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    The S.W.I.P.E.S. Email (Friday September 13th, 2024)

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    Edition: Friday, September 13th, 2024
    An educational (and fun) email by Copywriting Course. Enjoy!


    🎤 Listen to this email here:

    Swipe:

    I like how this "Swee Kombucha" visually lists out the ingredients inside the bottle:

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    I recently posted how RX Bar did an "all copy" redesign and it's a similar vibe!

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    Credit: Mark Gallo

    Wisdom:

    It's shocking how much short-form video can come out of one long-form video.

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    It was the same story before video was so big as well. You'd take one long-form blog post and chop it up into a bunch of smaller pieces of content on social networks:

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    Interesting:

    In the content-maker world I think there's an interesting debate between which is better:

    Top of Search -vs- Top of Feed ?

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    My personal answer: I think doing BOTH is best! And they actually naturally flow into each other:

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    I discuss it here with Ross : Top of Feed vs Top of Search (38:59)

     

    Picture:

    For creating short video content I've been "interviewing myself" lately and it's worked pretty well!

    It's helpful for quick Q&A style questions that don't warrant a full video.

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    An example of how these turn out:

     

    Essay:

    I use ChatGPT everyday for research and making images, but it frequently “can’t do something for me” bc of guardrails.

    So I’ve been copy/pasting every query into X's Grok for a month.
    It’s got REALLY good, has little-to-no bias or guardrails, I trust it more for many searches.

    Things ChatGPT throttles or gives moderated answers: 
    - Making images if you mention a name or a brand. 
    - Many health-related searches. 
    - Searches about intelligence or IQ. 
    - “Is (controversial figure) bad?”

    Here's a small example:
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    It’s great at many things, but the second you toe into remotely controversial things it gives you human-intervened answers.

    I get the need for controls, but I'm starting to just Grok first to avoid wasting time.
     

    Splurge:

    I generally buy every-other iPhone that comes out. So I have a 14 Pro and now the 16 Pro was just released: 

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    A 512GB model costs $1,299 (I'm sure more with tax etc):

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    If I plug $1,299 into this cost analysis calculator it comes to:

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    I personally use my phone all day and night for various things, so 12 hours a day is fair to say (even when it's not in my pocket I shout out commands to Siri all the time).

    While $1,299 seems expensive for a phone that does SLIGHTLY MORE than your current phone, at 2 years it's $0.18/hour, plus every photo or video you take it slightly better, and it's slightly faster.

    I guess it depends on your use case, but for some people splurging on the new phone is advisable!

    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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    That cost analysis calculator idea is great. I do this every time I buy something (Without a calculator). I calculate things I buy cost me/ how many months I am going to use it. Then I decide is it worth buying it 😅

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    The only newsletter I read every week.

    Thanks for keeping it tight, fun, engaging and informative.

    Im on the same upgrade cycle as you. 
     

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