anyone remember a St
[2022-11-28 10:48:57 AM] : anyone remember a Stacking the Bricks article that talked about how and why stuff like buying a domain or telling people about your idea takes the wind out of your sails? i swear i saw something like this and can’t find it now
Just came across thi
[2022-11-27 02:54:43 AM] : Just came across this blog post and find the usage of a code snippet in the open graph image very interesting. Just reading the title and looking at the image you know what it's about and you get value from it.
https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/react-conditional-rendering-with-type-safety-and-exhaustive-checking/...
I got a new book yes
[2022-11-26 01:28:07 PM] : I got a new book yesterday called "Needing to Know for Sure". The way they describe the pain is CRAZY accurate. I'm sure the authors are not copywriters, but the book description is great copywriting material. By the second paragraph, I was like: "shut up and take my money!" :take-my-money:
Just wanted to share here, because I'm sure other people might suffer from this too (reassurance seeking).
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<@U0A6V5LLQ> and <@U
[2022-11-25 04:56:08 PM] : amy and alex weren’t kidding when they said that launching was an emotional rollercoaster. Hoo boy, it’s a ride all right.
decided to create a
[2022-11-21 07:02:09 PM] : decided to create a new offering for my audience. this is partly so i can provide value of course, but also so i can safari my audience and get ideas for new content.
https://www.codewithjason.com/salon/...
Pick your audience w
[2022-11-18 03:52:46 AM] : Pick your audience wisely… This mornings Safari :man-facepalming::rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:
https://rennlist.com/forums/racing-and-drivers-education-forum/1325624-road-course-with-the-best-strip-club-s-within-5-miles.html...
<@UFSA30P8F> some pe
[2022-11-17 01:48:37 PM] : Alex some people find it easier to do multiple passes. others prefer to fill in the different parts of the safari template as they go. I don't think there's a right or a wrong way, both can work!
I think some people prefer the "one pass at a time" approach if they notice they get distracted and veer off in tangents. other people find it easier to spot things as they go....
i will say I don't h
[2022-11-16 07:35:39 PM] : i will say I don't have a strong opinion about this and the real answer is that it's situational and I don't know if I can describe why it goes one way or another but I'll try!
in this case, since you mentioned you're going to flintstone it as a tie-in to your newsletter, I'd start it as a subdomain since a big part of the value of the board is the network you reach with your existing platform.
if it takes off and becomes less reliant on your platform (your newsletter/content traffic), and instead becomes a SOURCE of traffic for the newsletter/content side, that's when I'd spin it out into it's own domain....
I've been looking fo
[2022-11-16 04:30:35 PM] : I've been looking for a fun end of year project, and I think I found it! [File hidden by Slack limit]
But the mixtape is..
[2022-11-16 11:02:33 AM] : But the mixtape is... basically just the newsletter. So the standard unsubscribe is the right option in most cases I can think of.
Getting interesting
[2022-11-15 04:32:02 AM] : Getting interesting responses to this tweet about my book on hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33606256
Just watched the “Bu
[2022-11-15 01:39:07 AM] : Just watched the “Business Big Picture” replay, great stuff! Thanks for doing this & looking forward to seeing more of you amy! Happy you’re back!!
Howdy all. I've got
[2022-11-15 12:21:01 AM] : Howdy all. I've got a conundrum where I am getting much fewer signups to my newsletter than I would expect/hope for given my page views and would appreciate advice from others who've attempted to tackle low conversion. My site has about 30k unique visitors in the past 12 months, and I've got about 1k newsletter signups. My 59 posts (spanning from 2016 to now) could be largely split between updates to a big ebomb that I created and maintain (a big library of open source books) and advice for data analysts and some much "higher level" thinking of the role of data in orgs etc -these overlap but not 100%. The posts I have have a bit of a mix of approaches (many are pre 30x500, but one of the best performing one's is 30x500).
Given that there's probably many angles to improving and wanting to avoid prematurely optimising, I can see a couple options to go forward but wondering if I am missing somethign obvious:
1. Continue with 30x50 ebombs until I have a good 15-20 of those and individually have good performance before I optimise anything else...
Thanks again to <@U0
[2022-11-14 11:52:57 PM] : Thanks again to amy and alex for organising the webinar yesterday. I’ve enjoyed myself a lot. And thanks for the good quote Amy :slightly_smiling_face: [File hidden by Slack limit]
*I'm feeling a bit i
[2022-11-13 05:47:37 AM] : I'm feeling a bit indecisive on my audience.
Earlier in the 30x500 process, the sounding - or my interpretation of it - was "just pick one, it's not important as it's just for practice".
So I did, and I went ahead and started learning. But now, suddenly I landed at "purchase a domain and set up a website and start dropping e-bombs", which is starting to feel a lot more committed.
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An ebomb of mine is
[2022-11-11 12:49:07 PM] : An ebomb of mine is doing well on Reddit at the moment and I'd like to get a few more subs. Any quick ideas on how to improve this lead magnet? [File hidden by Slack limit]