How to Build a Business Without Social Media with Kate Kordsmeier
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How to Build a Business Without Social Media with Kate Kordsmeier

B1IntermediateOctober 21, 202628 min
  • Interview
  • Business & money

My guest today told me that organic social media now has a 98 percent failure rate. Meaning even the people who chose to follow you are, statistically, not going to see what you post. She would know. She quit social media entirely on Thanksgiving of 2021, expecting a small dip in revenue as the cost of her sanity. Instead her business grew 165 percent in the following year. I'm talking with Kate Kordsmeier, founder of Success with Soul, about what she does instead of posting: partnerships, guest podcasting, summits, and an SEO strategy she is now applying to...

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Welcome to The Future Coach, the podcast for independent coaches, in-house coaches, and the coach curious. I'm your host, Carla Loenthael, founder of the Socratic Coaching Academy. If you want to chart a new path, up-level your skills, and build a successful career

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around coaching, you're in the right place. Let's go. Hello, my friends. I'm so excited for this conversation today because so many people I talk to who want

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to be coaches have this huge fear around having to show up on social media. So since I do have a social media presence, I don't feel like I can convince you all that it's not so crucial, even though I had very few Instagram followers for most of my career and really didn't build my business that way.

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