My daughter just rode a zip line at a playground for the first time. Her first ride started fine, then she fell off when she unwrapped her legs. I told her to keep her legs wrapped. The next time she did and had a great ride. Sometimes the difference between success and failure is someone telling you what to do.
Sometimes when I listen to a new album I’m quick to skip a song. If the first 30 seconds don’t grab me, I’ll skip to the next song because why waste my time? Other times I listen to all of every song - even the ones I don’t like at first. And when I do that, occasionally there’s a brilliant lyric or moment I discover 3 minutes into a song I don’t like.
“If you wanted people to read your blog, you had to make it compelling enough that they would visit it, directly, because they wanted to. And if they wanted to respond to you, they had to do it on their own blog, and link back. The effect of this was that there were few equivalents of the worst aspects of social media that broke through. If someone wanted to troll you, they’d have to do it on their own site and hope you took the bait because otherwise no one would see it.
“I can relate to this” is a meaningful comment to get on your content.
If one person says it, MANY people feel it.
This is a good list - a lot of it resonates with me, especially the “parenting bankruptcy” concept.
“Marketing is the generous act of showing up with a true story that helps people get to where they’d like to go.”
If you’re thinking of raising your prices, I recommend these two books:
Which do I like more: Doing or Teaching? It’s a question I’ve been considering recently for a variety of reasons. My business revenue (at the moment) is largely based on teaching people how to get clients from their content through my membership, coaching, etc. But my most recent products - Email Templates That Turn Subscribers Into Buyers and a new writing partnership offer where I edit/improve people’s content for them - are both more on the “doing” end of the spectrum.
One of the observations that made me want to launch this microblog: It’s a space where you don’t have to worry about posting “too often” and being penalized by an algorithm. The opposite is also true. You don’t have to worry about not posting “often enough” and being penalized for that. There’s also no: • Need to worry about the optimal time of day to post • Need to chase engagement to drive reach
Came across this in the book The Art of Spending Money
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