nline business is changing. With the prevalent decrease in the social media engagement, here's three very specific and practical things I'm doing to adapt to the new environment.

1. Social Media — invest in your performing content to get more engagement
2. Email Marketing — start nurturing your email list
3. Role of Podcasting, YouTube and Substack — for the handy top of funnel OR middle of funnel platform

In this episode, I’m breaking down how I’ve traditionally captured it (hello Instagram, podcasting, and email marketing 👋), how much time I’ve been pouring into each platform, and the results I discovered when I did a little audit. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t what I expected.

Episode Shownotes:

00:00 Changes in the online business industry
01:22 Traditional attention channels
03:10 Evaluating channel effectiveness
06:39 Shifts in social engagement
18:43 Revamping email strategies
26:24 The Role of podcasting
34:26 Conclusion and next steps    

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Recommended next episode: 

→ Ep 271: Are Funnels Dead? No, But Things Are MESSY Right Now (Here’s What to Do About It)

→ Ep 272: Pay Me Attention: How to Grow, Fast.

Want more? Here’s how we can help you:

→ Free Workshop — Create our knowledge-based lifestyle business in 2025

→ Subscribe to the Fully Free Newsletter — Come and join the party on Substack! Subscribe for weekly articles, essays and behind the scenes to help you build a lifestyle business.

→ Join Lifestyle Business School — Get the complete Operating System for starting or growing an expertise-based online business to the Lifestyle Business Sweet Spot.

Enjoy this content? Follow and subscribe for more:

→ Follow Stevie on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/steviedillon_/

→ Subscribe to Fully Free on Substack — https://lifestylebusinessschool.substack.com/

→ Subscribe to Lifestyle Business School on Youtube — https://www.youtube.com/@lifestylebusinessschool

I haven't launched anything for nine months. I have been dark on social media, and I have only sporadically appeared on this podcast. So you might be wondering - Stevie, where have you been? What have you been doing and what is coming next? And if you have, you're gonna love today's podcast episode.

And if you haven't, then this is the episode that you didn't even know that you wanted!

Episode Shownotes:

00:00 Introduction and where I've been
00:52 The concept of seasons in business
05:16 Rediscovering myself: music and reading
07:35 The power of domino habits
13:27 Balancing business and parenthood
17:13 Clarifying my mission and future goals
24:02 Conclusion and final thoughts

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Recommended next episode: 

→ Ep 250: I’ve Worked 5 Hours a Week Since March. Here’s How.

Want more? Here’s how we can help you:

→ Free Workshop — Create our knowledge-based lifestyle business in 2025

→ Subscribe to the Fully Free Newsletter — Come and join the party on Substack! Subscribe for weekly articles, essays and behind the scenes to help you build a lifestyle business.

→ Join Lifestyle Business School — Get the complete Operating System for starting or growing an expertise-based online business to the Lifestyle Business Sweet Spot.

Enjoy this content? Follow and subscribe for more:

→ Follow Stevie on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/steviedillon_/

→ Subscribe to Fully Free on Substack — https://lifestylebusinessschool.substack.com/

→ Subscribe to Lifestyle Business School on Youtube — https://www.youtube.com/@lifestylebusinessschool

Read this series on Substack: https://lifestylebusinessschool.substack.com/

For your lifestyle business to really SING, there’s one final step in the four part personal brand series – to turn what you’ve conjured up so far and giving it a talkaboutable edge!

Getting this right from the outset is like sprinkling magic fairy dust on your business.

Having a talkaboutable edge to what you do bakes BUZZ right into the very fabric of your business, and makes people stop, sit up and pay attention when you start talking about it.

It also makes everything you do to try to get attention after that point about fifty million times easier.

In this episode, we walk through exactly how to do it: 

00:00 Introduction to talkaboutable edge
00:18 Recap of previous episodes
00:50 Defining talkaboutable edge
03:55 Examples of talkaboutable edge
08:30 Steps to create a talkaboutable edge
10:03 Developing thought leadership
16:01 Creating a mission-based business
17:49 Crafting a unique concept
22:07 Infusing your concept into your business
28:30 Conclusion and next steps

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Recommended next episode: 

→ Part One (Don’t Build Businesses. Build Personal Brand Projects Instead!): https://lifestylebusiness.school/276

→ Part Two (Three Layers Deep: All Aboard the Niche Train): https://lifestylebusiness.school/277

→ Part Three (‘You Talkin’ to ME !’ – Market Well to Sell, Sell, Sell): https://lifestylebusiness.school/278

→ Part Four (Attention on Tap: How to Bake Serious Buzz 🐝 Into Your Personal Brand Based Business): https://lifestylebusiness.school/279

Links Mentioned: 

→ Read this series on Substack: https://lifestylebusinessschool.substack.com/

Want more? Here’s how we can help you:

→ Free Workshop — Create our knowledge-based lifestyle business in 2025

→ Subscribe to the Fully Free Newsletter — Come and join the party on Substack! Subscribe for weekly articles, essays and behind the scenes to help you build a lifestyle business.

