Refer a Future Publisher
Think about who told you about City Lifestyle. That conversation changed your life. You can be that person for someone else.
Everything you need to share the opportunity is here: full publisher stories, short clips sorted by who you're trying to reach, and captions you can make your own.
How this works
- Find the person you're trying to reach in the list below.
- Download the clip, or open a publisher story on YouTube and copy its link.
- Click Copy caption, rewrite it so it sounds like you, and post.
Before you post
- Post from your personal account, not your market's brand account.
- Change the copy so it sounds like you.
- Fill in your numbers. Anywhere you see "X years," swap in your own.
Questions? Email marketing@citylifestyle.com
Hear it from City Lifestyle owners
Full-length stories for someone who wants to hear it straight from a publisher. Click any story to open it on YouTube, then copy the link to send.
Veteran & corporate VPFrom corporate VP to owning his own market
ParentBuilding a business around being present for her kids
Sales leaderFrom VP of sales to owning her own market
Stay-at-home momFrom stay-at-home mom to owning three markets
Media salesFrom selling media to owning it
Sales managerFrom sales manager to owning two markets
CoupleLeaving two careers to build one business together
Multi-market ownerHow a publishing veteran built three Atlanta markets
New in townFrom new in town to a publisher network across Northern Colorado
Agency salesFrom agency sales to owning her own market
Need a file to upload instead of a link? Download long-form stories: Story 1, Story 2, Story 3, Story 4
Short clips and captions
Who are you trying to reach?
Pick the group that fits the person you have in mind. Each clip comes with a caption written for that audience.
Career changers
Leaving a long career behind
Best for: anyone with long tenure in one field
This is one of the other owners in the City Lifestyle network. Twenty years in education before she started her market.
I'm sharing it because I know a lot of teachers, and I've had some version of the same conversation with every one of them, the one where they love the work and can't make the math work.
If that's you, watch this, and if you're curious to learn more, just DM me. I've been with City Lifestyle for X years. Or visit https://future.citylifestyle.com/publisher-referral?utm_source=publisher&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=publisher_referral&utm_content=social
Risk averse
Best for: the cautious ones, people who'd never call themselves entrepreneurs
"I'm not a risk taker." That's what my fellow City Lifestyle owner Michelle said before she signed. She's ten years in now.
Posting this because people assume you have to be some kind of big risk-taker to own a business, and almost every owner I work alongside is the opposite. Careful people who found a model that already worked.
Curious to learn more about business ownership with City Lifestyle? Just DM me. I've been with City Lifestyle for X years. Or visit https://future.citylifestyle.com/publisher-referral?utm_source=publisher&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=publisher_referral&utm_content=social
Corporate and quietly looking
Leaving corporate
Best for: mid-to-senior corporate, 10+ years in
Another City Lifestyle owner on what leaving corporate actually looked like.
Reason I'm sharing it: there are a handful of people in my feed who I'm pretty sure are quietly looking right now. No pitch from me. Just watch it and see if any of it sounds familiar.
Curious to learn more about business ownership with City Lifestyle? Just DM me. I've been with City Lifestyle for X years. Or visit https://future.citylifestyle.com/publisher-referral?utm_source=publisher&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=publisher_referral&utm_content=social
Still thinking about it
Best for: people who have been "thinking about it" for a while
One of my fellow publishers on the moment she stopped researching and actually decided.
I sat in that exact spot for four months before I signed. Sharing it in case somebody in my network is sitting there today.
Curious to learn more about business ownership with City Lifestyle? Just DM me. I've been with City Lifestyle for X years. Or visit https://future.citylifestyle.com/publisher-referral?utm_source=publisher&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=publisher_referral&utm_content=social
High performers
Best for: high performers who don't actually want to work less
High achievers don't want to slow down. They want to point the same energy at something that belongs to them.
If this resonates and you're curious to learn more about City Lifestyle business ownership, DM me. I've been with City Lifestyle for X years and I'm happy to share what it's been like. Or visit https://future.citylifestyle.com/publisher-referral?utm_source=publisher&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=publisher_referral&utm_content=social
Family, flexibility, and remote work
Work/life balance
Best for: anyone whose life currently bends around their job
Posting this because I've had three separate conversations this month with people who are tired of negotiating for permission to be at their kid's stuff. Fellow publisher Jake gave a great interview on what it's like to be with City Lifestyle.
If that's you, watch this, and if you're curious to learn more, just DM me. I've been with City Lifestyle for X years. Or visit https://future.citylifestyle.com/publisher-referral?utm_source=publisher&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=publisher_referral&utm_content=social
More time with family
Best for: parents of school-age kids
He didn't leave corporate for the money. He left for the calendar.
Sharing this one because "do you actually have more time?" is the question I get most, and my fellow publisher Hunter answers it better than I do.
