This morning I woke up and saw that i have a new ThriveCart order notification. I'm not promoting anything new, I have no current deadlines, and this was not simply a rebill notification for a Daily Email Habit subscriber. What could this order be? I opened up the email to see: DESCRIPTION: Copy Riddles AMOUNT: $997.00 I started to pat myself on the back. For one thing, it's always nice to get a $997 course sale. For another, I figured that this emails an email I wrote a few days ago, in which I promoted Copy Riddles, can now go into my "Emails that did well" file. And sure enough, the dude bought thorugh that email ("A new episode about clever product names"). Only one problem though... The dude got onto my list on May 18. He bought today, May 28. I haven't reached out yet to this guy. I don't know what he knows about me, how presold he was, or whether this email really did do magic. I suspect that ANY decent email promoting Copy Riddles might have gotten this guy to click through, at which point, maybe the sales page is what really sold him. On the flip side, had I not sent this email a few days ago, promoting Copy Riddles, odds are excellent I would NOT have made this sale. That's an argument for regularly promoting offers from your back catalog in your daily emails. It's also an argument for having a welcome sequence, in which you gradually guide new people along through the offers you have. I don't have a welcome sequence. I'm apparently losing money. Do you have a welcome sequence? Why or why not?

Hi guys: Just signed up for Daily Email Habit yesterday; got my first email puzzle today. So I wrote the email - and it pretty much flew off my fingers. And I sent it too - to my lone subscriber, me! (It's a new list.) What a great prompt! Looking forward to tomorrow....

It's Memorial Day in the U.S. It's Whit Monday in Spain. (I'm not Catholic and I have no idea what Whit Monday is, but apparently it's cause enough for everything to work like it's Sunday.) Are you working today? If so, where? On what? I myself am working. My cleaning woman is here so I am on the roof of my building. There's a small pool here, one German girl tanning herself, a couple young Russian guys who I guess live in the building, a woman who must be the mother of one of the guys. She is drinking beer, they are not. Up above, I can hear a few seagulls shrieking and a police siren somewhere in the distance. I'm replying to emails that have built up over the past few days. And in a half hour, I have to get on a call with @Nick Bandy , to hatch evil schemes.

Not related to emails, but I think there are people in this group who've written books, so figured I'd ask. What are your thoughts on partnering with authors specifically for a fixed sum of money? Kind of like newsletter ads, but can be sponsored content across websites (book reviews, author interviews, inclusion in some type of list), social media mentions, and newsletter mentions, too... I haven't really seen authors do this except for going on podcasts... And I don't think those are paid (I could be wrong?) Anyway... is this a good or a bad idea?

We need a thread for gratuitous fun: Stuff that has nothing to do with marketing, business, copy, daily emails... but that is fun for fun's sake. (Even a little bit of fun is better than none.) I'd like to kick things off with the attached (and real, not AI) photo of a beaver, which I put in an email a long time ago, apropos of nothing. If you have jokes, funny pictures, memes, ideas for "disconnected infotainment," put 'em in here. On Fridays... or really on any other days.