Emily Kim Co

Ranking marketing to-dos for local service business owners.

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My first full-time year I made nearly a quarter million from one service, and it came down to three things most creatives never do...

1. I stopped offering everything under the sun.

Engagements, portraits, seniors, branding. I was doing it all and staying a starving artist. So I picked one signature service and went all in. You don't need more offers, you need more reps at one.

2. I stopped treating marketing like a to-do list.

No more posting five days a week praying something goes viral. Now every week I do one thing to reach new people, one thing where people already search for me, and one thing to nurture the relationships I already have. Push, pull, community.

3. I threw away the "side hustler" mindset.

I was still at my corporate job, but I started pricing and showing up like this was already my real job. That one shift collapsed my timeline by five years.

One service. Six figures. No big team, no viral moment.

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This is what happens when the “best-kept secret” tries to network versus the vendor everyone thinks of instantly.