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Three Misconceptions About Your Ideal Styling Client That Are Costing You Money

What are you willing to do to have the kind of clients you want and style them the way you want to? Are you willing to accept that some conceptions you have about business are mere myths?

You’re leaving a lot at stake if you don’t understand the styling marketplace. Unfortunately, so much of the business training in this industry leaves much to be desired. I’ve seen how easy it is for stylists to let these beliefs fill them with anxiety and self-doubt for years when it could’ve been avoided with more knowledge about the marketplace and its possibilities for their business.

In this episode of The Six Figure Personal Stylist podcast, you’ll learn about the biggest misconceptions you might have as a stylist about committing to a niche or a type of client. I’ll give you a little insight into the marketplace and demand for styling services, as well as share how these false beliefs are holding your business back and costing you money.

5:46 – The myth that you’ll get clients without a niche just by using the right marketing mechanism

12:17 – The myth that you can find your ideal client just by using this outdated model

15:26 – What your ideal client isn’t telling you and the balancing act you have to provide in your messaging

22:58 – Why the old model of identifying ideal clients isn’t working anymore

26:43 – The myth that you’ll inevitably get bored by going all in on one niche or type of client

31:23 – Why you can let go of the lingering fear of leaving people out if you pick a niche

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Welcome to the Six Figure Personal Stylist Podcast, the ultimate no-BS business podcast for ambitious personal stylists ready to build a six-figure and beyond personal styling business.

You won't hear the typical snoozefest business advice that most personal stylists get told all of the time. Nope. Instead, I'll be sharing business-building strategies that will help you create a killer personal brand, a cult following of loyal personal styling clients, and make a ton of cash while creating lasting style transformations for your clients.

I'm Nicole Otchy, your host and a former personal stylist of 14 years who built a lucrative styling business in three major cities, but only after spending years trying to crack the six-figure styling business code without burning out. And now I'm here to tell you how to do exactly the same. Let's get into it.

Okay, today we're going to talk about the biggest misconceptions that I see stylists having about committing to an ideal client or a niche and how they are costing them money and quite frankly, probably liking and enjoying your business.

I was talking to a stylist the other day who I've been doing this work with one-on-one and she was like, "If I had known this years ago, it would have saved me so much anxiety, so much heartbreak, so much self-doubt that just didn't need to be there."

This is a stylist who's gone through three or four other programs for stylists. It's just so hard for me to know what is possible for each of you when you go all in on a group of people.

I know that from the other standpoint of somebody else who is struggling with the idea of niching, it could feel scary because you don't have any evidence that this group of people who you're probably not included in that niche, you are probably not in that niche, most likely, or you're no longer in that niche as a person.

It's so scary to be like, “Well, how do I know that this person's going to be able to pay for it,” which is why we think, “Nicole, let me cast my net as wide as possible and try to appeal to everybody, but also usually no one. One of those billions of people will hire me,” when that really is a symptom of a lack of business understanding of the market.

That is what I think is so drastically missing in the industry right now. It's fair enough for you to sit in your own beliefs, false or otherwise, about what's possible for you in your business when you don't have the facts about what the marketplace looks like.

Unfortunately, despite the fact that there are so many styling platforms and groups and different things that are trying to do these "business trainings" for stylists, nobody's giving them a really good sense of the market.

What happens is we have a bunch of stylists that are sitting in these false beliefs because they don't have any information to even cling to minutely to think, "Okay, maybe this could work for me." I can tell you it worked for me. By the time I closed my business, I was very niched. I was working with women who were personal brands who were public speakers and coaches, and specifically public speakers were my most public-facing niche.

If you're thinking to yourselves that that's incredibly niched, you're right, it is. Because I know how to assess a niche for both myself and my clients, that will yield income, I'm not just saying you could pick any niche, that's not the case at all. There are better and worse niches you could pick.

