There's a thought creeping into many people's minds right now: Why spend time learning something when AI can do it for me? Why learn to write good sales copy when Claude can do it in ten seconds? Why understand a set of accounts when ChatGPT can
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It's Wednesday afternoon. You know full well that there should have been a LinkedIn post out yesterday, and that the newsletter needs to go out on Friday. You open a blank document, stare at it for a while and then close it again, because, after all, your clients
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You've probably been there yourself. You're working on a newsletter, a sales page or just an email to a customer, and as you go along you realise you also need to mention the new course, and that there's a discount this week, and that
The question I'm asked most often about newsletters is the most basic one: how do I even get subscribers when I'm starting from scratch? Today, you'll hear the story of someone who solved this in a way that still impresses me. In 2018, Mette
Last Friday, I wrote about how the newsletter is the only channel you fully own. Today, I’d like to show you what that means in practice with one of the twelve stories from the book. When the copywriter Kathrine Louise Nielsen started her business in 2016, she’d just
Hi there 🤗 When career coach Mark Crossfield started his practice, he had plenty of clients. After 28 years as a civil engineer, he knew lots of people, and referrals kept his diary full. He didn’t need a newsletter. But he started one anyway. Most self-employed people do the
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For a long time, I was afraid of selling to my mailing list. Not because I didn’t believe in what I was offering — but because I was convinced that my readers would react negatively if I suddenly started promoting a product. That they would feel manipulated — as if the
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A couple of years ago, I counted how many times I’d written “I should write more” in my diary without actually doing it. The answer was too embarrassing to share here. The only thing that changed that was making a commitment to others. Commitment is what’s missing Most
There’s a piece of advice you’ve heard so many times it almost feels like a law of nature: grow your list. Get more subscribers, and the money will follow. It sounds logical — and that’s precisely why it’s so dangerous, because it makes you look for the
You’re sitting there wondering what your next product should be. Or what you should write about. Or how you should position yourself. And you’re guessing. There’s one way to stop. Ask your customers. It sounds obvious. It Is obvious. But that’s exactly why most people skip
Last week, I received a question from a reader who had just received a large number of new subscribers to their new newsletter. ‘How much should I invest in a welcome series? I hear different things. Some say seven emails, others say you should just send the standard email straight
For the past 10 years, I have sold 100% of my courses and workshops on one channel. Not LinkedIn. Not YouTube. Not cold calls or networking meetings where everyone tries to sell to each other. Only my newsletter I've never been good at selling. The idea of calling
Most articles about newsletters start by telling you that you need one. This one starts somewhere else: with whether it makes sense for you at all. Because a newsletter isn't the answer for everyone. However, it is the answer for far more people than those who actually have
Think about your best friend. You didn't start out as best friends. It began with a meeting. A conversation. And over time – trust. That's exactly how a good newsletter works. First meeting: You need to be found All friendships start with someone showing up. The same
The questions I answer most when teaching about newsletters are: how do I get more subscribers for my newsletter? There are many ways you can do this, both free and paid. And I want to mention a method I used myself recently. In Denmark, we have a large conference on
There is one word that describes most AI content out there: “Slop.” It covers low-quality AI-generated content—the stuff that floods your inbox, feed, and search results like a gray mass of indifference. And here's the interesting thing: the more AI content is produced, the more
You know how it is. That feeling when you've spent 45 minutes writing a newsletter, crafting every sentence to perfection, checking the spelling three times... ...and then only 20% of your recipients open it. Twenty percent. The problem isn't your content. The problem is that people
Do you remember how it feels to start a new series on Netflix? You watch episode 1. Then episode 2. And suddenly it's 2 a.m. and you've watched 6 episodes in a row. Why? Because Netflix has a formula. A structure. A common thread. Every
You post on LinkedIn every day. You create Stories on Instagram. You struggle to keep up with the ever-changing algorithm on Facebook. And what do you get out of it? Three likes from your mother, a colleague and a random bot from India. You can feel the frustration, right?