Love Your Client NOT Your Content
Yesterday I was working with my social media marketing/Business coach, Caitlin Bacher, and she reminded me, "Love your CLIENT, NOT your content."
I have spent my whole life loving my students and wanting to give them the best learning experience, but somehow with my homeschooling work I focused on the wrong students. While their kids are the ones who get the ultimate benefit of my work, HOMESCHOOL PARENTS are MY students. They are my learners.
I feel re-focused on my client... as I now see them as my learner, depending on me to give them my BEST. I have a new excitement about building a community in my FREE Facebook Group, Rookie Homeschoolers. It's a place for me to find out what they need, encourage them in their journey, show them how to support each other, and help them take the best steps to be a GREAT Homeschool TEACHER.
I'm doing my first FB LIVE and I'm nervous. But when I remind myself that I've stood in front of 1000s of learners from ages 3-70, I feel more comfortable. I'm a GREAT teacher and I LOVE my students. I'm not trying to sell a product. I'm selling me.
Caitlin encouraged me to informally interview a handful of my "possible" clients to better understand them and I'm enjoying each conversation with a renewed passion. They spend their days whole-heartedly dedicated to their children. I LOVE this about them. These interviews are providing more than insight into the needs of my clients, but a direct path to their hearts. And I can't help falling in LOVE with each one.
I believe I'm the best thing out there for Homeschool Parents because with all my heart I'm dedicated to helping them become GREAT Homeschool Teachers.
Love you all - Jill
P.S. Sometimes our learning doesn't come from where we think it might. Be on the look out for your epiphany today :)