There are ways that I run my stylist through thinking like, “Is this the right market fit for what you want to do? Does what you want to do as a stylist meet with the expectations of what the market will pay for at the rate that you need in order to survive?”

When you have that information in front of you, it becomes a lot easier to silence the fear, which is still going to come up. You're still going to have doubts, but at least now you know why you're flying in the face of the doubt because you have actual information and data and a framework to evaluate things with versus being like, "Yeah, I know everyone tells me I need to niche, but how do I know that group of people will hire me?" which, fair.

Again, nothing I'm going to say today is going to take away the fear because your brain doesn't want to do something when it's new, it wants to keep you safe. But I invite you as we go into this conversation to consider if safety is equaling thriving in your business.

Because for me, it didn't and for most of the stylists that I work with who have gone through multiple programs, who are on every free call with these different groups that run these "business trainings," they're getting all the information, but the information lacks specificity and clarity on the marketplace so they have no reason to go all in.

What my goal is for you today is to know that you're going to be fearful if you decide to do this and that's not evidence of it not working in the future because you cannot get to the next level no matter where you are doing the things you were doing before.

The question is, are you willing to put up with a little bit of discomfort to actually be able to style people that you want to style to actually have the type of clients and the type of income that you want because that is what is at steak by you not understanding the marketplace.

Each of the minutes we're going to talk about today is going to give you a little bit more insight into personal styling, the marketplace, and what the market demand is for styling services.

The first thing I want to talk about is a myth I hear a lot, which is that there is another way, another funnel, an ad, some other mechanism that you can use, that you can pay for, that you can get a marketing team in to help you do, that is going to help you get clients without having to niche.

Quite frankly, what this usually looks like is people saying that they are hiring a marketing team or they are going to try funnels, or they're going to do paid newsletters, or they're going to run ads, and all of those things can absolutely work for you.

But what you have to remember about those things is, that is like the car, and the fuel is the messaging, and you cannot have the fuel if you don't know who you're talking to, because the way that you message things and the way that you put them into those tools, whether that be a funnel, a paid newsletter, and ad requires messaging, and that messaging will vary depending on who you're talking to because who you're talking to and why they want personal styling services is not the same for every person.

Not only is there just the transactional and the transformational client that I've talked about, but within that group, you have different buyer types or different motivation styles.

You really need to understand that all of the things that you could pay for, which I am not against, are things that you need to do after you figure out how to talk to people in a way that makes them buy from you because nobody is in your client meetings, in your fittings, in your closet edits, and in your sales calls but you.

A marketing team coming in is going to have a very, as do many business coaches quite frankly, in my own experience of working with people that are not in the industry, they have a very superficial view of what we do.

They have a very surface-level understanding of this, and as a result, they tend to have stylists doing things in their marketing that are very superficial, and it does not in any way translate to sales because it will grow your audience to do theme kind of Instagram Reels that are about stealth wealth or mob wife or whatever.

It will get you views, but that's not what the person that's about to drop $3,000 to $5,000 on a styling service and let you into their psychological financial life, to let you see that, to share their insecurities with you, that's not what they're looking for in order to hire you.

If you don't know how to speak to these things, what their concerns are, what their sales trigger is, that's the number one thing, if you don't know those things and you're going and thinking an ad or a marketing team or something else is going to be able to do it for you, you're expecting a car to drive without putting gas at it, and that's it.

It's so interesting to me how many people are like, “Okay, I'm going to do your program. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that” when it comes to the business side, “After I hire a marketing team. After I hire whatever,” and then six months later, they have even less money and now they have no idea how they're going to get their business on track because at the end of the day—and this is not just about stylists, I've talked to so many of my business friends about this across industries—you are in charge of your business.

If you don't know how to make sales and you don't know how to make relationships, there's nobody else you're going to hire unless they can teach you how to do those two things that are going to fix the problem because you need money because you're a business and this is not a charity and you need relationships with your clients at a depth level that allows you to speak to their concerns.

