Hey Everyone,
Hope you're having a great week. Here are a few things I've been reading, writing and pondering lately. Enjoy!
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1. A Few Thoughts On Writing
This is short, sweet and insightful.
Good ideas are easy to write, bad ideas are hard. Difficulty is a quality signal, and writer’s block usually indicates more about your ideas than your writing.
2. Strategy should be painful
I thought this article was really interesting and have found myself thinking a lot about it as tweak Superpath to help it grow. Nathan Baschez's newsletter, where this post comes from, is worth checking out.
Businesses plateau for two reasons:
1. Their strategy is wrong (Wrong Strategy Syndrome)
2. They fail to execute any strategy at all (Fuzzy Strategy Syndrome)
Unfortunately, these two separate problems have identical symptoms (stagnant growth), but opposite cures.
3. Who's hiring?
Here are a few friends hiring marketing folks:
- Chameleon, a user onboarding app, is looking content marketing manager. The company is lean, remote, transparent and profitable.
- ActiveCampaign is looking for a senior manager of editorial. It's a fast-growing SaaS app that helps SMBs grow their companies. It includes a CRM, an email marketing tool, and support software.
- Scribewise, a Philadelphia-based content marketing agency, is hiring a B2B content marketer. Founder John Miller is big on culture—and some of his team is part of Superpath Pro. 😀
Check out the #job-listings channel in our Slack community. There have been several dozen great jobs posted this month.
4. Tweet of the Week
I thought this was a really cool thread.
In 2004 I got the opportunity to work with Jeff Bezos to develop the original Kindle. It was Amazon’s first foray into hardware and I learned a ton from my interactions with Jeff. Here’s some of the stories and lessons that I took away from that experience:
— Dan Rose (@DanRose999) July 28, 2020
5. Random Links
- This is good: How to Stop the Negative Chatter in Your Head
- A little click-bait-y but still good: How I Manage my Time as a Doctor + YouTuber
- Check this out for the amazing photos: A Long, Lonesome Look at America
- This is great: What I Learned Publishing 200+ Blog Posts on CXL
Have a great weekend!
Jimmy
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