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Get leverage early and then double down on it. It won't feel like much at first, but my email is a much easier life at 40k subscribers than it was at 100. When I make something, I am always looking for ways to use it other places. People expend so much energy on creating things and not on selling the things they already have, but that stuff has a ton of value and you can bring it back up again and again. I'm not even talking about posting those articles again. I mean using it for courses, marketing blitzes, bundling, and even books that compile your work. People ask how I get stuff done, and I promise it's not because I have more hours in the day. Mostly, I just dick around and recover b/c I have a lot of chronic illnesses, but I do the things that I can leverage.

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It’s interesting that you say this as I was just having a discussion with a fellow writer about whether it was copacetic to re-post articles I’ve already shared on social media platforms. Sometimes I think we focus so much on creative we fail to even see the value in selling ourselves - or feel guilty or awkward about it.

I did my first “repost” yesterday because an article I wrote a few months ago about mask bans was particularly timely given a new ban passed in Nassau County, NY… and it was very well received. I debated writing a new piece about it - but I’m so glad I conserved my energy and used what I already had!

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You can release the same article every year for the rest of your life and it will almost assuredly almost always get a good result.

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Now I just have to find a way to tell my brain that’s “ok”… I struggle just to cross post content across various social media platforms. Always trying to make each post unique is exhausting and probably completely unnecessary

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