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... 🤣

Few people know how to grow members (next to maybe Liz Wilcox) like @Lex Roman does.... Their membership is an infant compared to many others, and they're already close to 300 members...!!! And they do this one thing that I absolutely love: Send Legends-only (their members are called Legends) newsletters to EVERYONE so EVERYONE knows what Legends are up to. I don't know why I never thought of it... but like... why did I never think of it??? I want more Vault members, so why do I hide the stuff I send to them??? I think I'm gonna start sending my member-only emails to everyone, too. At least try it and see what happens, I guess? Welcome if anyone has any thoughts on the matter.... Anyway... if you're not a Legend, you should totally join if nothing else, then just to see how Lex grows their members. Makes me jealous, if I'm being honest.... 🙃 And you also get 20% off if you use this link: https://www.thesideblogger.com/lexroman

Hey guys... I'm planning a bunch of events for the next few months, and I really want to bring on this one guest who started writing on Threads a couple of years ago, started making a full-time income selling his offers on his little Stan store, and then quit his 9-5. (He may or may not have clients... unsure... but he's a rare Threads-person whose posts I actually like reading.) Is there anyone here who wants to know how Threads work and have him come and talk to you?

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?