72 hours left to join the 639 others on board the October Ship 30 cohort 🚢

Over 30 days, you'll learn the fundamentals of digital writing and build lifelong friendships along the way.

Hop aboard the biggest, best, and LAST cohort of the year!

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If you want a sneak peek of some of the frameworks we share inside the course, check out this thread from co-captain @Nicolascole77

YouTuber and Ship 30 alum @mattragland put together an epic video review of his Ship 30 experience.

Check it out:

During the onboarding survey we ask:

"What's your current biggest writing struggle?"

Here's a word cloud of these universal struggles (just in case you thought you were the only one)
We've got some big YouTuber's onboard this cohort!

• @IAmAndrewKirby
• @florinpop1705
• @butler_chris

Excited to see what they do taking their videos skills to the writing world (and also what they can teach us about building massive YouTube channels)
Digging into the onboarding survey: "What are you looking to achieve from writing online?"

Some popular answers:

• Build an audience
• Build a business
• Clarify my thinking
• Validate ideas for my book
• Attract like-minded people
• Better understand my niche
Oh man - and this one.

This one might resonate with a lot of people.

"First and foremost, mental clarity and understanding of my life. Second, having the writing be one part of escaping the corporate grind to create things for a living."
Another 34 Shippers hopping aboard so far today (up to 673!)🚢🚢🚢

Join the fun - or watch sadly from the shore until January!

54 hours left:
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48 hours left to hop aboard!

In this thread, I reflected on my 30-threads-in-30-days personal challenge from August of 2020.

This formed the basis of Ship 30 - after seeing how powerful writing every day was for me, I knew others would benefit too:

Ship 30 serves many people with many different goals - which is why I love reading testimonials (because every one of them is unique).

Some mention the content, others the clarity, and others how it helped them get out of their own way.

But EVERYONE mentions the community.
Co-captain @Nicolascole77 with 10 reasons you should join Ship 30 (whether you're a prolific online writer or a complete beginner)

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1 Oct
Looking to build an online course?

Over the next 30 days, Ship 30 for 30 will help over 600 writers start writing online.

Supporting them is a team of 4 people and an army of software platforms.

Here's the stack powering the marketing, curriculum, community, and operations: Image
This thread covers everything we use for:

• Surveys
• Community
• Live sessions
• Landing page
• Course hosting
• Internal operations
• Email communication
• Writing and publishing

It's the thread I wish I had 9 months ago when Ship 30 started.

Links at the bottom!
Let's start with the landing page.

• Built with @webflow
• Testimonials with @shoutoutso_ and testimonial.to
• Email capture with @rightmessageapp
• Pop-ups using @usefomo
• Copywritten by yours truly

BUT - you can get by with way less.

ship30for30.com ImageImageImageImage
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25 Sep
Category creation, decentralization, and building multiple income streams.

My 5 favorite podcasts of the week (with one-sentence descriptions)🧵
An absolute masterclass in category creation, languaging, and leveraging specificity with @jmikolay and @Nicolascole77 on the @gumroad podcast:

open.spotify.com/episode/7uTYn8…
A comprehensive breakdown of China’s strategy, decentralized citizen journalism, and decentralized social media with @theallinpod and @balajis:

open.spotify.com/episode/0F4EMC…
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22 Sep
College completely failed in teaching me how to write.

So I spent over 500 hours studying legendary authors and copywriters.

Then, I distilled what I learned into 6 simple frameworks.

But unlike college, these won't cost you $120,000.

Here they are for free:
First, I studied David Ogilvy.

I figured there was no better place to start than the "Father of Advertising."

And the best thing I found was his 10-bullet masterclass memo titled "How to write."

This memo could replace your college English class:

To learn the art of copywriting, I started with Gary Halbert.

Anyone who can generate $1,000,000,000 in revenue from their sales letters deserves to be studied.

And his 12 time-tested strategies for writing effortless copy are a good place to start:

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21 Sep
Someone asked me what advice I would give to someone looking to start building online:

My answer:

• Learn simple no-code
• Learn basic copywriting
• Start a weekly newsletter
• Start making friends on Twitter

Building + selling + distribution + networking
This is the playbook I used to start Ship 30.

I had ~600 followers at the time and ~200 newsletter subscribers.

I took a few courses to learn how to:

• Build a simple landing page in Carrd with Typeform/Stripe
• Write copy that pointed out the problem / hyped up the benefits
One year ago today (celebrating a +34 week in newsletter subscriber growth):

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20 Sep
Absolutely HUGE week in webinars coming up:

• Tuesday 9/21 5 PM EST w/ @amandanat
• Wednesday 9/22 5 PM EST w/ @gregisenberg
• Thursday 9/23 5 PM EST w/ @RobbieCrab

These are going to be 🔥🔥🔥

Links to register in the replies 👇🏼🚢🔗
Join us Tuesday, 9/21 at 5 PM EST with @amandanat!

We'll jam on:

• Content marketing and SEO strategy
• Writing on social platforms versus blogs
• How SparkToro can help with data-driven writing
• Common mistakes in the content marketing world

lu.ma/amanda-sept2021
Join us Wednesday, 9/22 at 5 PM EST with @gregisenberg!

We'll jam on:

• How Web 3.0 will change the landscape of writing online
• ​The rise of massive "niche" businesses (and how to take advantage)
• Opportunities in the shift from Web 2 to Web 3

lu.ma/greg-sept2021
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17 Sep
If you use Google Docs, you're one of G Suite's 2,000,000,000 monthly active users.

But you probably aren't using it to its full potential.

So here are 6 little-known features that will save you countless hours (so you can work faster):
Need to create a new document?

Simply type docs.new in the browser.

When inspiration strikes, crack open a fresh document in seconds:

• Cmd + L on Mac, Ctrl + L on Windows to jump to the search bar
• Type docs.new
• Start writing

🤯 🤯
Have multiple Google accounts?

Nothing worse than creating a new document, then having to switch accounts.

So here's another hack:

Adding a number after the docs.new URL will create a new doc under that account.

Here's how it works:
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