#52: Reflection & a favor, 10 tips to write better, the best FREE software

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Welcome to Growth Currency⚡ #52 — the one where I celebrate one year straight!

And a special welcome to the 21 newest members of the Growth Currency⚡ newsletter community! Welcome Carina, Briannon, Rob, Phil, Jenny, Tiago, David, Graham, Sarah, Deborah, and Mark—to name a few :)

I appreciate you being here and I hope you get what you're after. 🙏
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GROWTH INSIGHTS | A reflection + a favor.

I heard Dickie Bush on the Creative Elements podcast in April 2021 explaining why he persistently published a weekly newsletter.

The advice given to him: "Write an email newsletter every week for a year and watch it change your life."

That advice was from Khe Hy, founder of RadReads. It was the push he needed to publish Dickie's Digest—which he did for over 70 weeks straight.

Dickie embraced the writing + publishing habit and is now the successful founder of one of the most popular online cohort-based courses, Ship 30 For 30.

Would he have gotten there without his newsletter publishing habit? Impossible to say—but I suspect not.

There's power in publishing and putting your work out there for all to see. Dickie, along with thousands of others, are proof of the opportunity creating and publishing can bring. And, the more you publish, the more opportunity you create for yourself.

Another way I've heard it said: "you expand your surface area for luck."

This Growth Currency newsletter has been anecdotal proof of that concept. This is my 52nd edition in a row—meaning I have been publishing it for a year straight.

The benefits? I've earned a bit of income from it—but more than that, I've learned so much from drafting, editing, publishing, and promoting the newsletter for 52 weeks. And I've had a few opportunities arise from my efforts.

But... I need to refocus.

And as alluded to last week, I'm going to take a week (or two?) off from publishing to rethink this newsletter and where I hope to take it in 2022.

I've been caught up in the hamster wheel of writing & publishing that I haven't given myself time to consider any goals or direction going forward.

With that, can I ask for a quick favor?...

⚡ The Growth Currency Subscriber Survey​

I would be so grateful if you took 1 minute and filled out this simple 4-question survey to help guide this newsletter's direction and focus.

I have nothing to offer you as incentive except for an improved product offering. Hopefully ;)

Thank you a million times over in advance.
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YOUR GROWTH CURRENCY ⚡ THIS WEEK

"Knowledge is the currency of growth."

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​⚡ There's a ton of FREE software out there. This thread is loaded with favorites for the Creator Economy. Many I didn't even realize that have free options!

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⚡ Ali Abdaal earned over $4M in 2021. Here's how he did it.

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Thanks once again for reading.

Not sure if you noticed, but I changed up the Growth Currency links section a bit. Blame the Josh Spector influence ;)

I'm looking forward to your survey response, and looking forward to coming back at you with a refreshed focus in a few weeks.

In the meantime, be sure to connect with me on Twitter—DMs are open, too!

And in case you missed it, here are last week's most popular links:

#1: ​​5 actionable ways to grow a brand Twitter account by Brian Dean
​#2: ​​​​​​Nifty Generator — Generate your own NFT collection using no-code.

Peace and platonic love,

Dylan

PS: Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.