All you freelancers out there... do you find it odd for an agency client to bill by hourly rate with you? CONTEXT: I'm a copywriter and an agency who's looking for a contractor to off load their client work asked for my base hourly rate -- and involved multiple things like email, work flows, landing pages, etc. I was hesitant to give it, but I did anyway (the range I internally use in my head to come up with pricing). They ended up declining because they couldn't' afford that rate. I find that odd unless I'm missing something. How I see it is my "$200 an hour" might be more efficient & labor saving than someone else's "$50 an hour".

This morning I woke up and saw that i have a new ThriveCart order notification. I'm not promoting anything new, I have no current deadlines, and this was not simply a rebill notification for a Daily Email Habit subscriber. What could this order be? I opened up the email to see: DESCRIPTION: Copy Riddles AMOUNT: $997.00 I started to pat myself on the back. For one thing, it's always nice to get a $997 course sale. For another, I figured that this emails an email I wrote a few days ago, in which I promoted Copy Riddles, can now go into my "Emails that did well" file. And sure enough, the dude bought thorugh that email ("A new episode about clever product names"). Only one problem though... The dude got onto my list on May 18. He bought today, May 28. I haven't reached out yet to this guy. I don't know what he knows about me, how presold he was, or whether this email really did do magic. I suspect that ANY decent email promoting Copy Riddles might have gotten this guy to click through, at which point, maybe the sales page is what really sold him. On the flip side, had I not sent this email a few days ago, promoting Copy Riddles, odds are excellent I would NOT have made this sale. That's an argument for regularly promoting offers from your back catalog in your daily emails. It's also an argument for having a welcome sequence, in which you gradually guide new people along through the offers you have. I don't have a welcome sequence. I'm apparently losing money. Do you have a welcome sequence? Why or why not?

Hey pals, looking for some list swap partners in the real estate niche. My list is growing with ads. Would love to discuss a list swap if we would be a good fit!

It's Memorial Day in the U.S. It's Whit Monday in Spain. (I'm not Catholic and I have no idea what Whit Monday is, but apparently it's cause enough for everything to work like it's Sunday.) Are you working today? If so, where? On what? I myself am working. My cleaning woman is here so I am on the roof of my building. There's a small pool here, one German girl tanning herself, a couple young Russian guys who I guess live in the building, a woman who must be the mother of one of the guys. She is drinking beer, they are not. Up above, I can hear a few seagulls shrieking and a police siren somewhere in the distance. I'm replying to emails that have built up over the past few days. And in a half hour, I have to get on a call with @Nick Bandy , to hatch evil schemes.

Or more than one recurring offer? If so, how is it going? I'm asking because, on the one hand, we as sellers love recurring offers for the recurring income... and on the other hand, buyers tend to be both wary and weary of paying for things ongoing, making such offers harder to sell than a one-off that sells for 10x as much. Maybe if we share some experiences and frustrations and ideas in here, we can all benefit.