→ Join Lifestyle Business School — Get the complete Operating System for starting or growing an expertise-based online business to the Lifestyle Business Sweet Spot.

Enjoy this content? Follow and subscribe for more:

→ Follow Stevie on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/steviedillon_/

→ Subscribe to Fully Free on Substack — https://lifestylebusinessschool.substack.com/

→ Subscribe to Lifestyle Business School on Youtube — https://www.youtube.com/@lifestylebusinessschool

Welcome to Part Three of our five-part series on setting up your personal brand for success! 

In this episode, we dive deep into the crucial art of positioning. It's not just about finding a niche; it's about understanding the customer journey, choosing the right market and how marketing and positioning work hand in hand to make your brand irresistible.

You can view Part One and Part Two of this series here,  and subscribe to the podcast to be notified when the next part is released.

Ready to turn your niche into a powerhouse brand? Let's dive in!

Episode Shownotes

00:00 Introduction: The importance of positioning
01:09 My journey: From corporate job to social media manager
02:55 The turning point: Bali and beyond
04:08 The biggest mistake: No niche, no market
05:55 The power of positioning
10:05 Understanding the customer journey
14:09 Steps to effective positioning
16:12 Choosing the right market
21:42 Conclusion: position well to sell
22:48 Next steps and further learning

Recommended next episode: 

→ Part One in the Series: Don't Build Businesses! Build Projects!

→ Part Two in the Series: Three Layers Deep: All Aboard the Niche Train

Links Mentioned: 

→ '‘You Talkin’ to ME!’ – Market Well to Sell, Sell, Sell' - Read this article on Substack

Want more? Here’s how we can help you:

→ Free Workshop — Create our knowledge-based lifestyle business in 2025

→ Subscribe to the Fully Free Newsletter — Come and join the party on Substack! Subscribe for weekly articles, essays and behind the scenes to help you build a lifestyle business.

→ Join Lifestyle Business School — Get the complete Operating System for starting or growing an expertise-based online business to the Lifestyle Business Sweet Spot.

Enjoy this content? Follow and subscribe for more:

→ Follow Stevie on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/steviedillon_/

→ Subscribe to Fully Free on Substack — https://lifestylebusinessschool.substack.com/

→ Subscribe to Lifestyle Business School on Youtube — https://www.youtube.com/@lifestylebusinessschool

To stand out and sell — always, but especially in 2025 — you’ve gotta niche.

Happily (especially if you are a personal brand), that DOESN’T mean putting your sweet little multi-passionate self into a box for twenty years and throwing away the key.

But it DOES mean that you should create individual PROJECTS under your personal brand (I talk about that more in part one of this series here) and niche them sufficiently so as to cut through.

How? Choose a market that has in-built demand, and then to go three or four layers deep to specialise within it. In this episode, I show you how. 

PS This is Part Two in a five part series to help you set up a personal brand for success. You can view Part One here, and subscribe to the podcasts for the other posts in the series to come!

Episode Shownotes:

00:00 The importance of niching
01:25 Common mistakes in niching
03:06 Stages of business development
09:17 The need for a niche in a crowded market
12:31 Three-step process to effective niching
13:04 Step 1: Choosing a profitable market
17:05 Step 2: Going one layer deeper
18:14 Step 3: Niching by vehicle
25:29 Conclusion and next steps

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Recommended next episode: 

→ Part One in the Series: Don't Build Businesses! Build Projects!

Links Mentioned: 

→ 'Three Layers Deep! All Aboard the Niche Train' - Read this article on Substack

Want more? Here’s how we can help you:

→ Free Workshop — Create our knowledge-based lifestyle business in 2025

→ Subscribe to the Fully Free Newsletter — Come and join the party on Substack! Subscribe for weekly articles, essays and behind the scenes to help you build a lifestyle business.

→ Join Lifestyle Business School — Get the complete Operating System for starting or growing an expertise-based online business to the Lifestyle Business Sweet Spot.

Enjoy this content? Follow and subscribe for more:

→ Follow Stevie on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/steviedillon_/

→ Subscribe to Fully Free on Substack — https://lifestylebusinessschool.substack.com/

→ Subscribe to Lifestyle Business School on Youtube — https://www.youtube.com/@lifestylebusinessschool

This one is aimed squarely at you, my little ‘personal brand-based’ founder darlings — in other words, the current and aspiring content creators, consultants, coaches, freelancers, creatives and knowledge-based founders of the Internet.

Over a series of five podcasts (because brevity ain’t my strong point), I’m going to break down for you everything I know about how to set a personal brand based business for big fun, big freedom and BIG money.

