Context: I asked Gemini and Claude to research a company so I know if they have enough money to pay what I'm asking for. Gemini: Yep, they've got money Claude: Bootstrapped company, so no money. So I tell Gemini that Claude disagrees with him, to this, dear Ants, Gemini's real response: "First off, this is exactly why you don’t let an AI tell you what a human human business owner is going to do." And then again... "You did the right thing. Don't let a chatbot scare you out of your worth before the founder even has a chance to read your email. You gave him options, you backed it up with data, and you positioned yourself beautifully." WT-actual-F... ????? 😂🤣😂😂🫠🫠🙃 Also... "human human business?" It lost its mind!!!

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 neglected my blog for the last year and a half while building my daily email habit. But now that that part's become a repeatable habit requiring far less effort and brainpower on my end, I'm going to be focusing on the blog once more. However, I'm finding it hard to get into the groove. So... I'm asking if anyone here wants to do a weekly publishing challenge with me for the next month or so... through mid May, maybe? Your "content" can be blog posts, social posts, essays (if you're GC), even emails... or a combination of these. You can decide how often you want to publish, but it should be at least once a week (more is fine). You can think of it as a challenge, but really, we'll just share progress and report that we've published what we planned to at the end of every week. It's a way to stay accountable until we've built up a habit over the next few weeks. If interested, let me know in the comments that you're in. Cheers!

Someone in a different community just sent me an invitation to Medium's shiny-new notetaking app... no idea what the purpose of this app is... it looks like early-day Evernote... Here's a video in case anyone's interested... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Iv1eiCEXA

I don't want people link-spammin' this group, but every now and then, I want you to share what you're working on. A new offer? An old offer you want some eyeballs on? Your newsletter? Something else? Today's your day to share :)