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Author: Seth Werkheiser
ACTIVATION VS PERSUASION
Your next big break is probably right under your nose. Your next sale, job, whatever.
“Marketers face a choice every day: hustle for new people or serve the ones who care. Activation is much more productive than persuasion.” Seth Godin
The most frequent question I get with my Email Guidance offering is “how do I get more subscribers,” and I never answer it. Instead, we dig deeper into their existing audience, asking “are you 100% that everyone on your current email list knows about your thing?”
And if so – is your website set up in a way that makes it easy for them to support your work?
SURFACE AREA
There’s the saying to increase the surface area for luck, but I’m telling you… meeting new folks increases the surface area for COOL STUFF.
I just got off a Zoom call with some great folks and met Andrew White and I want him to take photos of me running up the hills I try to run up (just kidding, I’d look awful), and also discovered Andrew(?) Byrd who is running an analog recording competition – making and recording music with no computers!
I know, I know… the surface area thing… for networking, for finding jobs, yes, sure. Of course. But wow, there are just so many amazing people out there doing great work.
WITH MOVEMENT COMES CLARITY
Wise words from Kel Rakowski, from her post “How to Start Over When You Don’t Know Who You Are Anymore.”
“But clarity doesn’t usually come from thinking. It comes from doing—writing, sharing, experimenting, publishing something small.
The longer you wait to feel certain, the harder it becomes to move at all.”
BUZZGRINDER BUSINESS CARD TYPO
For one, I can’t believe I still have this. But two, yes, that’s not just a typo on the business card, it was the logo on the music blog for probably a year or two, as well.
DELETING ALL YOUR SUBSTACK DATA IS TOO EASY
It is UNREAL that any setting other than DELETE MY ENTIRE SUBSTACK would delete your whole entire substack.
Please help.
My Substack publication. All my subscribers. All my posts. Everything gone.
How? I deleted my podcast and a glitch in the substack system meant it wiped everything.
A similar thing happened to
Chelsey Pippin Mizzi (although she still had her publication and data it wiped all her posts).
My stripe account is still working. I don’t know if my publication will come back. I don’t know if I create a new publication if it will attach to old stripe data. Or if I have to effectively bankrupt myself to refund everyone and then re-ask them to subscribe to a new publication.
Has this happened to anyone else? Can anyone help?
This happened to me, but it only wiped out about 10 video posts. Thankfully I had full back up copies of those videos, and was able to piece together the posts again. But the permalinks, the comments, the views, etc. – all gone.
DOUBLE UPS
Doing more of the thing you want to do usually leads to more of what you want to do.
That doesn’t mean I should eat pizza and ice cream everday, of course, but the math adds up soon enough.
Months ago I got back to my running practice. Some days I just couldn’t grind through a three or four mile run.
Sure enough, I wasn’t eating enough to have the energy for those runs, so they always sucked.
Once you start eating to run, running gets easier.
And so now I’ve run 30 miles a week for the past few weeks, and usually hitting 5000′ of elevation along the way.
I’m not the fastest, but I’m probably the only ding dong who runs up and down this dirt road with no guard rail at least once a week.
And this past Sunday I did it twice, because hey, at 48 years old if you’re not challenging yourself, most likely no one else will, either.
ALWAYS GIVING ADVICE
Via Xavi Buendia
THE STUDIO STOOL
Oh my, I love The Studio Stool so much.
BLOGGING IS FIGHTING
It’s a lie that “people stopped reading blogs.” There are plenty of people reading blogs, and writing them. It’s just that there’s no giant smoke-and-mirrors machine at work convincing everyone of the fact – that’s what social media has been doing.
- The product makers (Apple, Samsung, etc) all convinced us we need the best new phones.
- The cellular companies convinced us we needed unlimited plans and 5G speeds.
- The social media companies kept us scrolling, watching, liking.
Three collosal industries working together to keep you consuming, and making it seem ludicrous to consider anything else.
Which is why all those “I left Instagram” and “I switched to a dumbphone” articles are so popular. They’re like the Matrix allowing certain people to leave the system, knowing so many other people will accept the program as it’s built.
Make your blogs. Link to other blogs. They’re not back, they never left.