#49 Weekly Dan — Play Against the Feedback

Small things, Pay me money, How to launch a course

Hello there

This is the #49 issue of Weekly Dan.

Welcome to 11 new subscribers. You are nice 🫶

Every Friday, I share 5 golden nuggets for Solopreneurs:

• One Personal Insight

• One MakerBox update

• One Random Observation

• One Thought-provoking Question

• One Great Resource

Let’s get going.

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Personal Insight 🤯

We got mixed feedback for the new MakerBox homepage.

It was designed to interrupt the pattern and hook users with the story.

But most people just got confused.

So we had the dilemma:

• Ignore the feedback and assume that we are smarter than everyone

• Accept the feedback

Simple decision.

You either accept or play against the feedback. Pick one option and stick to it.

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MakerBox update 🐌

We are doubling down on email.

Here is what we’ve done and what we plan to do:

• Published a personalized welcome email sequence for each product

• Started to collect emails in MakerBox Blog more straightforwardly

• Will change CTA in MakerBox Blog: from “check the paid products” to “subscribe to get freebie” (+ upselling email sequence)

• Will launch MakerBox marketing newsletter in 2-3 weeks

We are tired of the Twitter circus and random sales.

It’s time to build a system that works without stressing us out.

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Random Observation 🔮

Bought the big idea, remembered small things

• People don’t buy your product because of the feature X

• People don’t remember your product because “you can level up their marketing”

But they would love to buy your product to level up their marketing because they remember you have a feature X.

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Thought-provoking Question 🔋

How often do you ask people to pay you money?

The more, the better.

Works everywhere: marketing emails, CTA buttons on the landing page, blog articles, and reactivation flows.

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Great Resource 🏈

Want to launch a course in 2023?

Read this thread. Rob nailed it.

Rob Lennon 🗯 | AI Whisperer @thatroblennon

In two months, my course has done $142,863.17 in sales. 16 factors that combined into this lighting strike success:

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That’s it!

I hope today’s golden nuggets brought you clarity and inspiration for the next week.

Thank you for reading this issue. It means a lot to me 🫶

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See you on Tuesday 👋

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