DAILY FRO 4/12/25: Trying Way Too Hard

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Jared Polin

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🗓️ 12 April 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Daily Fro is something I started years ago and kept up with for almost an entire year. The idea was to just talk about whatever was on my mind at that time. It seemed to work for a while as people loved tuning in to hear what I would say next. The only problem I ran into, was when it started to feel like a chore.

But, from time to time, I want to share what's on my mind, just me, the mic and you.

This is the Daily FRO for April 12th 2025.

P.S. This doesn't mean I will be making a new episode every day, just when I feel like talking.

Jared

Transcript

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0:00.0	Jared Polinfronos photo.com and it is currently Saturday, April 12th, 2025. The time on my watch
0:10.4	is 235 in the PM. This is the Daily Fro. Now, for those of you who have never heard a Daily Fro
0:17.2	because it's not exactly daily, there was a time where I did like 250 episodes in a row or 250 days in a row where I just
0:27.2	came on, talked about whatever I wanted to talk about and posted it, and people seem to enjoy
0:33.5	it.
0:34.1	But I had to stop doing it because it started to get to the point where it was like, I was forced to make something and then it just felt over the top. And when it's over the top,
0:44.1	like I'm trying too hard, I don't want to do it. But I had some things to talk about today.
0:49.2	Like yesterday, I wrote an email that resonated with some people and then didn't obviously resonate with
0:55.4	everybody, but it started off with the subject line of trying way too hard. And the idea
1:02.7	that I'm going to talk about, I'm going to read to you what I wrote, and then I'm going to add
1:07.5	some extra commentary into it just in case you already read it, but I want to give you a little deeper insight into it.
1:13.6	And it involves people trying way too hard when it comes to marketing or selling or over pushing to you or overdoing all the emails.
1:23.1	And I find that to be terrible. I find it to be bad business practice and I find it to be more
1:28.4	annoyance marketing than proper marketing. So let's read this together. And by together, I mean,
1:35.7	I'm going to read it to your ear holes and then I'll talk about some of it as I go through.
1:40.6	So here we go. Have you ever gone to a website to browse and possibly purchase something
1:45.9	when a pop-up comes up saying, do you want to save 10% on your first order? To which you think,
1:51.1	sure, let me put an email address in and get the discount. Then after signing up with your email,
1:56.5	it asks you now for your cell phone number so that they can text you later. You move forward with signing up for both, add something to your cart only to get distracted
2:04.8	and never actually check out.
2:07.2	I know that's happened to me before, but the real kicker is you get an email that says
2:11.5	you forgot something in your cart, which you ignore.
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