For solopreneurs making $10k+/month

If you are a solopreneur or service provider making $10k/month or more, here’s an offer you might be interested in:

Less of YOU.

As in, you might be interested in trading in the business you’ve managed to build up so far with sweat and hustle… for a new business that can scale profitably, and that isn’t 100% tied to your energy, your availability, and your brainpower.

This offer, which goes under the name ScaleTribe, is being made by Michal Eisik.

If case you don’t know Michal, this transition is one she has made herself.

Michal started out as a busy and overdelivering freelance copywriter back in 2017.

She has since launched several courses (with hundreds of students)… a paid community… and a marketing agency… all while having not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but SIX (6!) children.

Plus as she wrote when she joined my Monetization Mastermind community, “Monday and Thursday evenings are sacred for netball.” (I had no idea what netball is. I looked it up. It turns out to be English basketball with a weird hoop.)

The reason Michal can do the course and the community and the agency is because she is smart and works hard, but also because she has formed a small but dedicated team of 5 people around her, and she has developed systems to actually get those people to deliver results that meet her standards.

(Smart and hard-working alone would not give her time enough to do a fraction of what she does, and still have time for 6 kids and twice-a-week netball.)

Michal ran the first ScaleTribe cohort last year, with 30 people — copywriters, owners of design agencies, brand experts, creative directors, and founders. Here are some of their experiences:

#1. “Before joining ScaleTribe, I was working myself to the bone, overloaded with projects, and trying to stay on top of every detail. They helped me finally hire VAs and get two digital courses up and running. Most of all, they changed the way I operate and view my business.”

#2. “ScaleTribe gave me everything I was hoping for. I’ve been able to use my time so much more efficiently by outsourcing and delegating work which doesn’t require my level of skill or knowledge.”

#3. “Being part of a group of like-minded business owners navigating similar challenges was incredibly grounding. But the biggest shift for me was in management: I gained real structure and direction.”

#4. “…actually got me to take action and refine valuable processes.”

#5. “It pushed me to finally do things I’d been thinking about for ages, things I’d watched others do but never got around to myself.”

Michal is launching ScaleTribe for the second-ever cohort next week (gulp, very soon).

It’s a big purchase and a big decision. I don’t expect you to make up your mind now or to buy based on this short email.

If you are interested, you can get more details on the following page:

https://bejakovic.com/scaletribe

… and Michal will also be hosting a webinar about ScaleTribe next Tuesday at 2pm EST, where you can get to meet her and see if you vibe with her. If you wanna register for that:

https://bejakovic.com/michalwebinar

Free “marketing personality” quiz (turns out I am a big-idea brain)

Today I got a free quiz for you. A personality quiz. A marketing personality quiz.

In my case at least, it’s proven to be flattering and even insightful.

The background:

Earlier this year, career coach Shaina Keren took the initiative to put me in touch with Michal Eisik, who runs the CopyTribe program.

Shaina wrote that she’d been subscribed to my Daily Email Habit service and found it useful… maybe Michal would like to promote it to her CopyTribe crowd?

It’s taken a while — rivers flow slowly in JV land — but Michal and I finally agreed to do a cross-promo.

She would let her people know about my Daily Email Habit. In turn, she asked, would I be willing to let people on my list know about her free marketing personality quiz?

I unthinkingly said sure, but then I kind of bit my lip.

The fact is, I don’t like to promote stuff I can’t vouch for myself, even if it’s a free lead magnet.

And a “marketing personality” quiz?

As long-term readers of this newsletter might know, I had an addiction in my youth to personality tests. It took me a number of years of self-denial to wean myself off this addiction, and afterwards, I took a holier-than-thou attitude to all kinds of systems that categorize people based on a series of multiple choice questions.

But what to do? I realized my only way out of this situation was to risk unleashing my personality test addiction once again, and to take Michal’s quiz myself.

So that’s what I done. My impressions/results:

1. Michal’s quiz consists of 12 questions, which is more in depth than I had expected. What’s more, I had to sit and think about my answers to each question, because these are not simple BuzzFeed B.S. choices. As a result, the very act of taking the quiz was somehow insightful.

2. Inevitably, there were some choices that felt forced or arbitrary. (Eg. am I more “intuitive” or “visual” or “generative”? I feel I am all three. But I ended up choosing “intuitive,” because, well, it felt right intuitively.)

3. My result came back and it turned out I am a “Big-Idea Brain.” I liked the sound of that because, if you drop the “idea” part, then my marketing type sounds like it’s just “Big Brain,” and frankly, I’ve always suffered from the need to feel smarter than I am. So that part was flattering.

But the quiz results also told me true stuff about myself that I hadn’t shared in my answers (“you need a notepad (or twelve) just to keep up with yourself”).

And they even pointed out a few things — I won’t share those here, because according to other personality tests, I am an “I” — that maybe others can see about me, but that I don’t see myself, but that rang true, and made me think.

Anyways, Michal’s quiz is worth taking — worth a couple minutes of calm and collected time.

Maybe your result will just be fun and flattering. Or maybe you will also learn something useful about yourself, which you can then use in a profitable way towards your marketing or copywriting career.

To take Michal’s marketing personality quiz:

https://bejakovic.com/quiz