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Hello creators + builders + thinkers!

I hope you’re having a wonderful day so far.

Here’s a quick glimpse of today’s Growth Currency 💡⚡
(if you want to skip my ramblings)
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• 24 Ways You Can Write “Better” [Google Doc] by Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole

• Best Copywriting Examples by Dave Gerhardt by Kevon Cheung

• 10 Time Management Tips by Ali Abdaal

• How to entice folks to join your email list by Welly Mulia

• CreatorLibrary.co → Start creating, build your brand, conquer the industry

QUICK NEWS! 🗞

I wanted to let you know about 3 things super quick:

1. I’m in the May cohort for Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole’s Ship 30 For 30 writing program—join me for 30 days! It’s going to be amazing, from all accounts I’ve heard. If you’ve ever wanted to build an online writing/publishing habit—this is THE course. Here’s an affiliate link to join¹ if interested! A super easy way to support the newsletter ;)

2. I’m excited to be joining the “Gentleman of Tech”, Mr. Michael Greenberg on his #CreatorSpaces podcast May 10th. Here’s the invite link if you want to catch it live 🙌. Would LOVE to see you there.

3. Danny Miranda is on my Conversations in Spaces series on May 11th at 12 noon PST (3pm EST). Join us as we’ll be discussing growing a podcast, authenticity, 75HARD, leaning in to what lights you up and more! Danny is a huge inspiration and someone I look up to despite being a good decade my junior.
   

   

A BRIEF WORD ON GROWTH “HACKING”

Something I’ve learned over the past year is that when it comes to truly growing your audience, community, readership—anything of value—there is no “hack”.

Are there ways to get more eyes on your content quickly? 100%.

But these are cheap eyeballs. They’ll go as quickly as they came.

To build something special, enduring AND valuable—you need to do things that don’t scale.

You need to engage.
You need to help others.
You need to show interest.
You need to ask questions.
You need to listen to answers.
You need to share your experiences and lessons.

Of course there are exceptions to the rule. Experts in their fields grow followings quickly by providing tremendous value in the form of sharing their knowledge, insight and experience. And that’s why they “blow up”.

I’m not an expert. I’m a layman. So I rely on my ability to build relationships to grow. It’s not the fastest way to build a house, but you know the foundation isn’t going to crack.

Take time this week to engage more (on Twitter or elsewhere).

Ask questions and reply to answers.

Stop looking for the get-rich-quick-scheme of growth.

Be you. Engage. Grow.

CREATOR SPOTLIGHTS

→ Puno || Puno is the brains behind ilovecreatives.com. She’s a “slashie” who loves creating in all forms and features some great free resources for creators and freelancers alike.
→ Jamie Russo || Jamie is the talented pen at Goodnote and author of The Underdog Paradox. He also hosts a weekly Twitter Spaces each Wednesday morning at 8am EST. ☕ Check it out!
→ Corey Haines || Corey is building SwipeFiles.com & helpacreator.com while co-hosting the Default Alive podcast and hosting Everything Is Marketing podcast. Dude is everywhere.

TWEET OF THE WEEK

🟣 Dylan T. 🚢 @growthcurrency

“When you lack the ability to produce excellence, sometimes that means you also lack the ability to recognize excellence.” -Adam Grant Agree?

I nabbed this quote from last week’s featured podcast episode with Adam Grant on The Jordan Harbinger Podcast. Some have pointed out that adding “sometimes” is a bit of a cop-out—but the tweet spurred some good conversation regardless.

THIS WEEK’S GROWTH CURRENCY 💡⚡

✏ WRITE

24 Ways You Can Write “Better” [Google Doc] by Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
Leave it to the Ship 30 guys to put a Google doc like this together 🚢. A great formula for online writing is choosing one of the popular article formats, then writing “better”.

Write…

→ Better “Voice”
→ Better “Data”
→ Better “Stories”
→ Better “Experience”
→ +20 more!

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📈 MARKETING

Best Copywriting Examples by Dave Gerhardt by Kevon Cheung
Here are 10 copywriting examples (and reasons) Dave Gerhardt has created such a massive following on social and for his company, Privy.

1. He writes like he talks

2. He is talking to a clear audience

3. His opening line is very short

4. (see ‘em all)

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👀 PRODUCTIVITY

10 Time Management Tips by Ali Abdaal
If you’re going to take time management tips from someone—Ali’s the man. He built a 1M+ subscriber YT channel while finishing med school. 🤯

His 10 tips (click on the link to jump to that section the video):

1. We own all of our time

2. Hell yeah or no

3. The daily highlight

4. Use a to-do list

5. Time blocking

6. Parkinson’s Law

7. Protected time

8. Delegation

9. Automated scheduling

10. The choice to be satisfied

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📩 NEWSLETTER GROWTH

How to entice folks to join your email list by Welly Mulia
Another gem from Welly to help you truly grow your list.
(Sidenote: any readers active on IndieHackers?)

Here are his 7 tips to increase your opt-in conversion rate…

→ Dedicated lead capture page
→ Audience > Offer > Copy
→ Use a hook
→ Provide instant benefits
→ Use power words
→ Use 5 instead of five
→ Stop obsessing over unimportant things like what color to use

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💰 BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

CreatorLibrary.co → Start creating, build your brand, conquer the industry
This is the ultimate “swipe file” for creatives to get started with building a business with their creative passion. CreatorLibrary provides curated resources to help you…

→ start your channel
→ craft your brand
→ make great videos
→ get more views
→ create your corp
→ build your community
→ …more!

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Once again, thank you for being here.

Thanks to YOU, I cracked the 100 subscriber mark! I appreciate all of you who read and share feedback—it means the world to me.

So welcome to my 23 new subscribers 👋 — super happy and grateful to have you here.

If we haven’t yet, let’s connect on Twitter—send me a DM! Say hey.

Peace & plutonic love,
-Dylan

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