🎯 Micro-Messaging — Your Guide & Working Template

CEO Accelerator | Sandra Fillaudeau | April 2026 Built from the Micro-Messaging training and your Session 1 conversation with Suzanne


How to use this document: Read Part 1 once so you understand why this works. Then go straight to Part 2 to do the work. Part 3 gives you worked examples built from your own client context — use them as a starting point, not a finished product. Part 4 is your blank template to fill in and keep adding to over the 90 days.


Part 1 — What Is Micro-Messaging and Why It Changes Everything

Here’s what I see with coaches and thought leaders who have genuinely brilliant work: the message is too big for the person who needs it most to actually see themselves in it. The content is beautiful. The thinking is deep. And it floats right past the people it was made for.

Micro-messaging is the fix.

It’s the practice of getting so specific about the real, lived experience of your ideal client that when they read your content, they don’t just think “this is interesting” — they think “oh my god, that is me.”

And when someone thinks that’s me — they stop scrolling. They save it. They share it. They sign up. They buy.

This isn’t a content hack. It’s how human attention actually works. Our brains are wired to filter out almost everything that isn’t directly, immediately relevant to our own lives. You get about 3 seconds on a scroll. Your job is to be so specific that the right person can’t keep scrolling past you.


The “Can I See It?” Test

Before anything goes out — a post, an email, a lead magnet name, a sales page — run it through this test:

Can I see it in 3 seconds while scrolling? If it doesn’t create a mini mind movie, it’s not micro enough yet.

Examples — feel the difference:

Too Broad đŸš« Micro ✅
“Sustainable leadership” “The manager who cancels her lunch break for the fourth time this week because someone needs her”
“Better work-life balance” “Opens her laptop ‘for 10 minutes’ after the kids are in bed and looks up to find it’s 11pm”
“Feel more confident at work” “Knows she has the right answer in the meeting, says nothing, then watches someone else say it twenty minutes later”
“Sustainable work practices” “Gets to Thursday and is already dreading Monday”

You can see the right column. You can’t see the left column.

Sandra — you already do this in person. When you’re coaching someone live, you go deep, fast. This is just doing that same thing in your content and your copy.