The S.T.U.P.I.D. Email

(Swipe, Thought, Uplifting, Picture, Interesting, Drawing)

This is a fun email for Friday June 10th, 2022. Hope you like it :)
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🎤 Listen to this email here:

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Swipe:

Sometimes we get hung up on internet advertising as the ONLY way to get the word out to people, but I'm a huge fan of the humble "stick on the back of a car" such as this:

This is a simple (yet effective) add from Glass Guru on one of their work vans:

This is very straightforward and clear….and if someone has foggy windows they might give them a call….all from a simple stick on the back of a van!

Some of the benefits of vehicle advertising:

• Potentially thousands of people a day see the ad.
• If selling a local service you show it to local people.
• While parked at a location, others can see the ad and reach out (it's how I found my lawn guy).

In fact as online advertising is getting increasingly expensive, offline advertising is getting more love now!

Checkout this billboard AppSumo made in Austin recently:

Not sure if some of you new newsletter subscribers remember this, but 5 years ago I was curious about billboards and got one made for $900!​

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Thought:

Here’s 101 Daily Writing Prompts you can use to build a writing habit:

Just pick a prompt, and practice writing!

--10 BOOK PROMPTS--
#1) Your favorite fiction book.
​#2) Your favorite nonfiction book.
​#3) What’s a book you’d like to write?
​#4) Do you prefer physical books, on a Kindle, ebooks, or audiobooks?
​#5) What’s the last book you recommended to someone?
​#6) What’s your favorite copywriting book?
​#7) Send an email/tweet to your favorite author (post the screenshot here).
​#8) Write a book review in a tweet.
​#9) What’s a book you’ve read more than once?
​#10) What’s a book you bought because a friend recommended it?

--10 SOCIAL MEDIA PROMPTS-- ​
​#11) Who are your top 3 favorite accounts on Twitter?
​#12) What was your most popular tweet this year?
​#13) Post your LinkedIn profile and introduce yourself here.
​#14) DM someone from your industry and introduce yourself (and post a screenshot)
​#15) Auto-schedule your tweets for a week.
​#16) Add a high-value comment to a conversation on Twitter.
​#17) What’s your social media goal? Post it here + explain why
​#18) Where do you want to send people from your social profiles?
​#19) What’s a tweet/thread you bookmarked/saved? Why?
​#20) Update your headline/profile and post the before/after here.

--10 CAREER PROMPTS--
​#21) What are 3 things you enjoyed in your career?
​#22) What are 3 things you’re proud of accomplishing with work?
​#23) What are 3 goals you have for your career?
​#24) What’s something that you don’t like about your industry?
​#25) What’s a common misconception people have about your industry? Why’s it wrong?
​#26) If money wasn’t an issue, what would you be doing?
​#27) Who are 3 people you’d love to work with or for?
​#28) Which 3 brands would you love to work for?
​#29) What sort of profession did you want when you were a kid?
​#30) Tell us a funny story from work.

You can see more prompts on the Writing Prompt Generator!

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Uplifting:

I had a few hours to spare last Sunday, so I figured I'd try to launch "What Should I Tweet Generator" on Product Hunt:

Creating all the images + copy + email took under an hour.

The Generator works like this:​
• Shows a randomized tip on what to post on load.
• Click "Generate" it comes up with 3 more ideas.
• Has a text field where you can practice writing.

It worked well, getting around 100 upvotes on Product Hunt!!

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Picture:

This was me at 10am the other day working from bed...comfortable, safe, and happy:

By 10am my ancestors would've been up for 6+ hours, doing manual labor, toiling in fields, bitten by bugs, beaten by sun, working to survive, they get no breaks, have no backup plan.

THIS is a great time to be alive 🙂

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Interesting:

You can make a trackable "Content Calendar" with this new Google Docs feature:

Insert → Table Templates → Review Tracker

Watch me create one here:

This is a simple feature other doc programs like Notion have had for a while, so I'm excited to see it on Google Docs finally!

Very useful!

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Drawing:

I made a Death Calculator a long time ago based on what an average life looks like:

According to the calculator on that page here's how long I have to live (If my "end date" is my 85th birthday:

It's kind of an uncomfortable feeling for many people to view their life in this way. For example, here’s the high-level program of my life:

load (Neville){​
0: Born
20: Make money, Fit in, do dumb things
30: Slow down
40: Family + Friends
50: End competitive working life
60: Family + Friends
85: End;
}

At a high level a life doesn't seem that eventful.

However it's the journey through life that counts (that sounds so cliche) 😂

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Hope you enjoyed these little tidbits, have a happy Friday!
​Sincerely,
Neville Medhora - CopywritingCourse.com | @NevMed​

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