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⚡ IL - Link building hack - five lines of JS that brought us a lot of backlinks, how you should (probably) rewrite your cold email

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Tip#2: Best time to post is on weekends.
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Link building hack - five lines of JS that brought us a lot of backlinks by @mthread

Pyre.gg, a social network for gamers, noticed that many people took part in our content and copied it on their websites or platforms. So they did a little experiment, and it has yielded a good amount of backlink.
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How you should (probably) rewrite your cold email by @watus

  • You should say "you" 10 times more than "I"
  • Your email shouldn't be more than 5 sentences
  • Your copy shouldn't contain more than 70 words
  • Don't add a "booking link" at the end and ask for them to select a time before they actually expressed an interest to talk
  • Use interest-based CTAs instead of saying "how does Friday 10am works for you?"
  • Personalize your reach out by finding something relevant about them that would be difficult for a robot to automate and tie it back to the reason why you reach out
  • Don't talk about your company in a direct way, but talk about the problems your prospects face
  • Don't mention your company's name in the copy, but mention the firms that are clients of yours or competitors of theirs
  • Use "pattern interruption" methods
  • Alternate short and longer sentences to keep your reader engaged
  • Don't use any formating
  • Consider at least 8 touchpoints before moving on to the next person
  • Never say that you're "the best" at anything. "Show, don't tell".
  • Add personal touch to the outreach effort by making a personalized short (1-2 min) video using Loom etc.

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Tired of writing my newsletter, what should I do? by @andrewkamphey

Nobody is forcing you to send it out. If you haven't sent out a newsletter in a month. No worries mate. We all have ebbs and flows.
There are 100 other things you can spend your time on.

Here are a few suggestions that might ease the "workload"

  1. If you're monetizing it at all, hire someone. They work 5 hours a week. Produce 5 newsletters for you.
  2. Batch Write 10. Just sit down and write a series.
  3. Resend your archives. Copy-paste and send. Write at the top: "I'm on break for a month, here are some past greatest hits". You can produce 10 in an hour. Add at the bottom "any readers want to try writing this newsletter yourself? email me"
  4. Change the format. Try something else.

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5 . Just launch. So simple, so true. And relaunch often by reiterating based on customer feedback. (ClickToTweet)

6 . Delegate. When businesses grow and mature, you can't handle everything, and more importantly: you can't do it as well as an expert. Then think of all the tasks you really don't like doing or aren't the best at, and start hiring to meet those needs. (ClickToTweet)

7 . Learn to enjoy the process, not the outcome. (ClickToTweet)
8 . Delayed gratification vs instant gratification. It is quite easy to do things for there's an instant reward/impact, but to do anything worthwhile, it will require focus and belief in delayed gratification (ex. icecream vs exercise). And things compounds - both bad and good. (ClickToTweet)

9 . We always tend to overestimate what we can do in a day or a week, but combined with delayed gratification, the power of compounding can be really used to gain big wins. (ClickToTweet)

10 . Do the right thing always when you have to choose between right & easy. (ClickToTweet)


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    Loved Indieletters. Sponsored an issue by Draftss.com

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    thanks for the <3 ! also just discovered @iammarcthomas post, quality right there!

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      Glad you discovered something useful.

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    You wrote (emphasis mine):

    http://thelandofrandom.substack.com, re-discover the Mmgic of the Internet every week by @thelandofrandom

    Is that a typo?

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      Yes. It was. fixed it. 🙌

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      It is. I think it spiritually envelopes the delicious mmmmmmagic of my Newsletter.

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    Thankyou for the mention about https://siteoly.com

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      I like the name Siteoly. Have you launched on ProductHunt?

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        Thankyou Falak. Haven't yet launched on ProductHunt yet as I have been getting mixed advice.

        Some people say "its better to wait and launch when more people can recognize"

        Some people say "just go ahead and launch"

        But I don't know. Any advice there?

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          Go and launch. I waited 3 months for launching IndieLetters there.

          But now whenever I make any product, I will launch on ProductHunt to test it.

          For example, I am thinking to create a newsletter around tech. I will write one issue. And launch on ProductHunt. If I got 1K subs, I will continue. Otherwise, I will stop.

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            Thankyou. One last question - Did you hunt it by yourself? Or Did you request someone to hunt on PH?

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