I woke up this morning to see an email from one of my most dedicated readers, copywriter Carlo Gargiulo, who wrote:
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Hi John,
Are you ok?
I didn’t get your email yesterday!
I hope you are okay and it is just a technical problem.
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I appreciate the concern. I am indeed okay. As for my non-email yesterday:
In the 5+ years of this daily email newsletter, I’ve missed sending an email only two times, yesterday being one.
On both occasions, my email service provider, ActiveCampaign, wasn’t working properly, and their support team didn’t fix the problem in time or even get back to me.
But like Nora Ephron’s mother used to coldly say whenever little Nora came home, crying about some injury or insult:
“Someday this will be funny, and you will write about it. Everything is copy.”
I’m still not finding the situation funny, but it has actually become copy.
The good news is that my non-email yesterday forced me to do something I had been planning to do for years, and had still planned to put off for a couple of weeks — and that’s to move out of the dingy and leaky-roofed hotel Olivia Campo, aka ActiveCampaign.
And so, I’m writing you today from my comfortable new email home on Convert Kit Lane. I’m still moving in and so it’s a mess around here, but at least I have a place to sleep.
As for my email yesterday, the one that will never be sent, it announced that today I will actually be starting a new promotion.
It’s for the “work alongside me” offer to build up your list via ads, with my feedback and help. I revealed a bunch of details about that offer in my non-email yesterday, but I will save that now for the official announcement later today at the usual time.
Thanks for reading. And now, I’ll go do some more unpacking.