If you look at yourself as a buyer, if you look at yourself as a consumer, I'm going to guess that the reason you're listening to this podcast is because I speak directly to you and to your experience of being a stylist.

Some of that is because I was a stylist, sure, but most of it is because I spent hours looking at personal stylist content. I interviewed dozens of stylists before I opened the styling consultancy.

I have been very slow to roll out more and more offers because I want to make sure that I understand what the market wants. Again, this is not something that's specific to personal styling because I'm technically in the business coaching and consulting world, and it works.

The framework works. It got me from $0 to six figures from April of '23 to April of '24, and I have not run one ad except for a $40 Instagram-boosted post, which didn't get huge results, but it got more people on my email list, which was good enough. But that's all.

Because I want to make sure that before I pay for ads or before I pay for even the website to be completed, I am sure that my messaging is down. I am sure that the way that I'm speaking to my client and the relationships I'm building are not just a one-and-done situation, that I have repeat clients, and now that I have that one year into the business, I'm starting to look at the other things I need to do like to grow my reach.

But I don't grow reach and I don't recommend you grow reach until how to sell to the people that are on your accounts right now because all you're doing is taking money and burning it.

The best way to get your marketing and your messaging dialed in and learn how to build those relationships is to speak to them, the people that you want to talk to and in order to have a conversation, you have to know where to start.

You can't know where to start if you don't niche down. You could if you had a team of 90 people helping you look at stats, running different types of simulations, and having expensive software.

But last time I checked, that's A, not something any stylist I know wants to do, and B, most of you are not in a situation where you have a company that's big enough that makes sense for that.

Quite frankly, why would you do that, even if you did, when all you have to do is be a person and go all in on another person? It's free. What I'm telling you to do is literally free. That doesn't mean you're not scared, but if you think about it, everything is scary the first time you do it.

This idea that there's some other mechanism, some other way of marketing that's just a tool is going to make up for not knowing who you're talking to and it won't because again, a car without gas doesn't go anywhere.

That's the first myth. The second myth that I really want to chat about is you know who your ideal client is if you can pinpoint a few characteristics or lifestyle markers and they can pay you.

You know, for example, that they are 40, they have a family, it's a woman, she's probably a professional, she probably makes $100,000 a year, maybe she has a dog, a kid, and she's willing to pay you. So you think, “Well, that must be my ideal client.” Here's what I want you to understand. Just because somebody pays you doesn't mean that they are your ideal client.

In fact, that is exactly what I mean when I say scarcity because it tells me that if that is your marker for ideal clients, if I asked you to dig a little deeper in terms of what happens once that person pays you and then you go through the experience, my guess is that you’re going to give me, if you've had three clients that fit that bill, a wide variety of experiences with that client, in terms of their responsiveness, how quickly that styling service was from start to finish, the depth of the work you were able to do with that person, whether that met your desired depth or not.

If you wanted to be transformational with that person, but they were very transactional, you're going to leave that interaction feeling like, “I don't know if it was the best fit for me,” or “I don't know if the client got the end result that I hoped for.”

What happens is because we get so excited to take people's money because we haven't had a client for a long time because we haven't gone all in and our marketing is inconsistent and all of those things—which are totally normal—what happens is we decide that it's easy to pinpoint things like, “They're married. They have a job. They pay me. They have kids.” But those things are actually in no way, shape, or form what drives that person to buy from you.

They're just commonalities that we tend to think, "Oh, this must be my ideal client because what we're seeing is a pattern. We're seeing a pattern of these types of demographics paired with the fact that they give us money."

I know that I'm not the first person to sit here and tell you guys that you need to niche or you need to pick an ideal client because I know right now on the market there is not one platform or one group of people that are talking to stylists that don't tell you this, but they tend to stay there. They make this much money. They do that.

What I want to share with you is there are enough people making a lot of money, even if you don't know them in the world right now, specifically if you're doing a hybrid model of virtual and in-person that can pay a fee for a stylist. That's not the problem, especially as the market has become savvier and savvier to what personal stylists do and their value. Not the problem.

