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Work with me

Most people don’t need more options. They need one honest decision that makes their week easier instead of harder. In the first session we take the fantasy numbers off the table and replace them with targets that fit your life and your capacity. Once you stop trying to force a £1m story onto a £40k reality, you can actually build.

Most people I work with are not short of ideas - they’re drowning in them. They’re doing random acts of marketing with no sequence, no sense of what will actually work for their audience, and a constant feeling that they’re behind because someone online is always pushing a new system. Add in the endless acronyms and renamed frameworks and it becomes noise, not help. My job is to cut through that, strip it back to what matters, and give you a simple order of decisions you can actually follow, within the time and energy you really have. It’s the same thinking I’m building into The Misfit Engine™ , just applied to you, now.

Working with me is for one thing: applying the method to your reality without turning your life into a business experiment that eats everything. That usually means pulling you out of the content treadmill. You spend most of your time making posts because it feels like what you’re supposed to do, but you never properly talk to customers, so you don’t really understand what they’re struggling with or what they’re trying to fix. Then the results don’t come, guilt kicks in, and you start spraying the same offer into more places, hoping something sticks.

I don’t do done for you, and I don’t do fantasy timelines. I also don’t do vague encouragement. I do clear thinking, honest judgement, and practical design. I’ve been doing this for nearly forty years, across corporate, agency, start-up and consultancy, and I’ve been the person brought in to fix things, and the person on the hook when the fixing didn’t work. The break point I see most is people doing lots of tactics with no real strategy - different channels, different content, different messages - and then wondering why nothing adds up. Under pressure, that kind of effort collapses because there’s nothing holding it together.

There are two ways to work with me.

Do-it-with-you is for people who’ve got the core of it. You’ve got the product, you know who it works for, and you know who needs it, but you’re thinking, “I just need the extra impetus on how I can make it work with the limited time I have each day.” We work through the decisions in a clear order, with your constraints on the table from the start, and you build something you can actually repeat.
One-to-one advisory is for people who are broadly on top of what they’re doing, but they keep veering off course. “I keep pivoting. I keep getting attracted to new ideas without fully implementing the previous option, and I need somebody to steer me through those moments.” It’s also for the quieter fear underneath that - “I want the confidence that I’m not going to expand into working 12 hours a day and burning out, and not being able to give time to my family.” This is a sparring partner and a straight view when you need one.

If you want a path, choose do-it-with-you.

If you want a verdict, choose advisory.

If you want a cheerleader, you will be happier elsewhere!

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