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Jim Hamilton
April 27, 2023

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Mentioned in today’s newsletter: TikTok, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Plus how to stop work from bleeding into your personal life with a shut-down ritual, and what to do if you’ve ever thought about starting a newsletter.

Read time: 3 minutes and 26 seconds

Together with Engage AI

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Making the Rounds

  • TikTok testing new generative AI avatar tool. Ever wish you had one of those cool AI avatars that are making the rounds these days? TikTok is testing a new tool that generates up to 30 downloadable avatars based on just 3-10 photos.

  • Tweets from Twitter Blue subscribers now get priority in the feed. Elon’s finally made good on one of the original promises of a paid subscription: priority placement in the feed for the 0.26% of users who’ve ponied up their $8 a month for a blue check.

  • LinkedIn no longer penalizes you for editing posts. Caught a typo in your post but afraid to correct in case your reach gets throttled? Forget it. Now you can edit posts worry-free, as the “edit penalty” appears to have disappeared from LinkedIn’s algorithm.

Working For Yourself

Stop Work From Bleeding Into Your Personal Life With a Shut-Down Ritual

Remote work comes with a lot of perks.

Having the freedom to work where and when you want is a big one.

But there’s a dark side to all that flexibility


Which is that work life often bleeds into personal life.

When you’re getting emails, DMs, and Slack notifications around the clock


It’s hard to “clock out.”

So
 what’s the answer?

Creating a shut-down ritual.

This can be as simple as:

  • Closing your office door

  • Going for a walk

  • Hitting the gym

Regardless of which activity you choose, what matters is that you stick to it every day.

Reinforce the boundary.

You’ll sleep better and feel less stressed.

Tool of the Week

If You’ve Ever Thought About Starting a Newsletter, Read This

Newsletters are all the rage these days.

And for good reason.

Because if you’re growing an audience on social media, it’s important to understand you’re building a business on rented land.

One change to the algorithm can devastate your reach.

This is why it’s crucial to convert your rented audience into an owned audience.

And a newsletter is a great, low-cost way to do that.

As marketers and newsletter publishers, we know a thing or two about email service providers (ESPs).

We’ve worked with all the big ones — including ActiveCampaign, Infusionsoft, Drip, ConvertKit, and more — but we’ve recently migrated to Beehiiv and have been thrilled with the results.

It’s basically a newsletter business-in-a-box.

With a single tool, you can replace:

  • WordPress (or any other content management system)

  • Website hosting (like Siteground or HostGator)

  • Email service provider (like Active Campaign or ConvertKit)

  • Recommendation widget (like SparkLoop)

Beehiiv can do all these things and more.

It’s got powerful analytics, an intuitive and easy-to-use editor, and great deliverability.

So if you’ve ever thought about starting a newsletter


Check out Beehiiv below to learn more:

P.S:

We (almost) forgot to mention their customer support is world class.

You see, we flooded the support desk with tickets during our migration


And while most companies would’ve greyed out the Support option after receiving that many requests from a single customer


The folks at Beehiiv answered every one of our questions with a smile on their faces.

So if you’re not tech savvy, don’t worry.

The platform is super simple to use, but if you run into trouble, their support department has got you covered.

Bonus Points

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