In this episode, we're starting strong 🥃 

I'm covering how to set yourself up as a personal brand based business the right way from the start to feed and fuel MULTIPLE, DISTINCT NICHES..

.. in a way that doesn’t bore you to tears, destroy your soul and keep you trapped in a box that feels like the online equivalent to maximum security prison for your happy, creative, multi-passionate little soul.

Episode Show Notes

00:00 The importance of finding your niche
00:34 The cold hard truth about personal branding
01:37 Projects over businesses
02:24 Understanding personal brand-based businesses
04:29 Personal brand-based business vs. traditional business
06:30 What is a personal brand?
08:00 What are business interests?
10:23 Examples of personal brand projects
16:52 Conclusion and next steps

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Recommended next episode: 

→ This is Part One in a series - subscribe to the podcast to get the next one the second it drops!

Links Mentioned: 

→ 'Don't Build Businesses! Build Projects!' - Read this article on Substack

Want more? Here’s how we can help you:

→ Free Workshop — Create our knowledge-based lifestyle business in 2025

→ Subscribe to the Fully Free Newsletter — Come and join the party on Substack! Subscribe for weekly articles, essays and behind the scenes to help you build a lifestyle business.

→ Join Lifestyle Business School — Get the complete Operating System for starting or growing an expertise-based online business to the Lifestyle Business Sweet Spot.

Enjoy this content? Follow and subscribe for more:

→ Follow Stevie on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/steviedillon_/

→ Subscribe to Fully Free on Substack — https://lifestylebusinessschool.substack.com/

→ Subscribe to Lifestyle Business School on Youtube — https://www.youtube.com/@lifestylebusinessschool

Your offer suite is the beating heart of your business. Without it, you don’t have a business. 

In this episode, I will show you how to map out an offer suite with one flagship offer as the crown jewel. You'll discover why small (and might is best) and the ONLY three offers you need to hit a million dollars (plus, how to structure to reach your time and money goals. 

I cover: 

• Why a simple offer suite is the key to a lifestyle business that prioritises balances; 
• The only three offers you need, which order to create them in and the job each does; 
• How to map a profitable offer suite. 

Episode Show Notes:

00:00 The importance of an offer suite
00:37 Creating a high-converting offer suite
01:48 The case for a simple, streamlined offer suite
12:26 First offer: Flagship offer
16:10 Second offer: Entry offer
21:33 Third offer: Anchor offer
25:22 Mapping out your offer suite
34:04 Conclusion and next steps

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Recommended next episode: 

→ Ep 252: How to Create an Irresistible, “Hell Yes” Online Course, Coaching or Membership Offer (Inspired by 2am Flights and Toddler Meltdowns)

Links Mentioned: 

→ Get Create and Validate for 60% off to create your first or next irresistible online course in the next 12-weeks

→ 66% off Dream & Design where you can design (or re-design) a wildly aligned, time leveraged expertise-based business model that feels just right for you

Want more? Here’s how we can help you:

→ Free Workshop — Create our knowledge-based lifestyle business in 2025

→ Subscribe to the Fully Free Newsletter — Come and join the party on Substack! Subscribe for weekly articles, essays and behind the scenes to help you build a lifestyle business.

→ Join Lifestyle Business School — Get the complete Operating System for starting or growing an expertise-based online business to the Lifestyle Business Sweet Spot.

Enjoy this content? Follow and subscribe for more:

→ Follow Stevie on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/steviedillon_/

→ Subscribe to Fully Free on Substack — https://lifestylebusinessschool.substack.com/

→ Subscribe to Lifestyle Business School on Youtube — https://www.youtube.com/@lifestylebusinessschool

In this week's podcast, we'll be revisiting through our Podcast Best Of series on how we make, manage and grow money in order to make work optional.

Active income is never passive. 

Work is work.

But the income from your work can be funneled into assets that CAN be passive – and that, ultimately, is the game.

These days, I am passionate about sharing that message with others. 

Even moreso in this online business world, where we have the capacity to build high profit margin businesses.

And, where a little know how on what to DO with that income is life-changing. 

And so, in this throwback episode, I am sharing with you the six steps for building a business that will one day allow you to make work optional and to enjoy true passive income. 

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Recommended next episode: 

→ ❤️‍🔥😍 Sexy Budgeting, Finances and PROFIT for Online Business Owners

Want more? Here’s how we can help you:

→ Free Workshop — Create our knowledge-based lifestyle business in 2025

→ Subscribe to the Fully Free Newsletter — Come and join the party on Substack! Subscribe for weekly articles, essays and behind the scenes to help you build a lifestyle business.

→ Join Lifestyle Business School — Get the complete Operating System for starting or growing an expertise-based online business to the Lifestyle Business Sweet Spot.