The problem is that nobody is talking about what the actual sales driver is, what the actual thing is that gets them to say, "Yes, for sure, I want to hire you." They are not the same for everybody, even if all of these people have the same demographics.

So, let me break this down very specifically for you. Let's say your ideal client, again, is a busy woman who's a working professional, who has a family, and who's in her 40s. She has a dual-income home, meaning she and her partner both make a certain amount of money. It's at least six figures or more.

What I'm missing then is the reason why she wants the styling service. They may tell you, "Oh, it's to feel confident. It's because it's taking me so much time to get dressed." Now you're marketing to that and wondering why isn't anybody responding.

Let me tell you why, because most people are not going to tell you the primary driver of the purchase until after the experience, because they don't actually know if you're going to get the result, and it's incredibly vulnerable to do that.

Again, think about how you buy. You may or may not ask a question. You may or may just look at people's content and lurk there. If the person reaches out to you, you may not answer. You sit back and think about a lot of different factors, but you don't necessarily interact because that feels vulnerable.

Well, same thing with your clients, even if they hire you. They're waiting for the trust to be built. What you don't have access to, you may have access on your new client form and they say to you, like, "Oh, I don't feel confident. It's taking me too long. My body's changed.” Cool. Those are the surface-level reasons, but underneath that is a deeper feeling that they want to either get away from or embrace.

They're either running from experience or they're running towards an experience. In my experience, whenever you're marketing, you want to be able to balance those two things. You want to make sure that you are making clear what’s possible for somebody as to what they are running towards.

But you also want to make sure that you are speaking to the things that they are afraid of so that they know that you understand them and build trust quickly. When you just go with the superficial things that I’m mentioning and you don’t know what is the driver of the behavior, you will never really get where you want to go in your marketing.

Let me give you a breakdown of what this looks like. I'm in my 40s and I have two groups of friends. They have all normal jobs. One-half of them work and they fit this description exactly.

They're in their 40s. They have kids that are 8 years old and 10 years old. They're working professionals and they would go to a stylist because they want to perform better at work and be seen a certain way as they go up the chain of seniority.

They want to be seen as credible and they want to be seen as respected and they want to be seen as smart. How they dress is in many ways an investment in their career.

They also have very little time, they have kids, and they probably don't really dress for themselves, they really invest a lot of money in themselves generally for their clothes.

The other group of people that are my friends that I know would hire a stylist would hire them from this space. They both have similar situations in terms of their work world. They also have children and they're busy.

But the reason they would hire a stylist, despite the fact they have the exact same outward demographics—In fact, a fair amount of my friends are in the higher education and teaching space. Some of them have the same jobs—but the reason why this group of women would hire a stylist is because they feel like they've lost themselves because they feel like they're doing stuff for everybody else and they come last.

Now that's also probably true of my group of friends who are hiring a stylist to become more upwardly mobile in their career, but that's not the driver, that's not how they identify, even if that's their life experience.

What I'm trying to say is that, yes, the demographics can be the same. Even the circumstances and some of the “pain points” can be the same. That doesn't mean that's the driver of the sale.

This other set of friends who feel like they've lost themselves is doing the personal styling experience and entering into it from a place of taking a stand for herself. Technically, sure, I think you can make the argument that the other group is too, but really it's from a place of like, “This is a way for me to connect internally.”

The other group of friends I mentioned who are doing it to advance in their careers are doing it as a way to connect externally. Those two types of women—they're actually two specific people I'm thinking of right now—who have the same job, their kids are the same age, they have the same type of house like they literally make the same amounts of money, we went to high school together, we're very similar, we have the same education, these two women have exactly the same education, the same degrees, they are going to a stylist for radically different reasons.

So, your messaging to the one who feels like she lost herself is not going to resonate with the one who wants to make sure that you're savvy enough and understand how to dress somebody who's a woman who's becoming more senior to get credibility.

