make strong offers.

I have made a conscious decision from the moment I started writing 37days that I would not allow ads on this site, though many have asked. That I wouldn’t accept product reviews. That I wouldn’t create affiliate programs or participate in them.

This means that if I write about something I love–lavender cake or a Tom Bihn bag or a series of wellness seminars with coaches I admire, I’m writing about it because I love it and want to share my excitement about it, not because I’m going to profit from it at all.

I wanted to create a better reading experience–for me AND for you. I hope you enjoy the simplicity and grace that brings to this site.

I’d rather make strong offers into the world and if you respond, that’s magical. If you don’t, it’s magical in a different way.

I refuse to make you feel you’re broken in order to sell you a course or a book. You’re not broken, and you don’t need to be fixed. If you’d like to explore with me in a subject-focused way (rather than an expert-focused way), I welcome you with open arms and much love.

Here are my current offers. I’m very excited about each of them. I hope one might resonate with you or someone you love.

February 1, 2012 – January 31, 2013 / 37days book club: read and think more / Online

February 1, 2012 – March 8, 2012 / VerbTribe & VerbTribe Intensive: creating a sustainable writing practice in 2012 / Online (spaces are very limited at this point, but feel free to join the waiting list)

March 17, 2012 / The Geography of Loss: Creating an Art Quilt of Grief/ With artist Jane LaFazio, San Diego, CA (limited to 25)

April 7, 2012 / Story Blocks: Your Story. Your Art. Your Life. / With artist Kimberly Joris, Milledgeville, GA (limited to 22)

April 19-22, 2012 / Groove, Drum, Create: A Women’s Retreat on Letting Go / With Leanna Joyner and Michelle Currie, Asheville, NC (limited to 17)

Love,

[photo by Jeremy Madea, rocks by The Rock Fairy]

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=631562921 Sarah Wilson

Where is the lavender cake recipe link? I just had to ask…

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=609157443 Patti Digh

Alas, I know not how to make it. I buy it at Short Street Cakes here in Asheville…

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000480516845 Padma Ayyagari

I would love to have joined your Verbtribe – sustainable writing practice, however, I don’t think I can afford at this point in time. Any concessions for people from ‘Down Under’ as I can’t join the face to face workshops in US.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=609157443 Patti Digh

Thanks so much for your interest! We won’t be having any face-to-face workshops with VerbTribe – did you mean the webinars? So sorry you can’t join us this time, but VerbTribe will be offered four times this year, so perhaps another one will be better for you!

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1449642406 Ross Kinney

When I publish my first book, my strong offer is going to include asking you to write the foreword in my book. Is that a strong offer or a strong request? I like to think that is a strong offer….

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=609157443 Patti Digh

It is a strong and humbling offer. My answer is, of course, yes.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=268504956532516 Katie Paul

My head explodes from pain-point and solution based marketing. I LOVE that you don’t feel you need to make people feel broken. I think I need to re-write my sales page. Does it work though? Do people really buy the opportunity to explore? I really really hope so…

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=609157443 Patti Digh

I think we all have to explore why we’re doing what we’re doing. If we are selling to sell, then that has become our work. If we are making offers to explore, help people see differently, then that is our work. There’s no doubt that pain-point marketing works better–in the short term. People are used to having their pain pathologized. I’m just choosing not to participate in that. What keeps us from our work has become our work. I don’t want pain-point marketing to become my work. My VerbTribe class just sold out. I’m sure others of my classes would sell out and faster if I used pain-point marketing – but selling out is not my work in the world. xoxo

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=561031971 Joanna Paterson

I deeply appreciate your approach Patti; it is both welcome relief and something to model. I’m still a bit jumbled up with words like significant and even strong. I think quiet offers might be what I go with but maybe that is because I’m trying to shake the internet marketing noise out of my head.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=609157443 Patti Digh

Significance can be a big word, or a small powerful one. My significance in the world is most often measured by a walk hand-in-hand with one of my daughters, not by the books I’ve written. A strong offer is not a loud one, but a sure one, a deeply felt one, an intentional one not swayed by the world around it.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=561031971 Joanna Paterson

@[609157443:2048:Patti Digh] thank you. I’m feeling it like: walking bare foot on the warm earth kind of strong. Thanks for helping me with the language, I am very good at getting tangled and stuck in words

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003352203991 Christell Marais

“We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own” -Ben Sweetland.Thank you for brightening my path xx.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=598751267 Gwyn Michael

I am so with you on not advertising or doing affiliates. I dabbled in that and it felt so wrong, for me. Your clear message is what the world needs, and when appropriate recommendations for things like salt caramels I love you!

Now I am visualizing my way to Groove, drum , create which in all honesty terrifies me.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=609157443 Patti Digh

Come.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000458457358 Marilyn Shafer Johnson

The “daily rock” intrigues me…I need to practice…have you blogged or written about this concept…direct me to it, please…if you have not…please consider doing so…:-)

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=609157443 Patti Digh

Marilyn – the daily rock concept was simply my gift of a prompt every day – either for writing or thinking – something to focus on as you start your days… does that help?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000458457358 Marilyn Shafer Johnson

I was not specific…the message that I refer to is”revel in the not knowing(along with saying I Don’t Know)”…that is the concept I am studying…is it in one of your books or blogs.?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=609157443 Patti Digh

Marilyn Shafer Johnson – Ah. I think you’ll find it throughout my work. One specific place to look is p. 77 in Life is a Verb – the concept of giving up the need to be right.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1216803991 Laura Cottril

Patti, I am on the cusp of taking a series of workshops training me to book more clients, network and build affiliate relationships and speak and sell from the stage. While I want to build my business, build authentic, helpful business relationships, speak and make money, I don’t feel comfortable with the coercion (sp?) of some of these methods. Any advice on how to progress without going that route?

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=609157443 Patti Digh

First, follow your gut. If you feel coerced, stop. Find another teacher. And as with anything (everything), take what feels right to you and bring your full self to the process, letting go of techniques or tools that feel manipulative. Translate materials into your own way of being in the world. Focus on significance rather than success. If you can tune into your deepest sense of self, you will know immediately what feels true and what feels manipulative. All tools can be used for bad or for good. It’s not the tools that are at fault. It’s sometimes their application. I hope that helps?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1216803991 Laura Cottril

@[609157443:2048:Patti Digh] Yes. It always comes back to the quote “you already know”. Just need to hold clarity high in the process. And listen to my body. It is always talking to me! I so look forward to your writing collaborative. I resonate with what you are doing and am excited to be in community with you! Thank you for shining the candle ahead.

http://www.sacredseparations.com Laura J.

Patti, I so need this clarity right now. Thank you.

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