I have a friend named Will. Will and I were both in Dan Ferrari’s coaching group at the same time back in the late 19th century.
I talked to Will last week to catch up.
For the past couple years, Will has been doing all the email marketing for Polymarket, one of the two big prediction markets.
First he was doing a cool weekly email, which I even read, because it’s interesting.
Then they got him to start doing a daily email as well.
It’s a lot of writing and a lot of work.
Will is looking for help, for a writer to handle either the daily email, or segments of the weekly newsletter, or some combination of both.
I offered to put the word out to people in my audience in order to:
1. Help Will
2. Look cool to people in my audience
There’s a conflict between those two goals.
Will’s first question was, “Will I get inundated with replies?”
I told him that chances are yes. And I offered to act as an intermediary, to vet people before I pass them on to him.
If you are interested in writing for Polymarket:
1. Reply to this email
2. Tell me you specialize in writing Morning-Brew style newsletters
3. Include highly relevant samples to back up your claim in 2 above
I’ve already put this call out inside Daily Email House, my Skool group. I’ve had three people apply. Two frankly could not follow the instructions above. The third did, and I passed his info on to Will. But I’m guessing you still have a really good chance at this sexy job (at least sexy to me) if you really want it.
But what if you don’t have relevant samples? In that case, you have two options.
Option one is to not apply for this job. If you don’t send me highly relevant samples, I will not forward your stuff to Will, and I will not listen to you when you explain to me why I should hear you out.
Option two is to create highly relevant samples on the spot, maybe even a sample Polymarket email or two (their stuff is all online and you can find it and model it).
NB: If I have to parse, read into, or interpret your message or your samples to figure out how they could be relevant to this job… I will just skip your application. The whole point here is to figure out if you are the kind of person I should hand off to Will. A part of that is your writing experience and skill. Another part of that is your ability to make his job easier, rather than harder, and right now I’m the proxy for that.
What about salary? Terms? Stock?
I have no idea.
If that’s your first concern, I’d say, don’t apply for this.
But if you have relevant experience, or if you want experience writing for a big and exciting newsletter, then you know what to do.