Here’s the story of having a Tweet go viral
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I made a Tweet that quickly got 3.3+ million impressions, 20,000+ likes, 2,700+ Re-Tweets, and 800,000+ video views.
The tweet was this:
I had just watched Lex Fridman’s 3rd interview with Elon Musk and marveled at how long some of the pauses were.
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This is a fun email for Friday January 14th, 2022. Hope you like it :)
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This is an example of how NOT to make a billboard.
I’ve passed this billboard 100+ times and never noticed. I only … Continue Reading
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This is a fun email for Friday January 7th, 2022. Hope you like it :)
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This is a cool a great ad by Huel (food company) which shows with text and arrow callouts the value of their … Continue Reading
Hey it’s Neville Medhora here, hope you’re having a fun 2022 so far!
I had to do a double-take when planning my January goals and
write “20212″!
Today I’m doing a quick 2021 wrap up:
I Bought A House!
I’ve lived in Downtown Austin for around 12 years and always rented. Bouncing around different areas of Downtown … Continue Reading
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This is a fun email for Friday December 24th, 2021. Hope you like it :)
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This is some neat Christmas advertising from McDonalds ! I love the use of an upside down ice cream cone as Santa … Continue Reading
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This is a fun email for Friday December 17th, 2021. Hope you like it :)
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This Russian McDonald’s email looks incredible!
Gotta hand it to them, the photography and UX on this email is super tasty looking … Continue Reading
Who do you admire as a “good writer?”
It used to be the person reporting about cool people or events was the good writer, but now with the internet you can just directly follow the interesting person.
The flow of information used to be controlled like this:
For example:
You → CNN → Steve Jobs
You → CNBC → Warren … Continue Reading
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This is a fun email for Friday December 10th, 2021. Hope you like it :)
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This old-school ad for a pressure cooker goes into detail about how you can cook quick meals with this device, and goes … Continue Reading
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This is a fun email for Friday December 3rd, 2021. Hope you like it :)
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This 1969 ad shows that you can drink Dr. Pepper as a HOT beverage!
Showing different uses for your product is definitely … Continue Reading
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This is a fun email for Thursday November 25th, 2021.
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🦃 !!HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃
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Happy Thanksgiving! But staring tomorrow (Friday) this is about to be you bombarded with deals from the internet and … Continue Reading
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Codie Sanchez has been a journalist, institutional investor for Goldman Sachs, co-founder of Unconventional Acquisitions, and Founder at Contrarian Thinking.
She specializes in “sweaty & boring” small businesses. Laundromats, car washes, vending machines, ice vending machines…basically stuff that requires one employee or no employees.
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We brought … Continue Reading
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This is a fun email for Friday November 19th, 2021. Hope you like it :)
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You’re about to seeing a whole bunch of Black Friday sales around the web, and it’s a perfect chance to build … Continue Reading
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This is a fun email for Friday November 12th, 2021. Hope you like it :)
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Twitter put out this cool “Month of Tweets” idea chart:
I really liked the concept of this calendar because it gives … Continue Reading
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This is a fun email for Friday November 5th, 2021. Hope you like it :)
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In 1969 this was how the famous McDonald’s BigMac was launched:
I love the simplicity of this ad, and how it … Continue Reading
David Perell first came to my attention via Twitter, where he posts thoughtful pieces on writing. We talked extensively about writing and how he grew a large Twitter following.
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Thoughts On Writing (The “compression” of information + the future of writing)
- Why (and
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This is a fun email for Friday October 29th, 2021. Hope you like it :)
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This is a hilarious and perfect explanation of how “Correlation is not Causation” 😂
People often say this phrase, and while … Continue Reading
Neville Medhora and Sam Parr (TheHustle + HubSpot) go over books for business, life, fiction, and investing. Which are YOUR favorite books?
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This is a fun email for Friday October 15th, 2021. Hope you like it :)
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Imagine it’s the 1960’s and you wanted to reach a large audience for your products, this was how you had to do it:
👉🏼 Design physical ad like … Continue Reading
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This is a fun email for Friday October 8th, 2021. Hope you like it :)
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Everyone knows I’m a sucker for this style of image:
The combination of a solid picture with text and arrows is one of my favorite ways to statically … Continue Reading
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This is a fun email for Friday October 1st, 2021. Hope you like it :)
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This is an awesome Chivas Regal Whiskey ad from 1976 that uses price comparison to do two things:
1.) Associate Chivas Regal with other expensive luxury … Continue Reading
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This is a fun email for Friday September 24th, 2021. Hope you like it :)
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This is a clever rolling advertisement from Uhaul that shows the features and benefits of the different parts of their moving … Continue Reading
Here’s a video on how I think about pricing products:
We made calculators to help you calculate these numbers:
→ Product Pricing Calculator ←
→ Recurring Revenue Calculator ←
The Product Pricing Calculator will tell you how much of a product you need to sell to hit a goal:
The Recurring Revenue Calculator lets you toggle
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This is a fun email for Friday September 17th, 2021. Hope you like it :)
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This is a great “Line and Text” callout ad for old Zenith stereo from 1967:
Instead of making “Giant Scary Blocks … Continue Reading
Scenario: You are a pro copywriter
You’ve been hired by Ahrefs to re-write their Site Audit Tool page:
Ahrefs is a big company with the top SEO tool on the market
– Their website gets millions of visits per month –
– Doing around $100,000,000/yr in revenue –
– Thousands of new signups every day –
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This is a fun email for Friday September 10th, 2021. Hope you like it :)
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A common tactic for promoting a product is:
Show new and varied uses for the product.
By today’s standards it’s probably … Continue Reading
Andrew Warner is normally the interviewer, but today the tables have turned! Andrew Warner is the founder and CEO of Mixergy, one of the original (maybe first?) places to be doing online interviews with founders likeGary Vaynerchuk, Barbar Corcoran, Paul Graham of YCombinator.
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In his 20’s Andrew sold a company with his brother … Continue Reading
This is copywriting exercise where you see ANY ad, and think to yourself: “How can I make this ad better?”
So if you’re walking by this billboard, you try to think of more ways you can re-make the billboard:
So you would think in your head:
Just as practice you’d come up with different angles like this:… Continue Reading
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This is a fun email for Friday September 3rd, 2021. Hope you like it :)
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This is an amazing Volkswagen ad that has a VERY catchy image and headline that make you “fall down the slippery … Continue Reading
Peter Keller is the founder and CEO of Fringe Sport, one of the largest retailers of home workout equipment. He is quoted as saying “Our business was built on content and copy” so I wanted to find out how he did it!
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Fringe Sport specializes in selling equipment for home gyms. They … Continue Reading