Because that person wants to know, “Do you know how to read the room professionally? Do you understand and can you tell me in a very specific way what it looks like to dress for credibility in a workplace? I don't want to be too dressed up. I don't want to be too dressed down. I don't want to look like I'm trying too hard.” Can you speak to that in your marketing?

The other one wants to know that you're a safe place for her to explain that she doesn't feel like she comes first. She doesn't want you to explain to her about all the things about credibility in the workplace. She might tell you that she got a new job and that's why she's hiring you, but that isn't why. It's because there's a point in her identity that there's a mark and she says, “Enough.”

Totally one's internally driven, one's externally driven. When you don't know your ideal client the way that I need you to with the psychographics, you will never get sales in this market or you'll get sales that are incredibly sporadic and you will have no idea when your next one is coming.

The cost of that to you, what that means to you, is that you will then doubt yourself. Every time you start to get back into a client relationship or an engagement, you will wonder, you will overgive, and you will not have the ability to streamline your services, to be able to continue to become better as a stylist because there are these huge gaps in your work time between one client and the next.

You can't make things better. You can't streamline them. You can't get your marketing better if you're not talking to people all the time. That's why in my stories, I talk a lot to you guys about relationships and how you need to think of your marketing and your selling as a series of relationships because if you do, that means that you know exactly who you're talking to and if you don't have clients right then, I teach my stylist all the time, “If you don't have a client, here's how I want you to go and get into their world. Here's how I want you to research them. Here's how I want you to get in conversation with them. Here are the types of experts and people I want you to be connecting with and networking with online or in person to continue to get to know them better so your content can continue to get better even if you're not in their house styling them or on Zoom telling them what outfits look good.”

I need you in conversations. You cannot have conversations with the masses. That's not how relationships are built. This myth that if you just know the basic lifestyle characteristics, you will be able to market and get a client, is a very outdated model. That used to be the case before COVID, that used to be the case before people got way more savvy about styling.

I used to be able to get away with that as a stylist for probably the bulk of my career and then all of a sudden everything shifted. I will tell you getting my business back to six figures after the pandemic was very eye-opening because I had so many established clients, I was able to do pretty well, which is true with many of you listening.

But I wasn’t able to stay at the level that I was before COVID making six figures if I didn’t change my marketing. What I see is so many established stylists that have a reasonably established client roster, they do okay, like they stay at 40, 50, somewhere in there, but they're so afraid to push themselves to get to the next level to learn how to market for this kind of world right now, to put themselves out there because they're thinking about themselves.

They're not thinking about if I'm doing this from the standpoint of creating relationships because all of you that are in that point, all of you that are sitting there at this, like you're not growing, you're using old SEO, word of mouth and hoping that people will come to you, that's going to just wear out now because even if your SEO works for you, when they get to your Instagram or your social media, if it is not active, they're going to dip out because the reality is we all want to work with people that understand us.

Now we know that there are people out there who understand us with the influx of online businesses. So, there's no reason for somebody to settle for a stylist who will not step up to the plate for them because they don't have to. There are plenty of others.

Back in the day, when I started, nobody knew what this was, or it was so novel that you could say you were a stylist for professional women who make six figures, and that was good enough because they had no frame of reference for what other possibilities were out there for them. And the majority of those lives were very much structured around how they dressed being part of the context of their professional life. That has all changed.

Now you see people way more interested in what is the transformational way of styling because they don't have the context, the life context that they had pre-COVID to dictate what they wear because offices have changed, people aren't going into the offices. They're inconsistently at the office, a couple of days a week.

Even if they were, everything's gotten more casual. The things that made people hire, say me, back in the day when I got started, were way too general. I could never get away with that. That's certainly not how I could get away from losing $30,000 in sales during the pandemic and getting myself back to six figures.

