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Finding Your Favorite Newsletter Format

If you have a personal newsletter, the structure of newsletter should not be much a struggle. Personal newsletters tend to train their audiences in how they should be read. So, the goal here is to find the format that not only attracts and keeps your ideal reader, but fits your

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Define Your Audience

Although you don’t have a say in the make up of your audience on social media, email newsletters give you the freedom of defining your own constraints. What’s the goal of your newsletter? Establishing a better relationship with your existing audience? Growing that audience? Selling a product? Segmenting

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Why You Need a Newsletter in 2020

You are publisher now, whether you asked to be or not. You’re either telling the story of your work and life, or someone else is. Even if you never post anything anywhere on the internet, your life story is being exchanged by companies and governments. At the other extreme,

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Month of Daily Posts 2: Newsletters

I loved the last time I tried blogging daily for a month on one topic, so I'm trying it again. This time it's about something you all should be creating: newsletters. I'll explain why and how. You can refer back to this page for

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Can you publish a guitar?

Blank canvases products are everywhere. Pens, watches, cars, guitars — there are certain objects that attract artists to create. I love digging into why. In a way, it’s just a different form of publishing. It seems like all the same rules apply: create, edit, integrate, and ship. Repeat until death.

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The Year in Review

I usually can't reflect on a year until well into the next, but I'm going to give it a try here. I want to get clear about what is worth focusing on more in 2020. What worked Daily blogging in November I loved it. I grew

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A Month of Blogging about Anxiety: The Results

I’m guessing a fair amount of you with blogs or platforms are wondering what the results were of focusing intensely on one subject for a month of daily blogging [https://www.cjchilvers.com/30-practical-tactics-to-decrease-your-anxiety-intro/]. Since I was writing up a note-to-myself about it, I thought: why not share? Results

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Survive

Simply getting [https://www.anxiety.org/remission-of-anxiety-symptoms-may-occur-as-you-grow-older] older [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3263387/] is probably the best cure for anxiety. Some of the reasons: 1. You learn how to deal with triggers better. 2. You experiment more. 3. You realize more and more that you’re

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Play

Kids used to play a lot more than they do today [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2016/05/19/4-ways-to-get-kids-to-play-more-and-to-enjoy-it/] . I think the same is true of adults. Remember how it was so common, as to be a cliche´, that every dad was part of a bowling league

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Eliminate Extra Inboxes

There’s a lot of productivity advice out there about what to do to organize and process your many inboxes. But the best rule is often forgotten: have as few of them as possible. Inboxes are input. Every added inbox is a new firehose of information for people already drowning