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A Potpourri of 190 Resources, Inspiration, and Tips

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Time for another resource round-up! Below is a collection of updates, tips, platforms, and inspiring stories.

Writing, Content Creation, and Platforms

  1. Rent Free Media
  2. “Hank Green’s Communication Brings Accessibility to Inaccessible Topics” on Media Shower
  3. “Words to Avoid in Writing: Weak Words to Find, Cut, and Replace” on Kindlepreneur
  4. “Book Idea Validation Mastery: Is Your Book Idea a Bestseller?” on Kindlepreneur
  5. Science Journalism Master Classes
  6. The Open Notebook Pitch Database
  7. “Choosing Unconventional Main Characters” on The Open Notebook
  8. Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science
  9. Unpaywall
  10. Qwoted
  11. The Online News Association
  12. The National Press Club
  13. EPUB Check
  14. “HubSpot vs Zoho” on Customer Camp
  15. “How To Request To Guest Post And Get Accepted” on Eofire
  16. “Telling a truer story” on Ann Handley
  17. “The Perils of Audience Capture” on Gurwinder

Business and Ads

  1. “Is it time to start scaling yourself?” on Patreon
  2. “When to use slow vs fast ads” on Ariyh
  3. “How Anitta megafans gamed Spotify to help create Brazil’s first global chart-topper” on Rest of World
  4. The Moth Pop Up Porch Tour
  5. “How I Built a Mildly Successful Six-Figure Business in 17 Years” on MoneyLab
  6. Equity Bee
  7. “How To Raise Your Brand’s Voice on Issues That Matter [Examples]” on Content Marketing Institute
  8. ““Sounds like a well-trained liar”: Journalists lose some credibility by calling themselves “storytellers”” on Nieman Labs
  9. “Say “Gift” not “Donate” to increase donations” on Ariyh
  10. “The Dark Side Of Internet Fame: Harassment, Stalking, And Death Threats” on Q’d Up
  11. “6 Lessons I Learned from Nathan Latka” on Jakob Greenfeld
  12. “60 new Patreon sign-ups in November” on Reddit
  13. “Top benefit types proven to keep members engaged — and how to use them” on Patreon
  14. Comprehensive (compensation platform)
  15. “How To Build A Seven Figure Book Business Selling Direct To Readers With Pierre Jeanty” on The Creative Penn
  16. “How Em Connors made five figures launching her first online course” on Podia
  17. “The top 3 challenges creators face in 2022 (Results from 900+ creator survey)” on Podia
  18. Small Business Development Centers
  19. “When and How to Increase Your Copywriter Salary” on Copywriter Exchange
  20. “Online Courses for Absolute Beginners (ENCORE LIVE TRAINING)” on YouTube
  21. “How The Discourse scaled its business model to 34 local news sites” on Simon Owen’s
  22. Freelancer’s Union
  23. “The best personal monopoly I’ve ever seen“
  24. White Squirrel (for short term fulfillment)
  25. “6 Email Templates For Freelancers To Earn More Money And Get Paid Faster” on Hopscotch
  26. Exploding Ideas

Sponsorships and Clients

  1. Creator Wizard
  2. “I regularly close $60,000+ deals with my agency” on X
  3. “The 27 Top Paid Influencer Network Opportunities for Content Creators” on Niche Pursuits
  4. “Do NOT Make These Brand Deal Mistakes (3 Failed Sponsorships)” on YouTube
  5. “Atlas Obscura, on Pace to $24M, Finds Profitability Through Brand Partnerships” on Adweek

