Two days ago, I got on the call with the winner of the Daily Email House Teaching Tournament, Nick "The Slick" Bandy. Nick's promise was a "low-stress ad funnel to a low-ticket product that runs at a VERY slight profit, indefinitely." Nick has created such a funnel for himself, which has been growing his list over the past year with 100+ buyers every month, while actually making Nick about $1.50 for every $1 he puts into ads, even before he makes any offers via his emails. The question that Nick and I didn't know the answer to was how to best package up and present this promise. Maybe you can tell us. Would you simply want to have Nick do this for you? Or would you want to work with Nick in tandem to get this low-stress and profitable funnel done with his help? Or do you just want to hear Nick lay out the secrets of how his funnel works, so you can go off and work on this yourself? Let us know, and your votes will determine what ends up happening:

Work in Progress Wednesdays... What are you working on? Doesn't have to be complete... Doesn't have to be majestic... Just real. What's your current project? Or what's on your todo list for today?

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.

Hidden deep in a comment on another thread, @Maliha M reports on a potential partner who stopped responding. (Full details of the interaction below.) How would you follow up to get the guy talking again? Think a bit and write your best take in the comments below. Maybe we can help Maliha come up with a strategy she can test out and report on. But even sooner than that... A moment spent thinking now will pay you back if you ever want to find a list swap partner... an affiliate partner... somebody to sponsor your newsletter... somebody whose newsletter you can sponsor... a reader who can pay you $1k for an offer you're making etc. People drop off. At all points. For all kinds of reasons. Following up with them is a fundamental habit and skill. Here are the details of the interaction Maliha has had so far: ----- I left this message in a group recently: "Would anyone like to "sponsor" my newsletter, but instead of paying me with money, you hop on a Zoom call with me, and teach one thing to my audience in a quick 15-20 minute presentation? I will share this video in my tiny community... but I'll share your link (newsletter, lead magnet, or whatever you want) as a classified ad in my newsletter. What you teach must be relevant to my readers, of course. (Marketers, bloggers, newsletter writers, copywriters, and creators in general.) Let me know if anyone is curious!" ----- To which, and to my astonishing surprise, my favorite humor writer chimed in (didn't even know he was in that group!!!), and said: "I'm interested! I've been working on some ideas around “How to be funny” for exactly this kind of thing." ----- I took it to DM and gave him some details of what I expect, to which he wrote... a week+ later: "Hey Maliha, sorry for the delay on this. Sounds fun! I'd be happy to talk about easy ways/strategies to incorporate humor. Let me know what you're thinking as far as schedule etc." ----- To which I wrote back: "Don't worry about it. As for schedule, I'm pretty flexible. Just give me a couple of days and times when you're free and I'll make it work."

I wasn't able to participate so I've created a Case Study of the Pool Party Auction for everyone who might like it. https://link.clickervolt.com/pool-party