because life has been life-ing and I […] The post Episode 216: Finding a Content Creation Groove when Life is Throwing Curveballs appeared first on Amanda Warfield.