Can I get your help? I'm wondering how we could create the equivalent atmosphere of an under-15 tennis camp here inside Daily Email House. The background: A couple days ago, I was watching an interview with a pro tennis player, Francis Tiafoe. Tiafoe is part of a generation of top American tennis players who all came up together. And by that I mean... They lived together in the same dorms, sleeping in bunk beds one above the other... ... they trained together on same courts for hours each day, day after day... ... they competed against each other since they were 12. And today they are all in the top 10 top 20 in the world. It's kind of like if, inside this Daily Email House group, 5-10 House members today end up being among the top 10 or top 20 biggest and richest online influencers in the world in 10 years from now, on the scale of Tim Ferris or Gary Vee. Speaking about what made this possible, Tiafoe said: === They did a good job always putting us in camps [to train together and to compete against each other]. I'm seeing these guys two weeks out of every month, from 13 on. I'm looking around, trying to be the best out of this group, not really thinking about big picture, turning pro, or anything like that. But this group right here? I GOTTA be the guy. === The guy interviewing Tiafoe, a former world #1 named Andy Roddick, called this "healthy jealousy." On the one hand, maybe you don't like the sound of jealousy, whether healthy or not. At the same time, consider what Tiafoe also said. First off, he said that he and all the other guys who came up together are all still friends today, 15+ years after being thrown in these "healthy jealousy" tennis camps to train and compete together. He also put a positive spin on the competition and jealousy part of it: === Everybody just kept going. We always had that mentality, "Well if this guy did it, I can definitely do it." We just kept believing off each other. === That sound pretty nice actually.

I'm still finding confetti around my terrace from the close of the pool party on Thursday night... I also still have to return the plastic patio furniture I borrowed from the neighbors. But I am slowly working my way through the list of todo items that piled up after the party and auction. Now it's time to take care of a MAJOR outstanding item. Rewind back to hour three of the party, around 8:30pm my time, on Wednesday night... @Thomas Lalas wrote the following: "At this point I've read SO many funny + creative comments, I think it's worth putting a prize for the funniest comment." In my party high, I immediately agreed to this great suggestion. Yesterday, as I reread the comments, a clear winner emerged. And so, after only a few days' delay, I would now like to OFFICIALLY announce the WINNER of the prestigious "Inaugural Pool Party Funniest Comment" award... [drum roll please] [camera switches between various nominees] [opening the envelope] 🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄 🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄 🎈🎈🎈 @Filip Stilin!!! 🎪🎪🎪 👑👑👑👑👑👑 👑👑👑👑👑👑 Filip wrote multiple funny comments throughout the pool party. But one that seems to have gotten the most laughs, at least what I can tell with my not-particularly-careful tallying, was: "@Gc Tsalamagkakis Subject line: He auctioned his CAT?!?!" This was one of several inside jokes that developed throughout this party. GC was bidding and moving house at the same time. He included pics of his move, one of which featured a cat carrying case... but no cat. Hence Filip's comment above. (Not so funny now? Such is the nature of humor. I guess you had to be there.) As a prize for boosting the overall party vibe of our first pool party, Filip wins: 1. The title of "Grand Comment Poo-Bah" for the rest of 2025 2. A physical copy of my favorite comedy book. I won't say what it is, but it's influenced my writing as much as any copywriting or marketing book I've ever read. (Filip, I will be in touch by DM to find out where can send it)

Never interacted here or even replied to one of John's emails but man I just read through the Pool party saga and that was a sight to behold. Marketing case study right there. Will prob even write to my info-marketing list about it at some point. Props!

I updated the mission statement for this group. It now reads... "Email daily, make a $1k offer, pay for a house." Your thoughts? Doable? Suspicious? Exciting? Overwhelming? Lemme know. Thanks in advance.

Over the past week ran we ran a contest here inside Daily Email House to find the winning... "Success you've had from an email you've sent this week." It turned out to be unpleasantly hard to make a selection, particularly because pretty much everybody had a success that illustrates a great behavior or attitude if you wanna have long term success with a personal email list or online biz: - @Shaina Keren - new testimonial from a high status person - @Marlene Roberson - successful promo of an affiliate offer - @Christian Howes - persevering with emailing in the face of a bunch of unsubscribes in one day - @Caroline Shine and @Matt Perryman - getting back to emailing after a break - @Steph Benedetto and @Chavy Helfgott - reaching out to audience for market intel and then pursuing the investigation via a 1:1 conversation - @Nick Bandy - promoting his community and trying a much more direct and shorter email Still, I had to pick a contest winner, and as promised, I done it. And so, I would like to announce that this week's contest winner is... ... drumroll... ... lights... ... quiet, please... ... opening the envelope... Marlene, with her on-fire affiliate promo!!! I feel I should explain why the Academy voted as it did: Marlene's success was at heart about making sales, and it's encouraging to all of us to hear that's possible and happening right now. Beyond that, here's what I spotted in Marlene's success: 1. A sexy affiliate offer. Yes, you can sell stuff and have zero delivery worries. 2. Course or info products aren't dead. (I'm assuming this is an info product?) 3. Good copy still matters. (Marlene was applying the very product she was promoting, about how to tease people along, and it worked.)