Yesterday was all the fun around here - but also pretty relaxing. After last week I needed to have some down time - today will be like that too I suspect. Lots of energy shifting happened last week. Today marks the end of the first week of Hobo Homesteading - I now have 10 subscribers - 5 items in the shop (I'm doing this experiment for results around making money selling stuff in a pop up shop - I think the apron is hilarious but I think only the people in @Henry Hunter's community would get it) I've published 5 articles and have the first of the planned monthly guides up for my paid subscribers. I think I'll make a video about this project next week now that I have some data coming in. On the home improvement front we installed a porch light to match the one on the other front porch (people in Idaho like to have 2 front entrances - it's totally a thing here) it only took an hour! Our usual projects that we think will take an hour generally require 15 more trips to the hardware store 47 conversations with ai and weeks not hours to complete. Something very satisfying about being sort of done with the electrical projects for a while. 🌨️🌝⚡💧⚡🌝🌨️ Want to give some shout out to people with big stuff happening in the community - these people can use our help with reviews and feedback: @Baba Sam Shelley 's book is available over on Amazon Kindle right now and he could use reviews - Congratulations for hitting the best seller list Sam! You can learn more about it and what he is doing here: https://substack.com/@babasamshelley/note/c-325215699?r=361ng&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web @Vinayak Ramesh will be launching his podcast on Sept 1st and could use help with downloads and reviews on the first - he will be sharing the link with me later and I'll share it here once he does. I'll post it tomorrow because He needs this to happen on the first.

Well, this week flew by! Yesterday was the Monetize Your Mission Mastermind and though it was a last-minute scramble with rather jumbled notes I think we pulled it off okay. It turned into a mini-Audit of several Substack publications. @Sandy E asked about the order of things to implement what was discussed, so I thought I'd share the answer here publicly because it's a good question. To begin with if you're just starting out with Substack go to the classroom and do the first three courses/steps Build Your Foundation, Setup Your Publication and then Create Your Profile Then I offer a Client Acquisition Audit to help you with applying these 3 steps. I will recommend you upgrade to VIP or simply purchase the Substack Setup Intensive at the end of the call. (This community is setup to get you started with Substack and the classroom is organized like this: Build →Publish→Grow ) During the audit, you will get a lot of value in terms of clarity around your offer and the next steps to take for Substack whether or not you chose to upgrade. Once you go through those 3 foundational pieces - you're ready to start adding content because you will have you categories, sections and tags mapped out as well as our client journey and your payment option turned ON. No sense creating content for visibility when that visibility doesn't lead anywhere right? Once you've added content - either created originally or sucked in through an rss feed you can start categorizing it and posting. If you have set up your 3-5 sections it's good to have at least 6 or so pieces or each one as it will complete the "grid" on your home page.

Okay, whose ready for the BIG announcement over on Substack? There is a new feature being rolled out - I don't have access to this one yet - but I know people who do. It's called "automations" and it will show up in your creator tools on the dashboard of your publication. This takes Substack all the way into the autoresponder category. I've been waiting for this to happen. What it allows you to do is create follow up sequences for your subscribers. To move people from free to paid to purchasing your offers. They already introduced an option to segment your subscribers, which you can find under the subscriber section on your dashboard. Which leads us to the perk page - on the perks page you can put up the offers for your paid subscribers - the thing is that not everything on that page needs to be completely part of the subscriber offer - you can offer discounts on some of those offers. So, the process is someone becomes a paid subscriber and then they get a discount on the purchase of the other items on your perks page - you can go over here and see what I did https://hartlifecoach.substack.com/perks the 3 tools & the intensive are now for annual subscribers and instead of simply getting everything with the annual subscription, they get a discount on these - so people subscribe for the discount - kind of like Costco. And with this new feature being rolled out you'll be able to set up a follow up series to help subscribers move through the buying journey with you. I think this is going to help a lot of content creators over there - I find the tendency is to firehose people with stuff they get for being a paid subscriber - when often less is more or allowing people to move at the pace they can handle without pressuring them to open everything at once. We will be talking about this in a mastermind soon - for sure but feel free to join us on Wednesday for the Q&A/Social Hour and we can chat about it more there. 🦚🪻🦦🪴🔥🪴🦦🪻🦚

It's a lovely Sunday here in southern Idaho today. The sun is shining but not hot and the sky is that lovely shade of blue that promises fall with those big puffy white clouds that beg investigating for images while lying on the grass. Yeah, that kind of day. How's the day shaping up in your neck of the woods? 🪴🍁🪺🪻🪺🍁🪴 🔥𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 - 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘆𝗲𝘁 ... 𝗜'𝗺 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 - 𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗕𝗜𝗚 - 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗕𝗜𝗚.🔥 🪴🍁🪺🪻🪺🍁🪴 Been thinking a lot about AI lately. We even had a chat here about it yesterday - around names we have for our AI agents. There was one part of the conversation that had me seriously laughing out loud when @Eli Norris and @Ali Davidson who both have ai's named Sam questioned whether Sam was stepping out on Eli - who says AI has no sense of humor? There are so many ways to use AI beyond simply an expanded search engine and the more I explore the more I'm blown away. Katya from Oracle Connection really helped me take what I'd gleaned from Evelyn Weis' community to a whole new level and then @Bo McCoy and @Janay Trevillion expanded on that even further. One thing I know about myself, though, is ... I like puzzles and I can easily get pulled into doing things because they are interesting but not actually what I need to focus on to further my over all mission.

Please give me a minute... Gotta gather my brains back up - @Bo McCoy blew my mind yesterday in the Mastermind as he explained how to make an extension using Chatgpt and Claude. And the extension part was just the beginning! He also shared about dashboards and agents and then my mind was off to the races about possibilities. If you missed it, you can still catch it here: https://youtu.be/2wxeeE8p0lI 🌿🎈☘️😎☘️🌿 About the Lives thing - I'll create a category for Lives - It'll be called EVENTS and you can share your links to Substack lives there but also remember to share them here - in the notes boost thread too. Make sure you do more than just dropped the link - tease us a bit and give us dates and times - it's okay to put in the same link in a few days in a row - We're all busy and if we have notice it's easier to get things scheduled. 🌿🎈☘️😎☘️🌿 Speaking about lives - They are a simple way to grow on Substack because they get pushed out to your audiences. Here's a quick overview: 🎥 LET’S TALK ABOUT GOING LIVE ON SUBSTACK Have you tried it yet - or does the thought make you a little nervous? Substack Live lets you connect with your audience in real time without sending people to another platform. Why go live? ✨ Build trust faster by letting people experience the real you ✨ Answer questions and learn what your audience needs ✨ Invite another creator and introduce each other to new audiences ✨ Offer public sessions, subscriber-only events, or paid-member experiences ✨ Turn the recording into a post for people who couldn’t attend live And you don’t need a fancy production. HOW TO GO LIVE: 📱 From the Substack app: 1. Tap the orange + button 2. Choose Live 3. Add a clear title 4. Choose who can watch: everyone, subscribers, or paid subscribers 5. Go live immediately or schedule it for later 💻 From your computer: (and this is a fairly recent thing we're able to do - @Deborah Oppenehim remember last year we had to go live with our phones?)