Discover the calm and confidence of a marketing strategy that is all you

The doors to Grow are open! 🎉

Yay, Grow launches today! I am so excited to be opening the doors for you for the next two weeks.

Grow is my marketing programme where I support you to feel intentional and confident about your marketing. It’s the place where you’re not forced into someone else’s blueprint or plan, but are supported to discover the kind of marketing that completely fits you (and brings in clients and customers).

One of the most exciting things about running the programme last year was seeing the participants discover what worked for them.

Two participants redid their websites to really make them the heart of their marketing. One participant experimented with offline and local ways of sharing more of their art. Several started a newsletter. Another participant phased out their podcast, for which they never really had the energy, another started playing around with YouTube and Pinterest.

All of them stopped following someone else’s rules. Throughout the 4 months we spent together, they again and again told me how relieved they felt to no longer have to market on channels that didn’t work for them.

And I’d love the same for you.

What previous participants loved about the programme

“I loved the spaciousness and the pace of the programme. I found clarity around my mission and what I value and what I want my business to stand for and offer. And knowing that I can do it at my own pace and on my own terms.” - —Silvia Poldaru, coach

I know that Grow is unique—I’ve seen many, many marketing programmes and courses, but this is the only one that is truly designed with your humanness in mind. Not only is the programme hybrid, combining accountability and working at your own pace, the marketing strategy I teach is rooted in you, in your business, in your life.

In the early years of my business, I bought quite a few marketing courses, watched tutorials, listened to podcasts and read blogposts and books. And they never worked for me—even though I’m generally very diligent at following plans.

Existing marketing advice never worked for me because it wasn’t designed for me.

The advice didn’t work because it wasn’t designed for me. It wasn’t designed for my business, that I was running next to a 3-4 day a week job. It wasn’t designed for my introverted and quiet nature, which got easily overwhelmed by Instagram. It wasn’t designed for my mental health and need for rest, which means that I need to be able to take breaks from my marketing.

In Grow, all of these things are no longer problems that keep you from growing your business in the intentional way you want to. In fact, your needs become central to your marketing.

Grow is for you if…

• you are uninspired or burned out by your existing marketing

• you need a slower, gentler pace of marketing that nonetheless brings in new clients and customers

• you feel lost, like you’re flailing and constantly unsure about your marketing

• you’ve started to dislike marketing in general, because it feels like a game you don’t know the rules for

• you’re done squeezing yourself into other people’s format, and are ready to create your own.

📽️ Take a look at the programme

What previous participants loved about the programme

“The drumbeat of social media can be relentless. It’s hard to shift to what actually works when you don’t get that immediate dopamine hit. Astrid will show you how with her calm, anti-overwhelm marketing” —Celia Cain, mindset coach, healer + mentor

How Grow supports you to market in a way that is all you

Discover, tweak or solidify your business foundations and values to root your marketing in—module 1: your business foundations

Evaluate your current marketing—module 2: your marketing foundations

Create solid and sustainable marketing foundations—module 2: your marketing foundations and module 3: marketing channels that feel good

Create a list of marketing channels to experiment with and that fit in with your life, your business and your values—module 3: marketing channels that feel good

Discover the joy of marketing without social media if that’s what you need—module 3: marketing channels that feel good and module 5: the day-to-day of slow, gentle and profitable marketing

Feel intentional, calm and confident about your marketing—module 4: your intentional marketing strategy

Create a marketing strategy that is gentle, calm and designed around your humanness and needs, incl. periods of less capacity—module 4: your intentional marketing strategy

Market your business through evergreen marketing, community and collaboration—module 5: the day-to-day of slow, gentle and profitable marketing

Create a launch plan for your next product or service launch—module 5: the day-to-day of slow, gentle and profitable marketing

» PLUS

Accountability through my bi-weekly check-in emails

My eyes on your business through the monthly recorded office hours to which you can submit your questions

Flexibility through the self-paced modules which you can do at your own pace—no more falling behind (and lifetime access!)

Structure through the monthly live and recorded planning calls where we’ll plan our marketing for the month together

✨ And, for more marketing inspiration: free access to my growing library of small business workshops.

Having a marketing strategy that is all you, brings immense calm, clarity and confidence.

Practicalities

what | a 4-month hybrid group programme, combining self-paced modules with my eyes on your business through recorded office hours, bi-weekly check-ins and monthly live (and recorded) planning calls.

who | small business owners, freelancers and creatives just like you, who want to grow a slow, gentle and profitable business through marketing that is sustainable, allows them to take time off and fits in with their life and business. This year’s cohort is limited to 10 spots.

when | Grow runs from March 15th to July 15th, with lifetime access to the materials. The launch runs until March 14th.

how much | €990, paid in full or 4, 6 or 8 monthly instalments at no additional cost.

📌 This spring, the cohort is limited to 10 participants

📌 The first 5 people to sign up for Grow by March 5th, get a 30-minute 1:1 call with me as a bonus » just 1 spot left!

I’m very excited for Grow—this programme includes everything that has allowed me to build and run a slow, gentle and profitable business—no hacks, no hustles and no overwhelm, I promise.

If you have any questions about Grow or are wondering whether it’s right for you, please feel free to send me a message—reply to this email, or email me: astrid [at] astridbracke [dot] com.

Thank you for letting me share this with you, and supporting my business 💌

P.S. Curious what other small business owners, freelancers and creatives just like you love about my work? Read their words here.

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