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1/ I'd like to tell you why I think bundles are one of the absolute best "productivity hacks" out there. Perhaps the closest thing there is to a real "secret" of productivity. Purchase the promotion below for $48 and you'll get access to a workshop I'm delivering on this topic
2/ A "bundle" is a curated collection of products, services, software, resources, assets, or other items that are sold online as a single package, at a drastically reduced price, for a limited time. Think of a cable bundle + a flash sale
3/ Let's start from the point of view of the "contributors" who are including their product in the bundle: it's a complete no-brainer. Because there are zero marginal costs for producing, storing, shipping, etc. one additional unit, every sale is pure profit for them
4/ The hardest thing is always marketing/customer acquisition. And there are many more ppl creating things than know how to market them, so they are happy to join a big promotion. This is the customers' gain: you can get a bundle at a 90% or more discount
5/ This bundle contains not raw research or jumbled text – these are real products that ppl have spent years developing and refining and testing. This content isn't available for free via a Google search, at least not in this distilled form
6/ So how do you use these bundles? For a design bundle, you are given hundreds of design templates: website mockups, logo samples, PDF templates, social media headers, email templates, app wireframes, the list goes on. These are REALLY well designed in many case
7/ Here's my folder with the bundles I've purchased, which is where almost all my creative projects start. I NEVER begin anything with a blank canvas because that's really depressing. Often the template or design itself gives me the inspiration of how to proceed 
8/ Here was a slide deck I purchased with beautifully designed, consistent slides that have been adapted for blog posts, courses, workshops, social media images, etc. Often I barely need to change them, just adding labels or modifying shapes, and I have a branded slide deck
9/ There's absolutely no excuse to not have well-designed images anymore. People won't take you seriously. By using these templates my starting point is already better than 99% of slides out there, and then I build from there. I then re-use these images everywhere
10/ You can download consistent icon sets. Here's an example of a whole family of icons, just one of hundreds I purchased for something like $20 or $30
11/ Usually mockup images have placeholders where you can just drop your screenshot or product. It takes very little skill to make these changes. I took a $19 Skillshare class on Adobe Illustrator and that's served me fine
12/ You really can run a design-centric business using these templates. You can find almost anything. There's constant sales on sites like @CreativeMarket @envato @slide_shop. With minimal effort you can make them branded and consistent, saving enormous amounts of time/money
13/ Here's a watercolor feather collection. How will I ever use this? Probably never. But as one of hundreds of collections purchased in a bundle, it doesn't matter. If I only ever use 1% it's still an incredible steal
14/ Here's one file in a complete wireframe kit. Why would you ever try to individually space elements on a website or app by hand when you have industry best practices available for download?
15/ Here's a collection of dashed hexagons. How would anyone ever use this? I have no idea. But this is real creativity. Random and sometimes bizarre things that designers have created. I sometimes go through these just for creative inspiration
16/ Here's a bunch of templates for ebook cover designs. Any one of these is better than almost all ebook covers I see out there. I adapted cover for Design Your Work from one of these, with minor changes and a color change
17/ Here's a cool t-shirt or poster design with every individual layer available as a separate file. This is SO cool. You can customize it to your heart's content
18/ Here's a complete corporate brochure template. I used it for my own services brochure. This single template saved me probably 20 hours. And made me many thousands of dollars. It's absolutely ridiculous. Why does no one do this?
19/ But it does take some thinking and a little strategy to use these bundles competently. Especially when it's a content bundle, not a design bundle, like the one I'm offering below. Purchase this promotion this week for $48 and I'll teach u how to do it tdawg202--infostack.thrivecart.com/ybyy/
