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Tt’s hard to find intimacy and community on a platform that’s open to the entire internet, so stop looking for it.

Make sure you send your signals, find your weirdos, and make sure you know where the exists are located, for both you and your fellow freaks.

Instead of “just launching” a new product or offering, see if people care first.

See how Mel Mitchell-Jackson does this to gauge interest on upcoming classes; they set up a section called Future Classes, which full descriptions and an email sign up for interested folks.

It’s time for the BIG MONEY PIZZA PARTY!

I’m not gonna promise $10,000 a month, but hey, let’s pay a phone bill, maybe. We’re gonna talk about paid offerings, Stripe, selling stuff online.

This’ll be a kind, gentle, safe space to talk about the cash money side of creativity without the HUSTLE and SALES talk.

Wednesday, November 19 from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST

From Joe Pulizzi:

Take a piece of your content offline. As everything around us becomes digital and synthetic, physical experiences will be like luxury goods. A printed newsletter. A quarterly dinner. A local meetup. A short book. Even a small run of “best-of” print issues. Tangibility creates trust. When everything else feels virtual, something you can hold in your hands becomes memorable, meaningful, and rare.

Found this quote the same day I found out about the Six String Social Club!

Said David, “I’m glad people are digging this idea. It’s a giver of life to players to get together with each other.”

How can you move your content into the real world?

“I need more subscribers” season is over.

Maybe now it’s Embrace What Exists season. Or Time to Celebrate Who’s Here.

The season of “more subscribers” will come around again, for sure. But today—right now—there are wonderful people already in our life and creative orbit. Maybe this can be a season (or even just a week) of honoring what already exists.