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→ Follow Stevie on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/steviedillon_/

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→ Subscribe to Lifestyle Business School on Youtube — https://www.youtube.com/@lifestylebusinessschool

Let's talk about finding alignment and balance in new motherhood, especially when your traditional business model and success no longer serves the life you want to create.

In this podcast episode, I share my experience with running a business and raising 2 young kids, finding myself again and building a business that truly lights me up.

This is an interview that first aired on Rachelle Saevils 'Behind the Fold' podcast, where she shares interviews breaking down the real and raw BTS of motherhood and business. 

We discussed: 

• 5:38 - My business growth, fears and preparation during and after my first pregnancy.
• 12:57 - The time in between my first and second child of feeling unaligned and conflicted, that caused me to rethink my whole business model.
• 20:00 - The experience and struggles of having my partner become the primary care giver while I continued working.
• 23:30 - How my motherhood identity and mindset changed from one birth to the next.
• 26:15 - Learning about the power of self care, slowing down and being okay with extended timelines when it comes to goals.
• 34:00 - Focusing on what matters most to you, even if it means a revenue dip in your business for a season.

I hope this episode encourages you to seek balance among all the areas you may be juggling in whatever that might look like for you- give yourself some grace. 

If you love this episode, definitely check out Rachelles podcast, Behind the Fold.

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Recommended next episode: 

→ I'll be doing a motherhood and business Q+A podcast episode soon. Have a question for it? DM me on Instagram here: @steviedillon_

Links Mentioned: 

→ Behind the Fold Podcast on Spotify

→ Behind the Fold Podcast on Apple Podcasts

Want more? Here’s how we can help you:

→ Free Workshop — Create our knowledge-based lifestyle business in 2025

→ Subscribe to the Fully Free Newsletter — Come and join the party on Substack! Subscribe for weekly articles, essays and behind the scenes to help you build a lifestyle business.

→ Join Lifestyle Business School — Get the complete Operating System for starting or growing an expertise-based online business to the Lifestyle Business Sweet Spot.

Enjoy this content? Follow and subscribe for more:

→ Follow Stevie on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/steviedillon_/

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→ Subscribe to Lifestyle Business School on Youtube — https://www.youtube.com/@lifestylebusinessschool

Ahhhh, attention (aka traffic, aka your ‘top of funnel’ in marketing speak). 

The darling of the Internet!

Understandably so, it’s the tip of the proverbial Internet iceberg and the ONLY thing that’s visible when we’re scrolling online. And for that reason, we’re obsessed with it and start to think that the ultimate success of our online businesses lives and dies by it. 

And whilst it’s true that it matters, it’s just one piece of the marketing funnel pie. 

Let’s talk all things top of funnel – aka traffic, aka the darling of the Internet – and answer some of the biggest questions.

[🎉 New!] Subscribe to Stevie's Substack for weekly articles and behind the scenes: https://lifestylebusinessschool.substack.com/

Episode Shownotes
00:00 Introduction: Capturing attention and growing your audience
00:29 Understanding the marketing funnel
01:13 Five hot tips: Top of funnel strategies
01:25 Tip 1: Top of funnel comes last
05:11 Tip 2: Clarify your business model
09:50 Tip 3: Build your email list
16:20 Tip 4: Message market fit
21:33 Tip 5: Getting attention
40:58 Conclusion and summary

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Recommended next episode: 

→ Ep 270: Marketing Has Changed. Here’s What You MUST Know to Sell Scalable Offers Right Now.

→ Ep 271: Are Funnels Dead? No, But Things Are MESSY Right Now (Here's What to Do About It)

Links Mentioned: 

→ Traffic Playbook [Currently 70% Off]: Get the Marketing System for driving the volume and quality of traffic required to sell your scalable offers in 2025.

→ Click Power Podcast Episode

Want more? Here’s how we can help you:

→ Free Workshop — Create our knowledge-based lifestyle business in 2025

→ Subscribe to the Fully Free Newsletter — Come and join the party on Substack! Subscribe for weekly articles, essays and behind the scenes to help you build a lifestyle business.

→ Join Lifestyle Business School — Get the complete Operating System for starting or growing an expertise-based online business to the Lifestyle Business Sweet Spot.

Enjoy this content? Follow and subscribe for more:

→ Follow Stevie on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/steviedillon_/

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→ Subscribe to Lifestyle Business School on Youtube — https://www.youtube.com/@lifestylebusinessschool

Recently, Google embarked on a mission to answer one question: 

‘How do consumers decide what they want to buy and who they want to buy it from?’

The answer was.. squiggly, the say the least. 

To stand out and sell in 2025, you’re not just ‘one funnel away’ anymore. Instead, it’s essential to build an ecosystem of touchpoints to satisfy the savvy, skeptical buyers that you’re the real deal. 

The 'middle of funnel' is more important (and squiggly) than ever, and to stand out and sell? Yours needs to be robust. 