Curious to learn more about business ownership with City Lifestyle? Just DM me. I've been with City Lifestyle for X years. Or visit https://future.citylifestyle.com/publisher-referral?utm_source=publisher&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=publisher_referral&utm_content=social
Dads doing it all
Best for: men in your network, dads doing it all
Wyatt said it better than I could: nobody hands you balance. You build it in at the start or you don't get it.
If this resonates and you're curious to learn more about City Lifestyle business ownership, DM me. I've been with City Lifestyle for X years and I'm happy to share what it's been like. Or visit https://future.citylifestyle.com/publisher-referral?utm_source=publisher&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=publisher_referral&utm_content=social
Wishing for remote work
Best for: people negotiating for remote days and losing
Flexibility isn't a perk you negotiate for. It's something you own, or you don't. Andy shares what that actually looks like day to day with City Lifestyle ownership.
Curious to learn more about business ownership with City Lifestyle? Just DM me. I've been with City Lifestyle for X years. Or visit https://future.citylifestyle.com/publisher-referral?utm_source=publisher&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=publisher_referral&utm_content=social
Community-minded and nonprofit
The connector
Best for: chamber people, board members, the person who knows everybody
You know that one person in town who seems to know everyone? That's the job. Not a metaphor. That is literally the job with City Lifestyle business ownership.
Curious to learn more about the day-to-day of owning a City Lifestyle market? Just DM me. I've been with City Lifestyle for X years. Or visit https://future.citylifestyle.com/publisher-referral?utm_source=publisher&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=publisher_referral&utm_content=social
Work that means something locally
Best for: parents, and people who want their work to mean something locally
Something nobody warns you about with this business: your kids watch you do it. They see you at the events, in the rooms, on the calls. That has mattered to me more than I expected it to.
Curious to learn more about the day-to-day of owning a City Lifestyle market? Just DM me. I've been with City Lifestyle for X years. Or visit https://future.citylifestyle.com/publisher-referral?utm_source=publisher&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=publisher_referral&utm_content=social
Nonprofit and fundraising
Best for: nonprofit, events, and fundraising backgrounds
Lena on why community isn't the nice part of this business. It's the whole business.
If you're already the person people call locally when they need something to happen, you're most of the way there.
Curious to learn more about the day-to-day of owning a City Lifestyle market? Just DM me. I've been with City Lifestyle for X years. Or visit https://future.citylifestyle.com/publisher-referral?utm_source=publisher&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=publisher_referral&utm_content=social
Women, influencers, and realtors
Women mid-career
Best for: women mid-career, women returning to work
For the women in my network who are good at everything and lit up by none of it: these women found the thing.
If this resonates and you're curious to learn more about City Lifestyle business ownership, DM me. I've been with City Lifestyle for X years and I'm happy to share what it's been like. Or visit https://future.citylifestyle.com/publisher-referral?utm_source=publisher&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=publisher_referral&utm_content=social
Influencers and realtors
Best for: content creators, local influencers, realtors with an audience
Owning a City Lifestyle market is where local influence turns into an actual business. Same instincts, same network, entirely different outcome.
Curious to learn more about the day-to-day of owning a City Lifestyle market? Just DM me. I've been with City Lifestyle for X years. Or visit https://future.citylifestyle.com/publisher-referral?utm_source=publisher&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=publisher_referral&utm_content=social
Anyone (montages)
Use these when you don't have a specific person in mind and just want the idea in front of your network.
There isn't one path
Former teachers. Corporate executives. Parents going back to work. All the same decision, from completely different starting points. There isn't one path into this.
Curious to learn more about business ownership with City Lifestyle? Just DM me. I've been with City Lifestyle for X years. Or visit https://future.citylifestyle.com/publisher-referral?utm_source=publisher&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=publisher_referral&utm_content=social
How it changed their lives
Someone asked a room full of City Lifestyle business owners how this changed their life. This is what they said.
Curious to learn more about business ownership with City Lifestyle? Just DM me. I've been with City Lifestyle for X years. Or visit https://future.citylifestyle.com/publisher-referral?utm_source=publisher&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=publisher_referral&utm_content=social
What's your why?
Everybody comes to this for a different reason. Time, money, community, proving something to themselves. What would be your why?
If this resonates and you're curious to learn more about City Lifestyle business ownership, DM me. I've been with City Lifestyle for X years and I'm happy to share what it's been like. Or visit https://future.citylifestyle.com/publisher-referral?utm_source=publisher&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=publisher_referral&utm_content=social
Not a drive-thru franchise
"Franchise" makes people picture a drive-thru window. This is not that. Here's what the model actually gives you.
Curious to learn more about business ownership with City Lifestyle? Just DM me. I've been with City Lifestyle for X years. Or visit https://future.citylifestyle.com/publisher-referral?utm_source=publisher&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=publisher_referral&utm_content=social