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    The S.W.I.P.E.S Email (Friday February 16th, 2024)

    Swipe📁Wisdom🧠Interesting🧐Picture🖼 • Essay📄Splurge✍
    Edition: Friday, February 16th, 2024
    A fun email for Friday. I hope you enjoy!

     

    🎤 Listen to this email here:

    Swipe:

    This is an interesting little chart: 
    YouTube is the widest used social platform.

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    Wisdom:

    What has been the most profitable technical tool you’ve learned how to use?

    Here's my personal tool stack I use plus the proficiency level:
    - Figma (10%)
    - Photoshop (40%)
    - Descript (40%)
    - Wordpress (75%)
    - Canva (80%)
    - ChatGPT (80%)
    - Google Docs, Presentations, Sheets (80%)
    - ConvertKit (90%)
    - Camtasia (90%)

    Some others have told me some really helpful skills they've learned are:
    - WebFlow
    - ClickUp
    - Make
    - Superhuman
    - AirTable
    - Framer

    Interesting:

    This is an ultra-simplified explanation of how AI image generation works.

    They train a neural network to know what things are:

    You give it a prompt like "Corgi Sitting In A Field."

    It starts off with random noise like this:

    corgi-noise.jpg

    Then the neural network tries to figure out which tiny pixels it thinks kind of look like a Corgi and which pixels look like a field, so something resembling that starts to emerge:

    corgie-mix-noise.jpg

    The neural net then keeps repeating this until an image is formed:

    corgie-final.jpg

    So from rubbish-to-finished picture is might look something like this:

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    This is of course a very simplified version, but isn't it interesting how much processing is being done behind the scenes to create AI images!

    Image Credits: Ethan Mollick and AltexSoft

    Picture:

    Apparently when Steve Urkel first came on TV he was 12 years old....I looked kinda similar at 12....at least the glasses were the same 😂

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    Neville on the Left, Urkel on the Right 

    Essay:

    Look at this “Split Testing” Noah Kagan did to find the right book cover: He took a picture from a book store shelf, then rendered different colors of the book to see which stood out the most. The yellow book blended in, but the green stood out!

    yellow-green-split-test.png

    He also ran Facebook Ads to test which book covers/colors people would click on the most:

    mockup-covers.png

    The end result looking like this!

    split-testing-end.jpg

    You can also watch Noah talk about how he reverse-engineered reaching NYTimes Bestseller with his book launch here:

     

     

    Splurge:

    Speaking of books....

    In our Copywriting Course Office Hours member Rob Roseman said he wanted to a release a book to his Instagram followers:

     

    Just 4 weeks after thinking of the idea I'm holding Rob's physical book in my hand! That's impressively fast execution!

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    I've procrastinated writing books by months and years, so to see someone do this in ONE MONTH was impressive.

    He did it like this:

    WEEK 1: He got the concept for the book, then split tested titles and covers on Instagram.

    wtf-covers.jpg

    He also did some sample book store split testing for fun:

    store-split-test.jpg

     

    WEEK 2: In Office Hours sessions we came up with content formats for inside the book, he split test those as well on his Instagram account:

    inside-wtf-book.jpg

     

    WEEK 3: Once he got the content types down, he created all the content and published. He heavily leveraged his divorce Instagram account for content which helped show what content was socially proven.

    **Side Note: His Instagram just started to pop a few months ago, so he didn't have an already giant community until very very very recently.

     

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    WEEK 4: I'm holding the book in my hand 🤯

    wtf-book.jpg

     

    Now that's some HUSTLE seen right inside our copywriting community!

    I hope you enjoyed these Friday tid-bits!
    Sincerely, 
    Neville Medhora

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    @Neville Great SWIPES Email as ever. I just finished reading this week's edition and was blown away by the section on @Rob Roseman. Congrats, Rob! That's amazing progress. Very impressive. The results say a lot about you and the CC community. You've definitely inspired me to step up my engagement here. Best of luck with the book.

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    @Neville Regarding the technical tools, I'm learning how to use Canva...the possibilities are endless! 

    Lolol at Steve Urkel...I remember the show!

    About the book...done and dusted in four weeks...wow that's so inspiring....

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    Wow, Neville, this. is. awesome.  Appreciate you, man. 

    * and I can't give up my coffee just yet...

    lol'd at the Urkel. And now he's jacked like you too! 💪

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    No worries, that split testing was amazing to see in action! 

    Glad me and Urkel took similar trajectories in life 😂

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