The test is this — if someone found you right now, would they have 7-9 hours of touchpoint available with you to binge on demand? ⁠

If not, you need today's episode. 

And if you do, you still need it - because there's four other tests I share, too. 

Episode Show Notes:
00:00 The changing landscape of marketing
00:14 The middle of funnel squig
02:25 Reasons why the landscape has changed
02:26 Reason one: Trust desert
03:30 Reason two: A more discerning market
04:33 Reason three: Savvier research abilities
05:41 Five tips for standing out
08:18 One: Build a strong brand
14:34 Two: Establish a middle of funnel trigger
18:41 Three: Automate your middle of funnel ecosystem
25:35 Four: Create long form content
32:56 Five: Inject authority markers

[🎉 New!] Subscribe to Stevie's Substack for weekly articles and behind the scenes: https://lifestylebusinessschool.substack.com/

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Recommended next episode: 

→ [Last week's episode]: Marketing Has Changed. Here’s What You MUST Know to Sell Scalable Offers Right Now.

Links Mentioned: 

→ Don't Build Businesses! Build Projects! Part 1/5: The multi-passionate personal brand-based founders guide to a business that prints cash, serves well and sets you free

→ Traffic Playbook [Currently 70% Off]: Get the Marketing System for driving the volume and quality of traffic required to sell your scalable offe

Want more? Here’s how we can help you:

→ Free Workshop — Create our knowledge-based lifestyle business in 2025

→ Subscribe to the Fully Free Newsletter — Come and join the party on Substack! Subscribe for weekly articles, essays and behind the scenes to help you build a lifestyle business.

→ Join Lifestyle Business School — Get the complete Operating System for starting or growing an expertise-based online business to the Lifestyle Business Sweet Spot.

Enjoy this content? Follow and subscribe for more:

→ Follow Stevie on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/steviedillon_/

→ Subscribe to Fully Free on Substack — https://lifestylebusinessschool.substack.com/

→ Subscribe to Lifestyle Business School on Youtube — https://www.youtube.com/@lifestylebusinessschool

Marketing has changed. If you want to drive the volume and quality of traffic you need to sell your scalable offers in 2025, this is for you. 

Side note — this is absolutely NOT for the full-time content creators, and the people who spend their days marketing online for a living. It’s for the people who NEED to understand how this stuff works to build the thing they ACTUALLY DO (without it taking 18,273 hours a week). 

Episode Show Notes:
00:45 Understanding the marketing funnel
02:09 The Importance of messaging in marketing
07:10 Building an effective marketing funnel
14:35 Bottom of funnel
22:56 Middle of funnel
27:44 Top of funnel
34:28 Conclusion and Next Steps

PS [🎉 New!] Subscribe to Stevie's Substack for weekly articles and behind the scenes: https://lifestylebusinessschool.substack.com/

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Recommended next episode: 

→ Click Power: The One Metric That Could Sink Your Next Launch

Links Mentioned: 

→ Traffic Playbook Course: Get the Marketing System for driving the volume and quality of traffic required to sell your scalable offers in 2025. 

→ Substack Series on Refining Your Marketing Message (this is a series of five newsletters, it will be updated soon to include marketing messaging, positioning and more)

Want more? Here’s how we can help you:

→ Free Workshop — Create our knowledge-based lifestyle business in 2025

→ Subscribe to the Fully Free Newsletter — Come and join the party on Substack! Subscribe for weekly articles, essays and behind the scenes to help you build a lifestyle business.

→ Join Lifestyle Business School — Get the complete Operating System for starting or growing an expertise-based online business to the Lifestyle Business Sweet Spot.

Enjoy this content? Follow and subscribe for more:

→ Follow Stevie on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/steviedillon_/

→ Subscribe to Fully Free on Substack — https://lifestylebusinessschool.substack.com/

→ Subscribe to Lifestyle Business School on Youtube — https://www.youtube.com/@lifestylebusinessschool

[🎉 New!] Subscribe to Stevie's Substack for weekly articles and behind the scenes: https://lifestylebusinessschool.substack.com/

If you love behind the scenes episodes, this is for you. 

After spending a year building out my new business model, it's time to take everything I've created and grow it.

To "stay the course", as my friend Odette said to me at brunch last week.

So today, I want to share with you my 2025 game plan, real numbers and all! 

Episode Shownotes:
00:00  Introduction: Transparency and Real Numbers
03:30  Step 1: Setting the Vision
17:39  Step 2: Making the Plan
35:00  Step 3: Execution and Tracking
32:27  Habits, Systems, and Support for Success
39:19  Summary of 2025 Game Plan

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Recommended next episode: 

→ How to Make $500k within 24 Months with a $500k Offer

Links Mentioned: 

→ My 2025 Game Plan on Substack

→ My 2024 Revenue Numbers Revealed

→ My YouTube Page

Want more? Here’s how we can help you:

→ Free Workshop — Create our knowledge-based lifestyle business in 2025

→ Subscribe to the Fully Free Newsletter — Come and join the party on Substack! Subscribe for weekly articles, essays and behind the scenes to help you build a lifestyle business.

