Yesterday, I shuttered up Daily Email House, the community I had set up back in December ’24 on the back of my Daily Email Habit service.
The concept for Daily Email House was a “members-only club for business owners and marketers who write (more or less) daily emails.”
I made it clear from the start to all members that this was an experiment.
I didn’t want to have a specific promise behind Daily Email House.
I also didn’t want to be constantly in there, stirring up discussion and sharing new content.
If the community could live without me and still be useful, great. If not, that’s okay.
Daily Email House lived on for a while and served some use. Yesterday, on the post in which I announced I will be closing down the group, a couple of the active members wrote that “signing up was the best decision I made in 2025” and that the group had a “profound effect on me and my business.”
But my laissez-faire vision for this group didn’t have legs, and that’s why Daily Email House is coming to an end.
But, groups, groups, groups…
I am still sold on the promise and opportunity of having and running a group, and it’s something I want to get good at. In fact, I will tell you a secret:
Back in 2013 or so, when I first got addicted to Internet Marketing via the Tim Ferriss gateway drug, I was lucky enough to get convinced that email is where it’s at, and will be at, for a long time to come.
It’s a hunch that’s served me well.
My secret for you is that I have the same hunch about groups/communities.
Clearly, neither email nor online communities are anything new. Plus, communities have in fact been having their moment in the sun over the past couple years.
That’s fine.
Neither email nor communities will be going anywhere any time soon, at least that’s my bet.
My bet is also that, as with email, so with communities.
Most people (such as me above) are not doing a good job with their communities.
The people who do a good job running communities will have the same advantage that, say, a business that emails its customers regularly with interesting emails and desirable offers has over a business that emails stupid coupons at holiday time with nothing else in between, except maybe a ChatGPT-generated listicle.
But I’m running off on a tangent. My real point is that I got a deal for you.
I am looking to set up a new group/community. One that will be based on solving a problem… and one in which I will be more actively involved.
I don’t know yet what that group would be about. But you can influence that, and maybe you can help create a useful and valuable resource for yourself in the process.
Here’s my deal for you:
Hit reply and tell me what problems or frustrations you have — with your email list, with your business, or with your laundry. Anything goes.
I will read all responses, I might reply to you directly, and I will certainly consider what you write me as I work on my next community. And who knows, maybe I will see you inside the resulting group, and maybe one day, you too will say it had a profound effect on you and your business.