Emails and Newsletters

  1. “Email for Authors: The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide to Grow Your Audience” on Kindlepreneur
  2. Beacon (for lead magnets)
  3. 6 tips for lead magnets
  4. “The Seinfeld Method: Why You Should Write Marketing Emails Like Jerry” on Lean Labs
  5. Newsletters About Science
  6. Getting email subscribers
  7. “Today is the first of a multi-part series on building the ultimate lead magnet: the email course. You’ll learn how to build a profitable email course” on Create and Sell
  8. “My top 6 recommendations for getting your email course to turn subscribers into buyers” on Create and Sell
  9. “Almost every email course makes this mistake” on Create and Sell
  10. “What should you teach in your email course?” on Create and Sell
  11. “Want to really impress your email course subscribers? Do this.” on Create and Sell
  12. “I Make $845,601 Writing This Online…” on YouTube
  13. “Extra Points’ Matt Brown talks creating Athletic Director Simulator 3000, and why a video game was the right move to promote his newsletter” on Awful Announcing
  14. Writer Ads (newsletter ads)
  15. “Here’s how I’ve consistently sold between 80-100% of our ad inventory, every month since we started selling ads back in February. ” on X
  16. “Unlocking Customer Lifetime Value: The Power of Personalized Subscriber Onboarding at The Washington Post” on The Audiencers
  17. “5 proven tactics to grow your newsletter from 0 to 50,000+ subscribers” on LinkedIn
  18. “Passive churn is one of the most frustrating parts of running a subscription business” on LinkedIn
  19. “20 Sponsor Page and Media Kit Examples to Swipe” on Building Rome
  20. “How To Grow Your Newsletter’s Landing Page Conversion Rate” on The Steal Club
  21. “I’ve spent over 450 hours researching creators who have built their audience to 50k+ subscribers” on X
  22. Letter Operators
  23. “How Exploding Ideas is driving organic growth to paid subscriptions” on Spark Loop
  24. “4 months ago, I started a newsletter. Today, it’s a 6 figure business” on X
  25. “9 steps to make an email reactivation program that really works” on MarTech
  26. “8 Unconventional Ways to Grow Your Newsletter” on Newsletter Operator
  27. “I’ve sold ~$1m in B2B media at @workweekinc Here’s 5 tips on how to close more deals and close them faster” on X
  28. “How I doubled my newsletter CTR” on X
  29. “I used TikTok to get 100,000 email subscribers in ONE week” on LinkedIn
  30. “The 15 best ways to grow your newsletter, for free” on X
  31. “How I Write the Best Newsletter in the World” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  32. “How do you get 6,000 email subscribers in just 4 months, and keep that momentum going for the next 3 years?” on Growth in Reverse
  33. “How This Sneaker Newsletter Was Acquired in Less than a Year” on Creator Spotlight
  34. “The Six Types of Welcome Emails” on Inbox Collective
  35. “How Matt Brown grew, monetized, and sold a niche paid newsletter” on Spark Loop
  36. “The 10 Best Newsletter Niches” on Newsletter Operator
  37. “Using giveaways to maximize growth — with Aleyda Solis of SEOFOMO” on Spark Loop
  38. “The best threads on how to grow and monetize newsletters” on X

Marketing and Publishing

  1. “How to Use Amazon Ads as a Traditionally-Published Author” on Kindlepreneur
  2. “How to Identify a Book’s Sales Problem: Follow These Steps” on Kindlepreneur
  3. “How to Write a Book Description: The Ultimate Guide to a Best-Selling Book Blurb” on Kindlepreneur
  4. eBookFairs
  5. “How to send the best press release in the world” on Medium
  6. Making zero-click content
  7. Formatting templates on Kindlepreneur
  8. “Amazon Closed My Account: What to Do About a Suspended KDP Account” on Kindlepreneur
  9. “Recipes vs. Movies: When to Use Storytelling in Content Marketing” on Animalz
  10. “10 ways to revitalise your marketing” on Podspike
  11. Apple Books Digital Narration
  12. “How to turn fans into members through authentic marketing” on Patreon
  13. Meks Smart Author Widget plugin
  14. “How Adrian Dalsus is changing musicians’ lives with his marketing expertise” on Podia
  15. “Build an audience without burnout: 3 strategies from mindset coach Becky Mollenkamp” on Podia
  16. “The Ultimate Guide to Content Marketing in 2023” on Hubspot
  17. “One Content Metric to Rule Them All” on Moz
  18. Word of mouth marketing on Foundr
  19. “How to Create Content on LinkedIn (that actually gets engagement) And Build Community” on Thomas Strider
  20. “Messages in present tense are more persuasive” on Ariyh

Social Media and PR

  1. “I Followed a Tutorial on Making $100,000 in Sales Using Automated Pinterest Posts and Here’s What Happened” on Medium
  2. “5 Surprisingly Easy Ways To Increase Your Twitter Follower Count” on SquadCast
  3. “What Your Brand Can Do To Win the Instagram Game” on Content Marketing Institute
  4. “Here is Why TikTok Has Become So Popular, So Fast” on Media Shower
  5. “The Brands Finding Success Promoting Their Boring, Unsexy Products on TikTok” on Adweek
  6. “Content should be collaborative with your audience!” on LinkedIn
  7. Jellysmack
  8. “How To Develop and Create a Wikipedia Page That Sails Through the Approval Process” on Content Marketing Institute
  9. “New Report Show That Reels are Generating the Most Reach on Instagram” on Social Media Today
  10. “In 7 months, I’ve grown to 26K followers on Twitter & 9K on LinkedIn” on Twitter
  11. “LinkedIn Carousel Generator” on Taplio
  12. Facebook Contact Removal
  13. “15 Content Creation Tools You (Probably) Haven’t Tried Yet” on Content Marketing Institute
  14. Instagram Content Planner
  15. “Content Repurposing: How Top Creators Do It” on The Steal Club
  16. “LinkedIn Changed Its Algorithms — Here’s How Your Posts Will Get More Attention Now” on Entrepreneur
  17. “How To Get More TikTok Followers: 12 Simple Hacks” on The Leap
  18. “Content Distribution: Which Channels Have the Best ROI?” on Media Shower