→ Join Lifestyle Business School — Get the complete Operating System for starting or growing an expertise-based online business to the Lifestyle Business Sweet Spot.

Enjoy this content? Follow and subscribe for more:

→ Follow Stevie on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/steviedillon_/

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→ Subscribe to Lifestyle Business School on Youtube — https://www.youtube.com/@lifestylebusinessschool

🏜 We're officially in a trust desert, people. Your future buyers still want to buy, sure. 

But, the times are a changin' and to keep up, we need to level up. 

Here's just a few of the changes in the online business landscape that have accelerated over the past 12 months: 

🤠 We're all super aware that there are cowboys in the industry, and many of us have been burnt by them;

💸 We don't have as much free cash to splash, and we're super wary of ensuring it goes to the right person for the job; 

🤖 AI is advancing at a clip, and we're craving a unique perspective and a human to lead us; 

💅🏼 The industry is becoming more sophisticated, and in a buyers market we're spoilt for choice; and

📈 Buying cycles are getting longer, as people stop responding to direct response marketing and instead are taking their time to make sure a purchase is the right one for them. 

All of these changes have led to the "perfect storm"; one where the online business landscape is fast being split down the middle into two clear camps: 

The first? Those willing to do what it takes to develop trust. And the second? Those still clinging onto the old ways of doing business, and wondering why it isn't working anymore. 

In today's podcast episode, I'm breaking down what this trust desert is and five things to consider to ensure that you don't get left behind. 

Here's a summary of points covered: 

1) Touchpoints: The need for more touchpoints to build rapport with audience prior to purchase. 

2) Audience: The increasing importance of audience and community. 

3) Middle of Funnel: The non-negotiable need for a middle of funnel content channel. 

4) Thought Leadership: Why how to content no longer cuts it. 

5) Catering to Longer Buying Cycles: Why multiple touchpoints are needed to achieve a benchmark CVR. 

If you need help with developing trust with a robust traffic system for developing traffic and building trust with them, you need Traffic Playbook! This is a full course included in Lifestyle Business School, and also able to be purchased separately. 

To check it out, click here. 

Want more? Here’s how we can help you:

→ Free Workshop — Create our knowledge-based lifestyle business in 2025

→ Subscribe to the Fully Free Newsletter — Come and join the party on Substack! Subscribe for weekly articles, essays and behind the scenes to help you build a lifestyle business.

→ Join Lifestyle Business School — Get the complete Operating System for starting or growing an expertise-based online business to the Lifestyle Business Sweet Spot.

Enjoy this content? Follow and subscribe for more:

→ Follow Stevie on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/steviedillon_/

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In the past month, I experienced the “tipping point” in the leveraged business model I started building out from scratch 12 months ago.

All leveraged expertise-based models have them, IF YOU KNOW TO STICK WITH IT LONG ENOUGH TO GET TO THE MAGIC ✨

But, this isn’t always in line with the rhetoric online.

We hear of “quick wins”, “six figure launches” straight out of the gate and unicorns who build their dream business in a year.

And sure, with some business models, that may actually be possible.

Take a service-based or freelancer business model for instance.

You can build it in a day, book yourself out in a week and be making $10k in a month.

The trade off? That the revenue comes at the expense of your time.. forever.

When you’re creating a leveraged business model that ultimately gives you compounding revenue, high profit margins and MORE time back as time goes on, it’s different.

There’s the decision to start.

Then, the build.

And then FINALLY, the tipping point.

The tipping point is the inflection point where the work you have done up until that point starts to compound and snowball.

Your revenue starts to really increase.

Your time and the energetic lift starts to decrease.

And all of the hard work starts to pay off.

But, it’s a process, and it’s in NO WAY instant.

I think being more honest about this is only going to serve people, because they might then have more realistic expectations, stay in it for the long run and actually start to see the fruits of their labour over time.

In today’s podcast episode, I am going to share a little about that process.

I’ve followed this exact same process now for three iterations of my business.. and it’s the SAME EVERY TIME.

Podcast Episodes Referenced:

• Ep 185: ❤️‍🔥😍 Sexy Budgeting, Finances and PROFIT for Online Business Owners
• Ep 262: How to Make $500k Within 24 Months With a $2k Offer (Detailed Step by Step)
• Ep 253: Engineering Alignment: Building an Offer Th

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It’s official ONE WEEK until my 7th business birthday (and my ACTUAL birthday! 🎈), so I thought it a good time to reflect on 7 lessons I’ve learnt from 7 years in business. 

Here goes!

1️⃣ It’s okay to leave money on the table. 

2️⃣ Traditional business advice might not apply. 

