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We’re Jason and Caroline Zook, a husband and wife team running two businesses together and trying to live out our version of a good life in the process. In this business podcast, we share with you our lessons learned about how to run a calm, sustainable business—one that is predictable, profitable AND peaceful. Join us every Thursday if you’re an online creator who wants to reach your goals without sacrificing your well-being in the process.

Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast Wandering Aimfully

    • Business
    • 4.9 • 86 Ratings

We’re Jason and Caroline Zook, a husband and wife team running two businesses together and trying to live out our version of a good life in the process. In this business podcast, we share with you our lessons learned about how to run a calm, sustainable business—one that is predictable, profitable AND peaceful. Join us every Thursday if you’re an online creator who wants to reach your goals without sacrificing your well-being in the process.

    206 - We hired an SEO strategist for Teachery, here's their plan...

    206 - We hired an SEO strategist for Teachery, here's their plan...

    Are SEO articles even relevant in 2024?? Well, we paid an SEO strategist to give us the answer and we’re going to share their plan of action in this episode.

    The report we got back from an SEO Strategist does confirm that keyword-based articles are still working in 2024, especially for SaaS companies like Teachery. From the report, we have a 3-pronged plan of action to take. 

    Listen as we share that 3-pronged plan and feel free to steal a few ideas based on what we’re going to be working on as our 5-week content extravaganza continues! 

    And, we WILL be creating SEO-friendly articles for Wandering Aimfully in an upcoming week as well, so stay tuned to hear about that if you run a knowledge-based digital product business.

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    ⚙️ Give Teachery a try today for free! Looking to create online courses with a platform that lets you customize everything? Give our course software a 14-day free trial at teachery.co

    💌 Want to get a weekly jolt of business inspiration and learn tactics and strategies that can help you increase profits, have more predictability, and feel peaceful with your biz? Sign up for our weekly email at wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter 

    • 39 min
    205 - How video went, what content goes where, scrapping our goals

    205 - How video went, what content goes where, scrapping our goals

    The second week of our 5-week content extravaganza has concluded! We worked on long-form videos for Teachery and learned a ton of lessons (and had to UN-LEARN some well-worn ideas and habits too).

    There has been ONE clear friction point for us over the years when working together and that’s... Long-form videos. It’s some combination of our two strong creative personalities, along with having different visions for how a video should turn out, and the entire process has always been a bit bumpy for us. But, we really hoped to change that this last week!

    Through many conversations, many experiments, and just trying to lead with curiosity we feel like we came out of the week WAYYYYY better than expected. Sure, we only finished 2 long-form videos, but our goal was 3, so we’re happy about that. 

    Enjoy listening to us recap our experience and we hope it helps you re-think a current spot where you might be in your business. 

    🔗 Links we mentioned:

    AI Song tool: suno.com 
    ScreenStudio (screen recording: https://bit.ly/jasonscreenstudio
    CapCut (modern video editor): https://capcut.com 
    YouTube Diary of our second week: https://youtu.be/wNCJKxzCOdM 
    Teachery’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@teacheryco


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    ⚙️ Give Teachery a try today for free! Looking to create online courses with a platform that lets you customize everything? Give our course software a 14-day free trial at teachery.co

    💌 Want to get a weekly jolt of business inspiration and learn tactics and strategies that can help you increase profits, have more predictability, and feel peaceful with your biz? Sign up for our weekly email at wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter 

    • 43 min
    204 - How we’re thinking about Teachery VIDEO content

    204 - How we’re thinking about Teachery VIDEO content

    Our 5-week content EXTRAVAGANZA is underway! We recap how our first week of creating short-form 60-second vertical videos went and give you a preview of what’s to come this week as we pivot to long-form YouTube content for Teachery.

    If you didn’t listen to last week’s episode, we’re embarking on a 5-week content journey to get back into the groove of posting content to grow our audiences for Teachery and Wandering Aimfully (publishing starts in 1 month). 

    We set a goal of creating 10 short-form videos last week and we ended up with… 6! We’re actually happy with that result because we’re very new to short-form video creation and have been on a 3-year break from any short-form content creation 🥶. There were a ton of lessons learned, mistakes made, and a hilarious “first pancake” moment 🥞. 

    For this next week, we’re shifting our focus to long-form (10-15 minute) YouTube videos for Teachery. We talk through our plans live as we recorded this since it was a last-minute shift from working on articles.

