• Pitch yourself, followers vs community, build your archive, and more

    Pitch yourself, followers vs community, build your archive, and more

    1. PITCH YOURSELF Social media isn’t the only way to build an audience – pitch yourself! Tawny teaches how to do this, too. Check out their class schedule here. 2. ABOUT PAGE COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOP! ◼️ Feb 13th at 2pm EST.Click here to add your name to the wait list and I’ll send you an invite link when… [KEEP READING]

  • The best work is boring work

    The best work is boring work

    We don’t plan to catch a flu-bug, but we can plan to get the flu shot. There’s no immediate reward to getting the flu shot, of course, but hopefully months later we make it to spring in good health. I’ve been sick since Friday, and of course I’m looking for the shortcuts to feeling better.… [KEEP READING]

  • MOVING LOCAL COMMUNITIES OFF FACEBOOK

    Good thread over at HackerNews: I want to move our local communities off Facebook and onto our own platform. Is there a off-the-shelf solution or any collaborators I can join to move something along? [KEEP READING]

  • SMART PHONES ARE LIKE DRugS

    A conversation I had recently with a friend: If Axl Rose said “I get up around 7, get out of bed around nine,” in the song Mr. Brownstone in the year 1987, what the heck was he doing in bed that whole time before smart phones?!? Probably cocaine. It is the subject matter of the… [KEEP READING]

  • LEVERAGE YOUR EXISTING AUDIENCE

    A clip from a recent chat with a subscriber, talking about leveraging your existing audience to build a sense of community, showing your readers how connected and fun (or intriguing, or smart, or serious) your publication really is. [KEEP READING]

  • MAKE STUFF, SHOW IT TO FRIENDS

    Some notes after a great call from this morning: [KEEP READING]

  • Decide who enters your creative space

    Sarah Faith Gottesdiener and I talked about building a sustainable business with an email list, rather than relying heavily on social media. Sustainable can mean a lot of things, but we found in our conversation that it means ease, calm, peace. Like sharing resources, and solving problems together. This can mean having fun in putting… [KEEP READING]

  • KEEP WRITING FOR THE FANS YOU DON’T HAVE YET

    This happens on social media a lot – you post something about a subject matter that isn’t actually your thing, and it takes off. Goes semi-viral. And suddenly that’s your most popular piece, when you have all this other stuff you write about. The thing is – we don’t get to choose. So write for… [KEEP READING]

  • Talk to people, and make it easy for people to reach you

    Talk to people, and make it easy for people to reach you

    1. Skip the self-checkout This came up in our Escape Pod Zoom call this week, as a way of breaking away from our isolation and the ease of “not talking to others.” If you’re able, stand in line and wait (maybe without looking at your phone), and make small talk with the person helping you. I… [KEEP READING]

  • POLITICS COMING TO THREADS

    POLITICS COMING TO THREADS

    Who could have seen this coming? It was July of 2023 when Instagram boss Adam Mosseri said this: “Politics and hard news are inevitably going to show up on Threads – they have on Instagram as well to some extent – but we’re not going to do anything to encourage those verticals.” But now? “Our… [KEEP READING]