Hello Reader,

I hope you had an enjoyable long weekend, whether you were in creative work, rest or play mode. I wanted to thank you again for backing my Creative Planning program in Kickstarter, to tell you how to receive your certificate, and to let you know how to continue the Go Creative! planning program, if that's something you'd like to do.

Certification: Pro Planner

Please let me know once you have completed all three workshops and three monthly planners and I will send you a short questionnaire (don't worry, it's really short and sweet!) which will lead to your certification.

I'm really looking forward to hearing a little feedback from you, and very much looking forward to sending you your Pro-Planner certificate.

Do let me know if you've been having difficulty keeping up or anything else you'd like me to know. Plans are one thing; execution is another.

Please don't be shy. I really want you to succeed and I'm here to help. What's in the way is the way: challenges tell us what we need to work through, and sometimes a little guidance helps.

It may take me a little time to get back to you but I will. This program is not a quick fix. It allows for the time it takes to make meaningful and lasting change.

Continuing the Go Creative! Program

If you would like to continue with Go Creative! planning workshops and keep deepening your creative process and practice, you can join our onging monthly program at: Patreon.com/OrnaRoss​

These workshops have been running monthly since 2018 and are organized thematically, around the quarterly Go Creative! planning principles, through the Patreon platform.

This premium-level planning program offers in-person assistance, through a monthly workshop (live and in replay); PDFs to help you plan your quarter, month, week and day, organized under the three hats of maker, manager and marketeer and accounting for time, money and creative rest and play as well as work; and a mid-month Go Creative! motivator. All for a fraction of consultancy or coaching costs.

Across the quarter to come, we're going to focus on email marketing.

Q2 2024 Go Creative! Planning Workshops: Optimise Your Email Energy

I view the email ecosystem around your books as an electrical network, carrying the energy of your author values. Across this quarter, you will elevate and expand both your own energy for emailing, and the energy embedded in your emails

• April 24: ACCESSing The Right Reader: Getting out of your author head to walk in your reader's shoes then setting up / fixing any breaks in your ACCESS circuit
• May 24: Activating Your Author Values in Your Emails: Aligning your books, your author mission, and your publishing model with your email plans. Awakening and infusing the right energy into your words, before you write to your readers and followers.
• Jun 24: Optimising: Using emails about your books (both your backlist and the book you’re currently working on) to draw readers closer and join a street team.

Early in the quarter, the focus will be on fixing any breaks in your sign-ups, autoresponders, and author newsletters. As the quarter progresses, we'll be activating and optimising your communications for wider reach and greater ROI.

You'll do much of the work there and then, in the workshops. You'll have all your questions answered, and you'll go away with clear homework.

There is also an option to add on a monthly "Kickstart With me" workshop.

If you'd like to keep going, the cost is £25 monthly (or £30 including the Kickstart With Me program) and you can join here: Patreon.com/OrnaRossAnd of course, you can unsubscribe any time..

Not for You?

If you'd rather not continue, I'd love to know why. (Don't worry if the answer is "Not for me!" I completely get it, the program is not for everyone. I'd still love to know, from a numbers perspective)

Let me know if there are other reasons or if you have any questions about your certification, or the monthly workshop program, or anything at all.

And thank you again for the support you gave to my creative planning program. It has changed so much for me and I'm very grateful.

Happy writing, publishing and planning!

Orna

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