In a thread from last week, @Neil Sutton wrote: === I’ve been in some accountability groups that were very successful. It’s not an “all of us” getting together kinda thing, but those created an opportunity to bond with and become friends with people I might never had met otherwise. The best one was when I was in Brian Kurtz’s Titans group. He assigned the groups of 3 or 4 then we went off on our own and met monthly. We came up with 3 questions we took turns answering in each call and the others would offer feedback and support if needed. It was definitely optional. You put your name in to be assigned to a group if interested. Then you'd be grouped with a few others. I had to look back, and there were just four groups of 3 each. (I was teamed up with the amazing Kira Hug & Shannon McCaffrey.) === Are you interested in this? More importantly, will you actually participate? I'm happy to put the pods together. But ultimately, this is about you, and having a regular little mini-mastermind with two or three other folks in this group, and helping each other out, and socializing, and keeping each other on track. It won't work unless you participate, and regularly. So do you want this? Let me know below.

This Thursday at 8pm CET/2pm EST/11am PST, I'll get on Zoom for a bit of Daily Email Open House: To hang out, maybe have a beer, and answer questions about sending daily emails... making a $1k+ offer... and using your list to pay for a house. If you'd like to join me, here's where to sign up: Daily Email Open House

We need a thread for gratuitous fun: Stuff that has nothing to do with marketing, business, copy, daily emails... but that is fun for fun's sake. (Even a little bit of fun is better than none.) I'd like to kick things off with the attached (and real, not AI) photo of a beaver, which I put in an email a long time ago, apropos of nothing. If you have jokes, funny pictures, memes, ideas for "disconnected infotainment," put 'em in here. On Fridays... or really on any other days.

What's the one thing that, if you could get rid of it, would catapult you to success in the next 90 days? I asked myself this question yesterday. As usual, I didn't have a good answer. So I made a list of 10 possible answers (actually ended up 11). I personally found some interesting stuff at points 9 and 11: #9. Lack of focus on the things that have made me money, and doing more of that, instead of experimenting with new things all the time #11. Lack of followup with people who have expressed interest in an outcome What's your one thing (or 11), that, if you could get rid of it, would catapult you to success in the next 90 days?

After a long and lonely sojourn in my little home office cave, I emerged today, blinking and squinting in the sunlight, to attend my first IRL networking event since before COVID. It was a very last minute decision and I came super unprepared, without so much as a business card. But I'm glad I went because it reminded me that it's nice to spend time with live humans! And you never know which random connection can get you that dream client or partner. I'm now considering attending another local event on Wednesday, but I want to be a little more prepared and use this as a way to grow my email list. So I'm wondering: Has anyone here ever used a networking event to grow their list? How did you do it? Should I create a special opt in page and offer targeted to the people at the event (in this case, fashion and beauty related brands)? What kind of offer is most likely to excite people who are distracted and busy at an event? Would appreciate any tips and tricks!