Stuff I Tell Smart People

Stuff I Tell Smart People is a weekly-ish newsletter for consultants, coaches, and clever misfits who want to turn their ideas into strategic assets that grow their business — without wasting time writing books no one reads, PDFs no one opens, or content no one remembers.

What You’ll Actually Get:

  • Publishing strategy that builds your business: Not just how to write a book, but how to make it do something. We cover the 5 Strategic Plays (Bleeding Neck, Landmark, Trojan Horse, etc.) and how to use them to grow your reach, referrals and revenue.
  • Mini assets you can use immediately: Swipe frameworks, checklists, 1-pagers, and models you can plug into your offer, pitch, or next big idea.
  • What not to do (and why most experts get stuck): No more books nobody reads. No more PDFs nobody opens. Just smart, strategic action.
  • Disaster Farm dispatches: Slightly chaotic metaphors involving chickens, cats, a goose, horses, and the occasional Spanish weather event. Useful. Memorable. Often wet.
  • Invites to events, offers & experiments: Be the first to know when I launch something clever (or slightly unhinged) like Ideas Into Assets, Write & Publish With Purpose, or special book strategy sessions with magic packaging.
  • Contrarian insights, short rants, and practical models: Zero fluff, zero motivational quotes, zero tolerance for credibility theatre

Not another “inspiration” newsletter

This is strategy you can steal. Delivered weekly-ish by me, Debbie Jenkins — publisher, chaos navigator, and asset-builder for consultants, coaches and clever people with too many ideas and not enough traction.

Who This Is For

You’ve got deep expertise, but your ideas aren’t pulling their weight (yet). You want your book, IP, or method to generate leads, sales, and systems. You’re brilliant, but possibly invisible. You want strategy, not fluff — and a bit of dry humour on the side.

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Who now write books that sell, build systems that scale, and laugh about livestock disasters while doing it.

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The Landmark Play: For Experts Who Don’t Want to Beg Hello there, Not All Problems Bleed – Some Just Drip Dignity Some clients aren’t panicking.They’re not googling emergency consultants.They’re not downloading your lead magnet. But they are feeling it: This is where the Landmark Play works best.Not to fix. But to reframe. THE LANDMARK PLAY:

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The Bleeding Neck Play: Why Polite Books Don’t Sell Hello there, If There’s No Blood, There’s No Buy If your book opens with “In today’s fast-paced world…” …I’m sorry to say: you’re writing a mapping book for mildly curious people.They’ll read it.They’ll nod politely.They’ll do absolutely nothing. Books that sell start with urgency.Books that convert

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The Invisible Book That’s Already in Your Business Hello, You’re Already Halfway Done. You Just Can’t See It Yet Most experts I work with already have a book hiding in plain sight. It’s in the keynote slides. It’s in the onboarding emails. It’s in the Notion doc no one’s opened since 2022. The hard part

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You’re Not Behind. You’re Just Overloaded Hello there, Smart People Aren’t Slow — They’re Swamped If you feel behind on writing, publishing, or showing up publicly… you’re not lazy. You’re overloaded. Ideas. Offers. Book drafts. Strategy decks. You’ve built a mountain of inputs, but no clear output. This isn’t a time problem. It’s a focus

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The Hidden Cost of Writing the Wrong Book Hello there, The Most Expensive Book You’ll Ever Write Is the One Nobody Needs Let’s talk about the wrong book. Not the badly written one.Not the one that didn’t hit the bestseller list.The one that’s perfectly written… but strategically useless. You know the type: It says everything

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Not Another Magic AI Button Most AI tools are built to replace your thinking.We built AI:OS to scale it instead. Strategy or Framework When people ask, “How’s AI:OS different from [insert shiny tool that’s been promoted on Facebook this week]?” here’s the honest answer: It’s not a black box.Black box AI gives you content you

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