Saturday Morning Coffee ☕ #76
It's time, friend.
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💡 Tip of the week
🛍️ Featured tools & offers
❓ This week’s poll
💬 Reader Q&A
🔐 Paid member spotlight
📚 Curated reads
🎯 Final creator support options
💡 Quick tip of the week:
You don’t always have to be at 100%. It’s ok to slow down. It’s ok to step back. It’s more than ok to ask for help. 100% isn’t mandatory.
🛍️ This week’s featured offers:
1. Start Your Podcast on Substack 🎙️
A complete course guiding you from concept to launch, based on everything I’ve learned so far during my own podcasting journey. Learn to plan, brand, record, edit, publish, and promote your podcast while building an audience. Perfect for creators eager to share their voice with the world. Get it here.
🌟 NEW BONUS: I’m now including a free 30-minute Zoom call at the end of the course, just in case you want to go a little deeper.
2. The 1K Daily Writing Challenge ✍️
Build a consistent habit by writing 1,000 words daily for 30 days. Along the way, you'll get encouraging video prompts, accountability support, and plenty of inspiration to ignite your creative spark. Nail your rhythm. Find your flow. Transform your writing journey forever. Get it here.
❓ This week’s poll:
💡 Your questions, my answers:
Q: Would you create a digital product with a small audience? My audience is still growing and I am not getting much feedback on what they are interested in. Should I create and launch a digital product, anyway? Or should I wait for solid audience feedback to decide what to create first? [Larry]
A: Keep asking for that feedback, and look out for signals within your audience (and the audiences of other creators) that highlight pain points and challenges you can address. But in the meantime, if you can, try creating a small, impulse-buy-style digital product, something you can throw together in a weekend. No more than $30. The creation and selling process will sharpen your skills for later, when you have something more substantial to offer. And by then, that small product could act as a “tripwire” type sale that leads organically towards bigger products.
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“The first time someone upgraded to my founding member tier, I thought it was a mistake.”
📖 Recent Posts:
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📢 From the community:
Some feedback from my first ever Writer Brand Lab group meetup on Wednesday:
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📚 Curated reads for creators:
The Truth No One Tells You About Posting Consistently by
The cure for content idea burnout by
5 Style Tricks That Make Your Writing Feel Smooth as Silk by
Waiting to market your book? Here's what it could cost by
Recurring problems require recurring solutions by
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🤷♂️ What’s next?
I’m ready and waiting to support you in the next stages of your creator journey. Here’s a reminder of how I can help:
Start Your Podcast on Substack: A complete course guiding you from concept to launch, based on everything I’ve learned so far during my own podcasting journey. Learn to plan, brand, record, edit, publish, and promote your podcast while building an audience. Perfect for creators eager to share their voice with the world.
The 1K Daily Writing Challenge: Build a consistent habit by writing 1,000 words daily for 30 days. Along the way, you'll get encouraging video prompts, accountability support, and plenty of inspiration to ignite your creative spark. Nail your rhythm. Find your flow. Transform your writing journey forever.
Substack Basics: A video guide showing you exactly how to: set up your first publications; create polished posts from scratch; share, structure, and schedule effectively; and master Notes, CTAs, and growth levers (bonus section: Going Live on Substack).
Sustainable Scalable Social Strategy: This 6-part, online, self-driven course will guide you through the same process I used to develop a strategy for my social media management. When you finish, you’ll have a sustainable social strategy in place that will help you scale your business properly.
📝 P.S.
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Have an amazing weekend, gang! ⌛
You always over deliver, David! 😃
Great weekly summary!