06/06/2023
Does anyone else feel like case studies can be disingenuous?
I recently worked on pulling together several case studies for a client. And it felt REALLY good. It had its own spin on it and completely honored her method and her client’s deep transformation.
I was left wondering why I was more excited about her case studies than I was mine. My case studies left me wanting to vomit and quite frankly, are only paraded about in situations where I felt obligated to prove my worth as a marketer.
I love each one of my clients who I’ve worked with and continue to work with. And somehow me toting around their wins as mine feels so wrong.
I realize why it feels this way.
The marketing industry is set up to have big egos, and hefty price tags, to get results regardless of the unique treasures that get steamrolled in the process.
I physically can’t operate that way. The deeper I co-create with my clients, the more I realize that they are the key to their own success.
They’ve got “founder magic”. Sure, I guide and create marketing assets for them—but I’m not the reason they succeed.
They are. They are the reason they succeed.
The case studies of my clients aren’t mine. They are their own case studies. They get to explore and own the authentic-ness of their methods into the deepest threads of their marketing strategy. They aren’t marketing experts, but they are without a doubt, their own marketing expert.
I‘m excited and scared to realize this.
Everything I’ve ever been taught about marketing is about proving to your client that THEY need YOU. So doing the opposite and showing people stories of others about how they empowered themselves to reach their goals on their terms feels like I’ll never make another dollar in my business.
So, I'm going to test this. I’m off to do this business and marketing thing differently. Not sure what awaits me, but I know I’m ready for it!