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A couple things on my mind... claude again, girls rites of passage, and vidangel
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Hey folks! Happy Friday! We made it. A couple things on my mind... 1. Claude (Again): I said it last week and I'll say it again - if you aren't using Claude and its agentic workflows, you need to start. This week alone I: wrote a 60-page highly technical newsletter drip, made design tweaks on a website that just felt "off," and re-wrote a 7-part lead magnet sourced from Zoom calls, changing the writer and tone 3x for options. The sheer volume of work I can get through in a day right now is insane. If you haven't switched out of ChatGPT, do it - it's night and day. 2. Girls Rite of Passage: A couple months ago I asked if anyone knew of organizations that do mother:daughter rite of passage trips. Turns out there really aren't many. Tons exist for father:daughter and father:son, but it's pretty absent for mothers and daughters. That's crazy to me, because Chandler is far more qualified to guide Charleston (12) into womanhood than I am. So we made our own! Tomorrow, Chandler, her mother, and our 12-year-old are heading to visit Chandler's sister in Central America for a week. They'll mix normal life with visiting a school, visiting an orphanage, going to the beach, being good neighbors, and talking about womanhood. We're treating this as Charleston's entry into "apprenticeship" under Chandler - it comes with new freedoms (no bedtime, free access to food in our home) and new responsibilities (morning workouts with Chandler, meaningful household duties). I'll let you know how it goes! AMA 3. VidAngel: I actually learned about this from a reply to this newsletter. If you have kids and are sick of jumping for the remote because you forgot about "that one scene," I highly recommend VidAngel (no affiliate, just a fan). You set filters based on your preferences for language, violence, sexual content, etc., and it removes that content from shows on your streaming platforms - Amazon, Disney, Apple, HBO, etc... It's about $12/mo and 100% worth it. I can finally share my favorite movies and shows with my older kids without being on edge. That's it for this week! Have a great weekend and turn your phone off :) Best, Blake |
A couple things on my mind...
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Hey folks! Happy Friday! A couple things on my mind... 1) Secret Shopping: This is just a reminder to all of you marketers and founders, we need to regularly pretend that we're a customer and go through our entire sales and onboarding process (ideally incognito or ask a friend to do it.) I did this for a client last week and there is something weird that happens when you do this - you can talk about funnels until you're blue in the face, but when you say "I called in and didn't get a call...
Hey Folks, Happy Friday from Nashville! I’ve been speaking at the Integrated mastermind group all this week - absolutely amazing hearing from folks about entrepreneurship, family, faith, and how to live a life that combines and maximizes all three. Here are my main new ideas and takeaways I got from the week. Special Integrated edition, a couple of things on my mind… 1. Radically Accept Your Wife/Children: Unlike business, your family organization is one where you start with WHO, then figure...
Hey folks! Happy Friday! A couple things on my mind... 1. Link In Bio = Dead: I've been quietly shifting a lot of my social clients away from posting a link in their bio (nobody clicks it) toward automated DM's using ManyChat. Once they're in DM's you can share more relevant content, and then over time share lead magnets. So process looks like: - They follow you - You automatically DM them and ask them if they are following for x, y, or z. - Then you send them relevant reel according to their...