Woke up to this from a member and it made my day 😁 And of course, the story I wrote about was one I learned from 10 Commandments of Con Men Etc.

I have a friend named Will. Will and I were both in Dan Ferrari's coaching group at the same time back in the late 19th century. I talked to Will earlier this week to catch up. For the past couple years, he's been doing all the email marketing for Polymarket, one of the two big prediction markets. First he was doing a cool weekly email, which I even read, because it's interesting. Then they got him to start doing a daily email as well. It's a lot of writing and a lot of work. Will is looking for help, for somebody to handle either the daily email, or segments of the weekly newsletter, or some combination of both. I offered to put the word out to people in my audience in order to: 1. Help Will 2. Look cool to people in my audience There's a conflict between those two goals. Will's first question was, "Will I get inundated with replies." I told him that chances are yes. And I offered to act as an intermediary, to vet people before I pass them on to him. If you are interested in writing for Polymarket: 1. Write me an email at john@bejakovic.com 2. Tell me you specialize in writing Morning-Brew style newsletters 3. Include highly relevant samples to back up your claim in 2 above If you don't have relevant samples, you have two options. Option one is to not apply for this job. If you don't send me highly relevant samples, I will not forward your stuff to Will, and I will not listen to you when you explain to me why I should hear you out. Option two is to create highly relevant samples on the spot, maybe even a sample Polymarket email or two (their stuff is all online and you can find it and model it). NB: If I have to parse, read into, or interpret your message your samples to figure out how they could be relevant to this job... I will just skip you and go to the next person. The whole point here is to figure out if you are the kind of person I should hand off to Will. A part of that is your writing experience and skill. Another part of that is your ability to make his job easier, rather than harder, and right now I'm the proxy for that.

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.

So I'm in the middle of creating my first offer and it's all about safely digesting unconscious experiences. I've been emailing my list daily and telling them to join the waitlist through the P.S. section. It's been three days since I've announced it and I've got 23 people on my waitlist out of a list of 430 people with my emails having an average open rate of 30%. Do I carry on with this approach? Honestly, I'm just replicating what I see happen in my inbox when I see another creator promote their waitlist and launch their product.

Hey @John Bejakovic ! SO STOKED today! I did a launch for my mid ticket digital course called “First Door Formula” this week… AND I MADE MY FIRST SALE!! $197 IN THE BANK PEOPLE! It’s SO COOL because I can and will continue to sell this content going forward! First of many Lord willing! Anyone in this ‘ere community in the real estate space wanna team up and do a list swap?