Where has Melinda LIvsey been? What has happened to her since coming on the show? How did she go from charging $0 to $5,000 for strategy? Find out. 2:38 I went from not doing strategy at all (using a questionnaire as my "strategy," I would say). I wasn't charging for that, and now I am charging. I'm leading with that. 6:19 Could you describe to me where you’re at currently? As far as where you want to grow? I hear you wanna grow, so that’s your ideal. And you want to continue to grow, so that’s your ideal. 7:05 Well, it sounds like (from what I’m hearing) your ideal client...Are they feeling the same thing that you are, too? Are you losing them? Are you gaining them? 7:25 I would be writing down where you are and then I would be writing down your ideal, so that they can see it visually and we’re both looking at something together. Then I would break it down: where the middle is (this is your aim), so I start asking you questions: “What’s an attainable goal about midway between where you are now and where you wanna be? What would that look like to you?” 8:06 Those are the tasks that will get us to that goal, [but] what does that goal actually look like for your company? 8:58 An attainable goal that I’m hearing is that, it would be that you’re proud of your company, and that you would want to go around and that you want to be proud of it. 11:53 That more stands for something that is aligned with your business plan, and this is more aligned with how you reach your ideal client. 18:53 Why would I do that now? Because of the reasons that I was telling you, that, as the client, one, I know that it’s not necessarily (I don’t know this for sure, but) it’s not necessarily gonna reach their goal, and so, if everything’s not in alignment as far as strategy and their goals and we’re not getting anywhere, we’re just checking things off a list. 19:45 – “What makes you so special? Because I give advice out to strangers on the Internet, I give advice to the coaching group, one-on-one coaching...Why, why were you able to achieve what they weren’t able to achieve? ” 21:10 – “Just do the first small, very small step. Whatever that is. For me, it was: Learn how to do strategy. The second one, it was: Get someone to agree to let me do strategy for them for their company.” 24:03 It is a special somebody that can just take a little bit of information and even though it’s counter to everything that they’ve done before that moment, yet you’re willing to just move forward without sitting there and thinking, over-analyzing, over-thinking, and die a death of paralysis by analysis. 24:55 First, it’s my beliefs. Because I feel that my accomplishments don’t define who I am. That who I am is, is not attached to what I do, or what I accomplish, or even the things that I fail with or fail doing. The second one is, I believe it is in my personality to just do things. When opportunities come to you, when things that you learn come up, that you just embrace them. Kind of like what Chris always tells us: Embrace and pivot. 27:08 There is fear there, but to me, for me, the excitement is...it overshadows the fear. Marks and Makers https://www.marksandmaker.com — This is the Futur of Education— Disrupting the design education paradigm. Want a deeper dive? Typography, Lettering, Sales & Marketing, Social Media and The Business of Design courses available here: https://goo.gl/bRt5qd — Love the content? Become a sustaining member for $5/mo today. https://goo.gl/uKcJ3N BOOKLIST – Essential Reading for Creative Professionals: https://bit.ly/biz-booklist Essential Design Books: https://bit.ly/futur-design-books Kits & Proposals: https://goo.gl/mSjuWQ Visit our website: https://www.thefutur.com FREE resources: https://goo.gl/Qh6gHr Mandarin (Chinese) Subtitles on UiiUii https://uiiiuiii.com/?s=the+futur — OUR AFFILIATE LINKS* Webflow: http://bit.ly/2EbET9l Retro Supply Co.: http://bit.ly/2GW8gzR Skillshare: https://goo.gl/YCo2uT Amazon: http://bit.ly/thefuturishere Creative Market: https://goo.gl/g4jlTE Design Cuts: http://bit.ly/2GSsAR3 — Futur Podcast on iTunes: 🎙 https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-futur/id1209219220?mt=2 — Credits: Executive Producer– Chris Do Host– Chris Do & Melinda Livsey Cinematography– Aaron Szekely, Mark Contreras Editor– Stewart Schuster Futur Theme Music – Adam Sanborne http://www.adamsanborne.com Annotations– Alexandru Vasile Burlui Typefaces: Futura, Din, Helvetica Neue Futur theme song— Adam Sanborne === *By making a purchase through any of our affiliate links, we receive a very small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps us on our mission to provide quality education to you. Thank you.