3️⃣ There isn’t one right way of doing business. 

4️⃣ Everything is a solvable problem. 

5️⃣ Take the action and the outcome will (eventually) take care of itself.

6️⃣ On indecision. 

7️⃣ Make your success a habit. 

Read the full blogpost here.

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⏰ PSA: The price for Lifestyle Business School increases by up to $900USD in 24 hours, and we have just added a new super accessible payment plan. Click here.

This is a business strategy podcast Q+A, where I am answering some JUICY questions.

Let’s call it a big ‘ol business strategy sesh!

I answer:

➡️ I am a creative and I want to expand my clients/audience with a leveraged offer like a digital course or products. What is the best way to do this?

➡️ I want to create a low cost digital product, around $30. Can I be successful with this?

➡️ I have a specialised niche and I want to create something lower cost to serve them. Should I?

➡️ How much time do you need to dedicate each week to build a successful lifestyle business?

And more!

These are some of the questions that have been coming through as we prepare to close the doors on the current price, extended time bonus and all of the other special bonuses. Whether you are thinking about joining Lifestyle Business School, or you simply love a good strategy jam sesh – this is for you!

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I’m launching this week (could you tell? 😆) In the lead up, I committed to something that I have been going back and forth on for literal MONTHS:

Switching Lifestyle Business School from LIMITED TIME ACCESS (one year) to UNLIMITED ACCESS (for as long as the course exists). It’s a nuanced decision, and I still don’t know what the right answer is.

But intuitively, I really felt a pull to test it — and so, a week ago I pulled the trigger.

So in today's podcast I'll be talking about the pros and cons, why I’m testing it for this launch and why I’m actually not 100% committed that there is one “right” way — yet. I will test it, see what the data says, and decide from there.

And PS — if you have been thinking about joining Lifestyle Business School, this MAY be the only time I offer unlimited access (it will depend on the outcome of my experiment offering it!) So, now is the time.

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RIGHT NOW, in this launch, you can join Lifestyle Business School and get access to curriculum for as long as the program exists. So, now is the time to join if its been on your mind because this is ONE BIG EXPERIMENT that you will get to hugely benefit from.

Join now before doors to this offer close and the price increases on 31 October. 

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Today, we are going to walk through the EXACT steps for growing a leveraged, expertise-based online offer to a very specific revenue amount.

I want to make this really practical for you, so I will be specific with the numbers:

The goal? Get to a replicable $500k year with a $2k offer.

The first year is set up, the second year is going to be where we make it happen.

Both are important – and I will explain why knowing THAT is important, too.

And PS -- this isn’t even a hypothetical either, because this mock scenario closely mimics my EXACT path over the past 12 months of rebuilding my business.

So, here goes!

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👉 I’m hosting a brand new live class on October 24th called The Predictable 3-Part Operating System for Building a Simple, Time Leveraged, Online Course Based Business Model or Revenue Stream. To register, click here.

Over the past two years, I have realigned, re-imagined and re-built my seven-figure business from the ground up to deliver high profits, working 5-hour days and with 400% more creative fulfillment on the daily.

It’s not hype – it’s the truth. 

And, it seems that many are following suit. 

It’s nice to be a trailblazer, and at the same time I feel compelled right now to transparently share what I’ve learnt. 

I’m hosting a free class later this month that I have been working on for weeks, and in today’s podcast episode I am sharing with you:

• The shifts I have made in the last 12 months, and how it feels to be on the other side; 
• The changes and price increase coming to Lifestyle Business School, and how you can get in before it happens;
• The five checkpoints to move through to build out the system for a leveraged business, and why you need them all in place prior to focusing on growth; 
• My thoughts on multiple offers and when the right time is to expand; 
• The system I used whilst traveling to simplify my growth and how it worked to focus my energy, effort and output and to achieve my goals without working more.
• All about my brand new masterclass on 24 October: The Predictable 3-Part Operating System for Building a Simple, Time Leveraged, Online Course Based Business Model or Revenue Stream. To register, click here.

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Want to retire early in 10 years, and live on $80k forever?

With a lifestyle business, you can.

 [Read the full blog post here].

People want a quick win, and the industry sells the pipedream of a gazillion dollars in two seconds.. but if you’re willing to develop the skill of being a course creator?

A LOT can happen in 10 years ⌛️

A. LOT.

Here’s the cliff notes:

Invest $10k a month from the profits of your high cashflow online course business for 10 years (instead of spending it on Gucci bags, a big team or lifestyle creep).

At year ten, you can retire with $2m in the bank.

You’ll take $80k a year for the rest of your life without depleting the balance.

Here’s your road map for retiring in 10 years, if you start today 🗺️:

1️⃣ Commit to developing the skill of being a course creator. Create one flagship course.

