Productising

📅 Flashback to 2020 when I ran MailNinja

Campaign budgets were vanishing.
Clients were hitting pause.
The world felt like it stopped overnight.

I had two choices:
Wait it out…
Or pivot and rebuild.

I doubled down on something I’d been avoiding for years:

🎯 Productising my knowledge.

I turned everything I knew about email marketing into training, courses, and coaching.

Here’s how I pivoted (and how you can too):

🔥 Step 1: Package your process
If you’re solving a problem manually, you’ve got a course inside you.
Mine became the 2x Emails system—helping founders turn email into a growth channel in 90 days.

🛠️ Step 2: Systemise delivery
I used Skool to build the community, deliver the course, and host live coaching.
Simple. No bloat.
(And no more 10-tab nightmares.)

🚀 Step 3: Shift from client work to creator work
The same content I used to repeat on Zoom became my lead magnets.
I launched a newsletter, built a list, and started selling without sales calls.

🧠 Lesson?
Crises force clarity.

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