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    The SWIPES Email (Friday March 21st, 2024)

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    Edition: Friday, March 22nd, 2024
    An educational (and fun) email by Copywriting Course. Enjoy!

     

    🎤 Listen to this email here:

    Swipe:

    One of my favorite marketing concepts is "The Slippery Slope" where you capture people's attention, give them great content, then get them to take an action:

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    The absolute best way to get people down the Slippery Slope is by using the AIDA Formula:

    It can step-by-step slide people down that Slippery Slope for you!

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    Checkout our post on the AIDA Formula you can see how to sell stuff, even stuff like a helicopter 😎

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    Wisdom:

    Here's a tough lesson I learned on our last email:

    It got a 4% email open rate (that's absurdly low), and we investigated what happened and it turns out:

    I put a screenshot of our email intake form and linked it to a form, so Gmail viewed this as a fake form and phishing attempt.

    Big lesson learned 🙄

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    Interesting:

    In 2023 you'd have to combine the top 5 highest viewed episodes of television shows, just to equal just one mid-sized episode of Seinfeld 😮

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    This random episode they are comparing is not even in the top 50 most popular episodes of Seinfeld either:

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    One thing to note is that viewership of a show nowadays is probably spread over TV broadcasts, internet streamers and social media....so it's difficult to calculate FULL viewership.

    This is the full infographic this info was pulled from:

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    Picture:

    This recent personal blog post from Sam Parr is reminiscent of OG blogs where you just shared stuff for the sake of sharing and remembering. They contain pictures and more in-depth thoughts.

    See the article → theantimba.com/a-weekend-to-remember

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    I miss this form of blogging about events!

    My first blog was called Neville's Financial Blog, and I miss aspects of the original blogging days like people doing full re-caps of events like this!

    The downside of these types of posts is they take a long time to create. I'm hoping in the near future you can just select a few photos and AI will create these posts for you.

    Essay:

    Digital advertising is very effective, but good ole outdoor advertising is still fun.

    I had a dumb idea: The Hustle's old office sign is still up in Austin. They moved out of that office but it's sitting empty in a very high traffic area, with no sign letters on it.

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    Should I buy a pack of letters and put my own ad on it? 😂 😂

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    Splurge:

    The new “Sell a course” is “Sell a community.”

    Course sales are lumpy based on launches, communities can level that out with recurring revenue.

    With a digital community the 3 factors that change income are:
    - Price
    - Time stayed
    - Number of Customers

    This chart shows sample revenue of a community size from 100 to 1,200:

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    This chart shows revenue of a community priced from $10/mo to $200/mo:

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    This chart shows revenue of a community where customers stay from 1 month to 24 months

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

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    P.S. Checkout some member wins from this month alone:

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    P.P.S. If you want to see results like this too, jump on board right now:

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    Hello Neville 🙂
    I came here from Noah's email.
    Just a quick question... Were you involved in John Carlton's Simple Writing System course many years ago?

     

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    Hey James welcome! 

    I know of John Carlton's course, but I wasn't involved with it in any way. Why do you ask??

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    Love you emails. What do you recommend for building a community? 

    I get FB, but do you recommend anything else?

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    Hey Bill! 

    I use a heavily customized forum software, but if you can't swing the development then Circle.so is pretty neat.

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    I sure do! That was so fun and a huge hit at the time!

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    I imagine you have, but if haven't read/listened to the Walter Isaacson book on Musk, I highly recommend it.

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    I JUST FINISHED IT LAST MONTH! Loved the book....I also like the Ashlee Vance one that came out a few years ago as well 🙂 

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