After a grueling week of competition, our Daily Email House Teaching Tournament has concluded. The winner is... [... drumroll...] [... lights...] [... audience swooning...] [... results slowly appear on the screen...] ... Nick Bandy, with his promise to teach a low-stress ad funnel to a low-ticket product that runs at a VERY slight profit, indefinitely! [Nick takes a bite out of his gold medal as if to test out that it's really gold] In second place, we have Honey Syed with the promise of how to put your course in front of 50,000 proven buyers, without spending a dime. In third place, we have Kevin Hood, on how to use Threads to get hundreds of new subscribers to your email list in a month. [cheers and champagne bottles popping] Over the coming days, I'll reach out to Nick to see how we can best bundle up and present his exciting promise inside Daily Email House before the snows thaw from the East Coast. Thanks to all participants and congratulations to our medalists. We will be back in 4 years with another teaching tournament... or maybe a bit sooner.

I got a message a couple days ago from @Michael Silk. Michael wrote: === I have just seen a post on LinkedIn and the post starts out.. "I just became CEO of a 10M ARR Tech Scaleup. What can you do for us? Comment with your one liner below." (The post set some rules beyond that and how if he was interested he'd get back to people, but that was the main part of the post). === Michael thought I could do something similar here in Daily Email House. The tone of the "10M ARR Tech Scaleup" CEO isn't really my style... but I think the idea is sound. In fact, I already did something like this here in Daily Email House, almost exactly a year ago. Michael's message reminded me that I should do it again. So lemme ask you: What can you teach? What's something you can put a presentation about for people inside Daily Email House? Maybe you just enjoy teaching and are always ready to do it. But maybe you need some better reasons. Here are a few: 1. You can float an idea here and gauge in a low-stress, low-effort way whether there's any value in pursuing it further. 2. If there is interest, you can get my feedback, input, and help into organizing your presentation, or even organizing it into a product. (I'm offering my feedback, input, and help both to encourage you, and to make sure any presentations will be of high-caliber and valuable for other House members.) 3. If you do give your presentation, you can use feedback from the group to polish and improve what you're teaching, so you can then turn it into a paid offer (or a free lead magnet). 4. You can get ready testimonials or even case studies from people here. 5. Though I make no promises about this, if you do turn a presentation into an offer, and if I feel it's a fit for my own list, I would love to promote it, and help you get sales and more exposure. 6. Maybe by teaching something valuable yourself, you encourage others inside Daily Email House to teach something valuable as well, which ends up benefiting you and everyone else down the line.

Happy New Year! I found myself at midnight on the couch of my apartment watching The Good, The Bad & The Ugly for the first time in 20 years. (Screen capture included.) Maybe foreshadowing of my coming year? How did you celebrate? And where did the New Year find you?

@Ann V comes up with a great suggestion: "What if we had a dedicated weekly thread just for sharing what we’re currently working on? Not the finished product, not the big win, but the messy middle. It could be, 'I’m struggling to write the hook for this email,' or 'I’m trying to figure out this new landing page layout.' This lowers the bar for sharing, makes success feel more achievable, and directly creates those "if they can do it, I can do it" moments." I think this is a great idea, and so I am officially kicking off this thread right now. I'll even share my "messy middle" situation in the first comment below.

Can I get your help? I'm wondering how we could create the equivalent atmosphere of an under-15 tennis camp here inside Daily Email House. The background: A couple days ago, I was watching an interview with a pro tennis player, Francis Tiafoe. Tiafoe is part of a generation of top American tennis players who all came up together. And by that I mean... They lived together in the same dorms, sleeping in bunk beds one above the other... ... they trained together on same courts for hours each day, day after day... ... they competed against each other since they were 12. And today they are all in the top 10 top 20 in the world. It's kind of like if, inside this Daily Email House group, 5-10 House members today end up being among the top 10 or top 20 biggest and richest online influencers in the world in 10 years from now, on the scale of Tim Ferris or Gary Vee. Speaking about what made this possible, Tiafoe said: === They did a good job always putting us in camps [to train together and to compete against each other]. I'm seeing these guys two weeks out of every month, from 13 on. I'm looking around, trying to be the best out of this group, not really thinking about big picture, turning pro, or anything like that. But this group right here? I GOTTA be the guy. === The guy interviewing Tiafoe, a former world #1 named Andy Roddick, called this "healthy jealousy." On the one hand, maybe you don't like the sound of jealousy, whether healthy or not. At the same time, consider what Tiafoe also said. First off, he said that he and all the other guys who came up together are all still friends today, 15+ years after being thrown in these "healthy jealousy" tennis camps to train and compete together. He also put a positive spin on the competition and jealousy part of it: === Everybody just kept going. We always had that mentality, "Well if this guy did it, I can definitely do it." We just kept believing off each other. === That sound pretty nice actually.