Everyone says you need a mentor. But I believe that’s a lie. You don’t need a mentor. You need 5. Very specific types. Each one fulfills different needs and plays a unique role in your growth. Choose the wrong mentors (or don’t have enough of them) and you set yourself up for a lot of frustration, disappointment and soured relationships. …
Recently, my girlfriend and I went hiking in Mount Zion. After we got a few miles down the trail, two things happened. We started POURING sweat! Yep. 98 degrees of pure sunlight will do that to you. Also this is the point when I realized I should have brought waaaay more than just the tiny …
Looking for some quick Upwork proposal tips to help you get hired fast? Check out these 5 Upwork proposal tips and get a free Upwork proposal sample below. I needed help with a quick job the other day. So I decided to post my first ever gig on… (WAIT FOR IT!) Upwork! Yes! After the …
Don’t know if you saw the news, but yesterday Apple dropped a bombshell on the email marketing community with their newest round of privacy updates. Normally, when Apple makes these kinds of announcements, marketers brace for impact on what data social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram will have access to. But this time, they …
Emailing thousands of copywriters and marketers per day comes with a few unintended side effects… … One is that I get a rare glimpse into things ONLY people like us say that nobody else would understand! Yes, we’re a weird section of the internet. So today, I wanted to share a few of my favorite examples …
Who wants to watch me rip apart awful cold messages today? 🙋 🙋 🙋 As someone who’s used cold email to land $100K+jobs, get dozens of clients, write blog posts in big name publications, and secure royalty deals, I have a soft spot for cold outreach done well. But I can’t stand bad cold emails. …
This is a post you probably won’t read. It’s too happy, too sad, too controversial and way too long for most people’s attention spans. But the truth is, this is a message I wish I’d gotten much earlier in life. It would have saved me a lot of struggle and even more heartache. And it …
If you’re new to buying ads … Or don’t have the budget right now to pay for traffic… Here are the best free traffic strategies I’ve used to generate 10s of thousands of leads …. without spending a penny! 1. Hacking Quora Answers. One of the best free traffic channels I’ve ever leveraged is Quora. Seriously, …
Today, I’m reviewing the book Take Their Money by Kyle Milligan as part of the new series of copywriting resource reviews I’m working on. Now, I’ll be honest with you… When I polled y’all last month and asked which resources you wanted me to spend $1,000 buying and reviewing for you, this one shocked me. …
The other day I wrote 17 sales emails, sent 2 Upwork proposals, 2 cold emails and the post you’re reading right now. In all, it was about 12,000 words of copy. And I finished it in about 4 hours. I was chatting with one of my readers about this and they were shocked that I …