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Marketing & Cocktails

Vanessa Shepherd & Terrica Strozier, She's Got Vision

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Marketing and Cocktails is a podcast for entrepreneurs, side-hustlers, and full-time business owners who want to market themselves ethically, have amazing launches and scale their business profitably. Business partners, Terrica Strozier and Vanessa Shepherd dig into the mindset, habits, branding, marketing tactics, and business strategies that help you build buzz and make money doing what you love. Each week over cocktails you’ll hear our advice on marketing and launching your next offer whi ...
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Are you afraid to market your coaching or consulting business because you feel that everything that you’ve been taught was manipulative and unethical marketing coaching strategies? Have you been paid to be in a coaching program that promised to get you to 10k a month but it just didn’t work for you? Are you ready to choose HOW you show up for your audience despite everyone telling you to do it in a certain way that doesn’t feel in alignment with your business values? Coaches and consultants ...
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