I'm an impatient person. ADHD maybe... but it goes beyond that. Sometimes I get a product idea, and I jump the gun because it feels almost physically painful to wait to validate an idea... I'd rather make a thing and have that flop than validate. Speaking of impatience... I dated a guy who, for whatever freaky reason, would call me while in the middle of playing video games, and sometimes I'd ask a question and he'd literally answer after minutes (I counted)... after slaying some monsters and collecting loot, I presume... it came to a point where my first question after answering his calls was always... "err... are you in the middle of a game?" That reeeeally tested me. Anyway, I digress.... All that said... I *have* validated product ideas in the past. It's a very short list of 5 different ways. So, let's play a game. Guess one validation method in my list, followed by whether it's a yay method or a blah method. Yay → as in this method tells you whether someone is actually interested in the product or not Blah → the opposite of yay If you get the right combo, I'll tell you the name of the book I just ordered and the one I just finished reading. Go pikachoooo PS: the dude called me tonight (we stay in touch) to say "what's up, haven't talked in a month!" then went quiet... 🤣

I don't want this group to become a link-drop can, but I also want to know what people are working on. Last time I made a similar post, one Anthill member, @Honey Syed, made a sale right away! Which tells me that I should make it so folks can share what they're up to... but in a more controlled way, perhaps? So, welcome to a new weekly thread: Share-What-You-Did Sunday Made a new offer? A lead magnet? Landed a client? Acquired an asset 👀? Anything else? 🎉 Share away! 🎉 (And yes, feel free to share a link, also.)

Here's something I tried recently that didn't work: I get bored easily, so I keep trying new things to entertain myself. Recently, I tried it with the Write Without AI workshop. I sold it in two phases back-to-back: Early bird (cheaper) > then regular price. I thought most people would get it at the cheaper early bird price. I had zero buyers 🙃 All of the sales came AFTER the price increase. I tried a similar scheme last year, when I launched my Email List-Building OS, and the exact same thing happened then, too. I thought it was a fluke then. But now it's become a pattern. So this experiment ends here, I guess. No more early bird pricing. Anyway, in case you followed the promo... word of advice... don't do what I did.

My emails reward me in ways I do not always anticipate. I got two new members to the Vault these past couple of days, even though I've been promoting the Write Without AI workshop... and NOT the Vault. I often sell courses or templates to people who find me on Google, Pinterest, or AI... but they don't sign up for the membership. That takes nurturing. So, what happened? If I had to guess, I'd say it's likely because my subscribers see my emails daily, I'm on top of their minds even if not all of them open my emails or read them every day, and when they're ready, when they feel the need to solve a problem that I have a solution for, they think of me quite naturally. Both of these members are first-time buyers, too, even though each of them have been on my list for a few months already. So that's nice. These random purchases or membership signups are my signs/reminders that: 1. Daily emails help; they keep you fresh in your readers' minds 2. Story-based emails are powerful; they make you memorable to your readers (your emails don't just blend into the sea of gazillion other marketing emails) Do what you will with it.

Yesterday, one of my subscribers shared this with me, and I thought this could be the perfect post for the group: ----- I'm thinking about my newsletter and overall voice, and have been thinking about leaning into more of the way I speak instead of the 'button-up version'. My newsletter has a decent open and click-thru rate, but literally zero responses, so I'm thinking about things to try to break that wall between me and the subs. ----- So? How would you get people to want to chat with you and respond to your emails?