This past Sunday, Novak Djokovic won the French Open and his 23 Grand Slam title — a big deal in the tennis world.
On Monday, in an off moment, I decided to check if there were any interesting news or interviews with Djokovic following the French Open.
I automatically headed to the r/tennis subreddit on Reddit. But in place of the usual page with tennis links and videos, I was hit with a blank page and the following notice:
“r/tennis is joining the Reddit blackout from June 12th to 14th, to protest the planned API changes that will kill 3rd party apps”
Perhaps you’ve heard:
Reddit the company, which is basically thousands of different news boards, is experiencing a kind of strike. Special Reddit users — mods — who control the different news boards are protesting Reddit’s proposed policy changes. As a result, they’ve basically made the site unusable for hundreds of millions of users.
I haven’t been following the drama. But apparently, as of yesterday, Reddit’s CEO said he plans to go ahead with the policy changes. To which many mods decided to extend the strike from 2-3 days, as originally planned, to indefinite.
All this reminded me of email conversation I recently had with Glenn Osborn.
Glenn is a curious creature. Once upon a time, Glenn attended 15 of Jay Abraham’s $15k marketing seminars by bartering his way in.
He also went to one of Gary Halbert’s copywriting seminars in Key West, and watched Gary go up on stage with that “Clients Suck” hat.
These days, Glenn writes an email newsletter called “Billionaire Idea Testing Club” about influence tricks he spots from people like Taylor Swift and James Patterson and J.K. Rowling.
For reasons of his own, Glenn likes to reply to my emails on occasion and send me valuable ideas. A few weeks ago, Glenn wrote me with some things he had learned directly and indirectly from Clayton Makepeace and Gary Halbert and Jay Abraham.
Good stuff. But then, in a PS, Glenn added the following:
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P.S. -For Consulting Clients I Do ALL THE Work F-O-R them – MYSELF and thru staffers.
CONTROL is the one thing all my Mentors Have in Common. If You Don’t CONTROL what you do You Cannot Make Munny.
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That last idea definitely stood out to me.
There are so many ways to be successful in any field. And contradicting strategies will often produce equally good results.
But a very few things are non-negotiable. You could call those the rules of the system. Perhaps CONTROL is one of them.
At this point I would normally refer you to Glenn’s newsletter in case you want to read it yourself. But as Glenn himself says, “My ARCHIVE Is By-Referral-Only – Too ADVANCED to Toss Strangers into.”
If you are determined, then a bit of Googling, based on what I’ve told you above, will lead you to Glenn’s optin page and his unusual but valuable newsletter.
And in case you yourself want to want to write an unusual but valuable newsletter, the following can help: