Looking forward to that Hotwire Course! Be sure to share it on t.me/wipruby as well!

Some great goals here!

One thing I can share about losing interesting in projects after 3+ months is that I felt and to some extent still feel the same way. It was with BetaList that I decided to push through the less exciting parts and now I've been running it for 10+ years! So it's certainly possible.

I've also learned what keeps me motivated to keep doing. They are customer feedback (people are using the product and have an easy way to reach me), and revenue.

So to me a new project feels like a race where I try to get consistent user feedback and/or revenue, before the novelty of the new project wears off.

For what it's worth, one thing I've learned over the years that it's not so much about how much time you spend on the computer as it's about what you spend your time on.

No app. I just sit on the couch with a cup of coffee and a notebook.

I want to keep going doing strength training 3+ times a week. It also seems time to be bit more strategic rather than just going through the motions. So a bit more planning in terms of which exercises I do, and being more mindful of ensuring progressive overload.

I recently got into the habit of a calm wake-up routine. Where I start the day with some reading, maybe some journaling, and roughly planning what I want to achieve today.

I've also started playing online chess pretty soon after waking up. I'm not sure yet that's a habit I want to cultivate or minimize. As far as entertainment goes, chess is preferable over mindlessly watching youtube or playing casual games. But I'm not sure whether it should be part of my morning routine 😅

#wip : I want to bring WIP to more people, while retaining the feeling of a tight-knit community. I think the way to get there is to better facilitate the usage of WIP within smaller sub-communities. Some of this is already happening organically with different Telegram groups (both public and private ones). I think there are ways to better support this though. Will require some experimentation.

#startupjobs : The last year I've focused primarily on increasing organic traffic. This has paid off really well, but revenue is still lacking. So this year I plan on continuing growing the traffic, but also start looking into different revenue models. I plan on doing some customer interviews to better understand the customers' needs (especially on the recruiting side). WIP can help me by introducing me to people in the HR space I can talk to. Ideally people with experience working at high-growth tech startups.

#betalist : The goals here are optimizing some admin workflows that are quite cumbersome and sell more sponsorships. Specifically $5,000+ deals and recurring sponsorships rather than the one-off campaigns we currently run. WIP can help by introducing me to potential sponsors.

Hey Rik, feel free to share any copywriting questions you have in the chat or in the Q&A section of the website.

I personally tend to use conversational language. So however I'd talk to a customer in real life, I'd try to mimic that for my copywriting. I think the trap is indeed over thinking these things. Many people end up writing completely differently than they'd speak in person or over instant messaging. But if you just talk out lout, transcribe that, and make some edits so it flows better that's probably a great starting point.

Personally I'm really bad at scheduling. I like to keep my calendar as empty as possible.

But I do like the idea of video calls. Whether scheduled or ad-hoc. I've created a Whereby channel I want to experiment a bit with in the future.

You can find it here: wip.whereby.com/general

If you know any other members who might be interested feel free to start using it and let me now how it goes. I'll probably jump in myself this coming week and share it in the Telegram group. If people find it valuable I'll also start promoting it on the website.

I'd reach out to those email subscribers and ask what made them sign up. What they are hoping to get out of it.

Their response, or lack thereof, hopefully tells you where to go from there.

Hey yes I love this idea. We've talked about a "buddy system" before where new members can team up with existing members somehow. But I haven't yet built anything for it, because I'm not sure yet what it would look like.

I think it would be cool to start this informally. Then when we learn what works and doesn't work we can start to formalize this and add the necessary website functionality etc.

The new WIP intros ( wip.co/intros ) might help a bit. It's a place for new members to introduce themselves. If you think you can help someone in particular, feel free to leave a comment on their intro with your offer to help them get set up, etc. You can also link to this post right here to give them some context.