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My First Million

Newsletter Schemes, Copywriting Scams and Chaotic Singles

My First Million

Hubspot

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Episode 484: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk about a questionable newsletter growth hack called co-reg, try to figure out how Bobbi Althoff became an overnight success, explore the wild world of Chaotic Singles Parties & DateMe Docs, go through a list of things our grandkids will think are insane and discuss the greatest copywriting scam ever written. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter: https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (4:05) Newsletter growth scheme (16:25) Laird Hamilton interview recap (18:10) Why is Bobbi Althoff famous? (24:30) Chaotic Singles Party (30:00) DateMe Docs (43:50) Things our grandkids will think are insane (1:01:55) The greatest copywriting scam ever written — Links: • Bobbi Althoff - https://www.instagram.com/bobbialthoff/ • Chaos Singles Parties - https://tinyurl.com/mpuedh9h  • DateMe Docs - https://dateme.directory/#4b549b56a88049da98be378370125912 • The League - https://www.theleague.com/ • Raya - https://www.rayatheapp.com/ • Copywriting Scam - https://thewalrus.ca/the-greatest-scam-ever-written/ • Boron Letters - https://morgancrozier.com/boron-letters/ • Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. — Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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0:00.0

We sent him an email. He said, Hey, just wanted to blow black. You know, if you read the milk

0:04.8

road, do you like it? Like just respond to like, whatever. Hello, you know, tell me where

0:08.4

you're like, Hey, you're a subscriber to the milk road. Where do you live? Guess how many

0:11.8

replies we got? I don't know. Idea. I think we literally got three replies out of how many

0:17.0

sends. There was maybe like, I don't want to say like 20,000 or something like that. Like

0:20.6

20,000 in three reply. I feel like I could rule the world. I know I could be what I want

0:28.0

to put my all in it like a day. So dude, according to the YouTube data by the end of the

0:37.1

sentence, half the audience will have dropped off. That's how content goes nowadays. You

0:41.5

have like 4.2 seconds to look at everybody. Is that true? Is it really that short? I thought

0:48.2

it was like, it is like that. I mean, like after somebody clicks play, you just see the

0:53.8

curve start to go space mountain downwards and then, uh, and then it flattens out. But

1:00.1

are you looking at the data? Like I, I rarely log in. You just let a flash the camera in the

1:06.1

first five seconds every, every time. So you know how like there's a joke about news anchors

1:10.8

wearing like shorts with me. It's the sleeveless t-shirt. I'm going jacked it sleeveless

1:20.0

t-baby. How's that for flashing? I mean, I don't even know what you're prepared for. You're

1:27.8

like, I can go outside. It can rain. I can be a doctor for a minute. I can work out. I can climb

1:33.8

mountains. It's a it's a hundred and seven degrees in Austin today. And so I'm either shirtless

1:42.4

or sleeveless t-most of the time. When I record, I got to put the jacket on. So I look a little

1:46.3

professional. Dude, I've been trying to convince Ben to move to California from Austin. I originally

1:53.2

pegged it at a 15% chance. What's what's it that now? Oh, I think we're like up to 50. I think

1:58.6

we've made serious headway. Now, I put in all this work. What I needed to do was just wait for

2:02.6

summer. Just smoke them out, right? All I had to do was just smoke them out. I don't know if I

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