I was still trying to decide this morning whether to move the vocal coaching stuff to a new blog or keep it here. The peanut gallery has been vociferous ["Keep it HEERRRE!"] while others were firmly against ["You'll scare away prospective clients with the flake thing!"]
Interestingly, the differences seemed to break down along gender lines — women in favor of the flake, men against — with one eloquent exception. So, what are we to make of that: that women are more likely to perceive themselves as flakes and have a fondness for confession, and men think it’s best to hide our weaknesses? I have no idea.
What I do know is that I don’t need ALL customers, just SOME customers. I don’t need a lot of money, just some money. So I was leaning toward keeping it all here, where I feel comfortable and I know people like me. And, as has been pointed out in the comments, my “right people” will find me here. Those who wouldn’t be right for me wouldn’t be attracted to this site. That’s okay.
But then I had a vocal coaching session with my fabulous mentor, Launch Coach Dave Navarro, who gave me some free advice afterwards — which included his opinion that I should have two sites, and he liked another domain I have better than AwesometasticAudio. I agreed about the domains and figured he knew what he was talking about, so I said I’d get the new site set up and ready, because next week, HE’S GOING TO BLOG ABOUT OUR SESSION. Holy crap.
Dave also told me to offer voice coaching sessions to some of the Big Bloggers to help spread the word, and to create PDF and audio follow-up files, all to be part of my product. [My Product. ::sigh:: I like the sound of that.]
Aaannd… he’s going to give me a full consulting session next week! Wow.
But talk about pressure! I had a few days to set up a whole new site, write some articles and make it all look decent for company. I’ve been stressing about that for two days. This morning, as I thought again about the site decision, it came to me:
What would a flake do? This flake in particular?
I don’t want to have to figure out how to get a whole new audience at the new site, and then juggle both sites. I’m a flake! I can’t handle all that. I would definitely flake out. I know this from experience. Some people do well under pressure, but I’m not one of them. The right thing for ME, I realized, is to keep it simple. That’s what always works best for me. Hell, it’s the ONLY thing that works.
So the decision is finally made, despite very good advice from very good people. This is what has always felt right to me. Gotta go with my gut. I still have to put up some kind of sales page for vocal coaching and a couple more blog posts, but it’s a lot more doable than a whole new site.
And I have to get a new bumper sticker made: “WWFD? What Would a Flake Do?”
Photo credit: Kev Griffen
