Sharing your work doesnโt have to feel gross
If youโre creative + you dread or avoid marketing, Iโm your person. ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ
You’ve got a tiny business or super cool project. Yoga teachers, personal trainers, therapists, artists, coaches, community organizers… you’re in the right place.
You’re brilliant at what you do and you care deeply about the people you help.
But when it comes to marketing, you freeze up. Marketing feels fake, pushy, and just… not the way you want to spend your time.
๐ You sit down to write an email to your people, but hesitate to send it because you don’t want to bother anyone.
๐ You spend hours on social media but have a sinking feeling that all your effort is not making you money + just making the billionaires richer.
Imagine being excited to share your work + invite people into your world.
What you don’t need is another expert who wants to teach you their 100-step perfect marketing plan.
Most mainstream marketing advice doesn’t apply to creatives like us, anyway.
What you need is someone who gets what it’s like to be you. You need someone to help you share your work in ways that fit your unique personality, brain, time, and energy.
That’s what I’m here for. ๐
I’m Amber Beach (formerly known as Amber Karnes), and I help independent creatives like you feel excited to share your work. Imagine if you felt excited and interested to tell people about your thing, rather than dreading or procrastinating whenever it’s time to “work on marketing.”
I’ve been building tiny, trust-based businesses and community-driven projects for over 20 years.
I can teach you how to feel great about sharing your work with the people who care about it. It won’t feel gross to invite people into your thing when it’s built through relationshipsย + you’re crystal clear about how you can help them.
Iโm not about pushy bro-marketing tactics, spending hours feeding a social media algorithm owned by evil billionaires who are destroying the planet, or using AI to make you sound like everyone else.
Sharing your work doesn’t have to feel like marketing. It can feel like friendship + peer mentorship instead. Let me show you how!
This is the first business + marketing meeting I’ve actually enjoyed. I cannot express how good it felt to be seen, heard, and understood as a creative. This is the best I’ve felt in years about my business.
Terry Littlefield
Yoga teacher + business owner
Amber is adept at pulling together a list of effective, low-cost ideas SO quickly. Her support rejuvenated my passion for the work I do. She custom-built a marketing plan that took my strengths and weaknesses into account, and it’s already reaping benefits for my organization.
Bird Cox
Founder, Quarry RVA
This is the first business + marketing meeting I’ve actually enjoyed. I cannot express how good it felt to be seen, heard, and understood as a creative. This is the best I’ve felt in years about my business.
Terry Littlefield
Yoga teacher + business owner
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