Hey Everyone,
Hope you're having a great week. Here are a few things I've been reading, writing and pondering lately. Enjoy!
1. The $100k Club
We're doing a new content series over at Superpath called The $100k Club. It features interviews content folks making six figures. We launched the first one this week and will have 1-2 week for the next month or so.
What advice would you give to someone who wants to join the $100k club?
Don't think of yourself as just a content marketer. You're more than your role. Zoom out. Consider all the areas of a business where you can be valuable: Marketing. Sales. Support. Retention. As the business needs change, where can you slide in to help?
2. What are the best marketing books?
I asked the content career growth Slack community and they responded. So many good recommendations.
3. Custom Avatars for a Cause
This is really cool. A professional artist creates an avatar and you pick the charity. I just ordered one.
The lovely folks over at @TheCovatar drew me! You can hire them to draw an avatar for you and a portion of the cost goes towards good causes 💚 pic.twitter.com/xh86itsVOL
— Cassidy (@cassidoo) August 12, 2020
4. Tweet of the Week
Read the thread and the comments. Lots of interesting discussion.
One of the sites that truly informed and influenced me in terms of actually moving the needle with revenue, was @SaaStr. It was littered with typos and grammatical errors... and it didn’t matter at all. The information was unique and valuable, didn’t need to be well written.
— JH Scherck (@JHTScherck) August 11, 2020
5. Random Links
- This is one heck of a breakdown. Really cool. How they launched it: Mailchimp’s all-in-one Marketing Platform
- This collection of info on paid communities is really interesting.
- Here's a cool pic of my dog.
- Crash.co is a really cool way to send video pitches to hiring managers.
Have a great weekend!
Jimmy
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