After a very, very long time, I published a guest post on The Side Blogger. This whole thing came about in a weird turn of events: Lib (the person who wrote it), made a LinkedIn post asking if anyone would like a high-quality guest post. I didn't know Lib at the time, but I saw @Lex Roman jump in the comments and go all "me me me." And because I trust Lex and know they've been publishing guest posts on their site Revenue Rulebreaker for some time (I was the first to publish one on Revenue Rulebreaker, in fact), I also went me me me... Anyway, the point is, I'm happy with how this turned out. And I would like to do more of these. However, I've tried to make it work in the past, but it failed miserably. Not everyone turned in quality work, and it ended up being more work than what I signed up for. So I'm understandably a little concerned. I was also paying a fixed amount for articles, and that attracted all sorts of wrong-fit people. So, now I'm wondering how to make it worthwhile for both parties. One option would be to pay them a fixed amount as I did before, and the other would be to do a JV-style thing where I promote them to my list in exchange for a quality article. Anyway... lotsa thoughts around this. I guess my question is... has anyone here accepted or contributed to another website? Was it worthwhile? And what would be your ideal form of compensation? A fixed payment or a JV style thing?

Hi! I hope this is "not" the wrong place to ask... I've read so many interesting people around here that I thought some of you could have an angle here. I started using substack recently because it doesn't charge you to send emails and it already has people that can find you. My idea was, from the beginning, to use it to keep a mailing list of people I could eventually try to convince to sell them my course... and I admit I did NOT read the TOS (I just assumed it said pretty much what anyone else says)... Yesterday I found a couple of people complaining because substack has started to suspend "lots" (?) of people for posting links within their posts... like: "I can't even link to my book? how am I gonna tell people to find my book to buy it?" THEN I read the TOS and yes, it says there that substack is NOT meant to be used for email marketing... so, I am probably already violating the TOS with my occasional mails, since I am trying to sell outside of substack. So... alternatives? Now, a blog... yes, I know people is divided in between: "blogs are dead because people don't google anymore, nonetheless read", and "blogs are ok"... and you need to do some SEO (which substack lacks, anyway) Then there is LinkedIn... which also has people there who might find you... but I "think" has a character limit on your text. And of course there are mailing services, highly cost mailing services... which is what made substack attractive to begin with. And, having a blog means you need to create a lead magnet for people to be willing to share their emails... So, yes... more work... (what can I offer for free if most of what I do online is already there for free on YT?) I have also noticed some people have started communities like this one, and it seems like a nice way of keeping people around, but I find it somewhat hard for people to want to join anoooother platform (login + psw), and then remember there is this platform, and then engage there... and even though I am in different skool communities now, it does not seem to be a place where people are trying something like the email marketing stuff... so, maybe it is not what I am looking for either?

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.)

This is hilarious. Until a year ago (even as recently as a couple of months ago), people were screaming that blogs were dead. And now some of the same people are saying things like... Long form proves your authority. Social media is dying. Own your content. Start a blog. 😂🤣 Anyway, yeah, blogs for the win and they're so back, baby! (Not that they ever went away but whatever)