You’ve heard me say this more than once: building and running an online business that turns your knowledge into money isn’t easy. I say it often because it’s true and because many people who start on this journey started because some crafty marketer told them it was easy to make 6-figures in 6 months selling online courses. We know that’s not the truth, though, right?
As I suspected and wrote about a few months ago, the newsletter author exodus from Substack has begun. (This is my first tech prediction to come true, so I get to call myself a “futurist” now, right?) Substack might be easy to use, but they take a large cut of paid newsletter earnings, and apparently they aren’t moderating what’s being published on their platform as they said they would.
Hey friend, I’m on vacation now, trying to keep my laptop closed as much as I can. But I love writing to you so much that I couldn’t help it. So I opened the laptop…and the newsletter below happened.
Jack Butcher has been continually popping up on my radar over the past few months. Seems like everywhere I turn, there’s Jack. If you don’t know Jack, he’s the creator of the business/brand Visualize Value, which is built around his stark, pithy visual representations of core principles. (There. Now no one can ever say you don’t know jack.)
Here’s something that doesn’t get much coverage in the online business world: the psychological and emotional side of running an online business. I talk about it with some of my clients who want support around this side of the game, but I haven’t written much about it and haven’t seen many others writing about it either.