Few people know how to grow members (next to maybe Liz Wilcox) like @Lex Roman does.... Their membership is an infant compared to many others, and they're already close to 300 members...!!! And they do this one thing that I absolutely love: Send Legends-only (their members are called Legends) newsletters to EVERYONE so EVERYONE knows what Legends are up to. I don't know why I never thought of it... but like... why did I never think of it??? I want more Vault members, so why do I hide the stuff I send to them??? I think I'm gonna start sending my member-only emails to everyone, too. At least try it and see what happens, I guess? Welcome if anyone has any thoughts on the matter.... Anyway... if you're not a Legend, you should totally join if nothing else, then just to see how Lex grows their members. Makes me jealous, if I'm being honest.... 🙃 And you also get 20% off if you use this link: https://www.thesideblogger.com/lexroman

I'm, as always, in the middle of reading multiple books because I get bored so easily these days... But I guess I don't feel guilty about it anymore ever since I went through John's Insight Exposed (sucks for you if you didn't buy it when I promoted it). Anyway. Tell me what you're reading 👀 Don't even have to be business-related or nonfiction. Normal fiction, trashy fiction, steamy hentai... anything goes.

What's the point, guys? Email marketing is dead. Time to wrap things up. Who's with me? . . . This was an April 1 thing ppl, don't actually take it seriously 😒

Here's how LinkedIn is going in case anyone's interested: On March 1, I had 844 followers. Today, on March 26, I have 1,353 followers. That's ~20 new followers per day. I also got 22 new subscribers from LinkedIn since March 1. About subscribers: I get them when I share a lead magnet as opposed to just the newsletter link. (Nick's Facebook Ads case study remains the highest clicked post to date... with 41 clicks.) Paid product links don't get much traction. Though I haven't promoted any low-ticket offers yet... most of what I promoted were over 100 bucks. The cheapest thing I promoted was the Strategy Sprint coaching call that's $75 and I did get a few clicks on those, but no bites so far. (One person joined my list and emailed me saying they were interested and they bookmarked the booking page... but that's about it.) Anyway, my LinkedIn starter kit is still up for sale if anybody wants it: https://thesideblogger.com/product/linkedin-starter-kit/

A LinkedIn post from someone I respect had this to say (summarizing, of course): - If you do not like receiving multi-day welcome sequences, do not send one to your subscribers - If you do not like having to subscribe for a free lead magnet, do not make people subscribe for a lead magnet either In essence, this person was suggesting that those things were not ideal. I respectfully commented, saying: → I've seen some pretty interesting and entertaining multi-day welcome sequences that I've loved, and more importantly, ended up buying something from. Which, as someone running my own business, says a lot. → And, for really amazing lead magnets, if the price is an email address, I'm more than happy to pay. To which they respectfully replied, saying I'm an exception because I operate among a circle of marketers, and that most people do not feel this way. To which my reaction (which I did not voice) was that, if I'm a business owner helping other business owners be better business owners (and marketers, because how else would you sell anything?), same as this person if I might add, then shouldn't we teach them good marketing, and not what we like or don't like? I mean, sure, at the end of the day, we will do what we want to do... that's the entrepreneurial temperament... we like to break rules... but while teaching, should we not teach the rules and leave the exceptions to individual choices? Anyway... thoughts? Those of you who subscribe to me, buy from me, and learn from me... would you rather I tell you feel-good stuff or teach you the rules so you can break them with more clarity and intention behind every decision you make?