Robby Fowler: Hi, I'm Robby Fowler andWin number 1: Something to try.
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Now here's today's issue of the four wins.
The 4 Wins, Issue 238.
Win number 1: Something to try.
You've planned the event for your small community or mastermind
meetup, dates set, venue booked, registration sent, agenda, locked in.
Just when you think the hard part is behind you, the flood
of emails and messages begins.
Where's the closest parking?
What Airbnbs are walkable?
Are there any coffee shops around?
Food recommendations?
Were coming in early.
Suddenly, you're no longer a marketing consultant or executive coach.
Your prince of an event kissed you and turned you into a frog.
I mean full-time concierge.
MapScroll turns you back into a princess with a prompt.
Enter a prompt describing what you want, like the highest rated
coffee shops in uptown Dallas.
Then refine the resulting map any way you want.
Publish and share that with attendees.
You look like the hostess with the mostess having thought about
everything next, cut to you.
Sipping a drink by the pool the day before your event.
MapScroll is a great option if you're headed out to an event or even if
you're traveling to see clients.
Map everything you need with a single prompt.
Now it's your turn.
Have you planned an event before?
And how much time could MapScroll, save you?
Win number 2: Something a client recently asked.
Here's the challenge.
Clients come to me with a desire to become more consistent in their marketing.
They're smart enough to know there's no magic pill, but they'd
happily take one if it existed.
This series gives you the nuggets I've learned from 238 weeks in
a row of this 4 Wins newsletter.
My wife and I had one kid and one on the way when 9/11 happened.
She had quit her teaching job and I was working for a startup.
No, shocker.
The startup stopped and everyone scrambled.
A few friends who had stable jobs that held through the chaos took
advantage of those circumstances.
They bought bigger houses in what's called a buyer's market par excellence.
Here's what happened Every time.
Number one, sell current house.
Number two, buy bigger house.
Number three, stare at empty rooms in bigger house.
And number four, fill rooms in bigger house with new stuff under compulsion.
Which brings us to commandment number four in our series, and
I'll connect the dots in one second
promise commandment.
Number four, create one source of truth.
AI has become the bigger house.
It entices you with the prospect of finally cranking up the content machine.
Hope courses through your veins.
YouTube, rekindling the pod.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, LinkedIn post soaring followers and engagement.
Here's the reality check.
For most of us, more space equals more crap and more AI
equals more sporadic crap.
If you want the fruit of consistency, follow the narrow path.
First commit to one, come Hell or high water Marketing channel.
Two, do that consistently for at least six months.
It's your one source of truth.
Three.
Only then should you consider one additional way to distribute or
repurpose your one source of truth.
Before you can go from one to many, you have to master going from none
to one, none to nine, never sticks.
Your turn.
Am I the only one who has felt AI shift from deliverer
of more to demander of much?
Win number 3: Something to think about.
I was accosted by this quote and this season of putting our house on the
market and preparing for a move, quote.
Is there any other road that leads home Paul Kingsnorth?
While I'm not brilliant enough to wax on economies of scale, modern consumerism
or dystopian futures, I'm at least awake enough to know the business that owns my
Monday through Friday is not all there is.
It cannot produce or provide my ultimate home.
Your turn?
Are you genuinely wrestling with the things that will lead you home?
Win number 4: Something personal.
What 80 days of DIY taught me: the conclusion.
I began 80 straight days of DIY projects back in June in order to
get our house listed on the market.
Over the past weeks, I've shared some lessons learned.
Today I'd like to cap this off by sharing two pictures with you.
The first is a literal picture.
Rather than trying to compile dozens of before and afterpics, this one
captures the chaos of those 80 days.
See my Substack post to glance at that picture.
The second picture is a verbal.
When the summer began, there were several things I didn't know.
I didn't know how many projects would need to get done.
I had no idea I would be the one undertaking so many of them.
And when it came to the skills needed, I didn't know.
What I didn't know had someone handed me a list and asked, which of these
do you feel comfortable tackling, and how many do you wanna do?
I would never have volunteered for the all inclusive package.
Looking back, the primary thing that changed over those
80 days was not my house.
It's me, the homeowner.
The change is not something I can capture with my iPhone.
It lives on the inside.
It's a quiet confidence that says I can, and it grew in those 80 days.
The one thing that lingers in my mind is this, could this kind of transformation
be replicated in your business?
More importantly in you?
Honestly, I'm not sure it could be done in an 80 day window and even more.
I'm not certain how many business owners would be interested, even if it could, we
rarely volunteer for the transformation that comes from compression.
We love the juice, just not the squeeze.
Your turn.
When was the last time you embraced the squeeze in your business,
even when you didn't want to?
What changed in you as a result?
Until next time, keep building a life-giving brand.