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Here’s a timeless marketing tale from page 37 of Scientific Advertising by Claude C. Hopkins: Two advertisers offered nearly identical food products. One offered the product for free. The other promoted the retail price (15 cents) and offered a coupon to get the produce for $0. With the couponing approach, it feels like the product “maker” has…

I have the bug that’s going around. Fever, chills, sore throat, cough. No fun. It came on Wednesday night as I was meeting with my operations director, Brady. I kept having to clear my throat. I seemed to be losing my voice. And then I woke up yesterday without a voice. Bad day for that.…

I’m feeling grateful. Grateful for this: I get to wake up every morning, pour a cup of French Roast, and write an info-taining (I hope) email. The process is interesting. It’s fun. I like waking up each morning, eager to hop out of bed and interact with you. Speaking of which, I’m… Grateful for you: Thank you…

December 26, 2023 TO: Santa ClausFROM: Tom RuwitchRE: Next Time I don’t mean to sound ungrateful… …but next time… …I sure would appreciate it if you could stuff one of those new fangled Wearable Beanbags in my stocking. Don’t get me wrong. The new socks are great. I’ll wear them often. But socks is socks.…

Happy Thanksgiving. My wish for you: You spend this day (and many others) around a crowded table, filled with people you love. There’s a song called “Crowded Table.” It captures the wish. Before Covid, I produced monthly concerts as a side gig. A hobby business. A labor of love. I built a big email list.…

Today is National Speak in Sentences Day.  (Silly holiday.) The Sentence Police who invented this holiday say, “No fragments allowed! Incomplete sentences are incoherent.” My take: Fragments are OK. Not always. But sometimes.  My GPT-powered copywriting robot, B-9(?), agrees. I asked him to write a blog post to explain why this holiday is NOT necessary. And…

Good morning, Tom  I bumped into a guy named Alex in an online forum yesterday. He had this to say about content marketing: The most frustrating part of the content creation process for me is when I get stuck on what to write next. I’ll have an idea in my head of what I want…

A short one today because I’m about to spend the next two days working on my business with 15 mastermind partners.  But before that gavel drops on that, a question… If an email sign-up form requires you to share your mobile phone number, what would you do?  ？Enter your number and opt-in?  ？Refuse to opt-in?  ？It depends…