Hello friends, as some of you may be aware, ThriveCart has had a couple major outages this year. Personally, I haven't been able to process a single transaction since March 5. Curious if anyone uses a different cart that works better than this thing that looks like a late 1990s website? Unfortunately I also use ThriveCart for course delivery so migration would mean moving all my courses too. Thank you for your time and hopefully your words of encouragement.

The last few days, I've sent emails to my list offering to help people run a 36-hour promo. A few specific requirements for that promo: 1. An offer you've promoted often, and your list knows about and wants, but hasn't pulled the trigger on 2. A price of $300+ It was surprising to me how many people who raised their hands only had offers in the $27-$57 range. If you want to make more money with your email list, an easy thing you can do today is to raise your prices, because: 1. If the top thing you sell is $27 instead of, say, $297, it takes 11 more buyers to make the same money 2. Selling a $297 product is NOT 11x more difficult than a $27 product, and in many cases it can actually be easier 3. Your overall positioning is way better if you offer something at $297+ rather than if you simply sell $27 offers On that last point: Imagine paying somebody $2k/month for coaching if they only sell a $27 offer. It's possible you might decide to do so, but to me at least, the price disparity immediately puts questions in my mind. On the other hand, imagine paying somebody $2k/month for coaching if they repeatedly sell a $500 course. $2k in this case immediately sounds affordable, and if anything, I'd be willing to pay more and I'd still feel like it's a good deal. So how do you raise your prices and reap the benefits? As with everything else, you start with what you've already got. In other words, simply raise the prices of an offer you already have. You don't have to go to $27 to $297. Any kind of a meaningful increase is likely to make you sales during the promo, and be good for business long term. So lemme ask you: Do you want to run a price increase promo this month? And not feel alone, not feel like you're going to screw things up, not wonder what to do? Vote away below. If we get enough people a-voting, we can make a challenge out of it and run it together.

A reader forwarded me another marketer's email that said, "Are email agencies fucked?" And she (the reader who forwarded me the message) asked: "I wanted to know what you thought of this - is the writing on the wall for email copywriting?" That was two days ago. Yesterday I saw a promo (in my email inbox) with the subject line, "R.I.P. Email Marketing." And last week, I polled my readers on a different question, and got a response from a reader (and member of Daily Email House), who runs a 6-figure info publishing and coaching business. He wrote: "The sales from emails are really down, I sell maybe 10 % of my revenue through email, the rest is from ads and I am sending good emails, if I say so myself and almost daily." Is something in the water that I failed to notice? Or is email marketing dying? Any thoughts or better yet direct experiences?

I got a message a couple days ago from @Michael Silk. Michael wrote: === I have just seen a post on LinkedIn and the post starts out.. "I just became CEO of a 10M ARR Tech Scaleup. What can you do for us? Comment with your one liner below." (The post set some rules beyond that and how if he was interested he'd get back to people, but that was the main part of the post). === Michael thought I could do something similar here in Daily Email House. The tone of the "10M ARR Tech Scaleup" CEO isn't really my style... but I think the idea is sound. In fact, I already did something like this here in Daily Email House, almost exactly a year ago. Michael's message reminded me that I should do it again. So lemme ask you: What can you teach? What's something you can put a presentation about for people inside Daily Email House? Maybe you just enjoy teaching and are always ready to do it. But maybe you need some better reasons. Here are a few: 1. You can float an idea here and gauge in a low-stress, low-effort way whether there's any value in pursuing it further. 2. If there is interest, you can get my feedback, input, and help into organizing your presentation, or even organizing it into a product. (I'm offering my feedback, input, and help both to encourage you, and to make sure any presentations will be of high-caliber and valuable for other House members.) 3. If you do give your presentation, you can use feedback from the group to polish and improve what you're teaching, so you can then turn it into a paid offer (or a free lead magnet). 4. You can get ready testimonials or even case studies from people here. 5. Though I make no promises about this, if you do turn a presentation into an offer, and if I feel it's a fit for my own list, I would love to promote it, and help you get sales and more exposure. 6. Maybe by teaching something valuable yourself, you encourage others inside Daily Email House to teach something valuable as well, which ends up benefiting you and everyone else down the line.

After months of only sending 1-2 emails a week, this week I sent out four! Let's see if I can keep this up next week.