2️⃣ Develop your skills to sell 300 a year at $1000 each. That’s $200 - $300k. Spend one third of that on expenses/tax, a third on your salary and set a third aside ($120k a year).

3️⃣ Invest the one third you set aside into assets (eg stocks, property). In ten years assuming a 10% average annual return, you’ll have over $2million.

4️⃣ At this point, you’ll have the option to retire early. Spend 4% a year each year after that forever and you’ll have $80,000 in annual income without depleting the balance (Google the 4% rule).

5️⃣ But if you do it right? You’ll probably still be loving what you do so much you don’t even WANT to stop anyway.

This, my friends, is what it means to build a lifestyle business.

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In the past 12 months, I’ve created 8 online courses. 

That’s 680 lessons, according to my course platform.

[Read the full blog post here].

It’s all been part of a grand master plan I hatched in mid-2023 to build out the complete operating system for building a leveraged, expertise-based lifestyle business.

The eight courses are designed with that specific endgame in mind. 

Here’s a summary: 

• Lifestyle Business School Roadmap: This is the overarching roadmap for mapping and tracking your progress to your personal endgame. 
• Dream and Design: Design the leveraged expertise-based business model that satisfies the Monday Morning test and feels just right for you. 
• Create and Validate: Build a simple, leveraged expertise-based offer suite (and the engaged lead list to sell it) in 12-weeks. 
• Deliver and Delight: The full delivery playbook for building out a stand out and streamlined online course, group program, membership or mastermind. 
• Rinse and Repeat: The ultimate collective of every live launch and promotion under the sun. 
• Traffic Playbook: Develop and execute a simple but sophisticated marketing plan to sell your scalable offers. 
• Automate and Accelerate: Build out a fully automated system of cascading campaigns to sell your offers on autopilot.. while you sleep. 
• [Not currently included in Lifestyle Business School] Operational Elegance: The full back end blueprint for running your online business including systems, structure and streamlined processes to simplify, scale.. or step back!

Here’s why it was important to me, though.

When I looked around, I saw too much piecemeal advice.

 “Implement this strategy for success!” – one course would say.

“Do this and get your next 1000 followers!” – another would say. 

The truth is, everything worked (if implemented).

But, the advice was piecemeal.

They were tactics, when ultimately what someone needs to build a successful leveraged lifestyle business is a simple, holistic strategy, and a clear map with all of the pieces laid out in order.

That’s what I have created in Lifestyle Business School. 

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To get sales, you need leads!

To get leads, you need traffic! 

So, how do you get it? 

What’s working now? 

[Read the full blog post here].

The truth is, times have changed. 

The landscape is crowded. 

Ads are costly. 

And getting attention feels about as easy as screaming to a band to pull you up on stage in the middle of a rock concert. 

So let me lift the lid on how I do it, and what’s working right now. 

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So, you have big business goals – incredible!

What’s your plan to achieve them? 

Q4 is sneaking up on us, and as anyone in online business would know that means prime money-making season!

There is a lot of opportunity in the final three months of the year.

[Read the full blog post here].

Whether you’re well behind on your annual sales goal or you’re simply looking to maximise the opportunity that this time of year brings, preparation will give you the BEST chance of making this your biggest quarter of sales yet!

The best way to prepare? 

With a simple, actionable marketing plan. 

If you haven’t created yours yet, now is absolutely the time. 

Planning ahead will allow you to get strategic, and squeeze the most juice out of this prime time on the online business calendar. 

In today’s piece, we will walk through how to create a simple marketing to smash your Q4 goals, and set yourself up for a strong end to what has for many been a more trying year. 

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You know the whole “money in your sleep” thing? 

“Build a funnel and watch the money roll in whilst you’re catching z’s”? 

The truth is, it’s real – but not in the same way it’s been taught, sold and done online for the past few years.

[Read the full blog post here].

The standard advice is that you set it up once, flick the switch to “on”, and watch the sales start rolling through the door. 

As much as I’d love to sell you that strategy, it doesn’t quite work that way. 

That’s the bad news. 

The good news? 

Is that when done the right way, at the right time, using principles that work right now, and the right “full funnel” strategy, an evergreen funnel can become one of the most powerful automated workhorses for generating bonus profit in your business. 

In today’s piece, I am going to share with you how to build out an evergreen funnel system to sell your online course, program or membership the RIGHT way. 

(No BS or unrealistic promises included). 

Side note – We have just added a fresh new course soldier to the Lifestyle Business School lineup. It’s called Automate and Accelerate, and it’s a step–by-step, here’s-exactly-how-you-do-it system for building out an evergreen funnel system to sell your offer/s on autopilot. 

It includes the full strategy for creating a front end evergreen funnel to make sales immediately, and then the three to six month back end ecosystem to continue to cycle your leads through a series of offers to make profit.. without lifting a finger. 

You can check out Automate and Accelerate and join us in Lifestyle Business School here.

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