I just couldn't do that anymore. That's why I went in so specifically to public speakers. That's the kind of thinking I need you to have if you're an established stylist, who these things worked for in the past and you're listening to this with your eyebrow raised because I see you, I know you. I get it, I was so afraid to be seen too.

My husband used to be like, “You need to run ads, you need to do this.” My biggest fear was my audience getting bigger because I could barely handle the audience I had in front of me.

I know what that terror feels like, but it gets so much easier when you know who you're talking to because now you know who to focus on and you don't focus on yourself anymore. Now you can get up every day and know who you're trying to help and what your mission is.

That's why I'm so passionate about this for that group of folks because I know what you've put into this career and I know it's possible for you, and it's not that far away. The last one I want to get into is that it will be kind of boring if you go all in on one client.

Oh, man, do I get this but I think I talked about it in an earlier episode, I don't know what number it is now because my memory is not what it used to be. Let's be honest, my memory is never really that good. But I think it was like two or three episodes ago, I talked about not making drama in your business.

You know what's so funny is that we can think like, "Oh, it'd be so boring if we go in on one group of people and like one psychographic." But what I find is that the deeper in my clients go, the more interesting their content is.

If I can just get them to stop doubting and just get into action and make the types of connections that I suggest and network in the way that I want them to—and I don't even mean you have to leave your house, because one thing about me is I'm never going to tell you to network in that way if it's not for you. If it is for you, you go, but that isn't for many of us.

There are so many ways you can find out information about your ideal client, even if they're not the majority of your clients right now. There are so many ways, it's never been easier to do this, which is why I love the Internet so hard.

The more my clients just set their fear aside, they just put it over here and go all in and they discover more about this client and they interview past clients that are good fits and they do all the work, they get so excited about their content and their content gets more interesting and more creative.

As their content gets more interesting and creative, they enjoy their marketing more. As they enjoy their marketing more, they get more opportunities they never would have expected. That is how your business becomes so much less boring than if you don't go all in on a niche or a target market.

Because you know what's really boring? Not working as a stylist. That right there is really boring to me. It also creates such a feeling of self-doubt that even if you're the best stylist in the world, even if your services and your menu, your styling menu and the way that you deliver is interesting, cool, and unique and you do amazing style discovery and you have raving fans of clients, if you don't keep up that momentum, your brain will tell you that this was a shit show and that you should just stop. Trust me, I know.

That's why I'm so passionate about you guys going all in and really going hard on this. It's because if you look at the reality you have now, if you're not earning what you want or if you are earning what you want and you want to get to the next level and you're bored right now in your career, then it's likely the case that you're already bored.

So, what is the cost of you going all in and playing with content for 90 days, even if it's not every single post, it could be every third post, it could be every fourth post, but if somebody gets to your page on Instagram and sees that you say that you are a stylist for architects and interior designers, that person is going to be all in when they get there. Obviously.

If they even see 12 posts for them, they're going to be like, "What does this person have to say?" The thing that we forget is that we are so afraid of a future we don't know, but we're not really looking in any serious way at the reality of our present moment and what that looks like for our business.

We let our fear tell us stories that are not there. It will not be more boring for you to go more all in on an audience because what I do know about stylists is they got into the game 90% of them because they are excited about seeing the person that they want to work with or another human being light up when they look in the mirror.

You do not get access to that if you're not working. What is that fundamentally about? It's about a relationship you create with somebody. It's such a special and specific relationship that stylists have with their clients. Why would it be boring for you to go deeper into those relationships? That just doesn't make sense. It's about how we look at our business.

It's not our business's job to keep giving to us without us putting anything into it. I did that for so long and it really took a coach telling me in the kindest but toughest way possible that I was being a brat. The word is not coming to me, but I was basically being a brat and expecting things.

Your content will get more interesting, your business will get more interesting. The opportunities that come to you will get so much more interesting if you go all in because now people have something to keep showing up for.