Video

  1. “YouTube’s new tool lets creators turn their own videos into Shorts” on TechCrunch
  2. Spotter
  3. “Jack Parsons, the UK’s leading youth expert, launches a series to motivate millions of young people to flip the duvet” on prfire
  4. “4 Easy Ways to Read a Script on Video – NO TELEPROMPTER” on YouTube
  5. Artlist royalty free music
  6. Video fundamentals on SamCart
  7. “20K+ Subscribers on a Static Image YouTube Channel!” on Podcast Bestie
  8. “YouTube Live Streaming Is a Virtual Gold Mine” on Medium

AI

  1. DALL-E2
  2. Imagen
  3. Midjourney
  4. Gender Pay Gap Bot
  5. SudoWrite
  6. OpenAI
  7. Scribbler
  8. Eleven Labs Voice AI
  9. “Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540 Billion Parameters for Breakthrough Performance” on Google Research
  10. “Transformers Rule Everything Around Me: Text to Geometry as Computational Design enabler for the metaverse and product design” on Medium
  11. “A new data set for better monitoring of the political podcast ecosystem” on Brooking
  12. “Listen to Academic Papers on the Go“
  13. Amaze Media Labs for audience development
  14. “20 Entertaining Uses of ChatGPT You Never Knew Were Possible” on Medium
  15. “How to Create an AI Generated Video with ChatGPT, Synthesia, and Descript” on Wistia
  16. “How to perfect your prompt writing for ChatGPT, Midjourney and other AI generators” on The Conversation
  17. “100+ ChatGPT prompts for creators: Speed up your workflow with AI” on Descript
  18. “The Future of SEO in a Post-ChatGPT World” on Animalz
  19. “AI Prompt Engineering for Content Marketers” on Media Shower
  20. “Introducing AudioCraft: A Generative AI Tool For Audio and Music” on Meta
  21. “The Retention Fail I Made At Bossbabe” on Becky Pierson
  22. “Publishers Shouldn’t Treat All Readers the Same Way When It Comes to Subscriptions” on A Media Operator

Games

  1. Monsterland
  2. “50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon” on Kickstarter

News

  1. “Press release: Use of Google Analytics for web analytics” on Datatilsynet
  2. “‘Self-therapy’ startups are blooming in the ‘moderate mental health’ space” on TechCrunch
  3. “The Freelance Isn’t Free Act passes to protect workers contracted by New York companies (even if they don’t live in the state)” on Nieman Lab
  4. “The OnlyFans Funnel and the Birth of MACs” on Content Class

Cool Stuff

  1. Artsy Couture
  2. Displate
  3. Icon Buddy

Inspiration and Tips

  1. Disney’s process of creating an animated film
  2. “10 Things Incredibly Likable People Never, Ever Do (and Why You Love Them for It)” on Pocket
  3. “An end-of-life doula’s advice on how to make the most of your time on earth” on Vox
  4. “This Gen Z Icon Wants to Talk About Periods” on The Cut
  5. “11 Mental Tricks to Stop Overthinking Everything” on Pocket
  6. “Asking one simple question can entirely change how you feel” on Psyche
  7. “Break Negative Thinking With These 6 Mental Health Exercises” on CNET
  8. “I raised 2 successful CEOs and a doctor. Here’s the ‘unpopular’ parenting rule I always used on my kids” on CNBC
  9. “I talked to 70 parents who raised highly successful adults—here’s the ‘rare’ skill they all taught their kids” on CNBC
  10. “The world has reached 8 billion people — but soon we’ll hit a decline we’ll never reverse” on ABC
  11. “The Questions We Don’t Ask Our Families but Should” on The Atlantic
  12. “WJSV Complete Broadcast Day On September 21, 1939, radio station WJSV in Washington, D.C. transcribed an entire day of broadcasting“
  13. “Conditions of Enoughness” on Jennifer Louden
  14. “The Spoon Theory written by Christine Miserandino” on But You Don’t Look Sick
  15. “How to Thrive When Everything Feels Terrible” on Pocket
  16. “When Stressed, We ‘Catastrophize’—But We Can Learn to Calm Our Irrational Fears” on Pocket
  17. “Mourning Our Parents Can Start Before They Die. Here’s How to Cope With Anticipatory Grief” on Pocket
  18. “I’ve helped hundreds of people land 6-figure salaries. These 5 job interview phrases got them hired ‘on the spot’” on MakeIt
  19. “The Grown-Up’s Guide to Making and Keeping Friends” on Pocket
  20. “How to throw a punch” on Popular Science
  21. “A Two-Minute Burnout Checkup” on Harvard Business Review
  22. People Incorrectly Correcting Other People on Facebook
  23. “9 Women on the Best Piece of Mental Health Advice They’ve Ever Received” on Pocket
  24. “How to Say “No” After Saying “Yes”” on Pocket
  25. “Inside the First Art Gallery for Blind Artists and Audiences” on Thrillist
  26. “Your child’s success could be a listen away: 63% of parents report improvements through audio” on Podnews
  27. “How to Break Up with Your Bad Habits” on Pocket
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