The $10K Investment That Transformed Jade Poole’s Life and Business
CRAFTED Millionaire
Cayla Craft
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Struggling to show up authentically on social media? In this episode of Crafted Entrepreneur, I chat with Jade Poole, a social media manager, mom, and entrepreneur, who has mastered the art of turning her life into a captivating story on Instagram. Jade shares her journey of starting her social media agency while 8 months pregnant, the strategies that helped her grow, and how to make social media work for you, whether you’re just starting out or looking to level up your game.
Jade discusses the power of storytelling, showing up consistently, and overcoming the fear of sounding too salesy on social media. If you've been struggling with confidence, creating content, or building an engaged audience, this episode offers practical tips and inspiration to help you build a strong social media presence.
Episode Highlights
- Jade’s Journey: How Jade started her social media agency while 8 months pregnant and built it into a six-figure business.
- Storytelling on Social Media: Why storytelling is more effective than simply listing your services and how to use it to connect with your audience.
- Balancing Posts and Stories: The importance of using both feed posts and stories to nurture your audience and grow your account.
- Nurturing Your Confidence: Tips for overcoming the fear of showing up on social media and how to gain confidence through practice.
- Building a Brand Strategy: How to create a brand strategy that feels authentic to you and your business.
Key Moments
- 01:11 - 01:33: Jade shares how she makes her life on social media feel like a reality show that people love to watch.
- 02:24 - 02:51: The moment Jade decided to start an LLC and dive into social media management.
- 05:32 - 06:02: How joining Facebook groups and posting daily on social media helped Jade gain her first clients.
- 07:05 - 07:33: Jade’s advice on how to avoid sounding salesy and use storytelling to attract clients.
- 13:54 - 14:21: Why balancing grid posts and stories is crucial for nurturing your audience and building trust.
- 21:29 - 22:11: Jade's defining moment that led to her six-figure business: hiring before she was ready and delegating tasks.
Ready to level up your social media game? Connect with Jade on Instagram @jadepool_ for free tips, advice, and insights on how to rock your social media presence. Follow along for more on how to build a brand that resonates with your audience and takes your business to the next level. Don’t forget to mention you heard her on the podcast!
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| 0:00.0 | And so often what I see is that people are so focused on what they're posting on their grid. |
| 0:05.8 | They're like, I need to show up, I need to make a post, and they completely neglect their stories. |
| 0:11.8 | They are missing a key part of what they should be doing. All right, welcome back to crafted entrepreneur. I am pumped because you guys know I love |
| 0:38.4 | interviewing fascinating people but also people that can help you in your entrepreneur journey. And so we actually have a special |
| 0:48.1 | guest because she's been a podcast listener in the past or still currently hopefully she still |
| 0:54.7 | listened and she is actually one of my clients too she is a social media |
| 1:01.6 | superstar she's a mom of two, a wife of one. I always want to point that out. |
| 1:06.0 | And she has such a fun life on social media. She's actually one of my favorite people to follow because she's got it down to making her life really look like a reality show like it's fun to watch you and so I wanted her to come on and share all of her tips on how you could specifically show up on Instagram and rocket in this day and age. |
| 1:30.0 | So help me welcome Jade Pool to the show. |
| 1:33.0 | Thank you so much. I'm so excited to be here. |
| 1:36.0 | Yay, okay, so I know one day you didn't just wake up as the social media superstar that I know you to be. |
| 1:42.0 | I'm sure there was things that happened along. social media superstar that I know you to be. |
| 1:43.2 | I'm sure there was things that happened along the way |
| 1:45.2 | to get you to own your own social media agency |
| 1:49.8 | and help so many people rock social media. Yeah, so this is probably like a lot of people |
| 1:55.7 | listening in right now. I just felt like I was going goal after goal after goal after goal |
| 2:01.5 | and what I was wanting to happen was not happening. |
| 2:04.8 | And I just kept having these hit my head on the wall |
| 2:07.9 | moments where I was like something has to change. |
| 2:11.7 | So if you're listening in right now, maybe that's you, maybe you've had this moment before or maybe you haven't had it yet, but this podcast might store some things up in your heart and be like, okay, like I'm ready to make some changes. |
| 2:24.8 | But that moment for me was when I was 8 months pregnant and I was having my second baby and I just knew that, you know, my first baby, I really did not, I was so stubborn. |
| 2:37.8 | I did not want life to change. |
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