"This was next level." What a client of mine said of a recent session with me.
I donated an hour long consulting session to my friend's school auction to raise money for their after-school program. A budding writer/producer bid on the session & won. Here's what she had to say.
I love giving back. To my friends, to my community, to artists and entrepreneurs looking for answers. It’s a way for me to calibrate and make sure that the cycles of negativity in this business don’t persist.
Listen, I didn’t set out for this part of my life-journey in the beginning as a consultant, but I have found that what I know about business, the film industry, marketing and PR to be so valuable that when I can share my expertise with budding or even established filmmakers and entrepreneurs, they tell me things like it’s “next level”or “life changing”. And that’s not me making up a talking point.
Recently a long-time friend of mine posted online that she was looking for auction items for her kids’ after-school fundraising program. I thought, what the heck. So I donated a hour-long consultation for marketing and PR strategy. Usually this costs $300, and trust me, I know that as an indie filmmaker or small business person, that isn’t chump change. But I know what I have to say is worth it. So I offered it, not knowing if anyone would even be interested.
Well, they were. Apparently a lot of people were and they bid on the session.
The winner of the auction was a woman named Eve Sturges, and I promise you’re going to hear her name and her story in the coming years.
What Eve has to say is so profoundly unique and intriguing that it’s going to be hard for people to look away.
I’m not going to dilute Eve’s messaging here, because, as you may know, how and WHEN you release your information is SUPER important. And for me to break Eve’s story on my Substack is going to rob her of a chance to get the media coverage she deserves, and she definitely DESERVES it. I already shared her story with a friend of mine who reports for a national news network and she said to PLEASE let her know when the story is ready to report on because she wants to cover it.
THAT’S the power of PR and working with someone with connections when you have a truly incredible story. Even if Eve and I aren’t working together, I am definitely going to pass her story along in the hopes that someone in my network will cover it. It could be months from now or a year, but you have to start weaving those webs NOW in order to get your story told.
I’m sharing a link to Eve’s podcast here and just want to share what she had to say about our hour-long session this month:
"Working with Kelli was a dream; she took my scattered ideas and organized them into a clear strategy that has me going into this next phase of my project with confidence and enthusiasm." - Eve Sturges, podcaster and creator of It’s All Relative.
Eve’s story is super interesting and I’m linking to her materials here:
Here's her website: www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
And Instagram handle: @everythingsrelativepodcast
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