The last thing I want to leave you with because I know that this is probably like a lingering fear, is you're going to think, "Yeah, but I don't want to leave people out. I don't want to leave people out."

Here's the thing. What's really interesting about the human mind is that the more specific we are, the more generally people are drawn to us because we are showcasing a level of expertise that is unusual.

One thing about people broadly is they love leadership. They love people who show up fully as experts. It's an energy that people are drawn to. It's not necessarily the content, but the content helps you continue to step into the identity of an expert and a thought leader as a stylist.

That's something that there's not enough interest in or enough talked about in this industry, is that if you go all in on a certain group of people and a niche, like the friend that I talked about who is in her 40s, is working, has two kids that are 8 and 10, and she wants a stylist so that she can feel a way of connecting with herself, women in their 40s who feel like they've lost themselves and they want to connect, that's a niche. There's a lot of women in their 40s like that. Trust me, you have not been on the internet very much if you don't know about that.

What that means is now, you have the opportunity to connect with other people who also have that niche of women, which there's a lot of them right now, and cross-promote and do different things like that.

As you do that, your world gets bigger. What happens is now people that are maybe men that are in that age group will notice your content because what you're speaking to is a universal human experience, people feel like they're lost. You can feel like you're lost and be single. You can feel like you're lost and be 20. You can feel like you're lost and want to use your style to get you to feel more connected to yourself at any age.

But because your brain as a stylist, as the business owner has a place to have a foothold to think, “Okay, what am I going to talk about today?” instead of just spinning your wheels and spinning out on things that aren't even real, now you're like, “Okay, well, I know this client so well. Today I want to talk about this or that or how they put things back and how they only shop at Target,” or whatever it is but then they buy their kid $900 pajamas because that's a real thing.

The Hanna Andersson pajama group is like a whole psychographic end in itself. That's a story for another day. But listen to how specific I'm being. This is what's possible for you.

What also happens is that the more specific you are, even if the person isn't in the exact demographic, the psychographic is spoken to so well by how specific your content is and how creative and how many angles you can talk about it from, you start to attract other people.

For example, I am every day getting DMs from people who are not stylists. I would say several times a month, I get inquiries from people, graphic designers, and coaches who want to work with me, even though I don't work with their demographic or their particular type of business, the psychographics that I speak to to stylists are so specific that they can see themselves in it, particularly if they're a creative entrepreneur or they work with a creative entrepreneur.

While I don't usually take those clients because it's just a distraction from what my primary purpose is here, it is evidence that the more specific and the more creative you are and how you deliver your message to a specific group of people makes it very interesting and captivating to a broad group of people.

Right now, if you're not making consistent income months, you're likely not speaking to anyone in any serious way. Sure, once in a while you might get a DM and people say they like it, but that person may not hire you. When you need clients at the level you need them, when you're not being consistent in your marketing, everything feels overwhelming because you just need another client.

This, what we talked about today and these myths and really going in on this and letting your brain tell it to you, tell you the lies and then setting them aside and doing the work anyways, you'll be unrecognizable as will your business in 90 days if you do this.

If you have more questions about this, hit me up at the DMs. I would love to do a bigger series on this because I think it's so important. But I hope that the way that we broke this down today gives you something to think about and something to consider and really gives you a point of hope for what is possible because I don't want to see any more stylists throwing money into things to fix a problem that they are the only ones capable of fixing through relationships because all of you are capable of it.

Then you can make a lot of money and throw money at other problems that other people can fix. Deal? All right. Talk to you next time.

Thank you so much for hanging out with me. It turns out that social proof is actually pretty important. So if you could help me out, I'd so appreciate it. If you just had a quick free moment and could leave me a rating or review on the podcast app, that would be killer. And even better, if you wanted to share this episode on Instagram and tag me, that would totally make my day and it would bring so much more awareness to the podcast and would help other stylists just like you who are looking to build lucrative styling business because the better each of us does, the better all of us do. Thanks for hanging out with me and I'll chat with you next time.

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