    Links we mentioned:

    ScreenStudio (screen recording: https://bit.ly/jasonscreenstudio
    CapCut (modern video editor): https://capcut.com 
    YouTube Diary of our first week: https://youtu.be/llGuDm8gO1Y


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    ⚙️ Give Teachery a try today for free! Looking to create online courses with a platform that lets you customize everything? Give our course software a 14-day free trial at teachery.co

    💌 Want to get a weekly jolt of business inspiration and learn tactics and strategies that can help you increase profits, have more predictability, and feel peaceful with your biz? Sign up for our weekly email at wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter 

    • 52 min
    203 - Our short-form content plan for Teachery (TikTok, Reels, YouTube Shorts)

    203 - Our short-form content plan for Teachery (TikTok, Reels, YouTube Shorts)

    Here we go, folks! We’re back on the short-form video creation train and this week we’re sharing our plan of action for Teachery. We’ve been off social media for 2.5 years, so this is quite the journey!

    If you missed last week’s episode, we’re embarking on a 5-week content extravaganza 😂 for our two businesses. This week is the official first week and we’re focusing solely on trying to create 10 pieces of 60-second video content to be shared on Teachery’s TikTok, YouTube, and IG account.
    What does creating social content initially feel like? Who is doing what? What content keywords and strategies are we focusing on? All of that is tackled in this episode.

    Important note: We are NOT posting this content just yet. We want to create a nice little backlog of content to have ready to post in a month-ish. We also want to get a feel for what the creation process is like and what formats/formulas of content work best for our skillsets. 

    Next week, we’ll update you with how this week went and then we’ll move on to the next content bucket. 

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    ⚙️ Give Teachery a try today for free! Looking to create online courses with a platform that lets you customize everything? Give our course software a 14-day free trial at teachery.co

    💌 Want to get a weekly jolt of business inspiration and learn tactics and strategies that can help you increase profits, have more predictability, and feel peaceful with your biz? Sign up for our weekly email at wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter 

    • 43 min
    202 - Getting back on social media (steal our content plan)

    202 - Getting back on social media (steal our content plan)

    Bring on the 5-week content EXTRAVAGANZAAAA! We are getting back in the content creation saddle for the first time in almost 3 years. We’ve only been creating “nurture” content for the entirety of our WAIM business and that’s about to change!

    This week, we’re kicking off a big content creation project for both WAIM and Teachery. Now, Teachery is a bit easier because it’s has NEVER had content created for it (not a single article, social post, etc). But, before we just start creating content willy-nilly, we wanted to come up with a framework to make sure we’re creating the right content for the right purpose. Is our content just nurturing an existing audience? Or is our content discoverable and helping us grow our audience? 

    Enter our… Content Salad MATRIX. We cover the two different formats of content (Long and Short) and the two different types of content (Find and Nurture). From there, we share our plan for the next 5 weeks and what type of content goes where.

    We’ll fully acknowledge there is a lot to unpack in this episode and that we are embarking on a big content project, but hey, wouldn’t it be boring if we didn’t swing for the fences a bit??

    Hope you enjoy it!

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    ⚙️ Give Teachery a try today for free! Looking to create online courses with a platform that lets you customize everything? Give our course software a 14-day free trial at teachery.co

    💌 Want to get a weekly jolt of business inspiration and learn tactics and strategies that can help you increase profits, have more predictability, and feel peaceful with your biz? Sign up for our weekly email at wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter 

    • 50 min
    201 - We fell short of our launch goals. What did we learn?

    201 - We fell short of our launch goals. What did we learn?

    We LOVE a launch recap episode! And as two people who value transparency and honesty in the online business world, we hope you appreciate this one because our latest launch (Spring 2024) didn’t quite hit the mark. 

    Now, we want to be 100% clear: We are not upset by a 6-figure launch. There is nothing to complain about or shed a tear about. However, there is a reality to reaching a certain level of revenue with our launches and then not hitting that same level after raising our price (for the first time in 5 years).

    We hope you get a few takeaways from this episode if you’ve had a lackluster launch and see it the same way we do; as an opportunity to improve and create a new baseline for the future! 

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    ⚙️ Give Teachery a try today for free! Looking to create online courses with a platform that lets you customize everything? Give our course software a 14-day free trial at teachery.co

    💌 Want to get a weekly jolt of business inspiration and learn tactics and strategies that can help you increase profits, have more predictability, and feel peaceful with your biz? Sign up for our weekly email at wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter 

    • 38 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
86 Ratings

86 Ratings

Instagram Cat Mom ,

So much yes!

I’ve been a listener since 2017 and then a WAIMer 😺 I adore this style of sharing and teaching and always look forward to whatever fun is next.

Iheartwriting ,

One of my favorite business podcasts!!

This ranks really high up there in my list of favorite podcasts for creative business owners. Jason and Caroline are a breath of fresh air in what often feels like a very crowded online space. They blend their quirky sense of humor with practical, spot-on conversations and insights on everything from running a business to navigating a relationship to working as a creative to making perfect cinnamon rolls. Definitely a must-listen for any creative small business/service providers/digital product creators.

awrosemba ,

Value

I continue to get value from this podcast, even though they have recorded this many episodes. If you are looking for a different kind of online business advice, this podcast is worth checking out!

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