Not all of you are on social media, but many of you are at least on some sort of platform, I'm assuming. For traffic, lead gen, etc. OK so, for example, I'm on Pinterest. It's a visual search engine, so I get decent traffic from Pinterest to my blog, and a decent chunk of said traffic converts to subscribers, too. I mean, Google (thanks to SEO) is still my biggest traffic source, but adding just one other platform definitely helps. So, here's a poll for you: What's your primary platform of choice? Vote below and then let me know in the comments whether you're currently using it with some level of success, or if you want to start using it because you've heard good things. And if you vote "somethin' else" then let me know that in the comments, too.

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)

I should have known better. Last month, when I promoted the LinkedIn 30-day challenge, for suuuuper cheap ($45, and then $95), I got 4 buyers. Then, a couple of days ago, when I promoted the same stuff, but only the info, sans the 30-day challenge, well, I got way more buyers. Why? If I had to guess, it's because I was selling too much for too little the first time... the price didn't make sense, and instead of seeing this as a catch/opportunity whatever, people saw it as something without value. (In my defense... I only had a breakthrough on LinkedIn a month ago... so I wasn't sure if I could/should charge higher...) This reminded me of what one of my Write Without AI peeps said back in January. I'm paraphrasing: > I wanted to build a daily writing habit, but I needed skin in the game, and the price was just right. (For reference, I was selling WWAI for $299) Basically, what I take away from this is that cheap isn't always better. Sometimes you need to ask for more money for people to take their work seriously. In other words, it's to your customers' benefit to price your offers higher. Not disproportionately, but it doesn't help to undervalue. Anyway... my brain's still a bit fuzzy from being sick these last few days... but I hope that made sense.