Yesterday, ex-Agora copywriter Thom Benny, who I met up with in Barcelona last month, texted me and asked,
“How is the Newsletter XP promo doing?”
I threw up my arms at this. “How am I supposed to know? There’s a deep fog around the Bejako household, and I can’t see past my own nose.”
The Beehiiv people don’t normally do affiliate deals for this course. I had to ask them over and over to let me promote it.
When they finally agreed, it was a bit of a technical kludge to make it happen. So there’s no affiliate portal. There’s no direct way for me to know how many sales I’ve made.
I saw a buncha clicks. Two people wrote me to say they bought. I wrote my contact at Beehiiv now to ask what the final result was.
But if I had to bet, I would bet I made 3x-4x the money for writing these 7 emails than I ever made for any equivalent campaign I wrote back in my freelance copywriting days.
So let me repeat the core idea I was selling during this whole promo, even though I won’t get paid anything for it now. It’s this:
Start a newsletter. Or start growing a list. Or find another little asset that you can invest into regularly.
It might bear no fruit today. But keep watering it. And you will be pleased and surprised one day soon.
This concludes the first of three affiliate promotions I promised to do over the next few weeks.
The next affiliate promo I will do involves a writing course for business owners who want to build an audience on social media.
I’m going through this course myself right now. And I find myself repeatedly surprised by how well-done and insightful it is.
To make this offer even sweeter, I will add in my own free bonus. It will be equal in price to the actual course I am promoting.
This bonus is a rare training I once put on, after years of research. Several people told me this training has influenced their own writing a lot. But more about all that soon.