An Overlooked Reason Your “This Resonated!” Posts Get Zero Client Enquiries
When we think we shift perspectives, but all we get is more comments, not more clients.
“I’ve been following you for a while, and really resonate with your content. I just still struggle with making mistakes when I speak English.”
6 years ago when I started my first, English-teaching, business,
I kept getting messages like this.
I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why people would say that.
They saw my videos.
Every one of them had a thread:
Be safe with making mistakes.
How could she, after a year of consuming my content, still be afraid of making mistakes?!?
She told me she’d tried everything.
She‘d burned thousands on native English teachers, was working through an online course at least for half an hour every day, she speaks in English at work.
I was honestly about to call it quits.
People just don’t get what the message is.
No matter the angle.
The agony of not getting anyone to see that making mistakes was okay after over a year and a half of posting forced me to take a break.
Language was my thing.
I’d learned 5 languages, and was about to start Korean.
How the fuck was I not able to get my message across when I knew how much that breakthrough had helped the hundreds of students I’d helped in my career?
After a $1000 Instagram course, hours spent in the basement of a Starbucks in Central Tokyo, and recording a bunch of videos in the nearby Hamacho Park as I trying to outshout the cicadas,
it dawned on me:
Telling people what they should believe isn’t belief-shifting.
I thought I was changing minds.
I was only strengthening the beliefs they already had.
And that’s the exact arc every Invisible Creator goes through online:
they’ve been writing for over 6 months from the most honest place they could find,
spend hours refining the way they articulate their craft,
get comments saying “This resonated so much!” or “I really needed this!”,
and still wonder why no client enquiries follow.
We transformational coaches and guides know that our clients need more than just a random list of “Here’s how I…”, and we’re not here to be yet another “authentic” creator just to get 50 comments saying how amazing we are.
So we think we’re changing minds.
But are we?
And is changing minds the same as changing lives?
And it’s funny how the more curious you stay, life throws opportunities at you:
In the summer of 2022, right when I was questioning if I was even meant for entrepreneurship because of my low conversions, we went on holiday for Greece.
My mum wanted to exchange our forints to euros.
I recommended an international card that she could use anywhere, and she’d be charged in the local currency.
Immediate pushback.
At least I knew where my nastiest money beliefs came from…
All she saw was:
online bank,
foreign company,
must be a scam.
Then I showed her how much the exchange rate would be if she bought from the currency exchange, and how much the card issuer would charge.
She sat with it for a day or two, and then was on board.
I didn’t talk her into something she didn’t want.
She already wanted to exchange money.
I just revealed the disconnect between her assumption and what she actually valued: saving money.
That’s the exact missing piece in so many talented, principled entrepreneurs who spend months posting long-form content consistently, get plenty of resonance, and still wonder why no one moves:
Their content never shows the client where the old belief stops making sense.
So the client agrees, feels seen …
… and keeps going about their lives believing the exact same thing.
We’ve all been told the whole “show up consistently” advice, so we think if people just read it enough, their beliefs will eventually catch up.
We keep trusting that the right information, repeated often enough, is what will changes their mind.
And of course you think that.
You’re an actual expert. Even if you never say it out lout.
You’ve seen how much a single idea changed your life, so it makes total sense that you’d want to explain it clearly, repeat it often, and trust that eventually it lands if you’re just consistent enough.
But if depth, an authentic share, or repeatedly talking about the same issue changed minds, there wouldn’t be millions of people who listen to 10 top-notch podcasts with a tonne of depth and conversations about fear,
and still wake up dreading speaking up in their relationships.
And neuroscience confirms this, which is why the conversion messaging I teach is entirely neuroscience-based:
We spend most of our day making the same autopilot decisions.
We don’t act because we’ve consciously chosen the best option. We act because it has become automatic, and we never stop to question it — whether it helps us or harms us.
How can your reader’s mind update if your content never interrupts that automation and asks them why they even do what they do?
That’s why you can give your content everything you have for months, get wave after wave of “OMG, this is so resonant!” comments…
and still watch your audience stay stuck.
The content is landing in the exact part of their nervous system that you’re not trying to change:
the part that already agrees.
And here’s the kicker that cost me years of creating what I thought was transformational content for my transformational business:
Your quasi-belief-shifting isn’t even speaking to a potential soul-aligned client.
They give zero fucks about reading another thinkpiece. They want to see why what they’ve been trying doesn’t work. They want to move.
The brain doesn’t actually like being told what to do.
When your post matches your reader’s existing story and never breaks their stinking thinking, their brain processes it fast and smoothly, tags it as “So true,” and gives them that warm “I really needed this.” feeling.
That’s confirmation bias at work: we preferentially notice what supports what we already think.
So “This resonated!” does NOT mean someone is about to make life-altering decisions, nor that they’re going to reach out in the DMs about your services.
It means this fits my current belief, not this just changed it.
And if you look at how many of those commenters clicked the links and signed up for what you promoted, or how many of those have become your clients, you know what I’m talking about.
What the brain loves, however, is being guided to a place where it comes to its own conclusions and goes, ‘Hold on… this doesn’t actually add up anymore.”
When their own brain spots those cracks in the old belief, the resistance they had, even as someone who wants the solution, starts to dissolve.
You’re not convincing them to want your offer.
You’re speaking to who already wants the transformation. Your belief-shifting content simply removes the doubt, the fear, and all the “Yes, but …” that was blocking them from taking the next step.
My students learn three frameworks so they don’t just know what to say to speak to clients in their content, they get $3-5k one-to-one clients to slide into their DMs, and convert them without hard selling or convincing.
Their content is doing the heavy lifting.
Because in your client’s world, buying isn’t always a neat little “Yes or No.”
It’s that relentless tug-of-war between “I really want this.” and “But if I just script enough, the universe will handle the rest.” // “If I find the right supplement or hack, I won’t need to stop eating potato chips.“.
which means the real obstacle isn’t their desire for the result.
It’s their loyalty to a solution that doesn’t work.
Until your content loosens that loyalty, “buying your services” will always feel like a conflict instead of a clear next aligned step.
Whichever of the three frameworks my students use, they must include two components:
Calling out the old belief.
See how I’ve done that in this content piece.
“Telling people what they should believe isn’t belief-shifting.”
“Your quasi-belief-shifting isn’t even speaking to a potential soul-aligned client.”
You name the belief that’s running the show so don’t give them a chance to keep it invisible.
Showing examples of where the old belief is flawed.
You’re not proving people wrong. Nor are you proving them that you’re right.
You’re revealing the crack in their logic:
“How can your reader’s mind update if your content never interrupts that automation and asks them why they even do what they do?“
“the real obstacle isn’t their desire for the result.
It’s their loyalty to a solution that doesn’t work.
Until your content loosens that loyalty, “buying your services” will always feel like a conflict instead of a clear next aligned step.”
The worst you can do is expect people to believe you.
Show me any eloquent speaker who doesn’t back up their claims.
They always have an analogy or two under their belt.
They don’t just focus on what they client needs to understand. They also speak to the gremlins in the client’s mind that keeps asking “Does this sound relevant?” “Does this align with my world view"?
Those are just two non‑negotiables that my students bake into their content, emails, landing pages to increase the number of clicks, purchases and enquiries they get - depending on the CTA.
And who knows, when you really know how to help someone come to their own conclusions without their defences coming up, you won’t just get more “I’ve never seen it that way!” clients asking about your services;
you might even end up helping your own stubborn parents see things differently, too. 😜
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